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No, wait, that's it! This 'Rumi Projection' theory is the key to everything! Think about it: a psychic projection of the real Rumi, far away in a whole 'nother galaxy, interacting with the lives of others and seeming real to everybody, while also being able to perform gravity-defying stunts and impossible martial artist feats. Don't you see? This means that T is one of the Xenochiclets!<P>From a faraway galaxy, he's creating a visualized version of the one he loves, only in <I>webcomic form</I>. The real Rumiko (whom none of us have seen) is with him, light-centuries away, and being the inspiration for his wild and wacky online comics!<P>This, of course, isn't just limited to Rumiko. It means that <I>everyone</I> in the Fans! universe is in this other galaxy, being drawn for us here as a way of connecting to their former lives. And that's why they can't show anyone recognizable (William Shatner, the F.B.I., etc.) without changing their names

I think Rumi is getting ready to drop a bombshell on Rikk. Example? She's engaged (or gotten married, or heavy dating) with someone.<P>Possibilities, in order of my guestimated probability:<P>a traditional japanese guy her parents picks out<P>another Todd charachter<P>that artist guy from the big convention, who's wife has dumped him<P>Big Red came back<P>another woman<P>Pinkerton

No, Nodrog. That isn't Rumy's bombshell at all. What really happened is much more amazing -- she DID leave with Big Red.<P>The Xenochicklets were saddened by the display of agression against them, and fearful that their human hosts would be harmed. In an effort to save those meat-bags they cared most about, the Chicklets gathered together and focused their visual telepathy in a group effort to create the mass-hallucination of Rumy and the other ascended ones suffering from anoxia, returning to Earth, and going back about their everyday lives. They tapped into the individual's subconciouses to do this, so in a way the Rumy-projection that we've been seeing IS part of Rumy.<P>Now that Rumy's grown, both personally and in her ability to utilize her latent psychic potential, she's able to take more concious, direct control over her projection here on earth. It is of this awakening that she speaks to Rikk in the final panel of today's page.

I dunno guys, this whole psychic projection enabling superhuman qualities and influencing others through psychosomatic reactions is way too much like the Matrix for me.<P>"The trick is to remember that there is no panel."<P>------------------
Tom the Fanboy
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Hmmm.........I don't know, I'm not sure if Rumy's gotten that far out of her shell. I don't think she's met anyone but she may actually be looking now. That could be a reason she's at the meeting so soon, so she can scope out any new members.<P>I think that she may continue to compare anyone she is interested in to Rikk but I don't think she's still stuck on him. I think that this year she'll finally find someone she can date for awhile who isn't as extreme as Todd or Big Red. I'm hoping for another art student that she met over the summer. Ooooh! Or maybe another Japanese student! That way her family can be involved in a later storyline! T said we were going to be getting some new cast members so I'm ready for anything. Even Fans^ Members!<P>I like the theory Czhorat but I'm not sure, Rumy may have been quiet before but I don't think that a psychic projection could kick Hyperman's butt or fight so effectively in the FiB HQ or even help so much during the last story. I think that she might be a Hyperman like clone with a little more effort put into it. The Xenochiclets could've sent a bunch of grays down to take the place of their brides and Hyperman was just pulled off course by the 23 sider. This would give Rumy's clone a reason to be as powerful as Hyperman and also more creative because she was an imprint of Rumy while Hyperman was a fast and dirty copy of Lance's ideal.<P>------------------
Tom the Fanboy
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Mmm... Good thoughts Tom. <P>Of course, Rumy's ability to injure Hyperman, Alisin, or Jones' monsters and thugs is not proof that she ISN'T a telepathic hallucination induced by the xenochicklets. If their telepathic images are powerful enough, they can fool people into thinking that they've been injured. Alisin's injuries, for example, could be completely psychosomatic. This would also explain why Rumy could defy the law of gravity in her fight with Hyperman -- it's because the chicklets visualized it that way. Big Red, in his own way, loves Rumy so he wants her to be the heroine.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tom the Fanboy:
<B>I dunno guys, this whole psychic projection enabling superhuman qualities and influencing others through psychosomatic reactions is way too much like the Matrix for me.<P>"The trick is to remember that there is no panel."
</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Funny - I thought it was that whole thing with the cave Plato used to go on about. <P>

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