#ch124

Who knows how the blood typing really works?

Ch124 has Blavat explain to the "Sirius" renal failure patient that he's never received any blood from "Sirius" donors. It's all been from the "leftovers", meaning Vega and Polaris, since Canopus has always also been too scarce.

This means that Blavat must realize Sirius can accept (whole) blood from any of the donors, or at least he realizes Vega and Polaris blood are acceptable. Otherwise, this guy would already have died... horribly... from rejection of the transfused blood. But, if Blavat knows this, why is real Ciel not using whatever blood he can get?

Similarly, Ada must have somehow figured out (or been informed) that Canopus can accept from Canopus and Vega. Because Baldo seems to be getting blood from Lau (Canopus) and Conny (Vega). Others are also donating, and I have to assume they are also either Canopus (rare) or Vega (common).

In the Kuroverse, Sirius is AB, the universal recipient for whole blood... and Vega is O, the universal whole blood donor.

It gets flipped around for plasma donations in the real world, and we also have to consider Rh-factor, but this whole ABO blood typing thing seems to have been simplified for the story. In reality, there are even people who fall outside the ABO system.

What I want to know is whether the lords of the stars are aware of this fact... and whether Undertaker knows. Because -- and I've blogged about it many times -- this whole time real Ciel has been able to accept absolutely all of the blood donations (keeping the ABO system simple, no Rh-factor). The one that should be "starving" is Vega... but only if they use the blood the way the system truly works.

If real Ciel and the other lords know, then there might be some sort of elitism going on here, particularly with real Ciel. Like... he refuses to accept any other blood type because he thinks it's inherently not good enough for him. Or maybe Undertaker is under that false impression. Or Druitt, if he's involved, since he does have that medical license that's otherwise gathering dust.

I wonder what Sieglinde has now figured out regarding the ABO -- or Polaris-Canopus-Vega -- blood typing system. Will there later be a scene where real Ciel complains of not enough blood, and someone pipes up to say he could have transfused any of it? This whole time. And he's just in shock about that.

So I never actually noticed this, but I think this scene here has Laxus unnaturally lingering in the air, and Gajeel's surprised expression is because of that. He was expecting Laxus to fall back down into his sword, but he didn't.

So, static electricty lets things stick. Do you think Laxus is capable of imitating that kinda effect? on his feet like a ninja?

In following panels, we see him 'holding onto' the pillar/corner of the page, which doesn't actually have handholds. He just sticks.

In the anime they have magic floating syndrome because anime, so this nuance is just not present. But I noticed this because Natsu in the following page:

Like a dork, he is running vertically. But he needs to, which means that Laxus' way past due the time he should naturally be falling. And Natsu takes the effort to swat him back down so Gajeel can hit him.

In the manga, they don't have magic floating syndrome, so they have to keep him on the ground as part of the battle chereography. If laxus really has the ability to ninja stand with his electricity, I'd say we're missing out on a lot of cool shit he can actually do in place of Lightning Dragon Slayer magic after this.

Laxus' magic is officially card-listed as 'all types of Lightning magic', so I really think that he's capable of doing so much more that we never explore.

(Magic floating syndrome under the cut.)