Just a heads up, the next Selkie strip will be on Wednesday, June 29. I am out of town and won’t be able to make Monday’s update.
In earlier drafts, Plo Quar had been a close friend of the De'Madieas, in other drafts she had escorted them out of Sarnoth and defended them from enemy soldiers. I chose not to go with the route of a personal relationship, but they're still aware of her existence.
I had written a bit where Todd walks in to the room catching Sai Fen still in the water bubble, but on thinking about it I decided it didn't make much sense that Sai Fen wouldn't quickly floop that water bubble back into the tank before calling the human in to chat about war crimes.
The last time Selkie got too far away from her hairbow -EDIT- Fixed some continuity errors regarding lack of snowfall in panel 2 and a lack of waterbending bracers.
I frequently run outside under dressed in the winter. Bad idea. Baaaaad.
I can see Selkie developing a liking for marinades once she gets past the psychological “OMG IT’S PLANTS” hurdle.
I considered mentioning an off-camera moment where Selkie got sick from eating meat with too much barbecue sauce on it, but I don't want to confuse the "can she or can't she" issue.
It’s perfectly okay for sarnothi to swim immediately after eating.
When I was a little kid I designed a superhero who manipulated surface tension and controlled water. He lived in Venice which is really the best possible city for a superhero like that, I think. His name was Captain H20. I was not good with names.
Took some advice from Kilyle and modified Sai Fen’s speech bubble style a bit since she’s underwater. Thanks for the feedback. I was trying to think of a way to work dialogue into a strip to answer the question many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Guess she decided to use the “water pump” after all. (btw, for those that don’t knw about the semi-hidden director commentary, check the Transcript link for some… kind of out-there info.)
In early drafts of the story, all sarnothi were basically waterbenders. And just for extra super-crazy trivia, in that same VERY early draft, there were slated to be two OTHER races revealed to be living under humanity's notice on Earth at a later stage of the story: avian "airbenders" living in cities disguised as clouds, and fire-breathing dragonoids who consume stone and react to water as if it were acid. In this draft of the story, humans were to be eventually revealed as "fallen" earthbenders who forgot their elemental artform. Todd would have been the first human to regain the ability. This concept essentially evolved into the four Clans of Sarnoth, whose general personalities are very loosely based on the same four elements in terms of "feel" (Sar'Teri: Earth, Stoic. Jin'Sorai: Fire, Passionate. Mor'Kama: Air, Aloof. Tel'Dora: Water, Nurturing.)
