[803] She never loved you

Oooooooooooooooooooooh [wait for it]


Snap.

Excrement, meet fan. The truth hurts.

Good to learn a bit more about Anthony.

So is Annie going to yell at him why Surma didn't love her or explain it smug casually?

edit: I have made a syntax error, possibly due to fear of redundancy. "Surma didn't love him" is correct.

My vote is for angry but reserved. I think she'll be obviously mad, but she won't raise her voice.

EDIT: bnpederson, why did you feel the need to ninja me and say the exact same thing I was going to say? I kid, I kid.

Man, this was more dramatic than I thought it would be. Am I the only one who found it just a bit odd to see Annie standing up for her dad so strongly? The only times she's ever really discussed him was back under the cherry tree, and she didn't seem to think of him as caring much for her ("Perhaps I did something to displease him...").

That last panel... man, that's an expression I never would have expected to see on our Annie.

Or, perhaps, we'll find out that what the Court knows/is willing to tell isn't exactly correct, and Surma does/did love Rey, at least to some extent...

*Clings to the idea like a desperate fan-fiction writer*

Bad move Annie! Baaaaad move... Actually that goes for Renard too. Talking about her father like that wasn't the most brilliant idea either...

Agreed. Also, I gotta say that I love the way Antimony's bangs in that last panel look like claw-marks. That's an interesting way to draw the anger in someone's face and it sums up pretty well what's going on; Renard's remarks hurt her and now her claws are coming out.

Well, I'm off to bed. I just wanted to supply you all with something this comic is lacking: DRAMATIC MUSIC!

Renard earned it this time.

I know that the thought around the water cooler has often been that Anthony was a jerk, but where have we gotten most of the info we have on Anthony? Has it not been Rey and Eglamore, the two people who lost the most to Anthony, namely, Surma herself?

I know that Anthony disappears for two years here, and that's a rather selfish thing to do, but I think we also lost some perspective that Annie's comment in this comic brought back: He just lost his wife. So, after working for at least 12 years, Surma still dies on his watch. In the real world, having watched several of my friend's parents die while we were still children, often those children need a great support network because the remaining parent doesn't know how to cope, and essentially abandons their children during their own grief. It's not pretty, it's really sad, but how many of us can say that we really know what the death of a spouse feels like and how we would cope? Especially if Annie's right, and he did spend all that time trying to find a way to save her life?

Part of me thinks that two-three years, especially if he knows that Annie will be relatively safe at the court (or so he assumes), is not as horrible as one thinks...though that thought is warring with my father of a new born side.

Holy SHIT, Renard. Just... just holy shit. He absolutely deserves whatever he gets now. You just don't go around telling young girls their fathers never loved them or their mothers.


Edit.
Also, just for kicks I'll throw this in for the "but they weren't very close" campers: my father left us when I was about 3 months old and was later murdered. I never met him, and have exactly one picture of him. This is basically as not-close to a parent as you can get. However, one Father's Day in elementary school I overheard another kid in my class say that he heard the reason I didn't have a dad to make a gift for was because my real dad was an alcoholic crackhead. I got up out of my seat, and punched that kid in the face. It didn't matter that I'd never met my dad, he was still my dad, and nobody was gonna talk shit about him while I was around.

So I guess what I'm saying is I hope Annie punches Renard in the face.

You rock.

I'm for Reynard never entering pocket size mode again. He can be such a dolt. I mean really I don't think anyone in there right mind offends someone for failing at saving the life of someone, especially after 12 years of dedication.On the other hand I think Reynard feels that Anthony let Surma die and in that case well we can understand where he's coming from. Anyone else notes the heated discussion on the emotions of 2' wolf doll.

"W-What?"
"She. Never. Loved. You. It was a lie, it was all a trick from the court to get you as a prisoner."

That's how the next page appears in my head. This is gonna be messy.