I just love Viviana in panel 1.
Gaia is now also published at MangaMagazine.net (start reading here)! At the moment, only the first 21 pages of chapter 1, The Red Hall, are available, but at least five pages per week will be posted during the next months to catch up with our main page.
Gaia is currently classified as a “featured” comic at MangaMagazine.net, but I hope it will be promoted to a “premium” comic soon which would be very lucrative for Powree and me. Of course, we need more page views and “fans of this comic” at MangaMagazine.net first.
- Ilias: Why… why did you do that?
- Viviana: So that you don’t break into a thousand pieces when you walk through the portal to our hideout.
- Ilias: Portal to your hideout?
- Viviana: The city guard may be incompetent, but if our hideout were simply in a building in Spring Street, they would have found it a long time ago.
- Ilias: You could have warned me, at least!
- Viviana: That was the just punishment for spreading false rumors about the Shadowdancers.
- Viviana: Are you ready for the teleportation?
- Ilias: I don’t think so.
- Ilias: What exactly was that horrible stuff you gave me?
- Viviana: Some sort of magic transmitter liquid.
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So by the look of the last panel, she stabbed him…..for fun?
Okay, yeah, my earlier girl hate comments were totally justified.
Dizzy D. wrote:
No, in panel 2 she clearly says that she needed to inject the liquid.
Ilias: What exactly was that horrible stuff you gave me?
Viviana: Some sort of magicbabble, like Technobabble but in fantasy world.
Ilias: Magicbabble… why do you have teleportation portals?
Viviana: To make us look cool, we are Shadowdancers teleport to our hideout, we are cool.
Reader: I hate you all.
Landbark wrote:
It may happen on the next page or 500 pages later, but almost everything apart from technical details of spell casting will be explained eventually. When you re-read Gaia after its end, you will also be surprised how much foreshadowing was done in the first two chapters.
I’m still convinced that Viviana gets more awesome the more we see of her. Oh, and her smile is so infectious and disarming
On a sidenote, we could really use a few more tropers in our ranks – the TV Tropes page for Gaia’s still rather sparse
The problem is, although I know how to edit TVT, I’m not familiar enough with the huge array of tropes to determine which are relevant where without disappearing down the proverbial rabbit hole for several hours…
@ Novil:
Novil, do your stuff.
I like Gaia so I am expecting great things from it
Viviana in panel 1:
“Don’t worry, I didn’t do anything while you were out. Nope.” (innocent look, whistling…)
mittfh wrote:
I never edit things like that for pretty much the same reason: I don’t know everything required to make it worth the effort. And I have also disappeared down that rabbit hole several times. SEVERAL. XD
Landbark wrote:
It is most certainly the opposite of attempting to make them look cool. They use portals so they don’t get discovered after two days. This is WHY they are so difficult to catch, thus earning them notoriety. The “magicbabble” was basically stating that if she hadn’t put that liquid in him, he would break into a thousand pieces when he went through the portal. In other words, it prevents the portal from killing him.
illeatyourself wrote:
I forgot to mention that I agree with what you said about Viviana. EVERYTHING you said about her. Yes, her smile is very disarming, and it humorously makes her look like she has been doing this since the day of her birth and thus treats it like such instead of treating it like a serious matter. I mean, it’s not every day someone welcomes someone else to their thieves’ guild so readily. XD
Ilias: “Wait, so you don’t actually know what it is?”
Viviana: “Nope!”
Ilias (freaking out a bit): “Well then how do you know it’s safe r that it even does what you say it does!?”
Viviana: “I trust my magic-obsessed friend who made it back when the Shadowdancers were still new.”
Ilias: “Oh…”
@ Novil:
But look at the last panel – she clearly just made that name up. She’s the leader, if there was actually something needed to get into the compound like that, she, at the very least, would know the name.
All I’m saying is, even if he did need that stuff to enter the hideout, she enjoyed that stab far too much.
Ilias: What exactly was that horrible stuff you gave me?
Viviana: Transmission fluid…
Illias:…w-WHAT!?
Viviana: Just kidding, it’s some sort of magical transmitter fluid so you don’t break into a thousand pieces when you step though the portal.
Illias:…WHAT!?
Looking awfully pleased in pannel 1… where precicely did her hand go?
I still think that there is more in Viviana’s grin than just joy at hurting Ilias—Notice she does it most when Ilias is not in a condition to notice….:)
I feel like there is grammer error where she says “that was the just punishment” i believe she meant to say ” that was just the punishment…” sorry for that.
Loving story so far.
Novil wrote:
@ Paeris Kiran:
Ucch sorry… missent…
Novil… Girls are evil
and you are asking us to believe her? 
@ Darkside:
In her mind, it may actually be the fair & rightful punishment! So it’s not truly a grammar error, in this case, not unless the author says it is.
I think it’s far more likely she’s simply evading the question, rather than not knowing what the stuff is. It could easily be that it doesn’t have anything to do with a portal (since we saw her start searching him at the end of the last strip), and she just doesn’t want to tell him that. It’s pretty much guaranteed that she’s lying about something. I mean, if she didn’t take precautions like that, and trusted just anyone, then her secret organisation wouldn’t have lasted very long.
Well, that makes sense. Although her amusement is still simply petty.
And, dammit, this annoying part of my brain won’t stop shipping this. I blame her cute blushiness.
Ready or not— there he goes!!
@ Novil:
So there is a set ending for Gaia, not just for this story arc? If you don’t mind me asking how long do you anticipate it to run? Alternately, how many chapters will there be?
I suppose that explains why Gaia is still in sandraAndWoo.com’s web domain; it may not be worth the cost of buying a new domain for a webcomic that isn’t going to last for years and years. It will be nice while it lasts though.
Yep. ‘Both’ Sounds like either a disintergration barrier or a prismatic wall as the portal’s defenses. Or Aperture.
Viviana: Some sort of magic transmitter liquid.
It was at this point Ilias first suspected that he had just acqured a stalker, but little did he realize just what insanity it would entail…
the more I see Viv the more interested in her as a person I become. What goes on behind that smile and those freckles? What really are her goals? Justice for something? Vengeance? What really makes her tick?
The more I see of her the more I love Viviana’s Larisa-like demeanor she’s the best character so far…
Novil wrote:
Isn´t it common simple interaction of thoughts (electrochemic gradients inside brain) with certain all pervasive energy field, (akka “magic”)?
I suspect she lied so all she had to do was move him through a loose panel in the wall to a nearby shed to make it look like they teleported before actually going where they need to go that way if he was being followed and they didn’t realise what had happened any conversation with him will mention the teleport and the pursuers would assume magic was involved instead of slight of hand tricks… would drive a mage mad if they were part of the pursuers if they were led to believe the shadowdancers have mystical abilities they couldn’t detect!
On the other hand the next part should reveal why she really drugged him!
Darkside wrote:
No, there is no grammar error. “Just punishment” as in “a punishment that was justified”.
Silhalnor wrote:
Yes.
Silhalnor wrote:
This is not yet clear, but much more than 500 pages.
Silhalnor wrote:
A domain name is very cheap. I could get a dozen and it would make no difference to the overall financial situation. In fact, gaiacomic.com and gaiacomics.com redirect to the start page. Gaia is hosted on sandraandwoo.com for various other reasons.
@ Novil:
I’m confused. Did she actually need to inject the liquid or is she just saying that so that he doesn’t know that she had to check him?
Sambo wrote:
good question.i wonder if drinking the stuff would also work-for the portal, that is-but it probably tastes so bad he’d still think she was trying to kill him…
Well, that’s one way to work out your differences, I guess.
Don’t listen to her she’s a BIG phoney!
Ok so she really did need to inject him with the liquid to keep him safe when portal traveling, but stabbing him like that was for fun and also to punish him for making up the lie about the Shadow Dancers kidnapping people o.o strangely i feel like her and Larissa would get along e_e