Well, you can compensate for a lot of stuff with bucketloads of confidence and shamelessness, which DE has in spades. You could also go with “Charlene is just horny and figured why the hell not.”
Even if they were totally genetically compatible, I have a feeling any kid of the Dark Everett would end up messed up. Or would he/she? Suppose that speaks to the nature/nurture debate poked at oft times here.
From what I remember of recessive genes, there should be a chance of Charlie-children expressing traits from recessive genes that Charlie might have gotten from his mother and father. Apparently a 25% chance for every recessive gene he’s carrying. Since humans don’t normally manage to have children with other humans who share their exact same genetic history, I think this could mean an extreme case of flipper-baby.
Maybe the biggest risk would be a stillborn baby. A lot of extremely rare recessive genes could be lethal, but since they’re so rare they usually don’t manage to pair up, and the trait isn’t expressed. But Charlie would have the whole set of ‘mates’, and each pair would have a 25% chance of connecting, and thus killing the baby before it gets born. Which might have been what happened?
But I’m not a biologist. I even had to look up recessive genes on Wikipedia to make sure I wasn’t making up the whole thing.
I can’t stop thinking about the random Charlene in this image. (Is this the same one DE brought to the Undertaker?)
This image is unsettling because it plays into that “women in refrigerators” trope, but it’s a bit more complex than that–the same person is both victim and perpetrator of violence. You don’t get this close to the Dark Everett unless you actively crave your own destruction and share his ambition for multiversal suicide. I’m trying to get into the random Charlene’s head to understand all the self-hatred that would draw her to the Dark Everett, not to mention the Dark Everett’s own self-hatred, and as you can imagine that’s going down a very dark and disturbing rabbit hole.
If this is the same Charlene we saw on the Undertaker’s table, I hope we haven’t seen the last of her–I’d like to see some version of her alive so we can know more about her motives. Plus, I think it would be interesting to see a knock-down, drag-out brawl between our Charlene and this Charlene.
Wow, this is simultaneously gorgeous and disturbing. Way to go, Dex!
OMG, he’s seducing himself! Sooooo disturbing. But also, nice artwork.
You know, you’d think the big gaping hole in his face would be a bit of a turn off.
Or am I wrong to assume that that’s Dark Everett?
That is indeed the Dark Everett. 🙂
Well, you can compensate for a lot of stuff with bucketloads of confidence and shamelessness, which DE has in spades. You could also go with “Charlene is just horny and figured why the hell not.”
Creepy.
Also, this random Charlene likely has a massive death wish and chose one of the more interesting methods of suicide.
If they copulated, would they just clone themselves, or do they have variations in their DNA which would produce very messed up offspring?
Even if they were totally genetically compatible, I have a feeling any kid of the Dark Everett would end up messed up. Or would he/she? Suppose that speaks to the nature/nurture debate poked at oft times here.
From what I remember of recessive genes, there should be a chance of Charlie-children expressing traits from recessive genes that Charlie might have gotten from his mother and father. Apparently a 25% chance for every recessive gene he’s carrying. Since humans don’t normally manage to have children with other humans who share their exact same genetic history, I think this could mean an extreme case of flipper-baby.
Maybe the biggest risk would be a stillborn baby. A lot of extremely rare recessive genes could be lethal, but since they’re so rare they usually don’t manage to pair up, and the trait isn’t expressed. But Charlie would have the whole set of ‘mates’, and each pair would have a 25% chance of connecting, and thus killing the baby before it gets born. Which might have been what happened?
But I’m not a biologist. I even had to look up recessive genes on Wikipedia to make sure I wasn’t making up the whole thing.
I can’t stop thinking about the random Charlene in this image. (Is this the same one DE brought to the Undertaker?)
This image is unsettling because it plays into that “women in refrigerators” trope, but it’s a bit more complex than that–the same person is both victim and perpetrator of violence. You don’t get this close to the Dark Everett unless you actively crave your own destruction and share his ambition for multiversal suicide. I’m trying to get into the random Charlene’s head to understand all the self-hatred that would draw her to the Dark Everett, not to mention the Dark Everett’s own self-hatred, and as you can imagine that’s going down a very dark and disturbing rabbit hole.
If this is the same Charlene we saw on the Undertaker’s table, I hope we haven’t seen the last of her–I’d like to see some version of her alive so we can know more about her motives. Plus, I think it would be interesting to see a knock-down, drag-out brawl between our Charlene and this Charlene.