Comic for Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025

[mlooney 3,768]

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Ah, great.  Back to my 4 least favorite characters.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,653]

 

Of course they know Chess. 

On their side of reality, the Musical was more successful than the concept album. 

 

[mlooney 3,768]

It's too early in the morning for musical theater jokes.  Like there is really any time for them.

[ijuin 609]

Voltaire is definitely taking advantage of the trio’s ignorance of local Immortal law here. I’m fairly certain that the new Law still does not allow him to simply punish them unilaterally without them agreeing to some sort of bargain with him first, so his “you are mine” claim is largely intimidation.

[Darth Fluffy 368]

Voltaire's grasp of ethics (rather, lack of a grasp of ethics) spells trouble for the three stooges. He seems to have justified to himself that they no longer have any rights whatsoever.

[ijuin 609]

Oh, he grasps ethics—it’s merely that he believes that he is justified in acting in a severely self-serving manner.

[mlooney 3,768]

1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Voltaire's grasp of ethics (rather, lack of a grasp of ethics) spells trouble for the three stooges.

“Let them fight”

Or to use a US official's statement during the Iran/Iraq war,  “Can both of them lose?”

[Darth Fluffy 368]

40 minutes ago, ijuin said:

Oh, he grasps ethics—it’s merely that he believes that he is justified in acting in a severely self-serving manner.

If you mean something along the lines of "He's a legend in his own mind.", then yes, he understands his own rationalized ethics, much as the <primary political thread subject> understands ethics. Granted, Voltaire may be insane, but he's apparently operating with more than a toddler's grasp of issues. If our world is any indication, this will not end well for him. 

[Darth Fluffy 368]

Seems Voltaire may be targeting people he thinks Pandora would care about; likely revenge for her ending Ragnarok.

[ijuin 609]

Taking down the Verres/Kitsune clan will also reduce the level of mortal oversight on him.

As for his final fate, I foresee the other Immortals enforcing a complete memory wipe on his new reset, in order to stop him from rebuilding his legacy.

[mlooney 3,768]

2 hours ago, ijuin said:

As for his final fate, I foresee the other Immortals enforcing a complete memory wipe on his new reset, in order to stop him from rebuilding his legacy.

Or we find that under the “new” rules, an immortal can actually be killed, not just reset.  He is starting to be more of a problem than Damien was.

[Amiable Dorsai 73]

Oh good, the Three Stooges misconceptions are being replaced by Voltaire's malevolence. I see no downside to this.

 

[mlooney 3,768]

8 hours ago, Amiable Dorsai said:

Oh good, the Three Stooges misconceptions are being replaced by Voltaire's malevolence. I see no downside to this.

 

Maybe they will all kill each other in an orgy of violence.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,653]

16 hours ago, mlooney said:

 He is starting to be more of a problem than Damien . . . 

 

 

Unless a significant plot twist is to be revealed, I am fairly confident Damian was Mortal. 

 

[Darth Fluffy 368]

9 hours ago, mlooney said:

Maybe they will all kill each other in an orgy of violence.

Po seems perhaps actually evil, perhaps arrogant but not malicious; Saou seems merely delusional, although his appearance suggests damage, perhaps due to altercations? Although Mist is along for the ride, and seems committed to serving Saou's agenda, but she is actually a sympathetic character with a moral code. I expect she'll survive whatever mayhem occurs.

[mlooney 3,768]

2 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

she is actually a sympathetic character with a moral code. I expect she'll survive whatever mayhem occurs.

All other comments aside, Mist's pronouns are He/Him

https://www.egscomics.com/comic/hope-007

[ijuin 609]

A thought on why Seyunolu are discriminated against by both Humans and Uryuom beyond just simple racism: most Seyunolu are less able as spellcasters then humans and less able as shapeshifters than Uryuoms (able to shift only through various mixtures of their ancestral forms). Mist is potent in his dream/illusion magic largely because of the Unicorn part of his heritage.

[Darth Fluffy 368]

9 hours ago, mlooney said:

All other comments aside, Mist's pronouns are He/Him

https://www.egscomics.com/comic/hope-007

Even in that picture, 'he' looks like a girl.

[mlooney 3,768]

4 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

Even in that picture, 'he' looks like a girl.

Yes, that's why DS included his pronouns

[Darth Fluffy 368]

I think I'll use 'it' and confuse everybody.

[mlooney 3,768]

2 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

I think I'll use 'it' and confuse everybody.

Well, “it” is nonhuman, so from a “certain point of view” that's correct.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,653]

 

As the slowest running kid in the neighborhood, I was "It" for most of my childhood. 

 

[mlooney 3,768]

1 hour ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

 

As the slowest running kid in the neighborhood, I was "It" for most of my childhood. 

 

So you became an ambush predator?