He gets the ball, thinks, starts to write
A scene change shines through Kendal’s light
Red, you just gotta do this, don’t ya?
Well this is how it’s gonna go
We’ll have to watch some character growth
Before we get to see Falst’s Hallelujah
I’m a bit ashamed of how long it took me to understand what this was about. Do you think we can make a complete parody of Hallelujah in the next pages? (I’m thinking Leonard Cohen’s version, so 4 verses?)
Yellow & purple technically aren’t quite opposites, but I VERY MUCH agree (it’s why the nonbinary flag slaps, hehehe).
I would also like to note hot pink and sea green as a pairing~
BTW, don’t you people think it’s interesting how some colours seem… wider… than others on a colour wheel? Like, yellow is TINY, but just LOOK at green, phhwoow!
That’s because humans evolved their color seeing organs while they were living in caves of the wilderness, which are totally chock-full of green. There’s a great Captain Disillusion video on it and green screens in general.
Y’know, your question inspired me to slap together a thingy in some drawing software to basically scroll though opposite colours, and I have decided that extremely dark cyan and extremely pale orange is all kinds of awesome
Well, as I was taught at my Cartography lessons, scientifically the best opposite colour pair is, funny enough, red and blue. When making maps with two colours this was the preferable option. Though different shades of standard blue and red will do the trick too. There was some scientific technical explanation for this, but that was 10 years ago and I don’t remember that anymore.
It does look more eye-like to me too, but I wait to see what Red shows next to judge it good, bad or just odd. An omen can for wheal (good) as woe (bad) but odd is a real interesting direction to take a story. (smile)
As an adamant aro-ace extremist, I flatly refuse to ship any of these characters, so I consider ALL ships unlikely. Now, that being said:
Falst/Dainix: Appearance here is easy since these two share so many traits, their kid basically just looks like Falst with nicer hair, or Dainix as a cat Ferin. Clever and athletic, but actually kind of a huge bookworm when you get right down to this. Falst coddles them especially.
Tess/Alinua: Genetics here are a little tricky, but I imagine them as having Tess’ golden skin and natural strength, and Alinua’s hair, ears, and eyes (not the green ones, before that). Born without a Spark, so not exactly a ton of personality until teenagerhood, but then they turn into a curious little explorer with an unhealthy fascination with very dangerous critters.
Alinua/Kendal: I’ll have to use a frickin’ block and tackle to suspend my disbelief about this one, not even for the ship, but just, like, biologically. I don’t think Kendal even has any genetics to pass on in the first place, so it’s actually vastly weirder even than the M/M & F/F ships having kids. BUT if we somehow ignore all that…I’m picturing a very serious little half-elf-looking demigod with skyfire-blue skin and INCREDIBLY floofy blond hair, kinda like a more buff version of Gabrielle from Sister Claire (https://www.sisterclaire.com/comic/book-1-chapter-1-pg-17). While we’re at it, let’s just assume they somehow inherit Alinua’s green-eyed connection to Life, too, because it’s funny. So you have this ridiculously overpowered kid raised with a paragon’s morality struggling to control themselves and also help everyone. Best of luck, kiddo, you’re gonna need it!
Falst/Erin: Ambiguously brown, black-furred, gangly little Ferin with an Ferin-ified version of Erin’s baby blue eyes. Extremely book-smart and street-smart at the same time, which often fails to make up for their abysmal social skills and constant overestimation of their ability to handle stuff on their own. Oh and to be clear, as a Ferin they naturally can’t be a mage, making their hubris even more unjustified. Neither of their dads really have any idea what to do with them, it’s super awkward all around.
That’s about all I have the patience for today, hope you enjoyed it! Maybe I’ll come back sometime this weekend and see if I can come up with any more, idk.
Wdym Kendal has ‘no genetics to pass on’? He has biology. He heals wounds. Therefore he has genes. Unless you mean he doesn’t have the means to pass them on. That, I find plausible. But probably will never get confirmed.
Your descriptions are very evocative! Like, genuinely! I like your use of colour!
That being said, I would like to note that, despite how everyone, including Red, keeps calling Falst a catboy, I’m pretty sure he’s a lion ferin, not a cat ferin. Of course, felineboy doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well, does it?
Uncle Chan: Kaiju fight is not important! The inscriptions are.
While it could be the exhaustion, physical pain, or mental pain Falst is trying to swallow in the second panel, I think we all know what it really is. This has been an effective, if torturous, bonding session between the two. I wonder how future chapters will handle their friendship, seeing as Dainix is the only party member who knows (or think’s he knows) Falst’s backstory.
Ok, Dainix is keeping it occupied, though I notice there’s a distinct lack of screaming coming from the glort. Either it is screaming, and we simply don’t see it because our focus is on Falst, or soulfire might not be the game-changer against this monster.
Prediction for next week: Looking at the final panel and the cover for this chapter featuring a blue glowing blade, I’d say Kendal will return fairly soon. Maybe another week of pep-talk from the citizens of Vash before he decides to move forward, grab the sword (in the dream and maybe in real life too), and wake up. Maybe startle Tess while he’s at it.
I think the alt text is a countdown, and we’ll cut back to the kaiju fight in three pages. I think it will take longer than expected for Dainix to kill glort -glort will die but not before getting in one last psychic attack.
Just hopped onto the Tumblr for the first time in months, and I think you’re right about the countdown. I’m not sure it’s a countdown to when we’ll return to the fight though–maybe it’s for when things come to a head, and all parties have converged on the current fight.
Or when whoever is current occupying Kendal’s body wakes up…
Pretty sure it’s a countup, this being the third kaiju fight.
1 was VoidErin vs DragonTynan
2 was Vash vs DragonTynan
I guess Goh counts as enough of a Kaiju?
Although I think Red has also referenced VoidErin vs Demon as a kaiju fight, which would put us at 4…
-incoherent noises-
I want to know what’s gonna happen with Kendal yes
but I want to know what’s gonna happen to Dainix and Falst TOO
aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa
You know, I would actually love to see a Kendal vs. Glort fight. I know Kendal has some very traumatic experiences in his backstory, but he’s only been alive for around two weeks at this point, so I don’t know if the Traumatic Soulgaze will have as much to work with for him.
That sound– even just imagining it– somehow makes my teeth feel like they’ve hit their resonant frequency and puts the taste of metal on my tongue, even though neither of those things are actually physically happening. It’s uncomfortable and downright weird at the same time.
Okay, so uh. My mom (friend I call my mom figure, they’re great) suggested this comic to me, and me being a fan of OSP, and knowing red’s great knowledge of story writing and tropes, like?? Though I had SO many fandoms in my brain rn, I knew it would be an INCREDIBLE comic, so it was too hard to resist…. So I started it and…. I may have plowed through this entire comic in the span of almost three weeks- And now….
I may be a LITTLE mentally ill over all these characters and their stories and bonds and friendships and pains and joys- And the ART!!!! As an artist, I’ve been completely geeking out about every little detail, admittedly…. *Sigh* I didn’t expect anything less. Just as awesome and clever and *sarcastic* as a Red do be <333
It looks like of the six great runes, what Falst is carving looks closest to either lightning or stone. I think they said that that lacrima was supposed to be for stone, so it looks like Falst is trying to reactivate whatever array is in the middle of the room. Perhaps it’s some kind of containment magic.
For mobile readers.
Alt-text: kaiju fight… THREE
Image source: change
That’s enough orange, let’s go back to blue
He gets the ball, thinks, starts to write
A scene change shines through Kendal’s light
Also dangit Red, you can’t do this to us!
Of course Red can- its her story. fellow fan! (snigger happily like a fool)
Something Something Something Hallelujah?
hehe I’ve finished the job (see my other comment)
He gets the ball, thinks, starts to write
A scene change shines through Kendal’s light
Red, you just gotta do this, don’t ya?
Well this is how it’s gonna go
We’ll have to watch some character growth
Before we get to see Falst’s Hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, halleluuuujah…
I’m a bit ashamed of how long it took me to understand what this was about. Do you think we can make a complete parody of Hallelujah in the next pages? (I’m thinking Leonard Cohen’s version, so 4 verses?)
Omg that’d be AWESOME!
Huh. Wasn’t expecting that; I thought we would continue focusing on the fight scene.
Wonder what Falst is going to do with the lacrima?
Aurora Question #82: Best opposite colour pairing? (Red + Green, Black + White, Orange + Blue, etc.)
orange & blue hands down!
(it’s why the aro ace flag slaps)
Heck yeah it does! I’m not very aesthetically minded, but the aro-ace flag I find really pretty.
I really like purple and yellow 😀
Yellow & purple technically aren’t quite opposites, but I VERY MUCH agree (it’s why the nonbinary flag slaps, hehehe).
I would also like to note hot pink and sea green as a pairing~
BTW, don’t you people think it’s interesting how some colours seem… wider… than others on a colour wheel? Like, yellow is TINY, but just LOOK at green, phhwoow!
I think it’s cuz green is the colour that we can see the most shades of
That’s because humans evolved their color seeing organs while they were living in caves of the wilderness, which are totally chock-full of green. There’s a great Captain Disillusion video on it and green screens in general.
Y’know, your question inspired me to slap together a thingy in some drawing software to basically scroll though opposite colours, and I have decided that extremely dark cyan and extremely pale orange is all kinds of awesome
If i put one color next another in a rainbow pattern my eyes are soothed.
I like a dark sea green with a dark magenta
I second this
A tie between black and white, and blue and orange.
Purple and green! (Yum, grapes)
Well, as I was taught at my Cartography lessons, scientifically the best opposite colour pair is, funny enough, red and blue. When making maps with two colours this was the preferable option. Though different shades of standard blue and red will do the trick too. There was some scientific technical explanation for this, but that was 10 years ago and I don’t remember that anymore.
black and white
Also that gem looks more eye-like than normal… that’s not ominous at all
It does look more eye-like to me too, but I wait to see what Red shows next to judge it good, bad or just odd. An omen can for wheal (good) as woe (bad) but odd is a real interesting direction to take a story. (smile)
Maybe it symbolises how Kendal is now seeing his own existence with a new perspective?
Given the alt text… actually the alt text is probably joking. So. I can infer nothing.
It made me think of the Eye of Thundera, like the sword just “woke up”
That’s what Liono’s sword was named!
Yeah there’s definitely a pupil there
HECK YEAH IT’S THE BOY!!!!!
Must be distracting, trying to write while two kaijus fight right in front of you.
Red is a tough cookie and has a well seasoned eye and independent spirit.
I’m scared for Dainix he’s not gonna be well after using his fire.
Ah, Goh’s alive.
OH???
No wait no we need answers!!!!
OUR BABY BOY IS BACK MY SON IS ALIVE
Anonymous Aurora Question #4: If every Aurora ship (including unlikely ones) had a child together, what would the child of each pairing look like?
As an adamant aro-ace extremist, I flatly refuse to ship any of these characters, so I consider ALL ships unlikely. Now, that being said:
Falst/Dainix: Appearance here is easy since these two share so many traits, their kid basically just looks like Falst with nicer hair, or Dainix as a cat Ferin. Clever and athletic, but actually kind of a huge bookworm when you get right down to this. Falst coddles them especially.
Tess/Alinua: Genetics here are a little tricky, but I imagine them as having Tess’ golden skin and natural strength, and Alinua’s hair, ears, and eyes (not the green ones, before that). Born without a Spark, so not exactly a ton of personality until teenagerhood, but then they turn into a curious little explorer with an unhealthy fascination with very dangerous critters.
Alinua/Kendal: I’ll have to use a frickin’ block and tackle to suspend my disbelief about this one, not even for the ship, but just, like, biologically. I don’t think Kendal even has any genetics to pass on in the first place, so it’s actually vastly weirder even than the M/M & F/F ships having kids. BUT if we somehow ignore all that…I’m picturing a very serious little half-elf-looking demigod with skyfire-blue skin and INCREDIBLY floofy blond hair, kinda like a more buff version of Gabrielle from Sister Claire (https://www.sisterclaire.com/comic/book-1-chapter-1-pg-17). While we’re at it, let’s just assume they somehow inherit Alinua’s green-eyed connection to Life, too, because it’s funny. So you have this ridiculously overpowered kid raised with a paragon’s morality struggling to control themselves and also help everyone. Best of luck, kiddo, you’re gonna need it!
Falst/Erin: Ambiguously brown, black-furred, gangly little Ferin with an Ferin-ified version of Erin’s baby blue eyes. Extremely book-smart and street-smart at the same time, which often fails to make up for their abysmal social skills and constant overestimation of their ability to handle stuff on their own. Oh and to be clear, as a Ferin they naturally can’t be a mage, making their hubris even more unjustified. Neither of their dads really have any idea what to do with them, it’s super awkward all around.
That’s about all I have the patience for today, hope you enjoyed it! Maybe I’ll come back sometime this weekend and see if I can come up with any more, idk.
Wdym Kendal has ‘no genetics to pass on’? He has biology. He heals wounds. Therefore he has genes. Unless you mean he doesn’t have the means to pass them on. That, I find plausible. But probably will never get confirmed.
Your descriptions are very evocative! Like, genuinely! I like your use of colour!
That being said, I would like to note that, despite how everyone, including Red, keeps calling Falst a catboy, I’m pretty sure he’s a lion ferin, not a cat ferin. Of course, felineboy doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well, does it?
I think an Erin/June kid would be pretty cute. Frizzy hair, light brown hair, etc.
If they inherit Light, Void, and the other 6 powers they’d theoretically be able to control everything.
Uncle Chan: Kaiju fight is not important! The inscriptions are.
While it could be the exhaustion, physical pain, or mental pain Falst is trying to swallow in the second panel, I think we all know what it really is. This has been an effective, if torturous, bonding session between the two. I wonder how future chapters will handle their friendship, seeing as Dainix is the only party member who knows (or think’s he knows) Falst’s backstory.
Ok, Dainix is keeping it occupied, though I notice there’s a distinct lack of screaming coming from the glort. Either it is screaming, and we simply don’t see it because our focus is on Falst, or soulfire might not be the game-changer against this monster.
Prediction for next week: Looking at the final panel and the cover for this chapter featuring a blue glowing blade, I’d say Kendal will return fairly soon. Maybe another week of pep-talk from the citizens of Vash before he decides to move forward, grab the sword (in the dream and maybe in real life too), and wake up. Maybe startle Tess while he’s at it.
I think the alt text is a countdown, and we’ll cut back to the kaiju fight in three pages. I think it will take longer than expected for Dainix to kill glort -glort will die but not before getting in one last psychic attack.
Just hopped onto the Tumblr for the first time in months, and I think you’re right about the countdown. I’m not sure it’s a countdown to when we’ll return to the fight though–maybe it’s for when things come to a head, and all parties have converged on the current fight.
Or when whoever is current occupying Kendal’s body wakes up…
Pretty sure it’s a countup, this being the third kaiju fight.
1 was VoidErin vs DragonTynan
2 was Vash vs DragonTynan
I guess Goh counts as enough of a Kaiju?
Although I think Red has also referenced VoidErin vs Demon as a kaiju fight, which would put us at 4…
Okay so panel three sure is a thing. Hooo… It’s like that thing in cartoons with a fight dustcloud, but… different. Veeery uneasy.
-incoherent noises-
I want to know what’s gonna happen with Kendal yes
but I want to know what’s gonna happen to Dainix and Falst TOO
aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa
YES BUT NOOO BUT ALSO YESSS I need to know what’s happening to the bois but I also need more Kendal content– AAAA
time to pull the sword out of the goop
KENDALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL HES BACK AHHHHHH
Looks like someone’s about to get involved.
FINALLY HHE WILL POSSIBLY WAKE UP! (I Hope so at Least)
Yes YES YES!!!!!!!! Can you tell I’m excited to see Kendal again ?. Also I’m loving the boys arc rn, I’m loving all of it ?
You know, I would actually love to see a Kendal vs. Glort fight. I know Kendal has some very traumatic experiences in his backstory, but he’s only been alive for around two weeks at this point, so I don’t know if the Traumatic Soulgaze will have as much to work with for him.
Oh boy, an Eye Sword. Eye Sword is NEVER a good thing.
Hey guys, remember Kendal? He’s been unconscious for four chapters but he’s still here!
Sweet, the arc, chapter, and page numbers make a palindrome! (Also the monster fight eclipsed by the magic orb is cool I guess.)
TL;DR: *Fingernails on chalk sound*
That sound– even just imagining it– somehow makes my teeth feel like they’ve hit their resonant frequency and puts the taste of metal on my tongue, even though neither of those things are actually physically happening. It’s uncomfortable and downright weird at the same time.
Thundercats hoooooo!
*With the energy of the Leo pointing meme* Dramatic sword drawing sequence! Dramatic sword drawing sequence, incoming!
And knowing Aurora, it’s not gonna be easy, there’s gonna be a monologue and/or Wild-era Zelda Master Sword-type thing! Awesome! xD
Eye of Thundera! Give me sight beyond sight!
CHIGGEN
Okay, so uh. My mom (friend I call my mom figure, they’re great) suggested this comic to me, and me being a fan of OSP, and knowing red’s great knowledge of story writing and tropes, like?? Though I had SO many fandoms in my brain rn, I knew it would be an INCREDIBLE comic, so it was too hard to resist…. So I started it and…. I may have plowed through this entire comic in the span of almost three weeks- And now….
I may be a LITTLE mentally ill over all these characters and their stories and bonds and friendships and pains and joys- And the ART!!!! As an artist, I’ve been completely geeking out about every little detail, admittedly…. *Sigh* I didn’t expect anything less. Just as awesome and clever and *sarcastic* as a Red do be <333
Do lacrimas have clay or chalk-like properties or is catboy just that strong?
It looks like of the six great runes, what Falst is carving looks closest to either lightning or stone. I think they said that that lacrima was supposed to be for stone, so it looks like Falst is trying to reactivate whatever array is in the middle of the room. Perhaps it’s some kind of containment magic.