'Not A Villain' Webcomic - Kat is not impressed with the Tutorial.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 271

It's Kat!

The trial of the AneekaChannel continues! It even has its own page now!

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Good news Kat! EVERYONE ON YOUR TEAM IS EVIL….except you. Now don’t you feel special?

Love this comic soooo much. I kinda hope she ends up being the only good person on an evil team – it’d make for good ratings for sure.

Bobby nails it on the head: We still don’t know how Danni will handle the fiendi attack, etc…so we only know that 3 of the teammembers are arguably evil/selfish/immoral.

As much as I’m eager to see more and more and more of the Game, I am quite enjoying these “re-takes” of each teammember’s initial visit. Each time we see something new, something different; even Kat’s perspective, while a repeat of dialogue, is freshened by her awareness of the underlying code. (I also love how it’s nothing like the streaks-o-raining-characters like in the Matrix. Indeed, the few times we have seen the actual underlying code, it looks more like modern coding languages, offset paragraphs of parsed instructions.)

…I’m also tempted to start laying bets on how long it’ll take Danni to arrive, never mind get through the scenario. XD

Is it just me, or does that forest have an eyeball in hacker vision?

The way those vines are coiled, it’s possible Kleya/Kat was looking for some non-lethal way to deal with the Fiendi, like tying it up. She seems to have a self-imposed ban on attacking anything…. At least this will probably be an unusual enough solution to get her some positive viewer attention.

Or negative, since pacifists aren’t what spectators of fighting matches, adventures etc would like to see. Or at least not for long, once novelty will pass.

I don’t think that’s an eye. I think it could be the forest’s Wild Esone that the Villager talked about earlier.

woah…

Sounds like she wants to skip the tutorial.

Did I miss something?

Dialogue*

D’oh, how did I miss that one?!

Thanks for catching it! It’s been fixed 😀

I’m calling that she tries to befriend it coz it’ll be harder and be more heroic. 🙂

Kill it by hitting it with the boy!!!

That 1st panel is amazing!

My. She sounds bored! I wonder whether she will get over her hero complex later in the story. Probably or at last modify it.

How surprising that Kat isn’t surprised by the tutorial being exactly as she remembers it being scripted. Kat’s enuii is totally palpable.

Nooo! In the future, game devs still make use of the same dreaded method of making you pay attention to the story! …It’s… it’s… unskippable!

Don’t sweat the art quality too much. Remember that a lot of your readers started following this comic back when the art was a lot worse – ie not for the fancy backgrounds.

its crazy how a majority of everyone on the team is evil or borderline evil lol we dont know how Danni did and i assume that Kat is going to be GOOD. So im thinkin this team right smack dab in the middle of neutrality.

I do believe that by going this route, individually assigning alignments instead of pre-selecting it as a group, it will spike viewer interest. Particularly if Kat and Danni are “good” aligned and Bandit, Dude, and Jane are “evil” aligned, for this means that there will be constant conflict between the members of the group; they’re not acting with a premade cohesive agreement.

Danni may be self-focused upon the troubles of her own reality-situation (who wouldn’t be, if they had just this one chance to stay alive), but I don’t think of her as selfish. She doesn’t want Kat to lose viewers by defending her, after all, even if the negative crowd comments harms herself. Kat is *trying* to be a good person, and Danni most likely *is* a good person.

I think the Dude is someone who wants to be good, or at least who thinks of himself as good at heart (he’s opposed to the thought of whoever Kleya was called originally, whom he sees as an evil murder of thousands, which would in his mind make himself The Good Guy)…but he is at the same time someone who doesn’t really THINK about his actions and the appearances & consequences thereof. In taking the expedient route–stealing the card, which he believes has the greatest value to his situation–instead of just accepting whatever is bestowed upon him by the people he helped, he’s torpedoing his own “Good Guy” standing. But he’s not thinking about that.

The Bandit’s morality is fairly clear; he doesn’t play by the rules and he knows and accepts this. He knows who he is and what he wants to do; his actions and motives have many layers, but he’s comfortable with all of them. Between the Dude and the Bandit, I’d say the Bandit is the more mature of the two simply because of this comfort zone.

Jane’s morality…I think is more staged than anything; she has a touch of goodness in her in that she sympathized with the kid and didn’t want to traumatize him with the death of his mum…despite him being an NPC…but I think she was also willing to slay simply because they’re NPCs. They’re not real people. She has real-world children, and by shoving the boy’s hat down over his eyes, it’s clear she would do anything to save her own children from the horrors of the world, if she could…which makes me think that breaking TENka’s stranglehold on the remaining tech is vital to her situation somehow, that if she can help rebuild enough of the world through non-TENka means, then she and her family can be rescued to a city. She clearly sees TENka as the enemy, but as everyone else views them as heroes, she has to be the villain. (That, and I’m sure she’s uber-stressed as an Outsider with kids.)

@Jean – I like your logic. Interesting read.

I’m loving being able to see your improvement in drawing every page, this one is especially pretty for some reason…

Mhmm, backgrounds can be a chore. But you’re doing well, keep at it! 😀

Easy to kill, but Kleya is trying to be nonviolent…

TAME IT, KAT! HAVE A FIENDI SIDEKICK!

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 271