I’ve actually noticed something interesting in the cover of the previous chapter, A Sky Full of Stars. The word “Sky” is written in dark letters, while the rest of the words “A … Full of Stars” are bright. No one in the comments noticed it back then. Maybe it means that the sky is not real and they are living under an artificial dome?
That robot is DEEPLY unsettling.
I’m guessing all her trauma is catching up to her, and she becomes cold and distant (almost robotic) as a coping mechanism. Hence the chapter title.
Surprised What? I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, lead to, or symbolize. Children’s drawing? Scarlet goes nuts and decides to start acting like a robot? She dresses up a manikin? She builds one out of scrap metal? Though that’s more of a statue than a robot. The Tin Man of Oz? She doesn’t look like Scarlet, aside from the hair colour and eye colour. Robot maid? Robot sister? Robotification? It’s going to be interesting finding out, though at 8 or 9 pages a month, it might be awhile to get to some answers. But that might be the machine, or A machine, so it’s back to the main plot!
Ah, Scarlet perhaps retreating into herself and focusing only on her task and not her emotions perhaps? Getting a little bit “ends justify the means”? I did theorize we would end up with a sort of uncaring Scarlet arc after Julius’ passing.
Hmmm, I’ve been wondering for a while now if the machine may be able to nudge people in it’s range to help it as part of a self repair/survival functionality. Scarlet would just be the first impressionable child born and raised in range in centuries. When she left for the far away Samaria Julius kind of snapped her out of it but now he is gone and she lives much closer now. Maybe she gets back to the extremely driven person she was before she met Julius. Or does that seem a bit far fetched?
That or maybe she just starts an apprenticeship with a Machinist. That’d eben be sensible.
I do wonder what’s up with her finding the machine in her cellar. The most rational explanations are that she saw a refinery or that she never saw the machine, it’s just a distortion of her memory that happened due to the trauma inflicted on her. The latter requires that Novil showed us what Scarlet remembers rather than what happened as we a viewers normally follow events as an outside observer.
It kind of depends on what perspective the story is told. We don’t seem to have a narrator but almost all pages could have been retold by a protagonist, except Julius death (I think, are there other examples?) . If Scarlet finding the machine is an unreliable narrator or Scarlet remembering it wrong, what clues do we have that it’s either a narrator or Scarlets memory of the event? Right now I think we are silent observes of the event and we are shown what happens. Guess we’ll find out.
The machine girl may refer to Scarlet mentally retreating into a machine like stater or her being dedicated to a machine or both. This does help clear up a question I had since early, why would Scarlet as an adult continue believing that the machine she supposedly saw isn’t just a refinery? It made sense that she would do so as a child, but less so as an adult. She is also otherwise rather rational. However, with this additional blow to her mind, she doesn’t have anything left except her belief in the machine. She may be blocking out her rationality when it comes to the machine because it’s her sanctuary.
21 thoughts on “Machine Girl Cover”
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SadBeaver
I’ve actually noticed something interesting in the cover of the previous chapter, A Sky Full of Stars. The word “Sky” is written in dark letters, while the rest of the words “A … Full of Stars” are bright. No one in the comments noticed it back then. Maybe it means that the sky is not real and they are living under an artificial dome?
Hegel-Marx
Oh my, this looks totally wicked! I’m scared!
ME
That…was unexpected.
ToBeFree
what
ToBeFree
Oooh, did Julius draw this for her?
BlackDragonSlayer
That robot is DEEPLY unsettling.
I’m guessing all her trauma is catching up to her, and she becomes cold and distant (almost robotic) as a coping mechanism. Hence the chapter title.
Vicious Sand
Surprised What? I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, lead to, or symbolize. Children’s drawing? Scarlet goes nuts and decides to start acting like a robot? She dresses up a manikin? She builds one out of scrap metal? Though that’s more of a statue than a robot. The Tin Man of Oz? She doesn’t look like Scarlet, aside from the hair colour and eye colour. Robot maid? Robot sister? Robotification? It’s going to be interesting finding out, though at 8 or 9 pages a month, it might be awhile to get to some answers. But that might be the machine, or A machine, so it’s back to the main plot!
Rex Vivat
Pretty sure this is just the start of a new chapter and this is the cover. It even has “cover” in the name.
Vicious Sand
Yes. Clearly. And what’s the connection between the cover and the events in the chapter? Of course we don’t know yet, and have to wait and find out.
Rex Vivat
…huh. that wasn’t meant to be a reply to this comment, but the first one.
Nick/Tyrong
Flesh is weak. Metal is strong!
Novil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gIMZ0WyY88
'phoon
Oh, so she is turning into a tech priest?
BYM!
Ah, Scarlet perhaps retreating into herself and focusing only on her task and not her emotions perhaps? Getting a little bit “ends justify the means”? I did theorize we would end up with a sort of uncaring Scarlet arc after Julius’ passing.
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'phoon
Hmmm, I’ve been wondering for a while now if the machine may be able to nudge people in it’s range to help it as part of a self repair/survival functionality. Scarlet would just be the first impressionable child born and raised in range in centuries. When she left for the far away Samaria Julius kind of snapped her out of it but now he is gone and she lives much closer now. Maybe she gets back to the extremely driven person she was before she met Julius. Or does that seem a bit far fetched?
That or maybe she just starts an apprenticeship with a Machinist. That’d eben be sensible.
Crystalgate
I do wonder what’s up with her finding the machine in her cellar. The most rational explanations are that she saw a refinery or that she never saw the machine, it’s just a distortion of her memory that happened due to the trauma inflicted on her. The latter requires that Novil showed us what Scarlet remembers rather than what happened as we a viewers normally follow events as an outside observer.
'phoon
It kind of depends on what perspective the story is told. We don’t seem to have a narrator but almost all pages could have been retold by a protagonist, except Julius death (I think, are there other examples?) . If Scarlet finding the machine is an unreliable narrator or Scarlet remembering it wrong, what clues do we have that it’s either a narrator or Scarlets memory of the event? Right now I think we are silent observes of the event and we are shown what happens. Guess we’ll find out.
Crystalgate
The machine girl may refer to Scarlet mentally retreating into a machine like stater or her being dedicated to a machine or both. This does help clear up a question I had since early, why would Scarlet as an adult continue believing that the machine she supposedly saw isn’t just a refinery? It made sense that she would do so as a child, but less so as an adult. She is also otherwise rather rational. However, with this additional blow to her mind, she doesn’t have anything left except her belief in the machine. She may be blocking out her rationality when it comes to the machine because it’s her sanctuary.
Kixie
Well… since below the page it actually says: Character: Scarlet Carolus …
Characters
Ariana Carolus Athamas Baako Bolin Clara Graybold Cyril Darius Leyh Elwin Flammt Evelina Ferrus Gale Nenawa Gavin Carolus Iona Jehona Shardyk Julius Mirkning Kala Silverspring Kenan Orege King Protos Lauro Levon Goldwood Leyton Wayt Ludis Graybold Luitpold Marik Marton Princess Elodie Raymond Reto Mirkning Reva Rodar Rosetta Greenleaf Scarlet Carolus Severin Silvana Mirkning Tibor Frey Vidal Viola Vreni Xaver Yerim Zach Ilkin