Carol hasn’t had a lot of time to really show the depth of her knowledge about general subjects. As a character she tends to stay in the moment because that’s the kind of person she is. In a lot of ways she is the most adult of the cast. She tends to concern herself with things that will ensure survival for herself and those under her command. Of course she’s not really a very good manager in the sense of leadership, rather she rules through fear. That is changing over time, just like all of the characters are learning as they go. She and Thomas sit on opposite sides of various spectrums. He is subtle and convinces people to do what he wants with whatever tools he has. Carol demands people do things because of her place in the hierarchy. In reality the worst she could to is write people up and eventually get them fired, but that is threat enough most of the time. Of course now that she’s been allowing herself to imagine a different kind of life other aspects of her personality are starting to come through. I doubt that Carol is ever going to become a regular church goer, but she certainly has ideas about the nature of the universe and our place in it. She’s familiar with the lore of spirits, religions, and so on. In this moment she demonstrates that she has at least a cursory understanding of how some ghosts “work”, and how that plays into the religion she was brought up in.

I’ve lived through several ebb and flow periods of religion going in and out of fashion. When I started the comic the rise of the atheist pundit was getting into gear on youtube and eventually evolving into the religious “men of the west” movement, for lack of an official term. Young people who threw off religion came back to it when it suited them for whatever reasons they had. The ones who didn’t come back split off into their own, generally miserable, factions. It seemed like that side tended to evolve into an intense hatred for modern Star Wars and Disney. Most of those people are still on youtube clinging to that worldview for dear life since they forgot to develop tolerable personalities in the declining years. These are, of course, general observations and any particular being you point to will have had a more nuanced journey than I’m describing. I’m simply speaking as someone who watched from the sidelines.
I was in webcomics obviously, so I saw the infection of publishing by fashionable creators who went on to create the things that the youtube pundits hated. In essence I observed a the two parts of an economy of hate being grown by the two parties who would come to depend on it. People think I’m crazy, but the world we live in now was founded in no small part in early webcomics. That said I can never speak in any terms other than generalities because people in both camps would heap scorn on me and I don’t want to have scorn heaped on me any more than it already has been. That said, I’ve been watching the whole time. Perhaps someday, if I live long enough, I’ll reveal the true extent of my observations. For how however I’ll just keep making my largely inoffensive webcomic in relative obscurity. That is a fate worthy of a gutless worm who stands for nothing apart from his own survival.
To that end, I remind you that you can support my work via links located here and there about the website. I’ve gotten out of the habit of mentioning it and that is not fiscally responsible of me.

Anyway, I hope you have a nice Friday and a safe weekend. On Monday I expect to see you safe and alive. If not I will be sad and you will be dead. No one wants that apart from the forces that yearn for our demise. Don’t give then the satisfaction!

2845 Forgive Me Not.

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