I wonder are her hormones controlled by her various pieces or by her “nanites”, she doesn’t seem to correspond to her actual age but her parts could currently be those of a teenager….
Oh, COME ON. Surely she can retain more data than that, she was talking to GODOT all day! I know she’s dumb and flighty and remorseless, but sheez. Okay. I’m callin’ it. GODOT either mucked with her mind to keep her from retaining the memory or else the result of brain-hangovers is short-term amnesia.
She remembers, she’s just in a different headspace…
One where plotting violence is endearing courting behaviour, well it always is but she no longer has the rationality to see past the “a boy likes me” bit..
I had a valid point somewhere…..
Based on the side-story in Nick’s journal (where she becomes a super-genius, and records this as “the moment when I stop being able to remember what happened” and “I woke up a while later”), it seems the smarter Unity becomes, the less normal!Unity is able to remember about events.
Which makes sense; smart!Unity’s recollections are all tied to insights and deductions and analysis. For normal!Unity to decipher them would be really hard, and therefore she doesn’t bother trying.
They’re not newer. That story went from May 3 to September 4, 2011. I think Daibhid meant that she recorded a SIMILAR moment as “the moment when I stop being able to remember what happens”. Remember when Tip and Sweetheart went to Cleveland for the Transgenic Anti-Defamation League? And Unity and Nick weren’t with them because they had to go to Louisiana to investigate the Cypress being burned down? That’s what Unity wrote about in Nick’s LiveJournal.
I’m only just past the Nuclear Pie issue – I think it’d be HILARIOUS if at some point there were annotated versions of the books – w/ date/comic approprite blending of social media commentary from our beloved characters.
I don’t think the problem here is that Unity forgets everything easily, obviously she retains a lot more than this from her everyday conversations. I think the problem is that at her normal level of intelligence, she has a lot trouble understanding memories from her brain-highs (or the crash just annihilates memories, I suppose, but she did remember her previous conversation once she brained-up again). Like running a 64-bit program on a 32-bit machine, it just doesn’t work, while the other way around does.
I can go along this and Daibhid’s interpretation to some extent, but for Unity to forget that she talked to GODOT at all – given that that was essentially the whole point of this mission – or that she spent all that time in the sight-seeing car (“prettiest revenge” seemed to be a more normal mental state for her), does seem to be a bit much. GODOT has got to be messing with her memory.
Something similar happens in the now-ended webcomic Mindmistress. The heroine is a retarded woman who, due to a locket from her mother (it’s complicated) can become hyperintelligent. Mindmistress remembers all of the things that Lorelei does, but not the reverse.
One thing I’ve noticed is that as powerful as GODOT is, its ability to affect perception only seems to apply to verbal communication. Finding some way to communicate nonverbally may be the only way to successfully plan against it. That or something involving Violet, since she’s apparently immune.
Discount Violet. For one thing, she’s clueless at non-verbal communication. For two, she’s guaranteed to discard your plan in favour of her own (or her Secret Orders) halfway through.
If she manages to save St Charlie, it will either be by accident, or to save it for A Fate Worse Than Death (which is probably the official motto of Anasigma recruitment…)
Yar, those may be treacherous buffets ahead.
I wonder are her hormones controlled by her various pieces or by her “nanites”, she doesn’t seem to correspond to her actual age but her parts could currently be those of a teenager….
please let me be the first to say awwwwwwwwwwww
(TUNE: “Coming To America”, Neil Diamond)
Guy!
I just met with some guy!
I know I did …
Then shoop, bye-bye!
Sweet,
With a dangerous beat …
He was unlike
Most guys I meet!
See the killer on TV!
He killed ’em with a shrimp buffet!
Like the guy that talked to me,
He killed ’em with a shrimp buffet!
Dead!
On a table that’s infinite,
The killer is shrimpin’ it!
All those women he killed,
Now with seafood they’re filled!
Weird,
Like the person that I just met …
He was funny and violent!
Weirdly lovable, too …
Does that make sense to you?
Who’s this fellow that I knew
Who’d kill ’em with a shrimp buffet?
Though he was creative, too …
He’d kill ’em all another way!
Ev’ry diff’rent mental trait,
Was laid out like a big buffet!
We could go out on a date
And kill ’em with a shrimp buffet!
Buffet … buffet … buffet … buffet …
Oh, COME ON. Surely she can retain more data than that, she was talking to GODOT all day! I know she’s dumb and flighty and remorseless, but sheez. Okay. I’m callin’ it. GODOT either mucked with her mind to keep her from retaining the memory or else the result of brain-hangovers is short-term amnesia.
That’s what I think happened. GODOT boosted her perception of her own mental acuity, but she was actually speaking gibberish all day.
She remembers, she’s just in a different headspace…
One where plotting violence is endearing courting behaviour, well it always is but she no longer has the rationality to see past the “a boy likes me” bit..
I had a valid point somewhere…..
Based on the side-story in Nick’s journal (where she becomes a super-genius, and records this as “the moment when I stop being able to remember what happened” and “I woke up a while later”), it seems the smarter Unity becomes, the less normal!Unity is able to remember about events.
Which makes sense; smart!Unity’s recollections are all tied to insights and deductions and analysis. For normal!Unity to decipher them would be really hard, and therefore she doesn’t bother trying.
sidestory in a journal? how did i not hear of this?? or was it a kickstarter goodie for one of the earlier books???
Disregard – I found the livejournal. Somehow i missed it’s existance.
Color me befuddled! I check Nick’s journal weekly, and it hasn’t updated since August 22nd. Where did you find newer entries from Unity?
They’re not newer. That story went from May 3 to September 4, 2011. I think Daibhid meant that she recorded a SIMILAR moment as “the moment when I stop being able to remember what happens”. Remember when Tip and Sweetheart went to Cleveland for the Transgenic Anti-Defamation League? And Unity and Nick weren’t with them because they had to go to Louisiana to investigate the Cypress being burned down? That’s what Unity wrote about in Nick’s LiveJournal.
I’m only just past the Nuclear Pie issue – I think it’d be HILARIOUS if at some point there were annotated versions of the books – w/ date/comic approprite blending of social media commentary from our beloved characters.
I don’t think the problem here is that Unity forgets everything easily, obviously she retains a lot more than this from her everyday conversations. I think the problem is that at her normal level of intelligence, she has a lot trouble understanding memories from her brain-highs (or the crash just annihilates memories, I suppose, but she did remember her previous conversation once she brained-up again). Like running a 64-bit program on a 32-bit machine, it just doesn’t work, while the other way around does.
I can go along this and Daibhid’s interpretation to some extent, but for Unity to forget that she talked to GODOT at all – given that that was essentially the whole point of this mission – or that she spent all that time in the sight-seeing car (“prettiest revenge” seemed to be a more normal mental state for her), does seem to be a bit much. GODOT has got to be messing with her memory.
you forget the Brains=alcohol parallel, in order to get as smart as she did, she got Black Out level ‘drunk’.
Something similar happens in the now-ended webcomic Mindmistress. The heroine is a retarded woman who, due to a locket from her mother (it’s complicated) can become hyperintelligent. Mindmistress remembers all of the things that Lorelei does, but not the reverse.
One thing I’ve noticed is that as powerful as GODOT is, its ability to affect perception only seems to apply to verbal communication. Finding some way to communicate nonverbally may be the only way to successfully plan against it. That or something involving Violet, since she’s apparently immune.
Discount Violet. For one thing, she’s clueless at non-verbal communication. For two, she’s guaranteed to discard your plan in favour of her own (or her Secret Orders) halfway through.
If she manages to save St Charlie, it will either be by accident, or to save it for A Fate Worse Than Death (which is probably the official motto of Anasigma recruitment…)
I can see the recruitment poster now:
“Come work for Anasigma, a fate worse than death (but the life insurance is covers literally everything and we offer dental)”.
Sweetheart’s glance aside is adorable and priceless.
What is unity eating? The power of squick compels me to imagine all sorts of icky things…
Looks like oatmeal to me.
Having a girls’ night watching a scary movie with Sweetheart? I’d guess ice cream.
Brain Bran: The only cereal for the undead
Kellogg’s Raisin Brain. Two “shoops” of raisins.
Poor Sweetheart! She’s unable to say that Unity is describing herself in panel two.
Awww.
Unity has described herself. Is GODOT a mirror?
I don’t think either she or GODOT could fairly be described as “sweet”, though.
I think Unity is sweet.
Probably quite savory, with a strong bitter aftertaste from her necro-blood.