December 14th, 2018
14 Dec 2018 · page 859 of 1306
Two last-panel facepalms in a row is not a great sign, Knott
Cast: Eliza Swift, Parsley, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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Right, I'll just put down all of them...
Don't forget the entire year, the faculty, everybody sharing a floor with him in the halls of residence and the service staff he's bumped into...
Maybe just everyone you've ever met too, just to be safe.
In that case, Sharpe, I recommend you get an eye exam. STAT. =_=;
The culprit wouldn't even have to necessarily outright dislike him to do the deed, right? If they were particularly interested in mass mind control, they might not even care who they throw under the bus (or into the noose) as long as they get what they want.
Eliza: "By the way...what was the title of your essay?"
Will:"Mind Control for Fun and Profit...or How to Make Friends and Influence Enemies...or anybody else for that matter. I really don't see what everyone is all worked up about."
Eliza:facepalm
Vincent:facepalm
Parsley:too busy being scratched to bother with a facepaw
Okay yeah he definitely used it on himself
Edit: Or maybe, if he's telling the truth about it being "untested", whoever stole the essay increased his confidence and made him forget about it. He does look pretty confident in the flashback, though.
Yeah, I got a feeling he's just like that. Rather reminds me of one of the unreliable narrator from Ernest Edward Kellett's A Corner in Sleep, fully convinced of their own brilliance, benevolence, and general likability, and simply unable to understand why people keep freaking out every time they say or do anything.
Given how handsome he is, I think he's just one of these beautiful people who grow up to be absolutely obnoxious. You see it in both men and women.
Or it was used on him and he doesn't know it.
OR someone else invented it, controlled him to think he had and present it, then put him up as a fall guy. Now, if you invented it and DIDN'T present it, you could keep it a secret So, if someone else is going through all this trouble to frame pretty boy, why?
No, he's doing something in that last panel. The little star in the air? It's not static electricity, even if he is petting the cat. He's trying to use it on her.
Or it's a visual representation of the power of his wink !
Have you ever seen [The Great Race](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059243/?ref_=nv_sr_1 "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059243/?ref_=nv_sr_1")?
When Tony Curtis smiles, his teeth sparkle...
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{If you haven't seen it - do so. It's s style of comedy they don't make any more - like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, if not QUITE so good - featuring a truly epic pie fight and a similarly overblown saloon fight. Plus Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Larry Storch, Dorothy Provine and Kennan Wynn, and some, i'm sure, that i've forgotten.}
I take it Parsley is one of those cats who needs to say hi to everyone present at least once
Vincent's wearing black, so shedding on him won't have enough of an effect. Will's brown shirt, while not ideal, has more possibilities.
I suspect Parsley knows that only Sharpe is allergic to cats.
"Right, so it's 100% guaranteed that every single person you've ever met hates you."
"What about this cat?"
"Right, every single person you've ever met, hates you."
"Maybe they already have...!"
I wonder if Eliza is going to try to work this into her theory about the Deadly Sins outbreak...
That was my impression of that line as well. And, honestly, it's basically what the sins were doing. Will's innovation seems to be specifically rigging it to happen when the humans want, not when the spirits want. And not requiring a spirit to be... for want of a better word, active.
Kitty says "We beautiful, lovable, centers of the universe need to stick together."
Self-awareness is not your strong suit, is it Will?
Why is Eliza Swift working as a apothecary? Her true calling is clearly as some sort of private detective. If the Barbers can get dime novel adventure stories about them, why not "The Eliza Swift Mysteries"?
going by that theory, ASSUMING that only the class itself knew, since the person is more likely to have pulled strings if possessing a larger friend network, the more influential teacher would be the prime suspect ? (compared to the students)
"Take this seriously, or so help me God I'll pull the lever myself tomorrow morning!"
He’s... he’s Tony Stark. That’s why I love him so much. Everything makes sense now. We just need a tragic backstory/currentstory/futurestory/please let Tony be happy already
huh
I like Eliza's desk-clambering.
I mean, the cat loves him, so that statement seems legit to me.
Funny, Sharpe, I fail to see how anyone could LIKE you.
I love Eliza so much already.
Sharpe, the cat is the only one in the room who actually likes you, and she would abandon you in 2 seconds if someone offered her some fish.
I really wonder how it happens that Sharpe had no occasion to learn that not everyone likes him yet. OK, he doesn't get hints, glances and misinterprets/ignores what one tells him, but more hard stuff? Wasn't there anybody who hated him enough for mocking/playing a cruel practical joke on/kicking him? Of course, I don't approve things like that, but he had to be very lucky to avoid that at all - as a schoolboy, for example. Well, maybe he was learning at home.
Sharpe's blindness is so staggering the it is unfortunate that I find completely believable. It has never occurred to him that someone might not like him, and despite the fact that everyone who hears about his wonderful invention immediately sees how it can be abused and comments on it, he seems to still be unaware that there is any way to abuse it at all. It reminds me a bit of Leanord of Quirm saying something along the lines of "But of course, no one would actually use this weapon in war because that would be to horrible."
leonard, but a little less naivete and a little more face-saving
OK, so Sharpe is going to defend himself--and is not upset about being up for capital punishment. And we see him trying to escape by digging with a spoon. He shows overconfidence and self-adoration, but he also goes along with a plan to find someone who stole the manuscript. Here's some speculation:
He's either
1, been zapped by the culprit so he's acting rather addled and unable to take proper care of himself; the culprit wants him to be a fall guy. In that case, one suspect is his teacher, since we know she has visited him; as the tale progresses, we may meet other suspects.
2. is a mastermind who believes he can "mind control" the court and be released, or use mind control in some way to avoid execution (maybe even fake his own death). In that case, he himself could have taken/destroyed the manuscript and he is dangerous.
3. is just nuts because he used himself as a subject and is now being manipulated, with magic or not, by someone out there who has the manuscript and is dangerous.
Does this make sense?
I've never even met you, boyo, and i dislike you already.
Not terribly... aware, is he?