Hi Yubria, I love the comic, your art is amazing and I love the story and the characters 🤩
I have some questions, I hope it’s ok to ask and they are not spoilers …
Huvrye is getting a newspaper at the beginning of the comic, is this a censored special edition newspaper only meant for the military base and the humunculi?
Does he buy the newspaper? Do the huminculi get some sort of salary?
Are all the media in Lasardhi censored?
If the newspaper is not censored, wouldn’t the homunculi notice what is going on in the world outside of the military base, and their status as non persons?
I saw a “destroy body” note on Lennis’ clipboard. Since the humunculi are considered by the Lasardhi to be biological appliances / robots, and if they are not killed on the battlefield, would they be recycled after reaching a certain age? Would the humunculi know this? Would the Naabs know and would they be complicit in the “recycling”? As doctors they must also know / realise Endonians are murdered in order to make constructs?
When visiting the director, the clothing people are wearing, the cars, the planes etc look like the 1950 / 1960 to me.
Are these things produced in Lasardhi? Or did the Lazardhi steal / purchase these things from humans?
According to Irish folklore, the faerie went to live “inside the hills” (through a portal?) in order to get away from humans. Did they end up in Lasardhi and the other fairy city states?
Keep up the great work! ♥️
Thank you so much, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it!!
All of the media is Lasardhi is heavily censored & propagandized, both for the homunculi and civilians. Some things might get censored more for one group than for the other, though, so yes, the homunculi have a slightly different version of the paper than a civilian would (mostly changing lifestyle/entertainment/etc. type stuff, since homunculi only have access to whatever happens on base).
The homunculi do get a small allowance for "fun" stuff, but what they can spend it on is pretty tightly controlled. They don't get any money aside from that, and have to rely on what the base gives them for food/housing/clothing/etc.
As far as the "destroy body" note goes- a lot of the alchemical symbols in this world refer to a relatively vague concept/thing/function, and sorta rely on the alchemist's mind to direct it to a specific intent. More like a note to remind you of something than detailed step-by-step instructions. So the "destroy body" actually means "destroy some specific part of the body" (like a part that is badly damaged and needs to be removed before the rest can be healed), the specifics being up to the alchemist who casts it.
Homunculi are usually recycled when they're dead or almost dead* although it can be used as a punishment in some cases (then it's treated like an execution, because that's effectively what it is). I don't think homunculi are like, officially told about it, but most everyone kinda knows that it happens anyways, including the Naabs. Exactly what the Naabs know about and are complicit in is going to come up in the comic Soon™ so I don't want to get into that here.
Everything is referenced from the 1940s, give or take a few decades depending on what I feel like drawing when I do the concept art.
Lasardhi is mostly self-sufficient at this point, and outside of like, eldritch abominations, the fairies are the only sapient race in this world**.
*Dead due to injuries. Fairies have long lifespans, and homunculi were invented recently enough that none of them are old enough to be "old" much less die of old age, so nobody currently knows what their lifespan is. (If you want the answer though- it's really long, even by in-universe standards. The high-quality homunculi like Huvrye are biologically immortal.)
**although technically there's no reason there couldn't be intelligent life on other planets. Functionally it's the same either way, since only the eldritch abominations can do space travel. (they space travel via portals, which isn't an option for people. we'll get into the limits of portal travel Soon™ I think.)
