Week 302! (Page 473 Script) (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 5/24-5/30.

And here's a third script update of page 473.

So the first question is about, well, who the hell are the villains of this story supposed to be, what's their deal. This page is actually a bit of a combination of several various pages' information culminating in our first answer. Firstly, way back when Lucy first appeared to Kale and Fox Kale in their minds (when she saved them from Hugo, specifically page 309), she did blurt out a lot of the information in this page's first panel: Lucy knows there's a big secret mysterious organization that were the ones who turned Kale into a human and throw a lot of weight around to keep most of the world from knowing about it, but she also doesn't know any of the members besides Hugo, how many there are, where they're based, etc.

Lucy then brings up, in her listing of logic on why the organization must be very old, she brings up the technology that transformed humans into furries in the first place and mentions the "Transition Age", which was something that was offhandedly brought up during the Research Paper arc, specifically page 191. There's a new bit of information that wasn't really revealed yet before, though (but probably would've been had we actually seen anything being researched in that arc), which is that the transformation technology was actually lost to history. Nobody in the present time (except for this organization apparently) actually knows the in-depth process of how humans were changed into their current forms, and the fact that this organization does know it means they must've been searching for it for quite a while, plus the time to modify it once they did find it.

After that, the big rant that Hugo did for Fox Kale on page 300 gets cited once the group's motivation for all this gets brought up and questioned. Hugo told Fox Kale that he hated that humans had become furries, explaining that he felt it was unnatural and a forced, twisted corruption of humanity's "proper" form. That speech at the time was more to reveal Hugo's true feelings about his personal motivations and ideology, but it was always also meant as a clue to the organization's motivations as a whole. Hugo's feelings are clearly very personal, but you can use those feelings to string together a deduction about the group as a whole. If someone that hates what humanity has become and idolizes what humanity used to be is a member of a certain group, and that certain group spent years not only finding the technology that transformed humans into furries but also modifying it to turn furries into humans, reasonably one can conclude that their entire goal is to use that technology to make humanity what it once was.

So there you go, two bits of information that have been a long time coming, all while referencing a handful of clues dropped all over the comic thus far. I've always intentionally done that, maybe less frequently than I'd have preferred, but we're finally at a point where these old hints can be stringed together and brought to attention.