You get back in that bag right now, Cat.
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New FanArt time! It’s a good week for hand-crafted gifts: Bethany from Ragamuffin Stitchery made me Pants!
I love him Bethany, thank you!
Hefting a battleaxe like that WOULD explain why Goldilocks needed to eat through three bowls of porridge. Just saying.
Oh good. Way to not freak her out, Todd. This isn’t going to end well. 🙁
And OMG, PAAAAAANTS! <3 Too awesome!
yep, i can´t see her invite pohl+family over for dinner any time soon….also, we totally need a PAANTS plushie in a fan shop somewhere. i´d buy it!
Yea, great way to freak her out before you even get to the point. *facepalm*
Best plushie ever, and I totally want a pattern now.
“By the way, when you told me about our daughter being alive all these years — this is how it felt.”
These two are really meant for each other. Neither of them knows how to break bad news!
Dude, you’re doing this BACKWARDS. Start with the little stuff, like, y’know, Selkie’s not a human? Then work up from there. You’re gonna blow Andi’s brain-breaker.
Third speech bubble in the big panel should be “On one side …”
Re Transcript: Goldilocks only ate through one bowl of porridge, the one that was just right. She barely touched the other two.
Todd is terrible at explaining lol
TODD
TODD NONE OF THAT WAS NECESSARY
TODD NO
omg Pants has been made solid! You can’t kill him off now, he’s a character !
You do realize how the stuffed animal was made, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsyUnPINZeY
He was intended to be killed off eventually anyway.
By now my fingers would be firmly in my ears- LA LA LA NOT LISTENING.
It’s pretty much how I survived the 1970s- “Hey John, Sardar Daoud’s been assassinated”. “LA LA LA CAN’T HEAR YOU AND THERE ARE NO NUKES”.
So now, as Todd tries to answer Andi’s questions, we’ll get to see how he has processed what he himself knows. He’s not going to be talking like an official government representative, that’s for sure. He’s an ordinary citizen, with only partial knowledge, and his highest priority is Selkie.
What about the weird bubble of denial that has afflicted nearly all adults since the beginning of the story? It makes sense for casual encounters, but… Andi has been seeing the evidence up close. She has to have been privately wondering and not knowing how to ask.
This brings up a good point… maybe it’s not that Todd is awful at explaining it but this actually is how he came to think about it. oO
OMG no. Todd, this is hardcore breach of security. TELL THEM IT’S AN ILLUSION. Any kind. A laser from a show! A searchlight! Something!
UFOs are “spotted” all the time, and they always feel real, and they always turn out to be something silly like a weather balloon or reflections or something. You can dismiss this too.
How can Todd be this dumb about people and be allowed to adopt? Surely “He’s a nice guy, but has no idea how to talk to people” would have come up in the background check.
Given that he’s never had to worry about dealing with classified information before, I don’t know how that would have come up on a background check. He tends to do pretty well with most “normal” stuff.
Not how we break things to people Todd. Also not Selkie’s ‘people’. Just because they’re the same species doesn’t mean they’re her ‘people’. DX You’re a dork.
Also not liking the look on Andi’s face…
Well he’s managed to put that in exactly the worst way possible.
i don´t think so – he could have mentioned that while it were sarnothis who fired the beam, it was the other side of the war….in which selkie´s mom is a rather prominent fighter, which puts a target on selkie´s back, and possibly that of everyone around her….oh yeah, and lets not forget her budding, totally uncontrolled echo powers
so really, toddd could have put it way worse 😉
I have never seen someone explain something with so damn much flailing around. He’s really not very good at this 🙁
PAAAAANTS!
Omg that’s amazing!!! PAAAANTS!
lol, love the plush and your comments, Dave!!
I have to say I’m more than a bit disappointed. Todd has never struck me as being this bad at explaining things or keeping Selkie’s secrets. I expected a much better opening from him since he has to have been thinking about how he would explain about Selkie’s people to Amanda and Andi for a while. He’s known they would eventually need to be looped in. He wasn’t this awkward with his parents. This just feels a little out of the established character to me.
I am thinking similar thoughts about Todd not being in character.
Where’s an invisible agent when you could use one?
As for bending top secret protocols, it’s better to beg forgiveness than ask for permission.
I agree. He’s really going about it all backwards.
He could prepare a chart, no, wait, this isn’t El Goonish Shive.
Um, I don’t ever remember Todd having issues talking like this ever. He’s acting like he cant spit it out because classified then just says the most classified and damaging part with no context at all. Anything would have been better then this awkward inhuman way of speaking. Like how hard would it have been to say, Selkies a refugee from a civil war and the weapon may have been shot as part of said conflict. Like seriously, this was just awful and comes across as swallowing the idiot ball trope.
Agreed, except we’re not even sure it is a weapon.
Ah yes fair point, so he could have said. That light in the sky was part of said conflict but I don’t think it was a weapon so much as a communications thing.
I AM PAAANTS!!