Polite Dissent

4 Responses to “ Mind Games ”

1. Christian Otholm
   October 21st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
   

   I was going to ask how you managed to breath in those fluids, but they I start to ask myself: How do you manage to breath when you’re shrunk at all? Do your atoms shrink or are they just decreased? Would your body be incompatible with the air? And then my brain exploded and I stop torturing myself with these questions.

2. Jon
   October 21st, 2007 at 8:28 pm
   

   Well, if we operate on the assumption that, yes, when you’re shrunk, you can still breathe, in Violet’s (or Yera’s) case, she would be able to breathe thanks to her trans suit, a transparent, molecule-thick environment suit that was standard issue in the Legion. If it can allow Legionnaires to breathe in space, it should work in the bloodstream of the evil clone of an ancient heroine.
   Of course, the trans suit explanation doesn’t explain why she’s concerned about the cold, as the suit can provide protection in the near absolute zero of space, but let’s just say that the coldness of one of Servants of Darkness is somehow supernaturally cold (sort of like winters back home in Michigan).
   Alternatively, maybe she doesn’t have a trans suit and is able to use her Durlan shapeshifting abilities to create gills or something, but transforming herself in such a way to also deal with the cold is outside the scope of her abilities.
   And maybe I spend too much time thinking about comic books.

3. Keith
   October 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 am
   

   There’s always an awful lot of ambient light in comic-book veins…do we glow inside?

4. Arkonbey
   October 22nd, 2007 at 8:26 am
   

   What gets me is it looks as though icicles are forming on her. Icicles? Given that I can suspend my disbelief for the ’shrinking and swimming in someone’s veins’ deal, but icicles are just plain stupid for many reasons.

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