Oh! I never really thought that the syndrome had given Ally an advantage; Worthington Syndrome suddenly sounds like it might have been a failed experiment to ‘galvanise’ humans.
Consequences? Hmm…eh, I got nothing. Considering Jared’s emphasis on “time travel” an “cure”, I’m guessing that Rikk’s body reacted negatively to the antigens created by the weird future medicine on Rumy/ Ally’s blood. So they couldn’t just travel back there and get more of the cure, they’d need a cure for that cure…oh god I don’t even know anymore
Got to love a good old-fashioned “As you know, your father, the king” speech (not complaining, I wasn’t around for this part of Fans and need the recap!)
Brony t-shirt, huh? I knew there was a reason that I wanted Rikk to die. *gets massacred and crucified by the lurking Brony fandom*
Seriously, though, I’m betting that the cure caused the syndrome to adapt, turning Ru and Ally into carriers of a form of the disease that can’t be cured by the same stuff.
As far as I can recall, Allison is the only known person infected with this disease. I’ve never heard of someone else with it. As such, with her cured via time travel, why would they need to keep working on curing it anymore?
Huh. I wonder if they saved any of the cure? I mean, it would have helped to figure out just what it is. Is it a virus? Bacteria? Some form of… contagious cancer? Okay yeah that doesn’t make sense. But maybe it’s some kind of nanovirus, if it’s manufactured. That would provide some options, hopefully.
Campbell is such a considerate author. A nice, informative recap, and a bunch of answers to questions we thought we were going to have to puzzle over for months.
Except.. ah… you don’t actually mean galvanizing as in ‘zinc-plating’, do you? Because that would be both extremely improbable and AWESOME.
The mention of “who put it there” in panel two makes me wonder yet again if the Worthington’s syringe was never a freak accident at all but was intentionally placed there. ie. If Ali was targeted as a child, by someone.
I must watch too many time travel shows, because my immediate thought is that the syringe used in the cure was the same one that ended up stabbing Ali in the first place, making the whole thing a stable timeloop.
@Kholai: yeah, but a pivotal timeloop.
Remove the syringe and there goes her deathwish behaviour excuse …. erhmmm “motivation”. There goes her meeting Rick in the pivotal shoot out, maybe?
And the title of the arc….. nodding to the Asimov’s novel…
i’m expecting Rick to oppose to any plan that puts people lives at risk, just to save his one life… selfsacrifice, guilt, responsability and all that jazz….
“no more time travel”
@Kholai: And the General said there were a whole bunch of different realities with legendary stories of Rikk’s quest to save Ally so whoever targted her did so in a lot of different versions of the universe.
Rikk would be a Brony…
“I’m gonna love and tolerate the S**T outta you!”
Oh! I never really thought that the syndrome had given Ally an advantage; Worthington Syndrome suddenly sounds like it might have been a failed experiment to ‘galvanise’ humans.
Brony for Lif- oh…. Now I feel bad.
Consequences? Hmm…eh, I got nothing. Considering Jared’s emphasis on “time travel” an “cure”, I’m guessing that Rikk’s body reacted negatively to the antigens created by the weird future medicine on Rumy/ Ally’s blood. So they couldn’t just travel back there and get more of the cure, they’d need a cure for that cure…oh god I don’t even know anymore
Got to love a good old-fashioned “As you know, your father, the king” speech (not complaining, I wasn’t around for this part of Fans and need the recap!)
*Rikk’s a Brony Happy Dance Time!!!*
Brony t-shirt, huh? I knew there was a reason that I wanted Rikk to die. *gets massacred and crucified by the lurking Brony fandom*
Seriously, though, I’m betting that the cure caused the syndrome to adapt, turning Ru and Ally into carriers of a form of the disease that can’t be cured by the same stuff.
As far as I can recall, Allison is the only known person infected with this disease. I’ve never heard of someone else with it. As such, with her cured via time travel, why would they need to keep working on curing it anymore?
Mhh… “unforeseen consequences”? By curing the disease? Like wh… wait, it mutated, doesn’t it? Like the common flu? Oh ***t…
Huh. I wonder if they saved any of the cure? I mean, it would have helped to figure out just what it is. Is it a virus? Bacteria? Some form of… contagious cancer? Okay yeah that doesn’t make sense. But maybe it’s some kind of nanovirus, if it’s manufactured. That would provide some options, hopefully.
Campbell is such a considerate author. A nice, informative recap, and a bunch of answers to questions we thought we were going to have to puzzle over for months.
Except.. ah… you don’t actually mean galvanizing as in ‘zinc-plating’, do you? Because that would be both extremely improbable and AWESOME.
Also, Ally was such a CUTE anime kid!
The mention of “who put it there” in panel two makes me wonder yet again if the Worthington’s syringe was never a freak accident at all but was intentionally placed there. ie. If Ali was targeted as a child, by someone.
I must watch too many time travel shows, because my immediate thought is that the syringe used in the cure was the same one that ended up stabbing Ali in the first place, making the whole thing a stable timeloop.
@Kholai: yeah, but a pivotal timeloop.
Remove the syringe and there goes her deathwish behaviour excuse …. erhmmm “motivation”. There goes her meeting Rick in the pivotal shoot out, maybe?
And the title of the arc….. nodding to the Asimov’s novel…
i’m expecting Rick to oppose to any plan that puts people lives at risk, just to save his one life… selfsacrifice, guilt, responsability and all that jazz….
“no more time travel”
@Kholai: And the General said there were a whole bunch of different realities with legendary stories of Rikk’s quest to save Ally so whoever targted her did so in a lot of different versions of the universe.