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If Giselle can truly master the fist-shake she'll make an excellent evil mad scientist when she's older.
...I feel like her theoretical evil mechanical minions would be pony-themed. Not THOSE ponies, mind you. Or maybe...
...I feel like her theoretical evil mechanical minions would be pony-themed. Not THOSE ponies, mind you. Or maybe...
Omgeeeee I already can’t wait for Wednesday!!
There’s a problem with that plan, Giselle. By sending Lynni after Heather, you made this a one-on-one confrontation. With no extra support to gang up on Amanda, you are now on equal footing with the person you want to attack. The fight could go either way or Amanda could just run, as now she only has to evade one person. Divide and conquer tactics usually only work when you have a central force taking out the divided opponents.
Yes. Amanda MIGHT even go out to defend Heather. Maybe.
So many ways this can go!
I’m reminded if the Vicious Cabaret from V for Vendetta comic.
Maybe it’s ’cause I watched Twins last week, but I can hear, in my mind, Arnold Swizziniggy saying, “Now, the first step in a crisis situation…”
😀
Okay, so send the bigger of the combo after the still angry soccer enthusiast who could probably break the girls leg or arms with a kick, while tiny Giselle attacks Amanda the same girl who can put a dent in the bathroom door with a few punches. Giselle didn’t think this through, she’s going to get her bottom handed to her unless she has back up waiting in the hallway, or at least a scream away.
And now that you’ve said that last line, Giselle, Amanda can tell the teachers you threatened her.
She probably won’t, because few kids are willing to put themselves in a position of being thought of as ‘tattletale’ and the subsequent status as pariah, and also because Giselle and Lynni could claim she was lying and Amanda doesn’t have any witnesses to back her up.
But she’s still beat you up and claim self-defense. It won’t be the first time Amanda’s gotten into a fight at school, and you’re a lot closer to her size than Big Tammy was.
I would call Giselle optimistic, but this is a school where your parents can get your assault victims suspended with no repercussions for you.
Oh hey, I just remembered the “It’s not a reward!” line. With “zero tolerance unless your parents yell at the principal” being enforced, it actually is. NICE JOB PRINCIPAL DUMBUTT!
Well, I’ve been re-reading. While Amanda has her ups and downs, I have high hopes for her sorting herself out. Speaking from experience, it takes a LOT to sift through that much emotional baggage.
Also, because I’ve been re-reading, I want to bring up a line that I adored. When Selkie gets a heat pad
“Warms like a plastic orange kitties…” ^_^
*shivers* As someone who WAS beaten up by 2 girls in a bathroom, I have a feeling this is going to be a hard read. It’s surprising how it can still strike you 20 years later. I was recently watching a show called Flashpoint – good one, about a SWAT team – and a girl is pretty badly attacked and beaten up in a bathroom. Found myself shaking like crazy without realizing for a minute why….
My sympathies. I’m battling my own fears a lot lately.
Triggers and flashbacks are awful. Sorry Leoness. Not sure if it helps, but have an internet hug.
Somehow Giselle fails to inspire any fear in me, even looking through the eyes of Amanda.
And of COURSE Giselle’s evil robot minions would look like THOSE ponies! Are you crazy or something? I already have them in development; she can just come down to my Supervillain Supply Store. They’re fully customizable and come in hundreds of different color schemes!
I’d like to place a pre-order for 500 robot hedgehogs – 300 in actual hedgehog size, 150 in super-miniature for manipulating nano-tech, 45 large enough to be ridden like horses (20 of these with flight-capacity), and the remaining 5 capable of acting as space-stations or submarines for up to 25 people each, capable of withstanding up to 8 units of atmospheric pressure.
In lieu of the usual payment method, ie ‘sparing your life and possibly making an empty promise of giving you authority in my new empire,’ I offer you Five Canadian Dollars, cold hard cash, paid in the now-discontinued Canadian penny. (I keep a rather erratic coin collection.)
At the very least, even if Heather doesn’t spill, Amanda can expect to be followed around by choruses of things like ‘Kiss my butt!’ and ‘What’s wrong with me? Boo-hoo!’ for weeks. This ‘Queen Bee’ just got dethroned for good.
Amanda can take ’em…
Amanda could be blamed for this and get in big trouble. She already has a reputation for causing fights.
Traditionally, orphans tend to be scrappers. I wouldn’t count on being able to take on an orphanage kid my size one on one…
Especially since, if you look closely, Amanda is at least an inch taller.
In my experience, sometimes you get kids who, likely because they’ve never been in a real fight yet (or possibly because they have trunchbull parents), completely neglect the “estimating your opponent” part of choosing when and where to right.
… Which would look very bad for Amanda if any teachers come in on this. 🙁
After thinking about it, the best two options i can think of for Amanda are:
1. Go straight to Heather, defend her if she needs it, apologize if she doesn’t.
2. Let the smaller kid beat on her. It’s sneaky and underhanded, but coming out with more bruises than the opponent looks better when authorities come.
Neither of these seam likely, but Amanda has just had a big emotional shock, so, maybe.
And Giselle was in both groups? Does that mean Truck and the others might be in the hall as well? That could complicate things.
Quick Amanda, while Lynni is out of the room looking for Heather, LET GISELLE HAVE IT!
If Amanda’s expression is anything to go by, she’s probably more surprised than upset and would want to know more of why this is happening. It’s not like a conspiracy to “beat up all orphans” happens all the time in this school…
And when she finds out Truck is the ringleader, wasn’t even suspended but Selkie was…
If you think about it, the current mess is entirely the Trunchbulls’ fault. If the orphans organize against the Trunchbulls, the Trunchbulls have no parents to complain to… Man, they really should just have let their precious little angel have his suspension.
Actually there’s something a lot of the commentors have forgotten. Amanda is already on thin ice for getting into prior altercations at school (remember Amanda got into a fight with Tammy). While she is perfectly justified defending herself, and even if the odds are even, Amanda will still take the brunt of blame and may even face expulsion for being in “another fight” and “causing trouble,” because that is how it will look to faculty. For the others it may be their first offense, and we’ve already seen how spineless the principal is about not punishing kids who have parents to defend their children.