PaRARGdox 13
Hit the showers: So yeah, we didn’t get to see the robomat training session… needless to say it didn’t go well anyway.
On this page Olga notes the suspicion and distrust harboured by Jasmeen towards Olaf (first seen manifesting in The Olaf Mystery).
Also we’re introduced to a newbie… first year cadet Ambrosia Paz. You might have spotted her on this Rargopalyse page… more info on her over the next few updates.
Ambrosia might be a big fan of Olga’s great aunt Gola… but for those of you not up-to-date with the various characters backstories… Olga is her great aunt Gola and most people do not know that. If you need a quick refresh have a read of Redux!
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Next update: Wednesday, March 11, 2020: Emo fans… whatcha goin’ to do?
We didn’t get to see the robomat training session … we didn’t get to see – ehm, I mean, for lot of comics, shower scene would be an excuse for some fanservice …
Keep in mind, these girls are likely 14-15 years old. Providing fan service using people at that age would be highly inappropriate (and possibly illegal).
Just to help clarify – most cadets start Magellan Academy around age 16. There are some exceptions – Brelvis (the human part), for example, is roughly the same age as Kaycee but is a year behind as a cadet; Olga is technically 80+ with the memory of 32-ish years but is physically, as of this story, 17-ish. So year 1 = 16, year 2 = 17; year 3 = 18, etc … which is why I waited until Nadine was in third year before running Legacy. 😁
Unless you’re in Japan.
We got *other* kinds of fanservice, and anyway, those robomat training exercises can be deadly boring.
Recommended for 1st year cadets: do not startle classmates in the context of showers. Getting your mind melted, your face shredded off,or any number of other horrible fates seems pretty likely. (Then again, given what’s coming up soon anyway …)
I think to not startle the first-years is the most important part, those with a bit more experience are significantly more in control of their powers.
So . . . are we going to see this scene again after about 200 to 300 pages, with Ambrosia bleeding from the face and trying to warn Gola/Olga of the impending doom of earth? Only to die in the arms of her fangirl crush from the severe internal haemorrhaging caused by the massive time-leap backwards? But not before Gola/Olga performs a mental dowload of Ambrosia, and is able to set things in motion to save the world!
That might very well be what’s the future of this comic
That foreshadowing.
Here I was obsessing over the wrong breadcrumbs (well, that remains to be seen, actually), when all along Yasmeen’s comment about not wanting to get undead-ified by Olaf ended up being more plot-relevant than I could have imagined!
Nice work, as usual, Grace!
I am a fan of spinning multiple subplots where practical and narratively relevant… let’s hope the wheel doesn’t fall off the spinning machine!