Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - April 2015
Kugai:
At least it doesn't sound like they have to go to Carousel
BenRG:
How very, very Granny Weatherwax of you, Alice. You haven't explicitly said that you are thousands of years old. You just implied it and let Gavia's imagination do the rest.
Being a 'witch' was a dodge, not an explanation. We still don't know how Alice does what she does. She's denied by implication having nanotech but she strikes me as the sort who can lie without a twitch, so we can't really be sure of much she says, especially about herself!
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 02 Apr 2015, 20:09 ---So, we finally get a (vague) answer on who Alice is. But the real question, which I've been wondering for most of these last two chapters, is still whose story is this, anyway?
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Mostly, I think that it will be answering the mystery that is Alice. I suspect that, like Granny in the Discworld books, she likes being the mysterious, morally ambiguous 'Wicked Witch'. What this will be will very much a journey in which we discover that she is very much a good person and a hero. It's just that being a hero is just a lot harder with far more challenging decisions than we see in the funny papers. Alice would prefer being an anti-hero or even an anti-villain; she will always deny being a good guy, but those who know and love her know the truth (and occasionally have to hit her upside the head to stop her sulking about it).
I also have the feeling that Gavia is becoming more and more prominent in the narrative. I'm starting to think that she is like that spectacularly talented witch that the Lancre Three met in a recent book (I think it was called Black Hat). Alice is going to teach her how best to use her powers and, more importantly, when not to use them (i.e. 'most of the time'). The B-plot could be titled: "How I Became a Witch by Gavia Vicissitude". Alice doesn't want an apprentice; actually there is, according to her, nothing that she wants less! However, the girl is just too powerful and talented to leave untrained!
There may be a C-plot about Ardent's learning curve and how he grew up to be a conscientious and mature man.
Loki:
Ben: A Hat Full of Sky.
--- Quote from: Kugai on 02 Apr 2015, 22:35 ---
We'll find out next time her last name is McCloud
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Or Jones.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Loki on 03 Apr 2015, 00:45 ---Ben: A Hat Full of Sky.
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That's one of them, yes. I suspect that Gavia is going to find herself walking a similar path to Tiffany with Alice being her "Granny" Esme Weatherwax.
BenRG:
Sorry for the double-post but I had to add this.
I was watching an Age of Ultron trailer and, oddly enough, I heard what Ultron says to Pietro and Wanda being said by Alice to Ardent and Gavia:
"I was made... to protect the world... So that the people would look to the skies... with hope instead of fear in their eyes."
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