Merry Christmas (probably by the time you see this comic). Or your local winter holiday of choice. Or at least hopefully day off work.
So many words this time around. I think as I’ve gotten more used to writing with more space for words, I use more words, and the spiraling loop continues until all the potential space for words is filled. It’d be hard to imagine going back to not breaking out of the boxes with the words again like I used to do.
See you in 2025
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What’s the age gap between the Consul and Peter?
Could the title of “queen’s consort” get someone diplomatic protections that “head of Malsa’s MSB” wouldn’t?
I’m guessing this Peter is some Mium wearing an illusion that would be consumed by Naomi sucking up ambient mana if she were too close.
The odd thing I see about Peter is that he’s explaining stuff.
But then, he always does that with the consul.
Makes me wonder if that’s his own awareness or if Mium is feeding him his lines …
As for Peter’s lines here, specifically his last bubble: Should “barging and grabbing me” be “barging IN and grabbing me”?
The barbarian queen’s 1st bubble is causing me trouble. I think “to” has too few letters in it.
Thank you, Past, I always enjoy your comic.
Merry Christmas!
Happy Santa Hat Day
Typo in panel 3: frothing the mouth -> frothing AT the mouth
So apparently there’s *something* odd with Peter that Naomi’s noticed.
He might be an illusion, or carrying a lot of tactical hardware – or maybe it’s actually Mium in a disguise and running a personality emulation.
Either way, I assume his ‘detention’ won’t stick very long at all…
He isn’t an illusion (or a pure illusion), since he shook hands with the Consul. Probably not tactical hardware, since Naomi isn’t the most tech savvy person around and Central’s magitech cannot store magic (normally, at least). Whatever it is is probably magical or magic adacent, as she was able to see through invisibility and other sense others magical output, and Peter knows this and this is why he is specifically avoiding her.
So it could be MIUM dressing up (either acting as a guide or emulation or whatever) or possibly a less advanced robot (either run by magic or lacking Peter’s innate magic)? I don’t know, there doesn’t seem to be enough context clues yet.
Shaking hands doesn’t really mean much. His illusions work by telling people what they should be sensing and letting their minds fill in the blanks. Remember how “Control” decided to blow itself up because it couldn’t tell which Peter was real (presumably neither).