Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3376 - 3380 (19th to 23rd December 2016)
HoneyBadger:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 22 Dec 2016, 22:36 ---The CW effector might be a drone controlled by a remote Big Bad.
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CW might be just an extraordinarily and inexplicably talented small time hood. Might be one of possibly many simultaneous parallel avatars of Something Nasty.
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Now THERE'S a more effective counter argument! Yes, that's an interesting thought, but have we been given any reason to suspect that something like this might be true in the world of QC? Most of the story lines have been rainbows and unicorns so far, comparatively speaking. In order for the comic to go down that road, it would really have to take a sharp turn for the dystopian.
On reflection, I suppose Bubbles employing the sort of strategy I have suggested might well be an appropriately dark beginning for a turn towards the dystopian. Is Bubbles the harbinger of the QC Apocalypse?
BenRG:
I suspect that at least some of Bubbles fears are the 'chains' of her own self-doubt that she's constructed herself to give her an excuse for not looking for help in undoing what Corpse Witch did to her. I, personally, find it unlikely that she left a 'tripwire bomb' in Bubbles' system. Why do I say that? Because she is the sort of being who would have boasted about it endlessly as a way of yanking Bubbles' leash. Instead, she's let Bubbles manhandle and threaten her and only ever waved the encryption key around as a threat. If she had another weapon to use, she would have used it.
Bubbles isn't wrong to question what Corpse Witch may have done in there. I, for one, strongly suspect that Bubbles' unwillingness to seek help and constructing paranoid scenarios to justify not doing so might be Corpse Witch's fail-safe modification. Indeed, I'm wondering if her memories were ever that traumatic in the first place or if that's a construction Corpse Witch installed to make Bubbles less likely to defy her.
If there is a bomb in her head, it is this: If what Corpse Witch did was undone... would she still be Bubbles?
brasca:
Can you be so certain of that? Corpse Witch is smug, but not stupid. The first time we witnessed her pull Bubble's leash was when she warned her about the legal ramifications if the police raided her establishment. That doesn't seem to be enough to keep Bubbles working for her these days so then she reminds her about the key. However, if that too fails or if Bubbles attempts to actually kill Corpse Witch I wouldn't be surprised that she installed some countermeasure.
I'm reminded of Babylon 5 when Garibaldi tries to kill Psi Cop Bester and can't because even someone as smug as he knew there was a chance that Garibaldi could possibly get the opportunity to kill him so he installed a mental block in his head. Garibaldi could desire to kill him all he wanted, but never be able to pull the trigger or move a muscle that would make this happen. Bubbles might be able to grab Corpse Witch by the throat, but if she tried to crush her skull or rip out the AI component her chassis would not respond.
HoneyBadger:
I find all of the scenarios relating to Corpse Witch putting those kinds of fail safes into Bubbles unlikely. In order to do it she would have to be able to make very subtle changes, and Bubbles has already explained that these sorts of changes can't really be done for a range of reasons.
I like BenRG's reasoning that Corpse Witch would have already used other weapons if she had them. Though, having said that, the more devious part of me thinks that sometimes it is wise to keep one's best trump cards hidden, and I wouldn't put that past Corpse Witch.
theMarc:
--- Quote from: HoneyBadger on 22 Dec 2016, 22:26 ---the only rational thing for Corpse Witch to do
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This right here is the problem with your logic: people don't always do rational things. We've already seen that Corpse Witch has less control over Bubbles than she thinks she does, when, rationally, CW should be playing it safe, and underestimating how much control she has over Bubbles. And Faye's departure from the fight club was triggered by CW threatening May, which, rationally, she shouldn't have done, as May stood little to gain and a lot to lose from squealing.
The thing is, Corpse Witch thinks she's pretty hot shit. She believes she is better and smarter than than everyone around her. And nothing dampens rational thought as efficiently as hubris. The more infallible you think you are, the less you consider your failure a possibility. The less you consider the possibility of failure, the less action you take to avoid failure. With the size of the ego on CW it shouldn't be surprising that her control over Bubbles is tenuous, and is largely predicated on the fact that Bubbles has infinitely more scruples than she.
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