I'm glad new Skullgirls fans are finally getting to experience the Two Weeks curse first-hand.
Yeah, it seems like he's the other half to the Franz Ferdinand reference. While the assassination of Duke Franz Ferdinand was the event that led to WWI in real life, in the SG universe, Franz was the primary aggressor in the Grand War. Just going by the reference, Ferdinand has to be someone close to him and most likely highly involved in Canopian politics since the Grand War days. His brother, perhaps.
His clothing kind of hints to something similar, too.
Could be a legitimate half-brother (i.e. if one of his parents remarried). Or maybe they had the same parents - genetics can be weird.
Yeah. Based on what he wears, I doubt he's just some general or high-ranking officer in the military. Definitely feels like he's part of the royal family if he's going around in such a flamboyant get-up, including what appears to be his personal squad. (Wonder if they are another Black Egrets squad or a differently named one entirely)
*Marie 300% intensifies*
There was supposed to be the other Egret squads, originally. Maybe this concept is finally making its way into the canon.
Yeah, hopefully.
As long as SG exists, Two Weeks will never die.
Yeah him being an Egret that got fired for simping for Parasoul too hard was not what I was expecting but there you go.
Well, I'm glad we finally found out which one is Sinker lol.
Okay, so we'll wait for another coming of Two Weeks. We have plenty of opportunities to see it again in action.
Yeah, it's raises quite a lot of questions already.
This part rubs me the wrong way, really. It doesn't make a lot of sense from any point of view.
Three to go!
That does seem to be the most likely explanation right now yeah. But regardless of anyone's position, no one would be able to refuse a direct order from the king.
I mean he didn't deny it lol. He basically just said "it wasn't as bad as it looks". And the way he talked to Para he definitely has some feelings for her still. Maybe Franz thinks having someone who is infatuated with Para working for him would be useful, like how Vitale finds Bella useful.This part rubs me the wrong way, really. It doesn't make a lot of sense from any point of view.
Though, maybe it is time to dive deep into conspiracy theories.
Maybe, the evidence of Ferdinand's unprofessional behaviour was planted? It actually belongs to Adam. He masterminded the fall of Ferdinand, while trying to get rid of his own incriminating stuff. His reaction at Ferdinand says it all, really
And Franz knows the truth somehow...Maybe because he's in the same band as Ferdinand?
The fact that he knows about Franz's current situation at all confirms this theory.
When you put it like this, Franz's decision looks kind of realistic...
Yeah, I liked this part too
Dunno about that. As Bella's roommate, I'm sure Feng has seen many things she would like to forget /jThough, I think we shouldn't compare Ferdinand to Cerebella. She wields a powerful Living Weapon. Also, she's not as creepy
... And that's why Feng should have her own story mode, I guess
Lol. While I'm sure the Egrets have required readings, it just strikes me as Adam being a total nerd and actually reading them in his spare time and memorising whole sections.
Seems that I wasn't too far off when I made an Arnold Rimmer palette for him...
There's already some improvement, so I have high hopes for the future.
Widely known enough that he's still the head of state and Parasoul, his eldest child, is still the Crown Princess.
The Webtoon is its own timeline, yeah. The story parallel the events of the SGM Main Story, but there are differences that show that they are separate universes.
It's supposed to be a sort of an "alternative prequel", just like SGM. The main plot is more or less the same, but the details may differ widely.
That's a good question.
It reminds me of Robo-Fortune's Story Mode. The ending, especially. Maybe, Brain Drain have already attempted something similar in the past.
I mean, I don't think we knew anything about who actually knew where Franz was or what he was doing.
I dunno about Brain Drain by himself but there probably has been things that originated from the Labs that must have caused a lot of trouble for the kingdom. For example, the accident related to Lab 7's psychic soldier experiment was powerful enough to wipe out that lab, even before the ASG Labs were officially shut down. Perhaps the fallout from that accident was widespread and caused a lot of trouble for the citizens of Canopy beyond the actual Labs.
Of course, we didn't. But now we find something exciting every week, yay.
Well, the psychic soldiers were mostly unstable. I guess, it would be enough just by itself.
Yeah, makes me think that we need more lore information.
Yeah, I have always known that the King is still alive, but ever since Umbrella's story and each time he had appeared in the Webtoon, I have needed to adjust my assumptions about what Franz had actually been doing. It's confusing but also exciting.
Exactly. And they are all supposed to be dead, except Brain Drain and the mysterious other survivor. Hmm.
I think the ASG know about the Shapeshifter although none of them had ever been this close and personal interacting with her before, which is probably to Val's credit that she has managed to get this close and gathering information about her.
Yeah, the interaction feels a bit strange to me, although I can sort of understand that she might be acting in a manipulative way in order to gain Marie's trust. Although, deep down, she's not actually a bad person so she might have some genuine sympathy for Marie's situation - perhaps Marie's past is not so different from her own past.
I prefer to think that she has some sympathy. Anyway, she's still ready to perform her duties as a nurse, and it's kind of heartwarming. We rarely see that side of Valentine.
Oh yeah, that is weird. In the previous chapter her eyes were the right colour too.
In SGM she does act like that a lot, to the extent that SGM players don't even realise she's supposed to be a villain or an anti-hero. Not sure that I like how she's given a more sympathetic treatment straight away though, especially since the Webtoon is probably gonna be how a lot of players are going to be experiencing the lore for the first time. Her character in 2E was interesting because she was portrayed as a villain first before her real motivation is revealed.
It's more like the manner in which she cares for Marie that is surprising than the fact that she was caring for her. She also cares for Painwheel and the SGM MC for example, but her mannerisms are usually a lot more cold and distant.
As for Umbrella's pink eyes, maybe they'll turn the correct shade of magenta (and eventually glowing red) the closer she gets to Skull Heart? I think it is just a minor coloring error.Vitale said:
Yeah that is a bit awkward. There are times were Vitale refers to Lorenzo by his name, but only in the third person (when he's talking about his father to someone else), but referring to his father by his name when directly talking to him is a bit weird.
I'm definitely leaning towards art error since there has never been any past instances where her eye colour becomes that pale. It's either normal red or red with a skull. It was also red in the previous chapter in that one panel she appeared in, and her proximity to the Heart wouldn't have been any different from then till the latest chapter.
I mean, maybe the Labs really didn't have that information, so it would have been another new intelligence gained for them thanks to Val's infiltration. The ASG Labs hasn't been around for that long (probably around 2 decades at most as of game time), and I doubt any of them have got this close to a Skullgirl before.
Hmm, I think she means that if she's mature enough to be entrusted with the knowledge of what happened to her dad, Para shouldn't think of her as a kid and allow her to be involved with grown-up stuff.
Just another regular day in the royal Renoir household lol.
Pretty sure they do, and they must have already figured out that Lorenzo has some sort of secret that makes him unageing. Given the fantasy setting of SG and the fact there are numerous immortals wandering around, it's probably not super surprising. But as Eliza mentioned in her story, the public don't know what exactly that secret is. (The secret being the Life Gem)
Hmm, hard to say. Someone at the Labs could have told her about Dahlia, although they might not have felt there was any reason to at that point.
Oh my god, I need to watch that show, I didn't even clock that! Great find!
