03-11-2014 [VC] Stomach Pain

[Tako]

Mothpeople's eggs are the size and shape of rugby ball, and Steph's figure doesn't seem pregnant at all; I doubt she can hold more than one egg and keep that figure.

Yeah, but I doubt they're that size when they first come out, or else, Steph would already be showing. I'm thinking they come out in a more manageable size and enlarge as they develop.

Unless Mothpeople's eggs are different from any real world's oviparous creature, eggs can't eat, and hence they don't grow; they come out at one size and stay that size until they hatch.

At least, I hope so for her sake, 'cuz squeezing one of those out at the size that we've seen would practically rip her apart (or feel reasonably close to it).

And how is that different from a regular woman giving birth to a regular baby? The size is more or less the same.

Anyways, I expect Steph's reproductive system to have been properly retrofitted for her new role as egg-laying queen of the Mothpeople.

@Sk'thloq: Charlotte's a Wiccan. Unless her witch species is different from The Hellrune coven's, that'd mean she isn't human (last two panels, here).

Wiccan is a real-world religion, and a recent one at that. Wiccans are normal people.

We don't know if Char is one of Hekate's witches or merely a magic user like Sparkle.

Anyways, as I said, I think Char has evolved beyond mortality by now thanks to her powers (and maybe a bit of help form Lita).

[Gotoh]

At least, I hope so for her sake, 'cuz squeezing one of those out at the size that we've seen would practically rip her apart (or feel reasonably close to it).

And how is that different from a regular woman giving birth to a regular baby? The size is more or less the same.

Because months before the time a woman's ready to give birth, her pregnancy will already be showing. Steph isn't. If those eggs were really that big out of the gate, her stomach would already be bulging.

Wiccan is a real-world religion, and a recent one at that. Wiccans are normal people.

According to Katie, Charlotte is descended of the Salem witches, which dates back to the late 1600's. So we're talking over 300 years of ancestry. Also, just because Wiccans are human in our world, doesn't mean that they're human in a fictional setting. Because you have people in real life who practice vampirism too, but in fiction, vampires are real.

We don't know if Char is one of Hekate's witches or merely a magic user like Sparkle.

Which is why I linked to the conversation between Jacqui and the CH principal, 'cuz I'm wondering the same thing.

Anyways, as I said, I think Char has evolved beyond mortality by now thanks to her powers (and maybe a bit of help form Lita).

Huh?? I thought you were only joking about that part.

[Tako]

At least, I hope so for her sake, 'cuz squeezing one of those out at the size that we've seen would practically rip her apart (or feel reasonably close to it).

And how is that different from a regular woman giving birth to a regular baby? The size is more or less the same.

Because months before the time a woman's ready to give birth, her pregnancy will already be showing. Steph isn't. If those eggs were really that big out of the gate, her stomach would already be bulging.

Alien biology? Artistic license, so Steph laying an egg comes as a surprise? Fear that alien insect pregnant group sex would cross the line and offend some people?

Wiccan is a real-world religion, and a recent one at that. Wiccans are normal people.

According to Katie, Charlotte is descended of the Salem witches, which dates back to the late 1600's. So we're talking over 300 years of ancestry. Also, just because Wiccans are human in our world, doesn't mean that they're human in a fictional setting. Because you have people in real life who practice vampirism too, but in fiction, vampires are real.

Yeah, but in your post it sounded as if you were using "wiccan" as synonimous to "witch". And while Wiccans call themselves "witches", they aren't what most people understand when they hear the word "witch".

Anyways, as I said, I think Char has evolved beyond mortality by now thanks to her powers (and maybe a bit of help form Lita).

Huh?? I thought you were only joking about that part.

Well think about the future versions of the rest of the cast:

-Lita: Multimillonaire owner of a entertainment company that keeps amusement parks in orbit around Earth. Seems to be powerful enough to fight and destroy alien armies.
-Lorna: Space Admiral tasked with fighting the Reptilian menace.
-J.C.: Lorna's second in command.
-Steph: Moth Queen, future mother of the Moth race, time-warping superpowers, Prophesied Destroyer of the Reptilian Empire, Chosen One, Kwisatz Haderach, and Magical Girl on top of that.
-Zoe and Lesley...well those two are basically the same, but we know Lori doesn't pick them for their brains, does he?

The one that is left is Char, the one who started being the most powerful of all the cast; I expect her to end becoming the most powerful of all.

[Gotoh]

Artistic license, so Steph laying an egg comes as a surprise? Fear that alien insect pregnant group sex would cross the line and offend some people?

It'd be a little late for either one, considering several of us came to that conclusion the moment Katie and co. found her in bed with them. And Steph even said as much herself.

Yeah, but in your post it sounded as if you were using "wiccan" as synonimous to "witch". And while Wiccans call themselves "witches", they aren't what most people understand when they hear the word "witch".

Charlotte's been called a witch several times, including by Katie and Lori. If there was any significant difference between Charlotte's kind and other witch species, I'm sure she would've said so. Based on what we've been told, she identifies as a witch, rather as a human; assuming she's human, or only half-human like J.C.

Well think about the future versions of the rest of the cast:

The one that is left is Char, the one who started being the most powerful of all the cast; I expect her to end becoming the most powerful of all.

I'm pretty sure Lita had Charlotte beat in terms of scale and raw power. Lita solo'd the PMS group and mentally enslaved them. It's unlikely Charlotte could summon something like K'annll'gua either, since Steph and J.C. had never seen anything like it before. Plus, in the distant future, Lita came back from the dead as an eldritch abomination and tore the Reptilians a new one. So it'd seem, to me, that she was the most powerful member of the cast - before she was reduced to a chibi-fied spirit, that is.

Still, you do raise a fair point. If the others could advance that far, it really does make you wonder how much Charlotte's powers have grown - assuming she's still alive by this time.

[Sk'thloq]

I still say she's dead. There's nothing to indicate her lifespan is that much longer than a normal human.

[vampire hunter D]

If it were up to me, I'd have Char eventually move to Ontario to teach magick theory at an all girls academy there....

[Storm-forge mystique]

In the real world, 'natch, Wiccans and other witches are ordinary humans, but also their spells... well... don't work. (Or at least, those without a now-understood physical mechanism seem to have a certain resistance to working consistently under controlled conditions.) Certainly nothing as dramatic as PK Thunder.

More to the point, I'm pretty sure Charlotte's been referred to as "human" (in a context where the speaker clearly meant "non-cryptid") before. And I don't think Steph would have willingly been running around with a cryptid, even one she grew up with, in the state she was in after her parents died. I don't think she has any connection to... whatever the Chicks are.

That said, it wouldn't surprise me if she could rejuvenate herself somehow. Especially with everyone she knew either lost in time or off taking over the world. Although it also wouldn't surprise me if there were some terrible price.

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