Well clearly Colin and Vriska are the alternate universe versions of each other. I mean multiverse, you don’t need to have the same name, gender, or even species as your counterpart.
Heh, true that!
Author: Krixwell Jace
A doofus.
I had trouble reconciling Mannequin’s original specialty with his current one too, but there’s a way to frame it that makes sense. He was first building huge self-contained biospheres to support life in inhospitable places. The only thing that’s changed since his heel face turn is the scale. It’s all still self-contained biospheres: they’re just smaller. He is working a *somewhat* outside his bailiwick, though. All the magnets and chains are out of scope. That’s why they operate a bit awkwardly.
I suppose that makes sense. He’s supporting life on a smaller scale than the entity he’s supporting life for.
Ah, comparing Armsmaster to Vriska, that’s the stuff that makes this liveblog worth reading…
Hehe, I’m glad you appreciate it!
To the best of my knowledge, there are literally zero Mannequin lewds in existence.
Sharks: According to a friend, this is wrong. There’s at least one.
Of course there is! Did you forget rule 34? 😛
How I imagine Mannequin moves, especially the first seconds of the webm: webmshare.com/play/KwNEV I imagine other people will send you Mannequin fan art eventually! (Please enable submissions on the ask account)
Hah, yeah, looks about right! 😛
“I wonder if this reeling in of the head ever results in Mannequin getting dizzy.” Which leads to the question of can he get dizzy? Does he have inner ears? Or outer ears? And where’s he keep his brain? (Never trust something that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.)
That is a very good question.
I’m guessing his brain is in the head portion – otherwise, what is the head even for? You could argue that his vision is still in there, but however he sees, it’s not visible from outside anyway, so it could be anywhere. Then again, that logic applies to the brain too.
So, uh… ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Have you noticed that the perspectives we did see were Bitch, Theo, Labyrinth and Armsmaster?
Uh, yes? I know I can be a bit silly sometimes, but I’m not sure how I could miss that. Are you suggesting there’s a pattern to it?
I guess you could use the first three to make a BLT sandwich. Maybe Armmaster’s the arm that lifts it, and the next four POV characters will be two slices of bread, a plate and a mouth. And finally we’ve got Pinkie Pie to provide the secret ingredient. Delicious!
You’ve speculated that powers are given by the dandelions to help the people they’re given to. If its the dandelions, or soemthing/someone else, do you think there’s any other reasons?
The dandelions are definitely involved in the bestowment of powers, at least, unless Wildbow is pulling a huge misdirection on me. By the looks of it, they are actively doing so, and capable of predicting or planning where and when they should be, or “touch”, to do so in the future.
It’s possible that the Dandelions are aware of the future, to some extent. They may know about the upcoming threat in two years* or so – which I (in part due to spoilers) believe will be the titular Worm – and possibly started giving people powers in order to give them a fighting chance against it. In this way, the upcoming threat potentially answers several lingering questions, such as “why did powers only start cropping up 30 years ago?” or “why are most powers useful for combat?”. Incidentally, this means trigger events might stop happening after the threat is over.
(*I will be very surprised if Jack dies before it’s too late for his death to delay the threat.)
Mood. Just woke up from a 12 hour nap.
mood af
This is just to clarify, because some of the other askers are a little confused: Labyrinth was not ever Burnscar’s choice for recruitment. Not every member of the Nine chose to recruit someone upon their entry to Brockton Bay. Burnscar abstained from the selection process and while her companions were informing their candidates, she decided to pay a visit to Labyrinth.
Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Minus the abstaining from the process, that’s pretty much how I was interpreting it. It didn’t seem to me that she wanted Labyrinth to join.
And considering how Burnscar herself doesn’t want to be in the Slaughterhouse Nine, it’s very reasonable that she wouldn’t want to seek out another brutal cape to help the team recruit.
