- Julius: Come along, Scarlet. I’ll show you my room!
- Scarlet: You have a room of your own?
- Julius: Yeah, sure.
- Scarlet: Wow, that looks incredible!
A Sky Full of Stars 032
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- Julius: Come along, Scarlet. I’ll show you my room!
- Scarlet: You have a room of your own?
- Julius: Yeah, sure.
- Scarlet: Wow, that looks incredible!
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10 thoughts on “A Sky Full of Stars 032”
HKMaly
Didn’t Scarlet also had room of her own before her parents were killed?
Crystalgate
It seems so, but we can’t tell for sure.
Rhoran
So this is the Sky Full of Stars.
'Eave
Now that is a ceiling!
Zitchas
This is an interesting contrast to some of the other characters we’ve seen. We’ve seen hard-working farmstead, down on their luck laborer’s tenements, and the money lender’s place. But this, this is what I’d call comfortably wealthy. They don’t strike me as super rich or anything like the wolf, nothing opulent. But at the same time, everything’s nice, posters and art on the walls, lamps, and that ceiling….
Not going to lie, I would love to have that ceiling for myself. That puts all the glow in the dark stickers I’ve ever put up there to shame, that’s for sure. It looks awesome. Great job on that. And the transluscent text bubble is a great touch, too.
And just going to point out the telescope and astronomy stuff. This kid might not be on Scarlet’s level for general intensity and drive, but he’s got some scientific interests of his own. (as an aside, I’m not sure I’d really call Scarlet a genius; but I certainly would call her extremely intense, driven, and goal-focused. And sure, probably smarter than average. But just labelling it “genius” and moving on I think downplays the sheer dedication and effort she puts into it. I suspect that many of us could accomplish quite a bit more than we do if we put as much effort and time into our goals as she does.
Jude
What I’ve read so far (just discovered the comic yesterday, 29/5/2025), I’d call her a genius. I’ve known two people who are definitely geniuses and they didn’t become one simply by being smart but through a strong interest in the subjects they loved and by lots of studying. The fact Scarlet has to learn how to read and when she did, she kept reading more and more books on difficult specialised subjects, grasped what she was reading and was able to extrapolate what she learned even further – all in a relatively short year or two – shows that she’s genius level. The mother here too sees something remarkable in Scarlet. As a teacher, she has a good idea of different student’s abilities and she sees that Scarlet should be in a special gifted class.
I was told I was a genius by a teacher and a psychologist but I wouldn’t really classify myself as such. I loved math and at university, I did well in it and one professor was surprised and pleased with how I could infer further progression in functions. But I had to exclude anything else when I did math, focusing on it alone, without distraction, for hours. Physics was the same. Geography and biology felt natural, like an extension of myself – hard to explain. But Scarlet is like that with any subject a person brings up. She doesn’t need to break into a ‘sweat, mentally’ to grasp and explain something. That’s a genius, and hard work and determination go along with it.
Mark
This is a very weird civilisation. They’re clearly very advanced in some ways but utterly backwards in others.
Graybeard
Aren’t we all?
Crystalgate
Assume that light is very easy with magitech. The setting page kind of tells us that. Assume movement such as moving a vehicle and launching projectiles is hard. I do not know if that is intended by the author, but it pretty much has to be so or else the setting breaks. It’s also a reasonable guess that the cold makes food much more scarce than is usual in a developed civilization, but the technology, resources and infrastructure for everything else is still there. If that’s the case, things will break if the scarcity of food reaches starvation level.
Vicious Sand
A little chalk, some glow in the dark paint, and a medium amount of time. Julius’s mother sure knows how to decorate.
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