2859 Tip Of The Spear.
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I’m really piling it on Evrina right now. Emotional distress with Jess, extreme lust with Carol, and now the man who knocked her off her perch, and stole her best friend. I almost feel sorry for her.
If this took place earlier in the story Carol and Thomas would probably be pretty shaken up too, but at this point even Carol has accepted Reggie. Maybe not as a friend, but at least as something other than an enemy. Reggie probably won’t give any thought to seeing them here outside of just noticing them and going on about his day. He tends to be pretty self absorbed and Evrina will likely catch all of his attention.
The spear wound thing is a little factoid I learned along the way and it really isn’t fair to call out Reggie for it. I don’t think it’s something most people would realize unless they are prone to giving these sorts of details a lot of thought. Victoria is a little faster on the draw than Reggie and also generally more aware and likely to remember minutia. She’s also his sister and prone to being less charitable to him because of their sometimes adversarial relationship. Of course they are becoming something more like fully functioning adults, so their sibling rivalry is easing a bit. Of course I say that while being nearly 50 and still having some level of rivalry with my own sister. It is quite possible that any rivalry is one sided and completely based on my own poor estimation of myself rather than any active antagonism on her part though. Of course as a man who makes a meager living drawing imaginary people it would probably be fair to say that I am not a mature participant in any situation. In any event I’m looking forward to creating the next part of my imaginary world if for no reason other than I will be extremely amused by it. If any outside observers are amused that will simply be a bonus.
Anyway, that’s about all I have for now. I look forward to seeing you on Friday. Until then, rotate like a heroic fist fighting tornado!
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I know this one. The spear was inserted to verify that he was actually dead, and successfully verified that fact when the wound produced both blood and water. This resulted in them not breaking his legs, since he was already dead, fulfilling a prophecy about none of his bones being broken. One of my pastors talked about the why of this and medical details related to why it was blood and water, and how that proved he was actually dead, as well as why the legs were normally broken and the prophecies involved in that little detail. It’s stuck with me.
can’t blame him for not paying attention to that particular subject lmao
Honestly love that this restaurant has just become this gravitational force that sucks in the entire cast and creates a space for ever more shenanigans and amazing interactions xD
Whoa whoa whoa…. Jesus died? That’s messed up.
Yea dude, the spear wound is one of the seven (or five) holy wounds.
So its like…
NO IT IS NOT like DBZ where if you collect all seven you become God!
So does anyone wanna make bets on Evrina’s reaction to Alexandria
No bet, they know each other already.
Let’s all three of us heroes ignore- that this one is in barbed wire, + therefore, likely- fictional. [Hoo boy]. [Heh, heh, heh!]
Then the log said to the Roman soldier:
“Don’t make me cross!”
Ha yuk, yuk, yuk.
:D
If you were ever toying around any new plot ideas, With her sense of detail, having Alex do a soft audit of the store might be fun.
The spear wound supposedly (in as much as anything in the rest of the story actually happened) being post-death makes particularly silly a line from a TV show (decades old, whose name escapes me) where a bad guy is enthusing about finding the original spear/lance as “a weapon which killed a god!” He was already dead, dude, and in any case was in human form so wouldn’t have been that hard to kill anyway.
Can… Reggie SERIOUSLY not understand what she’s saying in the first panel? What about it is in any way that complex? Is it just because she used the word ‘abstraction’? I get there’s difficulty inherent to ‘writing a character that’s smarter than (most of) the others’ without making the average reader irritated/ confused, but Reggie seems like a bit of a dolt here!