lake_wrangler wrote:And quite perspicacious, too...
Well, she's been a spider on the wall for quite a time now, watching what's going on.
lake_wrangler wrote:Speaking of Monica, where exactly is she, while these two are talking? As far as I can tell, they are still in Monica's house/apartment/place... Did Monica leave them alone to deal with this? Is she even still within earshot of them?
Out finding clothes that will fit Digit properly? At the local pet shop, buying up all the feed insects she can carry? Nefariously cackling and plotting how she's going to introduce Shelly and Amanda to the spider-person?
AmriloJim wrote:On FB, Paul said Digi is 16.
Which does raise some questions.
In general, jumping spiders live at most a year or two. Digit was introduced back in mid-2014, which means that we know she's been in the comic's timeline for at least four or five years (it's a bit hard to pin down lengths of time in comic time). And here we have her referring to herself as a teenager, and we have word that she's in her mid-teens.
So, is she sixteen human years old? Or the equivalent of sixteen given the lifespan of her species?
In either case, we know she's at least four human years old. Which is at least twice the lifespan for a normal jumping spider. If she were a normal jumping spider, she'd be something like the equivalent of 200 years old and perhaps have great-great-grandkids (imagine a whole herd of little Digit-babies hopping about).
Is her extended lifespan a matter of her particular spider species just naturally lives for a much longer time than other spiders? Or has living in the Library done something specifically to her? Because if she's still a spider teenager at the age of 4+ human years, then it's not just a matter of living longer: it's a matter of
greatly slowing down the aging and maturing processes.
If the Library slows down aging, then is that part of why Phix and Nudge are as spry and youthful-appearing as they are? And are paranormals booking spa vacations to the Library to try to keep their looks?
Slowing down a visitor's aging would make extended research less of a problem for Library patrons, I suppose. If you
really wanted to devote time to the study of some complicated subject but were put off by the idea of how much of your lifetime you'd spend doing so, the Library might help with that. And if you studied for your college courses there, you could graduate with a PhD and still be as young as when you graduated from high school!
Gyrrakavian wrote:Sounds like the princess might get a roommate.
Calista Foxglove and Digit? Will Digit take the last name Alis?
AnotherFairportfan wrote:I thi k Digit got all the awareness-of-others that an ordinary teen should have, plus what Atsali was supposed to get.
Perhaps young Digit bit young Atsali during one of the latter's trips to the Library?
Armorlord wrote:I also notice that she's been hiding her other eyes rather well since she started speaking English. I wonder how well the coloration on those.. hair legs?.. blends in with her hair. I was worried before about her learning to pass among humans, but I think she my already have the skill to do so.
I think that those might have been her pedipalps when she was in spidery form, the little wiggly arm things on either side of a spider's mouthparts. Some spiders hunt and survive through mimicry; perhaps Digit is subconsciously (or even consciously) trying to blend in by hiding her more nonhuman attributes?
