Annotated 14-7
This sequence implies that Hewie and Pyre have had many encounters with Bandit before this, like they were her personal Sheriffs of Nottingham. “Never beaten me before and y’never will” also lowers the tension of this scene a tad, but it’s necessary for Bandit to consider them lesser threats for her to risk opening up to them long enough to get to the meat of this.
To some readers, it might also imply that stealing this document may have begun Bandit’s thieving career and ended her days in Gnometown. To some degree, that may be true… treason against the powerful would probably make things too hot for Bandit to continue living where she’s such a well-known pariah. But as we’ll learn later, Bandit got notorious for stealing things some time before she started using grappling hooks and hoods and really leaning into the “thief” role.
I think that’s the biggest grin we’ve ever seen on Jarvis.
She’s not a thief.
She’s a revolutionary.
Wait… that’s Jarvis? I kind of mentally heaped all the backdoor dealing onto Iwatani – particularly in light of his son’s upcoming appearance. I often forgot to check the tags, though, and now with the color schemes pointed out, it fits.
Well, it’s military business, which makes it Jarvis’ business. But I would guess all the heads of houses were in on it.
Now that we actually know what all the characters look like this scene raises a lot more questions. Mostly the fact that Reynolds is the one holding the contract and shaking hands. I always assumed the professors arranged the deal, but this would mean that Reynolds was involved in and may have organized the weapons deal for which he will later want to hold the professors accountable.
And why is Jarvis doing that thing with his mouth?!
That’s definitely worth getting into one of these annotations.
Now that we actually know what all the characters look like this scene raises a lot more questions. Mostly the fact that Reynolds is the one holding the contract and shaking hands. I always assumed the professors arranged the deal, but this would mean that Reynolds was involved in and may have organized the weapons deal for which he will later want to hold the professors accountable.
And why is Jarvis doing that thing with his mouth?!
Uh oh… they changed something in the matrix…