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Nanase and Her Fox - 17 - HD
🕑 Added 2023-10-19 03:00:03 +0000 UTCWand Perception.
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I continue to enjoy exploring differences in perception, and how different people, animals, etc. experience REALITY ITSELF!
I don't want to commit to how exactly Kevin perceives reality. For all I know, future me will have a story relevant idea for how he's doing it, and I'd rather not contradict him. He's likely older and grumpier than current me.
What I will do is point out the obvious: Kevin is a wand. He's not using eyes, noses, or feet to perceive reality.
He has, at a minimum, demonstrated a capacity to sense things about magic, and magic users. He can hear, and has what must be an accurate idea of his physical surroundings.
That last one is made extra clear by the fact that he was yet to accidentally hit anyone in the head when getting right up in people's faces while not being obvious about where he's focused.
Comments
David Fenger
Kevin has been like that since we first met him. Makes it funnier, I think.
Eli Lebow
The art and dialog are very good, as always. I just want to mention that second-panel Ashley reminds me of how Julia Wertz draws herself, and it's cute :)
Stephen Gilberg
The sheer vanity to claim that his perception is "far superior in every way that matters" when he just had to ask about something he couldn't perceive.
William Green
Actually, it could mean that he doesn't associate different colors on a flat surface as representing different objects, so to him it's just a flat surface with randomly changing colors. Or It could also be that the shapes in the puzzle game are too abstracted from objects in reality for Kevin to make the connections. Kevin was designed to teach a wizard to work in the real world, not play games on a computer. It might be interesting to see how well Kevin can perceive a photograph or video of a real scene. (Or it could just be that Kevin has never seen a video game before and can't figure out what's going on.)
ijuinkun
Kevin being unable to perceive what is on a video screen says that he does not detect emitted or reflected light in the human visual spectrum (heat perception, or something like radar, have not yet been ruled out). The ability to detect shapes and positions of objects may be similar to Grace’s spatial perception with her antennae.
