I could not have said it any better! I agree so much. I too voted for Rose, and almost with the same reasons. One other point I'd like to make with Rose that stood out from the other characters is the color palette for Rose. I don't know what does it, but the complementary colors of green and red go so well with her white coat.MuonNeutrino wrote:I voted for Rose.
I actually have a hard time articulating why I like her. All I know is that something about those few pages she appeared in just grabbed my heart and squeezed. Reading those pages what what finally forced me to make an account here after a year of lurking, just so that I could comment on them. As I said at the time, while I routinely get engrossed in the things I read, I am *not* routinely emotionally effected to the point where I'm left feeling like I had literally just been punched in the chest after reading them, which is what this strip did to me.
Rose's ordeal just destroyed me. Those few brief strips where she appears have more emotion, more conflict and pain and characterization and drama packed into them than many entire movies. I think partly I empathize so much with Rose's experience because to me she represents all of the senseless pain and suffering humans and keidran have inflicted on each other over the centuries. She's not a main character, the sort we expect to see having adventures and dangerous experiences. She's just a normal keidran who gets into trouble because she's worried about her cousin. And so when she's so casually threatened with death, it hurts even more because we know that not only has she done nothing to deserve it, but her situation isn't even unique. That's the *normal* way human and keidran societies relate to each other! But it's always easier to relate to a specific face than an abstract statistic, and so Rose becomes that face for all of the faceless, voiceless victims of the mutual hatred between humans and keidran.
In terms of the characters who are actually important to the story, I go with Natani. And for the characters who have gotten lots of screen time and fleshing out as *characters*, he's in my opinion by far the most interesting. But I would be lying if I claimed any character other than Rose as my true favorite.
I also have to agree in terms with Natani. He is my favorite of the primary characters. He is, in my mind, the most interesting character with what has gone on throughout the comic. Overall, Roselyn is my favorite... As you can tell from my profile pic