That’s right, I’m doing another Sunday mini-storyline! This time it won’t be dragged out over half a year by main-plot interruptions, either. This time it’s planned.
A café with Ceannic food that isn’t hard for Leif to eat . . . in short, mostly fruit & sugar.
Leif: Thorn . . . I hope this doesn’t offend you, but . . .
Well, I’ve been looking up articles about your recovery. From the dragon? Like, the physical stuff. The burns and all.
Thorn: Um . . . I’m not “offended”. But . . .
A lot of the news about that is wrong. They’re guessing. Or making things up.
— at least, that’s how it used to be. It got hard to read, so I made myself stop looking at it.
Leif: Yeah . . . I thought it might be hard for you to talk about, which is why I didn’t just ask . . . But the articles kept contradicting each other. Or saying things that I can see in person are wrong.
And a lot of them take a very prurient interest.
Thorn: Sorry, I don’t know what “prurient” means —
[yoink!]
[tap tap tap]
Leif (typed): It means they were inappropriately nosy about how/whether you have sex now
Thorn: You know . . . that’s not “prurient” when it comes from you.
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…Okay no one in the US really cares about a war hero’s sex life, but Ceannis does?
People in the US love to speculate about the sex lives of anyone whose body is unusual due to a disability/injury. (Which is why Leif leads up to this by asking about the burns.) The kind of bodily harm Thorn survived is basically unique in Ceannis — if not on the whole planet.
As we also saw with the officer talking to Juniper a couple strips ago, the general public knows from the news how serious Thorn’s injuries were, but may have a spotty understanding of how much he’s recovered.
…There are people who really wonder about this shit?
Use Google and you’ll see. Or just pick up any tabloid, of the sensatonalist kind.
Remember that unlike US war heroes, Thorn is celebrity. Now think about how much news coverage sex life of US celebrities gets … even when healthy.
I was gonna ask why anyone’s sex life should be important for anyone that’s not them or intimately involved with them to know, but then I remembered that celebrities have basically no privacy in America.
Haha what a clever title
What’s up with Leif’s leg in panel 9? Looks like it has a braided effect going on.
Cabled socks.
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