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1st panel – should be “its limits”. “it’s” is short for “it is”. yes – I have too much free time on my hands… 😉
\o/ someone else was a grammer nazi so I don’t have to be.
Thank-you Pretty Blossom, thank-you so much.
😀
yeah, I know, grammAr (I never claimed I could spell)
“Repair who you are first” does not mean Tiff has to go back to being Typh
@Guesticus. Either that, or get far more comfortable with who she is now. The shaman said it himself, while Faden’s magic is indeed powerful, the trauma of the gender swap is far more profound. Tiff has just been VERY good at hiding it. Usually with extreme violence and misplaced anger.
If it’s not pretentious, I’d like to pass on a bit of constructive criticism to the artist. Where perspective is concerned in relation to bodies, the horizon line is an equalizer. In the second panel, it can be inferred that the line is drawn around her elbows. The shaman is pretty short, but since they’re both sitting it seems as though his head should at least be level with her chest. As it is, he’d have to be either just a set of arms and a head on the floor or seated in a deep hole. The fire is similarly misplaced.
Again, I don’t mean to condescend. It’s just something to think about.
Indeed, the last panel is telling. Look at the expression on her face – this is a man Tiff is not afraid to show fear or uncertainty to. More than her brother, or even Rahvner-Behr, this man is Family. Tiff has been hiding a lot of pain over her transformation, because, well, that’s a man’s way. Especially a barbarian man’s.
But don’t be afraid to steal your brothers horse on your way out.
@Joe England Well, it doesn’t appear to me they are both sitting. The shaman is standing and moving about as he addresses Tiff. He faces the fire, reaches into it, and moves to face her directly. In one panel it shows him standing and bending over next to her.
Uhl: yeah, that’s pretty much what was getting at, “repair who you are (as opposed to who you were)”, she is still who she is (still retains all her knowledge and memories), she just has to accept the new body/form she is now in and stop fighting it (Diana has shown that it is possible to be a woman and a warrior, maybe Tiff needs to spend some time with her, once she finds out she exists that is :D)
@JD Actually, that sends him even further in the wrong direction. If he’s standing then by all rights he should be much higher. In panel 5, for example, his chest is roughly level with Tiffany’s head.
It could be that Tiff was actually born a woman and a curse was placed on her to make her a man.
Faden could have just removed said curse because he was limited to white magic at that moment due to the unicorn being in the room.
Tiff’s brother could be aware of said initial curse.
Which would explain why he wants “Typh” dead.
@Matt: No, that wouldn’t explain the transformations of the priests. They definitely said it was a curse.
I personally think this comic has come a long way from its beginnings as, in my opinion, a “Comedic, Transformation Fetish” comic.
Its become much more serious in tone (and nowhere near as much nudity *sob* ^_^); so is it possible that the main character may actually seek to regain ‘her’ masculinity and be the Barbarian Man he was born as, or accept the curse and being the Barbarian Woman she now is?
I find it nice to see that he phrased it properly by saying ‘who you are’ not ‘what you are’. Two very different things they are these things called what and who…