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Chap 17 Early Pages - PG27

Some things are still difficult to talk about...

(Sulvain as a child)

(But also)

(Another page tomorrow~)

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Chap 17 Early Pages - PG27

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Ahhh thank you for finding that! I think I fixed it :3

KaiJu

Oh, it might just be on my end, but the image for Chap 17 Early Pages - PG27 does not seem to be available anymore.

Atlanas E. Kildarin

So interesting! So he was born being a necromancer! Somehow, I thought maybe it was only a power he got after death, like through being reanimated. I feel sheepish cuz this was probably mentioned before and I missed it! But I know now and wow! So insightful to learn it!

Rin Sparrow

Ahhh the patreon website was glitching yesterday 😭 that might be why. A notification should go out for the next page though hopefully :)

KaiJu

Anyone else in 5$ tier didn't get a notification for this post or is it just me?

I HATE THE NEW PATREON UI

Oh my god, he was a baby when he died. I say that, but bro's 2 years older than me, plus a few hundred years😂 But you know what I mean, he was so young. Is still young, depending on if he maintains the capabilities of a 23 year old brain.

Kaiotee

I cannot express how ADORABLE baby Sulvain is 🥰 😍🥰

Zeth

I keep noticing how Sulvain in panels 3 and 4 seems to be nearly continuous, visually. Same pose, single break point, just moved over so we can see Raziol. I'm not sure what it *means* but I keep thinking about it.

Juliette Wade

holy moly!!! he's my age!!

astral projection

Ahh I know what you mean! 😭 We are in the process of designing the Sulvain Plushie 😊 We'll have more updates soon! :D

KaiJu

I am in dire need of plushies of both of these boys so I can hug them when their feels hit like this. Any news on that front? 😭

Bethany BH

I was thinking chicken, rat, mouse?

Juliette Wade

They're well into legal adulthood except where a car insurance company is concerned. So they're plenty old enough to tell this story about, and that's what matters.

Juliette Wade

Okay are those animals: chicken, rabbit and nutria? 🤣 I spent few hours thinking about this 😂

Sas (Milo's studio insulation funds)

(I was told the other day that not everyone analyse stories from the theory of writing point of view) KaiJu probably: When creating them, similar age to them: They are proper adults, 22-23ish is a perfect age to become Immortal Now, probably, maybe I take this half too far I don't want to put my words into your mouth 🤣: Holy shit they are immortal kids 😭

Sas (Milo's studio insulation funds)

Understatement of *several* centuries.

Juliette Wade

Finally, maybe some more explanation of how he figured out how to resurrect himself, cuz... Wow, what a concept.

Emily Rochester

To summarize that experience in just two words... "I died." *Clutches chest* I'm gonna need a minute.

Bethany BH

Explains some of the decision-making! LOL

Juliette Wade

My daughter is Raziol's age, so this feels personal.

Juliette Wade

i always knew sulvain’s physical body has been in his early 20s since i figured he can’t be much older than raz (22), but confirming how young he is was still so shocking!! neither of them got the chance to fully develop their prefrontal cortex before their ages got frozen, LOL

celine

sulvain lore 😩 i’m afraid- my pooksss

kaiD.lyn

This is such an important point, Atlanas, thank you for saying it.

Juliette Wade

I have to say that this comic is one of the first positive depictions of a necromancer I have seen in literature. (I started reading it back in 2018. Mind you, I’d seen other positive depictions. Just not many.) Up till that point, most of the necromancers I saw in media and literature were always evil aligned. Lots of fiction and media always portrayed characters that dealt with death so negatively. Sulvain was one of the first I have seen portrayed in such an interesting way: still capable of terrible things (referencing how Sulvain took over a city with undead he was puppeteering), but not innately evil and seeking to make amends by being a better person. The power is not evil. How you use it could be, but not the power itself. Such an amazing character. The more I learn about him, the more awesome he seems to me. Every time he’s an embarrassing god-dad, goofy with Raziol, happy with Udaya in a flashback in their very modest home, I cheer because he could have been such a different person because of just how horrible the world (and possibly his own village) has treated him, and he chose *not* to be horrible.

Atlanas E. Kildarin

So bb!! There’s always a part of the telling that is reliving even a tiny amount and just 😭 However I’m so excited to find out how he came back 👀

S Mcnamara

My god, he died so early!!! Poor bby! Raz is taking in every word that comes out of Sulvain’s mouth. I’m sure he’s just itching to hold him close; I’m sure it’s not easy for Sul to talk about this . :c

OdacioChoco

wailing now...

Juliette Wade

WAIT holy shit, is that his MOM???? (Note: so relieved to be wrong! My heart dropped before KaiJu kindly rescued me...)

Juliette Wade

NOOOO HE WAS SO YOUNG 😭😭😭

shy

SULVAIN WAS SO YOUNG! He was barely an adult when he died and he died in such a terrible way too. 😭

Jay Parker

Omg she did! 😭

Jay Parker

Natural causes tend to get you in childhood or later in adulthood. Unnatural causes can take you at any time. :(

Juliette Wade

TWENTY-THREE?!!

Chloe

Oh my poor babies. Be angsty faster so we can get to the kissy kissy stuff!!!! I can only take so much sad.

Eibhlin Brennan

Oh baby Sulvain is so precious 😭😭😭🩷

Julia

So his mom DID make him a pretty tunic like his sister’s! 🥹 (Looking at that blue @ the top of it.)

saltandcookies

atlanas i am going to Scream.

Fond Phantom

I'm so glad to be able to put a number on Sulvain's age!

Juliette Wade

It hurts even more, knowing how he died. Opening up to someone about stuff like this has to happen in layers. There's so much Raziol has to understand, just on the first layer, if Sulvain ever wants him to understand the next one. Such a fascinating scripting challenge for KaiJu!!!

Juliette Wade

Oh . . . Oh no . . . Sulvain didn’t understand his gift. And then he died. There is *so* much unsaid here. The first person he consciously and purposely used his power to animate and move . . . was it himself???

Atlanas E. Kildarin

He looks just like his mom 🥺

Nekochan

Sweet toddler Sulvain. What a gift to wake up to! I think he's seeing the bones of animals that have died...matching that with the backstory comic is making me feel sad. That would have been his normal in such a way that of course he wouldn't have understood it or understood that other people didn't share his subjective experience of the world. I'm struck by the sense of point of view on a page like this, because the images give us such a clear vision of Sulvain's experience that Raziol can't get because he's on a bench in LA. There's this amazing sense of confidentiality with the authors from a page like this, because of what they've chosen to show us versus what is actually conveyed by the dialogue. Beautiful.

Juliette Wade

Awe Sulvain! You can do it! 🥺 Also we have a physical age for Sulvain now! Baby Sulvain 🩷🩷🩷

Nekochan

Sulvain lore!!

Laura

Can you imagine him with a cute pachycephalosaurus wobbling behind him?! 😂♥️

Roedii

LEE! You’re on Patreon! EEEHHH! I cannot stop thinking on your fanart where Sulvain is braiding Rasim’s hair

Saturn Art

Yes Raz, take it all in, that's your hubby right there! 🫵😤 But I am sad that he passed so young... only 23, surely even though the life expectancy wasn't that high that was still quite young 🥺 And to imagine that after "death", he did wander endlessly (BUT YOU ARE NOT MERELY A WANDERING CORPSE SUL, SAY THAT AGAIN AND I'LL THROW HANDS), what horrors must he have witnessed 😭

Roedii

Backstory??? Do I smell bACKSTORY?????

thedistortedeye

Man dying at the age of 23… that’s so young. I wonder what happened… that’s horrible and I’m sure it’s terrible to experience. Certainly because he’s alive now (kinda) to remember the experience unlike actual dead people.

Brenna Cook

that red moon above looks like Sulvain has horns which make the scene more haunting. 🌒

Iselin

We're going through a lot in these pages and it's painful but I'm also very happy to finally learn more aobut Sulvain's backstory. Being a necromancer as a little child has to be a lot to shoulder. 🥺🥺 Oh and now on to the topic of his death... This'll be heavy, I'll try to brace myself

Neko-san

Oh yes 😭 the whole concept of him experiencing death is probably heartbreaking for Raziol too. Both of them didn't deserve it 😞 even if it led to them being together 💔💔 and finding eachother again was beautiful I agree, on the other side of the world, on the same uni even. Not just by the street! They decided to go doing the same thing!

Sas (Milo's studio insulation funds)

Because we are not getting that sweet embrace yet, I drew it 😈. I freakin love being an artist

Saturn Art

Omg baby Sulvain seeing dinos! So cute! But also the concern on Raziol’s face as Sulvain lays some of, if not the most vulnerable parts of his life/story, bare. Honestly I think most of the concern stems from the “then I died” comment 💀 because Raz loves him, and even though Sulvain is undead and well in front of him, the thought of him dying, even though he came back, is distressing. Also, while I feel like this story isn’t about soulmates or anything, I can’t help but think that lovers who desperately wanted to find each other and went centuries without them, only to accidentally find them again, is more than coincidence. Fate, maybe? You can make your own choices, but the chances of them coming together again are so small. I guess the romantic in me likes the idea that in every world they’d find each other.

grace taylor

Oof and so Sulvain's life's history unravels further..! Can't wait till tomorrow ><

Hi-D

little Sulvain is so adorable... 😍🫠

Iselin

Raziol surname means the moon 😂😂😂😂

Sas (Milo's studio insulation funds)

I know all of this yet it's painful hearing it from him 😭😭😭 Sulvain!!! 😭😭 I would love for him to reanimate some dinosaurs 😂 but my nerd side knows it's impossible (fossilized bones aren't in fact bones anymore but a stone in a shape of the bone. Minerals replaced the real tissue)

Sas (Milo's studio insulation funds)

SUL LORE LET'S GOOOOO!

Sang Steppenwolf

Raziol's face says, "That's rough buddy."

Sparks

Give me that painful, painful lore. Yes. Feed me.

Lee

The way Sulvain is so grim and Raz looks like he just wants to wrap him in his arms.

homebody_adventurer

Yes!! Backstory time!!!

Mary Schaude

Some heavy topics on the horizon

Monika

OMG THEY BOTH CHANGES ALMOST AT THE SAME AGE! Raziol was 22, y Sulvain 23. Now I won’t feel that bad for being 23 in September 😆

Saturn Art

Per my last comment, from the previous page how I'm suppose to go to sleep now xhdjdjdjfjf ok I haven't read it yet jsjfjdjfjc

Sas (Milo's studio insulation funds)

HES JUST A LIL GUYYYYY!!!

Lee


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