If I called you a bad pick-up line, would you hold it against me?
Normally I wouldn’t make a double-entendre all bold and underlined like that, but Gunwild keeps telling me to do it, and his comic is a lot more popular than mine so who am I to disagree?
Sorry I’ve been ghosting a little. I’m getting kicked out of my apartment next August, and a chance to move out early and buy a house came out, so I’ve spent the last week lying on the floor in a panic over The Big Decisions. I eventually decided against getting it. I’d have to burn up all my savings and, much worse, I’d have to stop making webcomics! Can’t have that, so I’ll just keep putting away a little money every month and maybe….one day.
Faunus’ final line is an oblique reference to the famous balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, and when you go back and read it as an adult you realize that this is a stoner comedy about two idiots. Like, listen to this:
JULIET: Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? We are unable to love each other because of your name. Give up your name, and take all of me instead
ROMEO, HIDING IN A BUSH: I shall never refer to myself as Romeo again!
JULIET: What? Who’s there?
ROMEO: It is I…..um….hm.
Greatest love story of all time? Or two morons without a brain cell between them? Both, perhaps.
Discussion (6) ¬
Dang, Milk is putting it on a bit thick … unfortunately so is Faunus … or maybe he just *is* a bit thick. 🤣
Royalty may not be able to marry a commoner, but it’s quite normal to take a commoner as a mistress. If he’s feeling benevolent, he can even give her the choice.
I suppose this explains why Milk wants Saffron taken out. I’m guessing there’s a throne and fabulous wealth/power/prestige/gourmet cookies/etc that comes with marrying Faunus, otherwise Milk could just find a pretty boytoy that was less irritating fairly easily, I would expect. Or she’s one of those types that gets really jealous and vindictive when spurned.
And Romeo and Juliet were airheaded teenagers who couldn’t even properluy run away from their stuck up, vengeful families and they also got his buddy and her cousin killed in the process. A lot of people seem to not understand why it’s called a tragedy when they romanticize it.
And my initial thought reading Faunus’s last line was that it was a nod to the opening chorus of Romeo and Juliet, which mentions “star crossed lovers.”
Wow, Milk, I know you’re the antagonist but ever heard of consent?