Commentary
I genuinely used to think "sweet summer child" was specific to Game of Thrones, and was in reference to the whole "winter is coming" thing. "Oh, they've never known the long winter. They've only known summer! I GET IT! I'm smart!"
But no, it predates all that, and I likely heard it in all sorts of things without paying it much mind before it started getting widely quoted. Whoops.
Welcome... To Jurassic Park related Lore
The interest in special effects is inspired by what I can remember of my Grandfather's thoughts on Jurassic Park, and is something I've wanted to bring up as far back as Sister 2.
I actually wanted to show his DVD collection back when Adrian was hearing a news report about a monkey-like monster attack, and I sort of did? The limited style I used revealed nothing. He was holding a rectangle, and returning it to a larger rectangle (presumably to be reabsorbed). It could've been a lot of things.
It's possible this has come up earlier in-comic and I've forgotten about it. There've been many years for that to happen. In any case, Jurassic Park was, at least at some point while Pandora was snooping around, Adrian's favorite movie.
Which, incidentally, is why I have to go back and watch the behind the scenes features at some point. It's RESEARCH.
Giving up on the magic door
- Noriko ranting at the magic door, giving up on it
To clarify, Noriko had a spell she could use. She wanted to use the door as an alternative to conserve magic energy. When the door proved flawed, she declared:
"Oh, forget it! I can do it myself! I'll just increase my calorie intake or something. I REPLACE YOU WITH CHEESECAKE!"
As far as plans go, it was a good one.
Safely moving doors
(This is another thing I wrote elsewhere and decided to include here)
Y'know, I wrote a whole thing about "telekinesis for moving the door would be unsafe", and here's Noriko totally using magic telekinesis to move the magic door around.
I'm going to say this is less a counterpoint to myself and more masterful characterization.
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