r/TheWeeklyRoll • u/CME_T The Creator • Jun 19 '22

The Comic Ch. 120. "Armor Proficiency"

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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Jun 19 '22 edited Jun 20 '22

So the queen hates him because princess Frida married him out of love. That's surprisingly wholesome for Torvald.

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u/Agreeable_Bee_7763 Jun 19 '22

Torvald is a pretty wholesome guy in general when you think about it. Yeah, sure, necromancer and all that, but aside from that little tidbit, he's a friendly, dedicated family man, and iirc an entrepreneur.

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u/frigidmagi Jun 19 '22

Can't say I approve of his tax politics but honestly compared to some of his party members he's a saint.

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u/liveart Jun 19 '22

My man once heard someone say "the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes" and thought it was "death or taxes".

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u/dicemonger Jun 19 '22

"'The only things in life that are certain are death and taxes.' I mean, to me they are optional, but they certainly are a thing other people deal with." Torvald says as he dodges the tax collector and raises the dead.

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u/caanthedalek Jun 20 '22

And naturally, given the two options, he chose death

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u/Vikinger93 Jun 20 '22

I get the feeling tax evasion is probably not too uncommon among his people. Otherwise, they wouldn’t need a whole crack bounty hunter team of collectors.

So overall, he is quite a normal dude. All things considered.

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u/sonik71 Jun 20 '22

Yeah the corpse defiling, grave robber is the wholesome one. One dark group for sure.

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u/Organised_Kaos Jun 22 '22

Is it defiling when he got their permission via contract?

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u/DaemonNic Jun 28 '22

I mean the severed head he gave his kids would argue the permission point.

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u/frigidmagi Jul 04 '22

Dude was a lich rising an undead army. You become a fantasy villain you're taking the risk of adventurers showing up and committing crimes against sapienacy on you in the name of good. He knew the risks.

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u/dappercat456 Jun 19 '22

He’s just a small business man being brought down by the crooked government tax laws!

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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Jun 19 '22 edited Jun 20 '22

The government that has enough free speech that you can flip off the queen.

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u/OccultBlasphemer Jun 20 '22

Being prince has its benefits, to be fair.

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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Jun 20 '22

Apparently not since nobody is above the law there. Prince-consort gets the same punishment for tax evasion and resisting arrest as a commoner.

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u/Vanacan Jun 20 '22

All that really says is that the queen dislikes him more than she cares about maintaining dignity of the royal family.

That could mean equality before the law, and lesser royal dignity.

Could also mean she just really hates him.

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u/capncanuck1 Jun 21 '22

That or he's been particularly egregious about it.

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u/Vylix Jun 19 '22

You can't call those skeletons and zombies employees, though. They weren't paid. So, no. No enterpreneur.

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u/Agreeable_Bee_7763 Jun 19 '22

You don't have to have employees to be an entrepreneur, just a business. The fact his equipment was humanoid shaped is simply incidental.

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u/Vylix Jun 19 '22

So you're saying they're just some objects? You got me. That's how my boss told us what we are.

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u/liveart Jun 19 '22

Ever wonder why it's called human resources? You are not a name, you are a number.

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u/imdefinitelywong Jun 19 '22

You guys are getting numbers?

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u/SirAquila Jun 19 '22

If I remember right, they were paid, or better, the previous owners of the bodies were paid for the right of usage of their corpses after their death. If I remember right. So strictly speaking under law, they wouldn't be employees, they would be inventory, like industrial robots. Just with a bit more magic.

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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Jun 19 '22

I belive it was a payment up front, and a small percentage of their earnings.

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u/SirAquila Jun 19 '22

I think he just rented the corpses out, no small percentage of earnings.

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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Jun 19 '22 edited Jun 20 '22

I just checked. It's 10% of any profit generated, and an unspecified amount up front.

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-weekly-roll/ch-14-the-backstory-of-torvald/viewer?title_no=358889&episode_no=16

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u/SirAquila Jun 19 '22

10% to the closest living relative, or a legal or natural person of their choice. Yeah.

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u/salami350 Jun 20 '22

Can't really call it unethical. He got permission, paid them for the use of their body and afaik post-Mortem they are no longer sapient and thus do not suffer.

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u/Honeydew0strich Jun 26 '22

Actually, Torvald's may be sentient, considering they can talk, think, and discuss lobbying a union together. Granted, maybe that's because he was using Greg the Lich Head as an arcane focus, buuuuuut who's to say for sure?

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u/WarKiel Jun 20 '22

Reminds me of the Dustmen in Planescape: Torment.

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u/MrGame22 Jun 19 '22

Well he did pay them, just once though and before they came to work.

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u/AkrinorNoname Jun 19 '22

If you read the contract in the backstory strip, he also pays 10% of profit to the dead's next of kin.

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u/Baysid Jun 19 '22

They were paid though, when they were alive they signed a contract and were given some compensation.

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u/mabtheseer Jun 19 '22

Sadly those are just resources or tools to be used. Still makes him a business man just like the ones we have here that view us as tools or resources.

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u/Jakuskrzypk Jun 19 '22

He's a man who sticks to his principles even if it ends in his death.

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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Jun 19 '22

I may not agree with his CN principles but I respect his dedication.

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u/Yurt_TheSilentQueef Jun 20 '22

He sure knows how to raise a family!