Sorry for the caps, I don’t normally get references, even if the person is referencing something I know and sometimes even like. Once a friend made a pokemon reference when we were looking for the neighborhood stray cat to give treats, he will be A. my other friend (who never played pokemon) will be B.
B: Were is [the cat?]
A: Maybe it’s under that truck *Finger guns*
Me: *Actually checks under the truck*
A: No, it was a joke
B: I don’t get it
A: Astrics, you have to get it
Me: I don’t get it either
A: It’s a Mew is under the truck joke
Me: Oh my goodness, I’m such an idiot
(For context, the cat had all their shots and was neutered. It was brought to a local vet and got tooken care of before be released as the guy who brought it to the vet was going to college and couldn’t bring it with him do to school rules and his mom was allergic and couldn’t take care of it, the dude just wanted to make sure it was healthy. The cat is a boy and my friend group loved it, his name is Sora as my group named it and a lot of my friends play KH. He was adopted by one of my close friends. Oh and I didn’t put my real name in the interaction. Also the guy who took him to the vet took the female stray that died a few years before Sora came to town to the vet aswell, he wanted to make sure the strays in our town were happy. This story happened 2 years ago and Sora is alive and well.)
But yeah, I’m bad at spotting references, so I was excited to get this one
I think it’s a medical diagram of some kind; it shows someone’s back (with the spine prominent) in one position on the left, and in a different position on the right, and below that, two eyes, one on the left and one on the right, in different shapes. Between the left images and the right ones, there are arrows pointing right.
Sounds like a case of a really powerful artifact, in the right hands can be used for good, such as saving lives with surgery, but in the wrong hands, can be misused to cause mayhem. So now they need to find and deal with this thief and retrieve a dangerous artifact.
I think that the chimeras were attempts by Falst to practice shapeshifting other living beings, before attempting a ‘ferin cure’ by shapeshifting himself
I’d wager the chimera’s were a complete accident and our rouge ferin probably has an end goal, just… very poor execution, and no idea how to achieve said goal until Erin’s books on the subject just happen to land in his lap. I’d say he’s more of an opportunist really, i doubt he has any control over the chimera’s he’s been making.
Home boy is making it up as he goes and crossing his fingers.
To me the scenes we’ve seen so far imply (but do not out right state) that the Ferin has not actually used the lacrima yet. It seems like the Ferrin needed the books not only to know what combination of runes to draw, but how to draw runes at all (hence his practice on the stones). If he was already accomplished enough to have successfully used the lacrima to create a bunch of chimeras, it seems like he would not need to practice drawing individual runes on the rock.
Partly it depends whether an “uninscribed” lacrima has no runes on it or just no completed functioning code. There were certainly runes on the lacrima, but I got the sense they were there when the Ferin got it, not that he put them on it. I’m also assuming that the rune alphabet is limited and to do anything with the lacrima you would already have to know all the letters if not all the combinations.
Another issue is how hard is it to create chimera of the kind we see (ie are a big mobile threat rather than merely an abomination against nature that quickly die or lie convulsing in horrendous pain until someone gives them the sweat release of death), if it takes some effort and practice it is hard to see how the Ferin goes from stealing the lacrima to quickly churning out a horde of attacking chimera. Only if it is easy to use the lacrima that way would it make sense that the Ferin could be the one responsible.
So I think either the good doctor has committed a post hoc ergo proper fallacy (after this therefore because of this) concluding the Ferin stealing the lacrima caused the chimeras because he started noticing the chimera. Or the good doctor is lying (he knows there is no way the Ferin caused the chimera), in which case he either created the chimera himself or is working with whoever is creating the chimeras and is using the Ferin as a convenient scapegoat if and when people start asking about the chimeras.
So I am betting the Ferin is either trying to do something unrelated to the chimera incidents (such as undo their own Ferinocity) or is actually trying to stop/undo the chimera stuff rather than being the instigator of the plot.
Note the idea that the Ferin would use the lacrima to do magic echoes the way the Ancients were likewise unable to be mages but still used magic through devices (as with the eternal magical storm caused by the magic thingy the Ancients built that the void dragon had trapped that Erin ran into).
Rude Erin, brooding Kendal and Ali saying everyone’s names.
I’m inclined to agree with Allen Olley, I don’t think Falst is responsible for the chimeras and the doctor is either lying and they’re behind it or he automatically assumes Falst is doing it due to the timing and maybe his own Ferin prejudice. I’m hoping it’s the latter, part of me doesn’t want the doc to be evil.
Okay so I was looking at the history of the word tear (as in crying) for some reason, and please correct me if I’m wrong but apparently lacrima is Latin for tear and I was like wait a minute that Magic thing in comic aurora was called a lacrima so I came here to check and what do you know it is a lacrima, I wonder If this is deliberate? Interesting
I just realized that Erin and Marinet have a quite similar haircolour and that was enough of a reason for my mind to imagine him as ladybug. I mean he would enjoy the attention..
ooh, he be stealin’
or rather,
oh, he done stolen’
Erin’s furious reaction incoming in 3,2,1…
So, in a way, the people who thought the doctor was the problem and the people who thought that Falst was the problem were BOTH right!
My guess is that he stole the magical medical stone because someone needed healing, and that he’s been ‘practicing’ on the wildlife
Who else feels sorry for the doctor just because of that face he did in the final panel?
I do….I have this feeling that he is entirely innocent and without evil intentions; this guy is not evil everyone!!! Just look at the faaaace!
I’d say there is a 50/50 chance that he is secretly evil of the good actor variety but I hope I’m wrong I like that dude
…Honestly, same, except for me I suspect it’s more of a 65% chance
Kind of, but also not really, because it isn’t his fault. Objectively
Hmmm I think maybe Falst is trying to bring back someone he lost or something…
Or maybe create some more ferin to play with, so he won’t be all alone.
To curb lonliness he could just join a ferin settlement. I think it’s more likely that he wants to de-ferin himself
That could cost him an arm and a leg.
And his brother’s entire body.
I GET THAT REFERENCE
Sorry for the caps, I don’t normally get references, even if the person is referencing something I know and sometimes even like. Once a friend made a pokemon reference when we were looking for the neighborhood stray cat to give treats, he will be A. my other friend (who never played pokemon) will be B.
B: Were is [the cat?]
A: Maybe it’s under that truck *Finger guns*
Me: *Actually checks under the truck*
A: No, it was a joke
B: I don’t get it
A: Astrics, you have to get it
Me: I don’t get it either
A: It’s a Mew is under the truck joke
Me: Oh my goodness, I’m such an idiot
(For context, the cat had all their shots and was neutered. It was brought to a local vet and got tooken care of before be released as the guy who brought it to the vet was going to college and couldn’t bring it with him do to school rules and his mom was allergic and couldn’t take care of it, the dude just wanted to make sure it was healthy. The cat is a boy and my friend group loved it, his name is Sora as my group named it and a lot of my friends play KH. He was adopted by one of my close friends. Oh and I didn’t put my real name in the interaction. Also the guy who took him to the vet took the female stray that died a few years before Sora came to town to the vet aswell, he wanted to make sure the strays in our town were happy. This story happened 2 years ago and Sora is alive and well.)
But yeah, I’m bad at spotting references, so I was excited to get this one
The doctor is evil! I’m calling it now.
GASSSP, that poster in the background, could it be?
I think it’s a medical diagram of some kind; it shows someone’s back (with the spine prominent) in one position on the left, and in a different position on the right, and below that, two eyes, one on the left and one on the right, in different shapes. Between the left images and the right ones, there are arrows pointing right.
Out of curiosity, what did you think it was?
It’s this diagram Red posted on twitter:
https://twitter.com/AuroraWebcomic/status/1280997543942512640
Sounds like a case of a really powerful artifact, in the right hands can be used for good, such as saving lives with surgery, but in the wrong hands, can be misused to cause mayhem. So now they need to find and deal with this thief and retrieve a dangerous artifact.
Ahhh so many floods I’ve started calling my cat a little floof
*floofs not floods
I think that the chimeras were attempts by Falst to practice shapeshifting other living beings, before attempting a ‘ferin cure’ by shapeshifting himself
^
Same.
A rogue who causes untold damage and destruction wielding the artifacts they have stolen. Sounds like hero material to me.
‘Uninscribed’ Life Lacrima + Book of Runes = ?
? = Profit!
I’d wager the chimera’s were a complete accident and our rouge ferin probably has an end goal, just… very poor execution, and no idea how to achieve said goal until Erin’s books on the subject just happen to land in his lap. I’d say he’s more of an opportunist really, i doubt he has any control over the chimera’s he’s been making.
Home boy is making it up as he goes and crossing his fingers.
To me the scenes we’ve seen so far imply (but do not out right state) that the Ferin has not actually used the lacrima yet. It seems like the Ferrin needed the books not only to know what combination of runes to draw, but how to draw runes at all (hence his practice on the stones). If he was already accomplished enough to have successfully used the lacrima to create a bunch of chimeras, it seems like he would not need to practice drawing individual runes on the rock.
Partly it depends whether an “uninscribed” lacrima has no runes on it or just no completed functioning code. There were certainly runes on the lacrima, but I got the sense they were there when the Ferin got it, not that he put them on it. I’m also assuming that the rune alphabet is limited and to do anything with the lacrima you would already have to know all the letters if not all the combinations.
Another issue is how hard is it to create chimera of the kind we see (ie are a big mobile threat rather than merely an abomination against nature that quickly die or lie convulsing in horrendous pain until someone gives them the sweat release of death), if it takes some effort and practice it is hard to see how the Ferin goes from stealing the lacrima to quickly churning out a horde of attacking chimera. Only if it is easy to use the lacrima that way would it make sense that the Ferin could be the one responsible.
So I think either the good doctor has committed a post hoc ergo proper fallacy (after this therefore because of this) concluding the Ferin stealing the lacrima caused the chimeras because he started noticing the chimera. Or the good doctor is lying (he knows there is no way the Ferin caused the chimera), in which case he either created the chimera himself or is working with whoever is creating the chimeras and is using the Ferin as a convenient scapegoat if and when people start asking about the chimeras.
So I am betting the Ferin is either trying to do something unrelated to the chimera incidents (such as undo their own Ferinocity) or is actually trying to stop/undo the chimera stuff rather than being the instigator of the plot.
Note the idea that the Ferin would use the lacrima to do magic echoes the way the Ancients were likewise unable to be mages but still used magic through devices (as with the eternal magical storm caused by the magic thingy the Ancients built that the void dragon had trapped that Erin ran into).
Honestly, the star filled sky in the background of these panels…
Amazing.
What a jerk >:O
Rude Erin, brooding Kendal and Ali saying everyone’s names.
I’m inclined to agree with Allen Olley, I don’t think Falst is responsible for the chimeras and the doctor is either lying and they’re behind it or he automatically assumes Falst is doing it due to the timing and maybe his own Ferin prejudice. I’m hoping it’s the latter, part of me doesn’t want the doc to be evil.
I also don’t want the doc to be prejudiced, just to add. Maybe he follows the habitual treatment that Ferin endure without realising.
TL;DR: Lionboi can’t do magic, so he stole a magic battery from DR. J.
Whaaat? An opportunity presents itself to once again allow our protagonists to… protagonise? Why, good sir, how could I resist?
Hmmm, something doesn’t add up…
Okay so I was looking at the history of the word tear (as in crying) for some reason, and please correct me if I’m wrong but apparently lacrima is Latin for tear and I was like wait a minute that Magic thing in comic aurora was called a lacrima so I came here to check and what do you know it is a lacrima, I wonder If this is deliberate? Interesting
Alt text: hey don’t be sad, this is what protagonists are for
Image source: answers
I’m sorry can we address Kendal doing the cool guy lean against the wall? Love that for him XD
Yeees, it’s awesome. Especially because it doesn’t fit his cute, innocent character at all
I just realized that Erin and Marinet have a quite similar haircolour and that was enough of a reason for my mind to imagine him as ladybug. I mean he would enjoy the attention..