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Alice Grove MCDLT - April 2017
jwhouk:
Great post from a first timer! Welcome - and intriguing.
brasca:
--- Quote from: LKR1009 on 19 Apr 2017, 06:06 ---In this strip ((http://www.alicegrove.com/post/141109595324/they-have-a-super-weird-relationship)), Sedna said Alice had held a grudge against herself for the past 5000 years. The flashback is to 5000 years ago. Maybe Alice betrayed Church or vice versa? Just spitballing ideas.
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I think you and hitmics have some good theories about Church. Unless this fight is taking place within a split second Church could've dodged the attack, but it looks like he is standing down or surrendering. However, if Alice betrayed him I would think Church wouldn't have the self control to not kill her on the spot regardless of what Pate ordered him to do. Alice recognized him immediately, but there is no sign of recognition on his face. Perhaps he has no memories of what happened, but his brutality remains especially when activated.
Skewbrow:
May be Church only now recognizes Alices as his nemesis from five thousand years? IIRC this is the first time Church sees Alice in her armor - a scene imprinted into his memory while sinking into lava, as evidenced in the last frame. In other words, this is Church's flashback. He is going to be extremely motivated in this fight.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: brasca on 19 Apr 2017, 17:55 ---Unless this fight is taking place within a split second Church could've dodged the attack, but it looks like he is standing down or surrendering.
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Another possibility is that Alice had so worn him down in a prolonged fight that he doesn't have sufficient energy reserves left to dodge what is an area-of-effect attack. It might explain why the scenery is devastated if Alice and Church had been going at each other for several days and Alice had finally come out on top. It's also quite possible that several of Alice's brother and sister super-soldiers had died in the process of wearing Church down to the point where she could at least attempt to finish him.
It is possible that Church may have been something like the Faro Peacekeeper war machines in Horizon Zero Dawn - A war machine that, once started, was nearly impossible to stop and with a very poor ability to identify and spare non-combatants. Basically, he was destroying everyone and everything in his path and, in the end, a major operation had to be mounted to stop him.
Yes, I'm saying that Alice and Church were on the same side in the war; she was the earlier model and he was the ultimate expression of what the bioengineers thought they wanted a super-soldier to be. They were wrong and it took many lives to establish that. It is quite possible that this fiasco was what triggered the process leading to The Blink.
hitmiccs:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 20 Apr 2017, 00:49 ---In other words, this is Church's flashback. He is going to be extremely motivated in this fight.
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 20 Apr 2017, 01:22 ---It is quite possible that this fiasco was what triggered the process leading to The Blink.
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Skewbrow, I think you got it! It would also explain why, in the last panel, we see Alice floating over him, as this was the last thing he saw before sinking deeper underground. And the his last picture burned into his memory, he now unleashes every bit of anger he built up in 5000 years. If they were fighting on earth instead, it would be devastation all over again. If the Praeses are behind all of this, it could be their way to see this conflict leveld out without destroying too much on a war-cleared-by-blink-earth. They left Alice (and Sedna, maybe there are more of them too?) alone, removed every remainder of tech on earth except the nanobot-walker, sent Ardent and Gavia down, for them to seek a way back "up" again (if Gavia is a tool of the Praeses or not is yet to be revealed) knowing they would need a ship to reach space. Pate, as the power-hungry being he is, unburied Church while looking for a still working spaceship and BOOM! everything comes together at the archeological site, where they surprisedly happen to find a bunker where exactly one of those ships is situated.
The Praeses know, that they can't just blink the last supersoldiers away, because they are indeed just super-enhanced humans - if they want them to be gone, they have to make them leave earth by themselves and now they are in space, it's probably just a matter of time, until only one is left from the "bossfight".
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