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But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.

At first, this comic was only supposed to be 2 pages, the first and the 3rd one. But i wanted to draw Ruggie making fun of Leona, so I added page 2. (and yes, I love their spelldrive uniform but GOSH the leg protections is a pain to draw!)

then the last page... don't know, i though it was funny if Vil and Leona got the same idea at the same time to make fun of Epel but didn't expect the other to do it x). It made me laugh when I wrote it.

Epel's embarassement is as the same level as calling your teacher "mom" or "dad" btw.

He was the son of a leader of a clan, and as a baby his mother and half the clan were murdered by pirates while his father was off finding provision. 

His father, stricken with grief, left his son in the care of the boy's grandmother. So he could go hunt down the Captain that took the life of his wife. Leaving his sword for his son to remember him by. 

As a child, he was playing too far away from his clan, sword in hand. When his grandmother found him it was too late. A warlord party found the both of them and kidnapped them to be slaves. The warlord stole his father's sword.  

His grandmother died as a slave. 

He spent his teen to young adult years as a slave. Until he had enough and started to push back. He ended up in a prison's pit but made some friends that allowed him to escape. Meeting a young woman who was trying to save her brother from the prisoner pit. 

They made a plan to return to the young woman's village and raise up an army to take down the warlord. On their journey to do this they made many friends who would also aid them in fighting this war. Slowly and quietly, he fell in love with the young woman. Wanting to spend his life with her. 

Many friends were lost, he was determined to get his father's sword back. 

During the final battle as the fighting raged on he watched as the warlord took the love of his life, and launched her into a wall crushing her skull, killing her. He only saw red as he leapt from the walls. Fighting the warlord and winning, retrieving his father's sword. Despite his friends' kindness and plead for him to return to the village with them he couldn't. Not without his love. 

So he became a wanderer, and he stayed a wanderer into his 30s until he stepped onto another warlord's land. He was bound and taken because he was a commoner who dared carry a weapon. The warlord's punishment was to take his father's sword and break it in half, and be thrown into a prison cell for a couple of years. And he was there for a few years.

Until he met a new friend, that helped him escape. Meeting with the old leader of the lands who was forced out and hiding. She, having a small group of allies, and more rolling in, tasked him with another journey to get more support to defeat the warlord. He willingly did it again, meeting a man that fixed his father's sword, rebuilding it with meteorite metal. 

He also happened upon a man who was once a friend of his from his original clan. He too had also been enslaved by pirates. 

After he was able to get more recruits they  journey back to their allies. 

The final battle happens and he wins but is seriously injured and goes into a coma for several weeks. When he wakes up he chooses to stay with his allies and friends this time and help them build a home for themselves in the area. 

Years go by and he's now in his 40 to 50s progress is being made to the village, our warrior traded his sword for a hammer. Wanting to create rather than destroy. 

One day a young girl comes to the village. She is kind and sings a little tune that catches his ear. A song that tells the tale of his father. He never thought to ask his friend from his clan about him. He had already passed, years of enslavement took his life early. 

So he sets out on one more quest to return to his home clan. Taking the young girl, and the friend that helped him escape with him. 

They make it to his original home, and their waiting for him was one of his father's friends. He never left hoping one day his friend’s son would return. 

He was able to tell the tale of our warrior's father. He was able to get his revenge but at the cost of his own life. 

Satisfied with this the group returns back to the village taking the older friend with him. He never tells his new home about what happened to him as a young man, but the love he lost. They wouldn't find out until generations later. 

Despite this our warriors become a hero to the village and his legacy is passed down for generation to generation. And he is still kind throughout all of it. 

And the craziest thing about this warrior's story is he's a mouse. 

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

✧✦✧ "Fragments" - episode 88 ✧✦✧

First sunset in someone's life.

You know, thinking about it in hindsight, it really is insane that back in Heavensward the Warrior of Light did in fact canonically fight all The Knights of the Round at the same time while they were powered by both eyes of Nidhogg, thousands of years of prayer, and having just drained the aether of a Unsundered Ascian and didn't just win, but mopped the floor with them so bad that Thordan freaked out and saw us as Azem.

Really should not have killed one of their closest confidants.

A mini PHM comic about Grace growing old. I wanted to explore two ideas: Rocky dealing with Grace’s dementia and Grace wanting to donate his body to science. I spend so much time on figuring out the dialogue (some part still feel clunky to me) but I hope it express my thoughts on where I think Grace’s life would go :)

they show up in court and just ask the lawyer for the collection company: can you prove where this number comes from? Do you have a contract showing that you purchased our debt? probably luckily for them, a reporter researching a book on the topic showed up and asked the same questions.

10 minutes later they get in front of the judge and the collection company drops the whole case and theyre free to go. story is below, it has a transcript in the link too

https://twitter.com/BrianManookian/status/1674963884703088642

WE HAVE NOT YET LOOKED INTO THIS.

... but holy shit it's worth pursuing if you're drowning in debt and these are your circumstances. I'll definitely be adding this to the Big List of Future BGR Topics. Here's more of our advice on debt:

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about How to Pay off Debt