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Alice Grove MCDT - January 2015
BenRG:
Huh. I must be more tired than I thought; I'm having to clarify again.
I'm not defending Gavia's actions. She could have hurt someone with the resulting stampede even if her attacks were not, of themselves, lethal force (and Alice's comment in panel 5 strongly indicates against that argument). The point I'm making is that, with even most forms of death easily curable, those from Outside might have a casual attitude to lethal force. Psychologically, Gavia likely viewed the attack on the town as being no more 'for real' than a raid in World of Warcraft or something similar.
For such a person from such a culture, to suddenly encounter someone who countered with force intended to kill her and make it stick must have been a nightmare. To Gavia, it was the approximate equivalent experience of going into a paint-ball tournament and suddenly realising that your opponent is armed with a fully-automatic AR-15 and had the clear intent to use it to its full potential.
Orkboy:
Okay, so we knew from this one that Ardent is on vacation, at least according to him. I think in the next comic or two, we'll get to learn whether or not that's actually true. He might be a space-fugitive on the run from the space-police for space-crimes.
anahata:
--- Quote from: osaka on 05 Jan 2015, 15:32 ---What I do not know is how can she have the nerve to call Ardent a prick after trying to blow up a city.
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That didn't make much sense to me at first either.
Remember, her first words in the story were "WHERE IS HE?"
It seems that Ardent has wandered off/escaped from wherever it is he was supposed to be (with her? on holiday?) to somewhere he definitely shouldn't be and she's furious about (a) having to go looking for him and (b) where he's gone.
I don't think we yet have the full story about why it's so bad (from Gavia's point of view) that he's there.
osaka:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 05 Jan 2015, 23:45 ---
--- Quote from: osaka on 05 Jan 2015, 15:32 ---What exactly do you mean Zeb?
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Have you seen Welu's current avatar?
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Oh.
OOOOHH.
--- Quote from: anahata on 06 Jan 2015, 05:05 ---
--- Quote from: osaka on 05 Jan 2015, 15:32 ---What I do not know is how can she have the nerve to call Ardent a prick after trying to blow up a city.
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That didn't make much sense to me at first either.
Remember, her first words in the story were "WHERE IS HE?"
It seems that Ardent has wandered off/escaped from wherever it is he was supposed to be (with her? on holiday?) to somewhere he definitely shouldn't be and she's furious about (a) having to go looking for him and (b) where he's gone.
I don't think we yet have the full story about why it's so bad (from Gavia's point of view) that he's there.
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While that's ok, "looking for my dumb brother" doesn't entitle anyone to blow shit up. Maybe Michael Bay, but that's it. Ardent might have been a PITA, but Gavia was verging on psycho.
Neko_Ali:
I dunno, it seems like what Gavia was doing was the whole 'playing Angry God' for the locals. Come in, set off a few flash-bangy noisy explosions that didn't really have a lot of oomph behind them just for the sole purpose of scaring the townfolk. I can't really tell if her surprise after trying to explode Alice was 'you're still alive?' or 'why aren't you running?' yet. We'll probably find that out on Friday. It just doesn't seem to me like either Ardent's or Gavia's actions are all that malicious... They just seem more like the actions of somewhat spoiled children, going off and doing what they want without concern about other people and how they might be affected. Gavia's pissed at Ardent because her vacation is ruined too, trying to babysit her brother who went off the plan and has gone where he shouldn't be, now she's here (sent?) to bring him back. So she's feeling pissy about the whole thing. So she comes in, with her version of stomping her feet and yelling, only to find an older, and not very pleased Alice willing to beat her into the ground.
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