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Ch01-016

🕑 Added 2026-02-11 04:41:43 +0000 UTC

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Ashley

Tree called him explicitly Gefendur in the prologue, so yep.

Ashley

Their morality is highly situational :)

Spider

Also "this could be your father or your honey but sure as hell he didn't have money" is such a FIRE protest slogan, jfc.

Spider

hey ashley im starting to think maybe these two arent strictly speaking "good people"

Clay Jones

Is Jaer Gefendur? Also my first time noticing he has sunset eyes like Lem!

Luuuuuuu

Yeah, it's so unfair to Jaer, Tree should apologize :<

Josh

Oh, maybe some Bokononist advice from Cat's Cradle also qualifies: "My God - life! Who can understand even one little minute of it." "Don't try. Just pretend you understand."

Josh

I'm impressed by Tree's command of metaphor. Also, "pick who to blame and get on with your life." Wow. I don't know if I've ever seen anything else that's so cynical it circles back around to being optimistic before.

Rob N

Sure, blame the victim...

Fitzy

Decided that abused human laborers were uncouth so instead of re-evaluating power roles, we made a dummy that couldn't speak for itself and told ourselves it couldn't feel

Fitzy

Panel 3 plod is pretty rough. WOG and in-universe experts have stated that the plods don't have a conscience, but does that mean the cruelty is justified and unfelt by the plod?

Ashley

Yeah, they're just kinda chilling in their foreman chairs and supervising. At least no one's throwing paving stones at them yet.

Ashley

They have absolutely no consciousness, if that helps :)

Ashley

He's killed a lot of people but never anyone younger than a teenager.

Suppy

Love the down to earth back and forth between them on if the plodman loved his kid or not, masterful coping skills on display from Tree. Reminds me of my own post-assassination ponderings with friends. I'm loving our badmen and their banter more and more each page we see them!! Are the plods handled by plat mooks? Kind of a shitty assignment ngl