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[hops]

Wiggle room? The only wiggle room would be if Belkar somehow managed to stop breathing indefinitely.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Such as literally any form of construct or undead. Alternatively, time travel.

However, after this long and all of Rich's teasing, it would be more of a surprise if he just died.

[Lord Shonus]

In order to fulfill the prophecies without dying, Belkar would have to turn into something that cannot breathe, cannot use money, and cannot eat cake.

[TheBiggerFish]

In order to fulfill the prophecies without dying, Belkar would have to turn into something that cannot breathe, cannot use money, and cannot eat cake.

What?

[Lord Shonus]

The prophecies about Belkar are that he had better savor his next birthday cake, shouldn't bother funding a retirement account, and that he will draw his last breath ever before the end of the in-comic year.


The obvious intention is that he's going to die forever within a year, so he'll have no more birthdays and no use for money.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Undead can neither taste food nor get old and retire, so it still works that way.

[Akura]

The only part that was actually prophecy was "Belkar will draw his last breath - ever - before the end of the year". The parts about him savoring his next cake and not funding his IRA were merely threats suggesting the prophecy is his permanent death(and does not rule out becoming undead).

[Egan_BW]

The first two things weren't official prophecies, for what that's worth.

[TheBiggerFish]

inb4 Lich!Belkar

[Lord Shonus]

The only part that was actually prophecy was "Belkar will draw his last breath - ever - before the end of the year". The parts about him savoring his next cake and not funding his IRA were merely threats suggesting the prophecy is his permanent death(and does not rule out becoming undead).

Read those strips again. Or, for that matter, read one of the two or three hundred "how Belkar isn't going to die" threads over on GiTP. Most of his casual comments also proved prophetic. The only thing that was different about the "on the record" prophecy is that it would have survived the Memory Charm had that actually worked on Roy.

[TheBiggerFish]

Where was that strip?

[Lord Shonus]

There are two series, one starting at strip 329 and one at strip 572.

In 329 he references the birthday cake and the IRA

In 330 he makes one casual prophecy - that both Roy and Elan are headed to family reunions. This happened - Roy died and spent time with his dead family in the afterlife, and Elan met his father.


In 572 the Oracle makes two comments that can be prophetic plus the official prophecy

The first is that Belkar isn't long for this world.

The other is that he has an important client flying in.

The second one is the Ancient Black Dragon, who learned who killed her son and where that person would be from the Oracle. While this could be a sending, we don't see any Sending happen. Probably an accurate prophecy.

He also gives great detail about his next death and scheduled resurrection in 571, where he proves that his earlier answer to Belkar was not a cop-out - he knew perfectly well that Belkar was going to stab him, and how messy it would be.

With the exception of Belkar-related stuff that hasn't happened yet - every single line from the Oracle that could possibly be prophetic has come true, even when not on the record.

[Egan_BW]

But casual comments give the oracle opportunity to lie, and imo it's not too far fetched to lie about the upcoming death of someone you hate.
It's a perfect opportunity to cause Belkar emotional distress if Roy tells him, and might make Roy send him on suicide missions because Roy knows he's going to die soon anyway.

[hops]

Not to mention the Oracle lied about his death before Belkar shanked him.

[Enemy post]

The comic is here.