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sonicthunder wrote:About the sniper rifle comment.
Bud only tested a standard mortal wound on Monica. The blade's allegedly somewhere in her skull. Assuming the blade still exists, couldn't a fatal head injury still be, well, fatal to Monica? Or did the key only trigger her regeneration powers, not supply them?
Actually, it's not in her skull. At least not the way we'd think of it.
Remember, either in the strip itself or by Word of God, we were told that it wouldn't trigger metal detectors.
Actually, i'm pretty sure that it didn't actually pierce Monica's head, that it shifted to another dimension or something.
Probably the Key was the locus of a singularity, or it created one.
Monica isn't carrying it around, as it only exists because of the Calendar; i.e. being a single point in spacetime, that point is only at the Calendar ritual.
Thus, souls, like demons, exist outside of time. Matter is subject to time, so Monica's body has a reset point.
Also, "Wormholes?! Get that thing away from Sunshine!!" is explained. (The Relic harnesses the power of a rotating galaxy; the Milky Way is rotating around a singularity; and so is Monica; therefore M has "replaced" Jin; therefore they are the only two potential master villains, as the world literally revolves around them. Bravo Pablo.)
Ohnhai wrote:Actually Magic is quite easy. All you need is a recessive gene that allows the organism with it to be able to manipulate reality by consciously collapsing the wave probabilities down to specific fave functions away from what would be considered the norm...
Aside from genetics, it also possible if you have a high enough midi-chlorian count.
*runs and hides from the lightsabers sure to be thrown in this direction*
Julie, about Wapsi Square wrote:Oh goodness yes. So much paranormal!
My deviantART and YouTube.
I'm done thinking for today! It's caused me enough trouble!
DJ. wrote:How nonthreatening is it when a naked, big-boobed pixie is giving a death stare?
As threatening as Miranda Deegan's evil eye is across dimensions...
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Jabberwonky wrote:I think a quick dunk in Calhoun Lake is appropriate...
That sounds about right. Then Monica should go find Kevin and "Break-In" that New Body, "ay,ay,knowhutImean?"
.........HEY! Shelly called her Acacia. I like that. More 'grown-up' sounding than "Bud". Prettier, too.
Ohnhai wrote:Normally a jump of this distance is disallowed due to quantum interference but you can over rule that as you have the 'magic' gene. You calculate the sum-over-histories and leave them to 'poit' their own soggy asses home.
I like it - poiting as a biogenic version of the Infinite Improbability Drive. Nice!
Don't ya just love it when your friends take it upon themselves to prove to you despite the fact that you wish/believe otherwise, that you're just your average everyday run of the mill normal big boobed pixie just trying to get through life. Only to have your entire belief system/world turned topsy turvy, (severely harshing ones mellow in the process) up to an including proving that in fact you are not normal by any stretch of the imagination. Monica's such a lucky girl to have friends who love her so. LMAO!!!
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
Casey wrote:Don't you hate it when everyone is so cheerful and sunny when you just came back from the dead, and haven't even found the time to get dressed?
Isn't it wonderful to have supportive friends...
Monica would likely find it more wonderful to have supportive undergarments. With other garments over them.
Fairportfan wrote:
However, i refer me to my own post that i just made in the thread about yesterday's page:
It's magic.
If we knew how it works, it wouldn't be magic.
Do not try to analyse it.
By definition, you CANNOT.
BECAUSE IT'S FRIGGIN' MAGIC!
Actually Magic is quite easy. All you need is a recessive gene that allows the organism with it to be able to manipulate reality by consciously collapsing the wave probabilities down to specific wave functions away from what would be considered the norm...
For instance, you take a annoying pair of humans who have just irked you more than a bit. As they stand there, there is a single wave function that represents their being there. Now there is a wave function you can add to it that would change their location to, say, 20ft above a local lake (for example). Normally a jump of this distance is disallowed due to quantum interference but you can over rule that as you have the 'magic' gene. You calculate the sum-over-histories and leave them to 'poit' their own soggy asses home.
How come I keep thinking of the popular party prank from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of using the finite improbability generator to make all the molecules in the undergarments of one's hostess move three feet to the left.
Jabberwonky wrote:I think a quick dunk in Calhoun Lake is appropriate...
I agree, it's either that or she'll *poit* them into a volcano for a brief moment, just so they can see how they like being on fire but not dead, lol.
Bud would scarcely notice... remember, she blew hot plasma at her own hand, evaporated the ceramic coffee cup she was holding, and wasn't hurt in the slightest.
Shelly is also distinctly fireproof (at least, once she morphs to sphinx form).
A dunk in the lake might get the point across better. Shelly can't morph to avoid the consequences, because the results would be even more disconcerting (wet fur and feathers... phew!)
sonicthunder wrote:About the sniper rifle comment.
Bud only tested a standard mortal wound on Monica. The blade's allegedly somewhere in her skull. Assuming the blade still exists, couldn't a fatal head injury still be, well, fatal to Monica? Or did the key only trigger her regeneration powers, not supply them?
I just get the feeling if she were "headshot"-ed by someone (given Monica's friends' tendency to try and kill her), the chance exists the blade may become separated from the rest of Monica and this put a damper on her revival.
Íf, and that's a big "if" the blade is the thing enabling Monica's Phoenix-power. I am not at all convinced that is the case. Remember Shelly and Bud were talking about "Phoenix-blood" in M (and apparently some Titan-genes to boot)
I guess we'll get some more exposition of M's powers, and where they stem from, in the coming days.
For now, we'll prolly'see Monica cussing and chastizing Bud and Shelly for being so flippant about all of it. Monica is bóund to be miffed, not so much by Bud and Shelly, but by the sheer fact that being a "magic-infused-pixie-with-a-rack" has negated áll her excuses and explanations of "magic" by sheer science.
Although, álways good to remember A.C.Clarke's observation: "Any technology advanced enough, is indistinguishable from Magic". Which redeems Monica's predisposition towards Magic/Science to a certain degree.
The spike in her head is not physical. It can't be dislodged, except by someone as powerful as the one who put it in.
Now keep in mind, with the Phoenix Blood, if she didn't have the spike in her head, she would have burst into flames, and then started as a baby, with all her memories. However, the spike in her head fixes her in that time spot. It forces her phoenix powers to regenerate her body at the point the spike was placed in, and no sooner. This means every bit of age she accumulates between 'deaths' is lost when she dies. Even if she remains safe long enough to die of old age, the moment she dies of old age, the phoenix power will cause her to regenerate, and the spike will make sure that power brings her body back to the physical age she had when the spike was put in her head.
In other words, she cannot die until The Fates make her.
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