CURRENT STORY DISCUSSION

Sporadic wrote:

purplefreak wrote:So I guess no one else noticed the sword is different in the second panel? there is an extra blade now, like a simatar like blade running along side the handle. SUP with that?????

I was wondering about that - but another look tells me it's her tie.

Yep, it's her tie. I forgot to color it darker.

Oh yeah, put that sword in. Put that sword in deep.
I kind of expected more exposition in the moments before this like "I'm sorry too," or "It's time to pay the piper." One liner kills FTW!

Megan Rose wrote:

Sporadic wrote:

purplefreak wrote:So I guess no one else noticed the sword is different in the second panel? there is an extra blade now, like a simatar like blade running along side the handle. SUP with that?????

I was wondering about that - but another look tells me it's her tie.

Yep, it's her tie. I forgot to color it darker.

Oh oops, see closer inspection on my part would have revealed that. My bad Megan, still a wonderful panel none the less!

Somnimiles wrote:I think that this song is the perfect background music for today's page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mszhhIC2lQQ

I think of the score for the tenth doctor regeneration scene, myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQrd44v7Q6w&feature=related

Or maybe that's just the "I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry."

Oh man... the climactic panel filled my eyes just as this song was ending, and it made everything amazing. x3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZn7k5rZLQ

Aaah. Man, I pretty much registered because... Well. Dang.

Yeah. Good stuff.

I'm particularly enamored with how the first panel of this page (815) mirrors the second panel of 776. Nice work~. (I really love how Sadako manages to look old and tired, but still youthful and naïve at the same time, too!)

yikes. I am still in awe that she actually did it.
I keep reloading since it is getting close to midnight, but then I realized tomorrow is Wednesday, I have to wait!

So now the question is: When Don is talking about her leaving and him not being able to blame her is her talking about Fiona being killed, like Sadako and the king of Nod at the end of her reign? If that's the case, then Fiona never goes back to the real world. She gets to stay in the dream world, possibly with Lia. But I could have sworn Megan said the ending was sad. I can't remember if it was on lj, or in the forum or on formspring. But I could have sworn. . .
Are we sure this worked? After all Lia/Mara ran her through with a sword and it came out clean.
Or, even worse, something happens to Lia since she is in her Mara form now, she tries to kill Fiona or somehow dies?
I just can't stop thinking of ways for things to go wrong.

This page is a pretty interesting look into Fiona's mindset right now. Killing someone takes a lot, and it's not like she's pulling a trigger or telling someone else to do it, she's shoving a sword into her chest. I own swords, I've been stabbed in the leg with a sword, I've dealt with sword wounds. They don't just slide in gracefully like in a movie, that is a seriously forceful blow to pierce someone's chest. I'd love to see into Fi's mind.

Is she still feeling malice, or is this the mercy killing Clandy asked of her? What are the repercussions of this on Fiona mentally and emotionally? Now that the deed is done, does it really matter? Does Sadako even deserve a mercy killing? She sent her conscience away, she brought all this on herself. Still, a death is a death. Murder, assisted suicide, execution, it's still got to weigh on the heart.

Damn you, lack of Wednesday updates. D:

Looking at this page again, the sword angle looks kind of funny. It looks like Fiona is pushing the sword down Sadako's front instead of stabbing it into her chest, or maybe that she's pulling a sword out of Sadako, Utena-style.

Okay, it's probably just stylized, but I'm clinging to a faint hope here that Sadako doesn't die. I don't know why, but over the last couple of weeks I've started to like her quite a bit. Sadako and Fiona seem a lot alike, and if Fiona had all that power when she was as alone as Sadako was, then the same kind of thing could have easily happened to her. I think they'd actually be really good friends if they met under different circumstances. I am tempted to write an epic-length Sadako/Fiona AU fanfiction, but I doubt anyone would read it.

uhhh, yeah. Update plz?

after all wrote:I am tempted to write an epic-length Sadako/Fiona AU fanfiction, but I doubt anyone would read it.

I would. Start to read it, at least, then if it falls on the 10% side of Sturgeon's Law I would keep reading it and give you a compliment afetr reading it.

My alternate universe ideia was if Sadako hadn't died at that accident. I imagine Ellie concerned, apologising for what the man did; allowing Sadako to get closer out of guilt, and Sadako catering to her every whim out of obssession - in the real world she was very shy and submissive after all - playing a role much in the likes of this, or even becoming so. But I was happy enough picturing it in my mind, I guess.

...There are no words to express the grim feelings I feel at seeing this page. This is not going to end well...

This is really getting interesting. As the new queen, will she be able to handle the responsibility or go insane?

I do feel sorry for Clandy though, but I know after spending a lot of time wandering away from Sadako, she's got to be exhausted. That was a beautiful final scene of her fading from the dream realm. I really love the peaceful expression on her face in the fourth panel.

Hmm...So, Sadako's powers got passed on to Fiona. I have some doubts though. I mean, is she dead now because of that? Does she have to die in order to fulfill her duties as the queen? We all know now that the people of Nod are real in the YU+ME universe, so it wouldn't be right for her to abandon her subjects like that. Or does she relinquish control of her crown over to Don someone more suitable? That said...Can she? Or does she have to die in order for this to occur?

So when Don said she left, does that mean Fi dies?

Has it been stated one NEEDS to be dead in order to rule? If it has, I can't remember... Then again, my memory is akin to a goldfish. Maybe by 'left' Don meant she forced herself back into conciousness, lived her life, and intends to come back to actually RULE rule once she's dead?

Murf. I hope Fi doesn't die. She needs a happily ever after. Would the dream world be that? Sadako thought it would be, once.

yumiko27 wrote:Hmm...So, Sadako's powers got passed on to Fiona. I have some doubts though. I mean, is she dead now because of that? Does she have to die in order to fulfill her duties as the queen? We all know now that the people of Nod are real in the YU+ME universe, so it wouldn't be right for her to abandon her subjects like that. Or does she relinquish control of her crown over to Don someone more suitable? That said...Can she? Or does she have to die in order for this to occur?

It would certainly make for an interesting twist to the story, if Fiona would be able to relinquish control of Nod over to Don/someone else. If the her ability to do/create ANYTHING within Nod extends to her ability to pass on [the eye], then one would think she could do so with her rule over Nod as well. Didn't Sadako offer Fiona the chance to return to the normal world with Lia? Maybe she knew something that Fiona doesn't, and left her to figure out how to return to the waking world on her own.

...well, my theories go out the window

So Clandestine knew all along that Fiona would become Queen by killing Sadako, and she was selfish. She wanted to die together with Sadako because she was tired and didn't tell Fiona what would happen to her beforehand.

Fiona didn't die in the real world. Does that mean she is dead there now? Is she alive but trapped? Can she go back and forth?

Also, when Sadako died so did Clandestine. When Fiona nearly died Mary almost "lost her job". We see that when Clandestine died she was holding Sadako, saying "she was tired". Does mean that Clandestine needed Sadako to die, and not the other way around?

I also think the lesson here is somewhat bitter: it was because of revenge, after all, (even if that turned out into mercy later on) that Fiona got trapped.

CLANDY!!!!!!

That is all.

...Clandy dies
Now it doesn't matter for me whether Fi rules, or Don rules, or Fi dies, or the Baku dies, Clandy died! I hope the ending will be at least semi-happy for my second favourite, Mary, or I'll be manicly depressed for about two months after it ends.

I think Clandy was only able to go with Sadako because she was reconnected with her (the eye flash in 813). Mary was "nearly fired", and had she been so, would not have died with Fi, but would have been "reassigned".

Or found work elsewhere - like in a diner.

But the whole transfer of power thing does raise a lot of questions for the next 2 weeks! This was definitely not what Fi had in mind!

Has anyone here ever read the manga Magic Knight Rayearth? (tons of spoilers for it in this post, if you haven't read it already).

Basically, the protagonists think they're on a quest to rescue the magical ruler of a magical world-- sort of like a Sadako, but less corrupt. She could pretty much make anything happen that she wanted, but she had to spend every waking moment taking care of the world and had no time to have her own life. This got even worse when she fell in love, and couldn't be thinking of the world all the time. Eventually, she decided to bring the protagonists there to fix this-- not by rescuing her, but by killing her, because people from another world were the only people who could.

Eventually, the protagonists realized that this was too much of a burden to place on one person, and when one of them became the ruler, she decided to split the power up between everyone in the world so that no one person had to take care of everyone else.

This sort of reminds me of the way YU+ME's been going lately. I wonder if Megan was inspired by MKR?

CLANDYYYYY NOOOOOOOO.

Now that that's out of the way.

I'm really glad the eye magic'd it's way into Fi's eye-socket. I kept having this really gross (yet equally awesome) image of her having to rip her eye out and physically insert it in herself.

NOOOOOO, CLANDDDDDYYYYYYY.

I think any hope of Fiona passing on the throne (hopefully to Don, right?) peacefully without having to be killed is out the window. After all, wouldn't the king or Sadako have passed it on without having to be murdered if they could have? Cause once they were no longer ruler Nod would let them kill themselves. At least in the King's case, why would he expose someone else to the trauma of murder if they didn't have to? He at least seemed like a good guy.