tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196868631236768531.post8177109955197588507..comments2024-03-28T07:16:16.784+00:00Comments on Year X: NMU #10: "Betrayal!"SpaceSquidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09760939592584995876noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196868631236768531.post-58456854423638274982012-11-06T10:29:41.736+00:002012-11-06T10:29:41.736+00:00Also, apologies for not noticing you'd already...Also, apologies for not noticing you'd already made the Darwin connection. I avoided reading your post until I'd finished reading the relevant issues, but I wrote this after you'd posted, and clearly you go there first.SpaceSquidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760939592584995876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196868631236768531.post-91680425009687560722012-11-06T10:25:05.880+00:002012-11-06T10:25:05.880+00:00I quite like the conspiratorial aspect of that, ac...I quite like the conspiratorial aspect of that, actually. Yes, it doesn't seem to dovetail with Selene's response, but it's perfectly possible she's faking. After all, if she's that desperate to sacrifice Amara, why start with Random Victim #1 instead. It's an interesting idea that it's because she knows Amara won't actually die, so she needs to get the actual sacrifice out of the way first.<br /><br />Of course, whilst this theory does at least remove the greatest jaw-dropping coincidence on display, it replaces it with something that's still pretty difficult to swallow; namely that the entire Cult of Fire just happens to put Selene in a position to throw Amara into a volcano; even if we assume Selene knew what would happen.<br /><br />Unless the whole cult <i>itself</i> was just a means to that end...SpaceSquidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760939592584995876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9196868631236768531.post-3231033014845197862012-11-05T17:49:43.104+00:002012-11-05T17:49:43.104+00:00I'd speculated about the Magma/Darwin thing, b...I'd speculated about the Magma/Darwin thing, but there's another possibility: what if Selene had known all along what would happen if she did that, and did it on purpose to make Amara become Magma?<br /><br />I know this doesn't fit the plot massively well. Well, ok, at all. But I understand there are later stories that make Nova Roma a big setup by Selene, so this is more more plausible than it sounds.Abigail Bradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13176919191948017238noreply@blogger.com