Nigel gonna fuck something up.

He’s about to have one helluva surprise

Thats what you get for hiring bethesda guards

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This has me wheezing xD

Stealth 100

"Who goes there!?...Must have been the wind."

Your art style is everything!

I agree. :)

Remember the first way to be good at something, is to admit you suck at something.
And Nigel's attitude and personality right now, really do suck, and I guess it's going to continue this way until he screws up so royally, that he has to take accountability for his actions.
Don't know what exactly he's going to do, but I can't see it ending well for Nigel.
I can only assume this to be first of his many screw ups that make things worse for him, and his inability to accept accountability for his actions.

Dont forget the history behind Nigel and why he is so angry about Luna.

His parents drilled him to be a Guardian. They always told him "You WILL become a Guardian one day! You WILL make us proud. You WILL... You WILL... You Will..." and as he wasnt chosen by the Tree for whatever reason, they dropped him like a glowing piece of coal.
From that day on they saw him as a failure. But it wasnt his fault. And then came his little brother who experienced EXACTLY the same drill, and guess what? It worked! For some reason it worked.
And this caused Nigel to think its all the Tree's fault, and he doesnt hesitate to say that what is kind of understandable. But the true fault lies on his parents for "forcing" him to hit THEIR high leveled expectations what only could have gone wrong.

That's the strange thing about Nigel, Toby succeeded, but he failed despite being raised exactly the same way. So we can only assume, that he lacked something that Toby had, or needed to be brought up differently, in order to get their desired result.

The parents suck for dropping him like yesterday's trash once he failed, and then essentially disowning him, once he blew up from the negative treatment.
But what I find interesting, is all this time, he still thinks he deserves to be a Guardian as well as being better than them all, yet badmouths them at every opportunity. But the real kicker for me is, before Nigel's life took a complete 180, Luna asked him, to find the answer as to why he wants to be a Guardian, for him to be ready, and I'm willing to bet he still can't answer that question, despite all these year passing.

While it sucks that Nigel went through some unfortunate events, in part thanks to his parents, I think his biggest issue, is he's stuck in the past. He seems to always be thinking of what he should have gotten, what should have happened, what he deserves, past choices that were made, and seems to blame his actions and further misfortunes on others, rather than taking accountability for the actions that he himself made. His life is already at rock bottom, and whatever he does to make his life go even lower, he's likely to blame on someone else.

As for what Nigel is about to do. Well whatever is, I think he's going to fail, I think it's going to backfire, and I also don't think he's going to become a Knight either, at present he just has too many issues that need be resolved before he can even think of become a guardian let alone a knight.

Maybe Nigel really WAS always an entitled asshole deep down, and that's why the Tree passed on him. Actually terrible people always have a way to pass the blame of their own inadequacies and failures onto someone else.

We know the reason why she passed on him. He only wanted to do it to make his parents proud, nothing nobble behind his reason for training and working to that goal than it was expected of him.

Yeah and so it was again his parents fault.

We weren't really given an exact reason, but regardless, what we do know is that it likely has something to do with Nigel as an individual, otherwise Toby would have met the same fate. Which leads me to believe, that although Toby was raised in a similar way to Nigel, deep down I believe he's a decent individual, for the Tree to deem him worthy. Of course we have to see him more, as we've only seen him once as an adult, but I don't think he's like his parents.

I wonder if it worked for Toby because up until Nigel was denied by Luna, he was relatively ignored by their parents. So he didn't have the same outside pressure driving his desire to be a guardian, and since he had his own desire to be a guardian was accepted.

My backup theory is that Luna foresaw that Nigel The Outsider would have a better chance of defeating chaos than Nigel Just Another Guardian, so she kept him out of the group.

Well actually, after Nigel wasnt chosen Toby got the same "You will be a guardian"-Drill like his brother. But yeah, maybe it wasnt THAT strong to actually impact him too much.

Yeah, I wasn't sure about the timelines, but I figured Toby was old enough to have decided for himself that being a guardian would be cool and exciting or wanting to help people or something before the pressure kicked in

I think it worked for Toby, caused he doesn't have the internal flaws that are present within Nigel, that or unlike Nigel, he wasn't doing for the validation of his parents, but himself. No matter how one looks it, Toby clearly has something that Nigel didn't, and whatever that factor was, it was vital enough, that lacking it was difference between Toby succeeding and Nigel failing.

So, he can actually be stealthy if he wants. That's or he just lowered the difficoult to easy...

Took me a while to figure out Nigel was trying to go Solid Snake at the temple.

Mission: Impossible theme starts to play

I'm feeling a 'Dragon Warrior' moment coming and Nigel getting knighted by accident.

What happens when you are distracted from doing your job by an overbearing boss micromanaging you to do your job.

Heh, a classic.

It's seen that Nigel has stealth skills, even if it's at a basic level; that's still a good thing. In general, not only the background in each one of the panels is very well done, but also I must say that this is awesome, (kinda) adorable and (very) funny; amazing page and amazing work. XD

Yep. And not even that angry jackalope didn't noticed him.

Jackalope? I thought the screaming angry guy was based on a goat or something.

Oh. You're right! I thought his ears were just as long as his horns.

That's understandable.

Ah, so THAT'S how Nigel will get into this. He will probably try to steal the scarves but because they are meant for the Knights it probably means he needs to become one too.

Well, actually that's better than he was supposed to be. Didnt became a Guardian, but became a Knight instead.
I can actually see kick his parents door up and yell: "Feast your eyes on your son who became not a Guardian, he became a Knight! And apologize for not believing in me as i wasnt choosen!"


And yeah, "We know our job, sir."... Well, famous last words my friend!

Mission impossible INTENSIFIES

Haha! There's some Todd Howard AI right there.

sneaky sneaky

You Jealous Bastard!!!!!

I have a feeling that the Tree will be expecting Nigel to show up. If he and Tristan (another common thief who’s now currently locked up by Toby) are among the chosen knights in her vision then she may very well have foreseen him coming here. I mean he hardly would have accepted an invitation from her.

Nigel has gone the way of the sneak. Now all that is needed is archery and he can annihilate the forces of chaos by himself. As long as he has enough arrows.

If you look at the weapons and height chart, I think Nigel's main weapon is supposed to be a Bo stick. So I kinda picture him fighting like Donatello from TMNT.

+10 sneaking.

That's some Skyrim-guard level of perception; * get hit by an arrow* "Hmmm... Guess I was imagining things."
Keep up the great art.

Honestly even tho I'm sure he'll have a big character arc... Nigel is kind of my least favorite xp

He's so unpleasant. Not that everyone else really knows what they're actually up against...

That akward momnet where you realize that the moment you ordered the guards not to let anyone enter the building, you accidently helped the intruder enter it anyway, as you keept the guards focusing on you during that brief widown of time.

Code name: Lumpy snake

If those scarves are that special, they must have the ability to choose the nights and I bet Nigel gets chosen by one of these sacred scarves.

Call it a hunch, but the scarves are either really important or they are worthless besides being a symbol. And honestly I think it works either way.

How dare you

ngl on first seeing it i barely noticed nigel

Nigel, you little shit!

I'm liking the design of that zebrantilope (?) priestess.

I like that entrance is Luna-Shaped, so she can enter with her tree horns 😁

Oh wow, the classic Oblivion game NPC quote, "Must have been the wind." LOL good one.

It's like an amalgamation of Metal Gear Solid and Thief: The Dark Project, all that's missing is a drunkard singing nonsense and Nigel sneaking underneath a box.

No, this is not an erotic comic.

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