September 9th, 2022
9 Sept 2022 · page 1125 of 1306
It's ya girl
Cast: Eliza Swift, Lei Feng, Verity Cunningham
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VOSS VOSS VOSS!!!
i actually haven't finished reading the page i saw voss and blacked out
ELIZA ELIZA ELIZA!!!
ELIZA ELIZA ELIZA!!
what, no cheer for voss? :P
voss, voss, he's our man. if he can't steal it, no-one can. gooooo, voss.
You sure? He looks as though he knows what he's doing.
idk i think that's a lot of head on that beer :/ XD
wait REALLY??
The guy right behind him looks a little like Knotty's dad too, but that might just be me actively trying to find every character on this page (Sid is there too, under an invisibility spell)
we knew he worked there already so as soon as I saw the sign I was ON THE LOOKOUT 👀
yeah I wondered that also, but Knotty's dad's skintone is lighter than that I think?
This guy is balder on top than Mr. Knott, too.
wait we DO??? I don't think I knew that, or if I did I forgot it lol. Glad my guy's getting work!
And ohh yeah, you're right. Maybe the guy here is his cousin lol
I'm trying to remember why I knew this and I don't think it's in the comic, I think someone got a drawing of him as their kickstarter reward and he worked there in that picture maybe and I just assumed that was true? and like read/wrote enough fanfic where he works there I forgot maybe it's not true. (well it turned out to be.)
Or I simply intuited it with my impeccable understanding of the character 😌 lol
Ohhh sweet, hadn't seen that then! Honestly totally valid way to assume where a character is lol
Alternatively, you're just so smart and cool that you know everything that's going to happen, and Kate actually turns to you and your incredible powers for plot beats
i have a curse of I can predict widdershins plot beats only as a joke. every serious prediction I've ever made has been horredously off. But if I say something silly like shipping Ben/Eliza several years before they met in canon? That's a big brain genius move on my behalf. its like a greek tragedy
Mezzandra, the Oracle of Widdershins.
it was the former- i drew it as a kickstarter sketch reward! wasn't sure if i'd get to show it as canon, so i leapt on the chance here
woah. pages that are a special treat for me. back in widdershins. new outfits. old pub. cameo of the worst man in the whole wide world my beloved <3 eliza doing air quotes on ""crimes"" . eliza full stop.
I… I didn't even look closely enough to realize that was Eliza. I read "police" and saw blue and my brain immediately autocorrected to Nicola. :(
Nicola would NEVER not care about crimes.
You know what, that's fair.
"on good authority from my cousin" your cousin who is dating this particular detective, yes I pay attention I remember characters and their ships! >.>
I need to know Vee's take on their relationship
Ben: She's a detective
Vee: (grumpy hunter noises)
Ben: Who actively bends the rules to suit her
Vee: Marry her, you fool!
Vee: "She makes him happy. Next question?"
Although, since we're getting to the end of the chapter, I think, and it'll be time to pose questions to Kate:
For Vee: Now that the initial shock has passed, what do you think of Ben's new inamorata?
Given that Vee would absolutely not allow any sort of social convention prevent her from enthusiastically stomping all over intervening in her favorite cousin's dating life, I can only assume that Eliza has been deemed suitable.
Vee and Liz seem extraordinarily compatible, as potential in-laws go.
A calculating schemer with a healthy dose of self-admiration, and a giddily enthusiastic theorist with very few qualms about how to get progress.
What could be better?
Hah! I thought that must be who their client was. Nicola put her in charge of the Pryce case after he skipped town at the end of the last book, so she hired the professionals to track him down.
If Captain Barber finds out about this she's going to go ballistic. And as Lei has just announced in a loud voice she's an escaped criminal and the ladies are about to have their discussion in the middle of the pub I'd say there is an excellent chance she will.
If Nicola does find out that way then it's pretty ironic the place they are at, since it would the Hunter's (Verity) folly for having this discussion so publicly
Let’s hope there isn’t some buffoon in the room who can be guaranteed to say the exactly the wrong thing to the wrong person and land them all in a lot of trouble.
You'll really need to be more specific.
My guess is that Captain Barber knows that Eliza has 'confidential informers' who are not, as one might say, 'fine upstanding citizens.' It's part of policing.
Lei will still need to skip town pretty soon, but probably not immediately
But this particular confidential informer tried to blow up the anchor_and_ Princess Victoria on Captain Barber’s watch and was caught by Harry, not the police. Then she escaped from police custody while Captain Barber was absent from her post during the Deadly Sins Crisis. The good Captain will be highly motivated to get her back and here is her henchperson letting her go. Again!
Worse, all of this has been orchestrated by her own ex-girlfriend, and given Verity and Nikki's respective personalities it probably wasn't an amicable breakup.
In the middle of which pub?
It seems pretty likely that Captain Barber's going to find out about this one. The big question in my mind is which Barber is going to find out about it first.
She's back!!!!
Who cares about "crimes" when there's a ripping good yarn to be had?
Complete forgot what these characters looked like when their hair wasn't flying in the wind and soaked with seawater
I'd hold out for a full pardon if I were you, Lei.
Also...Eliza's theories about the fourth anchor are now valid. There is a fourth anchor, and it is where she thought it would be.
Yep...right where she put the bullet.
In the floor beside the globe?
And more importantly, it's still where she thought it would be
LOL, she did seem like the person to be most likely to get excited about that particular adventure.
If you'll indulge what passes for my sense of humour:
Lei: "You've got lipstick on your collar, detective."
Eliza: "Drat!"
I don't think that Ben wears lipstick.
Now, as to whether the detective's lipstick might be smeared...that's a different matter.
These three women in one room. Never before have I been so awed and yet so afraid.
...add in Nicola and Harry and the world may not survive...
Nicola and Harry would be stabilizing influences. Aggressively practical, those Barber women.
Eliza ‘I’m an indiscreet police detective but I also don’t care you broke the law’ Swift
Eliza "cop with a NO COPS sign on her door" Swift
Hi Éliza !
ah yes, your cousin would know owo
I would also have accepted Gren, still annoyed at having been locked into Pryce's freezer.
Ah, Eliza, or "the best character", as I call her when other characters can't overhear, as that would be mean.
Ahhh, I missed Eliza
I mean, who else would it be if not the president of the Fourth Anchor Society herself?
The treasurer of the Fourth Anchor Society? Granted, I'm not sure who that would be, but...
According to the extra material at the end of the print version of Hangman's Knot, it's Charles, the guy who was giving Eliza a hard time about her globe-shooting experiment here: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-7th-2018 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-7th-2018")
Come to think of it, wasn't Eliza's newest case she was assigned to by Nicola Barber on Pemberton and the Fourth Anchor?
...Wouldn't this mean this counts as Lei being monitored and being given extra privileges for aid on ongoing investigations? Given the nature of anchors... it wouldn't be out of the question to earn amnesty for her past crime this way...
Eliza's gotta feeling pretty vindicated right about now. She'll be a-gloatin' about this to... lots of folks, Ben and Vincent and her comrades at the Fourth Anchor Society most of all, no doubt.
Also, it's probably just as well she seems to still own the apothecary as well as drawing a police salary - I'm sure Vee doesn't come cheap (even if she doesn't command the same price as Harry - don't let her see that!), not to mention all the related expences.
i am grinning so wide
That's a super cute 'do for Lei.