June 18th, 2019
18 Jun 2019 · page 905 of 1306
A conversational pit trap.
Cast: Eliza Swift, Will Sharpe
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Your friend asking you to help him save a criminal about to be executed? Fine.
A Mayor trying to to take over the city using magic? Fine.
Said Mayor pushing you and the aforementioned criminal into a deep hole? Fine.
Surviving the fall only to end up in a magical place with zero respect for physics? Fine.
Guy wants to talk about his feelings? OH BOY NO!!
I can relate, but sadly, the role of Guy will played by Arrogant Self-absorbed Manchild, with as much emotional depth as a hairbrush you want to use that's full of other people's hair.
It's uncomfortable for everyone, and makes for poor conversation.
Just for the record, I totally disagree with that characterization of Sharpe.
I realise it's a sort of fun to be so hard on characters, but I think I can give a supporting voice at this time.
I disagree as well. Oh sure, he may have seemed like that at the very beginning, but a lot of things have happened since then. He IS a sweetheart. He's just... not really good at showing it yet, but he's learning. He's learning.
Seemed to me he's not good at much, but I'm tired enough today that I can only recall my first impressions of him anyway.
Apologies in retrospect to Kate, about the depth comment, by the way. I really have a good deal of respect for the depth of characterizations across the comic, so no offense was intended.
none taken, he's meant to be a little polarizing in that aspect, so if anything i'm quite pleased :)
For Eliza the conspiracy theorist druggist, that sounds about right.
(I love Eliza. She reminds me of, like, a grown-up Eloise or something.)
Providing a friend with a shoulder to cry on can be difficult and emotionally draining no matter how much you care for them, since fundamentally you’re taking on some of their burdens and private secrets.
Doing the same for someone you don’t actually LIKE? Well...
Like a new pair of shoes, it can be rather uncomfortable if you're trying to break in a suddenly acquired conscience.
Aw. It's worse than I expected. :/
You'd better keeping at "I'm an idiot", Sharpe, you know. :(
At least until they're out of the stygian dungeon place thing, yes.
These are some excellent Eliza faces.
The last panel really sells it xD
Bit about magic : Sharpe need to use his dominant hand to cast magic, and is left handed ?
Or second choise, is it a spell to re-set the arm bone right ?
It's the spell to detect the spell, we saw Sid, the Queen and Ben using that. And the last two didn't use their hands for it (as far as we see).
Ben does have his hand extended when he uses the spell here: [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-27th-2018 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-27th-2018")
hmmmmm
Sidney used his hands on the train in the first book.
Here comes the dreaded heart-to-heart.
Rule of Acquisition 208: Sometimes the only thing more dangerous than a question is an answer.
Now now, don't talk like that. You're not a bad person. You're just an easy mark and a colossal fuckup.
Indeed. There's a huge gulf between "pain in the ass" and "bad person."
And more importantly than the absolute goodness of his personhood, I think he's starting to take the steps to be a better person.
It was at this point Eliza found the strength to scale the wall with one hand while holding Sharpe slung over her shoulder with the other
not with bruised/broken ribs, but I like the way you think
Bah, what is pain against sheer determination (to get out of this talk)
I'd do that to get out of an awkward conversation
Tired of small-talk, Will attempts big-talk.
Ms Swift says "No, I never worry that I might be a bad person", and then spends the next ten minutes talking about herself. :-)
I really want this exact thing to happen.
Wizards always seem to pick the absolute worst times to have an emotional crisis, like when there's an enormous peacock attacking or when they're trapped in the pit of Escher Physics.
To be fair, that time with the peacock actually saved their lives. i'd argue it was the best time to have a crisis.
The most extreme times -- the best of times, the worst of times, etc...
I feel for you, Mr. Sharpe, but now is NOT the time for an existential crisis.
Sharpe someone is going around mind controlling people for someone else willing to resort to murder to win a political appointment. Don't worry about that until after there aren't obviously bad people around.
What a time for Dr. Samuel Beckett to show up...
Oh hey, I've been on both sides of that last frame!
Join the club.
Sharpe, being a bad person means having bad intentions and acting on them. You aren't a bad person, just an inept one; you have no intentions, yet still act.
No, never once in my life. Why do you ask?
Aw, Sharpe. I feel the same way about myself a lot (and obsessing over that is how I ended up failing out of med school). The way I'm choosing to approach that question is to think less about that and just do what I'm supposed to do while adhering to the basic principle of not hurting anyone. Ruminating about such things while not taking action gets no one nowhere.
Emotional land mine! EMOTIONAL LAND MINE!!!!!!!!!!
Given her expression and direction she seems to be looking, not sure if she's reacting to his question or the large monster of self-doubt he just summoned...
As an aside "Phasmiapsycho" would be a great title for a penny dreadful based on this whole fiasco.
Though that use of "psycho" is perhaps a bit too specific to the 20th and 21st centuries, so maybe it's the title of the inevitable "Inspired by True Events" movie. You know, the one that gets Sharpe's characterization all wrong and, depending on the producer, engages in some trans erasure on with Eliza?
Is this the wood that Harry's lost in?
"Will, I can tell by the shape of your face alone that you aren't that bad."