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Short End Page 3

on December 22, 2019
Chapter: Book 12: Short End
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  1. jsfury
    jsfury
    December 23, 2019, 6:00 am | # | Reply

    Uh-oh. Trouble in paradise. Looks like these two have a little communications glitches. That coupled with angry emotions equal violence. Judging from that last panel, I don’t think consoling is going to help at this point. Hell hath no fury! Okay everybody, let’s start chiming in. Lots to talk about here.

  2. Jan-Niklas Bersenkowitsch
    Jan-Niklas Bersenkowitsch
    December 23, 2019, 6:07 am | # | Reply

    Looks like this is the point where it all the started. She breaks his spine, her resurrects her, they burn everything down and blame each other for everything. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

    • Manabi
      Manabi
      December 29, 2019, 3:38 am | # | Reply

      Seems appropriate that he told her he’d be waiting at their home. Looks like it all started there, she fixed his spine there, she died there, he resurrected her there, so it’s quite fitting if they both finally end their feud there once and for all.

  3. B0mar
    B0mar
    December 23, 2019, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

    Yikes! There is more here. This is a cross-over point. The Vane we’ve seen in Flash-Backs, to this point was reserved, rational, always in control. J.H.H., in flashback, is the Hot-Headed one who can barely speak in full sentences, through clenched teeth, because his rage is all on the surface. It’s controlling him. He is not controlling it. Vane doubtless thought that a weakness, to exploit. You do that by being “The Reasonable One.” Now the roles are completely flipped. Hunter is calm, observant, focused, analytical, and absolutely relentless about plucking Vanes remaining strings, and pushing her buttons. She has let the rage out, for the energy and focus IT provides. She is only calm, when she is tinkering with her TFW’s. It may be the only comfort she has left. This may well be the very scene where the Flip Happened. That expression on Vanity’s face, in the last panel, is absolutely unnerving.

  4. Zero
    Zero
    December 24, 2019, 11:37 am | # | Reply

    We’ve had a lot of climaxes over the course of the story but this feels like The Point in the narration, I have chills

  5. B0mar
    B0mar
    December 24, 2019, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

    Sorry! but I can’t un-see this. Language, and English dialects, are kind’a a hobby a’mine. I once nailed a Co-worker [BAH-bara] on the way she pronounced her own name, and the way she said “BA-eh-a-guh” [as if it has 4 syllables.] I asked her if she grew up in Jersey City? She said “YeeeAH! how’d y’know?”

    Back on point- Is Vane from Manhattan, or one of the boroughs? “What do you know from…” that’s more of a tell then “Hey! I’m WALK’n HeeAH!”

    • jsfury
      jsfury
      December 24, 2019, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

      Bomar, you have some interesting perspectives regarding the dialects being bandied about. Remember, this is not really earth as we know it. So, is Vane from Manhattan? Well, maybe not the Manhattan we know.

    • Ben
      Ben
      December 26, 2019, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      This is actually super interesting. While I’m willing to bet you’re right about its Manhattan origins (is it a Yiddishism? Trade speak? You hear it a lot in film from Jewish characters in and originating from New York, now that I’m thinking about it?) my family and various people in my region (Wisconsin) say this all the time, such that I didn’t even question the usage when I wrote the script.

      • Honzinator
        Honzinator
        December 29, 2019, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

        It’s a Germanism (see Wisconsin – Czechisms also abound, but we were religiously disparate and assimilated in such a way as to barely leave a noticeable trace) … and therefore it is also a Yiddishism.
        MittelEuropa is strong in Vane.

        • Storel
          Storel
          October 18, 2022, 6:44 am | # | Reply

          That makes a ton of sense. Wisconsin is full of German and Polish settlers’ descendants, and Manhattan is full of Yiddish-speaking Jewish folks.

  6. B0mar
    B0mar
    December 24, 2019, 10:17 pm | # | Reply

    Can this be deleted?

  7. Clark O'Brien
    Clark O'Brien
    December 28, 2019, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

    Are we about to see a domestic involving a woman in a mech and a guy wielding pyromancy?

    • Lucas Joseval Hernandes
      Lucas Joseval Hernandes
      December 28, 2019, 7:57 pm | # | Reply

      No. The guy is not a pyromancer yet. He become it after the chirurgical change of his spine.

  8. Honzinator
    Honzinator
    December 29, 2019, 5:28 pm | # | Reply

    Well, THIS is a healthy relationship.
    One wonders, though, would divorce make it better, or are they damaged goods in and of themselves? There’s been plenty of blood spilt so far that could argue the latter, but if the first is true, they never should have met.

    • jsfury
      jsfury
      December 29, 2019, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

      Ah, but they did meet Honzinator, thus we have a story. Yes, damaged goods indeed, but we are riveted to it. Thanks for answering Erin, it’s been a while since we’ve seen you.

      • Honzinator
        Honzinator
        January 1, 2020, 11:18 am | # | Reply

        Good point. It’s almost like emotional porn – we cannot look away.
        Except, unlike porn, it has a point, and therefore it is real – more real than reality TV, anyhow.

    • B0mar
      B0mar
      December 29, 2019, 8:42 pm | # | Reply

      Both are damaged , in their way. How much of this is because of their relationship, remains o be seen. J.H.H.’s icy coldness is membrane thin, and looks newly acquired. As is Vane’s embrace of Fire. Their focus is totally, and exclusively, on each other. Barring collateral damage, I LOVE the ambiguity as to which of them is truly ,b>”Evil,” or if either of them is.

      • B0mar
        B0mar
        December 29, 2019, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

        SIGH! I am really beginning to HATE this Editor.

      • Honzinator
        Honzinator
        January 1, 2020, 11:19 am | # | Reply

        All good questions, some of which I’d not considered before.
        Yes, the ambiguity is great. We’re such moderns.

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