Week 289! (Page 468 Script) (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 2/16-2/22.

Final script update out of three for this month, for page 468. 

Didn't really mention it in the previous update, but in the previous page, Kale got launched like a baseball by a swing by Fox Kale, with the results of that being in this page with Kale bouncing and then skidding along. This sequence is obviously exaggerated in a lot of ways since, safe rubber coating or not, Kale likely would've had his organs crushed and spine broken by the type of hit that Fox Kale gave to cause him to bounce like a skipping stone. 

On the one hand, there's the in-universe explanation that Lucy just gave prior to this fight, which was that this is the mental realm, the swords aren't "swords" exactly but projections of their willpower, and they don't have physical bodies here to actually get damaged like a physical body utterly would. It still hurts Kale a lot, but he can still get up as his mental willpower is still intact.

On the other hand, it's also obviously an "anime" sort of fight, as they all have been in this comic since the first one really. Characters in anime, even kids, can get launched and thrown around like ragdolls into giant rocks or buildings or whatever and not get splattered. Anime has always been part of the inspiration for this comic, and even though it's been literally a decade since the last fight scene, that aspect of animes I was inspired by was always meant to be at least some part of the comic as a whole, no matter how much time has passed.