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mlai on Aug. 28, 2007

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Read the sister series FIGHT 1; each series follows a different group of characters in the same world.

Rant on Chase's speech:
It's not easy. There's a reason why nobody before me ever did this in a comic book, aside from the fear that it may not be well-received.
But because I'm such a stickler for authenticity, you can rest assured that whatever comes out of her mouth is broadcast to you direct from 1469, minus the weird archaic spelling for the same words which makes you sound like a drunk bee if you try to read them out loud.
Well, much of the time. The other times, either I modernize her speech a bit because the 100% authentic version is just too incomprehensible, or I just CBA'ed.
However, you may have noticed that she never says “thy, thou, thine, thee,” etc. There's a plot reason, but the personal/real reason is because it's laughable how in most other work, when a character says “thou art” it's automatically understood that he's omg medieval, even though all the rest of his speech is modern grammar. So I purposely do the opposite: Her speech is 100% archaic except she never says “thou art.”
Anyways, at this point me & Ed can't imagine her talking any other way, anymore.