Strong Female Protagonist (No Relation to Hark! A Vagrant!)

"And once again we see that the power of love can redeem even the most evil villain." Well, Patrick, anyway.

Allison tries to get Patrick to express his feminine side. With a wrecking ball.

Channeling Miley Cyrus there.

edited 3rd Mar '18 2:23:57 PM by DeMarquis

What did you expect from the girl who solves all her problems by punching them?

Anima does know that it was Lord Boy who ordered Allison's death, right?

I'm kind of wondering what the destruction of the city means in the extended metaphor. My memory of it is that it's a "Memory Palace" built large to allow Patrick to handle thousands of peoples' memories at once.

Probably means he's going to become much more expressive and emotional, but at the cost of his memories and knowledge being permanently destroyed.

"Hi! I hope you're looking forward to becoming a brand new person because Im about to destroy your personality structure!"

Allison asks what we were about Menace being the target. Anima's answer makes sense to me, but not the way she wants it to. By having two subsidiary personalities duke it out, Patrick is basically using evolutionary algorithms, letting the better of the two win out (well, technically speaking, a proper evolutionary algorithm would have the top ones breed... but I think it's more likely he's just iteratively tweaking them) while the main process continues chugging along, gaining their improvements.

I still think that Allison is just more interested in going back to the simple solution of smashing things rather than being on the path to a proper solution.

Technically, I think shes wrong—Patrick isnt being irrational, just unrealistic.

I don't think destroying the city will destroy his memories so much as make him really jumbled in the head until he can restructure. Given that Patrick was massively projecting thoughts and was super fucked up when he arrived, it seems pretty clear his current system doesn't work, so Alison is trying to force him to face everything and restructure under new circumstances rather than building more walls and barriers and pushing everything away.

Does she know this will work as intended? Or is she literally weilding a wrecking ball in another person's mind because she has no idea what else to do? And is she required to do anything at all?

Here's her logic. She has a few good points about the nature of logic and the foundation of his brain.

Her logic is perfectly sound. I was askkng if she had knowledge that her approach is going to work.

Plus, "I will force you to heal" seems very sketchy.

I dunno about required but he is massively leaking thoughts while having knowledge of a conspiracy that seems likely to kill him for his knowledge if it gets out. Also she currently can't wake up it seems, so whether she wants to or not she has to do something, both for her sake and potentially for his if he doesn't want to get killed or break from the strain of his currently expanding powers.

Nice T-shirt choice. So, either her wrecking ball antics worked in terms of restoring his mind, or this is him saying Goodbye as the massive stroke kills off his marvelous brain.

To be fair, he DID just try to kill her so I think its not really uncalled her to break the walls

Well it could be some mindconstruct that built itself from all the stuff left outside the walls. 50-50 on either just as crazy as the ones inside or actually sensible. I would expect it be locked off from the information that Patrick gathered and catalogued, only having the emotions he cut off to grow on.

So Patrick could read his parent's minds from across the Continent, due to their strong emotional connection.

Hoo boy. Once Allison puts two and two together there...

Update. Is Patrick's mom going to murder her husband, or try to murder Patrick? And his poor dad is just so delusional, he has no idea what he's been in the middle of for most of his life.

If he helps her escape her marriage, without the need for a divorce, she will think well of him?

edited 10th Apr '18 1:12:56 PM by DeMarquis

Ah, so it is a memory. Flash back to Patrick's earlier statements that he never needed the ability to control minds when he always knew what everyone wanted to do.

She seems like a nice lady.

Wow she went for it easily.

And I expect her getting a shot to the noggin afterwards.

And now I'm hoping Patrick will think slightly better of his father, and at least try to save him. Sadly, the rule of drama says otherwise. The mom's definitely dead meat though; I can't possibly imagine any reason Patrick would let her walk away after seeing how unfeelingly mechanical she was towards such a normally difficult choice.

He already knew that about her. If he just wanted her dead, he could have shot her when he walked in the room. This has to be about protecting himself from murder charges.