Comic 1114 - Check in on Edison
Posted on 5th Nov 2018, 10:21 PM
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Author Notes:
While everyone else is preparing breakfast--and discussing the revelations made last night--you head to Bunker E to check up on Edison.
...When you arrive, you don't see her in her cell.
Her container is still intact, and the blood you put on it--and on the floor--look undisturbed. Peering through the glass, though, she's just... not there.
HELP
HEEEEELLLP WE NEED FUSE AND WATER AND STUFF
AND MICHELLE WITH THE GHOST GUN
PANIC
We could possibly annoy her into coming out by acting like we're indulging her, actually. "Oh no. Edison is gone. Where could she possibly be hiding. How scary oooooh." XD but that level of sarcasm *might* not be helpful to our relationship with her...
+1 even becoming a ghost ourselves if we have to!Her senses for this type of things must be better than ours... Or are they ours?...
...It's complicated XD.
The point is, let's ask her XD.
I wonder if she’s calmed down a bit though. We should talk to her as calmly as possible.
Talk to her. Reassure her. We won't give up on her.
Tell her that we did the thing the scientists did to Faraday, to ourself, and fixed it.
Which is as fine a childgame as it gets, as long as it stays there and doesn't reach Saw territory, unlike last time.
We should say calmly "Nice try Edison."
She's a kid so she probably doesn't have the skills to figure out that we don't actually know she's hiding.
I just realized that may not be a good idea. Maybe gently saying her name?
Also, don't forget to check the ceiling.
Maybe take the time to reinforce your neck/face.
After bringing in the other girls, if she still isn't visible, tell her that you're worried about her and want to know if she's ready to talk yet.
Let her know that it's okay if she isn't ready, too. We don't want to rush her. Maybe buy some children's storybooks as a last-ditch effort and read them to Tesla and Farady (and Edison) in front of Edison's room.
They can visit when she's in a state where she isn't denying Faraday's existence so hard.
Talk to your inner demon.
Then wake up.
Might be interesting to start talking to her, ask her about what her life was like before becoming a ghost. See if there's any books she might want to read or something.
Bringing in Red might be good, too, but I'd rather keep the other girls out initially. The stress level rises pretty quickly when they're together right now.
I'd feel kinda bad about potentially destroying any discrete personality quirks that they've developed by being independent entities, but if they all started out as one dead girl, they might gain something by being merged back into a single ghost (and we likely wouldn't have to deal with fearing Edison anymore). Even more interesting is if we got the original little girl back (alive), but I'd honestly prefer her as a ghost, she's just too cool the way she is.
As fun as the three of them are, I feel bad for them - they're a DEAD LITTLE GIRL... she might want to continue living her life, and I'm pretty sure that Michelle and Caius are likely sterile, being tube-grown on the cheap - one or the other of them might want a child after all this is done with (assuming any of us live through all this).
On a side note, I've also given some thought to upgrading those stasis canisters that they were "stored" in. Naptime is all well and good, but it might not be awful if we got a container that had some new functionality to it - being able to take Edison somewhere and talk to her without having to risk letting her out would be useful. If we can rehab her then it's a moot point, but we've got the canisters and a ritual, it might be useful to see what we can get out of it - even if we don't use it on her anymore, we've got a whole townful of ghosts still to deal with.
We could ask what would happen if we tried; or what would happen if we used it with people in general. Just to satisfy the curiosity.
These are now three distinct little girls. Ghosts they may be - originating from someone else they may be, but they are now each their own person. Doing anything to erase their individual qualities would be murder. Having their own thoughts, feeling and memories makes them people, whether they are ghosts, robots, human beings or other.
If we turned over Edison and company in that ritual, it would not be to combine them. That's why we need another ritual. That one is for giving up something in exchange. What we need is a ritual to help a lost little girl heal, and that's even if we're considering doing anything of the kind to three seemingly independent girls. Which I don't think is necessarily a good idea.