Comment on Chapter 8 - 383 of Growth
Enkida, 29th Apr 2009

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I'm thinking about moving "Growth" off of SmackJeeves. Don't worry, however, you'll all be copiously forewarned before any sudden URL switch is made.

Also, the grammar "error" was intentional so to speak, but thanks for the input. :)

Comment on Chapter 8 - 381 of Growth
Enkida, 22nd Apr 2009

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My dog officialy hates this comic. She drools on the lineart, tries to eat my supplies when I'm not looking and gets upset if I spend more than 5 minutes at a time working on an image! XD

Comment on Chapter 8 - 379 of Growth
Enkida, 6th Apr 2009

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Sick like a dog, already on antibiotics, should be better in a week. Pages might be a bit slower forthcoming for a few days.

Is Borah really all bad? Is Bashiya really a nice old lady? Sure, Borah's got a Nanaki-sized chip on his shoulder, but his own mom did try to depose him. If we assume everyone in the tribe thinks about honor and duty the way Borah does, that could mean she *did* ask Nanaki to kill him.

Hey, I'd be mad too! But does that justify his behavior, especially to Nanaki? I'd like to hear what you guys think. :)

Comment on Chapter 8 - 377 of Growth
Enkida, 2nd Apr 2009

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On the drawing style question: it's really simple. I own a 5 1/2 month old schipperke puppy and hence, I have less time to do the comic than before. One thing I really can't do anymore is watercolour pages, since usually I have to get up every 15 minutes to pull the dog off of something, and the watercolours would dry out before I could finish the colouring. Working on the computer lets me do little bits and pieces at a time, but I sacrifice detail / rely on screentones or brushes instead of drawing stuff to save time.

Comment on Chapter 8 - 376 of Growth
Enkida, 1st Apr 2009

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We all know that Seto died by stone arrow petrification even in this comic (see page 137). But how? The Gi Tribe as I drew them are the same race as Nanaki, and obviously not archers.

Being the same race as Nanaki, they do share certain attributes with him though. The first is that they are creatures who can hear the lifestream (see pages 113, 268). The second is that they are creatures who can reach a powerful limit break (see above).

Since everyone has a different reason for being able to limit break in this comic, for me it makes sense that the beasts (lion-like, coyote-like, wolf-like, whatever they are) of Nanaki's race do so by drawing from the power of the lifestream. As a side note, this is my reasoning of why they're able to last so long against mako poisoning (~50 years) when it's driving Yuffie, a normal human, insane in under 2 years.

In other words, they're one giant race of Kitty Summoners. Kimahri would be so proud. This theory can be kind of supported by Nanaki's "Cosmo Memory" limit break in Advent Children. In the original game it's a huge red "plasma" burst. In high-rendered AC quality, the "plasma" that Nanaki uses against Bahamut is the same glowing turquoise colour as - guess what - the lifestream.

So how does this relate back to Seto? Well, while he was kicking ass and taking Gi names, obviously someone reached their limit break. Unfortunately, I guess it wasn't Seto. So he got stone spiked by a Gi tribe's petrification limit break. Self-propelling stone arrows made out of summoned lifestream. Stranger things have happened in the FF7 universe. I mean, look at Rosso. (I know I do. A lot. *drool*)

So there you go - plausible explanation for how Seto got stoned! (I still haven't managed to figure out how he cried while being dead AND stone. Vincent would probably claim it's not all that difficult.)