No. Thing is, the exceptions typically have barely half the self-confidence of a mouse dipped in catnip at a cat show.lake_wrangler wrote:Isn't that the case with pretty much every 13-year old?GlytchMeister wrote:I think the 13-year old might be overestimating herself.
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Re: Needs Intell 2017-12-20
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Re: Needs Intell 2017-12-20
Right after she accidentally killed the baby, before she was golemised, apparently.Atomic wrote:It remains to be seen if Brandi's skills were purely a manifestation of the Nu Gui, or an amplification. Without her subliminal master in the driver's seat, Brandi might be just another air-head. I'm not sure where in her history the Nu Gui moved in.GlytchMeister wrote:And I also think, for all her senses and powers and wisdom, Cas might still be outclassed by the chessmaster elite that is Brandi, who also happens to have at her disposal the resources of an entire, well-funded, highly powerful, clandestine agency.
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Re: Needs Intell 2017-12-20
Correct. The Nu Gui was the baby who was killed that day... its soul, gone bad due to the death trauma.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Right after she accidentally killed the baby, before she was golemised, apparently.Atomic wrote:I'm not sure where in her history the Nu Gui moved in.
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As I understand it, Brandi tried to make amends for accidentally being involved in the death of the infant she was caring for, by giving it a place to continue to exist... within herself. Bad move. The soul of the innocent child didn't remain innocent... it became a Nu Gui, and eventually tried to maneuver Brandi into a position where it could use her to take remember on the entire civilization whose ancestors had killed it. As far as we know, I think, Lily and Kath are the only survivors of sorts.
Since Brandi and the others were murdered and golemized and Chimerized shortly after this... was the Nu Gui able to act? or was it effectively out of action until Brandi got her individuality back, centuries after the destruction of Lanthis? Might the Nu Gui have contributed to the rage which free the Chimera from control? I don't think Paul has ever told us...
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Re: Needs Intell 2017-12-20
Now that we've confirmed the timeline of the "insertion" of the Nu-Gui into Brandi, we still don't have an answer to the original question: was Brandi a Chessmaster BEFORE she ended up with the Nu-Gui, or did she become so BECAUISE of the Nu-Gui's influence?
Re: Needs Intell 2017-12-20
Or, is it neither of those? Did she became a chessmaster after the Nu Gui entered her, but for unrelated reasons?lake_wrangler wrote:Now that we've confirmed the timeline of the "insertion" of the Nu-Gui into Brandi, we still don't have an answer to the original question: was Brandi a Chessmaster BEFORE she ended up with the Nu-Gui, or did she become so BECAUISE of the Nu-Gui's influence?
She was, after all, murdered, her body burned to ash, and the ashes mixed with clay and used to create a golem that had all of Brandi's memories and personality (and possibly her soul although I don't think Paul has explicitly said either yea or nay to that).
That might have had something to do with her acquisition of certain abilities involving planning and manipulation. A "strategy and tactics" subroutine that the Lanthian priests implanted, as part of the Chimera programming?