Chapter 24 – Page 6
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;'(
DIDN’T MEEEEEEAN TO MAKE YOU CRYYYYYYY
Oh mama, tell your children
Not to doooo, what I have done,
Spend your lives in sin, and adventurin’
in the guild of the risin’ sun…
I believe the lyrics Doma was looking for were “Sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all! Carry on, Carry on, like nothing really matters…”
The title-text points to M-O-T-H-E-R by Howard Johnson. Inappropriately funny so, too.
Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist:
Arkerran Rhapsody
HR & Carol:
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Somehow the sepia world,
is just ONE reality.
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
Penk:
I’m just a poor boy, I’ve got no sympathy,
Because I like to drum, and drumroll,
with pitch high, and pitch low,
Rendar (in flying machine):
Any way the wind blows doesn’t really matter to me, to me.
Sundar:
Mama, just killed by a man,
Put a fist against his head,
’twas a paladin – she’s dead.
Mama, revolt had just begun,
The orcs have gone but will they get away?
Brunhilde:
Sundar, ooh,
All we have in life is this
this love, and we can die in peace if
we live our lives
to keep it alive
Too late, my time has come,
Sent lance through my spine,
Body’s aching all the time.
Goodbye, everybody, I’ve got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
Sundar:
Mama, ooh (any way the wind blows),
I don’t want you to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never kidnapped kids
Best:
[Guitar Solo]
Cultist Chorus:
I see a huge silhouetto of a man,
Braggadocio, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo.
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico.
Penk:
I’m just a herald, with a big rhinosaur,
Harky:
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family,
I can’t spare him from this monstrosity.
HR (&Carol):
Easy come, easy go, will you let them go?
Arkerra, no, it doesn’t let them go.
(Let them go!) Arkerra! (Why can’t they ever go?)
(Let them go!) Arkerra! (Why can’t they ever go?)
(Let them go!) It doesn’t let them go.
(Let them go!) It doesn’t let them go.
Never, never, never let’s them go! Ah.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Sundar:
Oh, mama mia, mama mia!
HR & Carol:
Arkerra let me go.
Cultist Chorus:
We have some devils put aside for you, for you, for you!
Best:
[Epic background/solo guitar]
Harky (as seen in my Avatar):
So you think you can kill me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can crush me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can’t do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get heal, just gotta get right outta here.
Sad Rachel:
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me.
Gravedust:
Any way the wind blows.
::clap clap clap clap clap::
Impressive. I like it.
I got chills
She took the midnight train goin’ AAAAAAANNNYWHEEEEEEEEEEEEERE
Enter Silver Centurion singing ‘I see a little Silhouette of a man…’
And Bragadoccio on Scaramouche
Sundar called down the thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening.
OH GALILEO GALILEO
/obligatory
“OBLIGATORY FIGARO! MAGNIFICOOOOOOOO~”
:D
No, no no no no no, enough with the singing please :P
!For Meeeee…! *guitar rip*
Mama bear :'(
So that’s what Sundar means by the altruists.
Everyone who immediately thought ‘Objectivists!’ (myself included) now have egg on their face.
Whoa! Sundar gets background character development. I just went from disliking him for idiocy and amorality to understanding his painful past.
It also makes me wonder if his part in the kidnapping of Gastonian children was his way of getting revenge.
Since they were the children of powerful and arrogant noble houses, that is a pretty good theory. It still doesn’t excuse hurting innocent children, but he’s definitely got a bone with their parents.
We don’t event know if all of the parents implied are powerful and arrogant “altruists” in the way Sundar means it.
As much as I could understand him, it would still be no excuse.
He didn’t kidnap the kids. As I understand it, he merely supplied the information that would allow the pirates to easily kidnap the kids. Also, he did it for the money, so he wouldn’t starve.
That happened before this. He still had both eyes when Byron and Syr questioned him.
As people keep saying (including T Campbell at one point iirc) this all is happening AFTER the sky pirate incident.
Doesn’t mean you can’t still dislike him on principle
Which is good! Because I do.
To stoop to kidnapping kids? So he fell and rose and… Wow; yet again, this comic and its characters surprise me by how thought out it is in advance, and how complex things are in the background. Cheers for having some of the most engaging and well rounded characters I have ever seen in a webcomic.
/agree
It would seem Sundar’s last encounter with Byron led to some serious introspection. He found Brunhilde and started climbing his way out of the hole he had dug.
A dying wish and a rebellion is born that eventually involves some of the most powerful people in the known world. Seems like a proper Obi-Wan moment to me, so a salute to your life, Mama Bear. Fictional though it may be, it has touched our hearts in ways we could never have envisioned. *places hat on chest*
Sundar’s obsession with “altruists” makes way more sense. I suppose I should have known it was something like that. Reminds me of Sanosuke from Ruroni Kenshin derisively referring to Kenshin as a “patriot.”
Incredibly beautiful 2nd panel! The shadowing, everything…
It took 5 pages for some Sundar/Ardaic character development and to make us mourn the death of a not yet seen character.
RIP Mama Bear. (;_;)
Not the Mama!
Umm, can someone explain to me what ‘altruism’ is please?
“Altruism or selflessness is the principle or practice of concern for the welfare of others. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures and a core aspect of various religious traditions, though the concept of “others” toward whom concern should be directed can vary among cultures and religions. Altruism or selflessness is the opposite of selfishness.”
I think Brunhilde is implying that someone might be alturistic but really doing it for personal gratification (an act of psychological egoism) rather than out of love for his/her fellow living entity.
EDIT: *someone might call what they are doing ‘alturistic’ but are really …
Thank you, so the lesson here is: If they are doing something in the name of others, they are lying and must be stopped?
I guess the quotation marks are quite important here. So the ones claiming to act altruistic but following their own goals (and doing “reprehensible deeds”) should be stopped in this case.
So the lesson here, as alwasys, is: Stop the assholes.
Two words mentioned on this page don’t personally believe in: “promises” and “excuses” (also don’t believe in the word “sorry”, it gets used far too easily, and most people who say it don’t even mean it)
I, I know we’ve only seen Brunhilde for a few pages, but but I am ugly sobbing over this and just. MY FEELS.
Video game love always ends up on its back with a stick in it.
The Unsounded tragedy and this beautifully sad scene both in one day. I’m gonna need a drink
Guilded Age: Making you cry over characters you haven’t even met.