Annotated BBWTE 1
WAV’s telling us as much about himself as about his world, but the worldbuilding bits are more immediately intriguing. The Circuit is apparently the source of sustenance for all Cyberians, which has some fascinating implications for a society that basically must all drink from the same well. Yet WAV understands the concept of enemy factions, so one can assume his world has known Cyberian-on-Cyberian war.
He also understand honor, and even more than that, he understands that wanting to have honor is not always the same as having it. But he does not understand spirits or any kind of spirit (presumably, that bit with the farmer’s ghost confused the hell out of him).
WAV is not utterly selfless: he will occasionally mention that his ultimate goal is to return to his home. But we’re just now learning that his LevBike was his only way back, and that he’s not totally sure he can even survive out of Cyberia. The way that he’s no more than mildly perturbed about these facts says a lot about his stoicism. Especially since he just barely expressed frustration when Frigg and Rachel destroyed the bike.
Hmmm… I feel like I’ve seen that panel 3 pose before, in another panel 3.
Props to “Join Us” for catching that last time.
I intended a link to “last time”: http://guildedage.net/comic/breaking-bread-page-1-cover/
Stupid HTML.
He’s talking about “food” in both panels!
It’s strange how different WAV and Best are in terms of personality, especially with how much Best seems to resemble their… player? source-person?
But maybe that is where WAV gets his concept of being honourable vs. desiring to be honourable? :D
It might be two sides of the same person.
There are plenty of musicians who have almost no ego but incredible work ethics off-stage but behave entirely differently on-stage. We know Best’s player has (had) a band, so …
“and that he’s not totally sure he can even survive out of Cyberia.”
Well they better hecking be able to if they’ve spent their whole time trying to Escape from Cyberia.
I imagine that’s part of why they’re having trouble escaping.
Or maybe “Cyberia” properly means only part of his world, like Middle-earth isn’t all of Arda, and the other parts still the Circuit. So he can escape from Cyberia without having to leave the world.
“The Circuit is apparently the source of sustenance for all Cyberians…. Yet WAV understands the concept of enemy factions, so one can assume his world has known Cyberian-on-Cyberian war.”
Well, if it’s a limited resource, it seems likely that would *increase* the likelihood of factional conflict, because they’d all be competing over it.