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[murgatroyd_666]

https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20220302

A "favored child of Destiny," huh?

Comments

[kelkyag]

Lucrezia-in-Agatha realized that second ascension requires an organic mind. (Why remains a fascinating question, especially given that Agatha's dingbots show signs of sparkiness.) Lucrezia-in-Anevka's-clank-body was there at the time, disabled but conscious. How much of that did she witness or understand? Did either of them realize that Agatha had already done this, however briefly, thus setting up the mental connections that Lucrezia-in-Agatha would later use?

I don't think Lunevka is about to melt herself, but I don't think this is going to work at all the way she expects it to. (Or maybe she will melt herself, and one of the time-traveling cyborg Lucrezias will step in to the plot soon?)

[marycatelli]

Perhaps only Agatha's dingbots would qualify, and she didn't realize it at the time.

[murgatroyd_666]

... Agatha's dingbots show signs of sparkiness.

I'm probably putting two and two together to make five, but I've long wondered what the point was of the sequence in Castle Heterodyne with two factions of dingbots fighting ... and the fight was resolved by Agatha creating one dingbot to rule them all. An advanced, superior dingbot called "Queenie."

We haven't seen her since then. (And in fact she's currently time-frozen in the Castle.) But why would the Professors have included that sequence if they didn't intend for it to be significant?

Will Queenie become an Ascended Dingbot?

[madfilkentist]

She's starting to sound a lot like Lord Snackleford.

[kognar]

I'm interested by the phrase "queens of the spheres". I've heard them referred to as God Queens and a Sisterhood and assumed they ran a patchwork of kingdoms across this planet.

But that phrase could mean many things, from a simple device that denotes them as a queen, all the way to queens of different planets.

[turbobeholder]

The list of important things to remember is updated!
• Flatter a crazy near-goddess when she spills important information.
• Avoid exploding.

[marycatelli]

There's "outlive your usefulness."

And there's "be more useful dying."

The latter is worse.