scantrontb wrote:Two?... I'll bet that the ability to do the Siren's Song, doesn't manifest itself until puberty hits... and that just happened for Atsali, so I'm confused as to whom the second Siren is that you're referring to, #1 would be Atsali's Mom, but who's #2?... and where do you see a "lack of reaction" by her father? we've never seen him nor her mom in comic, and he was even dead and gone Long before we saw Atsali for the first time, and i don't remember ever reading anything else about the parents, other than what Pickle said when she was angry at her for losing her in the Library, that being that "at least Atsali knows her parents are dead".... and that's about it as i recall. I'm curious as to how you got that line of thinking with little or no other info than that (that i remember; anyways, please correct me if I've forgotten stuff...)
We now know that Atsali has the song power and that she has tested it out in the past, but we don't know for how long she's had it. It could be something that she was born with, or something that happened when she hit puberty, or some other point in between. Since she might possibly have had the ability from the time she was a child, I was counting her as the potential second siren.
(As an aside, the lack of an effect on those who have strong feelings for the singer would make evolutionary sense if sirens are born with the power: imagine if parents were able to be irresistibly compelled by infants!)
So, if Atsali did live with her family for at least a little while, then her non-siren father would have been spending time with at least one siren (possibly two) who had the ability to control people through song. Yet it is apparently news to Atsali that people who love her are immune to her power. So if Atsali did spend time with her family, and if singing is a power that sirens have from birth, then her lack of realising the singing's limitation implies three possibilities:
1) Neither she nor her mother ever sang, which seems a bit unlikely for a little kid.
2) Her father was affected by the singing, which would mean sad things for her family life.
3) Her father had no reaction to the singing, but Atsali never really clued in to that lack of a reaction or investigated why he was immune.
If her singing power is a recent result of her hitting puberty or something, then that raises yet other questions. We have seen her singing openly when around her family since the notorious bee-stinging incident. So either she can switch from normal singing to siren singing at will, or else her family were protected by their love for her and she again didn't catch on to the fact that certain people with a certain commonality weren't being affected.
As it is, we still don't know much of anything about the singing, so most everything is still just supposition.
Another question I've considered about it: does the compulsive power depend on the specific physical properties of the sound, or does the sound merely act as some sort of a conduit for it? Because if there's, say, a certain frequency in Atsali's singing that causes the compulsion, then anything that has an auditory system that doesn't pick up that frequency could very well be immune. Somebody such as an ursamorph could change the structure of their ears to keep from being controlled.
), Atsali was humming/singing in her sleep and then her form changed.
