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Truth be told, I wanted to write this analysis as a response to @cocogum 's chapter 28 review. But time got away from me, and this is probably going to be long (no surprise there), so I figured it'd be better to make a separate post altogether.
Go read her reviews, though! They're so fun and such a mood.
With that out of the way, what I wanted to discuss was a key difference I noticed between Queen Astra and Aurora and her father. Needless to say, for the most part they're two peas in a pod: arrogant, greedy, power-hungry, entitled, disrespectful...
BUT
Astra does possess a certain quality (as little as she uses it) that differentiates her from the Osamodas and makes her slightly better than them—not by much, though.
Self-awareness.
Again, it's pretty limited because she often deals with a demigod king and his warrior queen, yet she constantly undermines their efforts and looks down on them simply because they're technically her subjects. Which, compared to how she acts around Julith, seems to be simply because Yugo and Amalia have actually been respectful, law-abiding citizens until now. With the lack of demonstrations of true power enabling Astra into acting like she's virtually untouchable when, in truth, she's fairly vulnerable.
But that's a point for later.
For now, let's focus on these scenes:
It's not much, and Solmäe stops her wife immediately after from finally realising her many flaws by choosing to be encouraging in the middle of her epiphany, but Astra is shown feeling regret.
Would it have been enough to make her try and reach out to Yugo and Amalia in order to mend things? After Julith's attack, we might never know, but we are seeing a new side of Astra.
Despite her arrogance and self-importance, she is capable of stopping for a moment to think, "I screwed up."
Even if it doesn't amount to anything in the end, it's clear a part of her laments the way her temper and pride have got to the best of her and probably cost her a powerful ally in the Sadida Kingdom. Maybe she's starting to think that if she hadn't been so hasty and had been a bit more understanding instead, things would have been resolved much more smoothly.
Maybe she's even starting to realise Yugo and Amalia were right all along to be angry at her for intending to replace them with Aurora out of greed, especially after they spelled it out to her why she can't be trusted at all, let alone as queen of the Sadida Kingdom.
Which is then followed by a small display of humanity as Astra and Solmäe are shown to be legitemately in love and happy together. With her wife's safety being a top priority for Astra.
As well as a weakness...
Aside from delivering some well-deserved karma by forcing Astra to confront the fact that she is actually powerless (as I already talked about here), volume 3's last few chapters also do a pretty good job at showing that, despite everything, Astra is perfectly capable of self-reflection.
Just like how she can tell when the odds are against her and try to even things out any way she can.
Unlike with Yugo and Amalia, where she tried to impose her will as though it indeed was the law, when Julith is holding Solmäe prisoner, Astra at least tries to reason with her or make a deal in exchange of both her wife's safety and protecting the Eliasphere.
It's only when she thinks she has regained the advantage that she is willing to order her guards to confront the Butcher of Brakmar and put an end to things... With disastrous results, true.
Apparently, underestimating her opponents is still a glaring blinside of hers.
But, hey, the woman at least has a brain. She doesn't use it much, but she has one.
Compared to the Osamodas, on the other hand, Queen Astra may as well be enlightened.
Because in the entirety of the three volumes available, Aurora and her father have shown absolutely no sign of self-awareness, instrospection, or non-performative humanity.
From what I gathered, it is canon that the Osamodas as a whole tend to be arrogant due to their connection to dragons. Boy, does the Royal Family take the whole cake!
We've all seen it, both in the show and the manga.
Aurora and her father repeatedly act like they are superior to everyone around them (unless playing nice will be more beneficial in the long run—you cannot expect me to believe they genuinely respect Astra and aren't just buttering her up because they need her to intercede in their favour). Which becomes especially egregious considering Aurora intends to become queen of a territory whose inhabitants she looks down on, if not outright abhors.
They act like their actions, no matter how atrocious, are perfectly justified. But if you so much as take them to task over their behaviour or disrespect them, then they will flip out and act extremely offended.
Because at the end of the day, the Corvus just seem to be pathologically incapable of admitting their own faults.
When Aurora and her father returned and Amalia rightfully pointed out they weren't exactly welcomed anymore because they knowingly left them and the whole world to die, the Osamodas King did the following:
He doubled down on saying his own army would have been able to vanquish the threat. Even though he ultimately wasn't willing to risk a single soldier to help an allied nation and, subsequently, the whole world.
He called Amalia selfish for expecting their allies by marriage to actually care about them after she and her brother, his son-in-law, requested their help.
He shifted the blame onto the Eliatropes for something that was ultimately a horrible accident. Made worse by the fact that they could have fled too, yet chose to remain and help the very world that rejected them.
At no point does he even admit what he did was wrong or try to apologise, no matter how fake and see-through that would have been. Something like trying to say he made a mistake in judgement when he tried to protect his own kingdom.
No, why would he? Everything is always someone else's fault.
And Aurora?
Sure, maybe she doesn't deny that she ran away, but she isn't the slightest bit remorseful about it either.
No, she defends herself because she (supposedly) ran to protect her child because Armand (supposedly) told her to. She doesn't even acknowledge the fact that the Sadida have every right to be angry. She is completely unrepentant, and essentially and shamelessly confirms in the middle of the throne room and in front of a veritable crowd that she was willing to let them all die because her and her child are more important.
And the worst part is that, even behind closed doors, their behaviour doesn't improve in the least, like with Astra and Solmäe. If anything, it worsens.
Unlike Astra in her focus scenes, who at least seems capable of wondering whether things going south or not was her fault, and showing genuine love for Solmäe, that is just not the case when the Osamodas are the focus.
At all.
On the contrary. At no point does the Osamodas King take advantage of their privacy to wonder if perhaps things wouldn't have escalated like they did if only he'd sent help or Aurora had remained in the kingdom during and after the war. For all Aurora cries and rages about the Sadida-Eliatrope wedding because Armand would have never allowed such a thing, she never even stops to consider her husband may have survived if only her family had kept their word.
Nope.
The entire time they remain completely unrepentant. Instead spending their time hating on Amalia and the Eliatropes, or plotting to turn the Sadida against Yugo. And even their familial love feels extremely stiff and performative. You get the feeling the sole reason the king didn't want to stress his daughter with the wedding was because he feared losing his grandchild, and with it, his ticket to the Sadida throne.
That's it.
Literally the closest thing to self-awareness any of them displays is when the Osamodas King points out they need to prioritise Aurora's standing with the Sadida. As if reluctantly admitting her would-be-subjects naturally hate her guts after their betrayal and they actually need to fix that.
What's even worse, something so ridiculous it would be hilarious if it weren't so mind-numbing, is that their pride and obliviousness to their own faults blind them to the point of risking their necks. More so in Aurora's case.
Because they see a furious Amalia going after them, accusing them of poisoning her husband, right before she effortlessly proceeds to hand them their asses on a silver platter, and none of them so much as thinks about defusing the situation. Why should they develop functioning brain cells all of a sudden, right? No, better to call her a brat and a lunatic than explaining they have no need to kill Yugo because they already considered the kingdom to be theirs.
And again, Aurora takes the whole cake. She is so blinded by her ego and her utter hatred of the mere idea of submitting to Amalia in any way, shape, or form, that not only does she escalates things (twice) by starting the fight in the first place; but even as Amalia has her and her father on the ropes, about to kill them, this idiot just cannot keep her mouth shut.
Unlike Astra, who at least tried to reason with Julith before it became obvious it was pointless.
Aurora just needs to provoke Amalia further just as she's about to, quite literally, nuke her and her father.
If it weren't for her father growing a brain all of a sudden and explaining to Amalia why they had no need to poison Yugo, those two would be dead already, and the webtoon would be so much better for it.
This kind of behaviour continues in volume 3, unfortunately.
Seeing as she is now protected as Queen Astra's guest, Aurora doesn't hesitate to act all confident and smug. Easily brushing off Amalia's accusations even though she looked legitemately worried by her presence at the end of volume 2.
Either because she's already bought Astra's favour or is about to, Aurora takes every chance available to her to take jab after jab at Amalia to discredit her and make herself look better in comparison. Acting as if her staying one year in the Sadida Kingdom while Amalia is known for being adventurous automatically makes her the better queen.
As if she ever did anything in canon other than act as Armand's throne candy or take measures that would only benefit her own kingdom.
But, here's the thing.
As always, Aurora's ego and her overconfidence completely blind her.
Deep down, she is terrified of Amalia. How could she not? She's seen what she can do if sufficiently pissed off, and all she's ever done is piss her off one way or another.
For all her smugness, the moment she's bold and foolish enough to dare bring up the circumstances behind King Oakheart's death to Amalia's face, pushing her over the edge, she freaks the fuck out.
Because she knows that, if Yugo hadn't intervened, her ass would be grass already.
At least Astra only went after Julith because she legitimately thought she and her guards stood a chance against her. Aurora already knows for a fact that the moment Amalia stops holding back, it's over for her.
To summarise, the main difference between Astra and the Corvus, and the reason why she is minimally better than them is that the bar is in Hell, but at least Astra meets it.
Bestiale female characters redesign because Ankama did them dirty to look like children and gave it to Karn a Iop
I gave Yrehn strip marks and Osamodas forehead marks because she is a chosen one of the Elante guardian and makes her lean to the wild outfit look since she’s been in a forest for a long time also she won’t be wearing a capes because she need to free her skin to feel the breeze.
Nimoda is based off her concept design and made her a tired ‘evil’ MILF by making her an adult to make look like a very rich villain mom but with a sick child.
Made the Eniripsa healer more mature and lean into Asian culture outfit also Eripsa all have antenna in my redesign and rewrite
Here are the pages that haven't been shown in the digital version of The Great Wave and can only be seen in the physical copy.
The first thing we see is the initial page of the book, featuring Astra, followed by the summary page.
We also surprisingly got a small cover of Kriss and Maude's team from their boufbowl match with the losers from the chapters in this volume. (couldn't properly scan this one so I hope it looks alright)
Then we got the chapter covers and their respective small drawings.
So after Volume 2, we're starting with chapter 11!
And of course, we got a few quick words from Tot at the beginning of the book!
Does anyone know why people already talk about Torpedo and Private Angel's main powers like we already know what they're about before the vought rising trailer would be available for everyone??
Cuz the powers they put on them are so specific that many fans are starting to say the same thing even though I don't think Eric Kripke has revealed anything about what these two can do yet.
Apparently Torpedo's got some water abilities while Private Angel can heal and manipulate emotions??? I get why Torpedo is strongly insinuated to have water-centered powers because of his name and the sailor look he's got going on on his costume. But private angel?? Healing and manipulation abilities?? Where did that come from???
I get that we can all assume what they're able to do because it's fun to speculate, but to the point where assumptions are becoming canon??
I'm just saying, people were so on point with Torpedo's possible powers but completely far off with Private Angel's.
The second I saw her during Vought Rising's announcement, I instantly believed she'd be all about flight because she got the word "private" and "angel" in her name. It makes me think of the word airplane when these two words are put together, so it wouldn't make too much sense if all she got are healing powers.
Besides, her team can just self regenerate by themselves if they get injured, why should they need her help? Maybe she's there for the public if they get injured?? I guess that could work...But again, there's no hint anywhere that indicates she's a healing supe.
Even her costume doesn't show any medic symbols on it. In fact, she looks more like a flight attendant than anything else due to her hat and the top of her costume showing tailor material. If you compare her outfit to the women who were flight attendants from those old american days around 1940s-1950s, you wouldn't see any differences.
Even her gloves look like they were meant for flying, they're the types you'd wear to drive aircrafts during World War 2.
*Actual military gloves from ww2 on the right btw*
So yeah, I highly doubt she'll be some healing supe whose main job is to heal the citizens if they get in some kind of crossfire with any of her group's missions.
I highly think she'll have a flight ability with some kind of additional power related to sound probably.
But she'll obviously have all the extra gifts that comes with her main power like regeneration, super strength, super hearing, super durability, and of course immortality because of V1.
Today Ankama sent a new email informing the kickstarter backers that they could watch the first 10 minutes of Season 5's first episode!
So obviously I watched it through a code that's been sent to me and honestly guys it's looking pretty good.
I can't really say exactly what happens in the first ten minutes, but what I CAN say is that the animation was just as good as season 4 and they added new soundtracks ✨️✨️✨️
The episode doesn't start with any of the Brotherhood members, but rather with new characters. And that's fine too because the majority of them won't be important later on (based on what happened which led me to believe that anyway), the first ten minutes are just an introduction for two very specific people! So no worries, we won't have too many characters to focus on in this last season.
I also can't even show pics or small videos since that'd be infringing the rules, so please just believe me when I say that the new characters we'll see won't all necessarily be important since we already have Harebourg as the main antagonist for this season.
SO YEAH IM SO EXCITED PLZ JUST GET HERE ALREADY ‼️‼️💖‼️💖‼️💖‼️💖💖‼️‼️💖‼️💖‼️💖
Idc what anyone says, there's nothing calmer than getting to wednesday just to see a new episode and try to assume what kind of weird unexplainable shit we're about to see.
I originally only planned to make the Eliatrope Council and Amalia in the game, but… AAAAAA NO!!! I CAN'T!!! I REALLY CAN'T!!! I don't want Amalia to be all alone, even in a peaceful, happy place like Tomodachi Life!!!! 😭😭😭 So I spent two days making the whole Sheran Sharm family.
When I saw Amalia walking around the streets by herself, all the painful stuff from canon hit me again. I felt so sad… Even though she's already happily married to Nora in the game, I still can't stand seeing her all alone like that… 😭😭😭
BTW, I also made a Tree of Life version of Amalia. I love this possessed form of hers, it's so cute 💞 She's basically just another version of Amalia, so I made them sisters in my headcanon 🥰 Also, there's a leaf head accessory in the game that fits her so well!!!
Annon-Guy: When can we expect volume 4 of Wakfu: The Great Wave?
Since Volume 3 just ended in april, it's very hard to determine when the fourth volume's gonna come out.
Like there's no official dates as of now so I don't know for sure but it definitely won't come out this year. Maybe during 2027-2028. If I remember right, volumes 1 and 2 also came out around april so maybe volume 4 will follow that same pattern too.
Judging by how Casey keeps calling Leo "sensei", it's heavily implied he's got no idea that he's been training/hanging out with his dad his entire life.
Leo might've kept that as a secret from him in case anything happened. Bro rly thought hiding his true identity from him was the right move to protect him 😭😭😭
It's honestly making me wonder if Leo thought making Casey call him by anything else than "dad" would have lessened the mental damage it would give him if he died or got severely injured for life.
So post krang apocalypse in the present time, I do wonder how Casey would come to find out that the dude he's been admiring since he was a booger eater was his FREAKING DAD ALL ALONG!!!
I'm not sure yet if Casey would have known that Leo could be his father in my AU, but I think it'll happen eventually anyway. 😅
The theory that Homelander is Stormfront (Liberty)'s son still feels very much icky to me and keeps drawing my attention to all the clues and signs suggesting it might be true.
Yes, it fits with the fucked up shit that's been going in The Boys and yes it would only worsen the state of Soldier Boy's family tree, making it even more fucked up than it needs to be.
But here's the thing.
So many people keep talking about this theory and discussing it with great length even, but I've literally never seen anyone talk about it from Stormfront's point of view. Only Homelander's.
Because if the theory IS true, then wtf was she thinking????
Unlike Homelander, she would have known she had gotten pregnant and birthed a son. She already had a daughter back in the old days, so she'd surely know if she had a son afterwards as well. Homelander wouldn't have assumed right away that she was his mom because he didn't know anything about her background to begin with.
But Stormfront??? She would know absolutely EVERYTHING if the theory was true. She would have been able to connect all the pieces together simply by comparing Homelander's power skill sets with Soldier Boy's and remembering what she had undergone the months before giving birth to a son. And it would only worsen her entire character because what did she hope to accomplish by screwing her own son!?!?! Repeatedly might I add!?!?
On top of everything that she is (white supremacist, n*zi, massive racist, bigot), you're gonna add incestuous too?????
Just why??? She literally had no reason to do what she did.
Given what we've seen in S5 about the scattered hints regarding her potential link to Homelander, this only makes me doubt even more about what Stormfront's motives are.
Did she do all that with him just to praise him?? She was delusional about him being the perfect "Aryan" that can create a new world or whatever. But she didn't have to sleep with him to praise him?? Like??
Her actions from the present era won't even be explained in Vought Rising when the first season comes out, it'll just give us a possible introduction to her first appearance and connection to Soldier Boy (since dude revealed they fucked like once or twice and even founded the Herogasm together).
Percedal absolutely talks to his sword (even when Rubilax isn’t responding). It’s a half habit, half comfort thing. He’s the kind of guy who forgets plans immediately but somehow remembers every compliment Eva has ever given him.
Thinks he’s amazing at stealth. He is not. Everyone just lets him believe it.
Eats like he’s in a constant eating contest; especially anything grilled or overly seasoned. Secretly loves sweets but tries to act like they’re “not manly,” which fools absolutely no one.
Falls asleep anywhere: mid-watch, mid-conversation, even leaning on his sword.
Around Eva, he tries to act more mature… and fails within minutes. He’s incredibly observant when it comes to her mood, even if he can’t always articulate it.
With Yugo, he switches between big brother energy and chaotic bad influence as Eva and Amalia would put it for the latter one.
Has definitely named some of his favorite attack moves, even when no one else could barely care or even remember them.
Would 100% try to adopt random creatures they encounter but only the ones he doesn't know can be cooked or roasted.
Laughs way too loudly at his own jokes.
Percedal quietly worries that without being an iop, he wouldn’t know who he is. Strength isn’t just a trait to him. It’s his identity anchor. And the fact that he's literally the Iop God in his retirement, isn't helping either.
He sometimes trains alone at night, not to get stronger, but to prove to himself he still deserves to be called a warrior.
He’s more affected by failure than he lets on; he just processes it physically (training, fighting, pushing himself harder) instead of emotionally.
Sometimes he asks Rubilax for advice and immediately argues with him… only to follow him later anyway.
When he’s really stressed, he grips his sword tighter, not for battle, but because it grounds him.
He tries to “fix” problems physically (training harder, protecting more) when what he actually needs is emotional support.
He’s the emotional shield of the group. He absorbs tension by turning it into humor or action.
Has a quiet fear of being left behind, physically or emotionally, by those he cares about.
Being the reincarnation of the Iop god will also make him overthink about losing everyone. Being left behind or being way too ahead of the others are his main dilemmas.
Around Yugo, he acts like the older brother who encourages bravery but also accidentally encourages reckless decisions.
He trusts Amalia’s leadership more than he openly admits; when things get serious, he instinctively follows her calls.
After tough fights, he replays moments in his head, just to wonder how cooler he could have looked like instead.
Percedal’s dynamics with Amalia and Ruel are way more interesting than they look on the surface. They’re both very different relationships, and yet they both bring out unique sides of him.
Percedal acts like he doesn’t take Amalia seriously sometimes, but when things get critical, he listens to her without hesitation.
He sees her as “the one who actually knows what she’s doing,” even if he’d never phrase it that way.
Early on, he used to have this I’ll protect you mindset around Amalia simply because he used to only see her princess title. But over time, he realized she didn't need the attention after all.
That shift turns into something healthier; he fights with her, not just for her.
They absolutely bicker like siblings, more like fraternal twins who had different moms if that makes any sense.
Amalia gets fed up with his impulsiveness and Percedal gets annoyed when she overthinks or hesitates.
But their arguments rarely last long; they both cool down fast.
He’s more aware of her stress than people expect. If she’s overwhelmed, he’ll try to lighten the mood (badly, but sincerely).
He respects how much responsibility she carries, even if he doesn’t fully understand it. He just somehow has a feeling that he has always understood her tough decisions. If Amalia gives him an order in battle, he follows it instantly, mostly because he loves how chaotic her and Yugo's lives still are.
Percedal 100% sees Ruel as that shady-but-reliable uncle figure.
He complains about Ruel’s greed constantly… but also expects him to always come through in the end.
Ruel thinks Percedal is reckless and stupid and Percedal thinks Ruel is cheap and sneaky.
Dally will eat without thinking about cost while Ruel will always think about cost.
That led to endless arguments because Ruel JUST KNOWS that every time they go to an inn, he's gotta stand over him like a hawk.
Ruel occasionally gives him practical advice about survival, deals, or reading people. Dally, on the other hand, pretends to ignore them since he'd often claim he already knows all that stuff, but actually absorbs more than he admits.
They both sometimes team up in the worst possible ways (usually involving bad ideas or shortcuts).
Dally absolutely believes he’s good at giving advice. The advice is… hit or miss.
Gets overly competitive about everything, even things that don’t make sense to compete over.
Out of everyone in the group, he'll most definitely be the one always breaking AT LEAST one thing wherever they go. He’ll then confidently claim he can fix it. Don't believe him, he absolutely cannot.
