Week 262! (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 8/11-8/17.

Script update #2 for the month, this one's for page 455.

Alright well here we go, the start of the more main part of the story arc (or at least the first half of it), which is Lucy teaching them about "fighting" in the mental realm. It's been a really long time since we've had proper silly combat in the comic (the Hugo thing wasn't really a 'fight', so the last time would be Fox Kale vs. Max in arc 9 almost a decade(!)  ago), but it is something I wanted to revisit and always planned to do so.

I will admit I did sort of shy away from the fight scenes over the years, both from a shift in attitudes and a lack of experience/confidence in choreographing them. I was much more influenced outright by your typical battle anime/manga sort of stuff in the past, and while I still like that sort of stuff, I guess I also have preferred more... not to sound pretentious or anything but, 'cerebral' sorts of topics and focuses in the comic I guess. Character studies, touching on personal and interpersonal issues people face, that sort of stuff. 

While the combat was always going to return, I do want to take this arc to explain and mildly "modify" how and what the combat actually is supposed to be, to tie it much more blatantly into how it operates and fits into the system I've built concerning the mental realm in the FH universe, to establish it as the symbolic representation of individual wills exerting agaist each other that it was always more or less meant to be. I'm sure it'll still be somewhat anime-esque, but concentrating more on how and what these fights are actually representing will hopefully give it a bit more weight than before.