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Wouldn't Andy know she is about to lose her powers after they got the visions of the newist member?

posted 4 years ago by RogueDemonHunter (2645)
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She's the oldest right, so she would know she's next in line to become mortal after seeing the visions of Nile. She's been around long enough to experience the death and addition of new members of the Guard so she should know what's up.

Also, did anyone else find it strange how she was acting like she was still part of the crew at the end? She is mortal now. She can't be out there doing all that crazy stuff anymore. At best, she's stuck in a support role with Copely.

[–] JepGambardella (462) 4 years ago

It was not mentioned at any point that when a new immortal pops up, the oldest one loses his or her immortality.

[–] RogueDemonHunter (2645) 4 years ago

I thought she said there was a correlation between Nile popping up and Andy's healing abilities stopping? Something like "Since being in x (whatever country it was) and Nile coming along, I can't heal"?

[–] Ryker (194) 4 years ago

She meant that she felt like Niles purpose was to remind her of what it felt like at the beginning of her immortality. Feeling invincible instead of apathetic and tired of everything. Niles also motivated her to get her head back in the game since she had to shepherd someone through the changes and their new life.

There is no relation in the comic between new member and oldest member dying. After all Qunyh is still alive and kicking at the end.

Concerning her involvement post-mortality, maybe at this point Andy is down to die whenever it comes. She'd rather live out the rest of whatever time she has left doing what she's always done.

[–] Moonglum9 (10697) 4 years ago

I'm not sure about if she would know. I had a similar question when watching about whether a new one forming was linked to an older one dying, but I don't recall them indicating when they did the flashback of the one guy that died, that it was at the same time as when the newest guy from 1812 became immortal.

Also, I don't think being the oldest would automatically make her next to die. In the movie, Andy and the girl at the bottom of the ocean were the first two as far as I know, so they should have died before that flashback guy died if that was the case. I think a recurring theme they kept reinforcing about these immortals was that they lived for as long as they were supposed to, to fulfill their purpose, whatever it may be, and once that was done, they became mortal again. But I don't think it was age dependent. At least that's what I took away from the movie.

[–] RogueDemonHunter (2645) 4 years ago

True. That would make sense they were immortal until they fulfilled their purpose. Though my point still stands about her current mortality right? She never regained immortality at the end.

[–] Moonglum9 (10697) 4 years ago

No, I believe she was just a normal mortal still. So, like you said, either she would be pulling the strings of operations in the background like a military general, or she would take part in missions and just wasn't worried if she ended up dying because of how long she had lived already.