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:) The fourth panel is great.
I like as Sloth says the same word as Fairbairn did.
Haha, what a fitting resolution to Sloth! And Heylir, always picking out those neat little extras, I hadn't noticed that! XD
It also looks like both teams are going to get a break at the end of this encounter. Outside team gets to rest/nap, inside team gets an easy desummon.
Finally???
F-finally!!!
Go Sloth!
How anticlimactic! The logic behind this is at the same time brilliant and confusing. I guess Sloth really just hates you all, doesn't it?
All this plotting and possessing and summoning and desummoning is really such a chore.
I guess Kate has to keep things moving along, or we'll never get to Luxuria!
Yeah, but somehow I can't see Sloth wanting to contribute to moving anything along.
They'll be happy to, as long as they can do so by doing nothing.
And if they can summon up the energy to be happy.
(Btw, no criticism was intended in my original comment. The anticlimactic-ness is a great twist that makes sense in context of the whole story.)
It's Sloth. It got Fairbairn to do it's work after it was freed, and when that finally ended, it was ready to go. Heck, Sloth was ready to be desummoned way back when: [http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-24th-2012/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-24th-2012/")
"Mm..yes. It's about time."
"Yes. Mm...I shall...rest."
Now that I think about it, you could even argue that keeping Fairbairn awake all this time was Sloth punishing her for interrupting Ben and preventing Sloth's actual desire.
At a guess, it looks like Sloth inadvertently cursed itself when it "got" Ms Fairbairn, and this is as much a relief for it as it was for her.
Of course. Sloth spent all of chapter 2 trying to get home and did not have much to say in chapter 6. Of all the deadliest this is the one with the least interest in Luxuria's plan. Probably because the plan sounds like too much work.
True, it is what he wanted back in the factory. [http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-24th-2012/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-24th-2012/")
And it is important to remember Sloth and Ms. Acedia are not the same entity.
Sloth is nothing but itself, indolence incarnate
Ms. Acedia has ambitions.
And Sloth could have been dragged into this by Acedia, which gives it all the more reason for it wanting to finally go.
"Fight you?! Are you nuts?! That's, like, a cardio workout, and stuff!" xD
Love Sloth's expression in the second panel.
Wait. Oh, no! That squint, those bloodshot eyes, the poor thing really has been up far past its bedtime!
I can relate. (15 hours on the road today. As Pippin said, "And NOW to bed!")
wait, dude, do you do theater?
He's quoting Tolkien, not Stephen Schwartz. ^_^
I did theatre, but this was just a road trip.
Ah, ok, cool cool. Nice that you did theater, though. What side of it? I'm not out of high school yet, but I'm planning to go into LX.
The stage for me! But rarely any better than bit parts. I have a lot of enthusiasm but not a lot of control or skill.
Yike! I hope you slept well after posting this!
"...What? We're not POTATOES, humans. And stop acting like your plane of existence is worth the effort to conquer."
"Look, I'm literally sloth, I'm the one out of all of them who least wants to be here."
I dunno, that sounds a little impatient to me.
Never got to actually sleep since he was summoned. Probably makes since that he wants to go back so that he can sleep. Still curious about how dangerous greed will be since he was the first summon that was also slightly reasonable.
Since his greedy human counterpart was even more greedy or evil then he was.
"Well, um, where do you want to be?"
"I don't."
"~{T}~ell Luxuria his plan was too much effort." banishes self
Sloth Gives No Shits. Sloth only Wants Naps.
This is why Sloth is my favorite and definitely needs hugs. Hugs while it sleeps, because anything else would be rude.
You wouldn't like it if you wake it up...
Of course not. That would just be RUDE.
Interesting that Sloth is blue, as well.
I wonder where the spirits return to? And what state they are in when they are there? Are they still free agents and sentient? Most of them seem very keen to get into the material world, with the exception of Mr Sloth, who really can’t be bothered.
The Deadlies are a special case, of course, but it seems like most of the malforms would really rather be sent home. The huge blubbery tragic blob from Chapter 2 explicitly said, "Let me return... This place is loud and wrong..." [http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-11th-2012/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-11th-2012/")
The Deadlies want to get into the mortal world because most of them want to spread and infect people, increasing their 'market share'. It's in their nature to want to tip people's inner balance, and they can't do that in the spirit realm.
According to the VoG, the spirits are produced by human emotions, so I imagine that all of them, the positive as well as the negative, want to make it into the mortal world, so they can increase their market share (except Sloth). And Ms Holt said that what every spirit wants is a corporeal body. At least, it's the greatest gift it can be given.
And yet, most who find themselves caught in the mortal world want nothing so much as to go home.
That's usually the malforms, who are stuck here in a malformed body and want to get out of it ASAP. But even then, Hunger and the Purple Hippo of Happiness were in no hurry to get back. When the spell is done properly, the spirits usually seem happy to be here. Not quite sure how it works with imbued spirits though? Are they being stuffed into materials against their will? Is there an ethical question here?
Thinking about this some more: the line I quoted above makes me wonder if, for some of the spirits, the human world causes the same kind of sensory overload that Mal gets in crowds.
That opens up a whole new line of questions - what is the relationship between a malform and a properly summoned spirit? Is a malform the same entity, only in a mis-shapen body, or is it just a fragment of the overall personality? Am I thinking about this too much again?
Can I say I sort of thought this was about how it was going to go down.
"Don't you humans realize how hard it is to be Sloth and be utterly unable to rest? It's all work work work and do I have anything for it now? No, not a herring."
Heh. It's a relief when your enemy can't summon the effort to even try to fight you.
Sloth - the sin that couldn't care less if it's deadly or not.
There aren't words to express how much I love this resolution.
But little did they know, this walrus wasn't Sloth.
The walrus was Paul.
Then who is the eggman? :O
Dr. Robotnik, in a different story.
Kate - any idea when, after the completion of the story, the hard-copy book will be available? I hope to buy the complete set.
I'll be running a kickstarter for it as soon as we're done, most likely- I imagine I'll be pushing it in the break between this story and the next. It'll be pretty obvious when it's running, no fear, and if you miss it, all of the books will be in the online shop soon after.
The incarnation of a cat.
I suppose it makes sense. The only thing keeping him around were offerings of sleep, and know that Fairbairn isn't supplying him with all of hers, there's really nothing tethering him here, or any standing interest in these wacky convoluted schemes the other deadlies seem so fond of. If any of the deadlies were likely to give up the ghost of their own accord, it'd make sense to be sloth. That leaves us with greed and lust, then?
This is just so simple and perfect and brilliant.
How is Kate going to top this one?
Ah, well....Sloth has tusks now, and didn't in chapter 2?
It did in chapter 6, though.
yes but WHY? Were the tusks the "essence" that was put into the lamp oil? it's the only thing that makes sense to me.