Sounds like he knew it was possible, but againe it shouldn’t have happened. He knew it could happen in theory, but the likelihood of it happening should have been highly unlikely. But, againe, Amanda in theory shouldn’t be able to shoot beams from her eyes at all. So yeah, Scar just got hit by a bus. Rightly so but he did not do this with the end goal of hurting Selkie. Unfortunately this is another “try this grape and see what happens” cuz Selkie and Amanda are not playing by the established Echo rules so trial and error is the only path left.
It is like working on a bomb. In theory, it can and will blow up but as a bomb expert knowing how bombs work, it shouldn’t and then it does because well, this bomb is different.
Don’t forget, The bow-tie that was given to Selkie was built BY HER MOM… NOT Scar. Plo’quar probably made a teensy-teeny-tiny transcription error when she made it based on what she remembered of the one that Scar made for her…
Well, Selkie is her …English needs a word for ‘adopted daughter of my ex-boyfriend who is also the actively present father of my child.’ Although I suppose ‘kin’ works well enough.
I think the word you want here is “stepchild”. Which works because Amanda and Selkie did technically grow up as sisters at the orphanage. Now they are more legally siblings by circumstance. I think it’s safe to say Andi is finding faith at this point.
By the definition of “stepchild” I would understand, Andi and Todd would have to technically be married for that to be ACTUALLY true.
That said, “family” can be sort of a state of mind anyway, so I guess it works just fine if Todd and Andi agree to it.
(my cousin is called “auntie” by my kids, her mother is one of my kid’s 5 grandparents, and her kids and mine call each other cousins. In reality it’s much more complicated than that, but my family decided long ago that this “felt right.”
Well the saying “Blood is thicker than water” is a bastardized version of what it truly was:
“Blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb” meaning that the relationships you choose to form are more important than the ones you had no control over.
Actually, no. The “blood of the covenant” interpretation is a folk etymology, asserted without evidence by R. Richard Pustelniak in an essay published in 1994. It was then repeated in 2005 by Jack Albert in his book “Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep”.
A similar phrase, “Kin-blood is not spoiled by water” (in German), is found as early as 1180 CE in a copy of “Reinhart the Fox”. As phrased here, it dates back to circa 1737, meaning precisely the same as it does today (family is more important than others).
Ticking time bombs, I’m guessing. At least they’re aware of this possibility when it comes to Amanda, and given they’re both going to be getting control lessons, any such buildups in the future will be very unlikely.
Someone answer that phone cause I called it.
But in response to the person who commented to this. Don’t know if it will be a permanent super charge, a lack of fine control, or if it will balance out once she has had a chance to drain her power.
But this will have consequences.
haukness
December 3, 2021, 7:56 am | # | Reply
My thoughts is the suppressor hair clip was more like a dam then a dampener. Once Selkie went over the threshold limit, it surged out in a flood. So basically she is going to have a darned time of fine control.
I’m confused – Which suppressor? The one Selkie wore for years, the one Amanda is wearing now, or an interaction of both?
If it’s the one Selkie wore, then it’s beneficial, as blowing out the dam would allow her full power to come in, even if it caused temporary pain. If it’s Amanda’s current suppressor or an interaction of both, then it’s just plain harmful.
Either way, Selkie’s power seems to have come back to full power, and hopefully the pain is temporary, much like how she had temporary pain when her Echo power first manifested in 984.
Well to be fair to Scar he is working with a lot of unknowns, I mean he’s dealing with a human that can do the same things his people have done for centuries and he’s trying to undo the damage his suppressor has done.
True he should have prepared for something like this, but at the same time they were so small and unlikely he probably just brushed It Off as an unlikely possibility, we can’t prepare for everything.
It was mentioned earlier in the comic that Plo Quar likely based the design for selkie’s suppressor/dampener off of scar’s similar device when he was the “old farmer”
Possibly even out of the remains of the damper she broke out of.
The whole idea of damping/suppressing seems like it’s a mostly unexplored field to begin with, or at least neither of them knew much about it until they started experimenting, and there aren’t any experts they can consult, so a lot of guesswork is involved.
At a guess, Scar is the Sarnothi outside of Sarnoth itself who is the expert who knows most about the suppression technology. Nothing like being the expert in a new field to get you in a position to make mistakes.
Another question would be: Was this several years of build up behind the suppressor which released at once? Or did Selkie’s natural ability do something akin to an over-correction when sensed an opening?
Interesting how they have so thoroughly adopted an English/Human figure of speech! I doubt that a primarily aquatic species would natively use the image of a dam bursting in such an instance! But they are speaking English, so they use the English idiom, and do so most proficiently.
We use the image of a dam bursting the way we do because we imagine being hit by the sudden surge of water coming at us and destroying us, but from their point of view a failed dam would suck water, and by analogy power, away from them and leave them high-and-dry, or at least stranded in shallower water. If there was a device that slowly built up power and then drained resonance, leaving them powerless, then a failed dam would be the exact image they would use!
Quite what the Sarnothi would natively use for a situation such as we see on this page I am unsure. Perhaps a build-up of poison in the glands of a poisonous animal?
Scar already knew this could happen? 😮
I think quite a bit less of him, if he knew this was possible and he was deliberately setting up a little girl (who is likely his daughter) for that.
Sounds like he knew it was possible, but againe it shouldn’t have happened. He knew it could happen in theory, but the likelihood of it happening should have been highly unlikely. But, againe, Amanda in theory shouldn’t be able to shoot beams from her eyes at all. So yeah, Scar just got hit by a bus. Rightly so but he did not do this with the end goal of hurting Selkie. Unfortunately this is another “try this grape and see what happens” cuz Selkie and Amanda are not playing by the established Echo rules so trial and error is the only path left.
It is like working on a bomb. In theory, it can and will blow up but as a bomb expert knowing how bombs work, it shouldn’t and then it does because well, this bomb is different.
Don’t forget, The bow-tie that was given to Selkie was built BY HER MOM… NOT Scar. Plo’quar probably made a teensy-teeny-tiny transcription error when she made it based on what she remembered of the one that Scar made for her…
Kudos to Andi for going to bat for Selkie.
Well, Selkie is her …English needs a word for ‘adopted daughter of my ex-boyfriend who is also the actively present father of my child.’ Although I suppose ‘kin’ works well enough.
I think the word you want here is “stepchild”. Which works because Amanda and Selkie did technically grow up as sisters at the orphanage. Now they are more legally siblings by circumstance. I think it’s safe to say Andi is finding faith at this point.
By the definition of “stepchild” I would understand, Andi and Todd would have to technically be married for that to be ACTUALLY true.
That said, “family” can be sort of a state of mind anyway, so I guess it works just fine if Todd and Andi agree to it.
(my cousin is called “auntie” by my kids, her mother is one of my kid’s 5 grandparents, and her kids and mine call each other cousins. In reality it’s much more complicated than that, but my family decided long ago that this “felt right.”
Well the saying “Blood is thicker than water” is a bastardized version of what it truly was:
“Blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb” meaning that the relationships you choose to form are more important than the ones you had no control over.
Actually, no. The “blood of the covenant” interpretation is a folk etymology, asserted without evidence by R. Richard Pustelniak in an essay published in 1994. It was then repeated in 2005 by Jack Albert in his book “Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep”.
A similar phrase, “Kin-blood is not spoiled by water” (in German), is found as early as 1180 CE in a copy of “Reinhart the Fox”. As phrased here, it dates back to circa 1737, meaning precisely the same as it does today (family is more important than others).
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/147902/original-meaning-of-blood-is-thicker-than-water-is-it-real
Usually stepchild is used for “my partner’s child,” not “my child’s sibling.”
We just call our folks with tangled relationships: folk. Down in Louisiana I think they say People, for the same thing.
Daughter’s sister would be the right word.
Another thought: If the suppressor created this build-up, what would have happened in the long term if Selkie had kept wearing it?
What happens to both girls for wearing the suppressor…
Sarnothi and human…
Ticking time bombs, I’m guessing. At least they’re aware of this possibility when it comes to Amanda, and given they’re both going to be getting control lessons, any such buildups in the future will be very unlikely.
Someone answer that phone cause I called it.
But in response to the person who commented to this. Don’t know if it will be a permanent super charge, a lack of fine control, or if it will balance out once she has had a chance to drain her power.
But this will have consequences.
haukness
December 3, 2021, 7:56 am | # | Reply
My thoughts is the suppressor hair clip was more like a dam then a dampener. Once Selkie went over the threshold limit, it surged out in a flood. So basically she is going to have a darned time of fine control.
It sounds like Selkie might be lucky to be at “ow that hurt” and not traumatic brain injury.
or blindness!
If Scar is going to play fast and loose with the kids like that, maybe it’s better if they don’t let him be involved.
I’ve got the power!
Hey, yeah, hey!
Like the crack of the whip, I snap attack
Front to back this thing called rap!
—Snap
Or green lasers from my eyes.
Or Both!
Both?
Yeah, both is good.
Someone just had a development spurt really quickly…and not just her powers evolving. Looks like the kid definitely got her markings.
I think those are supposed to be tears.
I’m confused – Which suppressor? The one Selkie wore for years, the one Amanda is wearing now, or an interaction of both?
If it’s the one Selkie wore, then it’s beneficial, as blowing out the dam would allow her full power to come in, even if it caused temporary pain. If it’s Amanda’s current suppressor or an interaction of both, then it’s just plain harmful.
Either way, Selkie’s power seems to have come back to full power, and hopefully the pain is temporary, much like how she had temporary pain when her Echo power first manifested in 984.
Well to be fair to Scar he is working with a lot of unknowns, I mean he’s dealing with a human that can do the same things his people have done for centuries and he’s trying to undo the damage his suppressor has done.
True he should have prepared for something like this, but at the same time they were so small and unlikely he probably just brushed It Off as an unlikely possibility, we can’t prepare for everything.
Why are we assuming the suppressor is scar’s making? Couldn’t it have been Selkie’s mom?
It was mentioned earlier in the comic that Plo Quar likely based the design for selkie’s suppressor/dampener off of scar’s similar device when he was the “old farmer”
Possibly even out of the remains of the damper she broke out of.
The whole idea of damping/suppressing seems like it’s a mostly unexplored field to begin with, or at least neither of them knew much about it until they started experimenting, and there aren’t any experts they can consult, so a lot of guesswork is involved.
At a guess, Scar is the Sarnothi outside of Sarnoth itself who is the expert who knows most about the suppression technology. Nothing like being the expert in a new field to get you in a position to make mistakes.
Another question would be: Was this several years of build up behind the suppressor which released at once? Or did Selkie’s natural ability do something akin to an over-correction when sensed an opening?
Interesting how they have so thoroughly adopted an English/Human figure of speech! I doubt that a primarily aquatic species would natively use the image of a dam bursting in such an instance! But they are speaking English, so they use the English idiom, and do so most proficiently.
We use the image of a dam bursting the way we do because we imagine being hit by the sudden surge of water coming at us and destroying us, but from their point of view a failed dam would suck water, and by analogy power, away from them and leave them high-and-dry, or at least stranded in shallower water. If there was a device that slowly built up power and then drained resonance, leaving them powerless, then a failed dam would be the exact image they would use!
Quite what the Sarnothi would natively use for a situation such as we see on this page I am unsure. Perhaps a build-up of poison in the glands of a poisonous animal?