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Alice Grove MCDLT - August 2016

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jheartney:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 01 Aug 2016, 12:27 ---The way she ended that conversation ("Then I can be rid of you") seems to insinuate that her plan is to send Ardent back to the habitat - without her.

Is it possible that she thinks/knows that she can no longer be or exist on the space habitat, without her nanotech?

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More likely she just doesn't want anything further to do with him after they get back to orbit. Assuming they are able to find a way to return, they'll be doing it together. But after that, it'll be bye bye.

I don't think Gavia has any desire to stay on Earth. When asked to describe the orbital habitats, she says they are "better than here."

Neko_Ali:
If they have the ability to give someone nanotech abilities in orbit, then surely they can do it again if Gavia gets back up there.  or reverse whatever the Nightwalker did. In any case, Having nanotech seems optional, not a requirement. Ardent didn't have any before he was mined with them as a booby trap. And as Gavia says, she's not baseline. While she's putting in the effort to learn how to survive without her tech, she's also not making any attempts to interact with the locals. In the end, I think she just wants to go home and put the whole ordeal behind her. And never have to look at Ardent's face again.

Kugai:
OK,  I'm getting tired of Gavias attitude.

Yes, she's only down there because Ardent went down and she followed to bring him back, but being stuck there isn't Ardents fault, the Praeses have, for some reason, abandoned them there.

Yes, she lost her Nanotech abilities because the Night Walker stole it and used it for whatever purpose, but Ardent didn't call the Night Walker to do it, nor, I believe, would he want that to happen to her.  He's just not that kind of a guy.

Someone needs to give Gavia a good slap upside the head and a dressing down.  She's behaving like a spoiled brat.

TinPenguin:
Well, she IS a spoiled brat.

She's slowly been stripped of her 'spoiled' credentials since arriving, but is still stubbornly holding on to the 'brat'.

Neko_Ali:
Let's look at this. Her brother does something stupid. She is sent to bring him back. In the process, she was beat badly. To say she handled the situation badly is an understatement. She figured she would go down there, make a big scene, grab Ardent and zoom away. Instead she gets beat nearly to death and abandoned in a foreign country by her trusted elders. Ardent loves it, he wanted to come here. Gavia just wants to go home. She tries to adjust some to a completely foreign environment only to have that disrupted once again by Ardent. First getting them lost in the woods, then with his upgrade power. This leads to another disruption in her life when Alice tries to kill Ardent, then decides to take them on a road trip. But at least the goal of that could lead to the kids returning home. Then she gets attacked again. Mentally and physically violated, nearly killed and with her agency stripped from her, then left in a coma for a short while.  She's got damn good reason to be mad at Argent and the Prases. But Ardent is the one who is here.

So in short.. People are saying that the girl who has suffered months of fear, physical attacks, abandonment, having her world ideological view turned upside down, suffered what is pretty darn close to rape which left her nearly dead and without her primary means of interacting with the world around her.. Yet is still focusing on continuing and learning about how to survive and get by in a world she doesn't even want to be on. And people are saying she's just being bratty and needs to be slapped. No, she needs some serious crisis help. She was never the most pleasant person, this is true. But she's been through far more trauma than the rest of the cast combined since the comic started.

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