Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - March 2016
Kugai:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 15 Mar 2016, 15:10 ---New comic!
I just can't get over how good Jeph is at implying so much and giving so much background with a few strokes of a very broad brush. We've learnt almost as much about Alice in this strip as we have learned for the rest of the strip to date:
* Whatever happened between Alice and Sedna happened ~300 years back;
* It seems likely that Alice was somehow in the causitive chain of The Blink and she's never forgiven herself... not even five millennia later;
* Sedna didn't hesitate to let a woman whom she claims to hate sleep beside her; is that the result of bittersweet memories? As Jeph says in his endnote - They have a weird relationship!Sedna's earlier denial to Ardent aside, I'm taking panel 4 in this strip as proving that she and Alice have some kind of common origin.
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If not some kind of common relationship. Familial or otherwise.
It shall be interesting to see which.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 15 Mar 2016, 15:21 ---Alice is sleeping in her armor. That implies something about her relationship with Sedna right there.
That, or the armor disintegrated her clothes when it, uh, apparated? manifested? materialized? Whatever it did.
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There's no sign of Alice's tee-shirt or dungarees, even though she's got the armour open almost to mid-chest. Yeah, it disintegrated her clothes alright!
Zebediah:
I can imagine what will happen when Ardent figures that out.
Neko_Ali:
Well, Sedna said she and Alice aren't exactly the same, but come from similar vintage. It's possible they were not created or upgraded by the same group... opposite sides of the war, or different programs. Or even just that they are different kinds of human weapons. Interesting that the grudge between them is only 300 years old though. There is still a lot left unknown about their relationship. And the grudge aside, they are comfortable enough with each other to sleep under the same covers. And yes, Alice's clothes seem to have been destroyed by her armor. But it makes me wonder why she hasn't changed. Surely she brought spare clothes along for a long road trip? Psychological in nature? She's unwilling to drop her guard around Sedna, in a literal sense. Which is ironic given she was asking Sedna if she was going to stop being hostile towards her...
katsmeat:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 15 Mar 2016, 15:21 ---Alice is sleeping in her armor. That implies something about her relationship with Sedna right there.
That, or the armor disintegrated her clothes when it, uh, apparated? manifested? materialized? Whatever it did.
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I'm going to hazard a guess the armour consists of the atoms that were formerly her clothes. And it's a one-way transformation so she's stuck until she can get new dungarees from somewhere.
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