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The apocalypse has come and gone, and against all odds, Pharloom remains standing. The time has come for Hornet to return to Hallownest, accompanied by friends and allies: Shakra hopes to explore the mythical land beyond the wastes, and properly lay to rest a member of her own tribe; Lace fears unraveling without the aid of a Weaver, while contending with the immensity of a future free of her mother’s threads; and the Green Prince lives only only to spite the Citadel, passively seeking a more honorable end than might be found in the rubble of his homeland.
Meanwhile, Hornet returns from Pharloom with magic and knowledge that might aid in the slow recovery of Hallownest and Deepnest–and perhaps offer the chance to call home the sibling she once thought lost to her forever.
Chapter 10: Loathe the Way They Light Candles in Rome (But Love the Sweet Air of the Votives)
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Hurt and grieve but don't suffer alone
Engage with the pain as a motive
Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths
Time for the Deepnest field trip! First stop, the Distant Village, and the last of Hornet's many homecomings. Very little has changed in Hornet's absence, and yet everything is different now.
Also, Shakra left the party because she can't see in the dark like Hornet (and apparently Lace) can, and needs to go buy a Lumafly lantern. Hope she's been saving up her Geo! (At least the inflation isn't nearly as bad as Pharloom...)
This chapter fought me every step of the way. It's probably the first time this entire comic where I've walked away unsatisfied with every single page. The most important thing, though, is that it's done and I think that I've hit on every plot beat and piece of characterization I set out to do.
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Transcript:
Page 1
Midwife: Oh ho ho ho! Familiar tremors grace the threads of our nest.
Hornet: You look well, Midwife.
Midwife: Ever considerate, dear princess. Deepnest limps along, but Dola and I sleep with bellies full... and so have little room for complaint.
Midwife: However... I wouldn't dream of rejecting such tender morsels so generously gifted-- ACK!!
Midwife: Heehee! I see your journey has taught you no new respect for your elders. Delightful. Go on then. Best not keep your mother waiting.
Page 2
Shakra: Ah. A humble shrine that tells tale of a ruler still esteemed. Will you not speak her to life?
Hornet: I have little skill as a weaver of words.
Hornet: ...
Hornet: .... There was a plague. A horrible, desperate play by a goddess scorned, whose festering light fouled soul and shell 'til all was ruin and rot.
Hornet: .... There was a plan. A horrible, desperate play by a god-king damned, whose vain hope saw him gamble fate to spare a realm beloved.
Page 3
Hornet: He fashioned a trap: A vessel of void fit to bind that blinding light...
Lace: !!!
Hornet: An enchantment sealed thrice:
Hornet: "To protect the Vessel, the Dreamers lay sleeping."
Hornet: Monomon the Teacher. Lurien the Watcher. And Queen Herrah the Beast. My... my mother.
Lace: Foolishness. To think any binding could hold true against a goddess's wrath.
Hornet: Indeed. Ultimately, the king's plan proved folly...
Hornet: ... and did naught but slow the inevitable collapse. But... I believe my mother suspect that end, and took up the charge regardless.
Lace: Why!? Why knowingly resign herself to death in a failed god's name? What could she possibly stand to...
Lace: ...gain?
Lace: ....
Lace: ...Ah.
Lace: Ahahaha! Of course.
Page 4
Hornet: My mother bargained not for the eternity promised, but for time enough.
Hornet: Time enough under protection of Wyrm and guidance of Root.
Hornet: Time enough to hone my needle against greater threats to come.
Lace: She bore a weapon, a slayer of gods.
Hornet: She bore a daughter... My god-slaying was incidental. Her only wish was that I live... fully and freely.
Lace: How... magnanimous.
Hornet: How wise.
Hornet: Queen Herrah was no deity, no scholar, no priest.
Hornet: A beast they named her, yet she alone triumphed against both gods and fate. Though she did not live to see her wish fulfilled... my mother won.
Page 5
Shakra: Have you any words to tell her?
Hornet: For what reason? She is not here.
Shakra: Poshanka! Then let our song-sending carry your message to wherever her spirit hunts free.
Hornet: ....
Hornet [thoughts]: Mother... Rest well. Rest proud. I sought the hope you saw beyond... and it has brought me home at last.
Page 6
Hornet: Thank you, dear friend. Your company helped ease my grief for a time.
Shakra: You honored me with your request. But I must take my leave. I am... ill-equipped to traverse these tunnels at present.
Shakra: I will seek supplies before attempting to further navigate.
Hornet: Be well. though doubtless our paths will cross again soon... I have business yet to attend.
Hornet: ....
Lace: ....
Hornet: Are you coming, child?
Lace: ....
Lace: ...Tell me, spider.
Lace: What is it like, to be so wanted? To be so... cherished?
Hornet: ....
Hornet: ...Lonely.
Some of you act like doing minor inconvenient acts of kindness is equivalent to donating a kidney as if it’s not those acts that form our communities and make the world go around.
Return your grocery cart. If you’re able-bodied offer your seat to someone who is not. Help your friend move. Drive your sister to the airport. Make sure drunk people have a safe ride or walk home. Pet-sit for your coworker. Participate in a meal train. Volunteer in your area. That’s what friendship and community is about.
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I think basically it would be really pleasant to find a bug type pokemon, like, a Wurmple, eating up your garden and say hey excuse me, these plants are really important to me and I would prefer you didn't eat them, do you want to come with me to the garden center and we can pick out something just for you? And you'd offer your hand and it would sniff and go wurm wurm! And crawl up onto your shoulder and you'd look at plants together and then when you go to the checkout a lady says you and your partner Wurmple make quite a cute pair and you start to say oh I don't really know this Wurmple we just met today and then you and the Wurmple look at each other and decide you both had a lot of fun together and that it would love to be your friend.
And then basically just this happens with different puppies and kitties and teacups and stuff like every few days.
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Kris being the only human in a monster town as a queer (specifically trans) allegory makes very little sense considering that not only are there other trans people in town (the transfem waitress with a lions mane) but they're not even the only trans person in their class (monster kid is also nonbinary). I obviously don't know the guy but if this was the message Toby fox was going for i think itd really undermine his queer isolation metaphor by surrounding them with other queer people who are treated casually like its not an issue
"Only human in a monster town" is clearly supposed to represent them being a poc and/or foreigner in a predominantly white/monocultural neighbourhood and a transracial adoptee. Like they literally used to wear fake horns to make themself look like their adoptive family. But the average utdr fan is a white lgbt who is incapable of recognising marginalisation that's not focused on queerness and whose understanding of adoption is "found family trope"
stockholm syndrome doesn't exist, except for when you start liking some of the songs that play on your work radio that you would never put in your casual playlists
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