RockstarRaccoon wrote:I think they look more childish now, and I'm not sure how I feel about that yet.
Getting away from how it's drawn though, I have a theory: the full gravity of the "dog in a human world" is finally hitting King, and he doesn't like it. Pete's promise was that he'd equalize man and animal, which is probably what King's about to want more than he wants to turn back into a human, seeing as his entire entry into the situation was that he wanted to help animals. Pete said that King doesn't have to LIKE being his avatar, just accept him and work towards his goals. It was also heavily implied that Pete had something to do with Baily's situation, so he could have planned this whole thing from the beginning so that King would learn that he wants to equalize man and animal, and that he'd realize that he's willing to work with Pete to this end. Who knows, maybe he'll even forgive Pete once he sees the opportunity he's been given...
Clever scheme Pete. I wonder if he reads Yudkowsky...
problems with this line of thoughts:
Pete had intended King to stay a dog. King was given a choice to change back to human because Pete had forced the transformation vand violating Joel's free arbiter.
The purpose of the Dark Paladin is to defeat the followers of the Spirit Dragon. Keene made it clear when he talked with Sabrina. True, Sabrina made it clear that it must not be escalated to some war, but apparently King is supposed to defeat Tarot.
Pete is not exactly fond of the 'animal-human equality' idea. He just went into it because the alternative was to spend more time into the temple. He may try to get some advantages working on it, but still the purpose of the Game seems different than the equality's goals.
Pete doesn't want to make King happy, he wants him angry. If he really did buy the farm (and there is apparently no indication in the comic that it happened, only fanspeculations), it was to give King the illusion of happiness before making it so that it's snatched away from him.
At this point, how could the Gryphon get his avatar back? Yes, King should ask Pete to help him to get Bailey back again, I personally don't see other options. And this implies that King might decide to stay a dog and build a life with Bailey. At the cost of serving Pete once again...