1.15.28
on January 19, 2022
at 3:00 am
takes real skill to do a backwards roll with three feet of space-metal strapped to your back
Aurora
A fantasy webcomic. Updates M-W-F.
takes real skill to do a backwards roll with three feet of space-metal strapped to your back
YEET (in all seriousness hhhhhhhh this is tense)
Kendal YEETS Dainix!
It was somewhat effective!
Kendal’s safe for now…
“Through the fire and flames” chorus starts playing.
So now, we fly ever free, we’re free before the thunderstorm
On towards the wilderness, our quest carries on
Far beyond the sundown, far beyond the moonlight
Deep inside our hearts and all our souls
So far away, we wait for the day
For the lives, all so wasted and gone
We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days
Through the fire and the flames, we carry on
Power wolf
I’m early and I suspect Zurif (idk how to spell his name lol) isn’t behind this.
Is there any chance at all Zuurith would put a stop to the fight? The Arena Master knew Dainix was holding back. They both know he’s Ignan, and they had Shrike — a stone mage — in the arena. Wouldn’t they see the Dainix flambe as his being an Ignan fire mage? At least initially?
Heh, heh, heh. I hope Dainix melts that arena. And half that mountain. Lava’s good for that. Wouldn’t it be ironic if Tynan’s waterworks is the only thing that can put the fire out?
(Are we going to get a “learning how to control my powers” subplot? *ears perk up*)
The benefits of this fight is that we get to enjoy their glorious hair flowing all around
That’s right Dainix … rip up his shirt! Git ’em, git ’em!
I see Dainix took a trip into the uncanny valley for the 4th panel…
Dainix: nearly kills Kendal
Kendal: Y E E T
GUYS I KNOW WHATS WRONG WITH DAINIX! HE’S NOT JUST A FIRE MAGE, HE’S A FIRE MAGE WITH FIRE ELEMENTAL CORRUPTION!
BUT that’s just a theory- an AURORA THEORY.
SHFF, best sound effect
Anyone else watched dororo (2019)? I’m seeing a few parallels; pretty dude with a ponytail, fighting someone that they probably shouldn’t be fighting (although it diverges if you get anymore specific). Ponytail is/theorized to be, struggling with their literal inner demons, and their going into a crazy rage fight.
R.I.P. Red’s drawing hand, all this flowing hair can’t have been easy to do.
Zuurith is prideful yes but he’s not stupid; if Dainix becomes a threat to the people in the audience he’ll take action. However, if Dainix’s power and state, whatever the nature it may be, is only a threat to himself and Kendal then I doubt he’ll do anything.
Also I wonder where the Arenamaster is in all this; he did have a personal stake in this match after all. Plus he was under the assumption Dainix didn’t have powers; if he saw this his reaction would not only be great but could inform Zuurith in stopping the match.
Kendal is starting to get very worried; you can tell because his floof in the final panel has gone flat. Also is that a tear in his shirt? Looks like Dainix came close to drawing blood that last attack. Not good.
So, u all know how the font is Red’s handwriting right? Well I’ve made my own handwriting into a font to. It’s quite fun. If anyone else wants to try that go to RishiDraws channel, he has a tutorial.
I hope none of them will die (except Zuurith, fuck that guy).
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Zuurith is mf’ing beta
(sorry it had to be said)
Problem for Zuurith is that Kendal has strong feelings about NOT being the reason other people die.
“How could I help the dead by sacrificing the living? Nobody dies. Not for me. Not ever.”
Quite the handicap.
https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-2-31/
(Currently rereading from the beginning.)
Damn this is intense. I can barely wait for Friday!!
Reds carpal tunnel go brrrrrrrr
Danix is gonna explode
This isn’t a haiku
I can tell that people are gonna ship these two… (I kind of see it,) but I can’t get over the fact that the potential ship names are Kendix and Dainal.
(I realize this is largely unrelated to the actual page. Uh… save him Kendal!)
Reading Aurora is one of the first things I do when I wake up and can I just say, this page looks beautiful, especially how you framed the WHAM ?
Man…
Also btw that wooden staff won’t last too long…
I’m just waiting for the rest of the flood gang to hear about this, what was it alinua said? That if Zurith broke the agreement and held kendal to long she would, quote, “tear the entire place down, stone by stone.” Yeah, this is going to be good
They could always go the RWBY route and name it Fireblonde or Calming tea or something
TL;DR: Throw him overboard! Fire and spears are unsafe for your health!
I hope that’s sand in the arena, otherwise that would be a hard landing. It might still be, actually, if the sand is tightly packed enough.
Considering how easily Kendal broke that guard’s staff, it must’ve taken significant care not to snap Dainix’s spear here. Of course, that begs the question of why Kendal didn’t snap Dainix’s spear, since that would just leave him with his fire mag- …Actually, yeah, considering Dainix is literally bleeding fire now, probably best to just let him keep using his spear.
Ok, fun fact time! Kendal just did a common move from jiu-jitsu, the balloon sweep. It’s really fun. When someone puts their weight over you, usually to avoid a different sweep, put your feet on their hips, throw them over your head (yes, while on the ground), then do a backwards roll into mount. 🙂
Welcome back to “Aurora Characters needing extensive therapy”
Use the sword Kendal!
Boy’s haunted.
Just yeet and and dodge boys, yeet and dodge
Dainix face-planting in the last panel is kind of funny, though I know this is really serious. SPLAT.
I feel like the audience CAN see the light-show that Dainix is doing right now, but they don’t seem to be that worried. At least Zuury isn’t anyway. I feel like Dainix is really losing himself at this point, because I feel like if Kendal hadn’t caught that spear he’d have been kabob-ed through the heart and that sort of attack is unusual for him. Also, the way his eye is glowing makes me thinking of those fricking wizzrobes from Breath of the wild which is not a good sign. Honestly surprised he hasn’t burnt off his eye bandage yet, but I feel like that’s coming soon. Like next page he struggles to get up and Kendal starts walking towards him to do the whole “are you okay dude” thing and then Dainix turns to him with his other eye exposed and probably spewing fire. Like he’d just unlocked the second form in a boss fight.
Imagine if a zoo tried to pull the “enrichment” line from the alt text.
I want the two of them to go apeshit and destroy the arena-
for a second after first reading that, I thought that Kendal kicked the end of the spear straight through Dainix and I was like, ‘what?’
But them I read it again.
OOOooOOOooooohhhh all of the glowies for this one 😀
glowy fire, glowy eyes… makes me all the happy
…seriously though, fancy lighting makes me really happy in art :’)
alt text: being on fire is perfectly healthy and natural for a gladiator. it’s enrichment.
Wow, Kendal made that roll with no difficulty!
Also, possibly looks like fighting him just makes his skin crack faster (judging by the stronger glow on his chest after the kick), so I am once again putting forth the hug option.
Sheez I got so caught up reading that I never expected to be up to day D: I can’t take this much tension!
And the crowd goes WILD (As do us, in a different way). I am all for Zuurith’s bewildered expression here, it’s hilarious. I’m pretty sure Kendal caved in his chest with that kick, so that’ll be cool to see. New Pastrivia coming Friday, since this is too exciting.
@Mellow Dee: No matter what people say about it, RWBY will always have the best ship names!
@Pumpkin: Thanks for the lesson :-).
@Piononowan: Welcome to the comments!
Now why didn’t you break that one Kendal? This could’ve been a lot easier!
What’s the chances that the ‘demon’ that destroyed Dainix’s was Dainix himself?
DisastrousGoth:
Zuurith: “What??”
Kendal, preparing his best hug: “Boy’s haunted.”
Just read everything up to this point in one night, and ahhhh such a cliff hanger I both love and hate it
That opening exchange reminds me of a military adage: A bomb specialist at a dead run outranks EVERYBODY.
Rank can be important, but sometimes someone is just Correct.
@TheUnknownGame
You. You understand.
Calling it right now- they’re going to use that exact manoeuvre to throw over some wall in the distant future…
Or maybe the near future, who knows. It’s not like we’re trapped in a city with big walls or anything.
yeahh this is Tense
@TheUnknownGame Also, Kendal is using Dainix’s spear as a lever to flip him there, so breaking it would let Dainix fall on top of him and pin him with fire-limbs
When I saw Kendal give Zuurith a direct order on the last page I was somewhat worried that Zuurith might retaliate violently for being spoken down to. I am pleasantly surprised that he seems to recognize that this might not be a situation he can resolve by crushing it with his ego. Maybe Zuurith will step in once this gets out of hand.
Humanoid Clay: As an avid RWBY fan, I am glad to see that those outside the FNDM can at least appreciate the creativity of the shipping names.
@Piononowan: Welcome to the Aurora Fandom!
Careful Red, your dragon ball z is showing! How many of these characters have super powered evil sides now?
Three, at MINIMUM. Since Falst doesn’t seem to have much of a feral side despite what people believe about his kind. And if Kendal finds a way to let Vash puppet him that will probably count too, since I find it hard to imagine Vash being MORE heroic (I’m thinking Vash would care less about collateral damage because of being used to mortals dying around him).
Thanks for the warm welcome
“Stop the deathmatch! My the person getting to kill me looks like he’s in trouble!”
Kendal is adorable. Not naive as such, just supremely nice.
Wow, I completely garbled the middle bit of that. It’s supposed to be:
“Stop the deathmatch! The person trying to kill me looks like he’s in trouble!”