Chapter 25 p17 – Terms and conditions may apply
Dec04
Miranda (narrating): A while after I moved in with Dad, he decided to make a few stabs at father-daughter bonding. Wasn’t hard to guess that I’d have fun watching real live battle monsters.
Back then . . . I was really out of it a lot of the time. Didn’t feel like myself. So he couldn’t get the hack to work using my name.
In the end he managed to identify me using a workaround. It went something like . . .
“The daughter of Stuart Cohen . . . can enter the battle of the Being she is close to, the Dog, called Patrick.”
Well, this does confirm that Sparrow isn’t a chosen on of destiny.
Woah woah woah. Patrick said…when he first talked to Bee and Sparrow, that he followed Sparrow beause she smelled nice. Did Cohen make Pats code so that he’s attached to Cohens daughter(s) as long as his name is Patrick? O.O
In hindsight this explains why Sparrow has smelt familiar to several beings- smelling just enough like Cohen to warrant a “huh, familiar” vibe, but not enough to be an instant recognition. If memory serves, the three beings who identified her as smelling special were Patrick (who spent a lot of time with Cohen and had a lot of fond memories; thus, ‘smells nice’), Reseda (who battled against Patrick a lot and did tests for Cohen; thus, ‘very familiar’), and Cybelle (whose previous master did a few tests with Cohen; thus ‘annoyingly familiar’; it could also have ‘refreshed’ so to speak at the club). It also explains why Kara Lynn (who never battled until the story started) didn’t recognize her smell- her Masters had no idea Cohen did all that stuff. Poe was never confirmed one way or the other to my recollection but, again, my recollection – and also bird smelling powers are of debatable strength. (How do you test bird smelling powers?) The other beings (aside from Lúthien) haven’t met her, and I don’t recall Lúthien saying one way or the other if Sparrow was familiar to her.
…still, I don’t see the resemblance between Sparrow and Cohen. Maybe it’s just awful facial recognition on my part, but considering her mom said that she’d gone for a donor who ‘looked like her’… I dunno, probably just me being bad with faces.
Well that explains some things.
Alright, the next question is “When did Miranda figure out that Sparrow is her sister?”
It DOES answer a question from back in chapter 20 though – what Cohen used to pull Miranda and Sparrow from ‘possibly the Shadow Realm.’ (ch20p24)
Since Miranda said “Just do what you did when I was a kid,” it means she’d figured it out before then, but… what was the clue that told her?
*WAIT* I just remembered – Chapter 19, the end thereof. Miranda had Poe grab a cup out of the trash that was (presumably) the one Sparrow used. The_Rippy_One and KLC picked up on the DNA thing, but most of the comments were focused on contracts in general, Being’s memory spans, and The Language Of The Contract.
So, between chapters 19 and 20 are when Miranda confirmed, but when did she start suspecting….
(also, recent events explain why ch20p6 has a shot of a gravestone when talking about the limits of teleportation)
THIS. Nicely done, Sailor Cresselia! I’d forgotten about the Chapter 19 DNA test thing!
Ok, now we just need the info on how Cohen’s DNA got into Sparrow’s mother. Judging by his reaction to finding out about Miranda I doubt he was the type to visit a sperm bank.
I don’t see why it needs to be different than what we’ve been told. Sharon Applebaum was/is a member of a separatist lesbian commune. unless she was bi, it’s unlikely she conceived with Cohen the traditional way.
As at least one other person put it… Cohen wasn’t always rich. Maybe when he was in college he needed cash right then…
As for his reaction to learning he has a child? I’m thinking part of his reaction was, well, Cohen has described Jessica Lake as his “Susan Glenn”… I expect he’d likely do anything she asked.