Azelea and Mye...

[fendrian]

First, I'd like to say that I only found CTV about a week ago, and have nearly completed my third read-through of the fantastic and extensive archives—so I may possibly be looking at this an eeny-teeny bit too closely...

BUT.

One thing that's nagging me slightly is that I'd really like to know how Azelea explains away trying to kill Mye and accidentally (temporarily) beheading Claire.

Mye isn't near-invincible, and though Hex seems capable of repairing fairly major damage to her, she doesn't seem like she'd just shrug off someone trying to kill her. Claire is nearly invincible, but no one there knew that, and she's never been one to keep a close reign on her temper—nor, for that matter, is Menu.

How did Azeala convince everyone to let her keep hanging around after trying to kill Mye? Everyone loves Mye!

[Amelius]

Welcome to the forum, fendrian! I do love to answer a question

Hehehe, well I have a couple of answers for that, but clearly I should make that more clear at some point when I eventually do a "clean-up" of the archives

One of them, is that with a household of monsters things like this tend to be easily forgiven or forgotten if nobody actually got killed, like when Menu goes on a moon rampage and nearly tries to kill his friends. In this case, it probably helps that Menu didn't realize who threw the blade or that fairies can even summon them! And...that Azelea is a cute girl, despite having a girlfriend Menu is very much a sucker for cute girls (who are freaking out and sobbing most likely!).

Since Claire grew her head back almost immediately, it could be counted as a minor infraction, so any anger he may have felt was tempered by the fact that he was just happy that her head grew back. If he had been aware that it was Azzy and not "his curse" as he calls it, things may have gone differently, with Menu picking wing-scales out of his teeth for a while!

Claire herself was feeling a little out of sorts for a while after the encounter. Having never suffered major damage like that before, the magical backwash (or whatever we might call it) left her a little dizzy after it grew back. Since she wasn't using the energy from her actual severed head, it did take a little bit of effort. Had she realized what happened, Azzy may still have had a good head start, but not that it would help her any! As such, Azelea is lucky that she was paying more attention to Mye than what else was going on in the room.

Mye is aware of some of Azelea's actions, but sees it annoys her more to pretend nothing is happening and that her actions are "harmless" At least, before she got her wand, she's seen no reason to actually confront her on her pursuit of Zeno. She did get some sort of satisfaction out of healing Azzy's hand when she was whining for attention though But Mye was distracted too, even so, if she'd known it was her, she may just talk with someone a little more sane about her problem with Azelea than point the finger at her with Menu and Claire in the room. She'll have to clean up the resulting mess, after all, and someone else might have the wherewithal to take care of business outside!

So pretty much it sums up to, Azzy was just a strange fairy girl in the house with a stupid surprised look on her face as a severed head landed in her hands. Really the joke was just supposed to be that Menu is more concerned with not knowing who she is than with her holding his girlfriend's head and most likely being the person who decapitated her:)

I'll probably have something more to add to this but it's time for me to get some sleep!

[fendrian]

I'd wondered if the... well, 'live and let live' (unlive?) attitude in the house was part of it—especially given Charby's short speech to Crispo on a similar subject. I hadn't considered that ignoring Azelea is the best way to deal with her though. That makes sense.

Thanks for the response, and the fantastic webcomic! Your artwork is truly outstanding, and the story gets progressively more interesting.