At least Kaye doesn't have the facial hair
A staple idea/cliche in sci-fi is that of the “Evil Twin from the Mirror World” — that through a freak accident the hero’s doppelganger (albeit with additional flourishes, such as a goatee) appears in the world and starts causing havoc until he can be stuffed back into his rightful slot.
Well, the big plot twist of Jennifer Diane Reitz’s To Save Her, the third strip in what I call “The Tryslmaistan Cycle”, is that this comic’s Kaywai is not the noble sacrifice of Unicorn Jelly.
Her plan — to undo the multiversal rain and prevent Tryslmaistan ever being “invaded” by entities (actually copies of entities) from other universes, thus returning it to its original, pristine state.
Of course, this will/may have dire results for her crewmembers, not to mention herself. And especially not to mention the Ascended Unity of Tryslmaistan — or the inhabitants of Pastel — or the Kliktlikak — all of whom owe their existence to the rain in the first place!
Chou, I think and speculate, will uplift herself, realise what Kaye is up to, and throw a wrench in Kaye’s plans. Texto (or Virtue, as he is called) is likely to take more direct, futile action. And Only/Uni?
Well, I don’t know. What I do know is that, really, undoing a trans-universal phenomenon directly responsible for your existence is one complicated way to commit suicide.
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