Trivia / Teahouse

• Dear Negative Reader: Two. After people complained about them not uploading often enough (here◊) and when they were accussed of being racist for not having any non-white characters except a background servant (here◊).
• What Could Have Been: After the comic was cancelled relatively early into its run, the authors posted a full outline of how the plot would have gone had it continued.
• Word of God: a LOT has been revealed about the setting via channels other than the actual comic, such as Emirain's DA submissions and the Ask Axis Formspring.
  • Linneus and Atros' history got explained before the story got to show it: heavily implying if not explicitly stating
  • The world/country where the story is located has few people of colour. (Also apparent in the work.) It's also not Victorian England, and not Earth.
  • The end of the Xanthe/Linneus arc will end in a happy way. Whatever that may consist of.
  • Rhys doesn't force Axis, i.e. what Rhys does is not rape.
  • Lilith is the only whore in the house Xanthe is known to have bedded.
  • Claret's hair colour is probably natural.
  • There is an age limit of 18 in the Teahouse and it's absolute.
  • Xanthe doesn't like renting his whores out of the house.
  • Rory has just turned 18.
  • The Teahouse was once an actual teahouse.
  • Teahouse courtesans in general...
    • may visit the courtyard, and leave the house for a while at times.
    • may bed each other.
    • get to keep their tips and gifts.
    • cannot really refuse a customer.
  • Axis...
    • has worked for five houses starting at age 18, and was bought into Teahouse.
    • had trouble staying in the favour of previous houses, and was kicked out at least once.
    • was born on 8th August.
    • has a taste for the "seasoned woman" but otherwise quite universally appreciates the feminine sex. Especially if they're loaded in the rack.
    • dyes his hair.
    • has no desire for things other than having a lot of sex and being lazy.
    • does maids of the house.
    • loves kittens, an appreciates red and steak as his, respectively, favourite colour and food.