- Civil servant: Hello?
- Scarlet: Good day. I am Scarlet Carolus, and this is Julius Mirkning. We want to get married.
- Civil servant: You want to get married?!
- Julius: Yes. Here are our records.
- Civil servant: You need to be at least 16 years old to get married.
- Scarlet: I know. But maybe this will change your mind!
- Civil servant: What’s this?
- Scarlet: This is a very rare Ilumian bronze figurine.
- Civil servant: Is this an attempt at bribery?
- Scarlet: Yes!
- Info box: Shortly thereafter.
- Scarlet: You can’t even bribe a civil servant on this dystopian lump of ice! This is truly the worst of all possible worlds!
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34 thoughts on “A Sky Full of Stars 053”
Kazuma Taichi
well I think we can confidently say that no one will ever accuse Scarlet of being patient
thysi
Iliumian, rather than Ilumian?
Hegel-Marx
It’s possible that in this dying world some philosopher has developed an “anti-Leibnitz” philosophy of “this is the worst of all possible worlds.” If there was one, Scarlet had read it, of course.
Also, I love Scarlet’s face in the last panel. 😄
Hegel-Marx
And I love Julius face too! 🙂
Hegel-Marx
And I hadn’t noticed before that her eyes had turned from green to black in anger! 😄
Opus the Poet
There’s the counter of “This is the best possible world, unfortunately.”
HKMaly
That’s how Leibniz meant it, actually. He was specifically trying to explain why our world is so bad by arguing that anything better would be impossible.
BlackDragonSlayer
Well, it was worth a shot 😛 Wonder if that statue will fetch a pretty penny, if it’s really that rare…
Frith Ra
If so, it would be worth a few meals.
Frith Ra
At least she’s honest about bribing the guy. Gotta give her that.
MegaJar
Hey, Scarlet? Have you forgotten that you and Tibor are DIRT-POOR? Rather than throwing away that rare and (presumably) very valuable statue on something you’ll be able to do for free in just a few years, maybe you should think about selling it to get some actual money, so you can buy the food and clothes you’ll need to SURVIVE long enough to get married. Just a thought.
Ken
Nine-year-old girls in love don’t always do the sensible thing.
Just a thought.
HKMaly
And at WHAT age do people in love sensible things? I’m not aware of any.
MacareuxMoine
She is at least ten by now – depending on how much time has passed since she got the rejection letter.
Ale5n
Well, she would be marrying rich, so technically speaking she’s being sensible
Ken
Nine-year-old girls in love don’t always do the sensible thing.
Just a thought.
Vicious Sand
I can’t fault her spirit, but she should have tried cash. 😀 Sometimes the best gifts are the gifts you give yourself. At least Scarlet didn’t bonk the clerk with the statue. She didn’t bonk the clerk, right? Probably just yelling. It’s rare to have someone call their world dystopian. I mean, sure, I’ve heard complaints like that in real life- 2019 onwards was a doozy. But in fiction the characters tend to avoid it.
Impatient
Is this a subtle hint that we are impatient if we don’t get updates over Christmas and are sad about it? I somehow felt slightly tiny bit guilty after reading this comic.
Elli
This gave me chuckle. 😂
Nick/Tyrong
Well, she’s honest….
Andreas
I have honestly no sense of time here. It’s like the story is in fast forward and pausing at random moments, skipping various unknown amounts of time in between.
thysi
Welcome to fiction. 😂
Novil
Yes, that’s the problem when you want to illustrate the biography of a person and how certain events in her childhood shaped her into the person that she is.
HKMaly
Did you tried narration with year and month?
Crystalgate
Intelligence and common sense is truly two different things. Julius looks a bit distressed, so I’m thinking they got a serious scolding, which left no impression on Scarlet though. That aside, it is nice to see that Scarlet if nothing else is happy with Julius, happiness is something she really needs.
Brett Bellmore
Well, at least it’s not the sort of dystopian lump of ice where children get the gallows for attempted bribery…
Anonymous Pie
I wonder if this hinting at the idea that Scarlet is going to die by the end of it?
She’s trying to rush a lot of things in her attempts to ready herself. Maybe she’s rushing towards her death?
Clevershitter
Sooo…. on Lavarel, wolves deliver litters of 1…2 cubs? (On earth, it’s 3…8.) So somehow, wolves are just humans with fur, I guess.
Dilandu
Basically its inevitable for sapient bipedal with large brain.
Somdudewillson
There’s a reason litter sizes tend lower as size, intelligence, and lifespan tend higher. Each kid gets more and more expensive (and I don’t mean just in the monetary sense, but in terms of nutrition and attention).
HKMaly
Not speaking about the fact that the space in womb is limited. Although, most important limit is space on way out. Compared to most mammals, humans are born prematurely, barely able to survive outside of womb … but they can’t stay longer because they wouldn’t fit. This problem is caused by bipedal locomotion and intelligence and the wolves here would therefore be subject to it as well.
And we are not talking weeks. Anthropologists actually assume human gestation should be 21 months.
Filias
do we need to worry about the reason for them to want to be married?
Isharfoxat
Can’t bribe a civil servant?
Absolutely scandalous!
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