Character Questions 3
13 Feb 2015 · page 463 of 1306
Ben's still kinda sour, it took a long while to wash all that cider out.
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My thoughts exactly Mr. O'Malley.
Ah, silly Mal! Ya don't get it: when you face down the dangerous things that want to kill you it makes you look awesome, when you look awesome people like you, when people like you they wonder if you might like them back if they ever got a chance to meet you, thus facing down a demon makes people want to know who/what sort of person you like!
And while the question may have been for Wolfe, he's not the only one people are wondering about I'm sure.
Watch it, ladies and miscellanea, Wolfe's taken! Don't know by who, but he's taken, okay? Stop getting ideas! Everyody is taken, go home!
Anytime I see a Ship sailing by, I want to say that. "Everybody is taken! Go home!"
Also, I'm so revolted by my own use of the word "ship" in this context that I want to be ill.
Yeah, sea sickness is a real pain.
My limit on things-wishing-me-dead when it comes time to talk about myself is like five.
That's reasonable.
Ah Wolf is my kind of man... with agents of doom seeking death upon them, he shrugs it off with a smile and optimism.
Sour cider?
Just how do the British make cider?!... I jest, being stuck in a barrel of anything wouldn't be terribly pleasant. Poor Ben.
Nah, if the cider went sour, it was because Ben and his attitude made it turn. :P
Aha! Wolfe is pansexual. Different from bisexual in that they fall in the love with the mind/personality first.
Pansexual just means he'd be attracted to all genders as opposed to bisexuals being attracted to only two of them (cis man and cis woman), so for example pansexual would also be attracted to agender, intersex, genderfluid, transgender and other non-binary people (I also saw term spectrosexual for people attracted to more than two, but not all genders). I think you meant demisexual, that is sexually attracted only to people we have romantic relationship with. That's at least the definitions I learned and they seem constant with the etymologies.
There's also term sapiosexual thrown around, that is attracted (sexually?) to intelligence, but that sounds like people mixing romantic orientation with sexual orientation.
Oh, I didn't know that! Thanks for the info :) And no, I didn't mean intelligence; I meant who they are as a person.
Nah, Pansexual means you check out their cooking skills before making a long-term commitment.
I thought it meant that one was sexually attracted to cookware...
squee My question got responded to, if not answered, so I'll respect your supreme grouchiness, Ben. I would probably feel similarly if I had gone through that as well.
I LOVE O'malley's response to Wolfe's question as an aside. Gold!
Herr Voss,
Thank you very much for answering my query. The world can only be poorer for not having your talent -- however you may have acquired it -- add a much-needed musical voice to it. Take care.
Your obd't,
reynard61
Ahh, well deferred Herr Wolfe, given what we've seen so far of your line of work.
And best of luck Herr Voss.
I am most pleased by this final verification that Voss really does feel awful about it all and is hopefully on his way to becoming a better human being. <3 Also yes Mal exactly. And Ben.
Haha! I bet he'll go back to his father, now knowing the true value of a day's work.
That would make it a nice, round storyline. But I don't know if the German storytelling school is much for people returning home changed and better. What I remember of the Grimms' stories like this (There were a lot of "idiot goes to seek his fortune" stories.) was that the idiot character usually succeeded beyond his wildest dreams for slightly trumped-up reasons and ended up being king. So possibly this is the first of three stops on Voss's road to kingship? Now that he's helped Wolfe with his anger problem, he just needs to offer an old woman water and carry a potentially-grateful wolf across a river, and then use the clues they have given him to find the magical ring that will prove his claim to the throne.
I dunno, the (mostly German) fairy tales I've read leave him with around a 50/50 chance of being torn to shreds by that wolf instead or drowning with nary a word or moral afterwards, sooooo.... :P
There is that. But as he's already survived one Wolfe, is he likely to lose his life to another?
Also, he has a much better haircut.
I like the implication that stealing talents and plotting to blow up a bunch of people to release a Deadly takes second place to the indignity of being locked in a cider barrel.
Also, I love the way Florrie responds to my question. She's turned out to be pretty cool, what with being an indiscriminate reader who will punch a Deadly and jump into a theoretical battle between her sisters with gleeful enthusiasm. There are so many good characters in the comic I just can't pick a favorite anymore!
In the 19th century, chastity is a virtue.
In the 21st century, is it so rude to admit that one is strictly butter-side up?
Not at all! And how great is it that we can even talk about such things freely these days? :)
"...violin was nice. But I don't want anything to do with that whole...mess."
"...except maybe the violin."
Poor Nora must find her siblings stressful....
Are there really any Widdershins key-rings and such?
Some keyrings went out with the last kickstarter so they exist. Whether they're still available I don't know.
Oh, okay - I just never see them offered in the store.
The British don't talk to their neighbors? Keeping up Appearances lied to me all these years.
No, evidently, the British don't talk to their neighbours. Ms. Ashwin said nothing about their neighbors.
(Aside: I went back and forth between neighbor/neighbour and behavior/behaviour. Well played!)
Not talking to your neighbours is a Yorkshire thing. At least, if you are from Yorkshire and your neighbours aren't...
I'm saying, "Perhaps I will contemplate this when fewer things wish us dead" at the next opportunity.
Shouldn't the issue of Voss's vision be about his left eye? His right one wasn't the one that went wonky.
I think the question is: "So, the left one is a loss, but does the right one have any hope?"
I'm with Mal on the last one.
...That makes me wonder. How do Florrie and Nora get along? Given that Florrie is a noble (or something) and Nora is a maid, I'd presume that there'd be some social pressure on both of them to ignore the connection.
I don't think Florrie is noble, BTW, she is introduced as "Mrs." and a noblewoman would be "Lady."
But she is most fantabulously wealthy, so she's probably married to a successful businessman at the very least. Actually, that's a good point: does the existence of magic in this world weaken the class system?
Well, this is already mid-Victorian, where the class system had been catastrophically weakened by the "nabobs" or merchants who made fabulous fortunes trading abroad. Because they were as wealthy and influential as actual nobles and old families with grand estates, the balance had tipped in a very obvious way.
Would someone please calm down Mrs de Montfort before she starts selling tickets.
"... when fewer Things wish us dead".... looks like we'll be waiting a long time for an answer to that one then! :D
Mal: Have you had your 'gift' all your life? When/ how did you first realise it wasn't normal?
Wow! Wolfe finds the perfect way to say he'll answer that question when the Devil is selling Winter Carnival tickets!
Are we still allowed to ask questions? I'd ask if there are any other sisters, or even brothers, hanging around somewhere that we don't know about.
I'm doing the last set of questions already, but yours will be answered in the comic soon :)
I'm already imagining Maybe-Edmund being bookish and reclusive to the point of grouchiness, somewhat aloof and disdainful of his sisters on the whole, which has hurt Nora the most because she was the most enamoured of him in their childhood.
Hahahahaha hindsight is hilarious
If only I'd know they were [redacted in case of spoilers for future readers]! I would have had a completely different theory!
Nicola Barber: Have you always enjoyed the rough-and-tumble, gotta-catch-em-all lifestyle, or did you ever go through another phase/consider another occupation?
Come on Mal, sometimes when people face down demons and people trying to kill them, they like kissing a special person or people to make them feel better.
Voss: I think that they're asking "Why" in regards to everything you did... Why did you allow this to go as long as you did? (We have some inklings as to why it started...few would have had the strength of will to refuse Invidia once summoned at an Anchor the way you inadvertently summoned him...) I'm impressed that you found the courage (and yes, it was...) to actually resist Envy as you did. You have more in you as virtues than you give yourself credit. Shouldn't you contemplate that instead of the pity-party you've got going on?
Mal: I see it your way on that... You can face down the most dire mystical forces in the world...but they're more concerned with if you've got atypical interests and tastes in other areas? I'd be like you...really? Seriously? :-D
That last one, now that's a complex question. I mean, I am very definitely attracted to Wolfe, just not... sexually. He presumably has the wrong anatomy for that. But in all other regards, what's not to love in that man? He would be an excellent lifetime companion, as Mal no doubt agrees.