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1	Main page [[Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName here]].
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3	[[WMG: There is a ghost inside of Hanna, and the scars and staples somehow hold it in.]]
4	Possibly the source of his magic? He does state that his magic taints his blood, as I assume digesting a ghost would.
5	[[WMG: Ples's ticking noise predicts the death of whomever's closest to him.]]
6	It makes sense, the guy at the bar said it sounded different than normal, and Hanna definitely looks like he knows something's up. [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=681 Look for yourself.]]
7	* Or it might be because [[spoiler: he's missing a gear.]]
8	[[WMG: Hanna can't die, because he's not technically alive in the first place.]]
9	Which is why he's so unfazed by all this stuff--no matter what happens to him he'll still be okay, so there's no point in worrying about it. Worth seemed to be more concerned about other people finding out about what's up with Hanna than the fact that Hanna was looking pretty dead after the first encounter with Lee's ghost. It explains why he looks so young, 'cause he doesn't age, and why he's so light and thin, 'cause he doesn't actually have organs and whatnot in him to weigh him down. That stapled-shut abdominal "scar" of his looks kind of like it can be opened/closed without much issue... he probably needs to open it every so often for system maintenance.
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11	He is this way because of some sort of accident, or disease, or something else that would have killed him under normal circumstances. The things that happen to him when the life support system is disrupted are symptoms he was suffering (or would have suffered eventually) at the time it was put in place.
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13	Two out of three of the main guys are undead, why not go for the whole hog?
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15	* You know, this would be a [[WMG/PoisonOakEpilepticTrees Poison Oak Epileptic Tree]], if it weren't for the fact that I can't fit it into EpilepticTrees, no matter how much I WANT to.
16	* Interestingly, this page from Chapter 2 seems to support this theory, with Casimiro calling Hanna a [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=571 "rotten hollow shell of a boy"]].
17	** And shortly after Conrad is turned into a vampire, he asks, [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=104 "What smells dead?"]] With ''a zombie'' standing ''right there'', Conrad guesses it's Hanna. Hanna fesses up in a rather suspicious, uncomfortable way.
18	--->"''Nrrgh''. It must be because I use magic, it ''[[MotorMouth taintsmyblood]]'', '''BUT''' '''''ANYWAYS!'''''"
19	* Also note [[http://vert-is-ninja.deviantart.com/art/After-All-This-Time-155094756 this official art]]. When Hanna was a teenager, something ''awful'' apparently happened to him and he got kinda [[LooksLikeCesare creepy-looking]] for a while. And he doesn't seem to have grown since. Perhaps the reason he's [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than He Looks]] is that he's an UndeadChild.
20	** Not to mention the quote at the bottom of the art: ''"After all this time, I'm still exactly the same. Trust me."''
21	* This is also probably the reason a seemingly-normal human like Hanna feels the need to go to an unqualified, mediocre, back-alley DrJerk when he's hurt. WordOfGod ''somewhere'' stated that Hanna has some sort of secret, which is why he goes to Doc Worth, and, anyway, one kind of imagines that a normal human who also happens to have six staples in his chest would go to an actual MD barring weird circumstances.
22	* WordOfGod states [[http://community.livejournal.com/hinabn/17394.html he had some sort of run-in with a ghost]] at sixteen, which might have ended up in his parents' death. But keep in mind that, [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=81 although Adelaide claims he "smells of death", she states he is alive.]]
23	** Maybe he's only half-alive, and there's some kind of magic keeping him from dying. Considering magic taints your blood, that might explain why he looked so messed up for a while and why he smells dead - it's a side effect of using a spell powerful enough to keep him alive.
24	* As for the cause of his "death": It's possible he was possessed by the ghost and forced to do horrible things, and the stress from that and the exorcism of the ghost almost destroyed his body.
25	** Which could also serve to explain what happened to his family when he was teenager.
26	** It would also explain why he was so concerned over any lingering effects of [[spoiler:{{...}'s possession.]]
27	* On the other hand, it might not be his body that was affected, but his soul. Not having a intact soul could explain why Lee passing through him affected him so much.
28	* Whatever it is, [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=221 Worth thinks it'd be handy.]] That's probably not a good sign.
29	** Worth was talking about how he once considered becoming a witch doctor, not about Hanna's predicament. Though I guess it says something about it anyway--if Worth treats physical ailments only (regular and magically-inflicted ones, but physical all the same) then it goes without saying it's something wrong with Hanna's body and not his soul.
30	* I'd like to add something I noticed near the beginning of the comic- [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=8 when Hanna asks Zombie where he got Hanna's business card, he replies with "I forgot."]] This means that Zombie got the card before he died, if I understand his predicament correctly, and therefore he has had the card for at least 10 years. 10 years ago, Hanna would have only been 14, which is crazily young for a kid to have a dangerous profession like that one, not to mention that he probably wouldn't be popular enough to have business cards. If he's been dead for a while, he could be even older than he says he is, in which case the age thing doesn't register, which makes it possible for him to have a thriving business for the past 10 years.
31	** Also, if the card is from 10 years ago, then that means Hanna's had the same flat for 10 years, as the number was on the business card. It's kind of hard to keep a flat when you're 14.
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33
34	[[WMG: [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Viral]] is Veser reincarnated.]]
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36	Think about it. Sharp shark-like teeth. Woobie-ish. Both violent. Veser has glowy green eyes, which is sort of one of the effects of Spiral Power. So to make up for his horrible home life, Veser is reincarnated into being a total badass who can't have a family that'll mess him up. However, fate still screws with him and makes him a {{Woobie}}.
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38	[[WMG: Veser's hoodie is his selkie pelt.]]
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40	That's why he's so evasive when questioned about it, and since he's only half selkie, he doesn't have a "full" pelt; it's also not as powerful and controlling, meaning he doesn't have to have it on at all times.
41	** This question has been asked, and it has been Jossed
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43	[[WMG: Conrad is secretly a [[StupidJetpackHitler time-traveling]] [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]].]]
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45	It explains his Teutonic Cross-like necklace in the beginning of Chapter 1, and with a last name like Achenleck, it's not entirely improbable.
46	* To elaborate, he was sent by the Nazis to the future to [[SnipeHunt allegedly do research on]] [[{{Ghostapo}} the occult]]. However, in the process of trapping Sassybat to send back to Germany circa 1940, he let her loose and she took control of his apartment. Conrad had already begun to be disillusioned by the whole Nazi business (I never said he was a ''good'' Nazi), but this incident was the last straw. He decided that he would stay in the future permanently a while ago. He makes excuses to himself that he was technically K.I.A., so he couldn't go back even if he wanted to.
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48	[[WMG: The story takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.]]
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50	[[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/zomb_somewhereflat.jpg This picture]] shows a flat-screen television in the background, something that wasn't around in a decade before 2010. {...}, alive in the picture, has been dead for ten years, perhaps more. Thus, we can deduce that the picture was taken sometime around 2005-2008, and the story takes place around 2015 or later.
51	** It doesn't particularly look like a flat-screen TV to me. The angle to the viewer is such that we possibly just can't see the curvature of the screen or the bulky back.
52	*** No, it's definitely a flatscreen. You can see the inner edge of the frame running an almost parallel line to the screen, something that wouldn't happen on a screen with curvature. Plus, [=TVs=] with curved glass screens are too heavy to suspend like that without some kind of a shelf underneath. Cool. I never noticed that before.
53	*** This troper remembers seeing flatscreens in some of the fancier places when she was growing up in the 90s. Still puts the timeline towards a 15 minute future, but not quite as far from present.
54	[[WMG:Conrad stole {...}'s hands!]]
55	Or something. The last time, [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=609 to date]], {...}'s hands have been visible was [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=133 here]]. Note that he's saying to Conrad, "Need a hand?" Since that point, he's always worn gloves. Obviously, Conrad took him literally and gnawed them off, or perhaps only one but {...} doesn't want to do the Music/MichaelJackson thing. Or, alternately, something is just generally wrong with {...}'s hands aside from his being green, as he wears gloves even [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=605 while chilling out indoors]]. One assumes that he [[TheInsomniac just doesn't sleep]], so probably sitting and reading in Hanna's room is like sleeping for him. Who wears gloves to bed?!
56	* ...Or he could possibly be trying to prevent people from freaking out... see [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=6 here]] where he mentioned wanting to be discreet, there explaining the scarf and (later) high-collared jacket + fedora. In that page, if you look, there's a rather obvious, raised stitch line where it would appear a good chunk of his hand was sewn on. You're entitled to your opinion, of course, I just question that a bit since Conrad hasn't shown any extreme personality shifts, so I'm a little skeptical. I suppose we'll have to wait until {...} loses a glove.
57	** In one of the character Q&As, {...} says that he wore the gloves to prevent people from freaking out over his green skin. After awhile, he just got in the habit of wearing them.
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59	[[WMG:Hanna's parents were involved with the supernatural.]]
60	Somewhat hinted in the character interviews in that Hanna will do just about anything to avoid talking about his family. When asked if they were tied to the paranormal, Hanna quickly changed the subject to [[DeliciousDistraction macaroni]]. Also, [[http://vert-is-ninja.deviantart.com/art/After-All-This-Time-155094756 official artwork]] and [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=576 guest comics]] alike subtly imply that he's been somehow connected to the supernatural since he was pretty young. Look at the 'X'-shaped markings on the soles of Hanna's shoes in the official art, and how that mark was later reproduced as a scar on the ''bottom of his foot'' when he was older. Little things like that allude to Hanna having something of an occult background.
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62	Building on that...
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64	[[WMG:Hanna is the son of the/a reaper.]]
65	It would certainly explain a LOT, like the fact that he smells like death.
66	* This troper personally thinks he made a Deal with the Devil.
67
68	[[WMG:Ples is some kind of cyborg or clockwork man.]]
69	He's followed everywhere by a persistent ticking sound, and the author describes him as someone who's experienced "a lot more than most people his age." A [[http://crystallizedtwilight.deviantart.com/art/Gear-Theory-163202649 popular theory]] among Website/DeviantART fans.
70	* Considering how the Latest comics have Tibenoch driping a blood/Oil combination from the wound on his side, it's probably not that out there.
71	* Not to mention his seemingly [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Futurama Bender]]-like ability to consume alcohol as what might be some type of fuel.
72	* Going off of that, his split personality is a result of his gears being out of alignment/being in need of repair. Should the storyline continue, Hanna will save everyone by repairing Ples manually and restoring his sanity.
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74	[[WMG: Building on the Reaper guess and the immortal one; Hanna has a deal with, is one, or is the son of a Reaper which will explain his immortality.]]
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76	[[WMG:Ples is evil.]]
77	...What? He ''is'' an EvilOverlooker on the poster.
78	* [[spoiler: Not [[JekyllAndHyde quite.]]]]
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80	[[WMG:Toni's necklace is an [[http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/contents/wdu020/museum/english/selection_e/jcrf/e_jcrf_01.html inro.]]]]
81	She's half-Japanese. It'd make sense.
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83	[[WMG: Hanna is [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi.]] ]]
84	No, seriously, hear me out, guys. So Hanna, who doesn't know about his power to bend the universe to his will, is really lonely and desperate for friends. Let's see who he draws in: first, Hanna needs somebody to fix up him and his big ol' scar, and can't go to a regular doctor. Suddenly, a convenient Worth pops up. Then, he needs a friend - someone who won't ever leave him and doesnt have anyone who will take him away from Hanna. Oh hi there, Zombie. Then there's Hanna's failure to save Conrad. Either some low self-esteem on Hanna's part causes him to subconsciously fail at paranormal investigating - or is he again influencing the outcome so he gets another friend who depends on him and knows about the supernatural? Hmm. Maybe Lee's murder happens so Hanna gets a real case to solve. Maybe Ples will be the result of Hanna wanting a father figure. Oh, the possibilities.
85
86	[[WMG: Abner is Hanna's father]]
87	Think about it. They're both gingers and both into paranormal things. The look pretty similar anyway. AND the "looking a huge deal younger than you actually are" thing could run in the family. Hanna looks in his teens when he's really 24, and Abner looks to be mid-thirties so that would put him at an age to be Hanna's father.
88	* Alternate theory: [[CainAndAbel they're brothers.]]
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90	[[WMG: Worth is a Rune-addict]]
91	Its clear that Doc Worth is on ''something'' that isn't exactly healthy and [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=613 apperently Hanna pays him in Runes]].
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93	[[WMG: Conrad is evil.]]
94	If one is to go by Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer logic, vampires don't have souls unless something is done to put their soul back in. As far as this troper can tell, nothing had been done to make sure that Conrad retained his soul. The only reason he behaves well is because he's smart, and doesn't want everyone else turning on him and staking him.
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96	[[WMG: Tess is going to abandon this comic for a new project within a few months.]]
97	It's become a bit of a trend with him, and Hanna hasn't been properly updated since early August.
98	* Well, to be fair, she's been doing the convention circuit all summer, which hasn't given her much time to update. Not to mention she's been working on autographing countless pre-ordered volumes of the first chapter. Her sister has stated on the front page of Hanna that we'll be getting updates when con season is over.
99	* For the moment, Tess's still working on it, having finally posted [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=781 "an update"]].
100	* We're back on track, for now. As of Nov. 9th, he's been posting more frequently than once every other day.
101	* Sadly, as of April 6th, we haven't had a proper update for two months, and nothing at all since valentines day. This WMG is looking more and more valid each day.
102	** [[BigNo Noooooo...]]
103	** It's all the way into June now, and still nothing. Comic's dead, kids. [[note]] Hopefully someday she'll think to release a journal or something explaining the back stories of some of the more mysterious characters, and maybe sketch out where the story was GOING to go. Otherwise she's pretty much officially achieved douchebag status for abandoning a sizeable fandom without any warning or explanation. The length of this WMG page alone illustrates just how many people she's blueballed![[/note]]
104	*** Tess has recently resurfaced on the internet, and a drawing of Conrad has appeared. [[HopeSpot Maybe the hiatus is nearly over.]]
105	*** Link, please?
106	*** [[http://fishbonescomic.com/wp-content/gallery/fanart/headache_by_tessa.jpg "Heache"]]. This is NOT Conrad. It is fanart for another comic called Fishbones. That is the main character, who happens to have a bit of a resemblance to Conrad.
107	*** That picture is from February.
108	*** As of March 26, 2012, the comic has been on "hiatus" for over a year. Seems like it's officially gone.
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110	[[WMG: As the name of the comic would suggest, Hanna is not a boy.]]
111	* He's an alien.
112	* He's a zombie.
113	* He's neither male nor female.
114	* He's both male and female.
115	* Despite appearances, Hanna is 24 years old (and therefore a man, not a boy).
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117	[[WMG: {...} was animated by a wish on one thousand cranes.]]
118	In a Monkey Paw scenario, someone (probably the owner of [[http://vert-is-ninja.deviantart.com/art/Cheers-To-Something-New-147053058 this]] photograph) wished on a thousand cranes for their missing/dead loved one to be back. It worked. Sort of.
119
120	[[WMG: The Silver Hip Flask.]]
121	* In the current arc [[spoiler: Tibenoch appears to have gone off the deep end]] and is carrying a silver hip flask [[spoiler: than appears to be leaking green smoke.]] The hip flask is :
122	** A potent magic, that brings out the inner JerkAss.
123	** A potion designed to remove inhibitions.
124	** [[spoiler: An alcohol distilled by Tibenoch to enable himself to get drunk (finally). The night he tests it is the night Hanna and co drop by]].
125	** We know it has something to do with [[spoiler: both personalities]], and Tibenoch is lying when he says he doesn't know what it is, so I propose it's a potion that has something to do with why [[spoiler: he probably murdered Lee and stole Veser's mum's selkie pelt.]]
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128	[[WMG: Ples Tibenoch made himself into a cyborg.]]
129	This may not sound like much of a speculation, but there are some nuances that come with it worth considering. Either [[spoiler: Ples or Tibenoch]] turned the man into a cyborg to contain the other and restrict his appearances to a predictable pattern. At first I thought it might be [[spoiler: Ples that built himself into a cyborg to control his other personality, Tibenoch, especially since Tibenoch says that Ples must [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=800 "fancy himself a scientist"]]]] but seeing how Tibenoch is complaining that the tonic was "changing the pattern" (see below), it's more likely that [[spoiler: Tibenoch did the cyborgizing]], although his purpose is unclear.
130	* This might also explain the gates closing at exactly 12:21 AM. Maybe [[spoiler: Ples had programmed for those gates to close at that exact time so that his house could contain Tibenoch until, like clockwork, Tibenoch would retreat and Ples could go about his daily business without having to worry about terrorizing the townsfolk when he loses control.]]
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132	-> [[spoiler: Tibenoch]]: This tonic is actually changing the pattern...
133	-> [[spoiler: Ples]]: Good. You have overstayed your welcome.
134	-> [[spoiler: Tibenoch]]: Haha. Still acting as if you were a victim...
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136	[[WMG: Worth's organs are failing]]
137	Based on [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=816 "this page and the next"]], where we see that he's bothering to wear gloves while he handles what appears to be a human organ, and he is very pissed off that Conrad caused him to drop it.
138	* Or the organ could be for ''Hanna'', the "hollow shell of a body", who just recently had a mean run in with a ghost and who Worth cares about.
139	** Or the heart is for selling, and he is upset because once it has fallen on the floor he will have to sell it at a discount price.
140	*** This is the most likely explanation. The heart is probably for another one of Worth's clients. If it was at all important to the plot, he probably wouldn't have dropped it, or been a lot more than just irritated at it falling on the floor.
141
142	[[WMG: That hooker Conrad encountered]]
143	Was really Abner in disguise, scouting for Vampires.
144
145	[[WMG: {...} and Abner are related.]]
146	Compare the two of them for a moment, using un-zombie pictures of Dotty. Abner's skin is darker, but that could be because he got out more or something. Dotty was killed by a vampire but not turned, thus making Abner hate vampires so he tries to hunt them. [[BlatantLies It all makes sense now!]]
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148	[[WMG: The Ples Tibenoch dual personality is due to a JekyllAndHyde experiment.]]
149	Or at least an allusion to it. Tibenoch said that Ples "fancies himself a scientist". The similarities are striking except this has a mechanical instead of a chemical basis. It should be worth mentioning that the goal of the original experiment of ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' was to eliminate the dark side of man altogether while keeping the good intact which failed spectacularly. The self-mutilation could be Ples's attempts to somehow undo what has been done. It is also interesting that the original novel's message was a warning against tampering with the natural order of things and an attempt at power man was not meant to control (a common sentiment at the time) which also fits in with the clockwork cyborg component of Ples Tibenoch.
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151	[[WMG: Time moves at a slower rate for Ples Tibenoch.]]
152	The constant ticking noise, the whole conversation about people "going crazi''er'' when alone for a long time...They're stuck in some sort of personal [[YearInsideHourOutside "Year For Us, Hour For Others."]]
153
154	[[WMG: Hanna is a golem or other kind of construct]]
155	This is why he gets so angry when {...} is treated as an object.
156
157	[[WMG: Hanna's organs have been replaced with runes.]]
158	My personal explanation is the following: at 16 Hanna encountered and was subsequently possessed by a malevolent ghost and, lacking the same sort of [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=487 guide]] as Zombie had, was unable to navigate the "maze" to free himself. In the course of its possession the ghost did massive systemic damage to Hanna's vital organs, degrading them to the point that only the ghost's power kept him alive. Hanna eventually escaped from the mind-maze only to wake up in a failing body, and had to resort to desperate measures to keep himself alive. Measures such as... cutting his abdomen apart and replacing all the half-dead organs with equivalent magic runes. Either he did this himself (unlikely, barring some sort of iron-assed willpower) or someone with knowledge of rune-magic did it for him.
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160	Anyway. Since we know the runes are powered by the user's body somehow (he has to touch runes to activate them, etc etc) these runes must use up a tonne of base natural energy. I imagine it like a computer using nearly it's full capacity of RAM running critical programs. Hanna seems to be able to use small runes like light and whatever he attacked Ghost-Lee ([[IncrediblyLamePun oh god I just got that..]]) with, but using larger spells like the one that broke the curse on Adelaide drains so much power that some (or all) of the runes standing in for his organs are temporarily shorted out. While drawing the giganto-rune for Adelaide's curse-breaking spell Hanna looks [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=27 a bit worried]], like he knows there's a good chance he'll be hacking up blood in the next few minutes. Maybe that spell drained just enough power to say, take out the stomach rune for an instant, and when it reactivated the space where the stomach used to be is filled with blood, resulting in the lovely vomit panel a few pages later. Being possessed by Lee's ghost in the next chapter shorted out enough organs to knock him out briefly, and using whatever rune he did seconds after waking up tipped the balance and knocked him out ''again'', this time for much longer. Of course, the runes eventually sort themselves out and he wakes up right as rain in Worth's office a few pages later.
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162	Of course, it should probably be noted that this is all conjecture based on one readthrough and a lot of free time to ponder, so I take full credit for anything that sounds idiotic. Should be interesting if we ever get any new pages to see what kind of effects other spells have on Hanna's body. If my theory holds up then they should do more damage the more powerful they are, and the more magical a creature is (ghosts seem to be something like pure magic in this world) the more it should screw with his insides. Only time ([[WordOfGod or the author..]]) will tell!
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164	... ''aaaaand'' that took up way more space than I anticipated.
165	** This is my canon until [[WordofGod Tess]] says otherwise.
166	*** Mine too! Plus, it would make for some veeeeery unsettling scenes if a “lung” runs goes out… especially if the audience doesn’t know the “rune” thing yet, and it seems like poor Hanna is just unable to breathe for ''some reason.'' And, if he casts a spell powerful enough to short out the “heart” rune— especially in order to protect the others— it would actually make for quite a poignant sacrifice, doubly poignant if everyone knows and is begging him not to cast said spell, but it’s the only way to protect everyone. (Sigh)… Shame we’ll never see this… at least there’s Fanfiction.
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168	[[WMG:{...} is Toni's father. Or was when he was alive.]]
169	Toni is half hispanic from her mother and half Japanese from her father. What we've seen of {...} when he was alive has shown him to be oriental, quite possibly Japanese. One of the Q&As said that Toni would use a single wish to "cheat death and bring someone back to life". What if she tried? {...} saw the guide as an ''origami crane'', a ''Japanese'' thing. Lastly the ages, Toni is very young, I'd say late teens to early twenties. How old is zombie? Remember, he's not been aging for ten years, and he looks to be around late twenties to early thirties. If we put Toni at, say, 18, and Zombie at 30 when he died. I think 30 is plenty old enough to have an 8 year old daughter, don't you.
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171	[[WMG: Hanna is not a boy's name because Hanna is not a boy but a woman.]]
172	Hanna Falk Cross is actually the full name of a married woman with Falk being her maiden name. The mysterious incident in which "Hanna's" "parents" died and "Hanna" got all creepy looking in youth involves the death of Mrs. Cross's husband and son, but somehow she got bodyswapped with her son and now lives on in his body but continues to use her name instead of her son's. The paranormal investigation hobby includes a hope that she'll figure out what happened to her husband and son and maybe that she'll be able to see them again/make things right whatever that entails (I'm not quite sure). Also cue a possible romance with {...} if she gets her body back.
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174	[[WMG: Ples Tibenoch is a split-personality...but the "evil" personality is the original, and the "nice" one came along later.]]
175	Because wouldn't that be so deliciously ironic?
176	* the exchange "Good you've overstayed your welcome" "Haha. Still acting as if you were a victim..." would make quite a bit of sense in that. If the "Good personality is the intruder, then technically the "Bad" personality is ''right'' to call him out as such.
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178	[[WMG: Hanna made a contract with [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyubey, and is some type of Puer Magus.]]]]
179	Puella Magi have to watch how much magic they use because it taints their ''soul gem.'' Hanna's magic taints his ''blood.'' Both series have a lot of runes. Hanna's cheerful nature is an attempt to not fall to despair and become a Witch. Puella Magi are technically dead bodies who only live because of their soul gems, Hanna "smells dead" but is very much alive...
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181	[[WMG: {...} is actually Colin Aston from Webcomic/TwoKeys]]
182	They're both fairly quiet, good in a fight, have a deadpan sense of humor, and look pretty similar. Clearly, whatever mess Colin ends up in leads to him getting kicked into the Hanna!verse, a process that would normally be deadly--but Colin survives as an amnesiac zombie because he's Occult.
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184	[[WMG: {...}'s real name]]
185	Is also, technically, a girl's name.
186	* Myself, I sometimes think that he's an Evelyn.
187	* Jayne has gained certain popularity.
188
189	[[WMG: Tess is absent because he's completing the next book.]]
190	It'd be a decent marketing strategy to publish the next book in print first, then update slowly after, since it gives more incentive to buy the book. It also provides her with a massive buffer, which might even out the erratic update schedule a little. It doesn't explain her total internet blackout since February, and might end up a little counterproductive due to the drama that accompanied it, but this is the WMG page after all.
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192	[[WMG: Something bad happened to Tess and that's why he's not around anymore.]]
193	Guys, it's been a while, and he's pretty much disappeared off the face of the internet. Now I'm not saying he died or anything, but something must have happened... (I'm just gonna leave it vague and not speculate too far; I don't know if talking about the author is taboo in this fandom or not.)
194	* According to [[http://team4d.deviantart.com/journal/Dear-Hanna-Fans-218649744 this]] statement from the publisher, he's apparently fine, but they're respecting his privacy and not asking what's going on or telling us if they already know. It's pretty much assumed that he's abandoned the comic for whatever reason, but decided not to let anyone know by making an announcement (presumably because he doesn't want them to be angry with her.)
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196	[[WMG: Tess (the author) pulled an Creator/AnneRice and decided he doesn't like creepy stuff anymore.]]
197	He's become some sort of religious fundamentalist and has renounced all the vampire and zombie stuff from his life and is currently on his way to being the next [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]]. The reason he still hasn't resurfaced is because he is currently learning all that he can from the master, and plans to take his place as lead artist and writer of the ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'' when he passes away.
198
199	[[WMG: Has anyone considered that D and S might be {…}’s initials?]]
200	When first asked about a name, {…} states that it might have started with a D…or maybe an S. What if those are both correct? People tend to have both a first and last name after all.
201	* He could have been Daniel Smith, or Sam Davis.
202
203	[[WMG: Everything That Could Go Wrong, Has.]]
204	While Conrad was away looking for Worth, Ples Tibenoch murdered ..., then Hanna, then Toni. And Conrad was shot immediately after the last panel by Abner Van Slyk, who proceeded to kill Worth and Lamont. Adelaide may have lived to suck blood another day, or got staked. This is why there are no new comics. The story is over.
205
206	[[WMG: Ms. Stone was scared off by the sheer size and ferocity of the slash fandom]]
207	that right overzealous shippers, you broke the writers brain.
208
209	[[WMG: Mid-plot, Hanna And Company moved to [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale]] ]]
210	Hanna and friends escaped by the skin of their teeth, but decided to get away from Ples Tibenoch by settling down in a pleasant desert community. Now Hanna and ... have their hands full managing the strange happenings of Night Vale, too full to update their webcomic.
211
212	[[WMG: {...}'s human picture will trigger him regaining his memories]]
213	When he first shows up, {...} speculates that his memory loss is like "riding a bicycle", and that he might remember if there's something to remind him. Later, we get [[vert-is-ninja.deviantart.com/art/Cheers-To-Something-New-147053058?offset=100# comments this pre-death picture of him]], with WordOfGod saying that it's kept in someone's wallet, so they "remember someone really important to them". At some point in the future, {...} will run into that person, see that picture, and remember everything.
214
215	[[WMG: To put the W in WMG . . .]]
216	Hanna is a near-emotionless StepfordSmiler.
217
218	Most people, on being teased by a friend, would laugh, tease back, and/or act annoyed (sincerely or not). They wouldn't say, "You teased me? Cool! That's a whole new level in our friendship!" And on seeing a friend or potential friend smile for the first time, they would likely smile too, and be happy because their friend was; but it wouldn't be conscious at the level of words, and they wouldn't make a big note of it. Certainly a heart wouldn't appear in their speech balloon.
219
220	So, why does Hanna appear to be watching his friendship with Zombie and Conrad so carefully? A guess: for some reason or other, he's never felt friendship before; and he isn't feeling it (at least not much) now. But he's ''trying'' to; he's been trying for years. He values compassion more than anything - he sincerely does want to help everyone in his path, and is a ''great'' friend in everything except the emotional plane - but he longs to ''feel'' friendship, and feels (wait . . .) guilt that he doesn't. His extreme niceness and jokiness may be an attempt to make up for that, or remedy it. And that's why he takes such note of those actions of Zombie and Conrad's - they're doing what Hanna wishes he could do.
221
222	This explains his combination of sappiness and NoSocialSkills - and also why he's so nice to Doc Worthless, who's one of the few people he sees on a regular basis and with whom therefore he longs to be friends.
223
224	Maybe it's Zombie who's humanizing Hanna, not the other way around.
225
226	[[WMG: Hanna accidentally killed his parents…]]
227	By exorcizing a demon from them!
228
229	Now, this is very much PoisonOakEpilepticTrees and makes practically no sense, but here’s what I think happened…
230
231	So basically, let’s say Hanna’s parents got possessed. And let’s also say that in this universe, exorcising a demon kills the host (similar to in Series/LockeAndKey). And Hanna, not knowing this (or, if the universe decided to be particularly cruel, knowing this full well but not having any other option), tried to exorcise said demons. And that’s pretty much it—
232
233	I don’t know why I thought of this, and I know it doesn’t make much sense at all.
234
235	But it ''would'' explain why Hanna was so worried about {…} getting possessed, I suppose.
236
237	[[WMG: To the tune of “Video Killed The Radio Star”…]]
238	Writer’s block killed the webcomic star~!
239
240	In other words, I believe the reason Tess left the comic could have been due to simply not knowing what happened next. They left us hanging, but maybe that’s because they themself didn’t know either.
241
242	I thought of this possibility when trying to start writing a potential series of events that could have happened next (cough shameless self-promotion cough), and I honestly… didn’t know what should happen. I didn’t know how long the conflict with [[spoiler: Tibenoch]] should drag on for, I didn’t know exactly what should happen… maybe that’s just me still being pretty new to the comic and it being a bit early to write Fanfiction for it, but… maybe that’s how Tess felt, too.
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