Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - May 2016
Tova:
She's pushed it aside. That doesn't mean that the reality and pain of it won't strike again at odd moments to come.
Skewbrow:
Not denying Gavia's pain or anything that has been said about it. But I think that
* she will realize that even though she "defined herself" with nanos, she realizes that her true self is still there. And also
* it will be played for LOLs for a few times when she tries to do something and simply forgets that nanos won't do it for her any longer.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Storel on 30 May 2016, 17:35 --- Come to think of it, though, if she had no skin pigment then her skin should have a kind of pinkish glow, due to blood in her capillaries actually showing through the skin.
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Which is how she's shown.
Timemaster:
--- Quote from: brasca on 30 May 2016, 09:17 ---Difficult to say since I don't see how she could drink or eat while she was in metabolic stasis and yet she is not skin and bones. As such I don't think she'd sweat or expel any other waste. At least I hope not because the poor girl has gone through enough. Knowing that Alice or worse yet Ardent was giving her sponge baths while comatose would just be another grievance to add to the pile.
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After three weeks without drinking and eating she would not only be skin and bones, but also six feet under the ground. Without drinking you die within a few days. There is no sign of intravenal nourishment, so the group must have gotten something into her. Water and soup, likely. A rather messy process with an unconcious person. And yes, there must have been some bodily waste. So cleaning her has been unevitable.
Caring for an unconcious person outside a hospital is a very difficult and unpleasant process, a fact mostly ignored by writers in fiction. A word that immediately comes to my mind here is "diapers". So I donīt blame Jeph for ignoring it too.
But the picture of Gavia crying really got me today. The pain of loss must be overwhelming for her, so I rather go for denial here.
The artwork is really impressing. Jeph made an excellent job of illustrating Gavias emotions and pain here. Billiant!
TM
brasca:
--- Quote from: Timemaster on 30 May 2016, 23:31 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 30 May 2016, 09:17 ---Difficult to say since I don't see how she could drink or eat while she was in metabolic stasis and yet she is not skin and bones. As such I don't think she'd sweat or expel any other waste. At least I hope not because the poor girl has gone through enough. Knowing that Alice or worse yet Ardent was giving her sponge baths while comatose would just be another grievance to add to the pile.
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After three weeks without drinking and eating she would not only be skin and bones, but also six feet under the ground. Without drinking you die within a few days. There is no sign of intravenal nourishment, so the group must have gotten something into her. Water and soup, likely. A rather messy process with an unconcious person. And yes, there must have been some bodily waste. So cleaning her has been unevitable.
Caring for an unconcious person outside a hospital is a very difficult and unpleasant process, a fact mostly ignored by writers in fiction. A word that immediately comes to my mind here is "diapers". So I donīt blame Jeph for ignoring it too.
But the picture of Gavia crying really got me today. The pain of loss must be overwhelming for her, so I rather go for denial here.
The artwork is really impressing. Jeph made an excellent job of illustrating Gavias emotions and pain here. Billiant!
TM
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Absence of an intravenous drip it would have to be water and soup if that's even possible for a group that's not looking after her in a primitive hospital, but traveling in a wagon. Even if it was possible to feed and keep her hydrated she would be extremely emaciated, but aside from her hair being mussed up and circles under her eyes she's about the same size and weight she was 3 weeks ago. Moreover, her clothes lack any dribble stains and she looks to be wearing the same shorts she had on when she lost her frock not a diaper.
Perhaps the metabolic stasis is matter of plot convenience, but I accept it since this is someone who's had 5000 years of augmentation and could recover from something that would kill a normal human.
But I do agree that Jeph has excellently illustrated Gavia's emotional pain.
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