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It's long enough for cardiac and respiratory function to cease. The rest's mere biology.







In previous time-travel stories we've seen that Parody Island tends to have a mansion-like structure on it, and it tends to adopt a guardian against non-physical attacks. In the 1600s it was a large ghostly dog. When there's a "vacancy" for a guardian it uses some process to "adopt" one.

We've never really detailed the how, but both Marie and Hallie were adopted at the point of their deaths. Both died helplessly, neither could speak at the time of their demise, and both were murdered.

Marie was adopted in the mid 19th Century and generally "slumbered" until her banshee senses warned her of impending death or danger. When Marie was neutralised (by being resurrected by the Hellraisers) then the Mansion adopted Hallie, preserving her sentience when her last HED was destroyed by creating a fleshly form for her. Later, when Marie died again, her link to Vizh's dimensional lighthouse allowed her to return to banshee status but with regular consciousness. For the first time the Mansion has two guardians, one supernatural and the other technological.

Finally, Herringcarp Asylum has also adopted and empowered a guardian in its own dark twisted way - the spirit Amnesia who projects herself beyond the Asylum's walls by its power and through a borrowed human form as Citizen Z!

Lara and Anna haven't been "adopted" for the same reason that all the other heroes haven't been - they're not dead, they can't afford to be tied to restricted location, and there isn't a vacancy. In fact right nowe there's one guardian too many.







CZ is probably harder to scan than most. She's wearing the outfit that Beth von Zemo designed to thwart LL sensors (and Yuki) from discovering her true identity, and now it's further juiced by the energies of Herringcarp Asylum.







It's an interesting point about body rhythms though. We've established that CZ fights much better than Bethany Shellett ever did and has a fast dexterous movement pattern (Lisette's fighting style), but presumably Amnesia can only work within the fitness limits of her host body. So what kind of brain activity is there? What kind of biorhythms would one read?







There's other heroes need evil counterparts too. Yuki really needs someone she can feud with that can give her a run for her money.