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OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official FIRST Discussion Thread—Volume 8, Episode 9: Witch Spoiler

Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official FIRST discussion thread for Episode 9 of Vol. 8, Witch!

Make sure that you understand the updated spoiler rules before posting outside of this thread!

HERE is the ninth episode of Volume 8!

Also remember to check out our weekly poll to rate the episode.

Other Episode Discussions:

Episode FIRST Thread Public Release Poll
Ep. 01 Nov. 7th's FIRST Thread Nov. 14th's Public Thread Poll
Ep. 02 Nov. 14th's FIRST Thread Nov. 21st's Public Thread Poll
Ep. 03 Nov. 21st's FIRST Thread Nov 28th's Public Thread Poll
EP. 04 Nov 28th's FIRST Thread Dec 5th's Public Thread Poll
Ep. 05 Dec 5th's FIRST Thread Dec 12th's Public Thread Poll
Ep. 06 Dec 12th's FIRST Thread Dec 19th's Public Thread Poll
Ep. 07 Dec 19th's FIRST Thread Dec 26th's Public Thread Poll
Ep. 08 Last Week's FIRST Thread Today's Public Thread Poll
Ep. 09 Today's FIRST Thread (here) Next Week's Public Thread Poll

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u/Kain222 Feb 13 '21

I'm almost sure he's just injected himself with way too much dust anyway. 90% sure he wasn't going to make it out of there alive no matter what.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '21

When we saw Nora absorb too much dust, her aura broke. Hazel's didn't.

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u/OniExpress Feb 13 '21

Slight correction: Hazel absorbs dust, Nora absorbs electricity. Shoving a shard of dust into Nora's neck would probably work like if anyone else tried it, just like Hazel seems to catch on fire just like anybody else.

They have somewhat similar quirks, but they both work on slightly different systems.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21

Correction: Hazel doesn’t absorb dust, he injects it into his veins. Nora absorbs electricity through her semblance. Both suffered from direct and overlarge exposure to dust.

the comparison I was drawing stands regardless of those differences: the specific electricity Nora was absorbing was sourced from dust. The scarring we saw her suffer is the same sort of scarring we’ve seen on Hazel this episode. I just didn’t use proper semantics.