#318 “More Than Friends”
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I’m sorry…I can understand the whole ‘We must not be seen’ shtick, but being thrown in jail for being intimate…
It’s not so much the “being intimate”, after all Midnight was intimate eith Eclipse and other Noxian pairings are certain to exist, but “being intimate” WITH A HUMAN!!!.
That’s like fucking your sister (or brother).
It’s a real taboo in Nox.
Seems more concerned about herself then Shadow.
That’s a characteristic common to many other politicians. “it’s all about me”
Yeah, but she’s her mom too so it looks even worse.
i don’t think she is literally their mother. pretty sure its a religious thing, like the mother superior of a catholic coven, or in denominations of Christianity that ordain women as priests the priest is “mother” it seems to me that noxians don’t know who their parents really are and are given to the girls school and boys school of their religion from birth.
I know she’s not literally her mom, but she essentially is right? She takes care of her and is responsible for her.
i wouldn’t really know how much noxian society would require the mother and father to actually care for their respective charges, she at least seemed to care for a while, now it seems she cares more for the optics.
The “mother” title that Shadow uses us only a formality.
Shadow is a foundling.
Her maternal parentage is NOT known (nor indeed her paternal).
I think we do know who her father is. That little incident with Mortis and Terminus almost spelled it out.
Mortis: (claws raised to strike) Shut your damned, fool mouth- Right. Now. That one is off-limits! Do you understand?
You “suspect” but only Brandon actually “knows”.
I agree that conversation is indicative, but it’s not definitive confirmation.
I’m firmly in the Lord Mortis camp as far as Shadow’s father is concerned. A bigger question, however, remains regarding her mother. Noxian society seems quite tolerant about intimate relations (among fellow Noxians, of course), so why the secrecy? If Mortis is her father then you would have thought that would confer a degree of status… unless there was something to hide. We have been told that hybrids take after the father, so did Mortis also have a ‘little friend’?
“He’s my FK Buddy-Fear Battery.”
“Also, his mom is your sister.”
Wait! That means Shadow is Tim’s cousin!
No, Shadow was taken in by the Sisterhood as a baby. Moonlight treats her like her daughter, but they aren’t related by blood, meaning she and Tim aren’t cousins.
There’s a Fresh Prince of Bel Air joke in this I just know it.
I didn,t know Nox also had the hole and I bet others like Shadow were also put there stark naked.
I can’t tell if it’s more political or personal for her.
I think it’s more annoying for her.
To a politician: everything has political implications and the personal gets pushed to the back.
Coming soon: Midnight, Ruthless, Marcy, and Tim stage a daring daytime jailbreak. Moonlight, Terminus, and Nightmare show up just in time to see Tim’s foot and Ruthless’s tail disappear up a staircase to the surface. Terminus goes ballistic and hits Moonlight with that backhand of his; Ruthless hears this, turns around, and rescues her sister – only she’s out of practice and underestimates Nightmare, who has plans of her own….
Can I say once again that I love Shadow’s hair when it’s down? The pseudo-horns were cute when she was younger, but nowadays the long natural hair look suits her better. IMNSHO. (Then again, I’m biased toward long hair…)
Honestly, I have more of an issue with the fact she threw her in jail without a stitch of clothing to wear… like she’s some kind of Animal in a cage on display! You don’t do that to someone you actually care about you at least give them the respect of their dignity ~ even if they have made a bad choice {in your opinion}… and need to face the “consequences”.
Reference: US Army Field Manual (FM 34-52) Intelligence Interrogations. (Whisper) There are also separate CIA manuals.
In summary you need to make the subject as far removed for their comfort zone as possible.
Deprivation of clothing is a mild starting point, extreme cold or heat, deprivation of personal dignity (shit in a bucket, take away the bucket, shit in a corner of the cell, piss into your clothing and then abuse the subject for dirtiness)
These are all known techniques as practised for centuries and that’s ONLY if you want information.
If your goal is punishment then thre are few restrictions.
said “bad choice” being falling in love with a human…who the hell wrote these laws?
Those are the “racial purity” laws written by an extreme faction of “Nox First and Only” radicals.
They were passed quite some time earlier (before Ruth left Nox to find Tom) but there hasn’t yet been enough political will to have them repealed.
Of course there will also need to be politcians who will agree to implement the will of the people.
Nox isn’t really a democracy, either
That may be why these laws are still in place.
Great comic as always! I will say that I’d bet that Moonlight is going FLIP OUT next page.
Not only is she hot nude (esp the throw scene) like that, she also seems more intimidating for some reason.
“no good sister”? all she did was fall in love!
That was enough to get you imprisoned or executed in both Germany or parts of the USA in the 1920s or ’30s.
And elswhere also until the late 1950s.