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SCAR: Am glad to be seeing of enthusiasm, yes? Who wants first shot?
SELKIE: Mister Scar, I can’t DO eye lasers yet.
ANDI: And I don't want Amanda doing it at all!
ANDI: Frankly, I thought there would be more “stop” and less “go” regarding DEATH RAYS.
AMANDA: I mean... if I can do it without the screaming hell-worms...
SCAR: Trust me, hellworms is part of process.
TODD: I have to agree with Amanda's mother. I don't want to encourage weaponizing the girls.
SELKIE: Father, why have you betrayed me?
TODD: Selkie..
SELKIE: I'ms waiting, Judas.
SELKIE: Mister Scar, I can’t DO eye lasers yet.
ANDI: And I don't want Amanda doing it at all!
ANDI: Frankly, I thought there would be more “stop” and less “go” regarding DEATH RAYS.
AMANDA: I mean... if I can do it without the screaming hell-worms...
SCAR: Trust me, hellworms is part of process.
TODD: I have to agree with Amanda's mother. I don't want to encourage weaponizing the girls.
SELKIE: Father, why have you betrayed me?
TODD: Selkie..
SELKIE: I'ms waiting, Judas.
To Amanda the screaming hellworms is the scary part, not the portable WMD.
If this is a thing she can do, she needs to learn how to properly control it, and learn to respect the power she holds. Pushing it down and burying it won’t end well for anybody.
Yeah, really all anyone needs to do is watch the first Frozen movie to see how repressing powers will end.
While this is true, there are probably more steps to the “control it safely” process than simply “none at all” and “fire away.”
I think “learn how to do it in a controlled environment,” is a pretty good first step, though.
“Hellworms is part of process.”
…ominous. And continues to give me concern.
this could also be one of the drawbacks to Scar’s method of teaching, that possibly Pohl’s method minimizes, or maybe eliminates… but since he isn’t here… And I’m kinda on all three sides here… Andi: doesn’t want ANYTHING to do with weapons (and pretty much anything else Resonance related it seems at this point) Todd: he’s OK with the training for peaceful purposes but is drawing the line at turning the kids into Government controlled super-soldiers because well, you KNOW they are going to try it… As for Scar, i’m not sure if he’s just that clueless as to social clues and isn’t picking up on the whole “people are freaked out – don’t push the weapons aspect of this freaky phenomena YET” or if he’s just so overjoyed at the prospect of “Finally ‘I’ get to TRAIN someone the way ‘I’ Learned” and is basically just pushing “Full-Steam Ahead, and Damn the Torpedoes” no matter what the PARENTS want… i mean come on, at least EXPLAIN WHY you want to do target practice FIRST without ANY ‘classroom time” building up to it (granted that ACTUAL classroom time is kinda moot at this point, but you know what i mean) even the Army gives training before they hand out the guns and points them at a target for the first time…
To be fair, part of his enthusiasm is that Nei Li is his offspring. He also probably recalls her antics where she’s very gung-ho about not just being an Echo, but wanting all the cool powers that come with it. Dr. Terrorhammer may be on hiatus, but only because dad would ground her if she came back full force.
My, and I think everyone’s concern, is the effects this will have on Amanda. The poor kid has been nasty and a brat for a long time but she’s grown and keeps trying to grow into a better kid. I’m just glad nobody in comic has pulled the, “Be careful what you wish for,” line.
No offence to the parents in this situation, but as a parent myself I’m team “Teach ’em how to fire death rays”. They have this ability, regardless of training. If it were my kid, I’d rather they know how to handle it.
Also my kid having the ability to fire a death ray at will from their eyes would be the best way to keep anything bad from ever happening to them. I’d rather pick them up from the police station for melting an attacker, then pick them up from the morgue.
“I’d rather pick them up from the police station for melting an attacker, then pick them up from the morgue.”
Bingo. I also note that Todd said he didn’t want to “encourage” it, not that he was outright forbidding it…
What if the “attacker” is a school bully? Without the intent to legitimize bullying or make light of it, I don’t think a child deserves to be killed for engaging in it. I think that’s the parents’ concern, here: that the kids have a built-in loaded weapon, but lack the maturity for it. They’re both good kids at heart, and if they DID melt a bully would be horrified at what they did – but that won’t unmelt the bully, or remove the scars on their souls for becoming killers at an early age.
I agree, that they need to be taught how to control the ability. What Todd and Andi don’t seem to understand is that they already have the weapon, and it can’t be taken away. They should be taught how to use it, so if they do melt someone (bully or otherwise) it’s not by accident…
(They may also be hoping that it CAN be taken away, by an inhibitor or something. That might be a good idea, if possible. Put a safety on the gun, as it were – one they could remove in a genuine emergency.)
This is a really good point, I think. For the sake of argument, what if this ability had developed in Amanda or Selkie prior to the confrontation with Truck? That boy’s a hot mess but doesn’t deserve to be eye-lasered. Heck, if Amanda had developed this ability prior to the … softening of her aggressive nature she could have done in half the orphanage.
That said, they both absolutely need to learn discipline and control. The next time Tehk decides to pick on her, Amanda can’t be taking out the barrette just to shut him up.
I do think it’s an odd choice that Scar is apparently in charge of these lessons, and not Pohl.
Eye-lasers are very far from Pohl’s specialty. Scar is probably the closest thing to a Sarnothi weapons expert available.
Oh. Yeah, that’s fair.
The kids (especially Amanda) are weapons now. The primary goal of any weapons training is how to not kill anyone. Kids need this as bad or worse than “adults”.
On a slightly different note, Selkie’s phisiognomy in the last panel speaks volumes of ancient wisdom to me. I’m firmly along for the ride!
Laser eyes, … without training! And what if Amanda meets the Terrible Twins on the street? I rust my case.
Like many people I can see what’s Scar is doing, you can’t learn to control this power if you don’t use, respect and care for it. Basically think of Zhao from Avatar The Last Airbender he only cared about the destructive force of fire bending and not the art of it or different ways to use it.
For me personally, i understand where you’re coming from, but i think that it’s not so much the fact that Scar want’s them to target practice, it’s that he’s jumping into it with both feet as the VERY FIRST THING… i mean literally, he didn’t even ask them how they were doing/feeling, he didn’t even know the status of Selkie’s training that she isn’t that far along in her abilities, let alone explaining ANYTHING to the who/what/when/where/why nor the hows! of this Resonance thing…
Yeah, super powers with no guidance beyond “stick head in sand and pretend they don’t exist” is gonna work REAL well…..
Please tell me I’m not the only one that mentally “hears” Scar’s voice as Variks from Destiny 2…