Right in the ego.
(Benny’s face markings have been fixed, thank you all.)
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Carrie: Selkie, I-I thinks you did a very g-goods job.
Carrie: Y-You communicateds yourself very well.
Carrie: G-Goods work.
Carrie: N-Nows, lets go backs to the town’s square.
Carrie: T-There’s a s-surprise there.
Benny: Shouldn’t we wait for Avery and... blonde guy? Seems a bit impatient to run off.
Carrie: B-Benny, I ams your mother. All the patience I haves, I-I reserve fors you.
Benny: Oh.
Benny: ...HEY!
Carrie: Hee hee.
Carrie: Y-You communicateds yourself very well.
Carrie: G-Goods work.
Carrie: N-Nows, lets go backs to the town’s square.
Carrie: T-There’s a s-surprise there.
Benny: Shouldn’t we wait for Avery and... blonde guy? Seems a bit impatient to run off.
Carrie: B-Benny, I ams your mother. All the patience I haves, I-I reserve fors you.
Benny: Oh.
Benny: ...HEY!
Carrie: Hee hee.
Bam. Got him.
Ooo, that was an absolute beaut of a parental snark. Well played, ma’am.
Carrie is absolutely adorable.
As a parent, I endorse this message.
Benny’s markings seem to be gone altogether now.
I think the little circles that look like blushies are his markings. Based on what Dave said about the markings, it seems the triangles were an error and not an intentional shift.
Those weren’t there when I posted.
Speech bubble missing for Benny’s “Oh”. And is Benny supposed to have markings, or has it been determined he’s too young for them still?
Though I am rather eager to see what the surprise is myself, so I’m with Carrie, let’s go!
You forgot Benny’s face markings!!
I love Carrie so much! She’s just adorable. 🙂
Carrie is adorable, and I don’t think any of us would be averse to a prequel chapter showing how she and Avery met and got together.
Seconded, there must be a hell of a story there. I’m also intensely curious as to what happened to the other sarnothi girl that seemed to be part of their family.
avery was singled out from the pack pursued and hunted down like prey. He ddint stand a chance.
That lady plays demure but I would NOT piss her off. Beware of redheaded women that have venomous potential ( and yes her hair looks auburn but its its actually red. due to color shift at depth)
Her hair is the same on land… Though perhaps Dave doesn’t know as much as you about color shift 😉 https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie933/
Grath. Auburn haired girls are almost as dangerous as redheads. a little LESS crazy but they don’t have the obvious Coloration to WARN YOU. (red heads have that coloration as a WARNING just like all dangerous creatures in nature)
I stand by my statement. He didnt stand a chance, he was picked out from the herd and persued like prey.
Aaaand Carrie’s “Mom-ness” comes out.
“Right in the Ego” would be a great title for the previous conversation between Selkie and Gien, too.
Side note, it is heartbreaking how happy Selkie gets over positive adult attention.
and this is why Avery asked Gien to stay with them. Carrie’s probaly got a history of swiftly moving from one task to another. I wanted to ask is her stutter just something she’s always had or is it a result of trauma?
My theory is trauma-response as well… It was apparently her husband who got netted by fisherman at the beginning of the comic. She and Benny are the remainder of that vacationing family. That could definately cause a person to become meek and frightened and pick up a tic of some sort.
I feel like Avery may have been one of the first agents assigned to the situation, and gradually took such a liking that they became partners rather than just a guardian/overseer. I alao have my theories that Avery may have his own underlying issues that make their relationship “mutually agreeable”, if sarnothi & humans can’t breed, and/or if she can’t commit herself to physical intimacy.
Carrie’s eyes seem to be missing in panel two, either that or her eyes are really high up and her eyebrows are missing? I get that she’s doing a happy squint (selkie is doing the same thing but we can see the lines of her eyes and her eyebrows also) still loving this whole arc.
To be honest, I somehow did not notice her eyes were gone until I saw your comment.
I’m loving seeing Carrie evolve in her confidence, and be assertive. I’m a trauma survivor myself who has struggled with coping issues of being too small, too meek and quiet, and over the past few years have been working on healing and gaining personal ground.
Its good to see these often unspoken things represented in comics.
What Katrina said! I love seeing Carrie’s growth and the burn on Benny was cleverly written as well.
I’m still not sure if it was meant to burn Benny, or Avery! lol… it feels sort of a bit of both. But in this instance, she’s mostly saying “I DON’T have the patience to sit here and wait for my husband” which surprises him.