Annotated 13-9
Back to Phil’s end of things…
“We’re back in the attic. The room glows with the floor lanterns, balanced by a scant few places where such things could be hung. Frigg, Gravedust and Syr’Nj are looking slightly past and above us (At Byron, behind the camera, chained up to his post). The camera is somewhere between Byron’s waist and knees.
ATTIRE: Syr’Nj is mostly the same as before. Syr’Nj now has her lab gear donned over her civvies. A stethoscope hangs around her neck in the traditional doctor’s fashion. Frigg is not wearing her armor, since the speed reduction would hinder her too greatly if Byron gets loose. She is instead wearing the clothes and the chain shirt that she wears underneath the plate, and leans forward upon her mace with her hands causally. Gravedust is in the same outfit he is always in. His quiver is mounted and his bow is in his grasp.
The three of them are kind of weirded out by the situation. On our right, Gravedust looks oddly conflicted and thoughtful. On our left, Frigg is making a medium-level ‘what the fuck am I looking at?’ face. Syr’Nj, in the center, performs admirably at hiding her discomfort and trying to put on a brave face for her man.”
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I like how Byron’s “split hairstyle” in this scene where he’s making compromise(?) with his berserker rage is reminiscent of his eventual split self much later on near the end and his friendliness is juxtaposed with his clearly messed up situation.
Was that intentional at this point? Was it intentional in that later scene? Coincidence?
Yeah, I guess you could say it was intentional. Byron has had his “split hairstyle” since pretty much the beginning of the comic, and we’ve applied visual metaphors and imagery allusions whenever and wherever appropriate. an intentional coincidence, if you will.
“It’s for the best.”
I didn’t know that Best was into this kind of thing.
He’s into the Beast things so why not.
Dat lower lip. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I never thought about it consciously, but I was really surprised by “back in the attic”. I guess I always envisioned the lab being in a basement.
Syr’nj’s lab *IS* in the basement, but this is not her lab. She wouldn’t want a berserker loose in her lab, after all. (I thought the same thing you did, until you pointed it out.)
You wouldn’t generally put flagstone flooring (or walls) in an attic, though. I figured this was just another section of the basement, or perhaps a subbasement. You know – a dungeon.
This was my thinking as well. Although the script said “attic”, I placed this room in the basement adjacent to Syr’Nj’s lab. See that door behind Frigg in panel one… it’s the same door on the far right in panel one of page 25 chapter 12.
That’s not how I normally think of doctors wearing stethoscopes, at least not when they aren’t actively using them. Shouldn’t the middle of it be draped over her neck, with the earpieces hanging down on one side and the resonator on the other? I would think it would fall off this way, since necks aren’t as wide as heads.
A little research confirms that is the more common practice, but what we see here looked normal to me at the time. In my experience, stethoscopes’ earpieces tend to bend inward slightly when not in use, making them less likely to fall off the neck. In any event, she’ll be using it soon enough.