amenon wrote: ↑Sun May 06, 2018 7:43 pm
So I guess I'll conclude that Zen's actually catching up
right now, and the 'wanted to thank you' gives the wrong impression (but maybe he's saying that because he knows that for Kat, it's already old news?)
I refined this thought a bit: Maybe Zen went 'okay, Kat, what do we know about Kat?'
Would make sense since he's talking to her and all! Would also explain why he's giving Kat's part so much credit, unless it's just to be nice to Kat. In which case, dude, one must repeat: condescension is not a good look.
CrRAR wrote: ↑Sun May 06, 2018 9:16 pm
That just made me think, Kat rendered a favor... Zen is thankful... we're literally ONE panel away from:
Zen: "If you even need anyone dead, kid, I'm your man.
First one's on me."
Kat: Have you ever actually
killed anyone?
Zen: Uhhhhhh
Kat: I'm just saying, all the people who
have died so far were people you
weren't ordered to kill. So maybe you're more like a good luck charm?
Niara wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 12:43 am
Maybe it's just my personal impression of it, but the way that Zen words his language here, while he's in the in between of catching up with the ways that Natani has changed, it feels like he's unconsciously (or possibly consciously) avoiding pronoun use for Natani for the time being. This seems interesting for more reasons than just being what it is; it may be that he genuinely isn't certain of what Natani wants in that regard right now, and more importantly, if it is a conscious thing, is showing that he doens't want to push or pressure it in either direction until he does know what Natani wants.
Ohh, that's an interesting point. Looking at the way it's written again, I don't think it's necessarily to omit pronouns, but it definitely could be. And what with the 'one Natani, two Natani' (shoutouts to Count von Count), I could see it being a moment of honest confusion. (I could see it being something a lot less charitable, too, but benefit of the doubt and all.)
Tyger42 wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 12:49 am
Holy crap. Zen shows compassion, care for his sibling, and progress on understanding and [censored] gotta [censored] all over him. Good lord, people, who pissed in your cheerios?
It's more that Zen's been pissing in Natani's cheerios (that already came pre-pissed in, courtesy of him), for something like seven years now. Step one would be to just stop being such a gargantuan failure of a brother (but it doesn't look like he's quite there yet), then step
two could be something actually worth a bit of cheering.
I do like him here, mostly, but he's got a tough row to hoe. The moment of truth is going to be whenever it finally clicks for him
what originally happened with the link, and how he's going to react to that realization. That's when we'll see who he really is.