Come to think of it, it's kind of strange that Mr. Green Hair apparently got off the hook after post #4016701. Cressey has him pinned down there, and the guards are arriving. If I understand post #4016828 correctly, Cressey is in fact a princess of the primary kingdom of the setting, so why isn't the guy in jail (or worse) for high treason?
Edit: I just looked at post #4923270 and its continuation, and now I'm wondering the same thing about that mentally unstable cyclops. Doesn't anyone care about people trying to kidnap/murder the princesses around here?
Come to think of it, it's kind of strange that Mr. Green Hair apparently got off the hook after post #4016701. Cressey has him pinned down there, and the guards are arriving. If I understand post #4016828 correctly, Cressey is in fact a princess of the primary kingdom of the setting, so why isn't the guy in jail (or worse) for high treason?
Edit: I just looked at post #4923270 and its continuation, and now I'm wondering the same thing about that mentally unstable cyclops. Doesn't anyone care about people trying to kidnap/murder the princesses around here?
From what I can tell, she is the youngest of three sisters from the royal family and that she seems to be a runaway or perhaps even disowned. Perhaps she didn't like the baggage that came with royalty and wanted to live a more free and independent life as an adventurer. As such she keeps her identity a secret, though the green hair guy figured it out and tried to cash in on it.
As for the cyclops girl, she was simply angry cause Cressey rather violently rejected an act of kindness and as a result wanted compensation for that healing potion she wasted.
You may be right about Cressey having left the royal family. I had assumed that she was sent out as an adventurer to train and get in touch with the common people, but the fact that we never see her together with the other royals supports your hypothesis.
Sure, it was rude and irrational of Cressey to swat away the potion, and I sympathized with Relica at the time. To avenge that rudeness by attacking with a lethal weapon and forcing the person who slighted you to humble herself is still mentally unstable, narcissistic behavior, in my opinion. (Impressive fighting, though.) Cressey hadn't asked for help and was injured and upset after fighting for her life. A reasonable reaction would have been to simply let the crazy two-eye take care of herself from then on.
You may be right about Cressey having left the royal family. I had assumed that she was sent out as an adventurer to train and get in touch with the common people, but the fact that we never see her together with the other royals supports your hypothesis.
Sure, it was rude and irrational of Cressey to swat away the potion, and I sympathized with Relica at the time. To avenge that rudeness by attacking with a lethal weapon and forcing the person who slighted you to humble herself is still mentally unstable, narcissistic behavior, in my opinion. (Impressive fighting, though.) Cressey hadn't asked for help and was injured and upset after fighting for her life. A reasonable reaction would have been to simply let the crazy two-eye take care of herself from then on.
Well Cressey certainly didn't seem to make the situation better when she started arguing with Relica during their second meeting, presumably hitting her buttons. The reason they ended up meeting a second time at all seems to have been that they were chasing the same prey and thus had a chance encounter. Relica seems to have demanded an apology for the prior incident only for Cressey to be something of a smug bitch. She seems to simply value her independence far to much that she becomes an obnoxious jerk.
I don't buy it. It's hard to tell from the panels what they are saying, but at least Cressey doesn't seem to be taunting her. In any case, if someone who has treated you very rudely refuses to acknowledge this, then it might be OK to tell them to fuck off and die. It's not OK to actually attack them with very credible killing intent. The idea that hurting someone's feelings should basically be a capital offense really bothers me. I'm willing to risk being seen as a jerk by people who like to imagine that other people owe them gratitude or an apology or whatever.
I don't buy it. It's hard to tell from the panels what they are saying, but at least Cressey doesn't seem to be taunting her. In any case, if someone who has treated you very rudely refuses to acknowledge this, then it might be OK to tell them to fuck off and die. It's not OK to actually attack them with very credible killing intent. The idea that hurting someone's feelings should basically be a capital offense really bothers me. I'm willing to risk being seen as a jerk by people who like to imagine that other people owe them gratitude or an apology or whatever.
No, it's rather clear that Cressey is kinda being a massive bitch at the start of the encounter. She seems to have jumped in to kill steal the bounty since you can see blood on Relica's sword. She then initiates the conversation, starts acting rude to Relica's response to which Relica becomes visibly upset, at which point she seems to act even more rude to which Relica attacks and given Relica didn't stab her later when she had the chance it's blatantly false to say it was with killing intent and most likely was an intimidation thing and would have either been stopped in front of or deliberately missed.
A belated clarification: When I wrote about Relica's "very credible killing intent", I meant "very credible to Cressey at the time". What if Cressey had killed or crippled her? Would it have been worth it, just to restore her honor after this perceived disgrace of the shattered potion? I won't debate the issue of who is being (more) unstable / a bitch any further, though, because I don't think we're making progress there.
(The only potential sort-of-justification for Relica's behavior I can think of is Cressey's final line being something like "So you want payment for your potion? Well, come and get it then, googly.". But there's no way to know whether that is the case.)