(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[David Stockhoff]

Yes, exactly. And khaibits are a possible explanation for the twins.

But Agia shows her strength (and her knowledge of weapons) after Agilus 
is dead.

And she's still totally hot, so Severian didn't execute Agia instead of 
Agilus.

David Duffy wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, David Stockhoff wrote:
>
>> ---Her strength has another source
>> ---She could still be the poppet
>> ---Agilus could be her actual twin IF she's a genetic/flesh android 
>> or just human
>
> Well, it's a common trope that opposite-sex dizygotic twins can be so 
> similar that they can cross-dress and confuse others, but in reality 
> they are will have an average brother-sister resemblance.  But in 
> Urth, we know about the khaibits, so it would be possible to produce 
> genetically identical twins aside from the sex chromosomes.  That 
> would be closer to the alchemical twinning, I guess. I always had the 
> impression they were unusually similar, but couldn't point to any 
> particular descriptive passages.
>
> I guess the other thing is after losing Agilus, she becomes Severian's 
> evil twin ;)
>
> Cheers, David Duffy.
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