I absolutely agree with you, Neo! I like Noah's thought boxes, they're pretty insightful.

I'm also a getting a sense of deja-vu with this last strip. Could it be because it indicates the day that a new demon was born?

@Tom:

The day that a new demon is born?

Wait, so Noah's "magic" is knowing he's in a work of fiction?

^^nope

what Noah's saying is because people look at magic wrong. They treat it like some sort of fantasy book thing, that doesn't have any sort of rhyme or reason.

However, if you say "Okay, there's this magic thing. It exists, how does it work?" Which seems to be what Noah is doing, you are better able to deal with it.

I think--he's not being super clear, but that makes sense, considering Burk XD

No, it's more... Figurative. Most people don't 'believe' in magic, because they don't know where it exists. When the elves came right out and used it, others learned of their powers, and could learn to adapt to them. Since they know what magic the elves hold, the fiction becomes a reality- something that can be easily defeated. You cannot defeat fiction, and Noah's power is, to others, still mere fiction.

@Neorice:
"The day that a new demon is born" is the title of the first episode of Code Geasss.

@Prime32:

Oh right, yeah then it's fairly fitting.

Interesting. This could go one of two ways. Either it's the simple way, where noah believes that by keeping his power a secret, it becomes a lot more dangerous because his opponents don't have time to think of counters for it. By extension, in a non-combat framework, he could bank on the fact that no one knows he can, say, walk though walls.

Alternately, neo could be going the route of awesome, in this way. Noah might be surmising that in the act of categorizing and "trying to understand" their powers, the other mages are inherently limiting their powers. That if one tries to treat a magical occurrence as a understandable phenomenon, it conforms to that, and becomes limited and finite, but if one treats as actually being magic, and being inherently incomprehensible, it has no limits and -anything- is possible.

We'll see. :3

@Jetrel: the lack of y in your name threw me for far too long >_>

more on point, I like how people are seeing this in completely opposite terms. He's saying the reason humans can defeat magic is because once you admit it's real, you can dismantle it...or am I missing something?

Prime32 - Thanks for clarifying the reference to Mr. Author, that's indeed what I was going for ^_^

I want to see Noah having a "Comic Awareness" like Deadpool.

he's a jumper.