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Overlady: Attack of the Minions (Thread II)

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tahu1809 said:
Nice little Brithday present, thanks EarthScorpion! As to this latest bit itself, way is it that every time I read these interludes I realize that Louise, the literal Evil Over-LordLady, is likely the lesser of two evils. I mean my god if this was any other story Kirche would be a bad guy!
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H-How exactly?
 
Mutton said:
That's a decent explanation; although hiring them just for intimidation is dumb, if they completed their contract, then yeah, they're freelancers once he got beat. I'm not quite sure what level of realistic Overlady is running on, as it tends to swing reasonably hard in between, hence the question on mercs.
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Because they are three people, one of them heavily injured (the most powerful mage, too), with a prisoner to guard and a great deal of money on them.

Monmon hired the mercenaries because she was quite aware that they couldn't fight their way out and that mercenaries like money a lot and thus - if they were really as wicked as Don Marikos said - there was a good chance that they'd accept their losses, kill everyone there, take all her precious money, and hand in their former boss' corpse for the money.

For some reason, she's good at thinking like a mercenary.
Aleph said:
Or, TL,DR: He lost, he was taken prisoner, he couldn't pay them anymore. And mercenaries are only loyal for as long as you pay them to be.
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And historically in this era and before, often not even that long.
 
so is the whole Tabitha's subplot with the King Joseph has as much significance as it is in the canon, or is it just business as usual in the Overlady's Gallian royal line?

I got a feeling the fact that Joseph didn't flat out exsanguinate the D'Orleans line was what got him the moniker "The Mad King" in this verse
 
EarthScorpion said:
Ice on the stairs should do it, Tabitha thought to herself. Or maybe she should just have Irukuwa tear the roof off and eat the girl. Her familiar did so like eating people. And Tabitha liked making her friends happy.
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It's an odd feeling, being terrified of a girl that you also want to cry for and give a hug to. Like reading a Worm or F.E.A.R. fic (no, that was not a hint, you update what you update; it's just a reference). It takes skill to write a very scary killer as so sympathetic.

You've certainly conveyed Isabella's character pretty well: just like canon, I want her to die in a fire. Possibly a pink fire, but Kirche killing her might be more satisfying.
 
Prince Charon said:
It's an odd feeling, being terrified of a girl that you also want to cry for and give a hug to. Like reading a Worm or F.E.A.R. fic (no, that was not a hint, you update what you update; it's just a reference). It takes skill to write a very scary killer as so sympathetic.

You've certainly conveyed Isabella's character pretty well: just like canon, I want her to die in a fire. Possibly a pink fire, but Kirche killing her might be more satisfying.
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Really? I kind of want her to die from icicles in dangerous places or blood behaving exactly how she doesn't want it to.
 
No no no.

She's a princess. Obviously an evil dragon will kidnap her...and probably eat her.

After all, it's not as if forest imps are real.
 
Prince Charon said:
The general point though, is that we all want her to die painfully.
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I'm not too picky about the pain part, I just want Tabitha to get the chance to do it herself. Though I'm kind of assuming that she's been forced into Evil as in canon.

Anyway, very fun interlude, and I'm looking forward to more!
 
Winged One said:
I'm not too picky about the pain part, I just want Tabitha to get the chance to do it herself. Though I'm kind of assuming that she's been forced into Evil as in canon.
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Considering that Tabitha at the very leas has a smal enough monkeysphere that she does not care about the lives of other people as long as her friends are happy and one of her closest friends is a clearly evil and man-eating dragon, I don't quite think her evilness is the sort of thing that can be handwaved away with saying that she was forced into it.
 
Pipeman said:
Considering that Tabitha at the very leas has a smal enough monkeysphere that she does not care about the lives of other people as long as her friends are happy and one of her closest friends is a clearly evil and man-eating dragon, I don't quite think her evilness is the sort of thing that can be handwaved away with saying that she was forced into it.
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I don't mean she isn't really Evil or anything like that, just that it had a cause and if this story is close enough to what I remember of canon that cause means I'd like Tabitha to get some revenge for it.
 
So, is Tabitha Evil or evil? I mean:
Not just evil deeds, which can be carried out in pretty much any levels of lighting and climatic conditions. In fact, some of the most evil deeds are done by well-fed men sitting in tastefully lit rooms on comfortable chairs as they fill out paperwork and give orders, with not a flaming brazier nor a throne made out of skulls to be seen. No, these were Evil deeds. The difference is, the person who coined the phrase 'the banality of evil' had never encountered real Evil, which always tries its best to be stylish about things, and even when it fails at least fails in interestingly tasteless ways.
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She doesn't really seem to fit Evil (which Isabelle does with hilariously passing colors), but I don't know if it's just due to lack of viewpoints or if she's actually a Good person who's quite content being evil.
 
grommile said:
I have one question about this chapter:

Has anyone sane ever been installed as Pope?
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Presumably, whenever a particularly notable pope dies, the cardinals elect the most boring candidate to have time to recover and rebuild.

Whether this is effective, or just encourages a cycle of Popes who can control themselves taking over after Popes who can not is a question for the ages.
 
Gear-2557 said:
I don't know if its been stated before but am I the only one who notest that the "Good" von Zerbst children are predominantly female while the "Evil" von Zerbst are predominantly male?
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I think it's a mix with the Evil ones. Maybe Kirche keeps murdering the boys and claiming they're Evil, or maybe Douchebag von Zerbst is cursed or something.
 
Gear-2557 said:
I don't know if its been stated before but am I the only one who noticed that the "Good" von Zerbst children are predominantly female while the "Evil" von Zerbst are predominantly male?
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Not really. We've seen, what, three so far? Dani, Kirche and Don Marikos. And Dani mentioned that the last evil half-sibling to try to kill him was female.
 
Academic Guardian said:
Er, so Tabitha is a Good person doing evil while Louise is an Evil person trying to do good? But doesn't that make Tabitha an Evil person because she is doing evil things while being Good?

*brain is sizzling*
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Charlotte's Evil now.

She's got spikes, you know. And a dragon. One that eats people, even.

Also, I was rather amused by Montmorency's hesitation at the sight of foamy, oil-slicked nude men grappling.
 
Academic Guardian said:
Er, so Tabitha is a Good person doing evil while Louise is an Evil person trying to do good? But doesn't that make Tabitha an Evil person because she is doing evil things while being Good?
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You seem to have it backwards: 'good' is a moral choice, while 'Good' is a fashion statement.

Doing 'evil' things and doing 'Evil' things are not necessarily related, as Louise has been demonstrating for the duration of this entire story.
 
PostwarGryphon said:
I think it was stated before in a heroic interlude that there are no male children in the Zeberst Family (That is not inclueding random evil siblings) there is only Female and 'Male'.
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Yeah... IIRC the Zerbst kids are all daughters. But apparently Dani still tries to be a guy.
 
Couch-Gamer said:
Heh. I can see Louise buying out the heroic group to use against the puppet government of tristain. The only worry is guiche, and she has the "You have been serving the real evil!" argument to play on him.
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If Lina Inverse taught me nothing else, it's that you don't have to honor a contract with bad people.
 
uju32 said:
The fact that she's so functional is a minor miracle, especially given the fact that it's stated that lots of people so treated snap and murderize the relatives responsible for their....training.
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Nah, the murderization occurs because Gallian Royals have both side of the spectrum running concurrently instead of alternating it like every other Brimiric Royals

As a result...well, they just do whatever comes naturally to them
 
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