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Motivations are suppose to be hard. For a mortal, it might be something like marrying the girl next door, but Exalted need to have Exalted motivations. They need things that should cause them to struggle for years and can’t be solved by mere use of Charms, spells or even good role-playing alone. Saber’s motivation is one of those. Glorious is more likely to reach his than she is to reach hers.
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Every Exalted character, from a mortal to a Solar, has a Motivation with a capital M. This is what drives the character and gives them pretty significant bonuses when being pulled away from it. This being a silly comic, Glorious motivation is to basically defeat every signature character in the published books. Since White Wolf probably won’t stop publishing for a long time (we hope), this is basically an impossible motivation and truly epic.
One of the rules in Exalted is the ability to spend three weeks and get a specialty dot in Linguistic. Unlike most other specialties, this lets you speak like a native of some region, Thorns in today’s case. It was a nice little chance of explaining why Glorious doesn’t speak LOLcats anymore and I thought that beer being the reason was probably a cute idea.
Plus, looking back at the bar scene, you can see that his storm cloud of anger may not be directly entirely at Saber.
Yes, Glorious is speaking differently now. If possible, I want to change things in story instead of just changing it between one strip and the other. Even for things that are causing trouble with the few readers who comment. I did the same with Mask of Winter’s throne room and armor, trying to get it into story.
I had high hopes for Glorious speech patterns. Mainly in mockery of LOLcats, mainly because I despise it but also because it seems like a language of simple-minded people. Yes, I know that it is a grammar on its own and I shouldn’t make statements, I just have too much of a fondness for formal English to really appreciate it. I also don’t appreciate l33t or whatever travesty and label “r u” occupies in the constantly changing tapestry of my language of choice.