I seriously doubt she'd pulp Basphomy. That's one of the few allies she has, and Dunuloa's connection is a bit too valuable right now to sever.

I'm just assuming Basphomy is wearing her plot armor. It'll be OK!

Hey, a link to all the way back in 2000! The year I started reading Sluggy. And I'm still as young as I was back then. Yes, I am. And I have achieved all the goals I set up back then.

All this time, Sluggy has cheered me up. It's still at the top of my bookmark list.

Plot twist of the century.

It's interesting that "taking care of them" is higher priority than hiding a body. Actually I never even really considered that the monsters might all be conscious inside of the book similar to the book of e-ville. So maybe it does matter how long they are in the book if she doesn't want to annoy them.

On subsequent reads, I'm left wondering: how does Gwynn heal from wounds? DOES she heal?

Also, if she doesn't have to eat but she can... where does the food go?

Yes and no. The spirit remains as long as a piece of the "Book" remains. When they meet Siphy II for the first time, they set her on fire. All that Ozzid recovers is a small piece of paper, which eventually finds its way into the Book of Uhglëë along with Ozzid. When Gwynn tries to revive her from the Book, her mind is still gone and so is her flesh (which had burned away). Yet her whole "body" was retrieved from that small bit of paper. That incident suggests that Gwynn cannot heal, although it may take a lot to kill her outright.

Edda had Siphy II calmed down at one point. Perhaps Pete allowed her to be "rescued" into the Book of Uhglëë for a reason, and eventually she will come out for a longer discussion. If so, can she (or Gwynn) alter her appearance to something more human? Gwynn can magic her own paper appearance to appear human, and I could imagine that magic can paper over any large wounds so that the gang would not necessarily see those wounds. That said, alt-Gwynn, Lady of the Book, wore a bandage after Reakk took a bite out of her shoulder. So maybe not?

Not sure how Siphy's *checks notes* almost complete regeneration from a scrap of paper suggests that Gwynn can't heal. Isn't that kind of like saying Deadpool's face suggests Wolverine can't heal? I mean that's almost too on the nose. Isn't your whole basis for saying her flesh is gone that her face looks different from when she was first introduced? Because she didn't have a whole lot of flesh on her before the fire.

My points were that, yes, (1) given that Siphy could be resurrected from a single scrap of paper, Gwynn is in many ways indestructible (or nearly so).

Yes, Siphy was mostly in paper form when we saw her at the sinkhole, but she had a human face. When Gwynn tried to pull her out of the Book of Uhglëë, she no longer had flesh on that face (presumably burned away). Couple that with Alt-Gwynn's bandage on her wound, even when she was human (not paper) in appearance, these incomplete resurrections imply (2) there may be limits to the healing.

Granted, the limit simply may be time. Perhaps the next time (if there is a next time) we see Siphy, she will have a face again. Perhaps not. We don't have enough evidence to know whether there are limits to Gwynn's self-healing powers.

The answer would lie in CheeseWhisperer's first question: How does Gwynn heal from wounds?

I presume magic is used to make her appear human in form (as opposed to her "natural" paper appearance). Why wouldn't that same magic appear to make her whole? That is, why does alt-Gwynn need a bandage on her shoulder at all? That's the part that makes me think there may be limits. Whether there are any other limits besides time has yet to be revealed...

But a normal person can heal and they wear bandages on their wounds too. I'm unconvinced.

Well that example would fit under "time" being the limit, wouldn't it? If that's the case, I'm not sure what you're unconvinced of...

But to follow up on your example, a normal person can't alter their appearance. Gwynn and Alt-Gwynn can. They both can present to the rest of the world as a normal person. If they can paper over the reality that they are now just books, just paper, then why wouldn't they present as human beings without a wound? If the only limit on healing is time, then perhaps there is simply a limit on the magic, with the magic manifesting an intrinsic wound to appear as it would if a normal person had a "similar" wound.

That all said, there is also a possibility her ability to heal is limited, whether you are convinced it is a possibility or not. We have insufficient data to determine the correct option.

Whenever I run out of paper, I just add new pages to my binder.

Since she isn't books shaped, I suggest that she just drink paper pulp. Or maybe try some photosynthesis.

Why book if not book shaped?

Wizard did it.

I've been gone awhile, but I'm caught back up now shirt-guy Tom made me smile!