Comments on: #396 – Thwarted vengeance

By: Sanna

Sanna — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:57:32 +0000

Yeah, which makes me wonder if she's got Al'bert's 5 broken ribs in there too. : x

By: selfevident

selfevident — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:36:26 +0000

Coming back and reading this now that Sang has found her dead (?) on the floor after seeing Fang delivered to Zed makes me wonder what exactly you mean. I think a lot of people have observed that after Healing Zedwig, Bactine seems to have aged, and I agree she looks aged and tired, and then bloody, too. Could she choose death and her sacrifice grants her something more…?

Just wondering how Fairies… come to be if they don't fall in love, really. Are they born or made? Because that would be an awfully convenient way to refresh the bloodline.

By: selfevident

selfevident — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:36:26 +0000

Just wondering how Fairies become Fairies if they don't fall in love, really. Because that would be an awfully convenient way to refresh the bloodline.

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:35:47 +0000

Oh my god!! :O No way! This is awesome, im hooked o.o

By: Crystal

Crystal — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:44:42 +0000

um… loveD?????? wait… so… the injuries are, like, transfered? OMG PILL BOTTLE YOU'LL BE OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Crystal

Crystal — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:43:58 +0000

lol, “hey bruddah, you wanna play tag wif me?” awwwwwwwwwww i hope everything turns up in philidelphia (city of brotherly love? lol, i'm so clever)

By: colbycheese

colbycheese — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:28:15 +0000

It's true, Fang is pretty good but no Bonaparte. I think of him more like one of those old-timey B.C. conquerors who had some extra firepower and just busted it out there, conquering all the previously-unaware people in his path until the strength is exhausted. Kind of like a wildfire.

Fang's main failings are that he never gained the love of his infantry or cared to, and maybe he never cared to have plans for what he would do once he'd conquered all of these people. I think, for him, the experience of conquering people was what he desired, having a certain lust for destruction and violence to make up for lacking elsewhere in his psyche, and he didn't care what would happen afterward in regards to sustaining or maintaining what he conquered at the time. He conquered an empire, but came to the state of mind too late to actually want to govern the thing, so even if he wanted to now, which he does, it's probably too much of a house of cards to stop from falling. Anything's possible though, and from the experience, and also due to Zedwig's influence, Current-Fang would actually make a brilliant (but in no way benign) ruler, if he could turn back the clock and start over from the beginning.

By: Dantes

Dantes — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:48:51 +0000

Fang, while awesome, is no Bonaparte. He doesn't command the fanatical loyalty that Napoleon did, and I doubt any will follow him to put him back on the throne. He isn't that much of a tactical genius, either. The mages are comparable to Bonaparte's artillery, but… (you quoted the good Emperor in your second phrase, and the cry, I believe, was used by his followers when he returned for the Hundred Days)

By: colbycheese

colbycheese — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:02:58 +0000

Wow, great compliments, thanks! Well, honestly, nobody can say with finality “This person HAS to die, or THAT person must die, or else the story will suck.” because the only person who knows how everything's going to develop is me. So I guess *I* could say that, but I'm not giving out any clues.

Also, death is only one type of sacrifice.

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:33:45 +0000

True. But I've also seen books where all the charecters live despite the highly dangerous situations they're in by making insanely improbably escapes, and you can tell it's really just because the author can't stand to kill any of his/her creations. And that really kills a story for me.