Annotated 44-11
Weo’s original bit here was just, “I am the Oracle! Woooo! I’m spooky!” which is maybe a little more appropriate for a nine-year-old, but it wouldn’t trigger Best as deliciously as a short speech that ended with his favorite word would.
Flo was a little skittish about violence against children, whether threatened or actual. She edited down an earlier bit where Frigg implied she might harm Weo if he was just jerking her around. She thought child-threatening might be too far for Frigg, who’s a bit hair-trigger but ultimately a hero. Best, who’s basically a minor antagonist at this point, is in more of a position to get away with it.
FB: Yes, it’s true: all our characters’ names are secret acronyms. For example, there’s Winter Elf Oracle, Blond Egomaniac Singing Twerp, Sees Your Racism‘s Not Justice, and Berserker, Y R— [U Not Runnin’?] Oh No [It’s Because You’re All Dead].
I *do* believe that Best’s eye twitched…
Best already tied a bunch of children to a anchor and threw them off a air ship, this is 100% in his character. The real qestion is didn’t Woe see this coming?
I would guess he did see it coming…but also saw that Best needed to get this shit out of his system to be receptive to what he was going to be told.
Was Best always able to summon his axe from
hammeraxespace like this, or is it a residual effect of being WAV?Interesting question. I hadn’t thought about it before, and I can’t say I’m sure, but I don’t recall him ever just pulling his axe out of thin air before this. The thought that he got that from his time as WAV is actually pretty funny, considering how disgusted he was with not being himself.
A real oracle would have seen this coming. Maybe he did see it coming and also saw that everyone else would gang up on Best to stop him.
Tomorrow’s comic answers this!