Re: Eerie Cuties 08-09-14 Right about something
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 12:10 am
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Exactly! The Layla personality would not want to be erased by the Lamia personality.Gotoh wrote:You're forgetting Tia seems to be fairly knowledgeable about magic; particularly when it comes to switching things around. There's also the possibility she may be older than she appears. Either way, it's likely that she knows what she's talking about.Passing Through wrote:So what makes them think those statues and indeed, the kaiju, weren't there before Layla regained her memories? Who are they to decree what is and isn't 'rogue'?
And Nina has grown up with her sister for all 14 years of her life. That's sufficient time to get to know someone, and she knew enough that the person they're dealing with now is no longer her sister - just as I and several others also noticed that Layla's personality was being taken over by Lamia's.
Do you honestly think Layla would be okay with being overridden like this? This Layla? As in: "I will not kneel... not to Faith... not to you." I doubt it.Passing Through wrote:That's the big problem here, even if Nina is entirely right, even if they could forcibly change Layla without leaving her a souless/mindless husk, that doesn't mean that Layla would want to go back to being as she was before.
yeah, that's what i've been thinking up till now: she's not layla or lamia; she's layla and lamia. it just so happens that there's a hell of a lot more of lamia then there is of layla.Zippy wrote:I'm not sure that would be possible - the entire difference is that the Layla memories are being buried by the Lamia memories, after all. They either reverse the process and (re)bury the Lamia memories, or she stays Lamia-dominant given that red plasticine is only 16 parts in a thousand parts of blue. The closer the mix gets to finished, the less purple and more blue it looks.'J' wrote:I'm hoping that if they do actually reset Layla's personality, she at least gets to keep her memories.
http://coub.com/view/10wi3tw0Artemisia wrote:There's only one way to deal with a rogue personality like this...
what, you were expecting a quote?
Lock her in a small cell and never let her out!
"Knowing enough" isn't the same as really knowing. Nina knows Layla in certain contexts - she doesn't know what she got up to with Kade on dates, for instance. If you sat Nina down and asked her twenty questions about Layla, how many do you think she would get right if they weren't narrowly focused on their interactions?Gotoh wrote:And Nina has grown up with her sister for all 14 years of her life. That's sufficient time to get to know someone, and she knew enough that the person they're dealing with now is no longer her sister...
Well, look at her reactions in the immediate aftermath of her Quintessation. That was absolutely still Layla - the first serious hint otherwise in her behaviour was "oh, we don't kill humans any more, do we?" - she certainly seemed happy to be an ancient (and fabulous) vampire queen.Gotoh wrote:Do you honestly think Layla would be okay with being overridden like this? This Layla? As in: "I will not kneel... not to Faith... not to you." I doubt it.
Has she been "fiercely protective of Nina" all the way through? I don't think she's been shown to be protective of her since the timeskip - she seemed faintly disinterested in the Nina/Ace date - or even before, with the whole "little big sister" and Nina/Dio thing.jaimehlers wrote:That is not believable at all. Layla, through the entire comic, has been fiercely protective of Nina. Yet somehow, we're supposed to believe that after this 'resurrection' she would actually forget Nina's name, and airily dismiss having forgotten it as just being funny?Passing Through wrote:It's true the resurection was only recently completed... but Layla was always the reincarnation of Lamia.
Yeah, it was only a matter of time before Layla decided to live her life in a way Nina happened not to like, this just happens to be more sudden than might otherwise have been expected.
Yeah, she's changing because she's ancient. Her innocence is gone, but the main difference is her sheer age.
In this sort of fantasy setting, "soul" basically corresponds to what genotypes and phenotypes do in reality, except severable from the body (i.e., bodyswapping the spirit - soul+memories - results in no personality difference bar possible freakout at the situation). So, there's certainly a level of personality which exists independently of the memories, but that all gets filtered through major experiences... and a thousand years is a LOT of experiences.CFT wrote:That's actually a major philosophical (and more recently scientific also) issue: is someone's personality (and identity) completely defined by their memories and experiences? And that question gets even more complicated in a fantasy settings where "souls" are proven to exist (though again, what exactly IS a soul without its memories? How can you define that concept?)
Well, there's two things:'J' wrote:yeah, that's what i've been thinking up till now: she's not layla or lamia; she's layla and lamia. it just so happens that there's a hell of a lot more of lamia then there is of layla.Zippy wrote:I'm not sure that would be possible - the entire difference is that the Layla memories are being buried by the Lamia memories, after all. They either reverse the process and (re)bury the Lamia memories, or she stays Lamia-dominant given that red plasticine is only 16 parts in a thousand parts of blue. The closer the mix gets to finished, the less purple and more blue it looks.'J' wrote:I'm hoping that if they do actually reset Layla's personality, she at least gets to keep her memories.
however, given the dialogue on this page, it seems like that's not the way giz & dave are going with this. it seems like they're making a clear distinction between the two characters at two separate people.
of course, that's assuming tia actually knows what she's talking about.
Knowing someone doesn't mean knowing every single detail about them, or their personal lives. Layla and Nina are only two years apart, they've been around each other for their entire lives. So yes, Nina knows her sister well enough to recognize that her personality was changing.Zippy wrote:"Knowing enough" isn't the same as really knowing. Nina knows Layla in certain contexts - she doesn't know what she got up to with Kade on dates, for instance. If you sat Nina down and asked her twenty questions about Layla, how many do you think she would get right if they weren't narrowly focused on their interactions?
Which was prior to Lamia rearranging the furniture, as it were.Zippy wrote:Well, look at her reactions in the immediate aftermath of her Quintessation. That was absolutely still Layla - the first serious hint otherwise in her behaviour was "oh, we don't kill humans any more, do we?" - she certainly seemed happy to be an ancient (and fabulous) vampire queen.
Seek revenge how exactly?Zippy wrote:(And this is leaving aside that she DID, figuratively speaking, kneel to Faith, and the fact that she never e'en made any attempt to wreak revenge on her was effectively an admission that Faith could take her any time - the only actual aftermath of those events we saw was her hiding in her room in MC, EC time-skipped past any aftermath...)
Speaking as an elder sibling here, there have been plenty of times I have wanted to bash my brothers over the head until they saw sense, and other such things, but if anyone had ever seriously tried to threaten or hurt them, I would have prevented it. Yes, that included getting in between two of them when they were having a serious argument that looked to spill over into a fight. And the fact that the authors have been downplaying Layla's tendency to defend Nina (which in large part is because Nina hasn't had to deal with any particularly bad situations recently; the closest one was when her and Tia were fighting over Blair) doesn't change the fact that it was extremely abnormal of her to outright forget her only sister's name.Zippy wrote:Has she been "fiercely protective of Nina" all the way through? I don't think she's been shown to be protective of her since the timeskip - she seemed faintly disinterested in the Nina/Ace date - or even before, with the whole "little big sister" and Nina/Dio thing.
I don't think we can leave this aside, certainly not now that we're inside Layla's mindscape and can see the way Lamia (yes, note that it is Lamia herself) is redecorating the place. To wit:Zippy wrote:(Leaving aside that Lamia-Layla seems to be actively trying to forget "unimportant" Layla stuff...)
I need to see more to know what's going on. Yes Lamia is replacing Layla's memories, but it's possible that Layla's personality is distracted by Lamia's charms and doesn't know what's happening. Perhaps Lamia convinced her that she needs more power so that she will never be vulnerable to someone like Faith or Chloe. It's possible that part of Lamia is sweet talking Layla about what kind of power and prestige being her will bring and she's so blinded by it she doesn't know she's being dominated until it's too late.Cortez wrote:Exactly! The Layla personality would not want to be erased by the Lamia personality.Gotoh wrote:You're forgetting Tia seems to be fairly knowledgeable about magic; particularly when it comes to switching things around. There's also the possibility she may be older than she appears. Either way, it's likely that she knows what she's talking about.Passing Through wrote:So what makes them think those statues and indeed, the kaiju, weren't there before Layla regained her memories? Who are they to decree what is and isn't 'rogue'?
And Nina has grown up with her sister for all 14 years of her life. That's sufficient time to get to know someone, and she knew enough that the person they're dealing with now is no longer her sister - just as I and several others also noticed that Layla's personality was being taken over by Lamia's.
Do you honestly think Layla would be okay with being overridden like this? This Layla? As in: "I will not kneel... not to Faith... not to you." I doubt it.Passing Through wrote:That's the big problem here, even if Nina is entirely right, even if they could forcibly change Layla without leaving her a souless/mindless husk, that doesn't mean that Layla would want to go back to being as she was before.
So yes, Layla would want Nina and Tia to take down Lamia.
Yeah, I think it's some sort of "mental projection" thing. You know, why be a bratty kid when you can look like anyone.vampire hunter D wrote:Is it just me, or does Tia look a bit more mature in panel 2