Thanks, Scar.
Live drawing VOD here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1059562742
For those who don’t follow Twitch or Twitter, I drew something extra this week. Felt like doing something summery.
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AMANDA: It's... it's gone. Kinda...
POHL: Well, that's good! You'll need to keep your hand in place there for a few moments, okay?
POHL: I have to confess, I wasn't sure I could replicate the technique on the spot. Glad the study is paying off.
TODD: Study?
POHL: Since Scar made the original suppression device, I've been poking him with questions about it whenever we work together. To try and understand it's workings. I re-created the matrices and relays that power the basic suppression functions, temporarily anchoring them through Amanda's harmonics.
POHL (VO): I meant the study of it to help Selkie improve. Never expected to use it on you! Ha ha.
POHL: Well, that's good! You'll need to keep your hand in place there for a few moments, okay?
POHL: I have to confess, I wasn't sure I could replicate the technique on the spot. Glad the study is paying off.
TODD: Study?
POHL: Since Scar made the original suppression device, I've been poking him with questions about it whenever we work together. To try and understand it's workings. I re-created the matrices and relays that power the basic suppression functions, temporarily anchoring them through Amanda's harmonics.
POHL (VO): I meant the study of it to help Selkie improve. Never expected to use it on you! Ha ha.
Well... supercharging successful?
Oh wow, someone will need to sit down with Selkie and giver her a talk so she doesn’t hold being upset.
Well, I guess I was sort of right. Selkie is definitely going to use this new turn of events with Amanda to motivate her own ability. 🙁
No Selkie, no lasering your sister, no matter how unfair the situation is, that’s impolite.
You suppose SPF 100 is going to be enough for an albino? Should probably be wearing that hat also.
Cute picture though.
Comic 1542: Selkie commits a warcrime.
I feel so bad for Selkie. Seeing someone tread all over her months of effort and practice without much progress with an ability they shouldn’t even be able to use AT ALL… that’s gut wrenching.
It certainly doesn’t help the rivalry.
Is anyone else seeing this as a flip of the situation they were in when they first arrived at the orphanage? When everyone was paying attention to Selkie, and Amanda became resentful of it?
Yes! That was the first thing I thought of.
Yup me too. Feels like Dave deliberately drew it that way.
Yep. I hope nobody forgets these are still children, and not mentally or emotionally adults. There’s going to be a lot of feelings.
“The green-eyed monster.”
Amanda’s not Green-eyed… and she’s been MUCH less of a monster lately… 😀
though i do understand how you originally meant it…
It’s a term for jealousy dating back to Shakespeare. Green is commonly associated with envy and jealousy, so its personification is ‘the green-eyed monster’. Basically, Selkies getting upset that not only did Amanda ‘steal’ her echo powers, she’s also drawn all the adult’s attention onto her.
Let’s see. Amanda gets her dad. gets her mom back. gets super powers.
selkie gets a dad and family she has to share with her bully, finds out her mom damaged her echoness, finds out awful things about the sarnothi situation, watches amanda get the powers she was supposed to have…
kid is owed a damn breakdown. the stressors on an 8 year old are high as heck. and speaking as someone who had a sibling bully, “but she’s your sister” does NOT wipe away years of severe bullying.
This. There’s some just desserts about to happen and I have total understanding of why.
Oh, come on, Selkie. Sure it makes you less unique, but you weren’t unique among your people in that anyway. Now you got a study partner!
She’s eight, though. She may come to think of it this way eventually but right now she’s going to have a lot of big feelings about it first.
Really hoping that’s the direction this goes. Either that or they talk it out without getting in a fight. Those are the two best possible scenarios, but unfortunately the least likely.
Notice that Selkie’s eyes are actually ‘flaming’ here, instead of just glowing. Maybe Pohl’s treatment was really helping, and that will be enough to obviate her distress?
Selkie wanted her being different to pay off for once in her life, and now that’s taken away. I don’t blame her for being really ticked off.
So is Amanda going to have to start wearing a bow?
Welp, this is going to go just perfect. DX
I’m surprised at how calm Dave seems. Even in the Selkie-verse, I would be pretty riled up if my human child started spouting laser flames from her eyes (as I am certain Andy will be). First time he saw it among the Sarnothi he about had a coronary with a crocheted tail, now his response is “Study?”. Seems very out of character for him as he’s always been interested in his daughters’ welfare before rather than having Girl Genius-type fascination with the science behind things. Her eyes are still glowing, she still seems to be experiencing some discomfort from it, and whatever happened was bizarre with a capital B.
ARGH! How calm Todd seems.
It might be one of those “this is so much that my brain just shut down to basic human behaviors” moments.
From the expression, he’s freaked still!
But A: Pohl did shut down the flaming freaky thing, B: Pohl is probably using doctor-body-language for “well! this was startling but everything will be fine,” and C: Todd is hopefully also trying to hold his own freakout down because it *won’t help* his kid(s). (You put the panic in a little box in your head and try to focus on the important parts.)
I can see another rift gorming, another chip on Selkie’s shoulder. Amanda has always ruined everything for her, intentionally or not. She kept Selkie from making friends by telling lies about her, she butted into Selkie’s new family, forcing her to be sisters with her enemy, and now she’s taken the one special thing that was truly special and unique to her as a person. If you’ve never had a sibling you don’t like suddenly start doing a thing or liking a thing that is special to you, you can’t understand what an invasion and violation it is to your safe space. It’s almost like your special thing is tainted somehow and the only way to reclaim your space and sense of self is to get rid of them.
SPF 1000 is for people who literally burst into flames in direct sunlight. Is this the case for Selkie’s teacher?
Jessie brings all the protection she can get. XD
Gasp!! Do You mean that “Stop, Drop and Roll” is a LIE!!!
Is Selkie’s eye flame because of Pohl’s treatment or some sort of Bruce Banner arrangement? “That’s my secrets, Doc, I’m always angries.”
Well… at least Selkie seem to have some “fire eyes” going now as well… that’s a good thing? Right?
Honestly though I’m EXTREMELY curious as to how this happened.
Surely if this was a latent thing in even a small percentage of the population they’d know about it.
We HAVE heard about it… we just didn’t BELIEVE it… ya know.. Merlin and other ‘Myths” like… um… my brain just ain’t working good enough to THINK of their names though…