Horrific as the thought may be – personality overrides.
They are, for all intents and purposes, their own personality – until they are activated and stop being themselves, in favor of being a part of the gestalt entity (if it is a gestalt at all).
1. Sweater Guy hasn’t been assimilated yet, or even absorbed. The bear grabbed him and crushed him, and has just left him somewhere for the invertebrates to do their thing. They made eerily good copies of some of latest party when they were out cold.
2. Sweater Guy was an earlier generation doppelganger which was still wandering around outside.
I was under the impression he still is physically a tiger, he’s just been “colonized” by internal vegetation, similar to how coryceps fungi invade the bodies of insects.
You might be on to something. When DisUnity swapped body parts with Our Unity, the swapped parts of DisUnity did turn green, too, but went back to normal when the two of them swapped back.
I suppose at some point they’ll send a fake Tip back to Anasigma and / or Skin Horse. Defeated at Anasigma because of a lack of an explosive collar. Defeated at Skin Horse because that ear radio is still there and they heard everything the Greater H. T. said.
So that initial fugue was them being drugged? Make sense: after all, some knockout drugs mess with memory, so they wouldn’t remember being anesthetized.
Theory: Asig hasn’t just dropped a nuke on the plants and be done with it because this is a Mad Science rules world. Setting off nukes has a non-insignificant chance of causing THEM or THE BEGINNING OF THE END (which, now that I think of it, was probably why this world’s equivalent of the test-ban treaty occurred. 🙂 )
But the dopplegangers, didn’t know they were dopplegangers, and I get the feeling that this is all the explanation that we’re going to get.
What makes you think the dopplegangers weren’t being puppetteered, and messing with Anasigma the entire time?
Horrific as the thought may be – personality overrides.
They are, for all intents and purposes, their own personality – until they are activated and stop being themselves, in favor of being a part of the gestalt entity (if it is a gestalt at all).
What about the ones that got et?
Robert Nowall: That’s to say, “after tranquilising Tip”. The other ones were a source of valuable nutrients.
But that wouldn’t include Sweater Guy.
Two possibilities I can see:
1. Sweater Guy hasn’t been assimilated yet, or even absorbed. The bear grabbed him and crushed him, and has just left him somewhere for the invertebrates to do their thing. They made eerily good copies of some of latest party when they were out cold.
2. Sweater Guy was an earlier generation doppelganger which was still wandering around outside.
And right now ol’ H.T. thinks he’s toying with his food. Neck-bomb and Sweet Alice .38 may deter him, but only temporarily…
Really liking the tiger poses on this page. That’s some sweet big cat art.
Agreed.
Ditto.
So even in a plant body, he still needs to stretch?
No, he just knows he looks so good doing it.
And since he’s now a plant, he doesn’t have all those vertebrae getting in the way – ultimate yoga kitty!
The zombie plant bear did have a skeleton…
I was under the impression he still is physically a tiger, he’s just been “colonized” by internal vegetation, similar to how coryceps fungi invade the bodies of insects.
You might be on to something. When DisUnity swapped body parts with Our Unity, the swapped parts of DisUnity did turn green, too, but went back to normal when the two of them swapped back.
Gah, I made a typo – “cordyceps fungi” it should be.
Is it just me or is H.T. more chill than usual. Being part of a collective organism agrees with him.
I suppose at some point they’ll send a fake Tip back to Anasigma and / or Skin Horse. Defeated at Anasigma because of a lack of an explosive collar. Defeated at Skin Horse because that ear radio is still there and they heard everything the Greater H. T. said.
So that initial fugue was them being drugged? Make sense: after all, some knockout drugs mess with memory, so they wouldn’t remember being anesthetized.
Theory: Asig hasn’t just dropped a nuke on the plants and be done with it because this is a Mad Science rules world. Setting off nukes has a non-insignificant chance of causing THEM or THE BEGINNING OF THE END (which, now that I think of it, was probably why this world’s equivalent of the test-ban treaty occurred. 🙂 )
Well, at least H.T. is honest enough to admit when he’s messing with people. Most aren’t that upfront about it (dang it).