That sounds like a bad idea.

definitely sounds dangerous~

I think "erase everyone and everything you've ever known and loved, including yourself, possibly causing a paradox loop" is probably a bit worse than dangerous.

nice one

say, this is a stupid question, but how did Schwarzpelz grow so big?

If you look at the comics one of them kinda explains how he got so big

thank you. it's just been awhile

The same way that the Drifter's sister (her name's Chakka, BTW) got so big: Using a Driftfruit when you are a Drifter yourself and have not done so already in your lifetime turns you into a very large feral animal. The size of the final form corresponds to the number of "cores", or those small circles/spheres in the fruit. Chakka's fruit had just one.

Schwarzi's had ten.

thank you

thanks a lot for the compliment~ glad you're enjoying the series so far!

Sounds like a boring idea I think someone needs to adjust Schwarz way of thinking

A cycle of terror, suffering and death continued because 'uwu hormy'

So basically, Schwarzpelz wants his world to be like our real-life world.

no more floofers...

Granted, that's the worse case scenario. The destruction might, in fact, be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.

I like how he seeks to destroy that which has not only terrorized the small but even plagues thise that have become monsters.

I get the feeling that it won't be so simple, Schwarzi... as unfortunate as it may be, your own fate is linked to that of the tree. After all, without the tree, your parents don't become Drifters, you don't become the Guardian, and you don't gain the Collector, which means you can't make the wish, and therefore the tree grows anyways. It's a massive Grandfather's Paradox situation. Even if it works, you've essentially just abandoned your old timeline, leaving it with no Guardian in your position, meaning a big power vacuum exists.

And supposing it's more than 5000 years old? Then you'll have just erased time for no good reason, and pain will still be caused, by your own metric.

Sometimes, the past shouldn't be changed... but that doesn't mean that one shouldn't at least try, and it definitely doesn't mean that you can't use that wish to mitigate the damage that the tree does. You just have to apply your thinking differently...

That's assuming that this universe doesn't run on the split timeline theory where every action spawns a whole new timeline with no further interactions with the 'original'

Damn...!

That’s quite the mind bender...!

Eeeyup, it avoid the grandfather paradox while also causing the "I fixed everything... no wait I just made a new timeline and my old timeline now no longer has me and is still just as shit"

That scenario's covered with my "even if it works" clause.

Woah...

That’s one hell of a wish for something that’s been around for 5 millennia.
Can see the justification in it though, seeing how much damage it’s done.

burning it shall~

Interesting... that would also erase everything we've come to know and love about the world you've built... I wonder how things will unfold o.o

yep, would get rid of Celia and everyone else

I envy those anthros over big Schwarzi's pawb~ >///<
Also, destroy the tree? I don't know that is a really good idea... >3>
Its reminds me to Yggdrasil, so... uy... o.oU

It's a big floof's idea so it's perfect~

True~ O3O
If Schwarzi said it then is really good! X3

I smell an impending time paradox.

what's that smell like? xd

erasing 5000 years? I don't think its a good idea.

might definitely cause some problems

How can something so big be so shortsighted?
I mean, the tree causes a bunch of stuff to happen, he doesn't like it, so he's going to go back in time to destroy the tree, which will erase his reason for going back in time.
That is 110% a time paradox. A fatal one, even.

Why do you people always forget there are multiple methods to handle timetravel? The grandfather paradox is only one such method, one of the others is the timeline split method where he goes back, does the thing, spawns a brand new timeline entirely but doesn't do jack shit to the timeline he came from.

That is one HELL of a wish and I love it! What a goal! No wonder he needs so much power. But it's also one of those things that undoes everything GOOD, too...are we looking at a Samurai Jack bittersweet series finale?

Oh, jeez, and the possibility of a scene where everybody's in crisis and Schwarz just needs that one last sacrifice to make the wish a reality...that could be a serious tearjerker. Especially since it feels like Schwarz has implied that he's on a time limit of some sort, for some reason.

Or maybe the journey is that Schwarz learns to recognize the good and take it with the bad...man, this could go anywhere.

That time limit seems to be along the lines of the longer he takes the more energy is lost to maintain his survival so he's desperate to not loose progress towards reaching his goal.

That is not a good wish... at least not used like that anyway. Maybe wish that the tree never grew to begin with? But if it never grew, he never becomes what his his, and thus never can make the tree not grow... so kinda a paradox. Hmm this is a tough one. How to more or less rewind time on the tree, keep it from growing, and not adversely effect yourself or others doing it is a tall order!

well any change to the tree would probably mean he never ends up getting born, or not in the form that he knows maybe.

This seems like a bad idea to be honest. yes a lot of bad things happened because of the tree but there is still a lot of good people that at the very least deserves to continue to exist in the present🤔

yeah, his wish would get rid of anything bad AND good, at the same time the people affected by it would also not notice anything xd

Just pray that tree doesn't belong to the forest of Athel Loren, or else Durthu is gonna stomp your butt XP

I have no idea what any of that means x3

Athen Loren is a sacred forest of the Wood Elves in Warhammer and Durthu is a big tree man, who doesn't like strangers and is the answer to the question: "What if Treebeard from Lord of the Rings went Berserker?"
Warhammer is fun XP

So he wants to erase the current world so it can be reborn "normal" ?
Mh... i understand his wish and the reasons behind it, but i fear it will cause a quite bad time paradox that will affect not only him, but the rest of the world too >.>
We shall wait and see how it goes... it kinda make me think he will end up becoming the villain in all this since i don't think Cherry, Chakka and the rest of the characters will agree with his plan... after all it basically means destroying the world and all the people that lives in it ><"

the lost-father plot is gonna much certantly change this big objective, in a way Schwarzi grew up from his fierce past, as far as we know he'll get to a point where to decide what to sacrifice between the lives of many (the ones who suffered from the devil fruit) and something really important to cherry and her father I guess

That's true... man, this story really is becoming more and more interesting as it goes on ><

Also won't this wish conflict with the wish of that dad to protect his daughter? I don't think erasing her from existence counts as protection 🤣

Well the wish was for him to watch his family until he returns, maybe he's gotta wait for that first then.

This reminds me of a time travel conversation in the game "Virtue's Last Reward". It's a bit long and involved to get into in detail, but the gist of it is that even if you have the ability to undo a terrible tragedy in the past, do you go through with it at the risk of erasing/overwriting everyone who's alive right now? It may not be the ideal world you would prefer to live in, but they all have their own stories, and their lives have value. If you succeeded in changing their past, then you would be invalidating everything that they ever did to satisfy your own whim.

And THAT'S just if we're dealing with a one-timeline situation here. If it causes a timeline split then okay, Schwarzi gets his treeless world and whatever emerges from that with 5,000 years of divergent history. But the timeline that we've been observing continues on, unchanged by his wish.

Well Schwarzi is, from what we know so far, probably guilty of killing his own family as he transformed and he had to carry that around him for a thousand years. He might not want anything else other than getting that truth erased, no matter what else happens.

Yeah, I'm not trying to invalidate his grief over what he (and no doubt many, many others) has suffered, but when you get into the realm of re-writing history, that has a lot of interesting complications and consequences that he may or may not have considered.

...harsh

but wait, wouldn't this... directly contradict the duty to take care of Celia?

I know right? 👍

well not unless the father returned before he uses his wish

Even the most noble of intentions can have disastrous consequences

naaaah will work out perfectly~

Whoaaa... :o


Here's hoping it doesn't end badly though...

*spoiler* *spoiler* *spoiler*

Oh noes! :o

So THAT is why he does it. =0
And he noms people because he is collecting the power to be able to make the biggest wish he can make and wish the tree out of existence. =0

Though: If he did that, would that basically also mean that he would never meet the girls and their parents and also that all the good he has done with his fur and all did not happen? And what if his wish would not affect him and he would continue to be a giant fluff even after the wish? Or what if he would disappear as well from the world and never be born in the new reality? And what if there would be 2 of him in the world? 1 human & 1 fluff. Or what if the tree is there to seal something away, and the fruits are accidental by products of the seal? O.o

too many questions at once x3

Answer them 1 at a time? xP lol

But yeah, So many questions that need answering. But I bet you will as the chapters go in. x3

This sounds like an extremely bad idea, and an extremely good plot point.

at least finally revealing it was a lot of fun~

But there are still good memories to be had :'c

like going to the theater and eating ice cream and oh wait he can't do any of that <-<

Not with that attitude!

We just need to build him a drive In theater and get the local farmers to help provide the mass amounts of corn and milk for popcorn, butter and of course, ice cream!

udno the last 5000 years O.o
this is a bad idea...i mean i get why he want it...but...that would mean history will change too....

i got a bad feeling about this

Is ne Wauz Idee also fehlerfrei n.n

naja unterschreiben würde cih die aussage nicht xD

Wouldn't it be better to change the nature of the tree so the drift fruit won't cause a change in fallowing generations rather than change the course of history to a unknown erasing the people that live in the present. However Schwarzpelz will likely realize this at the last minute and chose to save the present rather than trying to fix the past.

Good idea, though it wouldn't get rid of the past in his head that he's been carrying around with him for so long.

That landscape just breathtaking *_*
Fantastic work, Snow!

I think that's actually the only comment I got on the panel itself x3 And it took so long xd
So thanks, glad you enjoyed it~

I just can't say something interesting about story x)
Like, Schwarzpelz wants to prevent everything, okay. He burdened by his past and this world's history. He are over 1000 years old, and i'm sure he considered options with altering Tree's nature, or destroying it "here and now". If he were driven by selfishness, he'd wished to resurrect his family (like, you planning to reverse 5000 years of history, so why you can't resurrect the ones who you lost and back to old self?), but no - he wishes exactly nip everything in the bud, prevent all these cataclysms and suffering. So this means that he knows exactly what he is doing, and that there is no other way.

that is some wish. can easily go wrong. i think wishing the fruits would not turn drifters into monsters would be better. past is in the past. changing it generally never ends well

but then he has to keep on living with the memories from when transformed and rekt his entire town

Very impressive tree!

thank, you~

you might be interested in taking six stones and a snapping item to create a business cinemtic stuff? (lol)

anyway I'm more interested now, i still like it

I have no idea what that refers to x3

yeah so.... time doesn't work that way my man. It might be one of the reasons for the world to exist

you're entirely sure that time doesn't work that way when we don't even know if it's possible to mess with time?

antagonist in disguise?

Not sure if he's antagonistic, after all he's doing it for the better of the world.
But he's also not asking anyone else for their opinion xd

im getting "end justifies the mean" vibes off of the chapter ending which is why I kind of had the idea Dx

I'm just catching up after some years, and all I can say is: What the fuuuuuu...
Wow, this has gone crazy, and I'm loving following it again.

I would have just wished for it to revive everyone ever killed for it, then seal off its access to the rest of the universe.

Are the other two great beasts in on this plan, I wonder? Do they have collectors of their own? I've always been curious about them.