Acai: . . . All right. If nothing else, I have got to see how this plays out.
My Agent has a time and place she’s already in when the loop starts. Being there comes natural. You, though . . . You’re a sticky prospect. Pity I can’t just flag history down like a bus, and pop you back on.
Woman in Black: Okay, but there is something you can do, right??
Acai: Well, I’d better figure it out, hadn’t I!
Let my new protegee’s first self-directed mission wipe out the one person he trusted enough to send?
Gosh, only if I wanted a new Time Villain on our hands.
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No more left eyebrow for you, Mister!
Is Acai also (part-)Iulic? Only she kinda seems to have that Borscht Belt syntax Thorn and Tansy have a little.
Ehh, she just sounds sardonic to me, not so much that Jewish Matron vibe future!Thorn was rockin’ earlier.
Don’t worry, she says. My daughter can only set off a little shattering of all time and space! For this, I should worry??
I thought she looked more Islander.
I think Acai has reincarnated enough times she’d have been Iulic at least once! (And yes, that is a wierd sentence to think.)
If I’m not mistaken, there’s a tendency to stick with the culture you last incarnated as, so it might not be as likely as you think. Then again, maybe the vibe is an indication she has despite it not overall being likely due to frequency.
Maybe it’s just a bit of… mirroring? Like unconsciously slipping into a Southern American accent when talking with a stranger from Tennessee.
If you look at https://leifandthorn.com/comic/see-her-again-19-26/ Acai has switched genders and ethnicities between incarnations, maybe by probability, maybe to experience new things or get different perspectives. If the later, her spending time as ALL possible backgrounds becomes very likely.
True!
She’s also been around for long enough that her speech patterns come from all over the place. Probably uses idioms that haven’t been common in centuries, and turns of phrase from dialects that don’t exist anymore.
Hearing it worded as “a new time villain” is worrying
she mentioned the older time villain several pages ago, iirc.
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