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[Spoilers!] First chapter of PT
g33k:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on April 07, 2020, 06:00:43 AM --- 1. Just another example of Jim adding in information when it suits, retconning previously established canon.
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Except there is no prior canon on fetal WCV's.
Biologically, there's critical developmental stuff happening; it makes some sense that the same might be true of the Whamp-Demon.
Of course, there's ALSO a bunch of critical biological development that happens between birth and puberty...
In theory, one could argue (or rather: one could have argued) that the Hunger/Demon isn't "born" until first feeding. But (per @didymos' link, above), this info isn't actually new in 2020; we've just never seen it before (like the whole Oblivion War being off-screen, until revealed in Backup; one could equally argue that Jim "just made it up" then, too...), unless we caught that WoJ online (I find that the info IS reflected in the text-based WoJ compilation... is that a recent add, or has it been there for a while?)
So WCV's Demon is more like a caterpillar/chrysalis/butterfly thing: caterpillar while babe is in the womb, leeching off the mother. Shortly after birth, it does a chrysalis-like thing. Then the hormones rage in the teen years, and the Demon hatches from the chrysalis-or-whatever, and it's a bee-yoo-ti-ful butterfly... which rapes someone to death.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on April 07, 2020, 10:45:19 AM ---Thomas the hairdresser only needed intimacy.
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Or rather he nibbled to keep from starving if I remember correctly.. He tried not to feed at all
but it didn't work out.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 07, 2020, 11:34:18 AM ---Or rather he nibbled to keep from starving if I remember correctly.. He tried not to feed at all but it didn't work out.
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IIRC, (it's at least implied that) Toe-moss could have fed more deeply, even as a hair-dresser. Could have rendered his clientele into helpless pleasure-thralls, addicted to his touch.
He chose instead to send them on their way with a pleasant feeling of sensuality and eros, to go delight (and delight in) their chosen lovers.
But you're right -- he was nibbling to stave off starvation, never "eating a full meal."
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on April 07, 2020, 11:46:53 AM ---IIRC, (it's at least implied that) Toe-moss could have fed more deeply, even as a hair-dresser. Could have rendered his clientele into helpless pleasure-thralls, addicted to his touch.
He chose instead to send them on their way with a pleasant feeling of sensuality and eros, to go delight (and delight in) their chosen lovers.
But you're right -- he was nibbling to stave off starvation, never "eating a full meal."
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Going back to what Thomas said at the end of Turn Coat, eating the way he'd really like to
would be stupid. Thus even then I think he walked a fine line between nibbling/giving pleasure to the hair dressing experience and setting off red flags that would draw attention to him.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 07, 2020, 11:34:18 AM --- Or rather he nibbled to keep from starving if I remember correctly.. He tried not to feed at all
but it didn't work out.
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If the foetus keeps doing that for nine moths it will add up to something quite big.
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