Oopsie
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SELKIE: Okay, aaands... here we go. Pokings the things.
[FWOM goes the ball of fire]
SELKIE (VO): Woooaahhh... it cames back! Buts on fire!
AMANDA: Holy CRAP, that got loud!
SELKIE: Wait... dids it come back, or... maybe it wasn'ts really gone?
SELKIE: Oh oh oh! What if I mades it INVISIBLE?!?!
AMANDA: I think you probably just broke it.
SELKIE: With fire! I'll takes the win.
[FWOM goes the ball of fire]
SELKIE (VO): Woooaahhh... it cames back! Buts on fire!
AMANDA: Holy CRAP, that got loud!
SELKIE: Wait... dids it come back, or... maybe it wasn'ts really gone?
SELKIE: Oh oh oh! What if I mades it INVISIBLE?!?!
AMANDA: I think you probably just broke it.
SELKIE: With fire! I'll takes the win.
As far as Selkie is able to tell, she just got a choice between Assassin or Sorcerer sub-specializations.
Ha! Breaking the toys! Excellent!
She killed it with fire.
…oh no. Ohhh no… Look, I know I’ve been ambivalent about Then before, and usually, I do appreciate his character even if I’m on the fence about “liking” him. However.. given his maniacal/diabolical glee at learning a human has Echo powers, and thus, apparently Echo can be “taught/acquired,” I’m a wee bit worried that Selkie has, in fact, broken a relatively rare piece of Sarnothi tech, and Then is going to insist on keeping the kids for, “Observation, for their own safety of course! If they can overload this, there’s no telling what they’ll do elsewhere.” I don’t think Then is going to be furious enough to want to hurt the kids (they literally didn’t know what they were doing aside from being told to poke it) but I think he’ll use this to try and leverage getting the kids to a special facility for “training.”
I hope I’m wrong.
If I’m not, I hope Agent Brown can peacefully prevent it.
I don’t think Then is, like, actively malicious. Separating kids from parents is a different level of evil than I think is meant for this comic, hopefully?
“Then is going to insist on keeping the kids for, “Observation, for their own safety of course”
I try not to chime in too often on things like that that can spoiler upcoming content (sometimes simply by process of elimination), but I would like to say something about this: I decided years and years back to specifically avoid storylines that involve taking Selkie (or any of the kids) away from their parents.
Early in the comic I was doing a spot of research on adoptive parenting relationships, and one of the search results I picked up as a story that stuck with me. Short version is that a mother took her adoptive daughter to see Despicable Me, and the part where the kids get taken away from Gru traumatized her daughter so much they had to leave the theater. It was a constant fear in the kid’s mind, that she would get parents only to be taken away or discarded, and seeing that scenario play out in a movie set off all of her Biggest Fear alarms at once. The article led into a discussion about how separation from their adoptive parents is a trope that occurs like clockwork in every movie that features adoption, with almost no exceptions, and how damaging the idea that “they’ll discard me” being normalized is.
The article made enough of an impact on me that I decided, rather firmly, very early on that I would avoid that trope entirely. At the best it’s over-utilized, at the worst it’s damaging to see enacted. So It’s nixed as an option as far as I’m concerned.
I’m actually really glad for this “spoiler,” Dave. Thank you for setting my fears at ease. ❤️
It would probably be even more troubling for Amanda, given her history. Finally getting a loving family only to be torn away from them… kid would probably never recover
I can respect this choice and appreciate you making the stance known.
That isn’t a spoiler it’s a content warning, Dave.
And thank you.
I wouldn’t consider this a spoiler, it’s actually more like an inverse trigger warning, which I think is a really good thing.
Movie ratings only sort of explain what’s in them (violence, language, etc.) and it’s hard to know what might adversely effect someone; I hadn’t thought about how that scene in Despicable Me might have such an impact but it makes a lot of sense.
…aaaand now we know the story behind Barb’s reaction to Heather’s fear of being “sent back”.
Thanks for having a heart, Dave.
Good
The correct choice is sorcerer, because lightning.
Well… There goes Agent Then’s “Sneaking in the door invisible when he’s late for work” toy… he goes to the bathroom and takes it off, pretending he was at work the whole time…
come on, don’t tell me you wouldn’t use it that way if YOU had it!?
More and more I am thinking that Selkies talent as a echo is bringing out the power of others and objects. Which would be a interesting development given her own (understandably childlike) desire to wield power herself.