Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Unanswered Questions from the Alice-verse
FunkyTuba:
Perhaps it was just her dominant means of entry, but I always read Gavia as the overdomineering big sister and Ardent as the annoying precocious little brother.
Perhaps Jeph left this vague on purpose.
Morituri:
Back before the Blink, humanity was in a war and all set to kill itself. And I kind of read that war, Alice's invulnerability, and her traumatic memories of being a weapon, all together to come up with one scenario. Honestly it seemed so obvious that until I read the speccy here, I hadn't even considered any alternatives.
I think that Alice, and possibly a few others like her, was intended to be a super-soldier; a weapon to ensure that THOSE people, rather than THESE people, would be the ones to die. It is possible that she served with pride and honor, and possible that she was enslaved in some way by technology which no longer existed after the Blink.
But the supersoldier job becomes a bit meaningless after the Blink, when nations as such no longer really work. So Alice finds herself out of work, perhaps gratefully and perhaps not, and has to decide what to do with the rest of her eternity. Becoming the protector/sage of a locality seems like a worthwhile role, and the appreciation of the people there at least as meaningful and a hell of a lot more personal than wearing medals and a uniform.
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