White Noise (Webcomic by Adrien Lee) SPOILERS

[Keep Looking]

You're very right, Thorny!

Hawk is really pulling out all the romance moves here, for a guy whose only previous relationship was a one-night hookup that ended very badly (though not for reasons that were Hawk's or the other guy's fault)

[thorny]

I'm trying to remember that one -- was it when the bar was attacked? Do you remember the pages?

When the comic goes on pause (I hope not for too long!), I think I'm going to go back and re-read it from the beginning.

[Keep Looking]

Yes, it was when the bar was attacked. Hawk and others were outside because Hawk was fighting the bigoted and possessive ex of the guy he'd just hooked up with, leaving them stranded outside the bar when it was attacked.

[thorny]

There's a good ending to Arc 1. 

And -- there's an ending to Arc 1.  :'(

          (is there a one-emoji-to-a-post rule? that second one's not showing up right.)

But we do have again a promise that there'll be an Arc 2; and also of interesting bits and pieces every week inbetween.

I still think I'm going to go back and read the whole thing over again. Some of the beginning I found pretty confusing the first time; it's likely to make more sense now.

[Keep Looking]

Oh wow. END OF ARC 1!! I knew it was coming but I honestly didn't realise it'd be now!

(......it also seems like that emoji has broken. I will have to test and rectify this situation)

(it appears that  :'( and  :'D have broken.... maybe this has something to do with apostrophes in the code? all the other emojis work fine)

[Jitter]

Such lovely lovely ending!

[thorny]

Hey! We get to see some of the unsaid things said!

[Jitter]

Ouch! Right in the feels again.

[thorny]

And yet -- even that early --

the hand of the Other, which his father (I presume that's his father?) rejects in their pain: when it's held out to Numair: Numair takes and holds on to it.

[Jitter]

Yes, I read this as Numair’s mother dying in childbirth and his father incapable of seeing past their grief to see their innocent child. Thank the gods for Helly.

[thorny]

Indeed.

But who is there to comfort Helly?

[Jitter]

Hopefully Helly can whisper nir sorrows to the wind, or leak them to ground, being a tree and all. Clearly ne has feelings, but perhaps it’s different for such an ancient being.

[thorny]

Helly appears to be disconnected from the fungal root network. But maybe ne can temporarily put roots down and link into it?

[Jitter]

I hope so, having grown as part of it, it would be natural ne longs for the connection sometimes even though separation was nir own choice.

[thorny]

So what year is it in Vlad's world?

And how old is Vlad?

(No comment on the crop top and shorts look -- other than that I don't think I ever saw anybody male wearing it? I am definitely not a person who knows about fashion, though.)