Well, from what I understand (not that A: I understand much or B: what I understand matters), it's pretty much a mix of all three of those options. #1 I can see as a result of those lovely biologicals you're beholden to keep safe and protect--so much so that you're geared to actually be friends with them--turn on you and darn near succeed in killing you as dead a a cockroach in a Raid commercial. #2 is probably the main reason 'Cantha's still in one piece and not her just becoming the latest vaporized biological in his claimed DMZ/kill-zone the first time she went there. #3, well . . . It's not just his doll's body that's cracked . . .
Is it my imagination or is Aenaes NOT a Him? Not one reference Aeneas has made is in the masculine gender they are all in the neutral gender, "its", However; something puzzles me Aeneas was Trojan, the son of either Aphrodite or Venus, related to King Priam of Trojan War fame and was a commander of one og the Hosts of Allies Troy had. As such would not the name be more appropriate to Troy or Nova Ilium than to Nova Roma?
@Dragonrider: TR's nailed it in one. Virgil just wrote down what he believed Roman history to be and Livy expanded on the biography; the fact remains that the Romans themselves traced their history all the way back to the fall of Troy and the escape of a person of Trojan royal blood: Aeneas. It was Aeneas's long affair with the queen of Carthage, Dido, and his leaving her at the insistence of the gods that mythologically explained the intense rivalry between Rome and Carthage that culminated in the three Punic Wars, and Aeneas is stated to be the direct ancestor in the paternal line of Rhea Silvia, the mother of the god Mars's twin sons Romulus and Remus.
At this point someone should take Lynn by the hand and lead her to the ladies room before she has an accident. Poor girl has had about all the shocks her system can take she needs a trank, a drink and sleep.
I do believe he is spooking the trout!
*(Your version has much nicer graphics!)
Is he neurotic, lonely, or full on Spider Jerusalem crazy?
Also, Acantha's been using masculine pronouns to refer to Aeneas for several pages . . .
(I'm thinking Aunt equivalent.)
no really, this is cool. Having a friend like that would rock. If he didn't sing creepy songs and didn't look so blue.
Maybe she can borrow a helmet from one of the war droids...
(But really, Acantha must have a good spot marked out by this time.)
(This might be one of those camel damaging moments!)
and it's gotta
come out!"*
*(According to John Lee Hooker!)