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Here is a diagram that shows how often the main and supporting characters of Gaia appeared each year. Note that there were only 28 pages in 2011. You can click on the image for a larger version.
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I see a trend with Vivianna here.
And I like it!
I see a trend, too. Unfortunately, it’s a trend I’m not that keen on.
@ Errant:
I agree. Anyone else think there should be a lot more of the characters we started with? I sure hope that we’ll get that once the jailbreak is over with. (Honestly, I thought the jailbreak would take a maximum of one whole chapter. I like the story, but this is a lot of time without the cover character doing anything.)
What happened to our main cast? I want to see more Ryn BA action! He’s my favorite!!!!!! ;P
Lucario wrote:
Yes, Viviana first entered her cell in SD-25. That was published here June 19, 2012. That was more than a year and a half ago. It is nice that we are finally only a day away from the jail break.
@ PMark:
Lilith entered her cell, not Viviana.
@ Pablo Torres:
Yup. You are correct. I got the names of two of our main heroines mixed up. My bad.
Are the pages where young Jael “Viviana” Bara occurred included in the graph?
Oddly, I don’t miss most of the main cast all that much. I know we’re supposed to like Ilias, but he seems a tad off(and a bit of a jerk). Lilith is a bit bland herself, and most of the other primary characters that didn’t die outright are too skimpily covered or kind of jerky.
Sandril is actually kind of interesting and fairly nice, despite being cast as a kind of quasi-villain/rival to Ilias, the supposed hero.
Viviana stole the show, but she’s also the most compelling character by far. The “big bad” is decent, but the rest of the ensamble cast requires a bit of tag checking to see who is what–they’re kind of forgetable.
The story itself is interesting, but most of the ensemble feels flat. Ars was great, but snuffed rather swiftly. Everyone else is kind of generic.
@ Lucid:
The thing that makes me saddest about this trend is that I want Lillith to have enough screen time to be developed as more than a “good girl” and “prodigy with magic”. I want to like her and still really don’t understand why she was railroaded when she’s got so little backstory.
Viviana is ok, I guess, but I don’t connect with her personally… so she’s just sort of this person who happens to be doing things right now. She clearly has goals and backstory, but I don’t have a good feeling for who she is. I find her constant extreme aptitude at her job kind of off-putting. I find it more interesting when more things go wrong and the hero is forced to learn and grow from them.
If you check tags, so far we have six key players that have been on screen more than the rest. They are:
• Ilias: 90 times
• Viviana: 81 times
• Allisa: 54 times
• Lilith: 48 times
• Ryn: 36 times
• Sandril: 28 times
Then you have the second tier:
• Faye: 16 times
• Gradus: 15 times
• Korahan: 12 times
• Ars: 11 times
Everyone else has appeared fewer than ten times.
All the second tier and the rest are obviously secondary support characters. The core six just happens to split into three boys and three girls. Coincidence? I doubt it.
Tentatively I’ve assigned the following pairings:
Ilias – Viviana
Sandril – Lilith
Ryn – Allisa.
Although I-L and S-V are not out of the realm of possibility. It’s just that the Viv has apparently set her sights on Ilias, and she’s a girl who usually gets what she wants.
I definitely like the Viviana focus, but that might just be *because* she’s been focused on (i.e. she has the most development). Most of the rest don’t seem as dimensional. I would like to see them have more of a stake in the story
Eva wrote:
It would be rather amiss if Viviana was *not* showing extreme aptitude. She’s the leader of a rebellion force that does much of the work first-hand, and has been doing so for over a decade, since she was a young child.
If someone spent ~1/2 their life training and battling, with others relying on them constantly, they would either become highly skilled or die. Viviana’s not perfect–her very first appearance was her stabbing herself to create a distraction so she could escape her botched burglary attempt. Her escape sequence in the prequel was very inept as well.
So we’ve been set up with someone who’s been thrust into the hardest of hard lives, and thrived under the intensity of it, and, consequently of having a “stolen childhood”, constantly acts rather childish. She never “grew up” in the sense most people did, and her best survival factor has been her mild immaturity–she’s a rebellious child who’s still rebelling.
I believe we’re going to see more character development of her soon, the tower being the first inkling of it. I realize it may not be “easy to connect” with, but at least it makes sense.
As for Lillith, she’s gotten just enough to serve her purpose. Rather than being *told* she’s a good girl, we’re shown it. So, it’s been established that she’s someone worth saving. Beyond that, her only role thus far has been as a Macguffin .
One interesting thing I’d also like to note, somewhere around here it’s noted that this was originally a D&D computer game’s campaign design. If I had to guess, I’m under the impression Viviana is the player, and the bland cast represents the NPCs–just enough screen time to explain what their part in the story is, whilst the player is busy experiencing the campaign itself.
@ Lucid:
I’d also posit that Vivian being the player is part of why she shows “extreme aptitude”. If you beat challenge X, the game/story continues. If you fail, gameover, go back and reload your last save point.
The only one I really like is Sandril but we don’t see him very often … Ryn is good too 😀
@ Errant:
Won’t be long until the comic is renamed to “Viviana the Great and some other guys nobody cares to remember”
We’ve got dark horse Gradus coming up from the back, and the previous main character falling behind the new face of the comic, as seen by the ad banner at the bottom of the page
I’m sorry, Lilith as of the chapter of letter to Jael Bara, you are no longer the lead female Viviana is. Heck, Viviana’s even a titular character unlike Lilith. Also with Ryn getting subsequently less and less screen time, I all of the sudden have a feeling he’s going to be a red shirt during the whole prison fight.