Schrödinger's Cat

[blackruzsa]

Just a bit of Before Watchmen for your.... well, whatever you'll feel about this.

Comments

[liara_shadowsong]

...That's not how quantum physics works. Also, was it really necessary to make both his shirt and the wrapping paper blue? There's foreshadowing, and then there's implications of predestination. XP

[darkknightjrk]

Well, from my reading of Watchmen, to his mind, he was predestined to become Doctor Manhattan.

[liara_shadowsong]

And that is a perfectly legitimate interpretation. It just seems to me that the blue associated with his person/gift/speechbubbles but literally nowhere else on the page, not even as part of any green or purple, seems a little bit overly pointed in this scene. It might have been more subtle, but still open to the view that he believed himself predestined, if the gift was a little further from the shade of the speechbubble, and some of the shirt stripes were a different color (perhaps if the lighter stripes were white?). Sorry I wasn't more precise the first time around.