Comments on: A small follow-up to Claymore 8

By: cansu

cansu — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:27:09 +0000

is a beatifull! i love pricilla:)

By: ranon

ranon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:57:46 +0000

i agree with Dracobaby Teresa wouldnt have died if she kept her guard up and used more than just 10% of her Yoki she would be able to block priscillas dirty attack and even defeat her but she was too kind hearted for her own good and let her guard down

By: Dracobaby17

Dracobaby17 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:26:52 +0000

I think that Theresa was stronger than the awakened Priscilla. When using 10% of her yoki, she was able to defeat Priscilla who had released more than 70% of her yoki. Do not forget guys, that Theresa could sense yoma energy like no other Claymore; She could sense the power lying deep within Priscilla and more than likely she had a good, but not exact, mental estimate of what Priscilla’s power would be at 100%. If I had to estimate, I think that Theresa would have been able to defeat the awakened Priscilla with no more that 50%, if that much, of her yoki.
Theresa let her guard down because the thought that Priscilla was vulnerable and she fell for Priscilla’s dirty tactic. The reason why Teresa was killed was because she had dropped her defenses and not braced herself in time for the attack. If Theresa had not lowered her guard, she would have quickly raised her yoki to suppliment her speed and blocked Priscilla’s attack. If she had not let her guard down, there is no way that Priscilla would have been able to defeat her, awakened or not. Remember when Ilene said that she sensed two enormous yoki, but one was greater than the other, it may have been either Priscilla or Theresa’s yoki. Theresa had proven Ilene’s statement false about her speed, strength and agility being less than Ilene, Sophia and Noelle’s respectively. This was proven when Ilene realized that she had ‘underestimated Theresa once again’. Also, Theresa defeated the awakened former number one, Rosemary, by releasing only 10% of her yoki.
I am not comparing Priscilla’s power to the Abyssal ones, because as Riful said (when referring to Priscilla and speaking to Duff) ‘that woman is far stronger than us’. Priscilla was in a category by herself and so was Theresa, but I think that Theresa’s experience, maturity and ultimately her power, put her in a class above Priscilla. As I said before and will say once again, Priscilla would not have been able to defeat Theresa whether she had awakened or not.

By: Zeru

Zeru — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:33:38 +0000

Let us just say that the world of Claymore is not as black and white as it may seem.

Priscilla was indeed set up to be hated for the death of Teresa, but do not be so quick to think that Claymore Priscilla willingly did what she did at that time,

Awakened Beings act very differently from their normal mindset, Awakening is basically losing to your Yoma-half’s willpower, it is quite possible Human Priscilla had completely vanished at this point, or simply been suppressed to the point where she could not control herself anymore..

By: Azure

Azure — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:39:01 +0000

One more bit to add, I think Teresa, as a character, serves to develop both Clare and Priscilla as the main protagonist and antagonist in the show. Teresa’s death gives Clare a righteous cause and gives reason behind the plot of Claymore. What’s most interesting is that the writers/producers must have intentionally made Teresa such an admirable character, which makes her death all the more tragic and outrageous. This sets up Priscilla as the “prime evil” in the anime and her act of ultimate villainy (along with the underhanded tactics) have certainly left many viewers wishing for her demise.

By: Azure

Azure — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:08:19 +0000

“When Irene sensed two massive Yoki Auras, make no mistake Priscilla’s was the larger one, which is why Irene was amazed that Teresa could deflect her with so little power.”

Why did you say “make no mistake?” What makes you so sure that Priscilla’s was the larger one? The way Irene said it, that she wasn’t sure which was which, made it clear that the intended effect was to leave it ambiguous. Irene was amazed that Teresa could fight evenly with Priscilla because of the percentage issue, where Teresa was fighting at 10% whereas Priscilla was fighting near her limit. There was a lot of talk about Priscilla’s “latent potential,” but I would agree with nekosasu that the “eventually” stated in the anime referred to a later time (perhaps during Clare’s generation). In the end, however, it would be pretentious to claim that either Teresa or Priscilla would have won the battle if they had both awakened or if the grossly underhanded tactics were not used. The anime evidently wanted to leave it ambiguous, maybe for the aesthetic effect, or perhaps they will shed some light later on.

Either way, inserting my own bias now, Teresa was the reason I became interested with the anime so I admit it was rather disheartening to see her die. Of course, that’s what makes the scene in episode 10 such an unforgettable moment, and as the producers may have intended, it made Claymore memorable as well. There wouldn’t be so much discussion about Claymore if Teresa had not died and the fans were not outraged.

By: yooruu

yooruu — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:10:23 +0000

Wow this is the most intelligent discussion of the episode I’ve seen on any blogs so far – nice work! :D Despite justifying the logical components of Teresa’s downfall, I think it was one of the most depressing moments when Teresa had that surprised look when Priscilla cut her head off. I think it reflects how much power Priscilla has, as others were in pain and had no control during Awakening, but she still maintained enough control over her movements to kill Teresa.

Also, I will say that later episodes will point out the significant difference between Awakened Priscilla and Clare… unfortunately.

By: nekosasu

nekosasu — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:22:01 +0000

Exactly my point. :D

By: Zeru

Zeru — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:27:39 +0000

Just to finish up this talk here, (did not notice I got a response down here), Teresa was only defeating Priscilla at 10%vs70% because of 2 reasons, Teresa had a much larger amount of experience and Priscilla was berserk, despite what some anime teacher us being berzerk is a huge disadvantage against a skilled opponent. When Irene sensed two massive Yoki Auras, make no mistake Priscilla’s was the larger one, which is why Irene was amazed that Teresa could deflect her with so little power. Once Priscilla awakened the power advantage she had became overwhelming, and she was no longer berzerk. Teresa could have finished her off at any point before she awakened yes, but once she did it was hopeless. Teresa could have awakaned herself, but still would have lost to Awakaned Priscilla. As stated in episde 9 (by Rubel) all of Prisclla’s latent power came to light when she Awakened.

Clare also did play a very large part in Teresa’s downfall, but I do not think anyone could fautl her for that.

By: Gilberto I.S.

Gilberto I.S. — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:48:46 +0000

I don’t think Teresa would ‘awake’ that easily if she had fought the Awaked-Priscilla. She has too much self-control for that. Even if she were close to ‘awake’, probably loli-Clare would save her, in the same way Raki saved adult-Clare in Episode 4.

Thinking well, i believe the thing Claymores need the most for not ‘awake’ is a strong mind and/or something to hold her humanity. Elene (ep2) was Awaking because she herself said she had a weak mind; Priscilla Awaked because she was too imature and blind of rage for her sad past.Clare too, almost awaked in ep.4 because her human body – and by consequence her human mind – was too weak for being hurted so much.

About Clare’s feelings, i don’t blame her for what happened. How could she possibly know the Organization don’t like their “tools” having humans feelings? I don’t blame Teresa either. How could she be blamed for not being coward enough to kill an already defeated enemy crying and begging for clemency? Even Priscilla was not to be fully blamed here, because she was not ready yet for such big task.The only here to be fully blamed is the Organization, after all they gave an almost uncontrolable demoniac power to a child with really big emotional problems and sent her to fight an incrediblely powerful and vastly more experienced warrior with no big preparation at all! By all the effects, she was 10 years too early for such mission.

Still, maybe Clare is blaming herself for what happened…