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[PA Comic] Friday, September 20, 2013 - The Tithe, Part Seven
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He's kind of a dick."
Epp she's a witch!! But she seems so lovely, the plot thickens and yet another cliffhanger
Everyone is making alot of fan art of this which looks great I need to hop on that train I think I'll make something over the weekend...
The Magick is alive!!!!
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But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
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I don't find this jarring so much, the Thornwatch guys can't help so are just giving her some advice - one says to make the best of it because it's actually pretty great, another says she should just kill herself - I think they don't hang out together much back at Thronwatch HQ
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
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Also confirms that the Daughters have a poor reputation, for the most part.
Steve's just like that, maybe he's got more personal history with the daughters than the rest of the group and has seen what happens when it turns bad. Like Tycho says in his newspost, every daughter's calling can play out differently.
It is entirely possible for a trio to have a friendly guy and a jerk in it.
In fact I'm pretty sure it's required by the literature police.
Edit: I also don't take the witch comment as an insult so much as a statement of fact that he's informing her of.
did the two guys who seemed nicer just like, wander off? Was the bearded one like 'okay I guess steve has to give the speech now' and the green eyed one was like 'man the speech is such a downer, let's go grab a cigarette by the elm tree?'
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
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Imagine between the last strip and this one Hanna pleading 'There must be another way.'
Whether he's really advocating she top herself or just emphasising that there is nothing the Thornwatch can do to help in his overly morose manner we just don't know.
This, right here? This is why I started only buying comic books in Trade Paperback form.
But apparently Steve thinks that the Daughers are the ones for whom the Bell tolls.
Which are perhaps most commonly known as Hells Bells.
Perhaps Steve lost someone he cared for to the Daughters? Would make for a good back story as to why he joined the Thornwatch and clearly has beef with the Daughters.
There's three dudes. One was sad he couldn't help and that was it. One thought she was a really cool Forest Fairy Princess. One thinks she's a witch and told her to go kill herself.
The third one also plays on Xbox Live.
Not sure where you get this, he clearly did not call her a Mexican Jew lizard.
I believe he is calling her that because she is a daughter.
She is telling her to eat a lot of poison, in order to die as she is instead of becoming a daughter. If she days in/near the river her corpse can poison it, causing others to die.
Man, fuck this guy... Fuck him right in his stupid face!
the berries are poison. He's telling her to kill herself. And not near river so she doesn't poison it for everyone else.
Edit: should really read the rest of thread first
It works a bit better for me if I imagine one extra panel in between the last strip in this one wherein the other two Thornwatch start walking away and you see that this last guy is intentionally hanging back to have one last word. In this imaginary panel, Hanna is also showing some glimmer of improved spirits from the druid guy's pep talk, which makes the shattering of said spirits even more
This pretty much makes sense to me. The three Lookouts, as others have said, seem to differ in their views of the Daughters or at least their methods of "helping" Hanna with her "problem." All three know there's nothing they can do to stop or reverse her transformation, but...
Scar-Eye doesn't have anything more to say about it. She's a Daughter, she's in the woods, it's not their affair.
The Greenheart take the approach of trying to comfort and encourage her.
And the Blade, whether because of some personal animosity for the Daughters or maybe from some kind of reverse psychology "tough love" strategy, offers her one way out if she really wants it: suicide. I am a little unclear on why he uses a different name for the poisonous berries when they both know what they are, though.
So basically we have (Indifferent cop) - (Good cop) - (Bad cop).
The Thornwatch, living in a forest that is controlled by (and possibly partially composed of) the Daughters, have undoubtedly run into disagreements with them before. Guys one and two assume that because the Daughters get to rule the forest, being one must be a wonderful thing. Steve realizes, as we asserted in the forums back at the start of this strip, turning into a tree is a horrible and frightening thing.
Also, Guys one and two didn't leave. Brooding Thornwatcher's job is to brood off-screen. They have entire tables in the corners of taverns reserved for his type, along with complimentary mysterious pipe.
My thought was that he was trying to trick her into eating them, hoping for a cure. If she didn't know about the plant he was describing she'd have gone and eaten them hoping to "get better". But when Hanna shows she knows the plant he doesn't back pedal or keep lying, but backhands her with a "go kill yourself witch". The man does not like Daughters of the Eyrewood.
Steve: Go eat these berries
Hanna: Those aren't what you say, they are poison.
Steve: You betcha!. Go eat a lot of them.
Hanna: ....
Steve: And try not to die where you'll inconvenience others.
If you've read the Lookouts comic book, you know that being a Daughter is not something little girls aspire to. Issue #6 deals very clearly with this. Daughters are called by the Eyrewood and essentially ripped from their families; they don't have a choice.
I really do love the three reactions of the Thornwatch though.
They just have the potential side effect of death.
It's frontier medicine. What are you gonna do?
From what I have read so far, the Daughters use Magic to protect the forest. Witch seems to be a contemptuous slur, and the Last Bells are poisonous. I'm guessing he says don't die near the river so the water isn't contaminated by the corpse.
The three Thornwatch have three different attitudes to the Daughters. One is indifferent, the second is kind but condescending and the third seems to have a Snape-like hatred/disdain for them.
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