Sorry for the two-in-a-row. Feeling better compared to Friday, but had a busy evening packing and couldn’t really keep my concentration going when I sat down to draw.
ANYWAY, I’m not going to bore you all too much with excuses. Will be finishing the colors up tonight.
-Colors done-
No really feeling with it. Someone take a blowtorch to the spiderwebs in my brain please.
Wuvvvvv.. Twuuuuu wuvvvvvvv.
Ooohh, you nailed it. Course we all know what happens at the first kiss. But it will be fun to watch Georgie’s reaction.
Side note, Dave, “brain? Brain and brain, what IS brain!” Were you old enough for OST?
Hmmm, I wonder if Dave anticipated that we’d interpret this as romance, maybe he did or just didn’t care. On another note, in the beginning of the comic it was shown that Georgie compulsively tells tall tales, I wonder if that’ll become relevant now.
I suspect it’ll become relevant now.
They know she’s an Echo, and as such expect magic miracles from her. Georgie tends to BS towards the utterly impossible and fantastical. So, they’re about to think Selkie’s a level 14 or so Wizard from D&D who’s already been through dozens of adventures. They’ve also indicated the poor girl’s a bit gullible, so she might also overestimate humans a bit.
That’s my prediction anyway. Maybe I’m wrong.
I’m not expecting this as Romance, they’re 10 years old for goodness sake. This might be puppy love though, the sort where they’re both calling eachother boyfriend and girlfriend on the playground without understanding what that means and calling eachother best friend in 5 years or so.
They’re actually only 8/9 years old. Also, I have to assume Dave knows how the George/Te Fahn interactions are coming off. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with interpreting it as an innocent form of “romance”. Kids can have crushes too as you pointed out.
Kids can have out-and-out romance at that age. Depends on the kids.
I thought this was ‘flashback'(during the time Selkiewas getting the mattress?) So it was purposefully left colorless. But either way it looks good and I’m glad Te Fahn is making friends.
honestly, i don´t see a crush here, merely te fahn being eager to make a new friend among the humans, and with george already being besties with selkie he´s the safest bet.
We (readers) have been trained to interpret whole swaths of upcoming story details from tiny current details; that’s the power (and pitfall) of tropes. We (humans) are also good at sorting through a *tremendous* amount of detail quickly, by using shortcuts, which is how we get assumptions like this and how we develop prejudices to begin with. It’s natural and nothing to be too worried about; when you realize that your brain is making you be unfair or unreasonable, fix that problem as best as you can.
I don’t tend to interpret young children enjoying each other’s company as romantic unless it’s pretty obviously meant that way, and it mildly bugs me when others jump to romance. Heck, I invented an entire fic form (see link under my name there) to offer authors a chance to focus on nonsexual, mostly nonromantic intimacy, simply because I got annoyed with how quickly people jump to the “relaaaaationship” interpretation of any possible close relationship (friendship, siblings, mentor/student, etc.).
Besides, Te Fahn stuttering, which in other circumstances might indicate nerves of the sort that presuppose attraction, is more broadly indicative of trying to fit in with humans in a normal human gathering. Makes sense to me. *And* I see no reason to conclude that she’s attracted to people outside her species this early in her adjustment to “oh hey, humans exist.” Although, of course, she’s had more time to adjust to the idea (because she’s one of the pre-trained kids, right? not the fresh rescues).
Yes! The tendency to skip from “these two characters like each other” straight to “these two characters LIIIIIKE each other” is something I’ve noticed about fandoms, and it bothers me too. So kudos to you for exploring the distinction between intimacy and romance/sexuality.
It’s funny how we’re all talking about how easy this is to interpret as romance instead of actually interpreting it that way.
I’m a natural paranoid, to the point where my first reflex is to try to start any sentence that isn’t pure supposition with a citation of sources as I am well aware that there are few entities in this planet who actually know 100% of what they talk about before they start talking, and the ones who do actually know are usually in very limited circles and will leave those circles across the course of the conversation.
That’s my excuse, and I’m stickin’ to it.
CinemaSins approves