Comments on: Annotated 46-1

By: T

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 21:03:26 +0000

Well, you gotta understand that it’s not an “interpretation” as far as I remember it. There’s a slight chance I have this wrong, but I believe we decided Weo’s lifespan early on and a lot of other things, including his particular joie de vivre, were developed from that idea or in relation to it. The irony of someone only appreciating omniscience when they had less time to enjoy it appealed to us, IIRC. I feel like almost all our other likable-character deaths were crueler on our parts because we created those characters some time before deciding that they’d be dying on-panel.

But I’m prepared to file this into the folder of “plot points that were clear to us but communicated to so few readers that they might as well not be part of the story at all.” It’s a thin folder, thankfully, but I started it after discussing “Syr’Nj’s short-lived crush on Best.”

By: lp

lp — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:59:17 +0000

Wait, did I miss a page? When did anything about Weo getting sudden childhood death syndrome come up?

By: Gorcq

Gorcq — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:06:42 +0000

Does it disappear when he takes off the jacket? That could be inconvenient in certain circumstances.

By: Elonkareon

Elonkareon — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 02:39:58 +0000

Yeah uh, for me personally I’m just gonna invoke Death of the Author here. Nothing in the published comic indicates Weo will die, just that he’ll have a boring life ahead as an adult Winter Elf.

By: Tavis

Tavis — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 01:32:19 +0000

Seems like allowing Weo to entertain the adventurers was their idea of a kindness, to allow him the chance to indulge in entertaining outsiders when everyone else just wants to stay out of it.

Not that they could help it; it was totally fate that this would happen anyway.