Ch7p18
Chapter: Paso Doble
Location: Salamanca
Comic is back and I bet you didn’t think it would still be Steffano’s birthday and they’d still be having the same discussion!!!
↓ Transcript
4 Panels.
Panel 1: Alessandro stands up, holding his glass of red wine and looking into the fire. Steffano stands behind him.
Alessandro: We are at a turning point. This war is the opportunity our family has been waiting for and you're tossing it away.
Steffano: Excuse me, am I being given the recruitment speech tonight too?
Panel 2: The chubby, grey haired uncle sitting on the other chair next to the fireplace moves his long cigarrete around, while the aunt plays the piano behind him. He addresses Steffano, but is pointing towards the door (probably to Nikita).
Uncle 2: Oh, we would recruit that boy-toy of yours first. At least he seems to have his priorities straight.
Aunt: He is a Corvo, sweetie.
Panel 3: The aunt plays the piano, smiling horribly through a horrible facial scar.
Aunt: He'll come around when he actually sees the war.
Panel 4: Alessandro takes a sip of wine from his big big glass.
Steffano (off panel): I have seen enough of our fine people die for nothing, aunt. I was not positively impressed.
Aunt: You talk to us about death when you've seen what we've seen.
Panel 1: Alessandro stands up, holding his glass of red wine and looking into the fire. Steffano stands behind him.
Alessandro: We are at a turning point. This war is the opportunity our family has been waiting for and you're tossing it away.
Steffano: Excuse me, am I being given the recruitment speech tonight too?
Panel 2: The chubby, grey haired uncle sitting on the other chair next to the fireplace moves his long cigarrete around, while the aunt plays the piano behind him. He addresses Steffano, but is pointing towards the door (probably to Nikita).
Uncle 2: Oh, we would recruit that boy-toy of yours first. At least he seems to have his priorities straight.
Aunt: He is a Corvo, sweetie.
Panel 3: The aunt plays the piano, smiling horribly through a horrible facial scar.
Aunt: He'll come around when he actually sees the war.
Panel 4: Alessandro takes a sip of wine from his big big glass.
Steffano (off panel): I have seen enough of our fine people die for nothing, aunt. I was not positively impressed.
Aunt: You talk to us about death when you've seen what we've seen.
“boy toy” excuse me????
Typical “upperclass” attitude: Marriage is for political or commercial gain only and emotion-based relationships with “lower class” people are just for temporary entertainment…
Ah, revolution can’t come soon enough! 😈
I was counting on this scene still going on – It was not done yet! 🙂
The lovely family (dis)members are playing that same age-old game: Any selected atrocities committed by the other side are always excuse enough for whatever further escalation they always wanted anyway!
War criminals on both sides keep working together to hold both populations forever in a state of terror and themselves in command – a perfect plan, just as long as you simply ignore the bloodshed and the destruction committed against civilians on both sides…! 🤬