One Foot in the Fade commentary, pt4, spoilers
The interrogation 😮😮 I am in love with Khay, I need fanart of her immediately. Please step on me ma'am. 😳 She might actually be my second favorite character
"Close your eyes," I said. She did, and I blew a puff of air over her face to clear the dust away.
"Thanks," she whispered. "I'm really, really glad it wasn't the other kind of waste."
She opened her eyes. Only inches away.
"You all right?" I asked.
"I think so. How does it look?"
"Not like it'll kill ya."
"What a shame. You almost got yourself out of this mess at the last second." She gave a little smirk. "Weird to see your face this close. I'm used to staring at the back of your head."
I tried on a smirk myself. "That's my better angle anyway."
She laughed, and her big eyes gave that owl a run for its money.
"This side ain't so bad."
She stared at me for a while to watch the words sink in, then shook the dirt from her shoulders. Once she'd emptied the debris from her hood and pulled it back over her head, she tapped the side of my body like I was a horse she was coaxing into a canter.
"Up you pop. Your hard head can handle more hits than mine."
OH MY GOD THEY LOVE EACH OTHER. Fetch and Khay are qpp and no I will not be taking questions. It's going to end horribly and it doesn't matter that I know that I'm still not going to be ready
So much of this is a dnd campaign and I *love* it
General shout out again to the world building and the setting description and just... it's intense and amazing
Genuinely you could turn this into a D&D campaign. I bet he has notes and notes and notes on all of this. Probably just pages upon pages, because he is such a fucking nerd (affectionate)
After listening to it for so long,I think that Khay is the most soothing relaxing voice that he does and I love it to death. It might be my second favorite voice. Fetch is obviously the first favorite
Can we just go back to when I was fantasizing about Fetch between a werewolf and a genie instead of where we are climbing up the trash chute?
Lmao that's not the type of "man for hire sandwich" I was thinking of
Poor Fetch once again getting triggered as fuck by faerie corpses
Oh shit bro we got a whole damn pool of magic
Oh shit bro the plot it do be thickening
This just in Fetch is fighting The Rancor aka the Minotaur
The amount of action/fight blocking he has done in this book is really intense. They're easy to follow, which is harder than you think to write, to make something make sense and be easy to visualize with that many movements. Also narrated fantastically as always
Fetch having some gay thoughts in the middle of this fight about how alike he and Niles are 👀
It's making me Feelings that he's thinking about all of his different friends in the middle of this fight okay. And that all of their advice that he remembers is what helps him win 😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺
Thesis of this one is that you shouldn't try to fight alone 😭😭😭😭
The bit about Theo his latest mentor??? oh my God he's in love with that wolf. also that was a hell of a boss fight, that was a whopper of a fucking boss fight. Stunning work
Fetch literally falls in love with everyone he meets 🐶
Ahah! I knew the Bridge has something to do with this!
"I have full faith in Khay so I'm not listening to anything they're saying like Khay is my love and of course she only has good intentions and I would do anything for her" --Fetch probably
Jesus Christ this man was in a car accident, survived the first time by the skin of his teeth and was immediately like, "okay let's do that again that was fine." Literally the most dangerous thing ever. He may be thinking himself a little invincible after slaying a Minotaur though
We only stopped when we had to. No roadside taverns. No camps. We napped in the car until I'd rested enough to drive on, then we just kept going. We didn't have a lot to say to each other. No new stories to tell. We'd shared all our most recent memories, and they were still so overwhelming that I couldn't think about anything else.
At first, I worried about the silence. I thought she might be nervous or angry at me. Or bored - which would be worse - like I'd served my purpose. But then she'd comment on the sunset or point excitedly at some wildlife by the side of the road, or just look over and smile, and I'd relax. Relax more than I had in front of anyone in a long time. That's the mark of real friendship, I think: to be the person you are when you're alone, but in front of someone else. Just as free. Just as messy. The kind of friend where you don't have to stress over every little thing you say, because one little fuck-up in front of them won't make them think any worse of you. A single impressive act won't alter things either, because they've seen enough of your failings not to put you on a pedestal. They know you. The "you" beneath the bullshit. For better or worse, you can't impress or disgust them, you can't fool them or delude them, so you have no choice but to drop the act and enjoy the company. I was enjoying it so much that I felt sad when I saw a distant black shape at the end of the road.
Im fuckin crying bro this could be so terrible this is about to end badly
He's crying and so I'm crying
They're have a hooting and hollering good time but all I can hear is Georgio's silence
Khay and Eileen both confirmed bi
"What... what do you...? Why?"
"I agreed to help you help people. That's what you said you wanted to do. Some good, remember? This is not good."
I felt small. Flashbacks to being a kid with scraped knees and rips in my new school uniform, or a hungover teenager returning my adopted father's broken bike; the same shame, and the same panicked desperation to make things right.
"Georgio, this is what we were working towards. Khay can help people now. Really help them." He kept his eyes down, shaking his head. "We went out there to make things better."
"You went to WAR!" He was shaking. I'd never seen him this angry. Hell, I'd barely seen him frustrated. "You left your home to go and murder," he continued, his voice hushed to a chillingly measured tone. "You left your home to steal. You lost a good man and you killed a creature, the likes of which we may never see again."
"I know... I know, but if this works then it will be worth-"
"Nothing is worth this! Nothing. It will only bring more death. This started with death, don't you remember? Your friend." The image of Benjamin's smiling face forced its way into my mind. "There is so much death already, and you only want to make more. I will not help you do that."
My chest burned. I felt like I was about to cry, but I smothered it. If the first sob escaped my lips, a tidal wave would follow. I choked it down. Squashed it. Spoke clear.
"I'm doing what needs to be done, Georgio. I can't just sit back and let the world die. You might enjoy making people breakfast while the world burns, but I'm actually trying to make a difference. I'm sorry you don't want to be a part of that."
It was my cue to storm out, but I missed it. I guess I wanted him to say something else. To start shouting again. To smack some sense into me. Anything but to let me leave.
Oh my fucking god, from where Giorgio and Fetch started and how fucking funny and wholesome it was in Last Smile to this breakup... dude I am inconsolable. also this is the Black Sails finale again "you went to war it's just death and death and death" I can hear Silver
This is going to make me SICK. I knew it was coming from the very beginning but I let myself forget. And I'm gonna LOSE IT
oh no babe ur moving like an herbivore
SIMMS! I love her so much, I love Luke’s lizard voice
"you're under arrest for accessory to murder"
Love when Fetch gets fucked up by hot women, especially cat ones
this masochist with the electroplay lmao
loveloveloveeee listening to him *snarl* as Fetch, GOD IT’S SEXY
his voice is getting low and sad and it’s hurting me :(((((( :(((((( :(((((
im UPSET IM UPSETTTT IM NOT HAPPY ABOUT THIS
THIS IS HATEFUL IM HAVING A BAD TIME
“I’d sure as hell tried, hadn’t I?" MOTHERFUCKING LAST SMILE FIRST LINES REPRISE I FUCKIN YELLLINGGGGG
reiterating that guns were a MISTAKE
her voice is still so soothing. this might be the worst, most painful thing Luke’s ever done to me and I read DMIAD okay
WAS THAT A PROPHECY OR A FLASHBACK?? WHAT DOES IT MEAN??
also I keep having to watch Fetch kill ppl he loves and I’m SICK
Okay okay she did it herself. Not much better but not as bad as him having to stab her 🙃🙃🙃
I can hear in Luke’s voice that he is actually tearing up during this part and it is ripping my heart out
Holding her as she fades away... Finally getting to touch skin. This is laser targeted at me
said it before, will say it again, top tier vocal performance
OH THANK FUCK GEORGIO, I WAS HURTING. I’m still hurting but he walked it back
oh my god food as a love language I am FUCKING BAWLING
WHAT A FUCKING ROLLERCOASTER
I am processing. But I think I might like this one the best
I'm dubious as to whether he's actually going to give up the man for hire thing but... The lesson he learned this book was that small kindnesses make big change and that he doesn't have to go be a hero and slay a beast to help save the world
No but when he called Richie at the end I fucking burst into tears
Round of applause for Luke and also I'm sending him a wasps nest
