Monday's Comic

[marycatelli]

Unpleasant discoveries.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180903#.W4zB9s5KiUk

Comments

[skybreak]

Hopefully 'dead' is just an assumption by Lady Steelgarter.

In the almost 16 years since GG has been running very few important characters have died and stayed dead.

[murgatroyd666]

Yes, she had better not be dead, or I shall be quite cross!

[skybreak]

Adam, Lilith and Zulenna all say "she'll be fine".

Brother Ulm and Rudolf Selnikov say "she'll be mostly fine".

Tarvek will probably say "suck it up loser, you've had worse".

[svesjo]

Don't forget Klaus!

[skybreak]

Yes, and Zeetha and Ruxala both got a sword through their belly and were up and walking in virtually no time at all.

[tceisele]

On the other hand, there's Lars
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061215#.W47f6l5JFjU

and Maxim to remind us that sometimes "that don't vork much"
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070209#.W47hG15JFjU

[marycatelli]

Lars got to die onstage, heroically.

[spectrum_09]

Lars' death had a specific plot purpose - to bring home to Agatha the seriousness of her position and a hint of what it will cost.

There is also the mismatch of social position -Lars was correct in his dying words. A commoner like himself was out of place next to a powerful Spark and Noble like Agatha. It just wouldn't work in the long run.

Violetta may be implied to be dead. We are two pages from the end-of-volume cliffhanger. Fortunately, the online keeps going.

I'll be shocked if the Foglio's actually DO kill her.

[marycatelli]

And, additionally, in the novel, Agatha was already thinking that she and Lars really didn't fit, long-term, owing to personality differences.

[marycatelli]

No on-screen body!

[madfilkentist]

So far there's no body, and we know about Smoke Knights' tricks. But Steelgarter must be a far better fighter than she first gave an impression of being, if she was able to walk away even thinking she'd won.

But if she's such a fighter, why is she quitting right after winning? And above all, who is she talking to?

Further thought (suggested by someone on Reddit): Violetta faked her death so she could follow Steelgarter. That fits with the latter's apparent amateurishness.

[skybreak]

Sounds plausible. The lower two arms don’t appear to be working, and I can imagine Violetta having a truth serum dart somewhere in her kit.

[jbwoodford]

That, or Violetta defeated Steelgarter, interrogated her with a truth serum dart, and then disguised herself as Steelgarter. Which is why the lower two arms aren't working.

[turbobeholder]

Well, she obviously hid the body.
But yeah, her conclusion may be a little too bold, seeing how Violetta is a Smoke Knight. Especially if she doesn't know much specific about their tricks.
Zola was all sedated and contained, right until she wasn't, and Madwa was surely-this-time-down-for-good too.

[occams_pyramid]

It would be odd if such a major character is wiped out off-screen without showing her final battle.

[occams_pyramid]

And then there's Chekhov's pretty dress.

[jhameia]

OH NO SHE DIDNT

[katzedecimal]

This is not on!

[marycatelli]

Yes, neither the death nor the body were on[-screen]. Do not lose hope!

[deckardcanine]

"And where is she now?" "Dead." "But where?" "In body or spirit?"