Order of the Stick Characters react to you being Infertile
Roy:
*tries not to look upset*
"Hey it's ok Y/N.... we already have the rest of the party to take care of, they're always a handful..."
Haley:
*relieved*
"Oh thank fucking god, I was NOT ready"
Elan:
"B.. but.. our story arcs were gonna be concluded.... we were gonna have a happy ending with a second generation to carry on our legacy in the sequel!!"
Durkon:
*he gently consoles you in the doctors office*
"If'n Thor dinnae want us ta haf children, then thar be nuthin' we can do, lass."
Belkar:
"And? You can still put out, right?"
Vaarsuvius:
"Please, do not fret Y/N. Adoption is still an opportunity we have the ability to take advantage of."
Redcloak:
"Ok."
Xykon:
"Who are you again?"
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Female characters who only exist to provide romantic options: 0/10
Badass non-sexualized female characters: 7/10
Female characters shown to be caring and well-developed and kind and protective but will also make their enemies unlock new levels of fear: 1000/10
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I'm back at uni this week, but still managed to find the time to create something paying tribute to the 20th anniversary of The Order of the Stick! This comic has genuinely been so important to me over the years, so I needed to commemorate the occasion.
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Order of the Stick and Familicide
Vaarsuvius, by casting the Familicide spell, killed Elan's stepmother Penelope. We know this. It is canon. Vaarsuvius themself also noted that, if Penelope had borne a child by Tarquin, Vaarsuvius would've killed Elan's half-sibling. Horrifying, yes. But everyone's analysis seems to stop there, and nobody seems to have noticed something potentially worse:
If Penelope had had Tarquin's baby, Vaarsuvius would have killed Elan.
"Every living creature that directly shares your bloodline is dead. Every living creature that is directly related to any of those creatures is also dead. Anyone who could possibly make a claim to be part of your family is gone now." - Vaarsuvius
"I have scourged the Western Continent of humans whose only sin was falling in love with a mysterious scarlet-tressed stranger! And I have extinguished their own family lines as well! Countless parents, siblings, and children, dead--down to the last cousin." - Also Vaarsuvius
We know from the annihilation of the Draketooth family that the spell does not stop at a single remove. It kills you, then it kills people who are related to you, then it kills people who are related to them, then it kills people who are related to them, etc., and it doesn't seem to stop. If it has a limit, we don't know what it is (though it clearly has one, as humanity has not been rendered extinct). It's been shown to kill the parents of the children the Draketooths had, meaning it goes backwards up ancestral lines; obviously it goes down, for the children as well.
So let's say Penelope has a baby by Tarquin. Penelope gets hit with Familicide from her first child. The spell jumps to her baby, then to the baby's father... then to the baby's father's children, i.e. Elan and Nale.
By this point in the story, V had become rather fond of Elan, seeing him as something of a student in the Arcane. More than that, Haley is V's friend. How would V have reacted to realizing that they so casually and callously killed their own student... and the love of their best friend's life?
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