Tehk, do not give Selkie free reign to do brain surgery on you.
She hasn’t passed her board certification yet.
Also, Echos mostly only do brain surgery for the purposes of integrating cybernetic components. Not so much fixing speech impediments.
Tehk, do not give Selkie free reign to do brain surgery on you.
She hasn’t passed her board certification yet.
Echoes being able to do “things to people’s brains” is a huge revelation, uh.
Mr. Scar had his war wound fixed up after the war by an echo, IIRC. Now I’ll have to go back and re-read the introductions.
This is too much exposition. Why is albino kid explaining something they all know already?
It isn’t necessarily common knowledge to Tehk. Mor’Kama are such a small Clan, Pohl spent most of his childhood thinking they were just a story.
Also, to a certain point, tropes like As You Know exist for a mechanical reason. Information like this can’t be conveyed to the audience if it isn’t discussed. And in this situation, the protagonist doesn’t know that either.
Why are you calling him albino??
o h?? tell us more, lil child
Version 1: This is where Selkie comes out to the class.
Version 2: This is where Selkie starts seriously hiding her nature, finding ways to skirt around their detection.
Version 2b: This is where we learn that these guys can’t pick up Echoes like they always thought they could.
Version 2c: This is where we learn that the thing that Selkie’s mom did to her makes her the only Echo that’s invisible to the senses of the Mor’Kama.
Version 2d: Selkie´s echo-powers are that damaged and/or weakened that she doesn´t register as one to them
personally i´m hoping for 2c – and that mommy dearest is using something similar to hide her own power signature. after all, we know that she´s still out there, even though both sides are looking for her, either to kill her or to have her help them
inversion 3: Selkie rides up to school sitting in a shark shaped robot and says,”Muahahahah!” Parks the robot in the Teachers’ Lot. Then walks into class
Tehk really went from “You’re my best friend” back to “Screw you and the horse you rode in on” real quick huh
Oh how quickly the glamour falls.
Really hoping that the kid doesn’t go “Oh yeah, I guess I see it now. It’s hard, you’re power is so weak”.
The doylist explanation even if it was common knowledge* would be that the Mor’kama boy is essentially going “Um? We’d know? Mor’kama, DUH.”
(*but clans mostly don’t interact all that much apart from the fringes to the point that Pohl thought the Mor’Kama were a fairlytale until he was ten?)
Umm…that should be Watsonian Explanation