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ANDI: Todd, you look like a bull that just saw someone enter it's pen. What's up?
TODD: I'm just not one hundred percent on that guy.
ANDI: I mean, yeah he's a bit intimidating, but he seems to be all-in on helping. What is he, a war criminal?
ANDI: ...What?
TODD: I'm just not one hundred percent on that guy.
ANDI: I mean, yeah he's a bit intimidating, but he seems to be all-in on helping. What is he, a war criminal?
ANDI: ...What?
Not a war criminal, more of a profiteer
Well there it is. The Biggest of Ooofs I shall see today.
It’s…its…it’s…its…
He is THE war criminal. Scar’s participation totally echoes (cough, cough!) “Operation: Paperclip”.
Short version, for the uninitiated:
Operation Paperclip was when the USA took possession of 1,600 German Nazi scientists, engineers and technicians; Mostly through kidnapping, but also through offers of amnesty after the war ended.
That… doesn’t seem to really match what Scar did. If anything, I would compare his deed (at least the second half of it) to that of the collaborators in France and other Nazi-occupied countries that actively helped delivering Jewish people to the Nazis during WWII.
AND probably Selkie’s sperm donor, who tried to lock up and turn in Selkie’s mother for the bounty money.
They’re called FATHERS, whether the replacements like it or not. They can be good, they can be bad, they can be somewhere in between. And I suspect that given his history, Scar is perfectly aware of his tenuous status. The Scar we see now has been consistently depicted as a good guy….who once did a VERY bad thing. I look forward to seeing how this all develops. Todd is acutely aware of the growing list of things that Scar can provide that he simply CANT .
“Gather round while I sing you of Werner Von Braun, a man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience…””
“Call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown: ‘Nazi, eh Schmatzi,’ says Werner Von Braun.”
Tom Lehr fans, represent!!
Represent!
Represent!
Represent! “…if you just add silent ‘e’!”
Represent!
As a fan (and owner of) “An Evening Wasted With Tom Leher,” I will represent, but I honestly didn’t know this one!
Oo– nice idea for a Christmas prezzie there, Ed Rhodes, thankee!
I wonder if Agent Brown knows/suspects Scar’s “connection” to Selkie?
For that matter, does Then?
Todd told Agent brown about Scar’s possible connection when he found out. It happened over several pages, but the most relevant is 1329.
Don’t know about Then.
The dream sequence Selkie has immediately after that is telling. She seems to have internalized at some level that Scar is (probably) her father. “Terror is who you are.” 🙁
Avery also specifically told Todd to not pass judgement on that until Plo Quar can be found, because she is literally the only one who knows the truth.
Hammer, I’d like to introduce you to Nail.
Wait, a minute! She had her barrette on the whole time? Or is that a different hair clip?
Her barrette is just the cover her mother made for her, while she gave the supressor part of the clip to Amanda.
Then took the mom created suppressor but left the clip. The Dr. made newest one.
So how much of Tod is parental territorial drive of “my child, must defend/protect the smol” and that thing adopted parents have to go through were they are having to defend against being called and treated as the “not real parents”? Cuz I see that being a thing that will not go over well.
It is never pretty when the rights of adoptive parents and biological parents clash. Seeing as Scar can not openly admit this claims cuz it would put Selkie in greater debt/make her a target cuz of his past sins, Todd IMO has more documented rights as the parent. Only one who can trump Tod is Selkie’s mom. The moral rights are…not as easy to assess. Againe, IMO, Todd is doing his best to do right but it ain’t easy or pretty
While I know that it is in human nature to put the blame on the kids too, it seems a bit ridiculous to me to blame Selkie for the sins of her biological father, especially one she never knew.
It was mentioned in https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie995/ that Selkie would be expected to share in Scar’s reparations if it were found out that she was his daughter, seemingly per Sarnothi custom.
“The sins of the father are the sins of the son” 😉
This is gonna get real awkward real quick.
Say nothing, Todd. Don’t want to accidentally break clearences.
Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking with that specific expression at Andi. She doesn’t know and it’s not her fault she’s not cleared for it, but I’m not even sure if TODD is technically ‘allowed’ to know so much as he found out, so she’s 100% right and it DOES heavily impact how he sees Scar, but can’t say anything. (Even though we know it was consensual, he still betrayed Plo Quar, who’s clearly complicated but nonetheless I don’t think Todd would have the same reaction if she reentered Selkie’s life. I think he would have a LOT of very pointed questions about why she handled everything about Selkie the way she did, though, including ‘did you know the suppressor could hurt her’. Even trying to atone, Scar’s a bit of a different matter.)
Another pointed question is why Plo Quar never came back for Selkie.
That one, at least, may have a reasonable answer tied up in what’s probably the first question out of Selkie’s mouth, much less his – why did you leave her in the first place, especially in the care of humans? Given what we know of Plo Quar (political dissident with a massive bounty, former peacekeeper so could conceivably Know Things, reputation for ferocity not exaggerated,) it’s not inconceivable that she was in imminent danger for her life, and leaving Selkie was an effort to protect her. Maybe the human government basically placed them both in a sort of witness protection… which, given the rarity of sarnothi on the surface, and especially Jin’Sorai, might have meant separating the two to try and reduce identifiability. Another ‘only Plo Quar knows the whole story,’ I suspect, but I could well see her not coming back for Selkie because she genuinely can’t do so safely, even if she is established on the surface.
Props to Andy for having a one-armed robotic-voiced aquatic humanoid doing glowy healing magic in front of her and still noticing Todd and checking in with him
The table seating for future Thanksgivings will have to be handled v-e-r-y delicately.