March 21st, 2017
Yep. This is kinda like an adult ripping a teenage girl's shirt off to show everyone her birthmark.
I'm falling over laughing at Jonan's level of fed-the-hell-up, but this is an incredibly bad thing he's done here. I'm still wondering why he doesn't just write it out? Or fingerspell it if he's learned enough. Because that fifth panel, he seems to be going NOW do you get it?? to the rest.
Ironically it may be his first evil deed with *good* intentions, if he believes that the gang won't betray Xira.
posted at 7:00am on March 21st, 2017
Jonan's been grouchily waiting for everybody else to figure it out or Xira to admit it for... a while now. I don't get the idea he's expecting any of them to do something awful to each other, though, no.
I think... this is not an excuse, but I think if he'd been going to tell them when he hadn't lost patience, he could have written it out, probably gotten Tareth's attention, and waited for her to react, relay, and everybody to dispute his IIRC rather circumstantial evidence... I am not entirely sure he hasn't been keeping his mouth shut the secret to this point partly because he didn't want to deal with the resulting argument. He certainly doesn't right now.
I'm not surprised the guy who used to seal people's mouths shut for bothering him went with the invasive brute force method that proves it to everybody immediately.
...I also wouldn't be surprised if Jonan, who (if I'm remembering right and this was something that really happened) tried dyeing his hair as a teenager to hide his runewriter abilities, is resentful of Xira actually being able to conceal it. Could also be some spite from that.
posted at 10:04am on March 21st, 2017
YEAHHHHHH Shweta's comparison is pretty much spot-on!
and PK, you're remembering a real thing! It was hinted at in a vote incentive when someone asked why runewriters don't dye their hair.
posted at 2:31pm on March 22nd, 2017
Comment by Kira
It's a cultural thing to keep his hair covered, right? (Doubling to actually hide who he is) So I imagine Xira and Jonan may pretty much never get along after this.
Like, geez dude. Little much, Jonan.
posted at 5:24am on March 21st, 2017