The time for Do-Overs has passed.
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As you all know I love sharing fan-representations of Selkie. So I had a good chuckle when a cameo appearance in Everyday Heroes was brought to my attention. Thanks, Ed!
Four-row Selkie strips are rare spawns. Tap it first for extra loot.
Wow you really mastered the angry mom/teacher look there. If gave the shivers. My mother was a teacher at my elementary and middle schools and I learned to fear that look.
On an unrelated note after rereading the archive I really hope Tod and the teacher patch things up get to know each other better.
In fairness, it was a just-for-fun sort of a thing until Tony and Co decided to crash it.
Not that Mrs A is likely to believe that…
Well Tony is right there and if he really wants to un-mess things, the best thing to do is explain to her what he just confessed to the other kids (and she obviously missed, because she had to deal with two other fights just then).
Confess what? That they were having fun among themselves untile the bullies made it ugly? This is where Tony can earn forgiveness and explain to the teacher what happened.
Does that matter? If the school has rules against snowball fights that it was ‘just for fun’ is irrelevant.
Absolutely. Junior High, 1967. Playing catch with another boy, before classes started. We did not have a ball, so were using a rock.
Three licks for “throwing rocks”. Our “playing catch” explanation was not believed.
And that’s the problem with “zero tolerance”: Some things are actually tolerable.
Gotta love zero tolerance.
Hurrah! Justice for all! Let no child go unpunished for their foul snowy deeds!
But in all seriousness, I’m very glad things are progressing how I had hoped. This will lead to more depth and developement of characters.
This is taking way too long.
Yeah, but things are moving towards the conclusion, and we’re getting character development out of it. Part of the problem is that the fight in question happened over a year ago for us and it’s only been a week in the comic.
To be honest, I am working through the meat of the secondary arc’s climax first so I can minimize cutting away from Selkie later.
Or if you meant the year+ long Truck storyline as a whole…. well I am head-desking a bit at that, yeah.
Honestly, it’s interesting to see what you color in first…life is a learning experience, and this adds to my appreciation of art, believe it or not.
{taps for loot}
Opperation fuster cluck is coming along nicely.
Also, Tommy is getting away.
… Oy. I don’t know whether I should be hearing dramatic showdown percussion or screeching tragedy violins.
Hey, Dave, is it cool if I make a YouTube video about selkie? Because I would really like to make one on it. Thanks!
I probably okay with that, but may I ask what the video would be about? Thanks.
its going to be a review, and a general overview of the comic, some comebacks that she should have made to some of the taunts other people attacked her with, and an analysis. Also, a face-you-wouldent-want-to-see-as-you-were-just-waking-up test of most of the characters. It is going to be pretty low key and will (probably) not contain spoilers, and if it does I will have a spoiler warning. I will post the link here (if thats ok with you) when I make it. So yah, that is pretty much it.
Sounds fun, go for it!
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Okay … it’s all falling apart about the snowball fight.
… where’s Truck … ?
This is wrong. The kids started a playful snowball fight, nothing is wrong with that. The other kids changed it to an attack and Truck changed it to an assault. You can’t blame the ones who were innocently playing for the bad apples that turned it from a happy-go-lucky game into a ganging up assault.
“The kids started a playful snowball fight, nothing is wrong with that. The other kids changed it to an attack and Truck changed it to an assault.”
Yes, but apparently those details had gotten lost in the whole OMG THE GREEN EYED GIRL IS DYING panic, and then evidently the teachers didn’t hear the pre-Tony part of the story at all.
Actually, this means the “bully” kids actually have a good point. They still weren’t right to gang up on others at Tony’s suggestion, nor to blindly accept Truck’s revisionist version of events and go along with his slapping-plan, but technically they were blamed for starting something they didn’t. And the orphans had a whole week to clear up that detail with the teachers, but decided not to.
So some of this could have been resolved days ago… but these are kids we’re talking about.
It technically was wrong though. Snowball fights were against the rules; the teachers specified this and the children knew. It was not ‘innocent’ in that respect because they knew exactly what they were doing. Not only that, but they excluded others (although some with good reason.) and then proceeded to fail in clearing up ‘who started it’ to save their own skin. They should have taken the fall if only for their friend who ALMOST DIED. If they had confessed to the entirety of what happened then maybe Selkie would have gotten in less trouble. Almost if they didn’t convince her to play in the first place knowing full well she was not allowed to due to her issues with the cold none of this ever would have happened.
We can blame Tony for instigating this whole problem all we want, but in reality it was the initial 3 who started this whole mess… Turning a blind eye because they’re ‘the good kids’ does not change the fact that in the end they had started it.
I don’t remember it being stated as against the rules but I’ll take people’s word for it since enough of the commenters were making that point, but I still don’t think it’s the fault of the kids for playing a “game”. As far as I’m concerned, the one who “started” it is the one who started it with malicious intent – i.e. Tony. And even if Tony was the initial instigator, the non-orphans knew what they were doing was wrong by outnumbering the orphans and turning it into a class war (even if Tony, Amanda, and Kiesha are orphans too). Remember Kiesha was looking to even up the odds, it was Tony who wanted to get revenge for his exclusion.
CONFESSION.
EVERYONE GETS DETENTION