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What does Renge mean by “for love”? Did Ozma do it “for love”, or did Renge not tel Anlisse the truth “for love”? And why?
dennuifhfedjdif jerisdoks Cant wait till the next update!!
What purpose did taking Jellia’s name serve? Making a secret agent doesn’t seem a very Oz-like.
A name change is often a new start, a rebirth; perhaps Ozma was trying to help Jellia grow up, or needed her to do a specific task? Maybe she needed protection from someone one of her pranks had deeply offended?
Renge is gaining so much complexity.
Yay, Dorothy Gale! We all missed you, still do. :’) Glad we get to see some of Renge’s backstory. Working on my own Oz story where Dorothy never really lost her shoes in the first book. She actually hid them and “lied” about what happened to them, her modern day descendent finds them in her old house and returns them to her. Still in the rough draft stage.
I see that Renge’s map is based on the version wherein Ozian East and West are reversed as opposed to those of the mundane world. (For the gallery: this is not a mistake. There are a couple of different iterations of authoritative Ozian maps in fannish circulation, and one of them, very early on, stuck the Munchkin and Winkie Countries on the opposite sides of the map from their cardinal points as stated in Baum’s text. By the time this was noticed, the map had been sufficiently well-recognized that it was rationalized that Oz’s geography just happens to work this way, with west on the right and east on the left, and it’s been maintained that way for a long while now.)
Meanwhile — curiouser and curiouser. Ozma taking Jellia’s name is…odd. And “Renge Brlas” is a peculiar construction. Anagram, perhaps?
I’m aware of that East/West thing, too. Though I usually prefer it the usual way (East munchkins on right, West Winkies on left).
Emma’s reaction to the Deadly desert: she won’t be forgetting THAT anytime soon!!
I also really like the way Dorothy is shown being given a “green” dress (another nod to the original book) and how King Scarecrow looks – he appears more “him” and less man-like as he did throughout the previous pages. Still, great work!
I’m starting to like Renge/Jellia’s backstory. Look forward to seeing more revelations, especially the name part.
Renge is an anagram fro green…? I couldn’t find any others that would work with her full name, though
“Slarb” is is very unlikely to be an anagram independent of her first name. Too many consonants.
Anyway, I typed the full name into an online anagram solved, and got some amusing solutions. I guess my favorites are “barren legs” and “bel rangers”. XD
*anagram solver
Welp, there you have it folks. Namesake’s terrible secret.
We want ladies to stop shaving their legs. Boo to barren legs.
I just shot water out my nose.
No barren legs? What about hose? Pantyhose? Legwarmers? Knee-highs? Socks?
Actually the country reversal first popped up in a map drawn by Baum himself… It was quite intentional on his part, as he reversed the compass to go along with it. It’s been speculated by David Maxine that this might have something to do with the spell that Glinda cast to make Oz invisible to the outside world… Baum was often thinking one step ahead in his books even though he never intended to write a series… and it it’s quite possible that the spell had sort of a mirror effect on Oz.
Baum = the original Steven Moffat.
I love panel 5. The contrast between the happy Jellia and the dour Renge that we know is great. The annoyed king Scarecrow and the cameo appearance of Jack Pumpkinhead are fun details.
Canon book readers know which prank is being pulled.
I have the sinking feeling that Jellia losing her name will tie into the “real world” Namesakes giving up theirs somehow.
“You sold your name?!”
Happy to see this plot point being picked up again, even if it may not be the same thing.
Selling your name sounds very familiar…but from a different story entirely…
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/SpiritedAway
There is a lot of myth and beleif about the power of ones name.
It’s said that giving someone your name gives them hte ability to take oyur soul and control your life.
It’s a superstition that’s been played on in a lot of fiction.
(Skullduggery Pleasent anyone?)
Look- cheerful Jellia as opposed to sad Renge. That name change did something.
Hm. Ozma couldn’t kill herself. She had too much responsibility as the Ruler, and too much feeling of responsibility to drop it — probably too much mystical connection to Oz, as Ozma, to be able to abdicate. But the gaining and losing of the Dorothies kept eating away at her. So she found a solution: be someone else. Be the cheerful, carefree maid Jellia Jamb.
A classic psychological break.
Of course, that left Oz without a ruler, but all the power that should be Ozma’s was still there…
AHAHAHA. Panel 5 with Jack illustrates what is probably my favorite single scene in any Oz book.
Yeah, I referenced that scene in the comments on the previous page…guess great minds think alike, and they’d already planned to use that scene in her self-exposition!
I think I can stick to a simple d’awwwwwww for this one
I can guess where the panel with the scarecrow and Jack is based on in one of the OZ books…I remember Scarecrow the Ruler summoning Jellia to act as an interpreter because he assumed that Jack, being from another country, speaks foreign language (even though they speak the same language and understand each other just fine…heh! No wonder Jellia was so amused!)
Yup, that’s the scene.
Did not see Renge being Jellia coming… kinda interesting cause I have major plans for Jellia in my Oz book (they don’t involve her as Wizard though).
And yes I love the Jellia as translator scene reference, that was Baum at his best.
How do you pronounce Brlas?
Bruh-Lass
How long till this page title is listed in the Archives?
The movie never mentioned the desert? Huh… I grew up with the book and didn’t see the movie till middle school, so I mentally default to the book version. And that mentioned the desert right off the bat, when Dorothy first asked how to return home.
And I have no idea why, but… for some reason, when I was little, I visualized the map of Oz like this, with the West on the right, before I realized that that wasn’t the way directions worked. The “logic” may have been that things went from left to right because that was how reading worked. I don’t think our copy ever had a map in it.
And now I find out I was right? o_O