Annotated 29-22
Soldier in panel 2: “BANTER ON YOUR OWN TIME, PLEASE”
Phil and I had some back-and-forth on whether Bandit’s last line should be “…Auraugu?” Phil won, but I dunno. I feel like if you’ve fought somebody twice, they nearly killed you once, and they have a tendency to narrate their lives loudly, it seems likelier you’d blurt out their name. Or at least say “Oh, no, not HIM” instead of acting like you’re watching TV and just spotted an actor you’ve seen on that other show… you know… oh, what was its name?
At least it let us do a little riff on silent letters. “I know that gnoll.”
Our early notes had Rana tackle Rachel here, which would have rhymed with the Rachel-Yalaria fight and forced Rachel to confront that she captured someone who was later executed… an enemy combatant who was trying to kill her, sure, but still. But Rana has other things to do, so does Rachel, and Syr’Nj already made a more meaningful connection with Yalaria for us to address later.
Think everyone being dismissive of Auraugu’s banter is a more appropriate for the comic (and funny) It’s not like anyone is calling Bandit or Byron by their first name. Besides that, ‘well, isn’t it my arch nemesis…’ is kind of warn trope at this point and time.
Agreed. Plus: Bandit probably had lots of other things to do than memorize Auraugu’s name. If I hear a foreign name which I have never before encountered and no idea how to spell it, you’d have to tell it to me more than five times to give me even a chance of remembering it, let alone pronounce it in a recognizable way.
I’m regularly taken out of stories (movies, books…) when some character is introduced to the other characters once, and everybody remembers their name for the rest of the story — uncanny!
Huh. I find I’m more likely to remember a foreign name I’ve never encountered before. Granted, I’m pretty shit at remembering names normally. If you come up to me and say, “Hi, I’m Zak,” I’ll give you my name and 10 minutes later I’ll find myself thinking, “What was his name? It was a normal name, like George, except it definitely wasn’t George. What was it?” I’ll probably need to hear it five or six times before I remember.
On the other hand, if you give me a weird name like Auraugu, that I’m likely to remember on the first try. I think it’s because I actually think about the name at the time, and maybe try pronouncing it (“Auraugu? Cool!”). Whereas, with more normal names that I’ve heard before, I have a tendency to think, that is normal, I will easily remember that — even though my track record suggests the opposite — so i don’t really think about the name at all. It’s kind of stupid.
But, the point is, I guess it depends on how interested Bandit is in names.
Oh, here’s a thing that confused me: On the previous page, the airships were seen advancing on the Rebellion army, in front of the town. So if by this page the army has made it to the gates (on foot!), they must already have passed below the airships, some time ago. So why aren’t they already dropping bombs?
By now, I imagine they are! We’re panned in close to the gates here, though, so we wouldn’t see those explosions. Next time we get a full view of the battle, the bombing will have been going on.
Less musing and more looking, there, Bandit. There’s an avian claw that’s lookin’ mighty near!