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You wanted kitten pictures. There's only three of them now (see the Sad thread), but there's still kitten pictures. So little...

Glad to hear things have been going well today! May you have many more productive days and fun windings-down.

Trying to wind down after having written music all day long. I've been busy, and I've also been wearing myself out. Creativity does that to you.

Maybe not though, would Jerry think that Immortals owed Susan a debt if Helena and Demetrius were just simply bending the rules? He didn't know that they did anything until he met Susan, Grace and Sarah. Immortals might rely on just observation to determine if another Immortal has crossed any lines. In the case of Pandora, marking people without their knowledge is worse than what Helena and Demetrius did to Susan and Nanase. Especially in the case of Dex where she pretty much had control of him through that pendant.

Yes, overriding a being's free will to the point where they will obey a command to commit suicide is likely one of the most heinous things that Immortals can do to non-Immortals.

EAT .44 MAGNUM MARSHMALLOWS! Such as the plot of the first Half-Life game. Extremely popular FPS, but the plot is somewhat... incoherent at best. Ross Scott's excellent serial Freeman's Mind spends a good deal of time making fun of some of its worst inconsistencies. (If you should happen to try it, the first three episodes are the slowest due to basically being the very long trailer of the game, but after that it speeds up and never slows down till the end. Be warned: it is LONG. Also, you may risk laughing. A lot.)

Yes. Jerry doesn't consider the immortal rules to be sufficient to judge behaviour. He don't think that just because Helena and Demetrius didn't broke the rules they behaved correctly.

Except they may sort of lack any proof. I definitely hope they tell Edward, but convincing Arthur Arthur might be too hard ... I think he lied when he said he's ancient. That, or it's really just different name for same being with the rules they need to follow being different on the two sides of universe. That said, Pandora used Sirleck, Colonel Sanders might be using vampires. It's not like they survival needs to be part of plan. Meanwhile, I'm not sure where would Sirleck get the sort of influence needed for this plan. Interesting. Perhaps she is enjoying the thought of being able to solve the issue by striking at a single weak point (the "puppet master" who is manipulating the Vampires) instead of having to play whack-a-mole with potentially dozens of monsters over a span of weeks. Who wouldn't? The world is not as black & white as fairy tales for children claims. You rarely find the kind of hero who is always nice and never harms anyone outside cemetery. She's likely disappointed there is noone she could disembowel for holding Andrea captive, and look, someone volunteered to take the role of replacement. Anyone sending vampires into city is certainly evil and therefore valid target.

@Tuxfanturnip that avatar is totes adorable. Also, I'm pretty sure that it was also mentioned in something Game Theory adjacent that surviving said double-tap would explain the Courier's abrupt personality shift.

That expression in the last panel? Absolutely Tara-fying. Yes, you all are allowed to clobber me for that one.

A completely random thought of mine. I have for a while been wondering if Sirleck has a disgruntled ex out there named Madamleck.

No we don't. We only know that she knows more than we know she knows, which is already way more than Nanase know she knows. ... that makes sense. I mean, I still think Mrs. Kitsune don't like her daughter hunting monsters, but yes, it's entirely possible she realized she can't do anything against that ... she DID sent her to the school Raven teaches in, after all ... It was SUSAN who was sent there couple years earlier. Nanase actually known enough french to go there without parent intervention. You forgot to mention one assumption you are making: that she wasn't aware that there are magic-users who are actively hunting her daughter BEFORE. Despite her "I don't have a sister", she knows much more about Noriko than we do. ... maybe her reaction to Ellen dating her daughter would be worse if Ellen wouldn't be magic user. She likely tried to keep her away from Tedd before, but now she seem to gave up that plan and might be scheming to empower the Main Eight ... (About the "aware of her friends being magic-users" ... well, even if not directly told, she likely could realize what Greg's training is doing. So we can assume she knows about Elliot, Ellen and Justin being magic-users or on the way to becoming them, and she likely knows about Susan. Not sure what she thinks about Tedd. Not sure if she knows Sarah and Grace at all - she may not even know about them being Nanase's friends - wait. She gave Nanase the task of helping Tedd courting Grace.)