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qube
2018-10-02, 07:59 AM
So ... am I the only one who noticed that the Dark One (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1142.html) ... has two bright yellow eyes? (of different size nontheless?)


:mitd:
Gift Jeraff
2018-10-02, 08:11 AM
:redcloak:
Fyraltari
2018-10-02, 09:39 AM
Everybody's eyes are of different shapes, it's for perspective.

EDIT: And I am 98.45672397% sure somebody has already proposed that the Dark One and Monster-san are connected. The problem with that is that Redcloak knows exactly what the Monster in the Dark is and does not treat him with anything resembling religious reverence.
martianmister
2018-10-02, 09:55 AM
Everybody's eyes are of different shapes, it's for perspective.

Except Roy and Thog.
hamishspence
2018-10-02, 09:57 AM
Except Roy and Thog.

Even Roy & Thog:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0044.html
martianmister
2018-10-02, 09:59 AM
Even Roy & Thog:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0044.html

Only in the old strips.
Fyraltari
2018-10-02, 10:07 AM
Even Roy & Thog (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0788.html).

Even though theirs are inverted.
Peelee
2018-10-02, 10:28 AM
Everybody's eyes are of different shapes, it's for perspective.

EDIT: And I am 98.45672397% sure somebody has already proposed that the Dark One and Monster-san are connected. The problem with that is that Redcloak knows exactly what the Monster in the Dark is and does not treat him with anything resembling religious reverence.

Fun fact: Peelee's Law of Numbers states that generally, the longer a number is, the less the digits after the third one matter.
Also known as the "Suck it, π" law.
Fyraltari
2018-10-02, 10:32 AM
Fun fact: Peelee's Law of Numbers states that generally, the longer a number is, the less the digits after the third one matter.
Also known as the "Suck it, π" law.

Fyraltari's Law of Arbitrary Percentages, happens to state that any and all number associated to an intagible, immeasurable property is completely devoid of actual meaning and should be arbitrarily chosen.

I'd rather eat that π rather than sucking it.
martianmister
2018-10-02, 10:34 AM
Even Roy & Thog (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0788.html).

Even though theirs are inverted.

Or maybe...their heads are backwards this whole time!
Peelee
2018-10-02, 10:50 AM
Fyraltari's Law of Arbitrary Percentages, happens to state that any and all number associated to an intagible, immeasurable property is completely devoid of actual meaning and should be arbitrarily chosen.

Ah, a battle of laws, is it? I demand satisfaction! We shall duel with legislators at dawn.
Fyraltari
2018-10-02, 10:58 AM
Ah, a battle of laws, is it? I demand satisfaction! We shall duel with legislators at dawn.

Battle in the company of legislators as witnesses or using legislators as projectiles?
Peelee
2018-10-02, 11:11 AM
Battle in the company of legislators as witnesses or using legislators as projectiles?

I was thinking using them as handheld weapons, but projectiles works just as well.
Takver
2018-10-03, 02:42 AM
Even Roy & Thog (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0788.html).

Even though theirs are inverted.

Huh, I never noticed that. I assume Thog's eyes are inverted because Roy's are (evil opposites theme), but why are Roy's? Main character? Tough guy?
Gift Jeraff
2018-10-03, 09:21 AM
Huh, I never noticed that. I assume Thog's eyes are inverted because Roy's are (evil opposites theme), but why are Roy's? Main character? Tough guy?

It wasn't always the case. If you look at the earliest strips Roy and Thog's eyes are usually normal. Maybe it was changed to be consistent with Eugene (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0015.html) who was always depicted like that, since it later became a staple of male Greenhilts. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0497.html) Then I assume Roy's post-198 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0198.html) design was used as a basis for Thog's art upgrade so he gained the inverted eyes as well. Then Thog may have been used as a basis for other orcish characters, because some of the male (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0552.html) island orcs have them, too. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0557.html)

It's always bugged me that Julia doesn't have the same eyes, despite what Durkon says. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0353.html)
Fyraltari
2018-10-03, 09:26 AM
Eugene has the eyes in the regular way as of his latest apparition (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1046.html).
martianmister
2018-10-03, 10:08 AM
It's always bugged me that Julia doesn't have the same eyes, despite what Durkon says. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0353.html)

Maybe he was referring to his female body. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0245.html)
Peelee
2018-10-03, 10:12 AM
Maybe he was referring to his female body. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0245.html)

I reject any theory that has Durkon behaving like Tarquin.
Gift Jeraff
2018-10-03, 10:24 AM
Oh wow Roy's eyes actually do change with the belt on.


Eugene has the eyes in the regular way as of his latest apparition (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1046.html).

You're right. Also went to check the 2016 calendar and now Chief Grukgruk likewise has the regular eyes in the current art style. Thog still has them in all of his calendar appearances as well as his most recent appearance in GDGU's preface. So I guess the eyes were always a wonky mistake that only Roy and Thog get to keep. (Have we seen Horace or Eric since #601?)
Fyraltari
2018-10-03, 10:32 AM
I reject any theory that has Durkon behaving like Tarquin.

You are not being literal enough. Roy's eyes are normal when genderbent.
Peelee
2018-10-03, 10:46 AM
You are not being literal enough. Roy's eyes are normal when genderbent.

Whoops. I am not a smart man.
Fyraltari
2018-10-03, 11:27 AM
Huh, I never noticed that. I assume Thog's eyes are inverted because Roy's are (evil opposites theme), but why are Roy's? Main character? Tough guy?

Cross-eyed?
Emanick
2018-10-04, 01:10 AM
Could somebody please explain to me how Roy's eyes are somehow "inverted"? I can't tell the difference between his and everyone else's.
B. Dandelion
2018-10-04, 02:20 AM
Could somebody please explain to me how Roy's eyes are somehow "inverted"? I can't tell the difference between his and everyone else's.

It looks like... when most characters are facing the right side of the panel, the order of eyes is the same as the :smile: -- the long skinny eye is on the left (their right eye). When they face the left side of the panel, this reverses so that the skinny eye is now their left eye.

Roy and Thog are inverted to this. When they face the right side of the panel, the long skinny eye is their left eye, and when they face left the skinny eye is their right eye.
Emanick
2018-10-04, 02:39 AM
It looks like... when most characters are facing the right side of the panel, the order of eyes is the same as the :smile: -- the long skinny eye is on the left (their right eye). When they face the left side of the panel, this reverses so that the skinny eye is now their left eye.

Roy and Thog are inverted to this. When they face the right side of the panel, the long skinny eye is their left eye, and when they face left the skinny eye is their right eye.

Thank you! I was using the position of their eyes itself as a guide to which side they were "facing," which made it tough to tell.
DaggerPen
2018-10-04, 09:09 AM
I've always been pretty sure that what happened re: Roy's eyes (and later Thog, etc.) is that The Giant flipped an old drawing to save as a template and forgot to fix the eyes, then wound up accidentally using it enough times that he just made it a part of Roy's character design (which then made it to others based on Roy's body type, like Thog). In universe, I like to think it means that Roy is a bit cross-eyed or has a lazy eye. etc.