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Siegfried Isenstein escapes Captivity. The common tortures of German prisoners by the English speakers were beatings, rape and exposure to the elements, which was the main killer. Siegfried was disguised as an ordinary troop when he was captured, which spared him from being shot.

Wow this was probably a subconscious thing, I never noticed that for some reason. My original reason for giving Sigi his scar was to help keep him look unique; I had decided that a large amount of the Prussian officers should have facial scars at that point. Siegfried's original concept was to have Vincent's executive officer be a character who enjoys the war, this meant he had to have endured something particularly horrific before the war that stopped him from having any war-related anxiety. All of the other characters in Ottoway were profoundly displeased with their situations, and so I wanted a character who was very pleased, by contrast; but he had to be scared, literally and metaphorically. Siegfried was extremely beautiful, he represents a rare commodity that has been ruined, like a very rare flower that his been deliberately stamped on by some very cruel entity. He's a victim of the worst urges of humanity's darkest elements; he doesn't need to be preached to about the darkest aspects of mankind. He should look like he has endured something worse than death, and yet, he is still smiling and full of forgiveness and mercy. Because he's stoic and he has faith. Ps, I do celebrate Easter, thank you. Happy easter to you too, thanks for the ask!

Bird's Eye View of Konigsberg. Marking the fall of Konigsberg on April 9th. Konigsberg was called 'The City of Dreams,' and 'The Paris of The North', it was a prosperous port-city built by the Teutonic Order and stood for 800 years. 90% of the buildings were destroyed by The British RAF during wwi. The castle in the center of this composition was the birth place of Friedrich the Great, and also famously housed Napoleon at one time, in addition to the German Monarchs. I've fallen in love with the medieval gothic aesthetic of this lost city. I can think of no greater symbol of loss than a city of dreams that will never be rebuilt.

Edwin wears his wedding ring on his right hand which would make writing with the right hand difficult which implies he is left handed, but he claims he is ambidexterous. The bracelet on his left hand would also be uncomfortable, he can remove his silver if he needs to. Perhaps wearing silver on both hands signifies he has nothing more to write. Once he has made the decision to desert he knows he is unlikely to survive and the only thing he can do is destroy what is in front of him. Ofcourse the story is about him persuading Otto to come with him, but it is up to the reader to decide wheather this is saving Otto or condemning Otto.

Otto weeps, from Ottoway volume 2 (not yet released.)

THE WIRES!

Vincent's power stance XD. I missed drawing him. (It has been about 2 months.)

Current Wip.

"What are you?" Panel from Ottoway 2. Edwin's French is not perfect, but functional.

The reasonable four, They are such, because they are shown, in Moth, to challenge the rigid attitudes of their time, with progressive and reasonable thinking. It's also a reference to Kant.

Leon von Zelewski, Gottlieb Witt, Siegfried Isenstein as Ost Prußen Kriegsschule cadets in 1908, and Vincent Odinkirk as a young Lieutenant. The Konigsberg Kriegsschule was shut down after Germany's defeat in wwi, as part of a scheme to reduce the German General staff and eliminate Prussian Militarism... Didn't exactly work in the long run.

Wurst! There is no other way to draw Sigi Isenstein munching wurst. >:3

Cutting.

Fresh Ottoway vol 2 panel; Otto is upset by cries for help while Edwin focuses on cutting through barbed wire to save their own skins.

There are too many houses. Reread the watership down post.

Isn't it convenient that the BBC stopped airing the original hand-drawn Watership Down film on Easter Sunday at the same time the British establishment decided it was going to build new houses all over the green belt? Suddenly you care about the parents claiming it is traumatizing their children. Do these parents have concrete gardens and 4 by 4s by any chance? You SHOULD BE traumatized into loving and protecting nature. The Bunnies are being killed, the flowers are being concreted over. There are plenty of abandoned towns in the UK where people don't want to live because of the crime-rate and job scarcity; revitalize those neighborhoods instead of making the whole country sink into the Atlantic under the weight of concrete and cars.

Fun fact; during wwi the British Empire put ethnic Germans and those married to them into concentration camps called "Internment camps for enemy aliens." You could even be put in there if you were married to a German. They also detained conscientious objectors, anti-war campaigners and the poor in separate but similar institutions.