Funny / Shadows over Meridian

• When Jade finishes explaining how crushing the heroes' PR by turning the public favor towards Phobos can be achieved, she accentuates her point by crushing the rock Frost is sitting on and causing him to fall on his rear.
• After Jade has created her palace in the Shadow Realm, some of the Shadowkhan tribes seem to make themselves at home and take up different duties of their own volition. Jade finds members of the Samurai Khan patrolling as guards, the Bat Khan nesting in towers, the Sumo Khan working as gatekeepers, the Ninja Khan trailing her as personal servants/bodyguards, and some of the Leech Khan splashing in the royal garden's pond.
• After Phobos and his forces hide in an abandoned fortress, Frost attempts to stealthily get his hands on something, only to be caught in the act by Tracker and Sniffer. His prize turns out to be a box of sweet rolls, which the two hunters have been fighting over during the two days they've been in the fortress. When Frost complains that Tracker has hogged all the sweet rolls, the latter says they're not all for him while giving Sniffer one. Frost furiously calls that cheating.
  • They're not the only ones enjoying the Earth dishes the Shadowkhan have provided them with; Phobos takes a liking to potato chips.
• When Phobos publicly apologizes to Raythor for casting him to the Abyss of Shadows, Frost asks Tracker if this is a dream. When Phobos then promotes Raythor to his second-in-command, Frost decides this must be a dream.
• When Jade first summons the giant shadow snakes to be used as mounts, a deranged man quickly claims as his own one he names as "Shadow Striker", eager to bring death to the rebels. The snake eventually takes the man in its mouth, but instead of being scared, he approves of the snake seemingly knowing what to do with the rebels.
  • When the army reaches Snowpoint and the "snake riders" charge to reinforce the fortress, the crazy man is still in Shadow Striker's mouth while urging his steed to hurry before they miss their chance to bring terror to the rebels.
  • Captain Ymir is embarrassed by the soldier's antics, and Jade is so baffled that she eventually decides this crazy man is one of the weirdest things she has ever seen.
  • That soldier, Tyrian, continues these antics into the battle itself, pausing in the middle of fighting to ponder what epithets to give Shadow Striker in addition to the name. Ymir sighs that soldiers like this make him want to retire, while Shadow Striker gets bored and wanders off to find someone else to attack.
• When Jade wants to know Windblade's name, the Mogriff tells it by screeching and growling. When she fails to get Jade's confusion, Ymir has to clarify that Jade wants to hear it in common speech.
• Jade is talking to Metalbeak about how their enemies are probably about to do something stupid... only for a Mantis-Khan to tell her that the army has retreated from the mountain, forcing her to admit that they might be smarter than she thought.
• Jade's reaction to learning that Tyrian is now worshipping her.
• When Tyrian calls Metalbeak a "bloodthirsty fool", everyone else stares flatly at him, questioning since when he's had a problem with bloodthirstiness.
• When Alan whips out a crossbow to shoot an arrow with a rope high on the mountainside, Amelia doubts it'll work since she suspects he bought it from Blunk. He successfully gets the rope secured where he's aiming for and brags he was right the bow's fail-safe... only for the contraption to fall apart.
• When Alan suggests catching some Snowpuffs for lunch, Tinsley, Caroline and Amelia all crossly forbid it. What's more, Amelia told Tinsley just a moment ago that their survival comes before cute animals.
  • Jade also thinks Snowpuffs are too cute to eat and is reluctant to try the one she's offered, offhandedly thinking if there's still time to have a Shadowkhan bring her a giant rat so that she can eat its brain.
• When Tyrian crashes into a Ninja Khan while dancing, Jade makes a joke about him challenging the Khan to a dance fight... which Tyrian takes seriously. And even stranger, the Khan gets just as into the dance as Tyrian does.
• Caroline reveals that she's made an odorous potion meant to conceal their smell with ingredients from a Passling village. Alan dreads to imagine what said ingredients are.
• In an effort to cheer the group up in Chapter 23, Tinsley sings with Alan a song Vera's grandfather taught her about a Passling who, in a vain effort to win a queen's love, tried to bathe in the sea, only for it to turn green.
• While discussing with Rosetta in Chapter 24, Quinn snarks that Tyrian is probably doing something that's either stupid, dangerous or both. As Rosetta tries to say that's exaggeration, the scene cuts to the lunatic approaching Jade's sleeping steed Onyx with the intention of bathing the shadow snake. When Jade later summons Onyx to her side, the snake spits out Tyrian, which doesn't amuse Jade.
• When Vera's team enters the crystal mines to escape the Frostbiter, Amelia is the last one to fall through the ventilation tunnel and lands on top of Alan. When she hears his muffling and looks down, she discovers that she's sitting with her crotch on his face. She then calls him a pervert and kicks him in embarrassment.
• After Jade successfully makes the Frostbiter return home by offering it food, the Mogriffs, Ymir and the soldiers are utterly baffled when she acts like "taming" the Super-Persistent Predator (a feat not even Meridian's past queens were capable of) is no big deal.
  • As Caroline witnesses this from her hideout and the injured Philip asks what's going on, he wonders if he's delirious from pain when she tells him that "some little blue girl is taming the Frostbiter" and asks her to repeat that.
• When Quinn comments on how just a few of the light crystals in the mines would make them rich for life, Jade gives her Uncle's iconic two-fingered strike and tells her not to touch the Mogriffs' crystals.
• Tyrian pauses in the middle of his fight against Vera's team to ask for romantic advice from Alan (in other words, asking if an enemy's heart is a good gift for Rosetta). Though the latter gives only a deadpan reply about giving flowers or just being less of a psycho, Tinsley suggests dinner under the stars and writing a song. Tyrian thinks it's a good idea and wonders if he could ask Jade for romantic songs of the Shadow Realm.
  • Vera and Amelia, for once totally agreeing with each other, snap at their friends to stop giving their enemy love advice, and Tyrian tells Tinsley and Alan that he'll continue their discussion after capturing them. Tinsley asks with a nervous grin if he couldn't just let them go, he laughs for several moments before replying "no" in the flattest tone he's used until now. As he resumes attacking her and Alan, he promises to try to leave them at least in one piece, though.
  • After Tyrian's been dealt with, Tinsley hopes he'll be successful with his romantic interest.
• In Chapter 27, Tyrian assures Rosetta that his eyes are fully healed... and then immediately walks into a wall. Twice.
  • In the following chapter, he states that an eye injury won't slow him down while he defiantly stares down Ymir... who sighs and points out that he's standing to the right of where Tyrian is looking. A short time later, this repeats with Tyrian trying to look adoringly at Jade, and looking at the wrong spot.
• During the Prison Riot of Chapter 31, a Ninja Khan stealthily (and literally) kicks one of the escaped prisoners' behind and slinks away as he tries to regain his balance and ends up touching the rears of his two female companions. The poor fellow has enough time to gulp as the angered women give him a slap and a Groin Attack before more ninjas surprise and subdue all three of them. Makes you wonder if the ninjas planned for this entire scenario to play out.
• Jasper Wildstorm mentions that Donoban Ascelot once caused a herd of tundra goats to run through Castwell's Peak and ended up owning a new wall to Aspen Emmony.
• Phobos is utterly bewildered when Lily, a little girl who befriended his Whisperers, showers him with adoration when he rescues her. She even offers to braid his hair! Raythor cannot help feeling amused by how his liege doesn't know what to do with this unprecedented affection.
  • Phobos is not the only one who has to resist the urge to snap in his irritation at unwanted admirers; while waiting outside Mayor Asta's office, Gargoyle finds himself surrounded by a group of curious kids, one of whom puts a flower on his side.
• Flora, a local swamp guide in Riverdeen, is so apathetic towards the nobility that not only is she completely unafraid of Phobos, she actually insults him for looking girly.
  • Tracker seems impressed by Flora's gall following her first meeting with Phobos.
• Phobos very quickly gets sick of Flora and Edmund's Unresolved Sexual Tension and flat out demands that they either address the issue or set it aside for the sake of their mission, to their embarrassment.

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