Loose end?
 

Was there ever any explanation for what Dr. Swordopolis and Darko were actually up to? That is the one thing that I am left wondering about since the comic ended. Possibly they were just hallucinations that were without any relevance? Or were they trying to really work to lead the Light Warriors along this path so that Chaos would spawn and the Order of White Mages would take it out?

Or maybe they had entirely unrelated agendas that got delayed indefinitely when they both gave up because the people they were supposed to mentor were quite horribly incompetent. Any smart avatar would simply give up and Choose another One, someone more competent, and dump a "destiny" on him. And I think this is exactly what they did.

Someone in another thread said that Darko was basically trying to do to Black Mage what eventually happened to Sarda: Phlebotinum Overload him to the point where he could use the nexus of magic as a portal to bring Chaos into their dimension. Only BM got distracted by huge knockers... RM absorbed the datasphere, and Sarda ended up with the superpowered evil and the power of the orbs.

Swordopolis... I would assume was Darko's opposite number, trying to break Fighter out of his stupidity long enough to actually kill BM and prevent the summoning of Chaos. I think he gave up a long time ago, but we haven't heard ANYTHING out of either Darko OR Swordopolis in some time... don't know the exact count comic-wise.

All of that is correct.

Loose ends?

1. The ultimate fate of the characters, obviously.
2. Dragoon and the Golden Chocobo
3. The resolution of Swordopolis and Darko. Brian explained that above, but it hasn't been shown in the comic.
4. The guard and the messenger
5. The Real Light Warriors

Hold yer goddamn horses.

I've always thought it was strange how people latched on to these two.

Uh, clearly it has. That's how the above poster knew what happened. He read it in the comic.

Running. Running forever.

If history is any guide, they're probably failing to achieve their goals. And it's somehow the Lite Warriors' fault.

I think what everyone really wants to know is, why back in episode *mumblemumblesomethingnumber* where Fighter was thinking about the Jabberwocky poem (which I myself memorized in 8th grade Literature Class -- the poem, not the 8-bit comic), did his master look like his upgraded class? Clearly that's him from the future telling himself something in the past and therefore it's the time loop and Brian is both insane and misleading and a jerk.

Yes, that's the real mystery everyone cares about.

Brian actually explained this awhile ago. It was just the only available sprite at the time.

Well he didn't explain that to ME personally.

The only loose end I care about is White Mage's.

After Black Mage gets through gettin' his bone on with it.

That's what fan interest really boils down into an epilogue, watchin' some bone. Aw yeah.

I figured it was because you have a history of subtly referencing things that happened earlier in the comic, and most people just connected 'Wait, so they're both on the moon and one can fly?'. Also, because Dragoon was a pretty hilarious and interesting character. He even took out one of the Fiends on his own and didn't have to share it with a Party Of Four like everyone else in the comic.

Obviously the best thing to do is pull a South Park and show the Gold Chocobo and Dragoon's corpses on the moon with the caption "There is no air on the moon. You jackasses.".