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2017-01-18

by shaenon on January 18, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Yes, Virginia
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  1. Robert Nowall
    January 18, 2017, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    So Ira has more backstory than any of us could have imagined…

    • dvandom
      January 18, 2017, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      He has literally forgotten more life than most of us will ever live.

      • BRGR
        January 18, 2017, 4:02 am | # | Reply

        This is Ira. He has perfect eidetic memory – and retrograde amnesia.

        • Classic Steve
          January 18, 2017, 11:33 am | # | Reply

          And anterograde amnesia.

          • Sir William
            January 18, 2017, 12:54 pm | #

            And future sight

          • MisterTeatime
            January 23, 2017, 3:05 pm | #

            Would precognition fall under the heading of “anterograde mnesia”?

    • blizz
      December 18, 2020, 11:02 pm | # | Reply

      *laughs in future*

  2. DarkStarling
    January 18, 2017, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    So one question…was this Ira’s idea, or Nick’s? Nick certainly knows her well enough…

    • OneUniverse
      January 18, 2017, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      Ira might be living backwards in time, so Nick probably collaborated with him to pull off this stunt.

    • Thenardyr
      January 18, 2017, 1:50 am | # | Reply

      From the conversation, it was Nick’s idea. Besides, Ira doesn’t work at the skin-horse headquarters and wouldn’t have been on the list of participants, so how would he have known about it unless Nick told him?

      But Nick doesn’t have manipulators, not even sad little arms like Moustachio. Would Ira know how to make an origami unicorn? Could he be taught, given his mind’s state? And before anyone trots out the living backwards in time idea, the movie Blade Runner is in Ira’s future under that theory.

      • Max
        January 18, 2017, 3:39 am | # | Reply

        We can’t really make that assumption. How do you know origami unicorns don’t also show up in the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, which Ira might have already seen…? 😛

        • Urlance Woolsbane
          January 18, 2017, 5:06 am | # | Reply

          The BTA agents cleared him, though…

          • Rick Kerrigan
            January 18, 2017, 9:25 am | #

            They did. But then, to me, a backward traveling Ira seems one of the likeliest candidates for founder of the BTA…

          • GammarayCanon
            January 18, 2017, 11:05 am | #

            So basically, people are theorizing that Ira is Black Ops Merlin?

          • WuseMajor
            January 20, 2017, 12:17 am | #

            They cleared him because of a phone call from the future version of one of the agents, which could easily have been Future/Past Ira with a voice changer.

        • Thenardyr
          January 18, 2017, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

          Hm. I didn’t consider that. The only thing a person living backwards in time could be surprised by (ignoring that he can only spend so much personal ‘time’ looking stuff up) is something which leaves no record in our-future/his-past…I think.

      • Sean K.
        January 18, 2017, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

        Maybe Baron Mistycorn did the folding?

    • Robert Nowall
      January 18, 2017, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

      Hadn’t realized it was Nick till just now.

      • Smithnik
        January 18, 2017, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

        What other helicopter would be dropping Ira down a rope to deliver an origami unicorn to Dr. Lee?
        I’m really fascinated by Ira’s line, though, because it actually makes sense. You wouldn’t want a form of amnesia that erases physical skills.

        • Robert Nowall
          January 18, 2017, 6:23 pm | # | Reply

          Nah, just didn’t realize it. Missed the point.

        • Robert Nowall
          January 18, 2017, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

          Of course, too, I havent rappelled since high school and I’m pretty sure I’d need a few refreshers in procedure…

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      January 19, 2017, 7:10 am | # | Reply

      If you follow the trail back far enough, everything was Ira’s idea

  3. Jon
    January 18, 2017, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Yes, yes, very festive. Now somebody get the Voight-Kampff test.

    • FanOfMostEverything
      January 18, 2017, 7:35 am | # | Reply

      Just don’t ask Unity. I think we’d all know what she’d do if she found a flipped-over tortoise in the desert.

      • cloudster
        January 18, 2017, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

        Spew zombie nanites all over it?

      • Sheik
        January 18, 2017, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

        Eat it.

        • awgiedawgie
          January 18, 2017, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

          She’d play with it first.

          • Thenardyr
            January 18, 2017, 11:34 pm | #

            All of the above?

  4. Robert Nowall
    January 18, 2017, 12:36 am | # | Reply

    And more disturbing personal info about Dr. Lee, too.

    • OneUniverse
      January 18, 2017, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      So she wants to be Jennifer Grey? Or does she identify with the character?

      • Kitirena
        January 18, 2017, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

        Maybe she has a thing for Sean Young? (Not the way I do, I assume.) Or maybe she dreams of electric sheep too?

        • BRGR
          January 19, 2017, 2:39 am | # | Reply

          The electric sheep didn’t even feature in the movie. In this and other respects, the movie was the very opposite of the book (and better for it).

          • Robert Nowall
            January 19, 2017, 2:19 pm | #

            Gee, I didn’t think so…maybe ’cause I’m one of those who read the book long before the movie came out. (Also some things were lifted from another book, by Alan E. Nourse, particularly the title.)

  5. Frank Hightower
    January 18, 2017, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    awwwwww

  6. awgiedawgie
    January 18, 2017, 2:36 am | # | Reply

    So… Nick rescued – or should I say “salvaged” – Ira from Annex One? Interesting partnership.

  7. Jay
    January 18, 2017, 2:51 am | # | Reply

    Is that Ira forgetting his cover identity? Or just forgetting his real one?

    • Bruce Munro
      January 18, 2017, 4:07 am | # | Reply

      Ira will never let us know,

      • Jon
        January 18, 2017, 5:47 am | # | Reply

        And — for that matter — may never know himself.

        • Moe Lane
          January 18, 2017, 7:36 am | # | Reply

          Look, this is all very simple, really. When beings from higher planes of existence compress themselves down in order to visit our more limited space-time, there are sometimes going to be small incongruities. It’s impressive that Ira is managing all the physical bits, like breathing and entropy and wearing his kidneys inside his skin; cut him some slack on the personality interface, OK?

          • davidbreslin101
            January 18, 2017, 8:23 am | #

            Yeah, it’s tricky. The number of times I’ve put faces on five sides of the head, or left the head off altogether!

          • Bruce Munro
            January 18, 2017, 10:30 pm | #

            I _have_ theorized that Ira is an Eldritch Abomination which doesn’t remember it is one…

  8. Dr. Steve
    January 18, 2017, 8:33 am | # | Reply

    If I tried to make an origami unicorn it would probably end up looking like a mutant porcupine

    • Pygar
      January 18, 2017, 4:35 pm | # | Reply

      Don’t leave it near Unity…

      • awgiedawgie
        January 18, 2017, 4:47 pm | # | Reply

        Then she’d have a matched set!

  9. Trivena
    January 18, 2017, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

    Wait, this means the computer didn’t leave her off the list entirely. Does this mean that somebody won’t be getting a present and doesn’t know why?

    • Shadowmehr
      January 18, 2017, 9:07 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t think that the giver is a secret, nor did the computer choose him. I’m still wondering how Nick folded the unicorn in the first place. Ira may be secretly smart, but he doesn’t seem like he has the crafting skills.

      • casimir
        January 18, 2017, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

        …so Nick is a rogue secret Santa?

  10. darkshallfall
    August 12, 2019, 2:47 pm | # | Reply

    Ira reminds me of Old man McGucket from gravity falls, he has had memory Ray’s used on him and forgot most of his memory, was somewhat insane, but got it back and is really a smart intellegent guy.

  11. jdreyfuss
    January 29, 2020, 7:49 am | # | Reply

    Three years on and nothing about Dirty Dancing, Roadhouse, Ghost, or “A Patrick Swayze Christmas”?

  12. Knuckles
    February 2, 2022, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

    Ah, but of course.

    Jolly old St. Nick.

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