Porthos
2007-07-10, 10:24 PM
A thought stuck me as I was driving home tonight about Roy's overall fate in the comic.
(SPOILERS for SoD):
At the end of SoD, Eugene Greenhilt is told that he can't enter the Celestial Realm until he completes his Blood Oath of Vengeance. And while we have seen evidence that he can run around parts of the Outer Planes (from comments he's made in the main comic), he can't Go To His Final Reward.
So what does this have to do with Roy? Everything. Roy, thanks to the hereditary affect of the Oath, is under the same fate as his dad. The way I read it, he will, quite literally, be kept from entering "heaven" until Xykon is destroyed once and for all.
Kinda sucks for Roy, but there you are. :smalltongue:
So now we have a legitimate literary reason for Roy to come back. In fact, one might go as far as to say that, for story purposes, he has to come back, even if it is only as a ghost.
As for NCftPB....
.... Heck, if Miko had killed Belkar, we probably would have had a few strips showing Belkar in the Afterlife before he was brought back. (Aw, man, that would have been great...sigh...another opportunity missed.)
What this tells me is that Roy isn't coming back right away. After all, Rich is already, as seen from the quote, on record as wanting to explore the Afterlife. Well, now that he has a Main Character who is dead, he has that chance. :smalltongue:
So when I combine these two little points, I come to the conclusion that we're going to see Roy's trials and tribulations in the Afterlife while he waits to be raised/ressed (Roy/Eugene conversation, Roy/Celestial Bureaucrat confrontation, Roy/Miko Smakdown, et etc).
[Point that references SoD spoiler from above]::: After all, just because he can't get into the Celestial Realm, it doesn't mean he can't find something to do while he waits around.
As for how long it will take Roy to get Returned From the Dead, and this is only my gut feeling on the matter, I suspect that Roy will eventually come back, it's gonna be a while before it happens. Both for the Meta Reasons (Rich wants plenty of time to explore the Afterlife) and the In Story Reason (it doesn't look like the OotS are going to have immediate access to any diamonds).
Hopefully, if they escape in Hinjo's boat, they'll eventually run into a Pirate Ship that just happens to have a Diamond or two in it's treasure hold. :smallsmile:
(SPOILERS for SoD):
At the end of SoD, Eugene Greenhilt is told that he can't enter the Celestial Realm until he completes his Blood Oath of Vengeance. And while we have seen evidence that he can run around parts of the Outer Planes (from comments he's made in the main comic), he can't Go To His Final Reward.
So what does this have to do with Roy? Everything. Roy, thanks to the hereditary affect of the Oath, is under the same fate as his dad. The way I read it, he will, quite literally, be kept from entering "heaven" until Xykon is destroyed once and for all.
Kinda sucks for Roy, but there you are. :smalltongue:
So now we have a legitimate literary reason for Roy to come back. In fact, one might go as far as to say that, for story purposes, he has to come back, even if it is only as a ghost.
As for NCftPB....
.... Heck, if Miko had killed Belkar, we probably would have had a few strips showing Belkar in the Afterlife before he was brought back. (Aw, man, that would have been great...sigh...another opportunity missed.)
What this tells me is that Roy isn't coming back right away. After all, Rich is already, as seen from the quote, on record as wanting to explore the Afterlife. Well, now that he has a Main Character who is dead, he has that chance. :smalltongue:
So when I combine these two little points, I come to the conclusion that we're going to see Roy's trials and tribulations in the Afterlife while he waits to be raised/ressed (Roy/Eugene conversation, Roy/Celestial Bureaucrat confrontation, Roy/Miko Smakdown, et etc).
[Point that references SoD spoiler from above]::: After all, just because he can't get into the Celestial Realm, it doesn't mean he can't find something to do while he waits around.
As for how long it will take Roy to get Returned From the Dead, and this is only my gut feeling on the matter, I suspect that Roy will eventually come back, it's gonna be a while before it happens. Both for the Meta Reasons (Rich wants plenty of time to explore the Afterlife) and the In Story Reason (it doesn't look like the OotS are going to have immediate access to any diamonds).
Hopefully, if they escape in Hinjo's boat, they'll eventually run into a Pirate Ship that just happens to have a Diamond or two in it's treasure hold. :smallsmile: