Comic for Monday, April 1st, 2019
Sorry people… no April Fools comics and what not… I can barely keep up with normal comics right now.
But we do (technically) have a buffer again, as I posted the full page on patreon, and will do the half pages here. I do hate to split action pages, but I really do like to have a buffer, so these views had to duke it out, and I decided posting the full page and skipping Thursday would be the irresponsible way of living life.
I’m going to be honest here that Kally’s dialogue on this page was originally a tad more serious, but as I was writing it, I had to look in my heart of hearts and decide which would piss Kally off more – telling her you wanted to kill her, or calling her dragon an abomination, and the answer was obvious 🙂
I realize reading now that calling people from Kor’s World “Korish” and one of the factions that exists is called “Orish” is… uh… a bad idea. But it made sense when I typed it she would say it that way, as Kor’s World Monster is a mouthful.
We have actually seen both Kor’s World Soldiers and Kally use the whole “fling a bunch of rubble” attack – the Kor’s World Soldier once buried Naomi that way, and Kally used it again a the remote tank things dropped on Levenworth. The magic is very well suited to Kally due it being a zone of control magic, and is one of her frequent go-to uses of magic when not applying dragons to things. While that sort of magic wasn’t powerful enough to beat Naomi in airball, it probably would have worked better if they were playing with 100 balls. Currently visibility is a tad poor for the sort of longer range attacks people were using earlier, all the mass exploding has sort of made things a mess.
As I’ve mentioned before… hand gestures are entirely pointless, but mages, particularly natural mages, tend to do them anyway. Especially ones that tend to be more dramatic about things like Kally.
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I think we have enough A’Fool with the Korish genius right there. ^.^
Is the first panel Atter the dragon (reforming) getting hit with one of the Kor’s world red rod constructs??? Otherwise I’m confused.
On March 25, Fluffy hit Atter and broke him into at least 3 pieces. But the pieces reformed themselves into new monsters. Fluffy thought he missed, but Kally reassured him he did a great job.
Today in the first panel, we see Fluffy the dragon attacks again in the first panel and hit one of the pieces. The second panel is definitely Fluffy, as he has green eyes.
I do understand your confusion, as the second panel doesn’t seem to have a point. Perhaps PastUtopia is trying to show the first piece of Atter was successfully erased?
P.S. What you’re calling one panel is actually two panels
Is there a forum for speculation? Something’s occurred to me and I want to ask if I could be right or not, but I don’t want to give away any surprises either (assuming I’m right, of course).
I’m pretty sure that’s what we do here.
Heh. Ok. What are the chances that Kally is also a red construct?
Weak points:
1. She has a family, but perhaps she is an upload or maybe an adoption.
2. She was knocked out by gas, but maybe it was gas designed for red constructs.
3. She was almost arrested, but maybe the restraints were designed for red constructs.
Strong points:
1. Flashback comics show she has problems understanding money, holidays, and civilian lifestyle.
2. We’ve never seen her injured.
3. She summons a self-directing red construct.
4. Her boyfriend ran away to study AIs. Almost as if he wanted to determine if constructs could love.
5. She was under the direction/authority of Sophie at the same time as Atter.
6. Sophie is known as the ‘demon summoning sorceress’. Titles like that typically mean that you’ve done it more than once. Atter is one, so is Kally perhaps the other?
7. Her brother is afraid of her.
8. Central was attacked by Kor’s World. Kor’s World goes after AIs and red construct ‘infection’ events. But people are stunned/terrified of Mium. So Central doesn’t have AIs like Mium yet. So it’s likely it was a red construct infection event. But Atter doesn’t qualify as an infection by himself. Because if he did, Central would never have kept him.
It’s all circumstantial so far. Is there anything I’m missing that would prove/disprove my speculation?
Kally had lunch with Peter, Naomi, Ila, Mione, Arkady, and Lisa. Eating food makes you human, right? (Or whatever Ila & Mium are… artificial humans?)
Also if you read the Minus Years, you’d know Kally sleeps. And feels the cold… so wears a puffy jacket with the hood up to keep warm.
Did you ever consider Atter might be a human who has transferred his consciousness to a red construct: possibly as a result of wanting not to die? Instead of dying, he repaired his body with red construct, and inadvertently became a sentient red construct… fits nicely with the previous body he inhabited. It does raise the question of what his anchor is…
It’s been mentioned that Sophie is anchoring Atter. We don’t know that for certain, but it’s very likely.
I didn’t really consider if Atter was an upload or not. If he wasn’t, he needs to be put down. If he was …well, he needs to be put down. I guess the only difference it would make is if we feel bad for him after he’s dead or not.
Good catches on the eating and the cold. Not saying that’s 100% proof, but good enough to make me think PastUtopia is not going to hit us with a shocking reveal. 🙂
If you want to bet on someone in the main cast being a construct in disguise I’d say bet on Naomi. she’s the one who heals super fast, displays stupid physical capability and when pushing shows glowing tron lines.
The strongest evidence I can think of that Naomi isn’t a construct is that she bleeds. I don’t think we’ve ever seen Atter bleed.
I wasn’t saying she was one, I was saying she is the mostly like major character we’ve seen.
Hey, Kally! Peter hacked the Kor’s World communications link and wanted you to know that they assigned your dragon the call sign “Fluffy”.
Also: here’s another indicator that Kor’s World suffered some sort of massive devastation due to red constructs. You don’t just randomly assign the word ‘abomination’. Definitely a sign of mental trauma or terror.
Eh, Korish/Orish is more clear than Sauron/Saruman, IMO.
It’s less hard to distinguish than it would seem, I think; the K makes them sufficiently distinct, as the first letter.
I’d also say calling the Korish gentleman a Kor’s World Monster would probably not go over very well. If Kally wants any chance to resolve this peacefully, she’ll need to be more diplomatic than that. Like she’s doing.
What? They’re not getting along? Are you sure? I used to know a couple of guys who were best friends and would routinely greet each other more or less like this. I mean, they didn’t use magic to throw large amounts of rubble at each other, but they did throw things themselves sometimes.
I suspect that things will go better between the Korish guy and Kally once Atter has had a moment to pull himself together. Though, admittedly, not much.
“I realize reading now that calling people from Kor’s World “Korish” and one of the factions that exists is called “Orish” is… uh… a bad idea. But it made sense when I typed it she would say it that way, as Kor’s World Monster is a mouthful.”
While story wise people try to avoid that in fantasy, in the real world… well, let’s just say people don’t go out of their way to avoid countries and nationalities sounding ridiculously similar.
I’ve met two people from Georgia who were born thousands of miles apart. And I know another person who asked the latter of the two, despite their thick Georgian accent that was quite different from the thick Georgian accent of the other Georgia native, if they were from somewhere near Atlanta, where the first had been from. I think the point of that anecdote was it can be confusing in the real world, too.
And the Georgia that doesn’t have Atlanta contains the area formerly known as ‘Colchis’, which might have been visited (if the source that includes her among the Argonauts was correct) by the heroine Atalanta….
Maybe replace Korish Monster with Kor Dog? Monsters are scary, and I’m not sure if Kally is scared of the Kor’s World soldier.
“Kor’s dog” is already used, by Otte, referring to Ricci attacking one of them with a shovel.
Though Ricci called them Korish curs, when referring to Sophie and Arron’s experience fighting a war against them, so “Korish” is also pre-established.