We’ve wasted 24601 pages on this subplot
I feel like the holiday break between the last page and this one maybe makes the first panel here incomprehensible, but it’ll make sense in the archive.
Saffron and Sage
A spice of life adventure comic
I feel like the holiday break between the last page and this one maybe makes the first panel here incomprehensible, but it’ll make sense in the archive.
Lady, listen to Foxy.
Plan B really sounds like the sort of thing Faunus would respect, honestly.
Dude’s all about strength and lifting, and (originally) was totally in to Saffron because she’s the sort of person who can use a giant pole-axe as a one-handed throwing weapon. Comparing a freshly cleaned and nice smelling Saffron to a slightly dented, sweaty, fresh from a battle Saffron, he’d choose the second option.
Faunus’ dad is the one who built a kingdom by bodybuilding. I don’t think it’s been explicitly stated that the prince himself has any particular ambition aside from clearly working out himself (Milk mentioned “an ass you can shatpen a pencil in”) and he seems to be maybe a bit of a himbo. Though he clearly does have the hots for Saffron and that could very well have to do with her being buff and strong. It could also be because she’s a noble and loyal knight who’s also a deadly walking murder machine. Possibly all of the above. That being said, yeah, I agree that straight up kicking wholesale ass would work to get his attention.
Also, just a nitpick, Saffron’s signature weapon is not a poleaxe. Pileaxes are multipurpose weapons typically featuring a hammer or spike balancing the blade and a long pointed blade extending spear-like from the tip. Saffron’s weapon is just a stylized single bladed great axe.
So the French Revolution was apparently just the actual French Revolution. I’m still wondering what that had to do with fashion and suspect we’ll be left wondering in a noodle incident sort of way.
And of course Saffron knows how to deal with bloodstains. While it does augment her look quite nicely, that big fuckall ace she totes around isn’t meant as a fashion accessory.
I don’t know what my phone’s stupid autocorrect thinks a “big fuckall ace” is, but I clearly meant axe.
It’s a giant axe. On a pole. And she keeps throwing it at people.
A poleaxe is a specific thing, not just any axe head mounted on a pole. Just like a pineapple is not the apple of a pine tree.
Saffron’s signature weapon is like a fantasy cross between a lochaber axe and a broad axe.
The June Revolt? Someone cheaped out on her French Revolution. (Wait, “say do you hear the distant drums” is only in the reprise… so they’re about a year late.)