Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - February 2015
TheEvilDog:
Or it could be a world where humans are imprisoned/restricted to a rural world state. Who knows, perhaps Alice is a live-in Warden, keeping the inmates from reaching a dangerous level of technology or to ensure no undue influence from outside sources.
Think the Village but with aliens and nanomachines instead of Adrien Brody.
dexeron:
What if the deer is Alice.
"BEHOLD MY TRUE FORM!"
Undrneath:
This isn't even her final form!
HiFranc:
Personally, I think the forest is a genetics experiment. We already know that their society (the one Ardent, his sister and Alice belong to) can manipulate genes (including on currently living organisms) and nanotechnology. I suspect the villagers are either people who sick/afraid of the dangers of that technology or their descendents. I think that Alice's job is to keep the technology going so that the residents don't have to worry about it, fills in with other jobs (e.g. doctor) and is responsible for stopping the local society sliding from sliding into something too primitive.
As for the deer, I think that the original inhabitants (who I suspect were not technophobes) were trying their hands at various genetic experiments. In one meeting they were trying to think up what to make next. One person says, "No idea!" After that a smart-alec geneticist decides to make it.
The fact that those plants look so much like Audrey II, they have to be engineered. Come to think of it, I suspect that the original inhabitants of that land were probably bored genetics students. Those creations would be just the sorts of things I would expect from bored undergrads.
{edit} I've just had a scary thought: What if the people who created those animals were secondary school children (or even primary age children)? It makes the decision to want a simpler life easier to understand if they society that Alice comes from is one where genetic engineering is so common that even children are allowed to use it.
However, I think we can rule out "prison". The villagers think of Alice as a "witch" and seem confused by what Ardent is. If they came from the same society as Ardent, they would have had a good idea what he was. This implies that these people are 3rd generation or later. Their attitudes and beliefs seem too hard for those who just adopted them to adapt to a new situation. These people have been living in that culture all their lives
Method of Madness:
What makes time think Alice belongs to that society?
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