pafl rambles

This is my pafl tangent blog, where I talk about all things pafl (mostly the little details I've noticed)

I love to see other peoples' perspective on this awesome series and it honestly would be pretty cool if you shared your thoughts in the inbox (if you like)

I have at least two things I want to ramble about by the end of this week

(If I get enough time)

A strip in the Execution comic made me remember that women aren't believed to have the Stalker Senses™ that men have.

(From The Mill)

But in Execution, Sergei claims that Sanya is way more capable of becoming a Stalker than he is when he first started out.

(This bit also interested me, is this Nikita being misogynous or genuinely not wanting Sanya to go because he cares for her?)

Is it because she's a mutant and can naturally sense anomalous objects? Or does she actually have the Talent?

And if she DOES have the Talent, why couldn't she sense Katya's mutation? Is it because she's a mutant herself and is constantly sensing her own mutation, growing accustomed to it and tuning it out?

I've just come back from reading the first three episodes of Execution, and here's what I noticed:

Yura is incredibly good at detecting anomalies.

There's no way Yura wouldn't have been able to tell what Dimitri was, because Dimitri's power is just that strong.

Here's my theory on this.

Dimitri flew under Yura's radar at first, because Yura himself said that serious anomalies over the age of twelve is extremely rare.

And Dima? Dima is 16 in canon. He looks nowhere under 12 and with what Yura believes, the public also unlikely to think that Dimitri is an anomaly. Yura most likely singled out Katya earlier on and was more quick to confront her because she still looks relatively close to 12 years of age.

(From KT's Official Guide to Coolness)

And since he's found out that carrying around anomalous effects also causes his "Stalker Senses™" to go off (mentioned in the Execution comic), he doesn't believe that this 13-something year old would be carrying one around on her own volition.

In his mind, the most likely theory would be that she IS the anomaly.

But Dima is a special case, because he's 16. And 16 year olds can become Stalkers, like Sergei, and eventually Yura, did.

(Yura noticing that Dimitri has the "anomaly aura", from Occam's Razor)

He has to double check instead of directly confronting Dima himself, even going as far as to asking Sanya to experiment on the Cube™ for him just to be sure. But I do believe there's a reason why the video where Yura finds out Dimitri is a mutant is called Occam's Razor; which is a principle that says that if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, the simpler one is often correct.

Yes, it may not be common for anomalous children over 12 to exist in the town, but it's not impossible. Therefore, Dimitri must be a mutant, in Yura's mind.

I know, practically everyone's figured it out by now, with a bunch of the pafl songs (mostly the ones from Sanya's pov) alluding to Yura being her "sun".

But here's what I wanted to add on: Sergei is the wind.

There's a tale in Aesop's Fables called the North Wind and the Sun, and I think it's pretty well known but let me summarize it:

The sun and the north wind had a contest one day to see who can make a passerby remove his coat. The wind blew and blew, but it just made the man wrap his coat tighter around himself because of how cold the wind's approach was. Whereas the sun shone on him, and, because it was too hot, the man took off his coat.

Sanya refers to Yura as a "relentless sun" multiple times...

(first is from 100 Epitaphs, second is from False Disposition)

and that he made her drop her barriers because of how "friendly" he was.

(also from False Disposition)

But for Sergei, she practically refuses to tell him ANYTHING; she sneaks out behind his back, steals and experiments on the Cube™ without him knowing, sneaks Yura in through her back window while trying to keep him quiet, etc.

His cold, harsh methods (the wind) makes her keep her barriers up around him, but not around Yura because she believes she can be sort of "loose" around him, like loosening a coat.

THIS.

AND THIS. (From 100 Epitaphs)

I actually didn't give much thought on the lines from Punch It, Punk! when I first watched it, but now that I've given it a fourth watch AFTER Convergence & 100 Epitaphs, holy shit.

This was actually the thing that pushed me to make this blog, because I've been rewatching a lot of Ferry's videos recently. It makes me appreciate how Ferry connects all the videos in the pafl series in some sort of way.

"We're gonna do great things" isn't just a throwaway line anymore; they ARE going to do great things. Great things = Massive jailbreak plan for Katya, in this case.

There's more that I wanted to say but can't transfer onto text right now, so I'll add more once I find the right words.