Fun little tidbit: Scar’s prosthetic arm was a reader suggestion. Silverias mentioned in the Discord server that they thought it would be interesting to see what a sarnothi-tech prosthetic limb looked like. The minute that image was in my head, I knew who it had to go to.
+1
All he needs to complete the ensemble is a little white eel to pet as he hatches his schemes.
Awww, I really wanted Amanda to go on the trip…
Interesting. I would have thought the term “slave” would grab some attention. Like, “SLAVE uprising? There haven’t been any SLAVES for 170 years. How OLD is this guy?”
Amanda already probably guesses this kid is pulling their leg. The story was so out-there, she just quit.
There haven’t been any slaves in the US in 170 years. Sarnoth may have different rules, customs, and laws. According to the Holder Of All Knowledge™, Wikipedia (yeah, I know) India has 18.4 million slaves and China has 3.4 million.
When you hear about “Human Trafficking” what you’re hearing about is modern slavery.
Indeed, The Atlantic JUST published an article yesterday on a family in America that had their own slave worker. Definitely worth a read. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/
So, it’s not inconceivable that they could have had a modern-day slave uprising in Sarnoth with one of the heroes of that uprising still alive.
Now, just because someone is a badass doesn’t make him a bad person, or even (Sorry, Selkie) a Supervillain.
Assuming he’s a HERO of the uprising…..
There absolutely have been slaves in the United States more recently, in that there are slaves CURRENTLY in the United States. They just fly under the radar.
There are sex slaves, and there are also household slaves. Occasionally a house gets busted and one or more get freed, but this is an ongoing problem that is difficult to crack down on. Plus, turns out when the United States actually finds a household slave, they quickly deport them — which might put them back into the market as soon as they get home, so, not ideal.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28415693/ns/us_news-life/t/child-slavery-now-being-imported-us/#.WR2CsGjysdU
The difference is that it’s not legal anymore. This and similar things are a crime, and crime will always exist, but “slave uprising” suggests what they got going on is systematic and on a large scale.
so is Scar the Sarnothi Guts?
I loved Berserk!
Healthiest gay romance in all of anime. says something about anime…
I have the impression that the LAST person to be able to keep a secret would be Mandy. Her propensity to blurt stuff out when she is in super-defensive mode is scary.
If she doesn’t go to The “Secret City” then she cannot let the secret out. But how would Todd deal with taking Mandy home, and not take Selkie with him? Permit p’hole to bring her back after dinner?
I’m pretty sure they’re not going to Terabitha today, after lunch. Todd had to take scuba training and Amanda hasn’t taken any, nor been invited to the Rebma by Avery. I think today was just a meet-my-family-and-eat-fish-and-cheese lunch date.
The USA may have outlawed slavery in the 1860s (or 1940s, from another viewpoint), but maybe Sarnoth had them more recently, or still does…
I’m going to make a wild guess that it is or was Sarnothi with resonance power enslaving Sarnothi without resonance power.
It could also be that Sarnothi are more longlived than humans age wise.
There is still slavery today – IRL, an estimated 45 million people remain enslaved worldwide: More than at any previous point in history. Google it.
That’s true of course, but the term “slave uprising” implies a more institutionalised, socially-sanctioned form of slavery. I think that’s what we’re all reacting to.
Thank you. It is unfortunate that most people in the US don’t realize this. It is the worst in the apparel and fashion industry–as well as chocolate and coffee. It is so stupid an item needs to be cerified and labeled “fair trade” to prove a company doesn’t use slaves (or screw its enployees over). We should hold our importers to the same standards as we do our own industries. Of course the. It means no one can afford buttloads of *stuff*–and we Americans love having stuff.
There are even slaves in the US, just because its called human trafficking doesn’t mean its not the same. Heck NPR this week did a story about a journalist whose family came from the phillipines (I may be misremembering) realized only when he was older that their house maid that was brought with them to america was basically a slave since she belonged to the family and didn’t get paid.
Yes! “My Family’s Slave.” I just read the article. Ironically, right after I posted my comment someone in my FB feed posted it).
I like John Oliver’s idea of instead requiring non-fair trade items be labeled as such. His rough draft of a logo was a man in a top hat and monocle urinating on a third world orphan.
I don’t recall seeing that one, but I do recall the episode that talked about how really nice dresses were going for under $10 and how in the world do you do that? by ignoring the manufacturing chain.
or perhaps the sar´teri enslaved the few survivors of selkie´s clan? i mean, the war prisoners of WW II were forced into hard labor too
actually only on the soviet side.
German POWS in the US were not doing hard labor. They were supervised by US Citizens that had also been Interred, (Like my great grandfather who was also interred as an Italian immigrant) and he was supervising the Germans who were making combat boots. (my great grandfather was a Cobbler) it was by no means hard labor and a good number of them became citizens Including the family that ran the deli across the street from my grandfathers shop after the war.
it depends on your definition of hard labor i guess, but being kept in a foreign country, forced to work for no pay, is pretty hard in my book no matter the job- my great uncle was send to georgia, plucking cotton for a couple of years, but allowed to return home to his wife+kids after he got malaria and wasn´t capable of physical work anymore. needless to say this sickness afected the rest of his life rather badly.
and it kinda pisses me off that everyone always points at the soviets only. yes, siberia was brutal, but the other countries weren´t saints either.
EVERYONE knows that the only people to ever be enslaved were black Africans, and EVERYONE knows that the only people that ever kept slaves were EVIL SOUTHERN WHITE AMERICANS. And EVERYONE knows that the brave, virtuous Northern Americans forced the evil Southern Americans to release their slaves, because slavery is WRONG.
EVERYONE knows that, especially if they are a product of the US public school system, and more especially if they are 8-year-old third graders.
Those girls won’t know about German and Japanese slave labor in the 40s, or Soviet slave labor in the 50s. They won’t know that, today, there are slaves in Africa, the middle East and the far East – probably every second- and third-world country has slavery.
No. If they know anything at all about slavery, it is that the War of Yankee Aggression ended it, and made the evil white Southerners quit being bad.
Part of why I homeschool my child. To be fair, my 11th grade History teacher refused to teach from our textbooks and focused on having our class only learn about minorities and women that year. That was really eye-opening. I am forever thankful he did that.
then your 11th grade teacher did you a huge disservice
Sure, kids, especially elementary kids only have a cursory understanding of history, but why the outrage? There is no possible way to teach them the entirety of human history or even American history at that age in the amount of time they have, especially when you are trying to teach them other stuff too. You start with the basics, you add more and more detail and nuance as you go along.
Was the civil war more complicated than just the south trying to fight to keep slavery going and the north trying to stop it? Absolutely, but that, at least is the core issue and the broad strokes of what happened. No one can possibly know everything, so you start somewhere and build on it. For those who are particularly interested you can go incredibly deep. But not everyone has to, or can for that matter.
Best ‘last panel expression dichotomy’ ever.
HAA !!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Well THAT didn’t go as he had planned!!
Scare fail!
Yeah, I think the bullet dodged was dealing with Selkie in full-on dork mode, crushing out on some Sarnothi “super villain”. You could get a serious headache from that many eye rolls.
I’m now expecting a crotchety old man with a cane made of coral that chases kids away from his hut and grumbles all day about water not being as soft as it used to be.
if they are from the great lakes the water wouldn’t be soft. In fact the PH of the great lakes river basin waters is roughly that of the various rift valley lakes like tangianika. roughly 8.2-8.4. ( I keep pet fish 9 different biotope tanks)
In north America very very very few areas have softwater in lake systems and they are almost all shallow lake systems in the south or black water riverine systems in the south (Lake okechobie and ponchatrain for example of lakes with low ph water and the river of grass in the florida everglades with softish water)
I love Benny. He is so fabulously a mix of emo and nerdboy. I want to ship a future version of him and Amanda or Selkie, but I could also just see them being like family when they are older. They have so much they can potentially bond over.
Oh, God, imagine Benny and Amanda as college student lovers. They’d be one of THOSE couples.
That’s all well and good, but the important question is this:
Will he make a handsome throw rug?
Supervillain
Disabled veteran
tomayto tomahto
So does their culture keep slaves?
DX Maybe it’s for the best Amanda didn’t go.