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I suggest that maybe you should think of making the guards’/knights’ armor have little differences because trying to follow which is which is next to impossible right now. If you ever deiced to have a lot of them do something important or relevant they won’t all have to be mysteriously missing their helmets. But that’s just a suggestion.
Either Bohrs can understand them due to being a golem himself, or, perhaps more likely, the palace guards are familiar with the folks of the Silence, and have learned some of their language. Perhaps they dwell in the city at the King’s sufferance. This would change our view of the Silence a bit – not a hidden menace threatening the city, but a known quantity, even friendly to the kingdom?
When I posted they still had the blank word bubbles so it looked like Neils was hearing something and then having it sorta wiped from his mind. Which was the M.O. of Doctor Who’s most recent Big Bad “The Silence”. Now they’ve got the cracking noises in the word bubbles, it (a) looks a lot less cool and mysterious, and (b) totally wipes out the joke I originally made.
I’m guessing that the Fracture are actually in some way psychic and the noise is them speaking, but the words themselves aren’t being vocalised, but transmitted.
Bohrs, on the other hand, we’ve seen on an operating table, being looked at by some oddly… mystic looking doctors. Recovering from that fireball might account for it, but I do have to think that the man has a manner about him which begs the question of him being… augmented in some way.
And the girl? Well if Ctyx is there, and he’s talking to her… either she survived (by being noticeably there) or she’s been made *into* one of them. Which would be an even more interesting point than the Fractured being tolerated in the city in the first place. If people can be made into them, then who was the lady there before? In either case, he’s comfortable with her there, which means that whatever happened to her before, he’s already overcome that enough to talk to her normally again.
Don’t forget people that there’s been a little time past between their return and this ball, long enough to have dresses made and gather political allies/representatives from around the world. A lot could have happened in the wings that we don’t get to find out.
And now that Ctyx is here, with the magical Hand of Doom™ on his wrist, I think we get a glimpse of where Drowemos is going to take this party.
I see chaos, death, maybe even *more* gender-bending in the very near future XD
I’ll opine that “Mira” is an automaton built or modified to look like Ctyx’s friend in an attempt to comfort him, and not the girl herself. Mira was cut pretty badly; there would probably be clues to that effect if that was her, even if she had been remade into one of them. Ctyx likely wouldn’t be real happy if she’d been altered like that, either.
She’s in essence a teddy bear handed to a hurting little kid to make him happy.
As for the Fracture’s “language”, I find it likely that Bohrs(? I get them mixed up) didn’t consciously understand any it. He was being subliminally manipulated, and his brain translated it as speech to help him get over the cognitive dissonance. Kinda like the way cats and dogs don’t speak words; they make sounds that are intended to cause certain instinctive reactions, but we think they’re “talking” to us.
Good thoughts guys, yes the girl could be a copy made to comfort him, but would he talk to her like that if she was? It’s a theory deanatay, but again, things may have happened in the wings, he’s obviously comfortable enough with this one, whatever she may be. So we’ll have to wait and see if she’s able to take off the mask to prove it either way.
And yes, that’s another explanation for it, coyotenose, it could be sub-speech rather than psychic transmission. Why make any sound at all if you’re psychic? I like that theory ^^
Hey, debates, conversations and counter-theorising, lets get more of this going!
Could be a copy, could be her. Magical healing could easily account for the lack of scarring. Remember, all we know for sure is that she sustained the injury and that a medic was called. Later, a random soldier mentions that he heard a little girl was killed by the boy wizard that was running around. Sounds like a wild rumor. to me.
Aren’t they the clockwork robots in that David Tennant episode, The Girl in the Fireplace?
Meh. Too many references to science fiction shows that I could care to name.
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Hmmm….I see the Silence has a new look. What we need is a mad man with a box and a cool bow-tie.
Okay, why does that girl on the left look like Nyphette who was supposedly killed by a manbear?
And it’s a return of the nixie golem…
I want to know how the guards understand cracking noises…
Lol, Given that armor I wouldn’t be surprised if the guards are golems.
Those shoulder Paldrons must be rubberized.
I suggest that maybe you should think of making the guards’/knights’ armor have little differences because trying to follow which is which is next to impossible right now. If you ever deiced to have a lot of them do something important or relevant they won’t all have to be mysteriously missing their helmets. But that’s just a suggestion.
Either Bohrs can understand them due to being a golem himself, or, perhaps more likely, the palace guards are familiar with the folks of the Silence, and have learned some of their language. Perhaps they dwell in the city at the King’s sufferance. This would change our view of the Silence a bit – not a hidden menace threatening the city, but a known quantity, even friendly to the kingdom?
Gaah! LookBeyond got me all cornfused! They’re called ‘the Fracture’, not ‘the Silence’.
It may also be that the Fracture have some limited telepathy – Cytx could understand a little of what they said to him, too.
@Deanatay
When I posted they still had the blank word bubbles so it looked like Neils was hearing something and then having it sorta wiped from his mind. Which was the M.O. of Doctor Who’s most recent Big Bad “The Silence”. Now they’ve got the cracking noises in the word bubbles, it (a) looks a lot less cool and mysterious, and (b) totally wipes out the joke I originally made.
incidentally is it just me or does Golem labelled number “1” look a lot like a beefier version of The Joker from Batman:TAS?
I’m guessing that the Fracture are actually in some way psychic and the noise is them speaking, but the words themselves aren’t being vocalised, but transmitted.
Bohrs, on the other hand, we’ve seen on an operating table, being looked at by some oddly… mystic looking doctors. Recovering from that fireball might account for it, but I do have to think that the man has a manner about him which begs the question of him being… augmented in some way.
And the girl? Well if Ctyx is there, and he’s talking to her… either she survived (by being noticeably there) or she’s been made *into* one of them. Which would be an even more interesting point than the Fractured being tolerated in the city in the first place. If people can be made into them, then who was the lady there before? In either case, he’s comfortable with her there, which means that whatever happened to her before, he’s already overcome that enough to talk to her normally again.
Don’t forget people that there’s been a little time past between their return and this ball, long enough to have dresses made and gather political allies/representatives from around the world. A lot could have happened in the wings that we don’t get to find out.
And now that Ctyx is here, with the magical Hand of Doom™ on his wrist, I think we get a glimpse of where Drowemos is going to take this party.
I see chaos, death, maybe even *more* gender-bending in the very near future XD
Thaylien: I thought the Palace guards took the girl – I think the Fracture made a look-alike of her, to keep Cytx company.
I’ll opine that “Mira” is an automaton built or modified to look like Ctyx’s friend in an attempt to comfort him, and not the girl herself. Mira was cut pretty badly; there would probably be clues to that effect if that was her, even if she had been remade into one of them. Ctyx likely wouldn’t be real happy if she’d been altered like that, either.
She’s in essence a teddy bear handed to a hurting little kid to make him happy.
As for the Fracture’s “language”, I find it likely that Bohrs(? I get them mixed up) didn’t consciously understand any it. He was being subliminally manipulated, and his brain translated it as speech to help him get over the cognitive dissonance. Kinda like the way cats and dogs don’t speak words; they make sounds that are intended to cause certain instinctive reactions, but we think they’re “talking” to us.
Good thoughts guys, yes the girl could be a copy made to comfort him, but would he talk to her like that if she was? It’s a theory deanatay, but again, things may have happened in the wings, he’s obviously comfortable enough with this one, whatever she may be. So we’ll have to wait and see if she’s able to take off the mask to prove it either way.
And yes, that’s another explanation for it, coyotenose, it could be sub-speech rather than psychic transmission. Why make any sound at all if you’re psychic? I like that theory ^^
Hey, debates, conversations and counter-theorising, lets get more of this going!
Could be a copy, could be her. Magical healing could easily account for the lack of scarring. Remember, all we know for sure is that she sustained the injury and that a medic was called. Later, a random soldier mentions that he heard a little girl was killed by the boy wizard that was running around. Sounds like a wild rumor. to me.
Yeah so the robot people ….. is it wrong that I am completly FREAKED THE HELL OUT by them? O_O
or it could be you’re all reading into this WAY TOO MUCH
Only if they start to chant “exterminate!”
Aren’t they the clockwork robots in that David Tennant episode, The Girl in the Fireplace?
Meh. Too many references to science fiction shows that I could care to name.
Translation: “These are not the party crashers that you are looking for.”