‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 396

Not a fun topic for Kat. Also, should be obvious who that certain Erbana player is, right? Right?

Well, if not, NPC+10s can ask me about it during the May Hangout tonight (Friday, May 15th).

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Well, that confirms that yes, Kat’s father was a major manipulator. And apparently, he really liked to annoy his wife.

omg, you know I thought from the pages this week that we were going to hear something about Kat’s father. However, it was so off-the-wall that I dismissed the idea.

So, I was still suprised.

Good job Aneeka 😀

As someone who is married, are there any husbands who don’t like to annoy their wives?

Well, I like to tease my girlfriend every now and then, because her reactions are so cute when I do it. And sometimes a running-gag evolves and I only need to say a single word to get the most splendid reactions. 😀

But it’s all in good fun and she’s teasing me back, too. ^^

All husbands I know like to do some things that slightly irritate or annoy their wives. “Irritate” and “annoy” seem too strong for the ones that have long and happy marriages, though. Each one knows just how far to take things before his wife gets actually annoyed with him. They keep it all fun for them both.

Mind. Blown.

Looks like its time to re-read the comic to see all the forshadowing ^_-

I know I might. 😀

Here goes the obvious Star Wars reference: I’m your father, Kat. 🙂

Wait, he wanted to make 1/3 of his forest into tree-turned characters? So he doesn’t actually transform the characters into new trees, but moves them into existing trees instead?

I think more like expanding the existing forest?

Could be, but then I would’ve expected Bandit to have said “make 1/3 of his forest from tree-turned characters”.

No, look, if he makes a tree-character for every 2 natural trees the forest had at the beginning, then he will have effectively made 1/3 of his forest into tree-turned characters. This, in effect, means he is making a tree-turned character forest that is half the size of his regular one.

Also Aneeka,

So what is the NPC+10 meeting? Is that the donator meeting I heard you been doing? ?-?

Do you think you ever might add the topwebcomics to the webpage like on a sidebar? It would make voting for you comic easier ^_^;

Also you still at number #5 in the charts 😀

(P.S. Sorry I been so busy for so long that I only just finished reading through all the pages I missed tonight. I started back from the beginning just so I could read, it as on larger story. ^_- )

Sincerly,

neoshadow aka n30sh4d0w aka dusky ;D

There’s a topwebcomics link on the left side.

Yes, this is the donator meeting mentioned on the AneekaChannel.

Personally I’d find it really nice if there could be a few meetings where everyone could attend to. Maybe just 2-3 per year or something. I mean, when I look at twitch and younow I predict that this would attract quite a bunch of new readers.

It would be nice to do an all fan meeting though I do feel like I have been a thing where Aneeka stream before. 😀 It was like the first or second one. If Aneeka did do it would be cool if it would be more than just donators and a few people like me, Alex.

As for twitch and youtube well… honestly… it has been kind of amazing to see how popular this comic has become eventhough there is no deviantart, facebook, twitch.tv (public), or even public younow page. 🙂

Honestly, I think it’s a testament to how dedicated her fanbase is and how good the storyline is!!

Wow, that’s impressive. Now I see why Aneeka said she has a few things in common with each of her characters, because this is totally like Kat. 😀 Though Kat is more extreme, because Kat ignores E-Mails and deletes some of them unread.

Haha, Kat doesn’t do social media cause she’s paranoid (and with good reason!). I don’t do it mainly cause a) wouldn’t know what to do with it; b) causes anxiety whenever I try to do it (I’m a lurker, not a talker); c) kind of now a pride thing to be doing well without it.

Just goes to show that the popular route isn’t the “only” route. I say to focus and play to your strengths instead (and social media is definitely not a strength of mine).

Also, I would have no idea what to say during a mass fan meeting. 😯

Oh I didn’t read this until now. 🙂 I understand what you mean, because I’m like that, too. I just thought that since you’re already doing a monthly Google Hangout, maybe you could do 2-3 per year for everybody?

As for knowing what to say at mass fan meetings: Well, what are you saying during conventions? 😉

I always expected Kleya’s dad to be a morto, but I guess mani makes more sense. Also why do I get the feeling that the Dude was about to say “Kat’s dad”? If the Dude does not blurt out Kleya’s identity, then the Bandit’s sideways glances sure will.

Lol, those sideways glances are hilarious. Actually bandit does that alot more than you would think re-reading the past comics. I think its like his poker tell. 🙂

I think that the only one’s who don’t know or at least suspect at Kat’s real identity is Danni Morretti and Sandra/Paddy.

Also who else thinks that the ai or person running the character for Danni’s father will be someone we have met before?

Ohhhh, interesting facts are revealed! Very exciting! 😀

Also, a question: I’m not an English native speaker, but the Bandit’s description sounds someway the wrong way round. Shouldn’t it be “… he aimed to make a third of his forests OF the tree-turned characters”? The “into” sounds as if he was turning trees into characters, not characters into trees.

The “into” works. It just makes it sound like the forest already exists and he is converting existing trees into trees that have players in it.

The way it’s phrased does leave it a bit unclear how exactly this special works. Which I’m betting was deliberate. Aneeka seems to love being cryptic. Personally, I think she’s secretly a Vorlon. 😉

Anyway, the way I read it is that Iemis started with a forest of trees that were just trees, and that as he turned characters into trees they somehow took the place of the pre-existing trees. My guess would be that either the character trees replaced the pre-existing trees, or that the special combines a character with a tree.

I read that as “secretly Voltron” at first.

Rereading your comment, now I’m disappointed. :-/

How about some Voltron Volorn?

http://gaspull.geeksaresexytech.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/voltron.jpg

Volorn. n. Someone who speaks nonsense or in riddles. Something that is characterised by a habit of speaking in riddles or nonsensical phrases. Popularized by Babelyon 5.

Of and into in this case are interchangeable. While of would be proper grammar and what you would have been taught, into is more commonly spoken in conversation.

eh? I don’t think they are completely interchangable. Of tends to be more object-related than person-related. than other prepositions.

It should be “from” since characters are “”real people”” in these sense of sentience, not just avatars. (Well at least that what it feels like the author is going for here). “Of” is strictly for objects. By not using “of” you emphasize the human-ness of the objects and thus emphasizing the need for the reader to make a moral judgment.

Technically though “into” work as well.

“you know who”… he who must not be named. 😀

In a strange twist, Lord Voldemort himself plays the Game to unwind after a long day of trying to murder Harry Potter and likes to turn people into trees. Who knew? It’s not the only game he plays too. He’s also a big fan of pwning newbs in counter strike.

He’s also gets out of cells and killing the guards by sing “Marry Had a Little Lamb” as an evil magic chant. ^_-

Read more at: http://hpmor.com/

Haha, your name is relevant.

It is?

I wonder if Kat will stay true to Erbana or if she’ll trv for a little vengeance. If she doesn’t kill Iemis, there might be other ways to be spiteful, but none of them would be very heroic. I guess she could wander off to gather some plants while Bloody Mar… um, I mean… Jane does what she does best.

There’s a simple way to stay Erbana, but it’ll *really* annoy Jane…

…Set up a Special that’s the counterspell to the turn-to-tree Special. Seems more like Kleya’s style anyways, considering she prefers winning by whatever loopholes exist, not by being the most powerful.

All of a sudden, 1/8th of a forest for Jane to deal with to get her 90% Morto.

Killaini and Alexander 1st,

You know that Erabana’s are probably less peaceful then they seem.
Think about it…..

1) Erbana always reminded me of the word, “Erebus”. In Greek Mythology, Erebus was primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness; for instance, Hesiod’s Theogony identifies him as one of the first five beings in existence, born of Chaos. Erebus is used to describe the place that souls pass through immediately after dying. I don’t know about you, but the word Erbana never really sounded like sun shine and rainbows, but has always struck me as a dark form of pacifism.

There are also plenty of Erbana-isk characters, who duked it out without actually killing their opponents or letting anyone else get killed.
2) Goku in Dragon Ball becomes an example of an Erbana towards the end of the series. While he loves fighting and training to become stronger, he doesn’t kill his opponent if he can help it, giving even his worst enemies a last-second chance. throughout Dragon Ball Z, he is directly responsible for the deaths of only two villains: Yakon, who blew up after gorging himself on too much of Goku’s energy, and Buu, the series’ final Big Bad. And he even wished for Buu to reincarnate as a good being.
3) Monkey D. Luffy is an Erbana. Whenever someone decides to mess with anything that he cares about, they’re on the wrong side of battle half of the time, and end up losing anyway for 45% of what’s left. They never die, however, because Luffy feels that leaving them alive, forcing them to watch their dreams crumble around them, is a fate worse than death. In this sense, Erabana’s can more evil and sinister then Morto (Kind of Mani also in a sense, but you get the idea)
4) In the original comics and tv show, Optimus Prime has been an Erabana or close to it. This slightly unrealistic for a military commander with hundreds of millennia of experience. More accurately, it is unrealistic that a technical pacifist would survive military command that long, though he might certainly want to be a technical pacifist after so much death and combat. In the recent movies and comics, though Prime kills people all the time.
5) The Terminator in Terminator 2 is an Erabana ordered not to kill by a young John Connor. Instead, he shoots people in the kneecaps, saying, “He’ll live.” The Terminator is Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is also an Erabana. There is even a shootout where lots of cars are blown but no one dies, even though we never see anyone ordering him not to kill.
6) The incredible Hulk is an Erabana in World War Hulk. Notably shown in World War Hulk: X-Men, where while trying to capture Professor X, he brutally disabled virtually every active X-man and woman one after another, taking full advantage of their healing factors and Nigh-Invulnerability. While he didn’t kill any of them, he didn’t have a problem crippling them.
7) Jackie Chan was an Erbana. Especially in, Jackie Chan Adventures, He does not fight for the sake of fighting, and he clearly points this out, despite the fact that he is obviously a bad*ss at doing it. He states that he will resort to fighting only when there is no other alternative. Of course since one of the points of the show is to show off Jackie’s bad*ssery of the martial arts, this typically means every episode. But still, he usually fights only when threatened and only enough to prevent the villains from actually doing anything bad.

*sigh* You just listed Technical Pacifists, martial pacifists and thou shall not kill.

I think the group being villain they are afraid she will be an obstructionist pacifist.

But I’m sure she will be a bad*ss pacifist.

Here’s Tv tropes to understand the tropes better.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pacifist

Batman is the most famous Erbana of them all. He kicks a** all the time but doesn’t kill people.
Examples:
https://youtu.be/seBpXt8_6xs?t=1m10s (
http://goo.gl/xVGi2T
http://www.toplessrobot.com/batmanftw.jpg (Despite Superman’s infinite powers, Batman actually defeats Superman — until he throws the fight, stopping his own heart, faking his own death, and living to fight another day, still in the shadows)
In the Robin comic book, while the Robin is training with a super secret paramilitary soldiers, one of the members asks why he and Batman don’t use guns. Robin replies that, unlike the cops and the military, Batman and Robin can’t appear in a court of law to justify it if they end up killing someone, and they don’t have any official authority, so they don’t use lethal force.

So clearly soon as an Erbana Kat will transform into “BATKAT: The Dark Knight!”
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu0bc3nd8X1qbujox.jpg

Batman isn’t a pacifist the trope that fits him is Doesn’t like guns.

Kat might want to work on her poker face. She’s got some of the biggest tells ever.

Actually … what has been interesting is she really used to have a good poker face, but as the comic has progressed she has open up alot more and we see a bit more of the face expression.

What is more interesting if Kat realizes that she is subconciously showing more emotion than during the first arc of this comic. What?

I wonder now…is it possible the AI that controls Kleya’s dad’s avatar is D, hence why it no longer casts that spell?

My thoughts exactly, but hmm… you think the Kat might for D to “not give her special treatment”

From earlier hints we’ve been given, I strongly suspect Kat’s father is still alive, just not normally connected to the networks. There seems to be assumption of risk involved, and the risk most TENka employees seem to fear is the Virus (a.k.a. D) so I guess everyone assumes that if Kat’s father logged in, D would get him. On the other hand, I can really see that Kat may be worried that he WILL log in if she’s in his old stomping grounds, or that there will be other tricks and traps she’ll have to avoid to keep from alerting him to her presence. And all this worrying on her part is going to make it that much harder for her to keep her identity hidden.

I also think it’s stretching coincidence that TENka has just randomly decided to drop this group into Iemis’ stronghold as their starting point. Perhaps Jake hasn’t been as successful at convincing Dr. Grace that Kat/Kleya isn’t “her” after all…. Either that or they’re trying especially hard to annoy or get rid of Kat, since this area was designed to annoy an Erbana player.

Succinctly put. Dr. Grace should hold his cards a little closer–he may be upping the ante a little too fast. But maybe that was his mistake the last time.

Well said!

I feel like we might have even seen Kat’s father alive before. However, I could be getting character’s mixed up.

However, there have been alot of hints that one of Kat’s parents is still alive.
At first, I honestly thought it was the mother, but actually the father would make more sense.

I also think Dr. Grace still suspects Kat especially considering what that lady asked about Kat when the server was shut down.

I also always get this feeling that one day some strange fragment of humanity that escaped from the apocalypse because they were in space is going to get involved in the story somehow. Like a space city.

It could also be something a lot less malicious. Maybe Dr. Grace (or whomever was in charge of placing the group) just thought that it’d be more interesting to drop the first Erbana they’ve had in a while into Isola.

The Game is, after all, and entertainment piece. This placement doesn’t have to be part of the conspiracy.

IT could be both, killing two birds with one stone so to speak after all.

Wait, if he wants 1/3 of the forest to be trees made from people then, what is the other two third made from….

oh g-d… O-O O-O;

Aneeka! Kat’s father is a sick b**tard!

Umm…trees? What else would they be made of?

I thought Kat alluded to her dad being alive and not wanting to be caught by him?

I still think Dr. Grace is her dad.

I would really love to see an anime of this series

Yes! We just beat Mare Internum. Keep voting, people.

Not A Villain Webcomic

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

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