Page 365 – Kidd Commander!

Stephen Williams

So many sparkles!!! 😀

Aria

I N C R E A S E

Catapostrophe

Wow, the art here is really nice once again! And Phineas has long hair, and her neck is cut… the state she was in when she became a commander? Not sure what to make of Artemis’ last comment. So many questions! Always willing to wait for answers though 🙂

Aria

Thank you! These floaty ethereal bits are some of my favorite pages to make

Sandman366

Once again “usually” fails to apply. Curious to learn why you’re supposed to cut the stone to make a ship and why this one is different. (Assuming this one grew/made the ship around itself instead of being forced into a ship’s design created by someone else…..but that’s just a guess.)

Also, is Raven/Hazard really going to try to kill Phin? A more interesting gamble would be to try to turn her against Gideon. It wouldn’t be easy, but it would either weaken her to see her faith in her mentor shattered, letting Hazard finish her off, or let her build up to fight Gideon more properly, making them both weak, so he can just finish them both off then.

Paths you don’t expect the story to take but could be interesting to see. (Raven talks like he wants Phin gone ASAP and not to let her build up at all, plus it’d be very hard to make her go against Gideon. That and he doesn’t seem like a gambler, feels more like he prefers sureties. Safer options. Or at least, what seems safer.)

caribouchat

Phineas? Brokenspectre? Anyway, Gorgeous.
And the dialogue, as ever. Precious.
I keep thinking you can’t surprise us more than you did already, and you keep making me wrong. That’s great.

Mike South

Because someone needed to do it, I have stooped to the extraction of the best part for out of context viewing: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/02e6cab0af723594be00430aaf28b7abb9afbe36de5dd9d019cffcd7d62f85a0.png

Aria

Hahaaaa I was wondering how long it would take for that joke to get made
WeirdEnby

I don’t get it

caribouchat

So. Kidd Commander now has a finely crafted TVTropes page (GG page was very helpful for presentation and tropes ideas… )
Now let’s hope Wiki Magic will happen!

Aria

!!! This is so cool! Here’s a link for lazy folks.

You guys are the BEST I’m gettin emotional I’m so glad people find my world worth investments like this. I’ll do my best to keep things interesting enough to be worth documenting
- Sandman366
  
  Added some stuff to the page. Probably bungled it in some way.
  
  Anyway, I did forget something else. Raven’s got a star inside him. Crow’s got a star inside him. Phineas seems to be half-star rather than it being inside her, the way she describes it.
  
  Jo, tho’. What’s her deal? The way Raven describes her I wouldn’t be overly surprised if she was supposed to be a star rather than just have one. (But, does she have one? Star-people got listed at some point and Jo wasn’t brought up at all, but she ran with a Commander and married a wizard and they both had stars.)
  - Aria
    
    It hasn’t been said yet! Maybe she’ll volunteer the information later.
Sage

yay! how in the world did you get it started? I couldn’t figure it out
- Sage
  
  I want to help add but idk how, i have a lot that would work, can i just message the links to you or should i just google how to do it at a latter date?
  (Or if you can explain, that would be awesome)
  - caribouchat
    
    I used this page, followed it point after point: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/HowToCreateAWorksPage. Also used a few others of their help pages (follow the links in this one).
    
    When I was not sure, I looked into Girl Genius and Widdershins pages, also for inspiration.
    When you edit a page, a very helpful “help” button appears, which gives access to all kind of formatting tips.
    
    If you want to contribute now, it’s easier, since the page is created. Just watch this beginning of a page, or other ones (you can click “edit”, to see how the code looks, and then cancel, as many times as you need), and go! It’s fun!
    - Sage
      
      thank you! I’ll go add some stuff =)
  - caribouchat
    
    I just answered you but I put a link, so we’re waiting for Aria to approve the post 😉
Sandman366

Characters page totally needs to have the panel of Phin rocking sunglasses showing up at Jo’s house. Sums up her “I’m too cool to give a shit about your weirdness but I love it anyway” fairly decently.

Sandman366

About the About page….there’s 8 circle-y symbols on the bottom of that big page. (There’s also 7 links on the side of these, some of them with similar color schemes, and if you count the “Kidd Commander” logo, that makes eight again.) And the second one showed up when Ulrich introduced himself proper. (PS: Is the mask really a prosthetic? How does it just *vanish* all the time and come back instantly?)

Does that mean there’ll be eight main characters? Guessing the third will be some kind of mechanic, or otherwise involved with machinery. (On the one hand, maybe the ship, on the other, that looks like just a gear, and not much else, so….not sure.) Order on the About page makes me think it’ll be some kind of wizard person who likes pink for #6.

Or am I just making up theories for things that are wildly inaccurate?

Sandman366

Oh hey, a Cast page. And it says “seven satellite system”.
I feel dumb now. ^.^ But hey! We already know what their symbols are. Now it’s just a question if #3 really is the ship or not.
Aria

Hehe, since it’s clearly not a prosthetic, I think it’s a safe assumption that Ulrich was just saying whatever he needed to so they’d let him keep his mask.

Aria

You and me both buddy

Amaaré

Ok ok, all else aside, WHAT (and I’m not really expecting an answer, don’t worry 😉 is the connection between Starstones and actual stars?
They seem to respect each other, at least somewhat, as they are holding a conversation on what feels like an equal footing, how do they equate it terms of power? Are they actually related physically? Like, pieces of a star’s essence or something trapped in crystal form?
To frame this in a form familiar to any reader…what the HECK is the deal here?

That aside, cutting a Starstone sounds like some way of controlling it, maybe setting it to a specific purpose? It almost makes it sound a but like a lobotomy, taking away it’s freedom so it has to be a ship or whatever. This makes me suspect that the last 2 lines of this page mean that Artemis wasn’t MADE to be a ship, but is choosing to be one?

WeirdEnby

Then how…?