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Alice Grove MCDLT - March 2016

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BenRG:
Given that "no, don't be stupid" would have been simpler, I'd say that this non-denial slap-down means that, yes, Alice and Malice were in a relationship at some time. Hell, they may have even been married but... well, two acerbic personalties like that? It would have taken a miracle for it to last more than a few centuries! :wink:

Interesting that Malice talks about 'her territory'. That lends itself to the theory that each ALICE has taken a part of the post-Blink world as their stomping ground with which to do as they see fit. Alice has chosen to become a protector and teacher whilst Malice has just become a hermit collector (sort of like The Collector in the Marvel universes).

"Archeophiles" trying to dig up rockets? I'm suddenly getting a strong 'Kerbal Space Program' vibe about the next volume!


--- Quote from: retrosteve on 02 Mar 2016, 11:01 ---So, they look REALLY similar in the 'None of your business' panel. If they're sisters or clones, makes sense. If they're ex-lovers, a bit sick but whatever.
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Yeah, maybe but... Well, put yourself in their place: Your whole civilisation and everything you know and remember has been swept away by a grand Deus Ex Machina. Maybe you would cling to one of the few survivors who still has something in common with you and, maybe, after a century or so, this friendship and mutual dependency for emotional stability would become something more. Who could judge them when no-one else had really experienced what they had done?


--- Quote from: Zebediah on 02 Mar 2016, 11:13 ---My obviously-wrong theory of the day: Maybe she doesn't have a name. Alice may have gotten her name from her townsfolk. Malice is antisocial, so has nothing but the number she was issued when she was decanted from the growth vat.
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I've suggested before that they might have originally been ALICE-GR-053 and ALICE-MI-132 or something similar.

BTW, Jeph's footnote about Alice shooting Malice 'not doing any good' seems to add official weight to the suggestion that they've both got the same indestructible nature.

Is it cold in here?:
Alice still hasn't changed out of her body armor back into coveralls.

Neko_Ali:
Well the fact that Alice had to go to the lengths of submerging Malice into molten rock to inconvenience her I think is more of an indication how indestructible they are. At least on the level of no force they have available post Blink is strong enough to really hurt them... at most cause pain or immobilize them for a while. I would say if they are biological beings, they're probably genetically engineered clone soldiers. Robots would also be possible, but we know that Alice eats and has other biologic functions... She had food and an outhouse at her cabin, and before the kids showed up she's not exactly the sort of share her living space. So yeah... I'm thinking clone warriors is the best theory right now. Which would make them 'sisters' after a sort. That would possibly explain their animosity towards each other as well, or part of it any way.

As far as the territory comment goes, maybe the different Alices have staked out territory in different parts of the world. Or I think more likely, they just don't get along so they avoid each other unless necessary. Territory being nothing official just 'You stay over there, I'll stay over here and we won't have to pointlessly beat on each other'. If there are groups of people digging up old world tech though, it seems to me that Alice is deliberately keeping her charges limited to an agrarian society. By giving them just enough tech to satisfy their needs and desires, but making herself the one they come to to fix things when it's broken, she makes them less interested in figuring out things on their own and dependent on her. Which of course she would defend as 'I don't want them to overtax the eco system by taking to much', like she told Argent and Gavia before. It also probably means she's pretty zealous about guarding her 'territory' from interlopers too.

Method of Madness:

--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 02 Mar 2016, 14:09 ---'territory'

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BenRG:
I note that Malice says the community of archeophiles are "way out west". Are our heroes going to visit the ruins of Vandenberg AFB?

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