#142 “The Talk”
So, hear me out. Call me crazy, but I think Tim’s Mom Ruth is actually Lady Blackheart!
I mean, she has the same mole, and her hair is similar… and their special text colour is the same! Also, what other Noxian wears high-heeled shoes? Nobody. They don’t wear shoes! And Also, also: Moonlight went to call Blackheart “R-” that one time in the bath… and Thomas calls her ‘Vice Admiral Ruthless!’ when they were roll playing. I think that’s it though…
So yeah, that’s my theory. What do you guys think?! 😉
And stay tuned: There’s a bonus page coming up very soon (a few hours from now!) to make up for all the bi-weekly nonsense lately.
So I’m wondering, does Timmy have such an interesting scent because he’s half Noxian? Also, I wonder if Timmy just naturally looks completely human or does he actually have some Noxian features and Ruthless placed a magical disguise on him so he wouldn’t have issues in the human world.
Just made that comment on the bonus page.
I’m thinking since he’s half Noxian that yes, he’s got a glamor on him giving him the appearance of human. It might also explain his fondness for horror movies.
Wait! What?!?
Just how many monsters are getting it on with humans?
I thought that humans didn’t know about them.
Yes, we let them think that.
Did you forget her tail? Or is she supposed to be mid-transformation in the second panel? From a storyteller’s pint of view, I guess the latter would make sense if you wanted save the reveal for the final panel.
Or maybe I’m overthinking it…
Tail is visible. Look at her leg. You see part of it poking out.
I see it in the last panel now that you mention it, although I originally assumed it was hidden from view at that point. I’m actually referring to the panel before that where she’s viewed from the side. You can see her skin has changed color there, but she doesn’t appear to have a tail yet.
Again, maybe I’m just overthinking things.
I love this comic, but-
The fact that you placed this reveal immediately after another big reveal (arguably a bigger one because nobody was predicting it) kind of defeats the purpose.
About THE TALK: Ordinary parents usually have to worry about just one Talk (sex stuff). But these parents have to worry about two. The second one, it should be obvious to any reader who paid attention to this story, would be about human/Nox relations. There are bound to be “don’ts” among the “okay to do” items.
I really love this bluish shadow effect on her. <3
Will we see Thomas and Ruthless in her monster form having some fun ?
Or will she turn back into her human form if so ?
Nice to see Ruth in “Noxian” with eye marks, ears, three “fingers” and a little tail with Thomas in the human world. But I had to look for the details. The skin color is cheating. It is very hard to see that is is yellow with the back light. Maybe the yellow tone should be a little stronger ?
I wonder if dad Thomas knows that the girl upstairs is a Noxian ?
Ruthless might be working from the shadows but I doubt she would keep Thomas in the dark about such things. She has no reason to. I would not be surprised if she taught him how to see through illusions.
I’m 99% sure he knows that Shadow is a Noxian. And “the talk” is less of “these are the birds and the bees” and “so you’re dating a monster, here’s what you can expect”.
Consider the following; of the various things Thomas was talking about, concern that Tim’s lady friend was out so late was conspicuously absent. Odds seem good he knows that, for Tim’s GF, home is just a bed-portal away.
One of the “tells” that you missed was that Ruthless knows the exact number and location of all cookies within the house (probably the entire neighborhood). I think most of the other bread crumbs (cake crumbs?) pale in comparison. Just my personal, oh-so-humble opinion.
Is that a theory?
A COMIC THEORY!
What shocks me is that Thom also knows. It would have been a lot more fun to have Shadow fully realize, then hesitate to tell Tim (like she already did not long ago, but that was just a feeling back then), then how Thom would discover it after (like, unplanned confrontation with the three or four of them, or catching her in some awkward situation, or…..). Would have been good for many more stories.
To be fair, Thom probably knows because they likely met like any other human-Noxian couple; one trying to scare the other, and it turning out much different than that.
Someday I’ll touch briefly on how they met, I’m sure. :3
Oh yes, PLEASE!!!
He probably has the ability to see through her glimore
Ok, then I must ask a question that I asked once before. Why was she punishing Tim for his socks disappearing, if she knew another Noxian was responsible. Hell, his dad knew, too! “We’ll deal with your rats tomorrow” indeed!
Possibly because they DIDN’T know about Shadow until they figured something else was going on.
Ruthless is still a mother, and as far as she knew, Tim was losing socks.
I’ll offer a possible answer, which is that Ruth did not actually know some Nox person was stealing socks because of liking Tim’s scent. That particular behavior among Nox has not been portrayed as common. And in this story, we do know that at the time Tim and Shadow began to interact regularly, the theft of socks stopped. Tim was not lying when he told his folks he had taken care of the problem.
She probably didn’t consider someone was stealing the socks until Tim barged into their room saying he had proof while shadow was still in the house.
Even then – remember that Tim didn’t have time to show the photograph, and he did say “monster”… But after he has been pushed out of his parents room and Ruth having closed the door. It was another point I wanted to put forward like Kazz, but then thinking about it and reading those strips again I realized everything was untouchable. Either Brandon is extremely lucky with his own story, or he is a helluva plotter, having looked through the slightest detail in the long long term!!!
I know what’s going on in my own story for, like, a long time to come.
I noticed the mole and hair a long, LONG time ago. However, the high heels totally eluded me.
I think it may have been mentioned once or twice, but most people never added it to their growing lists of clues.
How many feet of other adult Nox have been portrayed? For all we know, kids walking around barefoot is common, and adults wear shoes when it suits them. That’s why I, at least, never paid much attention to Lady Blackheart’s footwear.
They all go barefoot, or at most some wrappings or other ornamentation, but they don’t have shoes.
Since I can’t comment on the bonus page, I’ll say it here. So, Ruth(less) and Thomas got married on Halloween, huh? Well, that puts the lie to the joke. “They got married on October 31 which is Halloween. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that but, you ought to see his wife.” LOL. In this case, that’s not a bad thing either.
The same thing crossed my mind. ;3
(Before watching next the page)
What I think ?? I think YOU ARE crazy !! 😀 Keeping us in suspense all this time and today… (I’ll finish this sentence in the next page’s comment section :))
Whatever is on the next page… I love you, man and your comic 😀
P.S.
Ruth looks WOW !!
Phht, no way! Completely impossible! I mean, the mom’s human! Blackheart’s a monster!
Fake news.
Agreed. I’m not convinced yet.