Michelle is more perceptive than some give her credit!
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We hit a stretch goal on the Medallion Kickstarter! All previous pathtags plus a new satyr tag and a colored sphinx tag have been reordered and will be back in the shop soon! Keep pledging to hit the next stretch goals: new Quick Silver medallions!!
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Ice cold, Michelle. That was ice cold
Sounds like exactly what Ravi needs
It really wasn’t… He really deserves it at this point.
Savage
As you said, ice cold. But I like it. It is exactly the right temperature, given the circumstances.
Michelle is a Sphinx!! See how she Sphinxs Ravi right there?
Boo.
And if he was really gone for 800 years, then the gryphons basically had magic powers for a week. 800 years ago.
Well she does have a point
Serving Ravi a heaping helping of Truth Tea! But I can imagine being Ravi would be exhausting after a good while. To be fair, with all of this new information being revealed, I am less inclined to believe that Ravi meant any harm ever; he thought the Finns had everything they needed to guard the Egg, and he was really tired and probably homesick. By his logic, everything should have been safe and good and he can rest for a while. Though not immediately checking up on the Finns when he got back was an oversight
The only real defense of him not checking up on the Finns sooner is the fact that his perception of time is probably a bit different. Being as old as he is means that taking as long as 30 years could be seen as ‘fairly soon.’ That said, you’d think it would be all the more reason that the literal moment he had returned he’d have visited them to make sure all was in order.
Ravi: The Neanderthals are extinct?!?! But they were here just 28,000 years ago! What about the Homo ergaster people, are they still all right?
Ravi saw that Jim had the physical marker of the Finn Family Curse.
Ravi then blithely assumed that everything regarding his The Plan(tm) was going just fine.
Since things LOOKED to be going just fine, there was no OBVIOUS need to go and actually check.
As for why Ravi left, yeah, I think we’d all like to know the answer to that one.
Gotta give Ravi the truth as plainly as possible. He’s a little short on being able to empathize with others unless it’s put right in front of him.
Even then he won’t see the truth, until he trips over it.
Or it’s bludgeoned into his face like a Michelle-shaped baseball bat…
I think of it more as a dash of (or dunk in) virtual ice-water. It seems to get through better than the flaming heat of anger and outrage.
Ravi has just been smacked in the face with a Clue-by-four.
Help I’m a little confused about the kickstarter. So if I want a pathtag medallion from the stretch goal, do I select “one bronze medallion” under rewards, or is that just for the sphinx ones?
There isn’t a way to buy pathtags yet, I will figure out a way you can add pathtags to your order when they come in. For now all the tiers in the Kickstarter are just for the bronze sphinx medallions.
Reality checks can sting a bit, don’t they Ravi?
-Badger-
They do, when they catch up to you, and you can’t cover them.
Yeah! Choke on that shame you insensitive douche bag!
You can hear the penny dropping…Right between the lobes of his ever-so easily-distracted brain.
drag him michelle!!!
Now say you’re sorry and go think about what you’ve done.
Does Ravi actually understand the mortal concept of apologising and meaning it?
I’m not so sure he does… it would be impressive to see him back-peddle a little.
oooooh someone got served hardcore.
My eyes!!! My eyes!!! They have freezer burn!!! Good work Michelle.
Inconvenient truths hurt a bit, don’t they, Ravi?
This looks like Michelle basically whacked Ravi with the combined aggravations and points that we, the fans and readers, have been voicing so far, distilled and skillfully applied to one theoretically powerful and factually out-of-touch being.
Michelle is amazing, GO YOU MICHELLE
*sunshades slowly fall onto Michelle’s face*
God help me, I’m actually curious about how that Scruffy fellow is gonna try to justify Ravi’s hypocrisy this time.
Scruffy doesn’t seem to be so much interested in justifying Ravi as he’s interested in *hating* the Finns. Note he’s been quiet for all pages once James was gone, and starts up again, next page, when James comes back.
Occasionally when I find myself stuck in a mess of my own making, I also have the immediate instinct of blaming the other people involved.
(Assuming my brother would empty the lint trap for example.) I think that now that Ravi is starting to cool down, he’s realizing it’s largely his fault
This is a perfectly normal and very common reaction. Most people — at least for a moment — entertain the idea that something wasn’t their fault, it was somebody else setting them up for failure or the result of something uncontrollable. A mark of maturity is being able to get past this mentality and acknowledge your own mistakes (even though you’ll still always have that knee-jerk ‘who can I blame for this?’ reaction at first, it’s just human nature).
Aaaaaaannnnd… BOOM.
It strikes me that, being a sphinx, Michelle is probably one of the most, if not the most, powerful beings in the Avalon. She wiped out demons without even thinking, and with greater effectiveness even than an angel. She doesn’t know how to make use of it, yet, but Ravi would know what she’s capable of, and I think that makes him more amenable to listening to what she has to say. She does have ONE sphinx power down solid—asking very difficult questions.
She didn’t wipe them out. She merely dispelled them.
In page 20 of chapter 5 of ‘Orientations’, she dispelled 2 of the 3 Grimm Brothers, Damien and Mikhael, back to Dis. Azreal was not dispelled, and Damien and Mikhail had returned by page 29.
In page 45 of ‘Greetings from, Dogpatch’, Gabe only does 2 of the 3, Damien and Azreal, because of Myra being startled by the events of page 42, which allowed Mikhail to escape her grasp on page 43.
You may need a bigger clue stick than that, Michelle. He seems to be particularly dense. Like… depleted uranium kind of dense.