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Annnnnnnnnnnnd now I've lost fondness for this Red Panda. Ugh...admitting you're "f'd up" is annoying. How bout instead, you DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?! And yes. YOU CAN! Change is possible no matter what and...sigh...sorry. I'm just really tired of characters being like that. Its cliche' at this point and we already have enough angst with Fen and her past if not THE (unlikely) DOOM OF THE ENTIRE WORLD HERE!
Why not just have more characters that are genuinely happy and can help others around them as such? Tis better than making it seem like this negative s**t is ok when it SO NOT! I don't give a FUCK if real life is hard and sometimes crap, we need motivation, hope, and encouragement to endure and make things better for ourselves and others if not the world.
So I ask you Feretta, are you willing to make a positive impact via this comic? Or continue the unneeded drama that is just gonna make those who read it more miserable? Please make the right choice for your sake and everyone here. :)
Why not just have more characters that are genuinely happy and can help others around them as such? Tis better than making it seem like this negative s**t is ok when it SO NOT! I don't give a FUCK if real life is hard and sometimes crap, we need motivation, hope, and encouragement to endure and make things better for ourselves and others if not the world.
So I ask you Feretta, are you willing to make a positive impact via this comic? Or continue the unneeded drama that is just gonna make those who read it more miserable? Please make the right choice for your sake and everyone here. :)
Would you prefer she pretends to be completely fine and normal after what she just did? Did she seem like she's "genuionely happy" at any point up until now? Because she actually is.
She's messed up, she knows she's messed up, and she's completely okay with being messed up. It's not drama or angst, it's just "Yeah, this is me". She's perfectly happy with it, she's not depressed or angsty or negative about it, it's just a matter of fact. But she doesn't want others to follow in her footsteps. "This is me, so it doesn't need to be you."
Meanwhile, if you want happy go lucky characters, Friga and Vix. Otherwise, this is a fantasy comic about the approaching end of a universe, and it's been that since the very beginning. Let me do my job, as I have been the whole time.
She's messed up, she knows she's messed up, and she's completely okay with being messed up. It's not drama or angst, it's just "Yeah, this is me". She's perfectly happy with it, she's not depressed or angsty or negative about it, it's just a matter of fact. But she doesn't want others to follow in her footsteps. "This is me, so it doesn't need to be you."
Meanwhile, if you want happy go lucky characters, Friga and Vix. Otherwise, this is a fantasy comic about the approaching end of a universe, and it's been that since the very beginning. Let me do my job, as I have been the whole time.
Please don't mistake my words to be harsh. Only spoken from the heart and with hope. What I prefer is not what will be. It's just that I don't really see how being happy with having a negative aspect of oneself is a healthy thing to have and should thus be fixed through TLC from a loved one or personal training/therapy. However, I understand what you're saying Feretta and far be it from me to not let you do what you do good sir.
All that I ask, regardless of what comes, is that you at least consider the power you wield through your writings and art and what it can do. It's your choice. A true freedom that can do so much good if you allow it to be so. ^^
All that I ask, regardless of what comes, is that you at least consider the power you wield through your writings and art and what it can do. It's your choice. A true freedom that can do so much good if you allow it to be so. ^^
Not everyone or everything could be "fixed" or become "normal" of you "work hard enough", that's not how it works.
If you shatter a precious vase to pieces, all you can really do is glue pieces together as muh a you could and hope it'll hold up for long without breaking again.
Or just turn it back to dust and remold it again, but that'd be a new vase, initially "killing" the old one.
Sometimes, the best you could do is admit the flaw, learn how to live with it and make it as less of a nuisanse as possible, or maybe make it your strength.
That's exactly what Lamb did.
But it's not a good path for young, cheerful and bubbly Frigga.
Cuz in the end, to follow the path of Morgan, she either needs to be already broken, like Lillie, or to break in the process, to match her teacher.
Would you like her to go through that path, only for your own sense of "that's nice"?
Morgan did what any good teacher should - try to keep their possible pupil away from permanent damage.
Again, she didn't reject her indeffinetly, she asked Frigga to first learn the basics with Fen, learn to control her emotions, see "another way" and maybe realise that it's better than hers.
If she'll still yearn for her tutoring even after Fen's studies, she'd probably accept a new pupil.
If you shatter a precious vase to pieces, all you can really do is glue pieces together as muh a you could and hope it'll hold up for long without breaking again.
Or just turn it back to dust and remold it again, but that'd be a new vase, initially "killing" the old one.
Sometimes, the best you could do is admit the flaw, learn how to live with it and make it as less of a nuisanse as possible, or maybe make it your strength.
That's exactly what Lamb did.
But it's not a good path for young, cheerful and bubbly Frigga.
Cuz in the end, to follow the path of Morgan, she either needs to be already broken, like Lillie, or to break in the process, to match her teacher.
Would you like her to go through that path, only for your own sense of "that's nice"?
Morgan did what any good teacher should - try to keep their possible pupil away from permanent damage.
Again, she didn't reject her indeffinetly, she asked Frigga to first learn the basics with Fen, learn to control her emotions, see "another way" and maybe realise that it's better than hers.
If she'll still yearn for her tutoring even after Fen's studies, she'd probably accept a new pupil.
What you're really asking is that Feretta deny that things like PTSD exist. Because in a situation like Morgan's, no amount of "TLC" or therapy is going to completely exorcise the trauma. The best outcome is for the victim to accept that they have that broken part of themselves and make peace with it, as Morgan has. It's not going to fix the trauma, it's not going to make it so it doesn't exist. But it can ease the pain and suffering both for the victim and for those around them. And that's about as hopeful as you're going to get unless you completely want to discard the idea of mental illness.
Many of those that are the most powerful forces for good are also those that have suffered the greatest adversity. Concealing the darkness that gives their light meaning renders it all meaningless, the good and the bad. Asking for someone to burn down their creation, world and characters alike, and replace it with saccharine nothingness because it would make you feel better is… horrifically entitled and disrespectful.
Fer IS doing something good, here. We’re being reminded that we need not let the darkness that we’ve endured consume us. It can be a source of strength and inspiration, to ourselves and others. Being open about it is critical to that.
Fer IS doing something good, here. We’re being reminded that we need not let the darkness that we’ve endured consume us. It can be a source of strength and inspiration, to ourselves and others. Being open about it is critical to that.
The "norm" always changes, some things that are the "norm" today were outrageous just 10-20 years ago, and I bet there will be more changes.
Yet, people try to fit each and everyone into convenient little boxes called "norms" and dictate what they are.
Each and every one has ONE norm - we're all sorts of crazy, and learning to live with ourselves is best way to "fix" most problems.
Second best - find people with similar type of crazy, that help you feel at ease, and stick with them.
That's called friendship and long term relationship. XD
Yet, people try to fit each and everyone into convenient little boxes called "norms" and dictate what they are.
Each and every one has ONE norm - we're all sorts of crazy, and learning to live with ourselves is best way to "fix" most problems.
Second best - find people with similar type of crazy, that help you feel at ease, and stick with them.
That's called friendship and long term relationship. XD
Agreed on all counts.
One other thing about your worldview - or storytelling - is that you can't have mountains without valleys. You can't have a good/high without having some kind of a bad/low to compare it to.
Here in the US a lot of people have no idea what a 'low' might look like - I've watched them freakout when their phone dies. Deities knows what they'll do if they get a flat tire or are in a crash. The flip side is they see a 'high' and go 'whatever' because they're used to seeing nothing but highs and have no scale of what things can be.
One other thing about your worldview - or storytelling - is that you can't have mountains without valleys. You can't have a good/high without having some kind of a bad/low to compare it to.
Here in the US a lot of people have no idea what a 'low' might look like - I've watched them freakout when their phone dies. Deities knows what they'll do if they get a flat tire or are in a crash. The flip side is they see a 'high' and go 'whatever' because they're used to seeing nothing but highs and have no scale of what things can be.
Enough to look at the comment section of Zummeng's Tree of Life to see a whole bunch of suh overgrown babies, rooting for another overgrown baby to end the world, just cuz local deity didn't give him what he wanted and made him suffer the consequences of entitlement.
It's both laughable and hella scary to think, that this kind of mindset tries to become a "new norm"...
Oh well, survival of the fittest.
It's both laughable and hella scary to think, that this kind of mindset tries to become a "new norm"...
Oh well, survival of the fittest.
Honestly this little interaction gives me a lot more respect for Lamb. The cutest murder panda of all time. It takes a lot to admit the path you follow is not for the faint of heart or the innocent. Those kinds of people do not take their abilities and skills lightly, yet they do so, so other people do not have too.
On the one hand, Frigga stabbed a guy, in the back, with two Hadalen blades manifested out of thin air, and then bit the same guy on the neck hard enough to draw a significant amount of blood. She may be green, but she has some seriously bloodthirsty energy.
On the other hand, Morgan stabbed that same guy so many times his face and probably upper body became an absolute ruin, while excising a major demon of her past.
Frigga -- while probably admiring Morgan -- is lucky she doesn't need Morgan as much as Lillie does.
On the other hand, Morgan stabbed that same guy so many times his face and probably upper body became an absolute ruin, while excising a major demon of her past.
Frigga -- while probably admiring Morgan -- is lucky she doesn't need Morgan as much as Lillie does.
Wasn't she the one who jumped on slaver dude's back and bit down? I see the point regardless. Lamb's training teaches one how to use their inner pain as fuel for positive change and great power. Kinda like The Vaapad Fighting Style from Star Wars.
It's possible Friga doesn't realize exactly what she did. But still, Morgan was taken from her family at a young age, watched the slavers murder her parents, and was subsequently raped and otherwise abused.
Friga, as best I can tell, was just taken from her tribe and the slavers hadn't actually 'used' her yet. So she's still relatively mentally intact, especially when compared to someone as traumatized as Morgan. She's better off with Fen - who, while also traumatized, doesn't seem nearly as broken as Morgan and is better able to relate to ordinary people as a result. (Not that Fen hasn't had her moments, but she seems overall to manage her issues better)
Friga, as best I can tell, was just taken from her tribe and the slavers hadn't actually 'used' her yet. So she's still relatively mentally intact, especially when compared to someone as traumatized as Morgan. She's better off with Fen - who, while also traumatized, doesn't seem nearly as broken as Morgan and is better able to relate to ordinary people as a result. (Not that Fen hasn't had her moments, but she seems overall to manage her issues better)
When the very foundation of who you are has been broken since childhood, all that remains is dust. You can either choose to bury yourself in the dust, or turn the dust to clay and mold something stronger, something new.
Lamb made clay from the blood of those who hurt her. That was her choice. She doesn't need help or healing because she already got it. I think some of the readers forget just how long she has been with Mis, learning, growing, given time to mold a strong ceramic foundation that cannot be broken again.
Lamb made clay from the blood of those who hurt her. That was her choice. She doesn't need help or healing because she already got it. I think some of the readers forget just how long she has been with Mis, learning, growing, given time to mold a strong ceramic foundation that cannot be broken again.
There's still a lot of questions as to what exactly Fen's capable of, I think. But she definitely has more than enough ability for Mis to trust sending her in alone after Morgan on a rampage. That says something right there. Plus she's generally more stable than the anger panda, which counts for a lot with students just trying to learn a new skill.
Yep! Plus... learning a bit more about magic and how it can enhance one's abilities might give her the chance to make up for her lack of natural physical prowess. I just hope she doesn't take it too hard, we all know how negative emotions can cause magic to spin wildly out of control (although so far I think we've only seen this with Hadalen?).
True. But I imagine if creativity is encouraged (which, based on the interesting ways we've seen it used, eheheh, it very much is), then it shouldn't be as bad. I spy a lot of creativity in Friga, and it would be very interesting to see where this goes :P
I get the feeling she wanted to stick with Lillie (they're frequently together since they appeared), but it might be that she'd be more helpful to Lillie by uh - to borrow Davirius' words - not being the brick outhouse of the two of them XD Lillie's physically strong, but not much of a talker, so it'd help to have someone who's talents fill in the gaps, so to speak.
I get the feeling she wanted to stick with Lillie (they're frequently together since they appeared), but it might be that she'd be more helpful to Lillie by uh - to borrow Davirius' words - not being the brick outhouse of the two of them XD Lillie's physically strong, but not much of a talker, so it'd help to have someone who's talents fill in the gaps, so to speak.
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