Page 393 – Kidd Commander!

Amaaré

Low Hazard, REAAAALLY low.
So it looks like Phin finally drew power from Brokenspecter and…it hurt them? Is that why she never did before?

Aria

If Phineas and Spectre are fused, the connection goes both ways; both of them share a mortal body.

In Hazard’s case, channeling power from what is essentially equipment wouldn’t hurt him as much, and wouldn’t bother the star much at all. But with Phin, pulling directly from Spectre is also essentially pulling life force from her physical form. it’s a lot of stress on everything involved and prooobably not a super good idea
- Amaaré
  
  That does sound nasty, but then surely the power of a star crammed down into the body of a human has a lot of life-force to spare? Or, wait is this something to do with the fusing thing again so the part that’s actually sharing with Phin is small?
  - Aria
    
    Something like that, hehe. We’re probably going to learn a little bit more here soon.

Lepidolite Mica

The RSS preview image is just a bit too giddy for this arc. Juuuuust a little bit.

Aria

I haven’t ever touched anything to do with my RSS feed so I actually have no idea what it looks like! I never thought about it automatically generating previews I hope it’s not too ugly hhh
- Lepidolite Mica
  
  It’s actually just your profile pic, come to think about it. It’s probably grabbing it from the description header.
  - Aria
    
    HM I had no idea! I use disqus through twitter so it’s just my twitter icon haha. Good to know I appreciate it

A Wild Bird

It’s Savage Hazard time already!???

gqbrielle

If I can be mean for a moment…I agree with Hazard (and Ulrich’s) previously questions/opinions about Gideon >.>; He seems like an irresponsible user. Yes, yes, always wait for the whole story, but Jo is my very favorite and even she wasn’t exactly busting to defend The Sunflower’s choices ^^;

I am loving the (sun?)light bleeding out of her cuts. The art gets better with every page. You’re such an inspiration Aria, haha.

Aria

jeez that’s very kind of you to say, thank you!

Sandman366

…and how does he know that he doesn’t? Poor job of showing for it doesn’t mean doesn’t care.

(PS: Alt text only says what the page is 🙁 I has a sad now….)

Aria

Just didn’t have much commentary today!
Aria

Yeah that’s her! The colors are a little bit different here, but this is the same font and effect we saw when she spoke before on page 254

Sandman366

Okay, here’s a completely random one.

Raven asked Jo if Phin picked her name out herself. Is that why he doesn’t like to call Gideon, Gideon, and calls him Crow instead? Because Gideon picked the name out himself? (Or is it because of what it means?)

Aria

I can’t say too much about the significance of the names themselves just yet, but it IS meaningful that certain characters refer to others using certain titles like that. From what we’ve seen so far, most folks who have HEARD of Crow Gideon or only know him in a more professional sense call him Crow Gideon, Gideon, or most formally “Keeper.” Phineas, in what is apparently a student-teacher relationship with him, also has only ever called him Gideon. These are more respectful titles, then.

The only characters who regularly call him just Crow are Jo and Raven, who clearly had a much more intimate relationship with the guy. We haven’t heard as many people talk about her, but Jocasta Hubris is another good example. Phineas, who clearly respects her a lot, calls her by her first name, while Raven called her Hubris at more emotional points during their conversation. So the intimacy/respect scale isn’t even necessarily dependent on whether it’s a first or a surname, just depends on the character.

Basically: Raven habitually referring to him as Crow means they were real close, long enough for using that name to become second nature.

I’ve mentioned before that wordmagic is A BIG DEAL in KC, and names are words that represent people so I really like playing around with them when I can haha.
- Sandman366
  
  Considering “Kill the guy” is supposedly his goal, “Calling him by the name he picked rather than the name he was given” hardly sounds all that important. (I mean, respect and all, but still, if you want him dead, which name you call him by hardly seems important to me….)