More Justopean slang Burk is hip with...

Will we find out more about Guy's mission?
I wonder about the time line. Guy left Justopea before Noah's training started. When he was at the Mage Baron's castle he communicated with a "Miss V", presumably Veda. See https://www.neorice.com/hoh_burk_907
So is this panel still before the catastrophe in Haven? And if it's after, does he know about what happened there?

Piper be like, uh, not lying at all.

Welf: timeline-wise, we don't know where Burk's story is set precisely. We do know it happens before Tobi's story, but we also don't know when Tobi's story happens precisely, so...

We do have the date of 2374 for Noah, and tentatively 2377 for Held's (or rather, Purpermane's) present.

Guy left Justopea for his "Vacation" before the whole Haven debacle. In fact he left only a few days before Noah went to Haven. I'm guessing this is after Haven because I'm not sure that even if he immediately went to the mage baron's castle he'd have enough time to be with Burk this long before Haven's events occur.

The most suspicious part of what Piper said is that the Judge is okay with her chasing those two, when he has seen firsthand how dangerous they are. We know he's protective of her, so it doesn't quite add up just yet.

I was looking back in the archives and going some important info!

Burk is confirmed gay: https://www.neorice.com/hoh_burk_1087#comments

I was really hoping he'd be bi. Oh well...

@anonymous

There's other Bi characters such as fan favorites Eloy Delian & Levin.

@AnonymousPerson
That doesn't mean he's gay either. There's plenty of things you can be that aren't straight or gay or bi

Piper is the only character with a rational response to dealing with Guy.

@Someone else

There are not a lot of other things you can be that combine “not into girls” with Burk’s obvious interest in burly men.

I think our detective is a magic user or esper. Probably part of why he wanted to go on vacation while giving other reasons,

Burk is very clearly into muscled men.

Now he hasn't met any really buff woman in the story, but based on that author's note, he'd not be interested.

@AnonymousPerson love that you just ignored the four or so comments after the confirmation Burk isn’t into women saying that Burk being some variety of ace makes sense to them. love that.
That said we already have MC ace rep with Noah being confirmed ace and very probably aro, so Burk being gay makes sense both for the character and for representation. I mean, the folks looking for symbolism would have a field day about his fight with Wynn lmao.

@The_Squished_Elf ...Huh? I'm literally asexual myself, so I'm genuinely confused by what you seem to be implying? And the comments here get approved so slowly I tend to only post one an update. I literally just thought it would be fun to watch Burk fawn over a buff woman, it's not that deep.

@The_Squished_Elf Reread your comment in case I was missing something and like Potato said, he's into buff men? Even that would make him gay ace.