Paranatural

Update

I literally whispered "oh no" to myself when I realized why the panels were split apart in such a weird way.

So.

I guess we know Cody can't rules lawyer orders now.

As sad as this is, seems Zarei made a lot of spirits. Well, 4, at least. I wonder if pink "skin" and yellow eyes is a style choice or just how man-made spirits look.

Kind of makes me wonder though, do we know if this will kill Hiacjk? Human brains can endure a cut down the corpus callosum. In fact, that used to be how they treated severe epilepsy although that's no longer done today, in part because it can create literal split personalities where a person's hands act without them giving orders.

At the very least, he should be able to tool up.

Also, would Hijack be able to survive by inhabiting a tool, like natural spirits? Or is that out of the question as a manmade spitit?

What if he jumps into the sword? ...or Cody?

Well, he's in two pieces now. Obviously he's going to do both.

I feel like Zack wouldn't introduce a unique ability/limitation for a character (Cody's being unable to see Spirits but apparently being highly sensitive to their movements) only to scrap it and make him a normal Spectral like everyone else two pages later.

Are you people really thinking the unique nature of Hijack would be the biggest obstacle to possessing Cody?

It seems like the arc would be a bit of a "Shaggy Dog" Story if Hijack dies, so I'm guessing that won't happen.

Honestly, I figure that as a half-vampire, Cody might not be able to become a spectral. Sort of a One Person, One Power thing. Hijack should still be able to possess any random object, though. The sword is most likely a Tool, so that's out, but there are a million things nearby he could grab. And Cody wasn't ordered to do anything to Hijack after he cut him in half.

Considering that one of the man-made spirits already irrevocably died, I think this is the end of Hijack. He will be missed. Speaking of, who's willing to be that Hotwire has the one who died? Considering that Zarei both was able to and lost control of Ghost Train, and you hotwire vehicles...

Hotwire is confirmed the one who died. Possessing the sword or Cody would be an awful idea even if possible because it would just bring him back to Davy. Also I think the unique limitation somebody here mentioned was Cody's partial spirit sensing; which would turn into the full sense gamut if he became a spectral. Okay thanks for randomly collapsing the keyboard and posting this early, phone.

Edited by RaichuKFM on Jul 13th 2018 at 8:42:28 AM

Where was it mentioned that a spirit died?

Right here.

But is it dead like Eightfold, or is it just stuck into a tool slowly regenerating?

IIRC, Eightfold isn't dead. She's still in her book somewhere underground.

Effectively, she ded.

I thought her book had been destroyed when it fused with stone, and then she died because she couldn't possess dirt.

I read that whole situation as the book is intact but lost underground somewhere, so effectively impossible to recover.

That's the impression I got too. Eightfold said her book would be "in an inconvenient location." When they still had the Ghost Train, tunneling down to get it would have been theoretically possible, but extremely unlikely because there would be no way to find it. Now they don't even have anything that can tunnel.

Unless Eightfold gets lucky and some spirits wander by her book and she eats them, she's gonna be stuck down there forever.

Hotwire was mentioned here as someone Zarei could ask for help, so he's fine, which means he wasn't the spirit controlling the train.

Oh, yeah, you're right, guess I forgot!

Eightfold's tool was apparently a really important book. I'd imagine we haven't seen the last of it quite yet. Perhaps they'll retrieve it a few chapters from now, which would only be a couple of days in-universe, which would give Eightfold plenty of time to not starve.

...which might take a decade to get to in real time, but I digress.

Casual reminder that this is still the fifth day since the story started, and also that it's been almost four years since the current chapter began.