May24
Some minions just want to watch the world burn
on May 24, 2013 at 12:00 amCharacters: Blank, Princess Veronika
Courtney:
Happy Friday! This comic is really simple, and green. …Simple and green is the way that you’re making me feel tonight, it’s hard to let it go
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You know, I’m curious as to what the relationship between these two really is. We know Blank loves her, and she’s indifferent, but how much of a business-as-usual attitude do they maintain when they meet? Do they ever encounter each other outside of all the evil villain plots? What does she really think of him – just the guy who rescues her in the same way the butler serves a drink, or an irritating stalker with a crush? It seems like there’s more to them than you’re letting on
We’ll leave it up to your imagination for now. It’s a big part of Veronika’s character that she keeps her true feelings and thoughts so suppressed, so I don’t want to speak too much about her. There will be many more chances to see these two interact in the future!
That song. Every single time that’s the exact mondegreen my friend heard. It was quite amusing. Incidentally, I like her crown, and I like his hat. Headgear for all!
Haha, really?
I love mondegreens. You know, my pseudonym is based on one. My favorite musician, Andrew Bird, has a song called Fiery Crash with the line “it’s a nod to mortality” but I always thought it was “it’s an alter mentality” until I looked up the lyrics. He’s always making up words and throwing strange ones together, so it didn’t seem out of place.
WhoaaaaAAAA, an explanation to your previous name on this site, and also devientart. I AM LEARNING.
You-You just… “simple and green”. Lovely~
I like Veronika’s doorknob…though it might hurt to actually use. And I’m actually really fond of her bird motifs over all!
…also, I survived thanks to your advice. Thanks again, for like the millionth time!
I think it might not be a knob, and more of a thing you pull to open the door.
When’s the last time there’s been a non-dungeon locked door in a Zelda gam, after all?
…that’s a really good point. XD
Yeah, I don’t think it can lock. Maybe most of the doors in the castle don’t, because the castle is supposed to be hard to get into in the first place, and trust should prevail within its walls. Also, the princess especially wouldn’t have locking chambers, so that she can easily be “checked on”, “warned”, and “saved”… Why no, it is NOT fun to be her.
I’m glad to hear it
So that doorknob… do you grab the neck and pull the beak down with your thumb? Is it like one of those door-lever knobs?
And did a guy running away from the Ecta Posse faceplant into the ground?
I think that is supposed to be a flish.
I think it’s a peacock. Then again, I thought the butterfly wallpaper was vines.
Heehee. Falx means “face-planting guy” is a flish, which indeed it is. (A good, non-Skärva-affiliated flish.) Although I kind of like the idea of it being a guy who tripped
The door knocker is indeed a peacock. You do grab it by the neck, and I didn’t really think about it having a lever mechanism, but why not! That’s cool.
So you grab the peacock by its neck and yank on it every time you want to enter or leave the room?
Seems a bit cruel, don’t you think?
It is awful how little Veronica believes in Blank’s ability…
Look at his track record, though. I’m sure she believed in him in the beginning, but after a while it’s hard to put faith in the kidnapping-prevention abilities of the guy who always fails to prevent the kidnapping.
Well, he is only one guy…
To be fair, she has absolutely no doubt whatsoever that he’ll save her. And also, he’s usually not around when she gets kidnapped. He’s not on constant princess-watch (although he wouldn’t mind).
Since “You Can’t Stop Stage One”,has Skærva ever tried one of those plots where ‘doing the evil’ is the stage one, and there’s nothing beyond that? Burning down the capitol seems like a pretty good way to defeat Blank, and he wouldn’t have to rent dungeons or anything. He’d be breaking the meta a bit, but some things just can’t be fixed by going off and adventuring.
That’s true. However, Skärva’s plots have turned into a vendetta against Blank personally, both as revenge for all the prior defeats and to make a point: the gods’ accursed versus the gods’ beloved. Blank wouldn’t be able to reverse such destruction, but he wouldn’t be “defeated” exactly.
And Skärva doesn’t want to do too much damage to Idenau. He wants to rule it someday, after all!
What is the name for the character that takes the place of the “R” in “Fourth” for your guys’ banner? It reminds me of a Chi Ro and Staurogram…which is further compounded by the fact that you guys use purple and gold…
The, um, number 4 with a stick in it so it looks like a backwards R… At least that is how I always interpreted it.
Falx is right again. It is a backwards R that is also a 4.
I promise there’s no Da Vinci Code stuff or intentional real-world religious symbolism going on in this comic.
Although.
Numbers 14:18
“The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.”
(I didn’t know about this until long after we had started the comic)
Hmm. I wonder if the gods consider Skarva (or his father (or his father’s father)) to be evil enough to have cursed them on their own merits…
Not the Second, mabye the Third, and too soon to know about the Fourth.
She’s so… resigned to her fate. I’m expecting her to pick up a sword any day now and start slaughtering minions left and right. Blood everywhere, y’no. After all, does Blank actually *have* to save her? Isn’t she capable of saving herself?
Maybe it’s a tradition? Generations upon generations of kidnapped princes and princesses being rescued from villains.
It might even be frowned on to have a royal kidnapee defend themselves, since OBVIOUSLY it is the will of the gods that they be rescued by the CHOSEN ONE.
To be fair, Skärva and Derk are powerful guys, and in a Skärva vs. Veronika fight he would certainly win. However, they don’t want to hurt each other.
Blank can defeat Skärva and all his minions with ease because he’s blessed and chosen to do so.
Of course, she IS resigned to her fate. Being kidnapped is no worse than being cooped up in the royal castle and surrounded by servants.
Other than all the Pink, of course.
Maybe she should pack some new decorations?
And I’m sure Lord Skaerva would be generous enough to have one of his minions kidnap somebody to paint her room.
Okay, maybe not. But she could try.
The irony is that Skärva was trying to be courteous. He just assumed that she liked pink, being a princess. He had some minions go through the effort to make it “hospitable” for her…
I presumed he had it done in pink on purpose, to aggravate her. After all, prisons are supposed to be filled with stuff you loath, right?
I bought some birdcage earrings the other day, and thought of Veronika, actually.
…..did you guys ever specify how old Blank and Veronika are? Sorry if someone’s already asked that, but I’m curious.
Sounds about right
Blank is about 18, Veronika is slightly older. I originally pictured her being in her late 20s, but we decided that we didn’t want her brushing off of Blank to be an age difference thing.
The characters’ specific ages don’t really matter so much to us, but they fall into these categories:
??? but young: Lorelei
late teens/early 20s: Blank, Veronika
Mid 20s: Floyd, Slice and Davis
Late 20s: Derk (who is a bit younger than) Skärva, Cyril, Ecta and Posthumous (when they died, obviously)
wow she has so much faith in that guy.
I find her lack of faith amusing.
Wow, the minions went from smashing pots to burning down buildings?
Or maybe was someone SO frightened by the four that they knocked a candle over?
There are more minions than just our Gang of Four here in the city. They have arrived on the scene just to marvel at the chaos.
I can just see her sitting there thinking “WHY ISN’T HE HERE YET!? THERE’S THE BLEEPING KIDNAPPING AUGH I can be doing so many other things beside SITTING HERE”
and then Blanks comes back and is like “wait, you’re still here?”
and Blank is apparently self-concious about his height too, don’t worry Blank, Skarva can see over a lot of people’s heads…