Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT July 2015
Kugai:
No, the secret to eternal life is Coffee and Pancakes
pwhodges:
It's frustrating that there is still no hint of what Alice is, though!
BenRG:
So, now we know. Alice did try to tell the truth. However, as sages throughout history have learned, people prefer their own 'truths' to the facts. After a while, Alice just gave up and let people instead cling to the stories and 'truths' that gave them the most comfort and happiness. What harm did it do? What did it change?
Instead, she's simply tried to live her life and be a force of good whenever she could. I think that she's isolated by choice and intervenes only in limited ways and if it is clear it is necessary.
It's sad in a way; it must be a tremendously lonely and frustrating life to live.
[EDIT]
Further to that last point... Maybe I'm reading too much into it but Alice seems so distant in panel 4. In so many ways, she is the loneliest person on Earth. A living relic of a vanished epoch of human civilisation; born (or created) in a different time to a civilisation that barely even exists as a myth or legend anymore. Even its last physical relics long since gone to rust and dust. All that is left is her - a constant in a world changed beyond recognition.
No wonder she is so harsh and unsocial. Losing everything and everyone and then being condemned to live on in a world so different from the one in which she was born amongst people who can barely understand you and your nature must have worn at her sanity over the tens of centuries.
Thus is the fate of an immortal in the mortal world.
Zebediah:
More and more I'm thinking that Alice started off as an ordinary human, and that for some reason the Blink made her immortal. It wasn't her idea, and she'd rather not be. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that she went through a suicidal phase a couple of thousand years ago but couldn't figure out how to pull it off - she kept regenerating no matter what she did to herself.
SubaruStephen:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Jul 2015, 22:14 ---It's frustrating that there is still no hint of what Alice is, though!
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It's pretty obvious now, she's the product of the faction that favored genetic modification. She's the "perfect" human, incredibly strong, highly intelligent, and nigh immortal.
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 03 Jul 2015, 05:15 ---More and more I'm thinking that Alice started off as an ordinary human, and that for some reason the Blink made her immortal.
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Nah, she would've had to come out of womb (incubation machine?) the way she is. Dna modification at that scale would probably liquefy someone who was already alive.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 02 Jul 2015, 22:59 ---[EDIT]
Further to that last point... Maybe I'm reading too much into it but Alice seems so distant in panel 4. In so many ways, she is the loneliest person on Earth. A living relic of a vanished epoch of human civilisation; born (or created) in a different time to a civilisation that barely even exists as a myth or legend anymore. Even its last physical relics long since gone to rust and dust. All that is left is her - a constant in a world changed beyond recognition.
No wonder she is so harsh and unsocial. Losing everything and everyone and then being condemned to live on in a world so different from the one in which she was born amongst people who can barely understand you and your nature must have worn at her sanity over the tens of centuries.
Thus is the fate of an immortal in the mortal world.
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Have you played Lost Odyssey for the Xbox360? That's basically the backstory of the main character. (Excellent game, I highly recommend it)
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