The Akoll family are merchants down to the bone
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All right, looks like everything’s up and working! I’ve been sitting on this site redesign too long, and just needed a couple days to get everything remade. And in a strange bit of good (?) timing, my Wacom tablet died a few days ago, which I assumed was the universe’s way of telling me to get off my ass and update the site already. Thankfully Wacom made a speedy repair and delivery back, so I’ve already sketched up the first few panels of the next OOPs page.
And a special shoutout to Xandispin, who first suggested a site update several months ago, then set up this snazzy new WordPress layout for me to customize (which I then sat on until this past week). Thanks man; it took me long enough to get around to it, but without you the site would still be looking like something from the early 2000’s!
Seriously, I was manually creating pages and re-entering every altered link when there was a new page, using a long-defunct version of Dreamweaver 2001. That gets tiring real quick.
Anyway! There’s some new stuff in the Art & Extras section now as well, which you might not have seen if you don’t frequent Deviantart and such.
Delightful! Delightful! DELIGHTFUL! So happy to have discovered this comic!
Yeah, you tell her, Kass!
Progressive as she is, Vizlet is not immune to propaganda and manipulation.
They punished her severely, tell her it’s her fault, and she takes that personally, because how can’t she?
She’s been raised to believe that this is the way things are, the way they’re meant to be, and she strayed from that, so her punishment is in keeping with their own laws, but just because they’re laws or the culture doesn’t mean it’s just.
She’s had her Enclave, her family, split apart forcibly, punished directly with hard oversight and taking away of some of her duties and powers, because the Central Enclaves want it done THEIR way only.
Yinglets DESERVE a better chance than that, to do better than living the way someone hundreds of years ago tells you to.
yesyesYES kass! tank you for makin te Matriarch happeh! is not her faults! hoorays!
Im just imagining a yiglet civil war with the city + local yiglets + baxxids vs massive onclave. Epic!
or diplomacy boo…
I cannot quite tell if Kas’s reaction is because of a hatred of Beletam, loyalty to House Ivenmoth, or a deeply held belief of power that hasn’t been yet explored.
I think a large part of it his his own merchant upbringing comming out.
It’s kind of spelled out in the author’s comment that it’s his merchant background screaming at their bad management practices – that kind of mismanagement can RUIN a merchant’s reputation, and Kass would have been trained by his family to spot exactly that kind of bullshit and nip it in the bud BEFORE it damages the name and reputation of House Akoll.
I really do think that Kass surprising Vizlet by breaking some assumption she was making is a pretty significant emotional core of this comic it defines like all of the interactions they have
Hell even the bonus stuff on the FA with those two tends to follow that pattern
It’s just slight discoloration on the walls, but the two panels of Vizlet’s face look like she’s glowing a bit when she gets happy.
Wow! I didn’t know Kass was a tsundere 😀 /jk
To be honest, I’ve grown up watching my mother be treated like this: being told she has rights and treated like she has none. Like her very right to health and happiness belongs to everyone else, no matter her approach. I was standing up for her before I was out of diapers and seeing Viz here treated the same way, (good story telling by the way), I so want to Rip and Tear a few heads off her leaders. Almost said something similar to Kass just a few days ago, so take my comment with a touch of salt.