Comic for Monday, April 26th, 2021
I think the Families have something of a fondness for alliterative names (Artem Ardunni being the latest example). If one gets the feeling that…
- Artem is not excessively fond of Camilla.
- Naomi is riling Camilla up in the 3rd panel.
- or Artem is trying to get Arkady in trouble in the last panel.
…all of those feelings would be entirely correct.
I feel like I should also mention that the condition of Artem, while meriting going to a hospital, is not as dire to them as more normal person would treat it. He is kid, but he’s also a full blooded member of the Families, and at minimum they are fairly resilient. As Arkady sort of interjects, they should be taking him to the hospital rather than bickering, but I don’t think it would be as urgent in their minds as it might seem like it should be to a reader.
The politics of the situation are somewhat complicated. Camilla drastically outranks Artem as she is a Family head and he isn’t even the heir of his family, but for various reasons it would be fairly impractical for her to pull rank on him or want to cause trouble with the Arduni family, which Artem knows. Arkady is also not the heir the of Ardunni, so while he’s Artem’s older brother, he doesn’t necessarily outrank him in a political sense. It’s mostly just the case that Artem knows he can get away with saying basically whatever… he is technically correct, and given the circumstances, Ashvalt would be incredibly unlikely to hold basically whatever against Naomi… and Artem thinks basically the world of Naomi and Kally right now, given that not only did they help him, but as far as he is concerned Kally is essentially untouchable – while he was initially more than a little scared of Kally’s dragon, after riding it he mostly just impressed.
That said, technically Naomi did not punch a Family heir through a wall. Artem is exaggerating somewhat, I just feel I should point out his an intentionally unreliable narrator there to avoid confusion.
As can probably be gathered from the context here, Artem wasn’t the only person attacked; Arkady was also attacked, and it seems like Camilla was too, though Camilla’s assessment is probably accurate – unless she was attacked by one of the family heads, the goal would just be to slow her down, as there’s only a handful of rogue family members that’d pose much of a threat – even in terms of just assassination she’d be a pretty horrible target without more of a plan… at very least they’d have more important targets with higher success chances.
I suspect we may see another instance of this soon…
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To be fair, Camilla should be more grateful to Naomi – she presumably just doesn’t know that. after all, Ila was sent because Arkady was a naomifriend, not a ilafriend; she stopped him getting shot in that elevator, too.
This was supposed to be a respond to Ferrus.
If the black dye won’t wash off, Naomi ought to just re-dye her hair with purple dye…
She can just claim its a really, really deep purple. A lot of “black” hair dyes are…
Here’s a link to the Paul Whiteman 1934 recording of the appropriate background muisc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9g7rPpgWyo
Even better thought – Ashvalt is the actual target of the assassin. Mium and Ila just ‘accidentally’ happen to have just met him.
I have the feeling that probably Ashvalt was likely deliberately not directly targetted. Someone who has a reputation for being a fierce duelist is probably inherently intimidating to any would-be assassin, even if they have a few extra would-be assassins to back them up.
Ok, in a way, Ashvalt is the target, since they’re going after his family. But it seems like they thought that the best way to go after him would be to do the indirect attack, so that when it was time to face them, he wouldn’t hesitate or hold back and they probably wouldn’t feel a thing as they went to the next world.
Um, at some point, that plan may have shifted a bit from what they’d originally intended.
Well it IS true that Saraine told Kally that the “bait” wasn’t arranged for her; I suspect Saraine experienced an unexpected instance of Maxim 47, shortly before she became a target of opportunity….
I LIKE this kid. ^^
Curious now to see what would happen if he was left unsupervised in the company of Ila….
Brilliant! There’s no possible way THAT could go wrong!
Muahahaha!
Naomi isn’t known for being good at shopping though.
A little hero worship of her DOES seem appropriate at this point; after all, he is young, and she arrived like a paladin in time of need.
The OP sidekick with an actual DRAGON doesn’t hurt, either 😀
The correct response to Fluffy is cautious admiration.
Even if you are on the wrong side.
It isn’t worth running, you just die tired.
Scene 8: Arkady
Who is Arkday?
When i read that, i was thinking, have i pronounced his name wrong this entire time?
Fixed, thanks 🙂
Reading through the Commentary… Now that you’ve decided Arkady’s surname, you’ll need to decide his family name: Ardunni or Arduni?
Arkady Ardunni alias Arkday Arduni.
Maybe when they go shopping they can stop and get someone’s hair dyed back to correct color? I find the image of the mighty Kallisto Summers getting her hair and nails done quite amusing – especially if girl talk ensues and someone asks her about what’s up between her and Peter.
Various people reacting to her all done up and fancy looking could be fun later on too…
I feel like it’d probably be a really good idea, from a legal standpoint, for Naomi to fix her hair in private, rather than having it handled professionally.
I mean, OK, if she could do a good job of playing the roll of a would be Naomi Attarah impersonator, sure. But I think she’s just too naturally good at being Naomi Attarah to manage that. She’s just not that good at “accidentally” failing to be herself from time to time. Though, to be fair, on the other hand, she is herself, rather than her public image, and sometimes that does count for something.
I just had a fun thought reading the commentary. Someone the Rogue families want to assassinate…? Someone they have already tried to assassinate…? Perhaps… someone who Mium and Ila just so happened to be set up to be visiting?
This should be a good time.
I almost feel bad for those assassins. Running into Naomi and Kally while you are trying to kidnap someone…? That’s bad. Running into Mium and Ila? You should probably just delete yourself.
PS. Been awhile since I comment, but still glued to every page. Keep up the good work!