oooh she looks like me. it takes a certain special skill to have your eyes and grin show up in the dark, usually good oral hygiene ( and edible glowsticks ) and a “twinkle in your eye”.
Option 1: She kills everyone
Option 2: she tells everyone the truth, thus making them lose their power
Option 3: She still has the mask on, but knows now that it is powerless, therefore tricking Keshi, and by doing so becomes -the- trickster of all time, becoming even MORE powerful than him. Or something.
Option 3: She doesn’t tell the any of the truth, and leaves them, to find MORE power.
from the last page i think she mutilated herself in order to trick the trope and possibly tricking keshi into thinking that she believed him so much that it became true.
Have you ever considered that Keshi might have told a truth, after a fashion? She did go rather mad as the reflection thing went on. Her features were indeed distorted – she was beautiful, even without the glamour. It was truly cruel for her to realize that this ‘truth’ had cost her power. Proceed unto madness. Seems like Keshi only really… rearranged the truth, to suit his need.
Depends on the trickster really. I love trickster stories. All have different motivations. Some are tricksters for fun, some for good, and others downright evil.
Just in the native American myths I can name 4 tricksters. Rabbit, Coyote, Grandmother Spider and Jaybird.
Jay was just an asshole, Spider was dark and evil, Coyote was out for selfish gain and Rabbit used his tricks to help mankind.
Take the myths about how man received fire. The eastern Creek Indians believed Rabbit stole it from the gods. The Indians of the West believed Coyote stole it from the gods. The main difference was in motivation. Most of the stories Coyote was trying to steal food from the gods’ hearth, got his tail on fire and ran home along the way setting fire to different things which man benefited by taking the fire.
Rabbit, on the other hand, felt sorry that the humans had nothing to warm them and felt the gods were selfish and stole their fire to give to humans.
Although some of the stories give Coyote the same altruistic motivations. But I like selfish Coyote better. One look at the Road Runner cartoons tells you that version rings more “true.”
I only know of one story where Coyote and Rabbit meet. They were headed to a party in which several lovely Star Women would be in attendance. Coyote was bragging to Rabbit the whole way that because of his gigantic penis he was going to have his way with all the Star Maidens and how sad it was that poor Rabbit was deficient in that area. Rabbit either casts a spell or gives Coyote a potion of some sort but the end result was Coyote went fast asleep. Rabbit then switched penises with him and had his way with all the Star Maidens. Then switched them back.
When Coyote learned of this he was furious and told Rabbit he was now going to eat him. But tricky Rabbit said, “Yes! Please kill me! I deserve it for what I did to those poor maidens! I can’t stand the guilt! Your massive penis caused them such pain! They all cried out in agony all night long.” Coyote was so impressed and proud of what his phallus had accomplished he forgot all about killing Rabbit and said, “Please tell me more about the anguish my penis caused.”
Are you familiar with Tom Siddell’s “Gunnerkigg Court”? His interpretation of Coyote is similar: most often buffoonish and selfish, but with a truly sinister dark side that occasionally shows itself, and enough power to be a very serious danger to those who fall for his clown act. One can never be sure of Coyote’s motives, and trusting in Coyote’s intentions is risky, at best. I think you’d find Siddell’s work enjoyable.
well, the path to madness didn’t seem to take very long, at least
oooh she looks like me. it takes a certain special skill to have your eyes and grin show up in the dark, usually good oral hygiene ( and edible glowsticks ) and a “twinkle in your eye”.
And just a touch of artistic license
I was going to say “At least she’s smiling,” but, somehow, I’m not finding this fact as reassuring as I might hope.
mmm
Option 1: She kills everyone
Option 2: she tells everyone the truth, thus making them lose their power
Option 3: She still has the mask on, but knows now that it is powerless, therefore tricking Keshi, and by doing so becomes -the- trickster of all time, becoming even MORE powerful than him. Or something.
Option 3: She doesn’t tell the any of the truth, and leaves them, to find MORE power.
Option 4:*
Option 5 – She’s sliced her face open with the mirror shard in an attempt to make herself ugly under the mask.
“*”?
“*” means he was correcting himself. He put two “Option 3” when the last one was ment to be “Option 4”
I vote for option 3. What a pity, I thought for a moment that she could become good after all that she was through
:facepalm: O-kay, I should have been able to figure that out. I blame my slow-wittedness on the world ending, yesterday.
Whatever her choice, whether she has potential for good or evil (or something else entirely) will still be undecided
from the last page i think she mutilated herself in order to trick the trope and possibly tricking keshi into thinking that she believed him so much that it became true.
Have you ever considered that Keshi might have told a truth, after a fashion? She did go rather mad as the reflection thing went on. Her features were indeed distorted – she was beautiful, even without the glamour. It was truly cruel for her to realize that this ‘truth’ had cost her power. Proceed unto madness. Seems like Keshi only really… rearranged the truth, to suit his need.
Like tricksters so often do. That’s why they’re soo hateful.
Depends on the trickster really. I love trickster stories. All have different motivations. Some are tricksters for fun, some for good, and others downright evil.
Just in the native American myths I can name 4 tricksters. Rabbit, Coyote, Grandmother Spider and Jaybird.
Jay was just an asshole, Spider was dark and evil, Coyote was out for selfish gain and Rabbit used his tricks to help mankind.
Take the myths about how man received fire. The eastern Creek Indians believed Rabbit stole it from the gods. The Indians of the West believed Coyote stole it from the gods. The main difference was in motivation. Most of the stories Coyote was trying to steal food from the gods’ hearth, got his tail on fire and ran home along the way setting fire to different things which man benefited by taking the fire.
Rabbit, on the other hand, felt sorry that the humans had nothing to warm them and felt the gods were selfish and stole their fire to give to humans.
Although some of the stories give Coyote the same altruistic motivations. But I like selfish Coyote better. One look at the Road Runner cartoons tells you that version rings more “true.”
I only know of one story where Coyote and Rabbit meet. They were headed to a party in which several lovely Star Women would be in attendance. Coyote was bragging to Rabbit the whole way that because of his gigantic penis he was going to have his way with all the Star Maidens and how sad it was that poor Rabbit was deficient in that area. Rabbit either casts a spell or gives Coyote a potion of some sort but the end result was Coyote went fast asleep. Rabbit then switched penises with him and had his way with all the Star Maidens. Then switched them back.
When Coyote learned of this he was furious and told Rabbit he was now going to eat him. But tricky Rabbit said, “Yes! Please kill me! I deserve it for what I did to those poor maidens! I can’t stand the guilt! Your massive penis caused them such pain! They all cried out in agony all night long.” Coyote was so impressed and proud of what his phallus had accomplished he forgot all about killing Rabbit and said, “Please tell me more about the anguish my penis caused.”
Are you familiar with Tom Siddell’s “Gunnerkigg Court”? His interpretation of Coyote is similar: most often buffoonish and selfish, but with a truly sinister dark side that occasionally shows itself, and enough power to be a very serious danger to those who fall for his clown act. One can never be sure of Coyote’s motives, and trusting in Coyote’s intentions is risky, at best. I think you’d find Siddell’s work enjoyable.
I’m thinking she tricked the trickster: She hasn’t really mutilated herself; she’s only faking it.