December 18th, 2018
18 Dec 2018 · page 860 of 1306
Was that a second emotion, Will?!
Cast: Eliza Swift, Parsley, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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Seems that Mr. Sharpe has a bit of a blind spot with regards to the dramatic doctor...
Reminds me of Ben's attitude to Ms Fairbairn until the moment her being a villain became obvious.
...the only one who was upset with your future hanging, yeah?
Knotty? Of course! He's the last person he'd ever suspect!
She's the only one who visited I take it?
Will: I have one emotion and it is slightly flirtatious sarcasm
Eliza: I think your lecturer's evil
Will, shaking: yOu take tHat baCK
Vincent reminds me very strongly of young Steven of Universe fame, in that "complete opposite" sort of way.
Methinks that the lecturer used his mind control on him to make him overconfident so he doesn't think anyone would hate the idea and make him trust him blindly so he doesn't suspect him
All these fearful thoughts about the mind control like "if someone did to a crowd -to a city!.." confuse me a bit. This process demands a magic circle, doesn't it? You need summon a spirit, imbue the person. It doesn't look like something one can do unnoticed.
And if Sharpe really wrote that essay, it would be doubly difficult to do a thing like that to him.
is it possible to hide a circle under a rug? There was that desummoning trap in the lighthouse in Chapter 6.
And Ben drew a circle around the theater in Chapter 2, so a big circle would be possible.
And I mean, then there was this from Fullmetal Alchemist...a magic circle that engulfs entire nations.
Make something big enough and sometimes it's true nature may go unnoticed.
Yes, but that's the case even with the methods developed so far- we admittedly haven't seen much of ordinary spirits, but given that the deadlies could affect peoples mood and behaviour, perhaps they could too? And if "being in a place imbued with certain magic" can affect your mood (like the theatre), maybe imbuing a city would have a similar, but less exact, effect as what Sharpe's research allows for...
Ever seen/read "Fullmetal Alchemist"? You can do a whole country if you're patient and disguise it properly. At least in theory.
Eliza's pretty on the ball here. It made me rethink her earlier theory about Harry being the witch - it's actually a very clever deduction. It happens to be wrong, but given the information available, it's a shrewd conclusion to make.
I mean Harry WAS in the anchor WITH the witch so the theory's not far off
I don't know, his date with the hangman seems to be going pretty well so far.
Why didn't I think of that? /facedesk
Couldn't possibly happen to a nicer guy
I'm falling more in love with Eliza every moment.
But if the Evil Plan is to get Sharpe hanged, wouldn't The Villain (whoever she is) have already destroyed the evidence? But of course, no one could possibly want to harm Sharpe, so what is the Evil Plan?
If the Evil Plan involves making use of Will’s mind-control technique, the villain would want to keep the essay on hand to refer to. Getting Will hanged may have just been a side effect.
Or insurance.
Two face palms and a nervous laugh? Knotty, maybe you should just take him back to jail and forget about this.
"The only one who..." Who what, Sharpe? Finish the sentence! Is it that she was the only one concerned enough to visit you in your cell? Then yes, that would be a reason you'd not want to think badly of her. It would suggest that your big grin is largely bravado.
However, Eliza seems to think that you are easily deceived. (Can't imagine why!)
I wonder what she did when she visited his cell.
tbh the second she ran out of the cell crying dramatically my literal first thought was: "well folks, looks like we found our murderer (or thesis stealer, in this case)."
Um. Before breaking into that particular office, ask about possible countermeasures beyond "try not to be immobile while in a circle" our blunt Mr Sharpe may or may not have worked out.
Just suggesting. <_< (Because I bet it has a rug of suspicious roundness.)
Is it just me, or is every panel with Sharpe in it very Pride-colored?
It wasn't this way in the jail, though. Is it just the air in the apothecary?
The only one who what, Willy? Weren't you just telling us how absolutely everyone thinks you and your ideas are just about the greatest thing since loaved bread*?
(*sliced bread would not be invented until roughly 1928)
only one who likes you?
...yes?
It's spam that discus is having trouble with, apologies
I love how Kate sasses herself in the descriptions XD
Smart girl, that Eliza. Going places.