2013-03-04, 21:30 | Link #861 |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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Where's a Spirit Bomb when you need it?
This is really getting out of hand. The challenge and power difference was big enough... but now!? Jeez. I hope we don't get some anti-climatic defeat at the end.
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2013-03-04, 22:29 | Link #863 |
Awe of She
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Location: Orlando
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Cassandra was created with the essence of Priscilla already within her so, for me at least, it's not too far-fetched that she can remote-control Cassandra. But to subjectate her and override her to the extent that she's controlling two bodies at once, it's crazy. She's like...Kerrigan, Queen of Blades from Starcraft!
Other than that, nothing much else really happened. Priscilla and Riful Jr. are smiling, almost enjoying the battle between each other... *shudders* And with what Dae said about Priscilla prompted me to go back and re-read some of the stuff I had wrote on Priscilla from the now-retired Claymore Forum and I had speculated that Priscilla did hate herself for killing her Youma-fied Papa. ...kinda weird that it proved to be right after all this time but it's a moot point now...
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2013-03-04, 23:24 | Link #864 | |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
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With this chapter, Yagi is basically telling us that hatred against Yoma is for Claymores what rage is for Saiyans. I don't like the twist Yagi is taking with the concept of hatred, transforming it into some sort of biological entity engaged from the clinical approach. I'll prefer the clichéd twist when hatred is taken from the spiritual approach like a sort of mass of darkness that taints one's mind to be subdued by an external force or an alien force from inside. Many mainstream shounen take that clichéd approach such as Naruto, for example, but still I can buy the concept. |
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2013-03-05, 00:23 | Link #865 | |
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I believe the "don't kill little girls" thing was that she simply didn't see them. A kind of mental block about herself, perhaps? But then again, this chapter was just as confusing. I wasn't sure if Dae was suggesting about her exactly. I get the rage part, don't like it but whatever. But I wasn't sure what he was implying about her father. Was Priscilla a half breed, and her father was a Yoma all along? Or did she kill her father and then realize he wasn't really a Yoma? The text was confusing. As for the pacing, the time between the Detroyer merging with Clare and the blob ending up at Rabona overlaps with the time at the Organization, which overlaps with the time spent going after Miria. Then you have a quick hop to Raki freeing Clare and Priscilla, Rabona being rescued, and all the stuff happening now. While it seems like a lot has happened, the bulk of these monthly chapters has been focused on fight after fight. Miria left Rabona to take down the Org in the summer of 2011. It's been well over two years.
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2013-03-05, 02:05 | Link #866 |
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Priscilla saved Raki because he smelled of Teresa / Clare. And she wanted / wants to kill Teresa / Clare. He was only a tool to her. She even said so before heading off to the Destroyer.
I had hoped this story wouldn't have a Dragonball Super Saiyan mega power up ending against an almost invincible enemy. I'm still hoping it won't go that way. |
2013-03-05, 02:41 | Link #868 |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Priscilla had literally no reason to save Raki other then her own emotions. She had no "use" for him at that point, but still chose to save him. Priscilla's own mental block on little girls hints at much deeper emotions then Awakened Priscilla openly displays (aloofness and cruelty), just as her saving Raki did.
Most people just don't bother seeing past the surface because they don't want to sympathize with her, or even attempt to understand her character. As for Priscilla's father, we know the Organization created Yoma, it stands to reason that Yoma were originally human before they were transformed. Priscilla wasn't half-anything before killing her father, her father had simply been transformed into a Yoma by the Organization. On emotions effecting the strength of a warrior, it really isn't far-fetched considering what we already knew from Offensive/Defensive warriors. It isn't anything new when we consider how Yoki is effected by/effects emotions.
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2013-03-05, 06:14 | Link #869 |
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That I will disagree with; I believe that this is the anime creators fault; only the anime said that Priscilla could not see/attack little girls, while the manga referred to Claire specifically and no other girl.
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2013-03-05, 15:15 | Link #872 | |
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Priscilla had no problem attacking Riful who is also a "little girl", Isley seemed to say that whole villages were eaten in extra chapter 3 (implying that no one was spared not even little girls)
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2013-03-05, 15:18 | Link #873 | |
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You do have a point on Isley.
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2013-03-05, 17:01 | Link #874 | |
Awe of She
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As for Isley saying that entire villages were wiped out, he could have meant it as a generalization as well. For 1-4 young girls to survive an attack that killed everyone in their village, reviving it is out of the question. Most of the female survivors were likely taken to Staff to become Claymore trainees anyway, rendering the village completely 'destroyed'.
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2013-03-06, 01:46 | Link #875 | |
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Well, we have a born half-youma now. What's next? a born half-dragon? Raki's awaken? |
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2013-03-06, 05:25 | Link #876 |
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After re-reading the chapter, I noticed something I did not think about before. The MIB mentioned that Priscilla realized that the yoma she killed when she was little was her father. That meant that the organization took her father, turned him into a yoma, and released him back into the village to start killing people. I just never thought about that before, but I should have realized it sooner.
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2013-03-08, 20:45 | Link #880 | |
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I certainly used to be far more engaged in it than I am today.
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