... I call shenanigans. Your model makes no sense.

It's very defining that you took the time to link one of your criticisms to what is nothing more than a personal attack. Why, yes, the fact that Eirrukovi doesn't have a distinctly aloof way of picking her nose means that I'm on the level of a horrible fanfic writer! I will admit that I see some things I could have done better in her acting since she's apparently such a flat character she's incapable of displaying anything but arrogant distance, but you'll have to excuse me if I'm a little skeptical of your criticism regarding characterization after you got every single possible thing about Fawriel wrong in your last comic. You can come up with all the fancy words in the world to describe her, but if your idea of Fawriel is nothing but "stupid manga-type guy who talks a lot", then the antithesis to that is nothing more than "not-manga type girl who doesn't talk much". I've been working on the idea that she's a battle-hardened fighter who accepts challenges from strangers in the hopes of finding a real challenge for her superior skills, and she's thrown off a bit by Fawriel's unconventional style (a side-effect of being experienced is that you don't expect completely unconventional things) but has no patience for his weird antics, since she expected an intense battle rather than a show fight, and despises him for being basically a child with too much power on his hands.
How would YOU describe her?

Hell, I helped you with Fawriel's characterization in a PM. He's an entertainer who wants to go out into the world and be awesome. I show that in his dream-world at the start. He's been inside a capsule underground for a long time watching the world from a distance. He's basically like a kid whose knowledge of the world comes completely from reading adventure stories. He challenged Eirru in order to prove his worth, and wanted to do so in a way that shows just how awesome he is (and got really damn pissed when it just refused to work).
Yet all I see in your characterization of him is "Fawriel is an arrogant idiot who talks about himself a lot (and that is funny)".

I admit that I could have done things better in Eirru's displayal (her emotions are too strongly pronounced in many cases now that I think about it, she barely even opens her mouth in earlier pages, so her teeth-gnashing is out of place even when she's surprised, among some other subtle things)... But you don't get to make fun of me for those mistakes when your displayal of my character is nothing but a thinly veiled clone of the way you see me with some added personal attacks for good measure.

EDIT: Oh hey, John K. My new "mentor" links me to that blog a lot. Fun times.