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If you were watching the first three Star Wars movies though the Empire's perspective, you'd see a huge, self-contained self-governing system that colonizes, employs, trades, and feeds billions. Yes, they do shady shit. Name one nation in all of history who hasn't.
Then this little 'princess' gets a stick up her ass and founds a terrorist organization. Yes, the Empire blows up a planet. The US murdered the president of Chile and inserted a dictator. England brutalized half the planet for money. No one is innocent. She turns around and BLOWS UP A MILITARY BASE FILLED WITH MILLIONS OF REGULAR CITIZENS. WE'RE TALKING KIDS, FAMILIES, REGULAR PEOPLE AS WELL AS SOLDIERS. HOW IS SHE AND HER TERRORIST GROUP ANY FUCKING BETTER.
Understandably, they're pissed. By the end of the third movie, everyone in the Empire's leadership has been assassinated like rats, millions more innocent construction folks have been slaughtered in another explosion, and now there's this terrifying power vacuum that the uneducated, unthinking terrorists have not one ounce of interest in dealing with, which will assuredly lead to a far more terrifying, unstable governing system than the one they destroyed.
How fucking heroic of those terrorists.
Serious Engineering is like Star Wars from the Empire's perspective (which is what Star Trek was, if you think about it).
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i just noticed the metal sticking out the back of his neck.
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We'll find out more about it in chapter 7
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aw man, more waiting.
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This is why I could never conceive of him as a Bond villain. Then again, I'd be Oddjob for him.
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Many so-called villains of history saw themselves as little more than soldiers doing their duty for the greater good of their people. We don't call a soldier who kills fifty people in the line of fire a bad guy, do we? It all depends on what they consider 'their people' to be.
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You are the FIRST PERSON to make the connection!!!
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HAHAHA! Hooray for me!
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Now I'm kinda wondering what's on the back of his neck...
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It's something that pretty much has saved and ruined his life
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I'm guessing it's complicated?
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Yep! Long term disabilities usually are.
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This is going to be an interesting story, isn't it?
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It sure is!!
All I'm gonna say is that the last half of this volume is going to be intentionally confusing - as in, we see Corelle make realistic assumptions that the audience should be reaching along with her, and then we and she find out that the world is far more complicated than first impressions.
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Better confusing than boring!
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Haha, that was his nickname before SE started officially. Vik and I both decided the name was "too cool". It's something his supporter would say, not something the opposition would come up with.
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D'awwwwww :3
She's still about to lose her hands tho
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So touching. And still I feel and I think that there's not gonna be good with Corelle hands.
Now I'm waiting for Lowell family reunion
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It will be a teary reunion, for sure, especially when she says she wants to stay.
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If they wouldn't want to stay in the same place it definitly would
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sounds like the family finally realizes the were wrong about so many things and have come around. hang in there, Corelle!!
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They sure have. It took a long 10-day scare but they did.
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Oh my god, I just ranted on the last page how I love your effort for details in this comic, and now you give me all these feels?????!!! Stop, this is too good!!!
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All aboard the feels train!!
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aww
holy crap you write these comics so well!!
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Thank you so much!!
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I know now! That's why I love heroes in pain - for those moments of tenderness and fortune
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That's a very good reason indeed!
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aww... so sweet....
(btw, instead of putting Sarah Hendry could you just put Tobi- I only just realised that it's there...i forget my name sometimes...)
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Done! I'll do it form now on.
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I just noticed his suspicious neck tube. What's that about? (I'm sure that it's going to become relevant at some point.)
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Well, it hasn't been addressed yes, and you're absolutely right when it comes to being relevant later on.
If you'd like some hints, I'd suggest re-reading the prologue. There's a lot of foreshadowing there.
That paired with the conversation Corelle and Quen have in the library basement in chapter 1. I was actually worried I was giving too much away there but happily that doesn't seem to be the case.
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This is so sweet
But I'm guessing that either he will start to lie to her to try to keep from hurting her or possibly worse, not lie about some of the stuff he gets up to.
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It's interesting that folks think that he's lying to her at this very moment. I wasn't expecting that.
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Well, you have gone out of your way to state that he's effectively a Bond villain in the making. That does tend to color people's perspective.
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Ah, good point.
But as I'm sure you know, villains come in many shades.
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Those are the best kind of villains. A Dark Lord is fantastic every once in a while, but it's better to have nuanced villains. Villains that when you look at their motivations and what they do to try to achieve their goals, make you question if they're really the villain or if the protagonist is the true villain.
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I'm glad you think so! Thinking about a villain's motivations is what often makes them more interesting than the hero. Something that bothers me in a lot of fiction is how the writers don't seem interested in challenging the hero/villain dynamic. I personally see many modern heroes as far more destructive than positive.
Does the huge, rich, and powerful Batman really need to resort to violence because the short, poor, and overweight Penguin stole a painting? Seriously? Then he turns around and allows psycho killers like the Joker to live because beating the shit out of someone weaker than you is awesome but actually taking responsibility for the lives of others and killing a danger to society is the ultimate wrong? FBI and CIA agents sometimes kill wanted murderers because that's their job - to stop innocents from suffering - and I don't see them crying about it. Sounds to me like the writer has too much ideology and not enough real life experience.
SE will later go on to have a character who would normally be a standard hero and show just how twisted their mentality can be. "Hurr durr guns are cool I wave mine around like a tough guy but I never fire it because murder is wrong." Congrats an entire restaurant population was killed by a crazed nutcase and our "hero" could have prevented it with a single shot to the head but noooooo, that would make him just as bad as the nutcase (somehow)!
As you can tell, this kind of character writing bugs me.
Quen would probably fall into the "lawful evil" category. I base his behavior on real world "villains" who, through undoubtedly morally grey actions, ended up paving a strong road for others. He does bad shit but has zero interest in watching the world burn. In fact, he and his associates are trying to prevent that from happening and in many ways are darn successful at it. He takes care of his subordinates and has a strong moral code. That code includes breaking the kneecaps of troublemakers, of course, but there's none of that planting bombs in orphanages terrorism kind of absurdity. People who do that get left in the desert.
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When poorly written, a hero is virtually indistinguishable from a villain, but is still praised and treated as a hero by the public.
That's something that's always bothered me about Batman. He has nigh-unlimited resources to do good in the world, whether as a super hero or as a philanthropist, but is clearly not using either one to its full potential considering how awful Gotham is even after years of his efforts. Even Superman will kill if someone is dangerous enough (i.e. Darkseid, Brainiac or Doomsday), but Batman won't step over that line to keep someone like the Joker from slaughtering hundreds or thousands, even after it's clear that there is no possibility of reform for him. In your Penguin example, he could just steal it back or hire Catwoman to steal it back. Hell, he could buy it back if he wanted, but no, he'd rather go pick a fight.
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