‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 606

Some answers.

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“Where did she even get that stuff?”
“The Internet.”

…Where did she get that stuff?

Alibaba, it’s where you go when what you think you want isn’t available from Amazon, Ebay or Craigs list…

Tingles, just tingles!

You remember that movie too, huh? 🙂 🙂 🙂

well that last question sounds super weird
like, her cyborg status sounds like ‘common knowledge in-universe being teased bit by bit to readers’, so that question feels like it’s breaking the fourth wall?
but no it makes sense that Brandon wouldn’t know I guess
rargh im not making sense

I can’t make the connection between a common-knowledge-teaser and it breaking the 4th wall, but this isn’t the first time that we don’t get to see something that’s common knowledge to many people, e.g. Dude’s Special or for the longest time we didn’t know that Bloody Mary killed her people while they were logged out. Or we still don’t know why so many people like Bandit, buuuuut I’m chalking that up to the fact that I don’t know why people like certain celebrities in our world, either.

I’d like to see them break the 3rd wall, i.e. letting us see what happens behind the stage. 🙂

Well yes, and no. They know she’s a cyborg, they don’t know WHY/HOW she became a cyborg. My guess is that it’s her fathers fault. He made the exoskeleton suit and had her try it on. That was probably one of the reasons he and his wife ended up breaking up.

This is leaving me with so many questions.
“What cyborg suit?” (I have a feeling it’s way back there somewhere.)
“What does the suit do?” (connect her to the game via nervous system? Eeek!)
“How does Dude know she has one?”
“How does Bandit know for sure this is her so that she even has a cyborg suit?”
“Where did this pop up from alla sudden?
“Am I the only one confused here?”
“Anyone gotta spare cookie?” 😀

Pretty much everyone knows she’s a cyborg. Because during the ending she was blamed for things and the news caster said it was the cyborg girls fault.
This was shown during one of the “Reality” sequences. As was the exoskeleton she wears.

I think the suit came up because physically importing her would blow her cover if she had it on.

At this point, it sounds like the apocalypse came in a very advanced society with lots of AI robots in every facet of society. “The Hacker” was able to take control of all the robots and the computer systems and basically tear down everything. The exoskeleton was probably part of that control. I’m picturing her in a mecha suit leading an army of subborned robots in a massive rampage that destroyed property and killed people. Probably spread world wide and destroyed farmland too.

Almost. I got the impression that The Ending, wasn’t intentional, but a massive oopsie. She just got labeled as the one at fault and people assumed it was intentional and that she wanted to destroy the world.

Though some questions related are; if it was an oopsie;
Was it her oopsie? Or some one in her organization?
Or, was it an opsie from some one else and her organization wasn’t involved, just blamed for it as the big annoyance every one knew them to be sum must be thier fault.

When people start pointing fingers they do not always point in the right direction.

judging by the way her AI virus nearly crashed the system when she got a little stressed I’m going top assume there’s some kind of symbiotic link between her, the virus and the cyborg implant.
With that much power in the hands of an amoral Ai who’s only responding to the emotional state of it’s host I wouldn’t be surprised if the robot apocalypse was caused by a childish temper tantrum.

Well, her public nickname has been shown to be “the cyborg”. We’ve seen the exoskeleton suit and the thing in her neck briefly in our peeks into Reality. And in a flashback of her playful younger self she proudly proclaims “Look what I got to work!” about this thing, and I think Jake was there. The thing even has a name – it was the next evolution of the Kido’s – so yes, it does neurally connect her to a computer, even normal Kido’s do that. I think the name is “Hakido”.

But I don’t think we knew that it is surgically implanted into her neck, and we certainly did not know that she suffered cardiac arrest on a shutdown of the thing. I don’t feel confused at this reveal, rather the opposite, just like Dude I had wondered if she could take it off.

I think the general public naming her a cyborg is just the general public putting dramatic labels on new tech, which they do in our world as well. But I guess with this reveal there is some substance to the claim… though a pacemaker hardly makes someone a cyborg, a neural to computer interface is more like it and when that cannot be removed – yep, pretty much a cyborg. But that doesn’t make her any less a person!

At a bare minimum, the suit provides levitation (magnetic?), flight, and is her primary physical weapon if you put her hacking aside. It is probably makes her immune to any weapon too small to need a computer via magnetic deflection.

The chip, at a bare minimum, is an interface to the suit, is an interface that makes hacking easier – as automatic as thinking, even – is tied to (and enhances?) all her body’s vital functions, and no doubt is one of the reasons her mental state is extra fragile.

I mean, can you even imagine what hooking up the internet directly to a person’s brain would do to their personality?

Linking internet directly into someone’s brain? What could possibly go wrong? Probably nothing. Yeah.

I thin as far as being hooked directly to the internet is concerned, it would depend on the protocolles and interface controlling the information echange.
Get it right and not much of an issue.
Get it wrong and there could be devestating side effects.

And yes the public and media like putting dramatic labeles on things.
They also like pointing fingers at the obvious villian for when things go wrong before all of the facts are known. Which can lead to public missinformation and the reall culprit of an event slipping away.

Thanks you to everyone!

Okay, so in RL she’s a cyborg max. That was a long read ago; I’d forgotten (one of the downsides of long graphic novels and uh… passing years). ;D

BTW, contrary to popular science fiction a magnetic field wouldn’t do much against weapons– only in deflecting ferrous metals (steel, iron, nickel). But lead, copper or teflon bullets (as well as plastic weapons) would go right through… as would the weapons wielder himself (unless he’s wearing a steel suit).

In reality, a magnetic “shield” isn’t much of a shield. It’s kinda like a safe room with a gelatin door. : )

Agreed. Typicall ‘energy shields’ involve much more than just magnetic manipulation.

I like that image of the “cyborg suit.”

So I’m guessing no one outside of those “in the know” knows that she’s a super genius who MADE that stuff.

I always assumed Kat designed the cybernetics herself and her father provided the supplies to build it.

I’m pretty sure she found it and fixed it. Let me see if I can find that comic.

Tutorial Aftermath – 303

Reality Again – 335

No, I’m pretty sure, and even more sure after reading the links you provided, that she MADE it.

In the first link you gave, it says, “I could do no wrong. Everything I created, the world adored.”

It is VERY strongly implied that she created it.

(This comment could follow several made previously, so is set here as a stand-alone.)

There has been no information given (yet) that Kleya (or whatever her real name is) designed/built the Hakido/cyber-suit, but she is certainly the one who got it to work, which she proudly states here.

@Aneeka

Sorry to announce, but while doing the Archive trawl to find the right page, I would occasionally get the following message:

“Your connection is not secure. The owner of navcomic.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.”

I don’t know if you can do anything to stop this from happening again, but if you don’t know there’s something wrong, you can’t do anything about it. (As for me, when I got one of these warnings, I simply went back one page, then tried again.)

This sounds like something’s linking HTTPS links, while the site doesn’t support it. Any chance you have a plugin like https-everywhere installed which might be trying to redirect to an https page?

It sounds more like an Ad which has an invalid certificate. That would cause it to be intermittent. Because you don’t see the Ad you can’t report it. You should not try to see the Ad because it may be hijacked. You could look at the certificate and see what it claims to be safely, but you should not accept the invalid cert.

So I take it I’m not the only one smelling something rotten in Denmark. With how bad Kleya is with people I can’t see her talking someone into doing the operation behind her parents backs. And I severely doubt that she knew enough on medicine to do it to herself.

Just either the father knew and allowed it, or Kleya was in an environment that gave her sufficient freedom to hook herself up to a prototype permanently without anyone noticing and an environment that Kleya wouldn’t see the problem with it.

You’re almost certainly right. As per page 303 both of her parents seem to have been in on Kleya’s cyborg life, though the next page seems to indicate her father was the more extreme of the two.

I’m wondering whether there was any connection between their attempt to remove Kleya’s control device and nearly killing her and “The Virus”‘s apparent reputation for killing people who’ve messed with it?

Refresh my memory

What does he mean by Import?

Have her physically live at whatever City we are talking about. Which won’t happen since Kat can’t hide her cyborg parts and everyone knows she’s the evil cyborg girl that killed the world.

Physically bring her into the City. The term is usually used with respect to countries (imports vs. exports), but in this case the Cities are pretty much countries now.

I suspect that she is an experiment that her father made in attempt to control more of the world and I don’t know why her mother would have gone along with it except that maybe it was done without the mothers permission and that is the reason why they separated. The mother stayed so she could watch over kleya within the game.

In the middle of this the poles shifted catastrophicly. The father’s attack against the mother was the mother trying to leave the situation and take Kleya during the upheaval. Thinking the president would be too busy to notice the escape attempt. Kleya counterattacked with the robots, but without full control and some robots killed a lot of innocent people in other cities. possibly other weapons were used that cause the end of the world as other countries got into the act. Because the rest of the world doesn’t know that her father was trying to kill her or that her father is the one that did this to her, tbe president still has popular support. And kleya has an embedded virus ai and a nuclear submarine.

Not A Villain Webcomic

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

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 606