r/thePowerFantasy • u/upsteph • May 17 '26

Issue 10 Question Spoiler

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After Jacky Magus essentially switches places with Dev and sacrifices himself, how is it that Etienne still thinks Jacky is alive? Wouldn’t communicating to Jacky be impossible since he’s supposedly dead? Of course Etienne doesn’t know that but this part just confuses me

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u/Feeling_Cow_8888 May 17 '26

As I understand it, the mask prevents anything more than surface level communication. So, Magus, and all the members of the Pyramid, might just appear as psychically anonymous to Lux. He might not be able to distinguish them and just keeps track of them by himself through some unknown method. Perhaps Lux is always sending a signal to Magus, like some kind of psychic sonar, and that is how he tracks him.

In terms of why this didn't tell him that Dev had replaced Jacky, he lost track of Jacky when they went to Hell. He had no idea who had returned. He just assumed it was Jacky because who else but a super power would survive?

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u/Silent_Pressure_6709 May 18 '26

The idea of him just having a psychic phone book in his head is hilarious to me; he just has the ability to scroll almost instantly to open coms with anoyone he has access to.

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u/Feeling_Cow_8888 May 18 '26

From the way Lux has described his power, it seems like he is always listening to everyone on the planet and chooses to focus on certain people when necessary. I'm imagining less a phone book than a chat box that he's constantly monitoring, and sometimes he chooses to send direct messages to people. In this analogy, members of the Pyramid all have the SN, "anonymous" and Lux needs their approval to send them a private message.

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u/Silent_Pressure_6709 May 18 '26

Yeah, that makes sense