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WCDT Strips 3366-3370 (5th-9th December 2016)

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NyxDarkness:
And deeper down the rabbit hole we go..
I'm happy to see that Faye's friendship is still important to Bubbles, but what is Bubbles hiding from? When it comes to the Encryption Key CW mentioned, I think it's probably more along the lines of traumatic info that Bubbles wishes she could forget. 

brasca:

--- Quote from: Timemaster on 08 Dec 2016, 22:43 ---Finally some news about our favorite warbot.

So Bubbles is hiding frome someone and CW has given her refuge. From whom? And is Bubbles hiding because she´s on the lam or does she simply not want to meet specific people. I think rather the latter, because she is moving around town without much precaution and is rather relaxed around officer Basilisk. Or maybe she´s just trying to hide from her own past?
This leads me straight to the mysterious encryption key. I suppose Bubs has encrypted parts of her own memory and gave the key to CW so she´s not longer able to access them herself. I see two possible explanations for this: those are traumatic memories from her own past, which she no longer wants to remember. Or she has some classified information stored, wich she wants to protect, even from herself.
Maybe she knows something important and no one must ever know she knows!
NO ONE!
EVER!
Something in the line of who shot JFK, what is really hidden in Area51 or who controls Donald Trump.  :wink:
And thats why she is hiding herself.

TM

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I think Bubbles is seeking refuge from the outside world.  If the government wanted to arrest her I doubt they'd have any trouble finding her and considering Corpse Witch is running an illegal business keeping a high profile fugitive would be asking for trouble.  As we have seen Bubbles has trouble interacting with people.  The first time at Faye and Marten's apartment ended badly.  With the exception of May and Pintsize's obnoxious behavior no one was hostile to her presence, but she couldn't handle it.  Then there was the time those teenagers were calling her a freak behind her back.  Even though she knows it's irrational to be angry over it she is and retreated back to her safe place. 

BenRG:
Well done to Jeph for taking this in such an unexpected and uniquely AI direction!  If you could have a bad chunk of your life locked off so that you were physically incapable of recalling them unless you wanted to (and would need outside help to do so) would you do so?

Bubbles' memories are clearly traumatic enough that forcing her to confront them is the worst threat imaginable for Corpse Witch to make to her. Or, at the very least, Bubbles tells herself that they're especially traumatic, which is not unreasonable, based on the fact that she knows nothing about those memories other than the fact she wanted them locked away enough to get herself permanently under the influence of this vile petty criminal. However, we don't know how different time and her changed perspectives might make her reaction to them.

In any case, I don't think that whoever she was hiding from is such a big issue anymore. She was clearly willing to confront that possibility head-on. The memories? Less so.

Just a guess: I'm thinking that Bubbles may have been blamed by one surviving relative of one of her dead squad-mates and he/she was hounding her. When you're already dealing with PTSD and guilt, having a vengeful stalker can't be good for your mental health.

In the end, it's going to come down to what is most important to Bubbles - Hiding or friendship; security or happiness. The two are no longer combined and I think that she's very, very aware of it. However, that isn't a decision anyone could come to quickly.

Corpse Witch has won this round and can afford to be a little smug but I think she should be aware of just how close Bubbles came to killing her here and not caring about the consequences. If there was ever a time to cash out of a deal gone bad, I would suspect it is now.

Actually, an alternate explanation just occurred to me. Ever heard of 'Ransomware'? I wonder if Corpse Witch used something like that on Bubbles?

gopher:
Bubbles should have covered herself in tattoos or mailed herself esoteric clues to the memories before she had them locked off.

oeoek:
ok, 10 points for the raccoon; someone is taken advantage of at the robofightring...

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