[253] Story Discussion - That Sounds Familiar...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_%28bird%29 problem solved.

Moving on...

This is rather bizarre, awkward, and sad all at once. What I'm wondering is this; If this is something brought about by his parents, when did it happen? Had his parents already had their son before they went through this change? If so, wouldn't that mean this allegedly (based on what I've seen thus far) unnatural change is being forced on their son as well, regardless of how he feels about it?

There's a depressing thought....

Also, when I first read today's page, my first instinct was that they're the regional fairies we saw here. www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=139

The scenarios both fit, but the hairdos don't match up. Of course, they admitted that the rest of their class had already moved on to the school so perhaps these two are a previous generation of former fairies? Or not. Speculation is always fun.

But if it was before, how weird it'd be to not be the same species as your parents ...
And I totally didn't make the connection between the suicide fairies, but I like the sound of it.

This is awesome. For one thing, it means that fairies visit GC with the consent of the staff. It's not like they have to go completely undercover or something. It also means that vuirtually every student and teacher could be a fairie.

So we have three answers and 482 new questions. I believe that's slightly above the normal average

I wonder what their original bodies were?Human due to their son, perhaps?Or are they normal now?
Why would they want a new body anyway?To go to GC?Aly doesn't seem happy about whats happening.
I don't think there is a normal average, fjodor.

What I don't get though, is why the second transformation? The suicide faeries would get new bodies when they passed the test, so what Aly is saying seems to describe them, but I mean, Aly's parents must (? could be something really freaky, I suppose) have been human at some point, so why did they transform on to birds? Did they pas another test? And did Aly pass the same test? He seems, bassed on his pop-culture references, to have been human up to this point of his life, or at least for a long time.

Sorry for babbling, but a theory strikes me: what if Aly's parents weren't suicide faeries but rather that they were already birds to start with, but like the suicide faries had to pass some test to receive new, human bodies? Perhaps the new bodies were only relatively temporary; they had time to get Aly, but now they've turned back and for some reason Aly is turning as well. Sorry if all this is inconsistent or confusing, I basically thought it out as i wrote it, and I'm to tired to really read through it now.

Stop thinking so loudly. I can't hear myself – well, you know.

Mmmmmaybbbeee...but don't you think Aly would have said something about that? Perhaps not. Perhaps next update? The way he phrases it leaves it open for a "but.."

Yeah, it definitely seems as if Aly's been human for quite a long time.

So then would all the "supernatural" creatures (I'm assuming Aly & Co are supernatural...they've got HAIR....) want to pass the test and join Gunner's Crag? Why are they so eager? The suicide fairies, even though they "might have to go on a diet", still seem really eager to get there.

And it wouldn't be all...Reynardine doesn't care, Basil's, well, Basil...

That is, if Aly ages like a normal person. So far it's not looking like he has a normal human origin, so it stands to reason that he might not age like one.

Incidentally, Winsbury had better hope that Alistair is too much of a gentleman to take advantage of his new form to carry out some additional payback (and of a far less civilized variety than the great slam dunk).