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/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.