Enh, not really. The real danger of Dave going mad in the lab was really that the person who otherwise would have been in a perfect position to support and restrain him through the violent transition… had also been lying to and experimenting on him for the last six years.

From the sounds of it, Rosalind’s relationship with her parents is … much more traditionally loving and supportive than, say, Helen’s with Dr. Narbon. In fact, just from the general disposition of mad scientists, Rosalind might be the very first — or at least, the first in a very long time — child of mad scientist parents who knew what they were getting into and also were at least sufficiently decent people not to abuse their kid.

… At least, I hope not. The stuff that’s kind of comedic between Helen and Dave is really really really not when it’s between them and their daughter >.>. But from the way she talks about her parents, I’m guessing not. At the least, whatever shenanigans go on in that household is within Rosalind’s own bounds, which I guess is good enough.

This universe’s Rosalind is left-handed (see Saturday); so the question should whether her mirror-universe double is right-handed…

Causal loops are a very powerful means of making something exist, especially if it’s a human. In Homestuck, as an extreme example, they’re used to explain the existence of every major character from birth onward. While today’s strip is a more modest example, it’s still the case that there’s something magical about creating something from nothing – that her existence is, if not divine intervention, then the work of scientist-gods at least.