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The Monster Under the Bed
“Embrace your fear.”
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That’s a major emotional disconect!
How does Tim even know that Midnight is so distraught about Shadow, rather than a broken nail (claw)?
Surely a “What’s up?” or “Where’s Shadow?” should have been Tim’s first reaction.
I’m sorry to say it,Brandon, but I think this is a failure in story-telling craft. (Or maybe I’m just old and don’t GET modern tales with bits left out intentionally.)
He literally did that on the last page…
Last panel on the previous page.
Well I will attempt address your questions as a fellow reader. I think he put 2 and 2 together. Midnight was strongly implying he somehow hurt Shadow. She mentions he promised to protect her, and that she promised to kill him if anything bad happened to her. Putting all those together with the fact that Shadow isn’t there and that this happened right after he and Shadow did the deed I think he realizes something is seriously wrong. Midnight breaking down sobbing probably helped him put it all together. He doesn’t know what happened but he can get an idea it is bad and he had something to do with it probably because they had sex. Does that make sense?
Thank youfor yur reply.
You said:
“I think he put 2 and 2 together” and later, “He doesn’t know what happened …”
That illustrates the point I was making .
Shadow is in gaol!!
It is an omportant plot point (maybe the major one in this sequence) but Brandon hasn’t let Midnight say it outright. Tim’s involvement is less so, at this point and causes & reasons can be untangled later but this is the trigger to action ,to involve Tim and Ruth and Tom, to spring up and plan (exposition, exposition, exposition) probably two pages as Ruth explains legal conditions in Nox, reveals herself (to Yim) as Lady Blackheart (at last!) , inroduces herself to Midnight and calms her hysterics. (maybe three pages)
As an important plot point, it should be explicit, not implied.
That’s an opinion but it’s mine and I like it.
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He asked “Where’s Shadow?” on just the last page and received a shove.
She gets very angry when he talks about her hearing the news of what they’d done, from Shadow he assumes.
Now she attacks him and at this point he asks her to settle down so they can talk about it and she tells him Shadow is in trouble.
What’s so hard to follow?
He probably forgot about the last page because they are released so slowly.
Or he SKIPPED the last page because they are releasing so fast :-).
It’s free, get over it.
Nonetheless Midnight HAS NOT revealed to Tim the cause of her upset.
It’s all so vague and relies on Tim’s understanding of what’s unspoken in Midnoght’s brain.
If his parents walk in now…well, they might be kind of off-put by him being with another Noxian girl right after he was with Shadow…
Nah, they went to bed. Let’s just ignore them like we usually do. Haha
So, if Midnight would be little less emotionally unstable, she might’ve killed Tim and they wouldn’t even notice.
I mean… yeah. That isn’t how the story goes though, is it? Haha I think worrying about alternate outcomes is rather pointless in a story that is definitely not that serious in the first place. 😅
Same story if there’s a carbon monoxide leak from a malfunctioning heater or something. Happens distressingly often in the real world.
Also the parents were assuming Tim was gonna visit Bonetown. Would be pretty creepy of them to spy on their son having sex.
Is Midnight wearing panties? or is she going commando.
No panties, She doesn’t wear them at all, ever. Same as Shadow really, despite what Ruth told her to do years back. They don’t like them at all!
Coordinating panties with a tail that comes out of the end of your spine and not havimg binding or chaffimg ‘issues’ IS a big deal most fantasy creature character from other stories and games kind of ‘gloss over’ cause in reality it likely would litterally be a “pain in the ass”!
You know, there can be button on back of panties … but yes, most stories and games gloss over it.
Then her pose in Panel 5 is going to make things HARD for Tim!
Ruth: …and of course, she does not wear panties or any sort of undergarment either. *sigh*
Tim: For the record, I am much more interested in learning what’s up with Shadow and how we can help than ogling a cute girl without undies who glomped me…
Tim: …Oh Dear Lord, what have I become?
Thom (from behind Ruth): I dunno. Mature?
Blasphemy!
No, just maleness.
Nope.. This kind of scenario has.. “potential” as is.. before even factoring in that detail. lol
Talk about getting straight to the point of the situation. Honest, it’s like action first and ask questions later with Midnight.
Yeah, that’s pretty much her. She is the hard-headed one.
It’s nice to see her hugging him for once.
Tee-hee! Tenderness IS a Universal language!
Even far more seriously homicidal ladies (like Bang in Girl Genius) may cry on someone’s shoulder now and then.
Even someone they seem to hate more then anyone?
Well, at least she didn’t kill him
Not yet.
Another few pages to go.
Now do we compound the WHAM moment with the Mom’s history or do we get a reckless charge
oh most certainly.
In which Midnight gets her calm-down snack (sort of), but does not enjoy it.
I hope his mom heard THAT
You would think that Ruth would know that that’s not shadows voice…
…wait, they’re gonna straight up sentince her to death just for loving a human? are you serious?!
Of course not. For a security breach, however? Giving away information, willfully letting an aegis be where human(s) can pick it up…
I don’t know if I’ve made it clear enough, but Humans and Monsters are NOT EVER under any circumstance supposed to become friends in this world and absolutely not lovers.
To quote escanor the lion sin of pride
“Who decided that”
…Why? Is there a specific in-universe reason for such a rule?
I can think of several possible reasons:
-Humans are the Noxians’ primary source of “food” (i.e., fear), and they think that if word ever got out that Noxians can sometimes be friendly, they would lose their mystique and humans wouldn’t be afraid of them anymore.
-They’re afraid that if humanity at large ever learned of the Noxians’ existence, they would hunt them down and eradicate them.
-There was a specific incident of a Noxian and a human getting friendly (or more than friendly, in Ruth and Thomas’s case) which ended very badly, and that incident prompted the Noxians to ban all future contact with humans other than scaring them.
Why not “all of the above”?
Does there need to be much beyond the Noxians sitting on something as absurdly valuable as their portal network and feeling quite vulnerable (especially early on after the Big Disconnect)?
Speaking of the early stage, we don’t have any reasons to assume that the old worlds-spanning fairy empire managed to consistently avoid power-drunk attitudes and excesses; thus its members, whether themselves involved or not, would reasonably fear revenge once their power is mostly gone.
And then we have seen that someone does indeed try to hunt the Noxians, whether due to a real chip on the shoulder, or for more predatory reasons (why would the Noxians care)?
You forgot the bit with hybrids apparently having some interesting abilities …
I mean, you literally just nail it on the head with all three points… which I am more than certain have been explained in the comic at some point already… I mean Shadow was implying being discovered was very bad news from the very beginning. literally the first night they met.
There is a racist element in the Noxian legal code against human relationships.
There are/were parallels in the human world in the late 1800s and early 20thC.
Congratulations kid, you’ve won a do-it-yourself hero kit complete with monsters. H/T to Roger Zelazny
The tease! I thought this would be where he gets the scars, but no, it’s a hug instead.
The scars… oh how I regret those scars. haha The entirety of this comics run time I’ve been hearing about them. haha. I wish I could tell you, but it would ruin a very, very long game.
I run to my room and look at the previous ten pages,Before knowing what happened now hehe
Better take the time and review ALL 330!
Crap, so death is a potential outcome for breaking the “no contact” rule. yikes.
Really cute scene there at the end.. Cry hug. :’)
Sexual tension turned into sexual circumstances type potential. lol
Now she has to explain things. (hopefully off “camera” in between this and next page)
Thanks for the page Brandon!:)
Why off camera? There is all sort of details we are not aware of now.
Yeah, Tim doesn’t know any details, and I am certain Midnight can sum it up quick enough.
She COULD have explained it so simply on Page 329, but we have had a nice, detailed discussion anyway.