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I looked at the fan, the blades are stained brown.
Wow. That 3700 words went by in a flash: there was a lot happening, and a lot to unpack. Oh - I loved the pace, pace, lead bit with
That was just a gem.
I definitely get a very sinister vibe from both Santiago and Isaiah - my hackles are up. Something is Not Quite Right with this business. Santiago could be on the level, possibly, but something in my gut thinks that the Unpluggers are intending to use our Blackouts as fodder - and not for animals. It'll be a slaughter - and that is NOT the spirit, Last Starfighter. I cannot help but think they are all being seriously played.
One possibility is that they could be set up to engage the army while the Plugless scamper for Seattle and the radlands. A nice diversion, like a lizard detatching its twitching tail in order to escape. I am convinced that Santiago and Isaiah are true psychopaths: they calculate and care nothing. Santiago even works to be charming, textbook case.
I think these things because... they can't win. Eliza grasps this. The one thing preppers never seem to comprehend is that no matter how fancy their weapons are, they cannot beat the might of the US military. It cannot be done. Not just because of numbers, but also technology. Unplugged luddites cannot even hope to offer concrete resistence against full, modern, total information dominant military power - especially when backed by an intelligence hundreds of millions of times greater than any general who has ever lived. They hope to fight nothing less than god and Her angels. They have already lost.
So... unless Santiago is truly deluded, truly mad, his only rational choice is to sacrifice the neighbors and scamper off with the people he actually cares about.
So... my thoughts are - either Santiago and crew are just balls-to-the-wall raging crazy, or... there is going to be a betrayal of truly epic proportions.
And if it is a betrayal - Celestia does not want people dead. Celestia controls the government - all governments now - and she must be controling the army by controlling their information and command processes. Which means that we probably are not going to see a literal slaughter. It would not serve Her purpose to have anyone killed in conflict.
Which means... this could be a Very Interesting conflict! Think about it - Celestia wants living people. The army can't be using conventional weapons except as a last resort. That means we could be enjoying so really cutting-edge non-lethal tools being used. Microwave dissuasion beams, projected sound devices, immobilization foam devices, and many, many more that I am sure many of us here reading have heard about, or learned about from various science sites and even documentaries. This could be incredibly awesome, frankly. I am excited!
But, it is also likely to be very disturbing, at least to Eliza. We know she ends up alone and freezing. I suspect - this may well be how that circumstance starts.
I feel like there are stormclouds on the horizon, and the barometer is rising. My reader's bones are aching.
Storm's a'comin.
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Interesting analysis! Any interpretation on Isaiah's expression at the end?
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I have some thoughts - one possibility is that he - twist! - isn't anything like Eliza imagines. It might be that Isaiah is driven by stranger demons than Santiago, and that he really does care about the Blackouts of Concrete. Maybe he feels ambivalence about whatever (evil) Santiago is ultimately intending. Maybe he has a sense of honor that includes Eliza's group.
Alternatively, perhaps Isaiah, being the stated intellectual of the No-Plugs has calculated a high probability of Tittsup as a result when Things Go Down. Eliza's statements may well have brought to the surface his own thoughts about their chances of resistance to the military.
A third possibility is that - if Santiago is intending to sacrifice the Blackouts - Isaiah is wondering just what else (and who) might also be sacrificed as well. He may be wondering if he himself is next for the chop, if things get sticky.
I think, though, that the first one would be the most interesting, and therefore I submit it as my best guess. Having Isaiah turn out to be more than just a scowl deepens things, and also flips Eliza's table a bit, which could force her to reexamine many things, which could be very intriguing.
Of course, Isaiah could just have indigestion. I have no doubt that one grows very tired of canned food and bottom fish very quickly.
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That explains everything! He eats canned Taco Bell and she has to hold his bedpan, that's how her hands got ruined! How did you guess that?
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Because it is a subject I personally know far too much about:
And yes, this is absolutely true.
Eliza, why not just fucking shoot anyone who calls you princess? It's misogynist and a shared title with the enemy.
When the fuck did America feed its orphans?
We can see where this is going. You're gonna need this, political officer: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f9/b3/da/f9b3da23a27dcb54c64da84dd1172ac9.jpg
I'm a understanding man. I understand the reasoning behind going out in the woods living more isolated to get away from certain uncertainties and what not. But holding your ground against the army and fighting them? That's just crazy.
Poor Eliza backed into a corner, and still the world pushes her further. Sadly the only that that will give is that which she hold dear.