I mean, she HAS been working very hard to get at least this far.
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Live drawing VOD here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1064621096
Will draw Sue and Kathryn plus an as-yet undecided piece of fanart tomorrow 8pm CST at https://www.twitch.tv/strawberrycocoa
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TODD: Selkie, lets calm down, okay? No one is... OH MY GOD.
SELKIE: Oh your God, what?!
TODD: Selkie! Your eyes! You got better!
SELKIE: I dids?
TODD: Yeah! You set your eyes on fire! Good job!
TODD: ... Wow, that's a combination of words I never thought I'd say.
SELKIE: I'm gonna gets my phone, Momma's gotta record her first smiting!
SELKIE: Oh your God, what?!
TODD: Selkie! Your eyes! You got better!
SELKIE: I dids?
TODD: Yeah! You set your eyes on fire! Good job!
TODD: ... Wow, that's a combination of words I never thought I'd say.
SELKIE: I'm gonna gets my phone, Momma's gotta record her first smiting!
Prays for mercy, yet knows you shall finds none.
“You set your eyes on fire! Good job!” #SelkieOutOfContext
I dunno, out of context that just sounds like sarcasm.
Well. At least Selkie has been … distracted. For the moment.
This gave me flashbacks to when I was having a fight with my best friend, I was already a lot bigger than him so he decided he was going to get the first punch in and hope for the best. The punch didnt hurt but it knocked out a loose tooth that I had been waiting for it to come out. I was so distracted by that, that I forgot about the fight (much to the relief of my best friend and probably why we stayed friends after that).
@[Tarnagh]:
Doesn’t sound like it to me…
…isn’t Amanda the one she was planning to smite?
“Doesn’t sound like it to me…
…isn’t Amanda the one she was planning to smite?”
Oh, absolutely. A lot can happen between going to find her phone and returning with it, though. Pohl and Todd could still keep her distracted long enough for her to calm down. I’m hoping that seeing her fire-eyes in a mirror will distract her enough at least in the short term.
Did that hairclip/inhibitor/manacle link them in some way? Did half a young lifetime of negative emotional interaction somehow distribute Echo-awareness, or its potential, over two impressionable minds? Does like tend, synchronistically, to like? Am I going to get anything else done today?
No smiting until you’re 18
Selfie, only paladins can smite.
No, no, some Sorcerers and some Warlocks can Smite as well.
Posers, the whole lot of them
Smite others not, lest ye be smitten on back attcha
If the eye beams are coherent and everyone’s eyes emit at the same frequency, do colliding eye beams potentially cancel each other out?
Welcome to parenthood, Todd. that will not be the last unexpected sentence.
Exactly what’s on my mind: and given Selkie’s situation, I don’t even think he can’t say it’s his first :p
Precisely, parenting is really just a neverending string of r/brandnewsentence moments.
Also curious: so has Selkie not often heard the expression “Oh my God” before, such that she’d mistake it to mean literally “the god of the speaker”? Or was she being sarcastic?
*shrug* “Oh your god what?” used to be a pretty standard response for me.
I think that comeback from Selkie is somewhere between her current “righteous fury” and her native “snark.”
The tears coming out of her eyes break my heart. Nice deflection to defuse, but this needs to come out if it ever is gonna heal.
Also telling someone that upset to calm down and denying their emotions ain’t the best move either. Swing and a miss, Todd.
I think the deflection was accidental. I’m really prone to letting proud parent exclamations or encouragements just jump right out too. Not always in the most appropriate times, but I’m willing to bet he’s going to circle back as soon as the risk of accidental death and gore is passed.
I kinda hope Amanda gets zotted. Karma’s a lady-dog, y’know. Can’t take away all those years of torment.
Selkie Nei Li Smith! We follow a strict, “No Bite No Smite” policy in this household!
Can’t wait to see how Pohl’s going to deal with this…
I can’t wait to see how Pohl *explains* this! I sincerely hope the information about Amanda can be kept from Gien. He might consider Selkie’s adopted sibling to be a good enough tool for whatever his plans are. 🙁
The conversation between Pohl, Agent Brown, and Then is bound to be … something special. It might also lead to other children from the orphanage being tested for Echo ability. Or not. One thing at a time.
The conversation between Todd and Andi is going to be spectacular as well. I don’t envy Todd for several reasons right now.
I’m incredibly sad for Selkie. She’s 100% justified in how she’s feeling (not necessarily how she’s reacting, but for sure how she’s feeling). I’m also unspeakably worried about Amanda. She’s got the “magic power” that she wanted, but it causes her obvious, intense pain.
I don’t see how he could possibly attempt to claim ownership over someone of another species to be used for their own gain. I mean, I suppose he can try, but he certainly won’t succeed.
So Resonance can be linked to strong emotions, neat. It might have been hinted at here:https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1315/, though that could be interpreted as something else.
I just had another thought, too. If Human Echoes inherit the ability genetically the way Sarnothi Echoes do, we already know Todd isn’t sensitive to the Resonance. What about Andi?
Unless the people who have been thinking that it was Selkie’s bow/suppressor that influenced the kids in the orphanage somehow and not some innate ability in certain humans.
I guess we’ll find out eventually! 🙂
Oh, okay. This is direction I like. I look forward to this.
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Kinda want Amanda to see Selkie’s eyes and go, “Wait, that’s what my eyes are doing?” and they both go run for the bathroom mirror and maybe have a “You/We actually look like sisters now” moment. Hopefully in a good way.
Amanda is going to have SUCH a fun conversation with Tehk.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1201/
The only place where your daughter lighting her eyes on fire somehow de-escalates the situation.
I love this comic so much.
I feel sorry for Amanda when the MIBs find our she has Echo potential.
(Squints at the page) OH! Those are TEARS!
For a second there, I thought she was so angry she’d triggered some kind of glowing Echo Warpaint effect!
https://i.redd.it/d3jb612nsr321.png
…Which actually would have been kind of awesome, come to think of it…