>>280342926 (OP) >main gimmick is completely dropped after 10 chapters >main villain is defeated halfway through >we still have 15 chapters of a small scale medieval war
The pacing of this manga is bizarre, but it works.
>>280343224 >Everyone gets a representative to participate in the execution so no one feels left out
What a wholesome moment of unity for the peoples of the mountains
>>280343064
this story successfully avoided my biggest pet peeve. when a villain goes "no no, you shouldn't kill me, it'd be irrational" and then the good guys say something along the lines of "but it's the right thing to do", or worse yet, let him go. a group of people angry at a monster won't act rationally, they'll just murder him.
>>280343705
Well yeah, but we're not medieval. We're modern humans with modern sensibility. Guaranteed if we were medieval, this would be thousands of times more satisfying.
>>280343361
I mean where else would take go after his death? I feel like 20ish long chapters is the right amount to show Wolfram's arc and then end it at Swiss's founding. If there were more chapters, it may drag so this series ended at a decent spot. >>280343201 >MUGUUAAA
Never seen a guy askin' for it.
>>280343602
Here's how Wolfram can still win this:
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>>280343889
Back when I first read this, this was also where I first dropped this, for some reason I found Wolfram charismatic and later when I read the rest I didn't really care about what happened because I didn't find Leopold to be as good of a villain as Wolfram was. But now it's a really interesting read since the way the battle of Morgarten happened is very interesting.
>>280343836
Maybe I'm just blanking on some of Wolfram's finer works but I think spike driven up the ass is a lot rougher than anything he's dished out
and it's supposed to be humiliating
>>280347085
I only wish there were more knight action. The part when they had a ton of knights up on the ladders and bring out different 1h weapons was cool.
>>280343612 >>280343638 >>280343509
you're forgetting that this is a gathering of angry mob, not obedient Roman professional soldiers.
it's unrealistic that they were able to restrain themselves from tearing him to pieces before the Elderman passed his sentences. the Dutch would have cannibalised him
>>280343602
Being made to live a long and healthy life and able to determine my potentials. Then as I fade away on my death bed, a cute young nurse will hold my hand and say "d-don't get the wrong idea, I'm not here with you because I like you or anything!"
That would be true torture
>>280343580
All whores go to heaven. Her absence before was felt and it's a nice sendoff.
If I'm being honest I probably would have been too squeamish to watch. Would have simply listened to the tongs of the hammer. And the mangaka chose to go with not cheers but quiet tears? Wolfram's death must be something akin to a public exorcism more than an execution. The man is a shared trauma of the land.
I think the story about the devil of the pass is true. Wolfram was possessed by it and the Swiss had to die until they paid back the debt plus interest when they tricked him years ago. Should have blamed the girl and her father pulling the "fine print" trick on a supernatural being than Wolfram
>Goes to heaven like the good loyal man he is >But is constantly raped there by all of the women he killed
For a gay man, that's the worst fate imaginable!
>>280346888
He seared a kid's feet with hot irons and then put his dad in a noose and forced the kid to hold him up as long as he could while standing on his charred feet.
>>280353888
That picture made me decide to look up Wolfram fanart. I have to say, I find it funny how, out of the eleven pictures he has on Danbooru, two depict him crossdressing. Seeing how three out of eleven are official art, that means that a fourth of the fanart of him on Danbooru depicts him crossdressing.
>>280359986
there's something fascinating about nips when they see a dude who are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of women and children and then think "hm yes i bet he would look really cute wearing a maid outfit"
>>280361054
On Danbooru, there are only two Wolfsmund pictures that don't feature Wolfram. One is official art of Grete (the mistress of the inn), the other is fanart of Leopold. >>280361141
I'm aware that Pixiv has much more fanart, but that's precisely why I didn't mention it in my post, since I was sure that, with a larger sample size, there wouldn't be such a funny statistic to take note of.
Wolfram shoul have bitten his own tongue and choked on it before they gagged him and then gave him the biggest anal dildo that dedicated mountain peasants could afford.
>>280343482
I lile that there's no cheering or screams of joy. Just hateful tears of catharic relief that it's all over and fucker is dead for good meeting fitting end.
>>280362314
He wouldn't. He was a psychopath and like all psychopath He might br cunning but also they are notorious cowards. They feel Zero loyalty and thier own self preservation is is always priority. They want to survive and live confotrably. He just to lare realized tjat he no longer was in a position of streght or to dictate terms.
He would switch his attitude to offering help to rebels and trying to weasel his way out. By gagging him they denied him a chance to pled for his life.
>>280343509
Crucifixion was abandoned in Christian nations around the 4th century as it was seen as an mockery of Jesus Christ death.
People switched to hanging, impalment, quatering, puling by horses and beheading, and wheel breaking, sometimes drowning or being buried alive.
Burning at stake was reserved as punishment for heretics.
>>280361429
He has appealing character design and he's a charismatic prettyboy sadist which is sure to lure women in, so this is actually not outlandish even by anime fanart standards.
>this peasant rebels should treat me with respect, because I'm a noble and they're a dirty rabble >yes, I killed many of them through extremely sadistic and drawn out ways, does this influence how I should be treated by them?
>>280354360 >stomach wounds are basically a death sentence at that point in time
Maybe that's why he suicidally charged Leopold and his knights later in the story, he knew he won't survive for long anyway
>>280349036
No, then they would have just stabbed the guy in the latrine and been done with it. Wolfram specifically chose a torturous way to kill him - at the expense of one of the most precious resources during a siege, too.
>>280376614
Are they retarded? He burned his hands off holding a shield up as part of the assault. He did his part. What, do only the people who fought Wolfram get a reward?
>>280377073
Thanks OP
What song would you guys play for the widow you met at the war afterparty whom you had the hots for?
I'd play That's Where You're Wrong. Bitches love that song
>>280376637
Why would he? Any situation like that would imply that something happened to him too, and if something happened to him too, who gives a fuck about those nameless soldiers