Legends from Darkwood pt 2: Rose's story

[q99]

Following off of part 1, we continue our story of unicorns and hunters, this time focusing mostly on young Rose.



Where we last left our heroine, she had just shot a unicorn while a young girl cried about it.

Wait, what'dya mean Rose is the heroine, not Raynd? Raynd's more badass!

Ah whatever, we'll follow Rose anyway :)
Psst, Raynd is totally the heroine.

Rose runs home to tell her daddy, the mayor of the town, about it. After hearing the story of the unicorn, he starts explaining to her how prosperous their town is.



She starts crying again, and he explains that it may seem cruel, but it's all for the best, and she'll understand once she bags her first unicorn.

Wait, what?



Oh yes. Rose has been trained since she was little to be Raynd mk 2.



Not knowing what else to do, Rose runs away from home, and ends up at a local restaurant, not far from the sections where adventurers hang out.



Oh, a smile! She's feeling better already :) Looks like daddy doesn't have to worry, all Rose needed was a little time to get over it.


Next part: Assassinations.

Scans from Legends from Darkwood #1, 5 1/4 pages from a 34 page issue.


Suggested tags:
Title: Legends from Darkwood
Publisher: Antarctic Press
Creator: Chistopher Reid
Creator: John Kantz

Comments

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If you're going to accept that the magic of virginity (A phrase I never thought I'd find myself typing) is enough to affect them at all, why assume that being wild and free has any impact at all on the influence a virgin would have over them?

St Martha of Tarasque bound a unicorn with her girdle, as did the girl in the story of St George (Well, presumably not the SAME girdle, that would just be silly, and unhygenic too)

Isidore of Seville made many comments about the fireceness of a unicorn in battle, but noted that when a virginal maiden beckoned and offered it a lap to lay it's head on, it instantly calmed down and became as docile as a lamb, and could be taken by hunters.

[q99]

It's not that virginity has magic effect on them in this world, it's that they, being pretty smart, trust virgins and are willing to let themselves be seen by them, but it doesn't override their sense of self-preservation.

After all, the one in part 1 was running away from Raynd's gun even though she was a virgin and the unicorn was with Rose, also a virgin.

I dunno if Darkwood unicorns would be willing to be girdled even by a virgin, and they strike me as the type to bolt once they knew something was up.

[icon_uk]

Ah right, sorry, I thought we were commenting on the general notion of unicorns, rather than specifically these ones.

[q99]

Yea, I can see it in other worlds.

It's only short sightedness that prevents us from having breeding populations of unicorns in the modern day!

[icon_uk]

Charles Addams had his own suggestion for what happened



I wish I could find the cartoon I used to have which showed the animals filing into the Ark and next to them the "Stand-by Ticket" line with the unicorns, centaurs, gryphons etc all looking a little dejected...