I hope you're into battle scars
Stretch goals for the Kickstarter are up now. We reached two of them already, last one is at $150k for the chance to add on a Zine of Ashley's side stories.
Way to blow her cover Will. Hope the rest of the lions didn't hear that.
>>154821835Rather, once it's revealed will Argenti stop the match or insist it continues to allow a girl to style on a Plat?
>>154821854That's an interesting question. I don't think he would call for an end because that means walking away in defeat. I could see him becoming angry at her interfering in and potentially ruining the reputation of the lions of mercy.
Ssael help me Will, you have absolutely no chill
Lilleord, why do you have no peepee?
Was the duel to first blood? They both lost
>>154821975Now you gotta knock you opponent outta of the ring
>>154821975That seemed to be less explicit rules than the part from Thackery that followed. Ashley answered a question on Tumblr about this as well with the quote from Thackery, but didn't explicitly say yes or no. I think we need to wait and see.
>>154821670>saying the name out loudWill, you dullard! FUCK the jig's up, it's over. Also that plat is hard as steel in the third panel. I can almost feel his satisfaction: "GOTCHA BITCH!"
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>>154821876It's basically cheating. Even if she loses, they can laugh at the Plat.
>>154821670It looks like Mikaila paid...>puts on sunglassesThe Red Cost
>>154821670Shush, Will! Shhh! Shut up!
>>154821670>War is rogue.Is this a spelling mistake or Californo-American Vernacular English?
>>154822474Anon...
>>154822474Anon, that's not what the panel says at all. It says War's rouge
>>154822474Nevermind. I am too heterosexual to understand makeup.
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If it were revealed, wouldn't Miki being a foid mean a disqualification or something even if she wins? Are women legally allowed to duel, much less participate in ones between the religious orders?
>>154822568>wouldn't Miki being a foid mean a disqualification or something even if she wins?That's probably the absolute best case scenario that everyone involved could hope for here. Automatic loss, humiliation and disgrace for her family and the lions of mercy, and harsh legal consequences are all possible and likely. >Are women legally allowed to duelWomen are barely allowed to do pymary in Alderode. Nevermind duel. They can only do more ladylike pymary like making their house smell like muffins and be a pleasant temperature, and even those things are considered unladylike and relatively taboo. They also can't fight. Miki is walking a delicate line doing things she has no legal right to and with no one around to protect her from the consequences anymore. A realistic punishment for most women in her situation would be to have their tongues cut out to prevent them casting pymary ever again.
If Miki is this tough why didn't she just go third option
>>154822682It's not about being tough. It's about being so invaluable to Alderode and your ghers as a man that they allow you the privilege and responsibility. Miki is a powerful wright and gifted student, but the greatest thing she could do for her people, from the perspective of those people, is get married and make many powerful wright babies. She doesn't get a say.
>>154822682She doesn't want to have to live as a man
>>154822474Cope isn't even Californian! She's a Floridian!
>>154821670>war's rogue alright now I kinda want Mikaila to get the chuni piss beaten out of her
>>154822733rouge* dammit
>>154821813I'll get right on it AS SOON AS THOSE IRON CIRCUS FUCKS SHIP MY ORIGINAL KICKSTARTER BOOKS! I'M NO LONGER ASKING! YOU CAN'T TREAT ME LIKE THISI AM AN AMERICAN!
>>154822722Also, and Cope talked about this back in the day in fairly sneaky terms to cover her fat floridian butt, Mikaila simply doesn't accept it. You have to literally give up being a woman in every single regard in society in order to be a third option. She doesn't want to do that, she wants to be Mikaila and also a war wizard.Cope, as part of this vague example, said if that night hadn't happened, she would've eventually run off to strike out on her own. I think maybe as part of the rebels? Given what we're seeing of her now, that does seem odd, but it was of course only ever a potential future.
>>154822794>short haired mikailahuh
>>154822770Just buy them again in this Kickstarter I need the Zine.
>>154822730you mean Sharteshanian, right anon?
Wait, where'd Lilleord go?
>>154822682She's also headstrong and vain. She wants to fight and do pymary for herself, not for the sake of the state.
>>154821975They were shouting "To blood!" as in to battle. It's ejection from the ring wither by ring out or sending their souls out of it.
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>>154821670Is Will’s pymary colour really gold? He’s just putting his crush right out there, huh.
>>154821854It's a win-win. If they lose, big deal, you beat a girl and my idiot son. (I have no son btw) If they win, hah, you got beat by a girl and my idiot son.This has been classically referred to in fighting games as the Dan Option Select
>>154823551It's a lose lose.If the Geffies win, they win and the Ssaelit will keep quiet unless they want their woman to get her tongue cut out.If they lose it was a dishonorable farce, and they only lost because they had no heart to kill a woman, and maybe Miki gets her tongue cut out anyway.
>>154823580At least the ever soft-hearted Shadwe and indulgent Valentin might let Miki go relatively unscathed. But I can't imagine it goes well for her from there. The social consequences alone would still be tremendous.
Total Lions of Mercy humiliation. Ssaelits will NEVER recover from this.>>154822770 They're the circus, and you're the clown
>>154822682Because women shouldnt have to call themselves men to be treated like human beings. Also, third option isnt a choice in Alderode, it's part of the patriarchal oppression. "Here's an exception we can place on women so their male relatives can hold onto ownership rights and all that legal stuff."I think Ashley said there's a third option mayor coming up who happens to be happy with the situation, but she's an outlier. An Aunt Tom
Aren't the third options just fantasy sworn virgins?
>>154822733You can't blame her for waxing poetic in the middle of a fight, she IS Duane's daughter after all. Being kind of a ponce is in her blood.So is the pymeric ass-whooping she is about to drop.
>>154824234Yes.>>154824798All Alds are drama queens.
>>154821670>pretty young woman gets a gory injury>pressing on through to continue the fight >gonna be soaked in her own blood by the end of the fight Nice of Ashley to throw a bone to the hetero ryona fans in between all her debauched fujo indulgences.
>>154824861If you want your female protagonists to be taken seriously, you can't handle them with kid gloves. Sometimes you have to let them get properly fucked up.
>>154822214>It's basically cheating.How? The Coppers didn't challenge anyone specifically in this duel. And a weak piddling gurl isn't some secret super-weapon. Now she doesn't have to focus on a disguise/voice and the Plat is fuuuuucked.
