Friday's comic!

[murgatroyd666]

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181214

It would seem that Albia learned her tricks from someone else ...

Comments

[occams_pyramid]

Lozz sort of reminds me of the way Lucrezia rules the Geisterdamen.
Could the Other be one of the queens, who survived by serial mind transfer?

[madfilkentist]

It makes sense to me that individuals such as Lucrezia might just be receptacles for the Other, and that there could have been many over the centuries.

The "land of the devils" which Lozz came from could be another dimension or the future, or perhaps a hidden advanced civilization. I don't know what to hope for, but I hate time-loop plots. They always degenerate into incoherence or throw out causality.

[jhameia]

This implies that there's only just one (or a few) Big Evil in the world who just lie in wait for the perfect receptacle to continue their mischief.

People get to make their own decisions and become evil on their own without being involved in a larger cosmic evil, so this theory doesn't make sense to me.

[occams_pyramid]

Come to think of it, could Lucrezia be Lozz?
It says 'overthrew', not 'killed'.

[katzedecimal]

"When I was a novice [our goddess] visited us frequently, always in the same lovely aspect. But then she [Lucrezia] came to us in high distress..."

When I read "and the people went in terror of the strange other worldly servants the witch queen showed them", I straight up expected to see Geisterdamen. (A little disappointed actually...).

Either way, it seems to hint that even if Lucrezia is not herself a vessel of the Other, it seems she may have known one of the god-queens and either studied with her or tried to reverse engineer her work.

(And I still think Neolithic!Albia looks like a jacked Wilma Flintstone.)

[bunsen_h]

Wilma Flintstone... now that you point it out, yeah.

[*bzzzownt*]
<Marvin_the_Martin>"Oh, dear, I've got the silly thing in reverse. She's a Neanderthal Wilma!"</Marvin_the_Martin>

[murgatroyd666]

Come to think of it, could Lucrezia be Lozz?

I do believe you may have discovered a Clue.

[spectrum_09]

Remember Zola called Lucrezia a fraud.

My thought is that Lucrezia was attempting to become a God-Queen. Perhaps THE God-Queen. I think Lucrezia is the Other as the story states. Nothing inhabits her beyond her own blind ambition.

She had to have known about the mirror in Mechanicsburg, which is why it was tapped into from the Refuge of Storms.

[cmdr_zoom]

A friend of mine notes that Agatha has already come close to breaking through a second time, and it almost killed her ("forty-five point three seconds from exploding"). So apparently part of the difficulty in going Super-Saiyan becoming a Queen is surviving the process.

They also note that when taking down Lucrezia-in-Agatha, Otila sneered at her as a coward.

Put together, their theory is that Lucrezia wants to become an immortal God-Queen, but doesn't want to risk her own precious hide. So she's looking for alternatives...