Lol, even the Guardian is confused

I wonder if they will believe that.

We will overcome your Evil, WITH THE POWER OF... PREGNANCY!

dief said:
Lol, even the Guardian is confused

I am not sure if it's confused so much as more like some super powered up or renewed resolve. After all, Trace just said that the Guardian was built with the express purpose of protecting his child... and now the Guardian just found out that Trace DOES have a child, one whom Detritus is endangering.

ezequiell said:
I wonder if they will believe that.

I don’t know do they fucking eyes? It’s clear Flora is preggers.

tommy423 said:
I don’t know do they fucking eyes? It’s clear Flora is preggers.

BUT they have no way of knowing if the child is Trace's. In fact, as far as anyone knows, it physically can't be his, since humans and Keidran can't reproduce.

tendotwo said:
I am not sure if it's confused so much as more like some super powered up or renewed resolve. After all, Trace just said that the Guardian was built with the express purpose of protecting his child... and now the Guardian just found out that Trace DOES have a child, one whom Detritus is endangering.

Yeah, that is definitely the look of a construct whose true purpose has been activated and is about to lay the smack down

tendotwo said:
I am not sure if it's confused so much as more like some super powered up or renewed resolve. After all, Trace just said that the Guardian was built with the express purpose of protecting his child... and now the Guardian just found out that Trace DOES have a child, one whom Detritus is endangering.

Going off the WIP for the next page, this is correct

TBF in a world with magic they could theoretically verify his claim.

tendotwo said:
I am not sure if it's confused so much as more like some super powered up or renewed resolve. After all, Trace just said that the Guardian was built with the express purpose of protecting his child... and now the Guardian just found out that Trace DOES have a child, one whom Detritus is endangering.

That seems likely. More interesting to me is the reaction in Detritus' eyes...
Shock, sure.
But is it a realization he no longer has a purpose - has a purpose to kill that child so he can continue in his current "quest" - or an "Ohshit, Stoneboy is about to go postal on me."
...or something else entirely?

shinigamiraptor said:
Yeah, that is definitely the look of a construct whose true purpose has been activated and is about to lay the smack down

He better give Detritus a Rock Bottom.

shinigamiraptor said:
BUT they have no way of knowing if the child is Trace's. In fact, as far as anyone knows, it physically can't be his, since humans and Keidran can't reproduce.

well i'd say from a programming perspective, it's probably much simpler, the guardian recognizes Trace as the owner, and has been tasked with guarding his offspring, and once he has information that there is now a protection target, it executes it's task, it was just given more information for it to work out it's task, for all we know, Trace could declare a cat his child and the guardian would guard it.

asdfrandom said:
well i'd say from a programming perspective, it's probably much simpler, the guardian recognizes Trace as the owner, and has been tasked with guarding his offspring, and once he has information that there is now a protection target, it executes it's task, it was just given more information for it to work out it's task, for all we know, Trace could declare a cat his child and the guardian would guard it.

For Stoney, yes. The parameters are likely as simple as "Trace=Master. Duty=Protect children of Master. Target=Any and all threats to Master's children. Directive=Eliminate threats". But Detritus is a manifestation of Grand Templar Trace Legacy. Much the same as Shadow Trace is. To them, Keidran are nothing more than loose-moraled subhumans. To Detritus, like to Shadow Trace, that kid is probably some strangers, born from Flora skanking it up at some point, and she's lying to save herself.

yugijak said:
TBF in a world with magic they could theoretically verify his claim.

Theoretically, possible. However, we don't know if that actually can be done, or if Detritus is programmed with such a spell

shinigamiraptor said:
Theoretically, possible. However, we don't know if that actually can be done, or if Detritus is programmed with such a spell

Even if Detritus knows such a spell since he can and did turn against Trace he probably wouldn't even bother 'wasting magic' on a Keidran