Annotated 7-5
Yeah, yeah, Bandit. You sure are acting relaxed for somebody whose last appearance in this very building was as a prisoner. But I guess the operative word is “acting”: Bandit spends a lot of time affecting the certainty that everyone likes her even though she fears that’s very much not the case.
Before I close the book on it, here’s the “Relationships” notes showing Bandit 1.0’s hot takes on the other team members (except Syr’Nj, whom you’ve already seen):
Gravedust – He’s just so SERIOUS alla dang time. All but given up talking to’im, but I know he’s got m’back so I c’n stand’im. He’s fast with’n arrow ann’iss really useful inna scrap. All that talking to th’dead stuff’s really creepy, though, n’ I’ve no idear how he even DOES THAT. Serrusly, how the hell.
Byron – He’sa lotta fun, good at killin’ things and he’s a cutie, to boot! I love working with’im, an’I get a li’l kick outta flirtin’ with him, ‘specially since he gets all red n’embarassed. Don’t think he’d even know what to do with me… If he’re even th’type that would.
Frigg – Tryin’ rilly hard t’get Frigg’s trust, but she’s all elitist about whatev so I don’t try THAT hard but it’d be nice to know she likes me. I mean, I like’er! What’s the problem?
Best – Who? Oh that guy? Seems like’a dick. Everyone hates ‘im so I guess I’d better.
Oof. That Byron entry.
If we knew this at the time… The fan-fiction art would have crashed over us like a tidal wave.
Well, now it’s fairly clear that Best should have at least been mentioned around Bandit.
I haven’t really thought these thoughts about this comic, even when Byron and Syr’nj hooked up. But Byron X Bandit is making me have thoughts.
This might be as good a time as any to ask: is Bandit’s accent supposed to be 1) Irish, 2) another accent that exists on Earth, or 3) completely made up?
The accent isn’t based on any Earth cultures, except in the sense that some of us talk faster than others. Lots of elisions.
I mean, in the in-universe timeline, this can’t be their first debriefing. She’s been here in this building several times since, just off-screen.