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Alice Grove MCDT - January 2015
BenRG:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2015, 13:55 ---I'm really starting to wonder how old Gavia is. The line of reasoning that she offered to Alice in the 1/9/2015 strip is the sort of thing I'd expect a 13-year-old to say! Even her demeanour is that of a sulky teenage girl being forced to explain herself to an authority figure whom she knows had power over her but she she does not respect in the slightest!
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And Ardent comes across as even younger. Not that I think they are necessarily young in terms of years - they may actually be much older than they seem. But they clearly come from a culture where great power means great immaturity. Think about it: if you're in a post-scarcity economy where you can basically have whatever you want on a whim, where's the pressure to grow up?
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This has intriguing comic possibilities for later on. Given Ardent is probably at Gavina's power levels, imagine Alice being in this situation: She uses the Quantum Entanglement Communicator in her basement to call their folks who, in the usual, spoilt manner of their breed, tell her that they're busy on holiday and they'll pick their kids up at the end of the week. Alice then has to brat-sit two super-powered tag-alongs who are fully physically and sexually mature but have the personality of spoiled 8-year-olds.
I'm betting that, when their parents arrive, both kids will be sitting completely still in Alice's cabin with beer cans balanced on their heads.
de_la_Nae:
--- Quote from: Gavia ---If I scared you primitives...
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Well you got fucking carried away, what with *shooting one of them* you murderous twit.
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2015, 13:55 ---Oh, and a confirmation from The Word of God: T. Stimac Tweeted that Alice Grove is "a Discworld witch in a sci-fi setting". Jeph replied: "That's a pretty good description I think".
So, Alice the Force Witch?
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--- Quote ---"Black Aliss" Demurrage is at once the envy of most Witches and a cautionary example. She may have been the most powerful of them all : she once sent a entire castle to sleep, unchanged, for a hundred years. Aliss's look and feel would become the standard for generations of Witches and the perception of the public. Her silhouette may still be seen flying across the moon on shop windows and schoolroom walls every autumn. She was known as "Black Aliss" long before her anti-social excesses; the nickname came from her fingernails. She came from the Forest of Skund, an intensely magical bit of the Ramtops neighbouring Lancre, and became famous across the continent for showy magic and some nasty fits of pique. Eventually, she went over the edge. She built the confectionery cottage. She cackled incessantly. Finally she was so out of touch with reality that two Überwaldean children could push her into her own oven.
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Loki:
:o I never noticed.
--- Quote ---She was not called Black Aliss because of her exploits, which were the result of bad temper rather than actual malice. She was called Black Aliss because of her fingernails. And her teeth. She had a sweet tooth and as a result used to live in a gingerbread cottage [...]; this followed early experiments with broccoli and bran cottages, which didn't seem to have the same frisson and smelled a lot worse. At the same time, modern witches declare she never ate anyone. Well, perhaps a few people, but only rarely, and more or less by accident and short-sightedness, and that hardly made her a cannibal. A couple of kids shoved her into her own oven in the end.
She is generally spoken of by modern witches [...] with a sort of wistful disapproval.
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(Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion... so far)
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2015, 13:55 ---Oh, and a confirmation from The Word of God: T. Stimac Tweeted that Alice Grove is "a Discworld witch in a sci-fi setting". Jeph replied: "That's a pretty good description I think".
So, Alice the Force Witch?
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That's Jeph's thoughts on the comic (or actually, his thoughts on someone else's thoughts), not the comic itself. Interesting, but hardly canon :roll:
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