I was expecting Gil to stay Sparky-protective, but no. Once again he sees Tarvek and drops straight out of fugue. Tarvek, for the sake of Gil and everyone around him, please don’t get kidnapped again.
I had to read that panel twice to confirm that yes, that was Gil speaking.
Also this only reinforces my belief that Tarvek has an anchoring effect on Gil’s mental state (which might be because he’s one of the few people Gil knows from before Breaking Through).
That really could be the case.
Thinking about it, even though Gil usually seems like the Protector, “Tarvek is safety” would be a perfectly reasonable belief to carry forward from a time when Tarvek’s status was warding off bullies.
everybody is yelling about gil and tarvek napping together when honestly the Tender Detail that got to me about this page is the panel with gil taking his glasses off for him…that’s so intimate, what the hell
Being Gil, he also smudged them.
Tarvek will find the thick fingerprints marks when he wakes up. He’ll roll his eyes, and also feel weirdly touched for some reason.
This is so unmistakably the pose of someone who has never had to wear any kind of prescription glasses at any point in his life. The guy must be a nightmare on his own safety goggles though.
Everybody who sees this should add their own. Here are mine:
– Made a very effective shrinking device and got lost in the master bedroom for two years fighting gargantuan mimmoths and nyar spiders. – Went for a walk in the market in disguise (like you do), then got distracted by a blacksmith, fell in love, came back five years later expecting their seat to have been kept warm for them. And it was. – Messed with time, went BACK in time a short period, avoided past self but due to flightiness continued avoidance for seven months after instigating incident. Free space: We already know about the guy who stayed underground longer than necessary because he liked bat sandwiches.
Sturmvoraus, fuck off. And by ‘fuck off’ I mean ‘fuck off right back here and listen, you insufferable prick’.
“Vell, HY vasn’t no readhead! …Hy tink.” “Hyu betch hyu vas. Hyu effen still heff freckles, dey iz just maroon now!” “Eh… Hy dunno.” “My mama vas from vay out east, sveetie – iz not from me.” “Ya, vell…she iz gettink hyu’s schtupid nose.” ”Hyu still haff de same nose!”
I can only think this would be a real discussion for like three seconds, then both parties would recognize its innate hilarity and bring it back up in public whenever possible.
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