I had a dream last night about how this comic was gonna end and it was…so bizarre. Like it was "revealed" that the whole story took place on an island, they crossed the ocean through magic bubbles and walking on the bottom of the sea and they eventually landed on…a land made entirely of sweets.
At that point I was like "Wait what? This can't be it!" And it also mentioned LADY being the one who orchestrated Argus's death even though we clearly saw that he planned his own demise himself, and just all sorts of nonsense.
Oh, and I STILL didn't get to see Argus's face.
Wait...did you just dream up a crossover between BatB and the Wizard of Oz?! (Sorry, the "magic bubbles" immediatly screamed "Glenda the Good" to me...)
As to not seeing Argus's face... that depends on how much Megan wants to torture us :)
The bubbles I saw in my dream reminded me more of the Avatar the Last Airbender episode where they have to cross the lake with the giant sea serpant and they use waterbending to make bubbles for their traveling group to use as an oxygen source while they walk on the sea floor.
What a good, bittersweet ending to this brief reunion. It's okay to be a little sad, Beauty-- she's your mom.
I'm glad Swan Mom is content with her fate. I suspected it's not just that she chose it herself, but that as the new Arbitrator, she can make better deals and keep the magic under better control than Beast ever could. She's a very clever Fae. :)
Not a mom myself, though I also see the issues with the trope. But I feel like Swom is better candidate for the role than most. Her dialogue suggests that she's lived for quite a while prior to this. She made a choice to experience life as a human and everything that came with it. And she's in a position to do something that she knows will give Beauty a chance to have a full life, as opposed to a mom who might throw herself in the path of an incoming threat with no way of knowing if the action will save her child or just lead to them both being killed. Plus, she still gets to live out some kind of life as (likely) the castle's new arbiter. And if a morose beast with mental health issues and no inherrant magical ability could work some loopholes into the contracts, I can only imagine how much good a swan maiden could do in the same job.
So Beauty is sorry for what her illness cost her mother, but Elise points out that she knew what she was doing and is happy with the outcome. There is some discussion of the sacrificial mom trope in the comments, but it's complicated here, I think. In other versions of the story, Beauty's mom is almost always dead instead (the Villeneuve version has her in fae prison), so at least in this comic, she still plays a role in the story and continues to exist in some form. This version also gives her a lot more agency--what mother, knowing that there was a way to save her child from dying, wouldn't make the trade? Sure, staying put would have meant she could continue to be in her husband's and other children's lives, but could she live with the guilt of letting Beauty die? Could they, if they found out? I think this route ultimately was the one that did the least harm, so I'm fine with the way things played out for Elise. If she'd been coerced into the sacrifice, that would be another matter, but since she wasn't, I think this works.
At that point I was like "Wait what? This can't be it!" And it also mentioned LADY being the one who orchestrated Argus's death even though we clearly saw that he planned his own demise himself, and just all sorts of nonsense.
Oh, and I STILL didn't get to see Argus's face.
Can someone explain my weird dream?
PS. Swam Mom is best Mom.
As to not seeing Argus's face... that depends on how much Megan wants to torture us :)
I'm glad Swan Mom is content with her fate. I suspected it's not just that she chose it herself, but that as the new Arbitrator, she can make better deals and keep the magic under better control than Beast ever could. She's a very clever Fae. :)