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    Quote Originally Posted by Estelindis View Post
    It's whatever we want it to be, whatever thing about ourselves or our lives we worry that might cause a being of ultimate goodness to reject us - but instead we are accepted. I think what it is to Minrah almost doesn't matter. It's more about what we'd imagine and want it to be if we were in Minrah's place.
    Wow, that's such a beautiful idea.
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    Praise Thor! Straight up do not care what Minrah's secret it, it's her secret, she's entitled to keep it. Thor making sure to give attention to Minrah and give her support before getting into the heavy stuff with Durkon is totally awesome, gives us a wonderful moment of levity between the dismay of the fact that our two Thor worshiping Dwarves are currently dead, regardless of how soon they may be raised. It's great for Durkon as well, to know that the faith he has had in his god has not been misplaced.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tanonev View Post
    Given the "hearts and stars" and "glitter ink" Minrah devoted to Thor in the past, perhaps there are some more...intimate...offerings she's made to Thor in the past she'd rather not have mentioned? Fanfic? Poetry?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
    "you do you" seems like an unusual reaction to that though, even if he is totally OK with it.
    Huh. I could have sworn that Thor said "you be you", not "you do you", but apparently I need to stop reading the comic without my glasses.

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    I'm liking the contrast between how we've seen Thor through his worshippers and folktales, and the personal Thor we see here. Can't wait to learn more about the squabbling gods.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The MunchKING View Post
    Also I thought short hair was a Male AND Female warrior thing, because it fit under helmets better and was harder for your enemies to grab in combat.

    Also didn't get caught in chainmail like Durkon's beard. :D
    Makes sense to me. Even the female warriors who do have long hair (Sigdi, Rubyrock, and a few other background characters) keep it tied back, probably for those exact reasons.

    Also, I can personally attest that just not wanting to deal with the maintenance of long hair is plenty of reason to keep it short.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ASCIInerd73 View Post
    I now really want Minrah to be the daughter of one of the five.

    Strip #1129 shows that two of the people that Sigdi resurrected are women. One of them could have married into a dwarven clan, thus allowing Minrah to be Durkon's "cousin"and Durkon not recognizing her family name.

    As far as why she wouldn't want Durkon to know that connection, I've got fewer ideas.
    She would still know who Durkon is if that were the case, even if she never meet him. It just doesn't work.

    Why are some people assuming that Minrah's issues will have some plot significance?
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    Well this was somewhat surprising.
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    It's sort of emblematic of this forum that there's so much speculation about something a god easily acknowledged as a private matter.
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    So cool.

    Thor is officially one of the coolest characters ever to appear in OOTS.

    And I'm *loving* the new release rate/schedule. Long may that happen! I'm guessing it's because Rich has got book 1/2 out of his hair finally (which, I'm told, just arrived at my house about an hour ago by courier, I can't wait to get home and read it).

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    Sooo...are we going to get a bonus story about Minrah's thing at some point?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Socksy View Post
    My first thought was lesbian. I hope she is. I like seeing wlw in things.
    But given it's fantasy it might be interspecies stuff. Like she's in love with an elf or something.
    I dunno, "you do you", taken literally, kinda sounds like masturbation. Which ironically would be saying it right in front of Durkon. But it'd fit his goofiness, I guess?

    But then again, considering how the setting treats other sexual-related themes, it'd be kinda surprising to make a fuss out of this.
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    People are free to take it whichever way they want, I'm sure it says a lot about your personage, but my headcannon is that Minrah hits the pipeweed after a long Thursday's work and hopes she can still see her friend's in Valhalla.

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    So cool.

    Thor is officially one of the coolest characters ever to appear in OOTS.
    I mean... why though? He doesn't really do anything interesting in this one except shrink down and act like a bro.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kareeah_Indaga View Post
    Sooo...are we going to get a bonus story about Minrah's thing at some point?
    Minrah's thing is her business.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tanonev View Post
    Given the "hearts and stars" and "glitter ink" Minrah devoted to Thor in the past, perhaps there are some more...intimate...offerings she's made to Thor in the past she'd rather not have mentioned? Fanfic? Poetry?
    She totally Shipped Thor with that raccoon guy and the big ray gun!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThePhantasm View Post
    I mean... why though? He doesn't really do anything interesting in this one except shrink down and act like a bro.
    And also shows immediate casual familiarity with his followers. We've seen fairly aloof or screw around gods in OOTS thus far, with the exception of The Dark One, who's still been pretty unseen or stiff with his followers aside from the "don't screw this up", and Hel, who's more of an immediate petty mistress.

    The gods thus far have seemed to see humans as sort of a cross between ants and prayer batteries thus far, with even the good gods being pretty inaccessible and talking about the lives and souls of their followers in more abstract moral terms than anything. So to have Thor meet two of his followers in person for the first time and immediately talk about knowing who Minrah is and reference something personal to her in a way that immediately put her at ease without revealing personal information to the bystander is a pretty cool thing to do, particularly for a god who many forumites had a... low opinion of before this.

    My $0.02, anyway.
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    So what, are quatloos the official currency of these forums now? I'd sign to that.

    I bet 2 quatloos that Minrah's "secret" is somehow related to Sigdi.


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    Now I want to see Durkon hanging out in fluffy clouds with Thor.
    Well, not fluffy clouds, but works for me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nazzo, the 102nd View Post
    So what, are quatloos the official currency of these forums now? I'd sign to that.

    I bet 2 quatloos that Minrah's "secret" is somehow related to Sigdi.
    But why? Are characters not allowed to have anything to do them that has nothing to do with the plot? Why does it have to involve anyone else?
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    I think it's masturbation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaggerPen View Post
    Maybe there is no actual answer and The Giant just put that like in time help exposit Thor's friendly, laid back temperament, familiarity with his followers, and ability to be tactful when needed.

    Probably that last one.
    I agree. This is the most likely answer. It's almost certainly irrelevant to the plot and will never be revealed. Not everything is a Checkhov's Gun.


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    It's whatever we want it to be, whatever thing about ourselves or our lives we worry that might cause a being of ultimate goodness to reject us - but instead we are accepted. I think what it is to Minrah almost doesn't matter. It's more about what we'd imagine and want it to be if we were in Minrah's place.
    I absolutely adore this.


    Also, it will make this thread way funnier and more interesting if you therefore assume that everyone who's posted a theory in this thread is in fact voicing their innermost private wish before their respective deity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nazzo, the 102nd View Post
    So what, are quatloos the official currency of these forums now? I'd sign to that.

    I bet 2 quatloos that Minrah's "secret" is somehow related to Sigdi.
    Bet taken!
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    And this clinches it: Minrah is not going anywhere. She just got FULL NAMED!
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    .... she's dead, Jim.
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    Quote Originally Posted by godsflunky View Post
    Also, it will make this thread way funnier and more interesting if you therefore assume that everyone who's posted a theory in this thread is in fact voicing their innermost private wish before their respective deity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Goblin_Priest View Post
    I dunno, "you do you", taken literally, kinda sounds like masturbation.
    How literally are we talking about here, because that sexual meaning of "to do" is a secondary slang sense, and if you go there then why wouldn't you treat "you do you" as the idiomatic phrase it is, which is not primarily sexual.
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    "you do you" means "be yourself" or "do what makes you happy" in colloquial American slang. It's a very common phrase. There really isn't any ambiguity there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by godsflunky View Post
    I absolutely adore this.


    Also, it will make this thread way funnier and more interesting if you therefore assume that everyone who's posted a theory in this thread is in fact voicing their innermost private wish before their respective deity.
    Wow, for once I wouldn't come off really badly!
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    Also, maybe this was obvious to everyone else, but is "shrink down and simplify" a joke about how small Thor doesn't have shading? If so, that's pretty funny.
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    I'm definitely reading Thor as Chris Hemsworth from the MCU depiction of Thor now.
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