I know there are a few questions I haven’t answered yet in the comments of the last page. I will go back and answer them tomorrow. Had to pick between going through those and doing the comic, and figured I should do the comic first… and now it’s getting late, given that I have to be up at 5:00 am tomorrow.
But I will answer them tomorrow, so if you had an unanswered question, check back either late tomorrow or Tuesday (if you don’t have email notifications enabled).
Going to aim to go back to the Monday/Thursday schedule at least.
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The Consul remains my favorite character. She totally gets it. And I love her reference to Peter.
So, Amy, Ryn, and now this new person speaking in panel 1 have unusual-colored hair but different-colored eyes. Ryn’s hair is close enough to certain dyed-red shades that I had taken it for possibly being dyed (and the matching sunglasses to vaguely impart a kind of sense of designer-kid-ness without actually claiming it), but I see now that Amy’s cast page says her hair being a different color without matching her eyes means she has genetic modifications but is not a designer kid. Are these people with unmatching eye-hair combinations what happens when designer children have children but don’t additionally modify them? That would particularly fit with the one on this page being called a mutt.
I think they are they are unmodified offspring of the Family mages, though that might be the same thing. I get the impression that the Designer Children tends to refer to the genetically engineered people that are not from the Families, and I don’t think the Designer Children have existed long enough to have second generation people running around (though that is just speculation from the political climate and commentary on them).
Naomi, for example, is a Designer Child, but not from the Families.
Marc was basically confirmed to be in the same boat as this person, and it was strongly implied he was a half-blood Family mage.
The question becomes do the family genes naturally match the hair and eye color of children, and the ones with mismatched hair and eyes are unusual, or due they more directly interfere in the genetic manipulation of their children? Not sure we have enough information yet.
Marc, Amy, and this person all have mismatched hair and eyes that I would group in the same category of definitely half-Family mage (or possible half designer child if they have existed that long).
There are some edge cases though. Ryn, as you mention, but he is confirmed to dye his hair and we do not know the original color of it. It is a bit weird though as if he was trying to pass as a designer child, why wouldn’t he dye his hair green? Ryn is probably a bit of a unique case due to his personality and station, and technically I think he is from Arpon, not Malsa.
There is the other character we know dyes their hair, Tamara. Tamara has blonde hair and teal eyes, and dyes her hair teal. In her first appearance she had it grown out and it was half-blonde and half-teal. This almost certainly puts her in the same category as Marc, Amy, and this girl, but blonde hair is neither normal in Malsa or the Families, so she is either half-Malsan Families, half-Foreigner, or entirely a foreigner from a different color schema passing as a local.
Mir technically has mismatched hair and eyes, but is whole different problem. I do not think it is meaningful to speculate her coloration has anything to do with her original appearance given how blatantly artificial it is.
The other possible exception case is Mione. Her eyes are light pink, while he hair is blueish-purple. This could mean she is a genetic mismatch, but given that she can “see” Eidos data, and usually keeps her eyes closed. I suspect her situation might be more complicated somehow. Especially when you consider that her eyes are roughly the color of the magic sparkles.
It was my understanding that Designer Children are the product of the advanced genetic engineering that Malsa has been capable of for around 20-30 years, with Camilla and Eliana being among the oldest to have benefitted from it.
But Malsa did not get to having advanced genetic engineering from nothing. They had some more basic genetic engineering before that. Mage-Commander Kahlek (Bluebeared, named by Past last page) and Regin are products of that less advanced genetic engineering.
Everybody knows that green-eyed redheads are hot. I know, that’s usually with the orange colored hair that’s called red in the absence of anyone whose hair is really the color we know of as red outside of natural hair spectrum. But it’s all I have at the moment to explain Ryn’s fashion choice.
I had the impression that Tamara is at least partially descended from some northern people, but I’m not sure where I got that from.
Hahaha! I love the Madame Consul! She gets it!
Somebody is picking up on the whats going on. Namely that everything is way more complex than he thought.
I think the mutter text is:
“You might be onto something, little miss fly in, fight your battles, and take a nap through all squabbling. Smart ???, don’t worry, they will all go away soon…then”
I can’t quite make out that one word.
Also: You are absolutely correct, Madam Consul. Work for Peter is building a calamity-class AI. Fun is convincing everyone that heads of state were murdered and watching everyone activate their contingency plans.
Ah, nevermind. Hovering the mouse over the image gives the text. Thanks, PastUtopia!
…I had most of it right. 🙂
I still appreciate the effort it isn’t easy reading it on mobile, and there is no way to do a mouse hover on a mobile phone.
Ah! Ok, here is the corrected text:
“You might be onto something, little miss. Fly in, fight your battles, and take a nap through all squabbling…smart girl. Don’t worry, they will all go away soon…then…”
Actually a long press on the comic gives me the mouse over. I’m not sure if that is Android specific or how that works.