Annotated 48-44
FB: One eye, one hole, dying, purple, people eaters.
From HR’s vantage point, this attack couldn’t have been better timed. Everyone’s exhausted from fighting and laid down their arms mere moments ago. Was the timing a conscious strategy, an animalistic “sensing of weakness,” or just cruel coincidence? You decide. Exactly how much of HR is still in HR is a question we’re never quite going to nail down in this climax.
Belated note on Ardaic: at one point, our plot did call for him to be the one to kill Taro, although I think that was a draft of mine that Flo never technically agreed to. Child-killing scene issues aside, that might’ve looked like a fulfilling end to Ardaic’s arc…but I would say now that Ardaic doesn’t deserve that kind of superficially fulfilling end to his arc. He’s better off spending some time under his former employee, in this chapter and the next.
GNAR GNAR GNAR. Nice reference!
Oops, it’s actually GNAP GNAP GNAP.
In my household, there is some debate on whether the people eater is purple, or whether it is an eater of purple people
He’s definitely an eater of purple people, that’s mentioned right in the lyrics. ‘I said, “Mr. Purple People Eater, what’s your line?” He said, “Eatin’ purple people and it sure is fine.”‘
Whether he, himself, is also purple is not answered.
(Also, he’s not theoretically opposed to eating regular people, either, as his only reason for not eating Sheb was ‘you’re too tough’.)