'Not A Villain' Webcomic - we meet Kleya's real body in Reality.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 202

Part 1 of her set up is revealed.

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So does that mean she’s hacking all the time because she’s pretending to use a headset/keyboard combo?

How is she floating?!

OMG TENKA, WHAT???!

Also, she has brown hair!

^ My thoughts/reaction.

Also, going with “On a ship” OOOH A SPACESHIP?!?!?!

probably more like a bunker im guessing 😉

Ah, but if you’re on the run and the ground and air is poison, wouldn’t it make more sense to keep moving and be somewhere very unexpected (boat/ship/outer space)

If she was in space, floating due to a lack of gravity, wouldn’t her braids be all floaty too?

Depends how much hairspray she used.

She used to work for TenKa, right? It would make sense that one of their best programmers has fancy spine-bling like she does.

And her brown hair– remember her mother had brown hair. Aneeka shows her, flashback-style, in the issue where she’s about to hack Jane but doesn’t.

What caught my eye is 1) all the consoles in the background– this place was meant to be operated by a whole crew of people. I wonder if he uses her ub341337 programming skills to automate some of the systems, or if she’s somewhere where all the fully operational status of her habitation isn’t necessary. 2) The ladder and …pressure hatch?… in the background. The ladder leads me to believe she’s on the lower deck of something (the place has to be much bigger than is shown), but is that a door to the outside? It looks pretty secure..

So much to speculate!

OH! I’m adding on with another observation– what appears to be a partially opened panel or porthole next to the console to the right.

That, and the shape of the room, leads me to believe that maybe she’s in some kind of submersible vehicle under the ocean. Not far from being able to “Buy Food” (as she noted to herself in the beginning), perfect for staying hidden on the run, and it makes sense for the minimalist, close-quarters, all-steel-construction look surrounding her. Oh! And the crew! That would explain why it was built for a crew.

Another thing! (Okay sorry for hijacking this with my crazy rambling)

What if they aren’t consoles, but window-coverings?

That’s an alternative to the crew theory (especially seeing, now, that there’s only once chair), but it raises questions about what the panels on the counter-shelf-looking-things are.

But she no longer works for Tenka and generally is in a Me vs. Them mindset about them. Why does she still use it? Does she really have a kido? Is this good enough/better?

With a neural connection can she be damaged/trapped in the computer? (Mina’s fear when Superbug attacked!)

I like your thoughts about the consoles. It will be interesting to see what happens!

(Blonde hair is a recessive gene and so brunettes etc. can still have blonde children)

(Hijack away!)

Well the ceiling hatch wouldn’t be an outside exit on either a bunker or a submersible. They both would want an air lock system with a very heavy door like the one all the way in the back. So the roof hatch probably leads to new levels. Alot of people mention being buried. So assuming these are bomb shelters scattered around in various cities, then the cities fell on them but they still have links to the internet. Since the console areas do not line up with the ‘screens’ and there is no door to where she is I am going to agree with you that this is supposed to be some form of observation room not a command area. Now I just wish I could analyze away how she seems to be sitting in mid air. . .

Woah. Looks fantastic, even if I’m a bit confused about what’s going on here. On another note, I just finished the wanted child and I’m annoyed because I didn’t know it was a series and now I want the sequel to be out now :P. Really novel setting, and I liked the different styles of magic kicking around.

Sandra is right. Kleya definitely a keyboard problem. It’s gotta be hard to use a keyboard interface while FLOATING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. XD

AHA! She is dark-haired!

…

That is perhaps not that much of a revelation.

Anyway, I’d like to find out about how the heck she is floating in mid-air before I start my overly detailed speculative assesment of her setup.

Good job hiding the eye’s, adds more drama (and prolongs the entire revelation thing).
The shading an the cloathes is very nice, I bet that alone takes more time than a ‘regular’ L.i.F.e. page.

PS: first silly(?) thought about the room: She is on the bridge of the Enterprise!

I can’t tell what I’m more impressed with, the fact that she’s floating, the art, the computer interface linked directly into her neural system maybe(?), or the fact that she is floating.

I don’t know what I was expecting for the reality pages, but I had NO idea you were this good! so worth the wait! It is absolutely gorgeous!

Also she’s floating. I really can’t get over that. I want to know how she is apparently hovering in mid air…

Magnets?

And that raises some interesting questions. In order to float with magnets, there needs to be enough metal to support her weight. Could the neural interface be covering her entire spine and hip bones?

Would a magnet strong enough to support her weight thrash her (presumably) delicate neural connection?

Not necessarily, so long as a) it held her comparatively still relative to the magnetic field, and b) she activated the connection /after/ activating and stabilising the field. EM induction only occurs in a moving or changing magnetic field.
Alternatively, the connection could be shielded – any diamagnetic material (the most diamagnetic material known that has that property stably is bismuth) will, in a magnetic field, produce an opposing field, thus repelling it from the magnet and effectively cancelling part of the applied magnetic field. A perfect diamagnet would completely block the magnetism, but that basically only happens in superconductors – and all the superconductors we know of need to be supercooled to be superconductive.
However, Faraday cages can be useful: in a rapidly changing magnetic field, they generate an opposing field within the cage, thus effectively attenuating the external field. Unfortunately, the efficiency with which they do so depends on their conductivity, so we’re back to superconductors.
Still, they have several things we don’t in the NAV-verse. High-temperature superconductors are not entirely unreasonable.

Well if you look at panel 2 it dose show more, of what im assuming is the kido, light up under her shirt

Has the same logo on it that TenKa put on their NPCs’ hand. Definitely their hardware.

Huh, for some reason I was under the assumption that a kido was something one lied in.

Frickin’ miracles!

ZOMG BEAUTIFUL. Was not expecting this gorgeous change in style 😀

also, floating. mind = blown. wut?

Creepy…

…Also, is she levitating?

Woah. Never pegged her for a brunette. stupid of me though, as the number 1 most wanted person ever she couldn’t have her avatar look like her real self.

I thought she would be. remember, her Life persona is supposed to be her remaking herself. so naturally it will be physically the opposite in every way to her real self a girl avatar could be.

Wait. just realized. I’m pretty sure she’s in a space station.

Wow. Just- wow. No wonder it took so long to draw. That is impressive.

Also, is she sitting in the air?

Well, let’s see:
Darkly mysterious: Check.
Questions answered: Check.
More questions raised than answered: Check.
Success: 100%!

(Is she floating?)

*whistles*

Woooooww. Nice work.

The shading is gorgeous. The way you show off every wrinkle in her clothing is a level of detail that I… (goes back and does a quick check through my webcomic/manga list) think definitely think could stand proudly against any other webcomic I have read. Offhand, the only one that seems to get that level of detail that you managed for Kleya’s clothing would be Post-Nuke Comic. Even that one isn’t in color.

There might be comics I like the aesthetic of more so then this what you are showing on this page but as a “reality” page?

You nailed it.

Simply wow.

When I first encountered this webcomic, it was the story that made me pause and think it might be worth following. Curiosity has been what kept me. I didn’t think your art was very special by any means, and I was beginning to think you’d leave some significant questions hanging about the milieu. You have stunned me on both counts. The background environment isn’t the best I’ve ever seen, but the style has a very strong charm of its own, and the detail on the character is very, very good. Appropriately, the style here gives me a Beneath a Steel Sky vibe.

this…
this is so awesome

She’s neural connected?

Um… is she levitating? She looks like she is. Ok, now we know for sure that Kleya has super powers.

Is..is that what she looks like in real life?
Huh. I know that blonde was just a starter hair color in LiFe, but I guess I just assumed she was blonde in the real world as well.

I like it, it’s very mysterious. Kinda dark.

Good setup.

Been reading a couple weeks now and I must say, I am enjoying the story. Your artwork is getting much better and it really shows in the Real World (I’m assuming here). It is hard to wait for each update as this is among my favorites but every update is like a gift :). Keep up the good work.

Woahhh! This looks incredible! I’m liking the art style for reality so far!

Took me a second look to realise what the top two panels were.

Also, large panel, she looks like she’s levitating or floating or something.

That said, I am intrigued and looking forward to what happens in this sequence. Even more-so than before.

She’s floating, is a direct spinal conection like in matrix, d must be he sub consios. She is a cyborg. 🙂

big assumtion there. D could be a program she wrote and just interacts with via her cybernetics.

First, nice art style. 🙂

Ok, something a bit more extreme than a Kido unit, I think. And the glowing TENka logo in the second panel is pretty creepy.

Now I, like everyone else, am waiting to see how you explain the floating. She can’t be in a microgravity environment, because she wouldn’t be in a seated position, her body would be more stretched out and relaxed. Plus the chair is on the floor.

But how does this square up with the image we saw on the first page? She’s evidently got a keyboard somewhere (and paper notes). Perhaps she only uses that when she has to create and upload an avatar image?

The rest of the setting looks like an underground bunker or command center, which I suppose explains why it’s still intact.

She was in a seated position when she logged out, perhaps that’s why she’s seated here. Space station seems to be the most likely scenario (if so, Mae’s theory of “Hard to get to” is a bit of an understatement). I guess now she has to set her implant thingy to register as a kido now.

Wow…Can’t wait to see more, and to find out why she’s floating, and how much cyberisation she has… Did you by any chance get any influence from Ghost in the Shell? The art was worth the wait anyway, really in depth and stands out well from LiFE.

No, I don’t think GitS influenced me since I’ve never read it or seen it. But I have heard of it! So maybe? In a really tiny way?

My first reaction: ‘Yay, Kleya isn’t blond, she’s a brunet like me!

My second reaction: ‘Holy crap, is that a Tenka symbol?’

My third reaction: ‘Why is she levitating? :0’

would you look at that she IS a cyborg

and a psycic one on that

Aneeka – curse you for making me wait for Tuesday.

I like your work so plz forgive the criticism. It kinda looks like she is floating in the seated position. A thought I had (just a suggestion) since people spend so much time in L.i.f.e. maybe they’re laying down usually, or she could be sitting on the floor leaning against a wall. Again I apologize if this offends, that is not my intention. I like your work and just wanted to mention what I saw since sometimes it takes another set of eyes to see what we don’t when making something.

It’s true – sometimes what we hope to create isn’t what comes out. But in this case, you’re seeing what I want you to see. She is floating in the seated position.

When in doubt, check others’ comments?

Reality looks much different than I imagined… Her connector to Life is like, connected to her neural system?? It’s freaky! :p And, she’s floating in mid air? I am just so… impressed… and so… curious of what is coming next!

WOW!!!! Awesome. I love the bionic interface. Great Job!

My….. my g–. Its amazing. So…. detailed…..it….. thank you. I…. this is like…. art.

Is she… floating? Is she in space?

You guys are all amazing!! Thank you so much for letting me know of your reactions! Best thing to wake up to and I got to start the day with a huge grin. Thanks!! 😀

Thank YOU! I’ve been looking forward to this all week.

haha, I like your enthusiasm. your obviously talented since, your both write and draw and can convey pretty well what you see in your mind. its a pleasure to continue to read your comic and see how both it and you continue to evolve ^^

I have to say, this response surprised me too. This comment will be the 83rd and it hasn’t even been a full day yet. Clearly, this is the page with the most posts. I think we can call that a win for favorable reactions. 🙂

Haha. Most readers are lurkers – probably 80%+ never bother to comment. So I think it’s amazing that so many have let me know of their reaction/thoughts.

Thanks everyone!!

Neural connection? Space station? I don’t think so.

Clearly she is floating but the first couple panels don’t look like a space station at all. It almost looks like some sort of digging machine. Maybe she is at the center of the Earth? Obviously it should be molten, high pressure and impossible but then again that could all be a part of the apocalypse.

Neural interface? Is that because she isn’t obviously touching a keyboard? I don’t see any wires or anything, am I missing something?

Look at the position of her right hand and fingers. She seems to be about to press a button. I’d guess that this is a very small room. Thus, our perspective is actually from slightly inside the wall. We are seeing her through the console on which she is about to press a button.

Alternative…. this isn’t reality. Life is two simulations deep for her. This is a simulated control room through which she accesses Life. Maybe the first couple frames are the real reality, it’s her Kido. That makes sense actually, maybe the simulated control room represents a buffer she made to help prevent them from finding her?

Compare her position in the last panel to her position as she logged out when in LiFe. With the neural interface, I think it tracks her movements in reality and directly translates them into LiFe.

Still wondering how she is floating in the air though.

I’ve heard of people hacking facebook (Clientside, that is. Not the servers themselves.) to make it look like they’ve been posting from a mobile or whatever else. It has to do with changing the bit of information that your device uses to tell the other computer what it is.

Kleya could have hacked her own device to make it tell the L.i.F.e. servers it was a keyboard. After all- all they have to go on is what the computer told them.

I was wondering about that, too. Sure, Sandra said she moved amazingly fast for someone using a keyboard. A little suspicious. BUT, what got me was the subconscious things- facial expressions.. body posture… her “tells” that the Bandit was able to identify her by… How would that show through with a keyboard?

If she has to actually move her body then it kind of defeats the purpose of a neural interface doesn’t it? If she has to move then it could be a neural interface listening to the same neurons as do her muscles but more likely it’s just a series of cameras, like a Kinect.

Wasn’t sure what to expect, but wow…

Everyone, go look at the first page of the comic. It clearly shows Kleya using some kind of keyboard to log in to L.I.F.E. Since then, it’s been explicitly observed several times in the comic that she’s been using a keyboard. This woman is clearly not using a keyboard.

On the other hand, we’ve seen nothing that suggests in any way that this woman is Kleya. I really think this isn’t Kleya, guys, but I couldn’t guess who it really is.

Also, Kleya can’t possibly be brunette, because I’ve always imagined her as blonde. If it is Kleya, then she’d have to dye her hair ashe blonde immediately or she’ll lose 38 cute points.

Maybe the keyboard is what activates the hover position? Maybe she cyber walks (like sleep walking but while in LiFe)? I noticed the miss-match too. I wish the next page came out sooner. So many questions!

I love the art style though. She reminds me of Alma from F.E.A.R. and I could see how they say she fought off an army with her mind. Awesome!

She might “log in” at a computer to give the illusion of a headset/keyboard interface. There’s a chair over there, and I’m guessing a keyboard and monitors (several of each surrounding her.)

I LOVE that last panel. I love the proportions and the shading on the clothes and the lighting, and you have just the right amount of detail in the background. The top two panels are also good, but they include a lot of things that are hard to draw, such as hair and skin and glowy objects. I’m going to give you a few recommendations, but they are purely extrapolated from my own experience, and you might already know them:

1. It would add to the impression of glowing if you brightened up the hair around the glowy bits. Right now it’s kind of odd that the hair is unaffected by the light.
2. The shadows on the skin should probably be darker in places. The low contrast works really well in the third panel, but in this situation I think more contrast would help around the mystery TENka device and a little bit under the hair. Also keep in mind that darkest areas are often slightly lower in saturation.
3. In my experience, hair likes to clump together, so the strands escaping from the braid here look odd. For example, in real life there would probably be several hairs escaping from the same section and then flaring out, or there would be strands that come out of different sections but then converge into a point. And for extra realism, make sure to include varying tints and shades on the strands! (Your shading on the actual hair is pretty awesome, so I think you can make it work!)

Sorry for the wall of text! Your art is really beautiful, but I know you’re always looking to improve.

For your #3, my friend has long hair, and she keeps it braided, and the hairs that aren’t as long as the rest, keep escaping the braid just like shown on Kleya there.

Ditto. As a fellow long-hair, I can verify this as a factual (and annoying) fact.

I am seeking to improve, so thanks! I don’t really have the time to go back and fix this one, but I shall try to apply your tips on the next pages. Thanks!

You would have known #3 already if your hair wasn’t so short. :/

See? Long hair isn’t just good because 4/5ths* of all guys prefer it over short. It also helps with your art. So I expect you to start growing it out soon.

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*All figures supplies are personal guesses rather then an official scientific estimates.

Cybernetic implants?
Floating?
In a creepy dark high tech room?
PIG TAILS?
Questions, questions. . .

In one page, you have managed to answer two to three questions (1. What’s her hair color? 2. She’s using a keyboard setup?)and simultaneously managed to make us raise more questions then ever before.
Tom would be proud!
I know I am! 😀

THIS IS AWESOME!!!
Sorry, I got too excited there…

I love every bit of this page : Kleya’s hair, the background art, cloth wrinkles, spooky vibes, glowing TENka symbol, and (!!Oh My G–!!) the interface. I hope it’s not a removable gadget but actually a part of her body.

wow…im blown away by all the information we got with just this one scene lol i got chills when i saw the Tenka symbol like Skynet is for the Terminator franchise

Hmm… She’s in the exact same position that she was in in L.I.F.E. when she logged out.

I don’t know what this means, but I’m sure it isn’t a coincidence.

Hm. Knowing this Kleya could have told her sponsor that there was simply no safe way to get her to a city, but I suppose there was a risk of it being taken as a challenge.

Maybe only a hacker or ‘the’ hacker would be where she is and she expects them to know that.

I remember when I first stumbled onto the website. It was because of a random link from the time-sucking TT. The story, was interesting. Enough to keep me interested. The characters, deeper than I originally thought. (Still love the part after she yells at the crowd). The art was a bit mediocre. Now…now I understand. The game is simplistic in graphics, and you showed that. This is REALITY, in all its details. I can’t help it. it’s just…wow. My thoughts on your character creations has always been high, simiarly to your story. BUT THE ART HERE! It’s a completely different style that must have taken more time and effort than three of the normal pages. (Not to mention what the art depicts), *Standard Floating/Interface/Space/(Hair, not really a surprise) Response* Your abilities are greater than I thought. Now, I wait patiently, and let the story unfold before me.

Speculation time! Manager said, Not a Kito box, everyone thinks, keyboard/headset hybrid. I say, she altered a kido box so the signals registered as a k/h set and probably screwed with the signal it sent so it was harder to find her. It’ll take two-three minutes to find a way to hook up her spinal implant back into the box.

Oh, hey! The Dude was right!

She is an unstoppable corrupted cyborg who hacked the geomagnetic field and took out an entire army with just her mind!

…
Now, it makes sense why The Dude would think those things. She’s got a cyborg implant down her spine; then, the people who didn’t like her would just exaggerate how much robot she is. She can float while hacking, so people assumed that she hacked the geomagnetic field. And so on.

It now appears to me that the TENka symbol is wings.

O_O

…why is she floating??

(Also, I love the last panel!! Very detailed!! 8D)

OK first thing firs for one i bet she is on a spaceship or a spacstaion which makes sene the flootingthing second the way sheis floting (she as her braid hooked uto acomputer she could poblystarted in chair then turned off gravity to save power Explaes Flooting) third she used to work for teaka (thear Ship/Station and forthly the pants they look like something astronunt wares wile in the Space station today if i reamber corectly and lastly i ot nothing but i wanted to add a lastly

Sry for misspelling in last post i am horable with spelling to much online gaming and stuped keybord mistypeing on me

Truly amazing. I can’t wait for more More MORE!

Wow. Just Wow. Also, am I the only thinking that this was Bloody Ja- Mary? Until I read comments and notes.

Remember Aneeka said this on Annie Intro 03:

“There is also another poll for you all! It’s over on the NAV Wiki and done by a fan. It’s asking to guess Kleya’s Reality location and I found it amusing/interesting that the real answer is actually within the given choices.”

The poll is here:
http://notavillain.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Kleya%27s_Reality_Location

So, it doesn’t seem to be space station, unless you can incorporate that into one of the choices…

I thought it said “on a ship” which could be interpreted as “spaceship” oh well. I’m still voting on a boat.

Just remembered, author’s note a couple pages ago, Annie Intro – 03, she cites a wiki poll. “I found it amusing/interesting that the real answer is actually within the given choices.”
The choices:
Inside a fortress: 17 (9.19%)
On a boat: 22 (11.89%)
Inside a cave: 16 (8.65%)
Basement of a building: 64 (34.59%)
Her pre-Ending house: 66 (35.68%)

Given the page, she’s most likely in a fortress. A space fortress. Meaning, people developed space combat. Which probably requires sophisticated tech. Which explains how she could take out an army with her mind, and why people think she hacked the geomagnetic field of the Earth, if the END happened around the same time.

Speculation, just another way to enjoy every story you read!

I liked the incentive. And I do agree with the verdict 🙂

I just thought of a comic by xkcd: http://xkcd.com/118/

If the earth no longer has much atmosphere, then “orbit”/freefall/0g could be much closer to earth then what we know today.

A challenge with being in freefall/space is if you are farther away from earth even at speed of light there is some communications lag.

If you are closer to earth then a challenge in your position keeps changing so much compared to earth that harder to have a steady connection, you keep having to change where you are linked in, the lower the orbit, the worse the motion becomes a problem including distorting the communications you send. (Signal becomes compressed as you approach a communcations tower, and stretched as you become further away.)

If no magnetic field then cosmic radiation is a big problem, cities would probably need to be deep in earth and space ship risks becoming more and more contaminated with radiation over time.

These problems are solvable… eg a nuclear reactor could power the space station and help power enough magnetic field to deflect the worst of cosmic radaition, eg: if before the disaster the military had a setup for communicating with its drones, missiles, etc at any point over the earth and at high speeds, that setup may still function well enough to tap into.

First thought: that is so not a keyboard. Awesome.
Second thought: can she see with her hair over her eyes like that. Maybe she’s actually blind?

Okay; riveting, hatch seal, and knee-knocker says ship, ocean going, not space. Probably a fair sized one, so she’s probably in deep water, about as inaccessible as you can get and still be terrestrial. There are other possibilities, but the comment that the answer was in the poll options leads me to this conclusion. If it is a ship, the ladder-like space in the hallway is a bit off, its either a full wall vent, or a ladder up, in which case its lacking dimensionality and the egress is a little small.

Floating; not sure about that one. It is possible to generate a strong enough magnetic field to float organic matter with out the presence of ferrous material (magnetic metal), but that would wreak havoc on electronics, so I have no idea what’s going on there. The idea of hacking the geomagnetic field would make Tesla proud.

Looks like a computer lab/control room to me. Keyboards below monitors set into recessed spaces in the walls, thus the different gradients on the walls.

As for the neural-ware, definitely early TENka, maybe not a Kido, but at least a forerunner there of. DNI (direct neural interface), which I assume the Kido (and thus, this rig) is, let’s you do all kinds of neat things. L.i.F.e. probably doesn’t recognize the input so it defaults to calling it keyboard/headset.

As for the discrepancy between the first page and this, Kleya has been active in The Game for the last few days so she probably went to the better gear over what looks like a laptop (no wonder her art sucks, without a tablet, an integrated laptop is horrible to try to draw on).

Speaking of which, verdict on your vote incentive verdict, you’re a h*** of a lot better than I’ll ever be.

I came for the concept, I stay for the wold. Keep the Wheel turning.

She’s floating/flying? Wha…huh..wha..qua..gua..jia…mua…la…now?

Also… I think Matrix with the spine tap there.

Ah HA! It took me a second, but I think I know what it is. Sorry if I sound presumptuous here, but it all clicked.

If it’s what I think it is, it’s a genius system.

Observation 1 – The Room design.

Steel, obviously riveted, suggestions of submerged naval installation or craft. Doable and preferable if the land and air is poison. There has been no declared evidence stating that the water is lost, but it’s costly and hard to set up in.

Moving on: Steel construction on the room itself is thick, windows following suit with the extra shading denoting its thickness. Lends credence to the submerged naval environment, though can support space. However, environment type is a moot point because of this and the presented evidence of the setting.

Because of the devastation of apparently everything, this architecture is not preferred, it’s needed. By the looks of the windows, they’re either tinted, covered, or more likely, showing a nighttime wasteland. Without construction like this, on top of redundancy systems, any installation, much less a city, would survive with a bearable environment. Think more of a submarine, which explains the design. Able to withstand great pressures and extreme changes of them. Able to weather batterings without need of constant maintenance.

Then again, they could also be computer panels, but the rest of the solid construction lends credence to the theory.

Observation 2 – The body of the subject in question.

Take a good at all the panels. Starting with the second one. There should be a structure of the interfacing device. It’s not just the neckpiece, but all along the body. There’s also what appear to be bumps that ring around extremities. That could be me reading too much into it, but it’s the leading reasoning point of my theory here.

This is possibly the control interface of a suspended Waldo interface. For those not familiar with the concept, it’s an interface where a machine can directly mimic movement of a human limb or, in this case, the entire body. How is she suspended like that sitting in mid-air? Answer came simply: Magnets.

The design of the room did strike me as odd, but it does make sense. It’s a spherical room, by the looks of it, with consoles around it and quite possibly either a test room at a research lab or a military CnC center. There is obviously gravity and the door design doesn’t denote something that would be normal in a spacecraft (OR space station going off of current technology). So the magnetics come in where the interface unit comes in. The rings around the limbs are also magnets with others built into the structure to levitate the person. Once active and the subject is immersed, they can move around and interact as if they were in the world without having any issue that would be normally faced with standard peripheral controls (Mouse/Keyboard) or even the coffin-like interface I saw in an earlier update.

Due to the level of technology present, we can assume that fine motor control has been mapped already and the device that should be resting on the cerebellum can read those impulses. That could explain the “Control” issues, as the software could be interpreting signals incorrectly or receiving signals it’s not able to recognize.

As for what this type of system was used for beforehand? Well…that is what I’m think of now.

And sorry to double post, but I think this bears mentioning.

My guess about what this room is: EWAR center. Due to the level of hacking ability and her apparent knowledge, power of her magnitude can only come from a highly responsive and powerful system. Evidence of this?

High reaction time to the Hacker attack during the Game pre-trials.

High processing ability to be able to scan and sniff information off random people and opponents. Automated data collection and mining.

How the “hacking” tends to be monstrous and immediately cruel. As if it’s reading her mind and she has to mentally stop herself before the hacking attempt even gets started.

More to come, probably. You’ve really stirred something up here.

Wow, all the comments 😀

Btw, levitation is obvious. Kinda explains how she could destroy a whole army by herself 😀

Also, I demand more pages like this! Or else… you will get cookies from me! Made by me!!!

Trust me, you really want to draw your pages like this, my cookies are horrible.

Lol. If I draw all my pages like this, you’ll have to send those cookies to my funeral. I don’t draw fast enough to do this style for long and would be competing with Danni’s dad for most hours worked in a week. 🙁

But hey, maybe in a year or two, I’ll be good enough do it 😀 Now that would be awesome!

I’m still thinking it’s an underground bunker of some kind. Yes, Kleya is floating, but her braids are hanging straight down, and there’s a chair on the floor of the room. I don’t know how she’s floating, but I think gravity is normal in the room, and the room is full of air, not a breathable liquid. (A liquid-filled environment would allow her to float and let the chair to stay on the floor, but her hair wouldn’t be hanging straight down.)

So I’m guessing some kind of gravity-manipulating invention, possibly something her mom was working on. If the research her mom was working on involved gravity manipulation, that could easily have gone wrong and caused earthquakes, messed up the atmosphere, maybe even caused a solar flare. I just hope it doesn’t turn out that Kleya *caused* the Ending.

Ah. Note the bar across the shoulders in the second panel, the wrist band in the same color as the spine device, and the glowing ridges under Kleya’s pants. The interface unit is keeping her in a seated position to match her L.i.F.e. environment, as well as detecting her limb movements (probably, though the neural interface might handle all of that, since it picks up her “logout” gesture). So the unit is what’s keeping her in the air, though we still don’t know how it does that.

Very nice, subtle cues in this scene. 🙂

And now I also see the ridges around her arms, and the braces on her feet. Nice. 🙂

Thank you Elizabeth! I saw the ridges around her thighs early on, but honestly I’m relying on all of everybody’s comments to interpret what’s happening. The braids are a big clue about gravity; I really appreciate Elizabeth’s interpretation.

OH MY G– that’s so realistic. NOW I know why you were so worried about getting Reality right. Wow, the artwork on that last panel is fantastically realistic.
OK, that floating’s a little strange. Do you have to float to go into LiFE?
Oh, that’s on her neck. I didn’t get that at first. I guess I don’t know what the back of a braided girl’s head looks like.

XD Just saw the incentive.
I thought it was hilarious. I’m surprised it took over 40 hours. And I loved the verdict.
“I CAN DRAW!”
Yes, Aneeka. You can draw. XD

Excellent vote incentive. 🙂 I love seeing process steps.

There’s so much detail in this!
I was expecting something completely different! It’s beautiful!

Woah, seriously good art. I won’t complain about the wait, its great you get a chance to do your best at this.
Also omg cool 😀

WOAH! Sudden Art Level increase

So I’m really the only one who immediately thought “The Matrix”?

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

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