Week 267! (Page 457 Script) (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 9/15-9/21.

Hey, guess what! You only get a single script update this month due to the new thing I'm doing with the chibis and everything. That's a nice change I think honestly; like I said, the script updates have gotten so far that you're reading stuff from literal years in the future.

In any case, this is the script for page 457. We continue the previous page's development of Fox Kale's attack getting completely halted by Liddy with a follow-up of Lucy very mildly gloating a bit about the futility of Fox Kale's attempt to charge her head-on, proving her point. Like I said in the previous script update (Week 263), Fox Kale it turns out doesn't have the best record in terms of fights thus far. This comic reminds you that he drew against Max and lost against Hugo, having to be saved by Lucy. The only time Fox Kale has technically "won" was when he beat Kale, a person who had almost zero idea of what was going on or how anything worked. Fox Kale can rationalize all of this as everyone "cheating" in one way or another, with Max using a hidden explosive, Hugo mind-controlling Kale, and even Kale getting bailed out by the white-hoodie-wearing version of himself (who we haven't seen in a long time and who knows when or if he'll show up again!), but Lucy counters with the valid point that, uh, people who want him to fail or to be erased from existence probably aren't ever going to play fair, so her point is made either way.

Fun fact, my original version of this page's script was written with the false memory that Kale had "won" against Fox Kale in their duel, the idea being planted on account of Fox Kale's emphasis more recently on Kale having "proven himself the superior aspect" in their shared mind space. Like I said, though, Kale actually did straight-up lose that fight and had to be saved by the white-hooding-wearing dude, and his "proof" was more his diplomatic rationalization covered in narration (referencing a speech from Bleach that I have long, long since forgotten the actual content of, so that's nice and dated), so I ended up having to rewrite the end quite a bit! I think it still works, though.