Week 258 (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FO THE WEEK OF 7/14-7/20.

Script update #2 for July, for page 452.

Pretty much just the second half of the entire monologue I wrote out for Fox Kale in this page, switching over to reminding Kale and everyone else about his patience wearing thin concerning a lot of things and why he's so angry about Kale wanting to tell Bruce about everything. This part of the speech, detailing how Fox Kale wants to go get revenge right now to make them feel better, is meant to convey Fox Kale's sort of identity, personality, and function as part of Kale's mind, both in his own right and in contrast to the Kale we know. 

Fox Kale by design has always been meant to be several things. Firstly, at a surface level of observance, you can tell Fox Kale is wrong about a lot of things, and that's intentional. His long-term "solution" is just getting revenge against the people who wronged him, as if that would fix everything. But at the same time, he's not ENTIRELY wrong, in the sense that while his long-term solution is extremely flawed, him pursuing a more permanent solution and being active in doing so is most likely better than Kale's variant solution of just confiding in others over and over. While Kale is applying a bandage to the same gash over and over, Fox Kale wants to actually stitch the wound close; he's just bad at stitching.

Secondly, and this is pretty fundamental to Fox Kale's character as a whole... he's Kale's id. Again, as stated in the last update, he's the embodiment of Kale's raw emotions and instincts. Of COURSE he would be angry and angsty all the time if that's what he's supposed to literally represent in Kale's mind. Of COURSE he would immediately and impulsively lash out, threaten, and try to harm whatever he saw as a threat or cause of damage to himself. And of COURSE his solution to trying to fix problems would actually be shallow, immature, and reactionary. Kale as a whole was wronged, so Fox Kale wants to make those who wronged them pay, to regret what they did. He unconsciously wants that satisfaction one gets from seeing "bad guys" get their comeuppance. He really believes this will solve all their emotional problems, because that's what anyone really believes when they're in the heat of the moment, even though those types of solutions typically only last for a few minutes, until you end up realizing that it was ultimately empty and you still have all those feelings inside of you. But Fox Kale, as the id, isn't especially capable of realizing that, hence how he generally is, what his lines of logic are, and why he acts and talks the way he does.

It was nice to sort of explore Fox Kale's character more here in this scene before we get to the real chunk of this story arc's point, because Fox Kale can easily come off as just an angsty reactionary teenager who sounds like a broken record, but there is an intentional logic to him that hopefully can come across better after these pages are eventually drawn.