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** Ballister was angry, confused, and had been confronted with evidence that Nimona might be playing him but he didn't way to believe it. So he went to Nimona and asked for an explanation but in his anger he worded it the poorest way possible giving Nimona reason to think she was going to be betrayed which mesnt she didn't give an answer. Ballistor increasingly suspicious raised an alternative interpretation to Nimonas actions that would serve the idea of her as a bad guy hoping she'd prove him wrong. Nimona responded with anger that her friend was being bigoted as fuck toward her and Ballister fell back on his training reaching for his sword which shocked them both but before they could deal with it the Knights broke in.
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** Ballister was angry, confused, and had been confronted with evidence that Nimona might be playing him but he didn't way want to believe it. So he went to Nimona and asked for an explanation but in his anger he worded it the poorest way possible giving Nimona reason to think she was going to be betrayed which mesnt she didn't give an answer. Ballistor increasingly suspicious raised an alternative interpretation to Nimonas actions that would serve the idea of her as a bad guy hoping she'd prove him wrong. Nimona responded with anger that her friend was being bigoted as fuck toward her and Ballister fell back on his training reaching for his sword which shocked them both but before they could deal with it the Knights broke in.
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** Ballister was angry, confused, and had been confronted with evidence that Nimona might be playing him but he didn't way to believe it. So he went to Nimona and asked for an explanation but in his anger he worded it the poorest way possible giving Nimona reason to think she was going to be betrayed which mesnt she didn't give an answer. Ballistor increasingly suspicious raised an alternative interpretation to Nimonas actions that would serve the idea of her as a bad guy hoping she'd prove him wrong. Nimona responded with anger that her friend was being bigoted as fuck toward her and Ballister fell back on his training reaching for his sword which shocked them both but before they could deal with it the Knights broke in.
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** Nobody, they just have really good PR which is why they behave like a bunch of fraternity boys. The Knights probably started fighting ordinary people to bring them under the Kingdoms wing "to protect them" and chasing the occasional rumor of monsters. But over the last few hundred years they've had nobody to fight relying on good PR and an air of glory to remain in power.
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** How exactly would she prove she ''can't'' do something? It's pretty hard to prove a negative, you know. The audience knows that Nimona can pull off one person at a time but the in universe general public does not so even releasing the full footage isn't a silver bullet for this problem.
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** How exactly would she prove she ''can't'' do something? It's pretty hard to prove a negative, you know. The audience knows that Nimona can pull off one person at a time but the in universe general public does not so even releasing the full footage isn't a silver bullet for this problem. It could work but if it doesn't The Director has a lot more latitude to enforce her will using the idea of Nimona replacing people potentially by the dozens to play to the fears of the public.
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** How exactly would she prove she ''can't'' do something? It's pretty hard to prove a negative, you know.
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** How exactly would she prove she ''can't'' do something? It's pretty hard to prove a negative, you know. The audience knows that Nimona can pull off one person at a time but the in universe general public does not so even releasing the full footage isn't a silver bullet for this problem.
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** She only survived the vaporization because she took the form of a Phoenix
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** She only survived the vaporization because she took the form of a PhoenixPhoenix.
** Nimona being a shapeshifter has active control over her bodies properties, including her vulnerability. For Nimona it is actually a very different thing to be killed then to allow herself to die, because the latter is a lot easier.
** Nimona being a shapeshifter has active control over her bodies properties, including her vulnerability. For Nimona it is actually a very different thing to be killed then to allow herself to die, because the latter is a lot easier.
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** Regardless of whether she's been present the whole time or just recently turned up the following holds true. Nimona is bored and extremely lonely, humans are the species she's come closest to befriending while all others leave her out of disinterest or fear. Given what total isolation does to sapient beings, human and otherwise, odds are good she's around to have someone to talk to.
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*** Maybe one job of the Director/knights is to make sure people who go beyond the wall never come back.
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*** Maybe one job of the Director/knights is to make sure people who go beyond the wall never come back.are ReleasedToElsewhere?
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*** Maybe one job of the Director/knights is to make sure people who go beyond the wall never come back.
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** Nobles ''do'' still exist in the real world--look at England. England's a bit less of a paranoid police state than the kingdom here, but its nobility still enjoy a great deal of unearned reverence for being the great-umpteenth-grandkid of Duke Whatever who defeated the traitorous Worcester on a blood-soaked field in King Henry's wars (when in reality, the current Duke Whatever much prefers a quiet crossword). A similar thing seems to have happened with nobles here, except instead of being repurposed as "source of wedding venues because they have to maintain a BigFancyHouse without tenant peasants", they're more like famous professional athletes. The "Night to Knight Knights" is basically the NFL/NBA/etc draft, and it seems like they get income from sponsorships and similar things (e.g. the big video billboard of himself that Todd hurtles into).
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*** Given that she doesn't seem too surprised by the change in technology by the time she appears on screen, it's possible that she's made brief visits now and again; maybe she was looking for a new friend, but retreated every time she saw how things were getting progressively worse. Perhaps Ballister was the first possible friend she thought was worth giving a shot, if only because she believed he would accept her as a fellow "villain". As for going somewhere else, we could chalk that up to literal or emotional distance: the Kingdom would have to be isolated from outside influences in order for the Institute's doctrine to go unquestioned for so long, so it might just be so far removed from other nations that Nimona hasn't seen any of them... or perhaps her past traumas have left her unwilling to stray too far from her current patch of wilderness.
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*** Of course that also brings up the question of why she came back, this Kingdom can't be the only civilized place out there.
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** Who said she ''did?'' By all accounts, there've been no record of monster sightings in the kingdom nor of shapeshifting, and Nimona ''needs'' to transform for her own mental wellbeing. Given how badly the collapse of her relationship with Gloreth traumatized her, she could have been actively avoiding the kingdom for centuries on end before she finally made her way back and started looking for friends again.
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* Why the hell did Nimona spend a thousand years in a kingdom where society is based solely on demonizing her specifically, when she could have left any time she wanted?
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** Gloreth drove off Nimona as a child, but that doesn't mean she couldn't become a knight in the future. Her trauma from Nimona could have motivated her to be a knight and earned her nobility genuinely during a time when it was more feasible. The story of fighting the "monster" could have also been known, but was mis-documented as being a feat during her knight days and not in her childhood. Or, Gloreth's driving away Nimona would be a story that got exaggerated and twisted over time, which also would have helped her rise in social class and give her the opportunity to be a knight and noble.
