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Subj: It warrants repeating. Often.
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 11:42:09 am EDT (Viewed 384 times)
Reply Subj: I've lost count of the number of times you said that.
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 07:49:49 am EDT




> > Liu Xi wouldn't even be aware of that, since as far as she knows she's the only one with the talent to mess with Void. Her family, though, had no such talents, so a direct link might be a long shot unless it skips a few generations.
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> But she#s usually referred to as AN elementalist, not THE elementalist, and people in the know tend to classify her by that description, so others must have been heard of at some time.
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> She so needs an origin.

She has one, in a sense, just not a family tree yet. To clarify though, there are many families in China which claim to be proficient with elemental magic, so it would be difficult to filter those claims and pinpoint the ones who genuinely are. And the ones who are genuine aren't going to do something extraordinary or non-traditional to draw attention to themselves.

Liu Xi, at least as far as she knows, is unique as far as being able to handle Void, but not as an elementalist. She may have heard legends about her family being able to manipulate elements, but not void. She also hasn't heard any legend of anyone else being able to, which would lead her to believe that talent is unique.


> > > The other question is how did she [Lara] feel about the tough choice she had to make - blow up a city to save a world.
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> > Lara is unusual there, in that she's not afraid to make choices like that. She's not happy she had to, but given what has been happening up to that point she was probably fully prepared for it. The fact that she waited until the last minute says a lot about her self control. More on that in a tie-in, perhaps.
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> Splendid.

The real question she's probably been pondering since things were reset is, whether the Lair Legion might look at her differently if they realize what she's capable of. Which was one of her fears all along.


> > And additional comments:
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> > I wonder if the Carnifax is going to resort to more dangerous measures now that his plan was accidentally thwarted by Al B Harper.
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> The Carnifex's plan wasn't thwarted. He got everything he'd hoped for out of his game. He never wanted the Moderator to win, although he could have worked with it if that had been the outcome.
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> From his point of view the whole thing was the cosmic equivalent of Spike sending a couple of vampires to fight Buffy and get dusted so he could assess how to beat the Slayer later.>/font>

In that case I'd have to guess that the Carnifax sees Lara as a great threat to his plans, and definitely Faite. But by now he knows that Liu Xi is easy to neutralize because her weakness is sensitivity, and that Yuki and Anna are dependent on technology which can perhaps be disabled.


> > I'm not sure if Danny is alive or dead at this point. I suspect the Hooded Hood may have taken advantage and returned though.
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> The regular, "real" Danny wasn't in this story at all, and neither was the "real" Kerry.

I know, but since Epitome disappeared...


> I'm not sure where in continuity this story takes place relative to Untold Tales , but I suspect it'll happen after the next UT arc where Vizh, Glory, Kerry, and Danny go to Caph to retrieve the missing Juniors. That storyline's been referenced as happening while the Phantom Elevator stuff was going on (and the Compound plot), and all of that probably happened after the current Deadeyes material.
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> So that means that Epitome disappearing and all the fallout from what people might remember of the Moderator Saga comes after evertyhing else I've posted so far.

Noted.






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