Comments on: “Needs Salt.”

By: RyGuy

RyGuy — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:03:37 +0000

She looks like a manticore…

By: RyGuy

RyGuy — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:01:58 +0000

I just realized that his upper set of eyes are sewn shut. Does he feel this fits in better with the binocular majority?
She must have visited ancient Persia at some point….

By: Jigsaw Forte

Jigsaw Forte — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:47:58 +0000

In reply to zarpaulus.

@zarpaulus: Technically, I said Celeste with the doubled-up sets of large wings (like Veled and Gabriel) are a usual result of those types of breedings, not that either of those two were from such a pair: http://www.formspring.me/lastres0rt/q/308624196970221021

I’m pedantic because I care. :p

By: zarpaulus

zarpaulus — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:20:50 +0000

@Anodyne No, Rachel said on Formspring that the offspring of two celeste isn’t a purebred. In fact Veled and Gabriel are the products of such unions.

Rei is definitely a “founder”.

By: Novawolf7

Novawolf7 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:38:16 +0000

(My computer hiccuped when I tried to post so sorry if this shows up twice.)

Rei is so friggin cute! As usual, Jig has taken great pains with the stripe pattern, and it shows. Love Jiggy sitting there so cute and innocent-like.

By: hariman

hariman — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:56:05 +0000

Jigsaw: Oh, good. (Also: PHEW!) I’m glad to hear that. I’d rather have my guess be wrong and only a product of my sometimes dark minded nature than be right in this case. 😀

Also, given what little we’ve seen of Rei, she doesn’t seem like a bad person. Just a little prone to a “Those who are Alive and Those who are Dead” mentality towards her enemies.

By: Josh.C

Josh.C — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:57:57 +0000

@Anodyne: Well besides Whimsy, there’s the points that Star Org might have been acting on there own or the fact of the appearance of a purebred if Rei’s form is what a Purebred looks like.

If Celeste have such a close to savage and huge form when of purebred stock, would star org and the Endless find the purebred Celeste something to hide on the political theater?

Though now that I think about it and look at Jigsaw and Rei sitting side by side. I wonder if it has less about being a purebred and more about the differences and similarities the the Talmi have with this purebred?

By: Anodyne

Anodyne — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:33:11 +0000

@The_Rippy_One: Definitely like the Asari. Purebreds are Celeste/Celeste pairings – which, yes, means that they haven’t brought anything new into the genome. From what I recall, it is considered at least moderately shameful to be a purebred (roughly analogous to being a bastard child, I think). So either she’s old enough that she’s one of the original Celeste or…hm.

No, being one of the species’ founders wouldn’t really explain “tied up, wrapped in barbed wired, on a Star Org ship”. Unless it’s got something to do with the whole “whimsy” aspect, anyways.

By: The_Rippy_One

The_Rippy_One — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:29:59 +0000

So, yeah, nice character design Jigsaw. Hope you don’t regret the stripes, they’re pretty cool. I love Saw’s expression in the first panel.

Now, it’s interesting that StarOrg, which seems to be run by, and is very subservient to, Celeste, chained up a purebreed version.

Maybe it’s like Asari – being a purebred means that you haven’t added anything to the genome, so their society shames them? With criminal charges?!

By: Josh.C

Josh.C — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:01:39 +0000

@MaveriKat: Actually I decided to look up the Sphinx to get a little acquainted with the mythology behind it.

I was surprised to learn several old world cultures include a creature like the Sphinx. One could only imagine what culture Rei is based off of. But they have been depicted as anything from benevolent guardians, to evil devourers of men.