Post by Squornshellous Beta on Dec 18, 2011 16:54:07 GMT -5
So um. I have something of a theory on Breach, which Aenrhien says I should post here, so I guess I shall!
In its most basic form, the theory is thus: Breach has significantly sub-standard eyesight, to the extent that her eyes are mostly useless. I don't know exactly how well she still can see, whether she sees at least some color and shape (legally blind) or is completely blind, but yeah. Poor eyesight.
Okay, it sounds kind of silly on its surface, since she is clearly aware of what's going on around her, but I have an explanation for that.
What I think is that, when she went EVO, her eyesight suffered. This is not an unprecedented event: No-Face, for instance, or the turkey EVO seen in Lockdown. No-Face also demonstrates that EVOs can have new senses to replace those they lose, while the turkey demonstrates that they can have their existing ones enhanced. Therefore, Breach would be using her existing affinity with physical space to sense what goes on around her, simply enough.
There are a couple of pieces of evidence for this. The most striking is that Breach rarely, if ever, seems to look directly at anything; even when grinning mockingly at Bobo and Noah in Payback, her eyes were unfocused and she was staring between them. In addition, she obscures her face with her hair, to the point her eyes are virtually invisible behind it. This would, naturally, be highly impractical for anyone who relied on their eyes. Finally, though this one is decidedly more flimsy, her eyes are drawn in a highly unusual manner - reminiscent of Toph from Avatar: the Last Airbender, another blind character - in that the pupils are significantly lighter than the irises. This one has less useful basis as evidence, since many EVOs have unusual eyes, but the more humanlike ones usually have highly humanlike eyes.
I may be looking too deeply into this, but I can't help feeling it explains, at least in part, several of her major weirdnesses.
Firstly, Greenville. She certainly displays severe obsessive-compulsive traits with regards to it, but it could well go deeper than that. If, as seems likely, she remembers and misses her sight, the little town within her own dimension could well be the closest she can come to experiencing it again - she certainly seemed to have a full knowledge of every square inch of it. Therefore, when it takes on damage, she becomes fearful of losing it again - causing her eventual psychotic breakdown, which we saw.
I could probably go on for a while longer, but the last one that springs easily to mind is her "it's not real" lines. Denial is a common way of dealing with a traumatic experience, and so if she turned blind upon turning EVO, she could easily go into denial about the entire process - refusing to accept the reality of the situation, and thus denying the entirety of her reality.
And yeah. I probably have some gaping errors in there, so... feel free to rip it apart, I guess!
In its most basic form, the theory is thus: Breach has significantly sub-standard eyesight, to the extent that her eyes are mostly useless. I don't know exactly how well she still can see, whether she sees at least some color and shape (legally blind) or is completely blind, but yeah. Poor eyesight.
Okay, it sounds kind of silly on its surface, since she is clearly aware of what's going on around her, but I have an explanation for that.
What I think is that, when she went EVO, her eyesight suffered. This is not an unprecedented event: No-Face, for instance, or the turkey EVO seen in Lockdown. No-Face also demonstrates that EVOs can have new senses to replace those they lose, while the turkey demonstrates that they can have their existing ones enhanced. Therefore, Breach would be using her existing affinity with physical space to sense what goes on around her, simply enough.
There are a couple of pieces of evidence for this. The most striking is that Breach rarely, if ever, seems to look directly at anything; even when grinning mockingly at Bobo and Noah in Payback, her eyes were unfocused and she was staring between them. In addition, she obscures her face with her hair, to the point her eyes are virtually invisible behind it. This would, naturally, be highly impractical for anyone who relied on their eyes. Finally, though this one is decidedly more flimsy, her eyes are drawn in a highly unusual manner - reminiscent of Toph from Avatar: the Last Airbender, another blind character - in that the pupils are significantly lighter than the irises. This one has less useful basis as evidence, since many EVOs have unusual eyes, but the more humanlike ones usually have highly humanlike eyes.
I may be looking too deeply into this, but I can't help feeling it explains, at least in part, several of her major weirdnesses.
Firstly, Greenville. She certainly displays severe obsessive-compulsive traits with regards to it, but it could well go deeper than that. If, as seems likely, she remembers and misses her sight, the little town within her own dimension could well be the closest she can come to experiencing it again - she certainly seemed to have a full knowledge of every square inch of it. Therefore, when it takes on damage, she becomes fearful of losing it again - causing her eventual psychotic breakdown, which we saw.
I could probably go on for a while longer, but the last one that springs easily to mind is her "it's not real" lines. Denial is a common way of dealing with a traumatic experience, and so if she turned blind upon turning EVO, she could easily go into denial about the entire process - refusing to accept the reality of the situation, and thus denying the entirety of her reality.
And yeah. I probably have some gaping errors in there, so... feel free to rip it apart, I guess!
aen, i'm Kaleidocat on ao3! im in a personal branding crisis rn haha
And I did eventually finish my thesis, if anyone was wondering