I hope everyone had a great weekend! If you celebrated Christmas, hope you had a great holiday!
And as for today’s update, those of you who guessed Heather was the thief almost immediately, pat yourselves on the back.
As always with Tony's french, if "Quoi" is inaccurate for a flat "what?", feel free to inform me.
Discussion (36) ¬
sadly enough i kinda feel bad for heather….shes just a lonely kid who wants her friend back. being adopted was supposed to be great for her,and her so-called friends made it bitter because of their jealousy and their own loneliness….poor heather i want to hug her so badly
It’s the face. How can you blame that face? The poor, misled girl doesn’t know any better. She runs with the wrong crowd.
The… OH COME ON, HEATHER! Really?! It just HAD to be you!
AH HA!!
I was thinking along with a lot of others that it had to be Heather!
Now I’m wondering how much trouble the poor girl’s gonna be in when she’s found out or gets ratted out.
The REAL question is what happens next, and whether Amanda starts enabling Heather in a downward spiral of inflicting worse and worse torments on others in the empty pursuit of approval from someone who might only see you as a means to an end.
Hmmm. Will they re-accept her or turn her in?
On the one hand, they are united in their hate for selkie and utter loathing of her, but on the other hand, they still have a pretty big grudge against heather for getting adopted without them.
Oh, decisions, decisions.
not to mention, everyone in the room now knows it was Heather. That includes Georgie, who is Selkie’s best friend. If It turns out that they knew about it and weren’t saying anything, they might get in trouble for that.
Actually, now that I think of it, I think that Jessie’s going to catch Heather with the shirt and turn all three of the girls in a accomplices.
Man, I hope you’re right.
CALLED IT!
Ooooohhhh… so not good. That’s just sad. I don’t think Keisha is so delighted with this turn of events, but Amanda is exactly the type of little brat who would turn in her old friend for a couple of brownie points.
I’m totes hoping Heather is going to blame it on Amanda.
I can see that happening; she gives the shirt to Amanda and Amanda gets caught with it. Heather gets justified for being rejected.
Dammit, I guessed wrong. It’s almost always the Butler who did it.
And consider:
Selkie’s dad works for Heather’s dad’s company.
Really? I totally missed that.
It was never explicitly stated in-comic, but a few readers put two and two together based on her new surname and I went ahead and confirmed it in comments.
Compare:
https://selkiecomic.com/?p=22
https://selkiecomic.com/?p=532
I knew it, I knew it! 😀
I do hope that Todd will do something about Selkie’s school problems, though; like private school, if that’s something he can afford.
Then again, if he can afford her custom shoes, then he may be able to afford private school.
Remember how horrified he was by the cost of the custom shoes.
Oh sweetie, that is NOT the way to get friends back.
Taken from http://french.about.com/od/mistakes/a/what.htm
French learners often have trouble deciding how to translate “what” into French. Should it be que or quoi, or maybe that pesky quel? Understanding the difference between these terms is critical to knowing how to use them correctly.
The problem with translating “what” into French is that it has numerous grammatical functions in English. It can be an interrogative pronoun or adjective, relative pronoun, exclamative adjective, adverb, or object of a preposition, and may be found in any position in a sentence. In contrast, French has different terms for most of these possibilities, including que, qu’est-ce qui, quoi, comment, and quel. In order to know which term to use, you need to understand what function each of them performs.
When asking a question with “what” as either the subject or object, the French equivalent is the interrogative pronoun que.
As the object of a question, que may be followed by either inversion or est-ce que.
Que veux-tu ? Qu’est-ce que tu veux ?
What do you want?
Que regardent-ils ? Qu’est-ce qu’ils regardent ?
What are they watching?
Qu’est-ce que c’est (que ça) ?
What is it/that?
When que is the subject, it must be followed by est-ce qui. (Don’t let that qui fool you into thinking this means “who”; in this type of construction, qui is simply acting as a relative pronoun with no actual meaning of its own.)
Qu’est-ce qui se passe ?
What’s happening?
Qu’est-ce qui a fait ce bruit ?
What made that noise?
To ask a question in which “what” comes after the verb, use quoi. Note that this is an informal construction:
Tu veux quoi ?
You want what?
C’est quoi, ça ? Ça c’est quoi ?
What’s that? (Literally, That’s what?)
I’d like to point out to Heather that mischief is different from criminal level bullying. I really hope that Jessie sees the shirt. And also hope that Amanda rejects Heather for being too messed up.
An additional thought that came to mind earlier… didn’t they tell Todd that Selkie’s school had been informed of her special needs. How come they then don’t know anything relevant about her? Such as her needing to moisten her gills.
That’s my fault (well obviously, but…). I have some internal-logic to things like that which hasn’t warranted a direct mention in canon dialogue. Basically, my thinking is that information the caretakers will offer willingly to the person who will be raising Selkie as his daughter for the rest of his life (gills, carnivorism, etc.) is more in-depth than what they will volunteer to members of the general public, like school system employees. The school members know she needs to go to the bathroom frequently as part of an unspecified “medical condition”, but Selkie takes care of details like inhaling water herself.
She has been pretty open about it with Todd due to viewing him as a parental figure who willingly chose her out of all the “normal” kids, but with regular run of the mill people she is less open about things like her gills. I am actually trying to work out dialog for when we get to the main office (where Selkie is currently located) based on these ideas.
Just a note, since I work with special needs.
There’s such a thing as the “labeling effect”, where individuals don’t reach their full potential because the people around them put them in a box based on their disability. (Ex: He has Downs so he’ll never be able to live on his own – when in fact, many adults with Downs thrive independently and some can even succeed in a 4 year college). Because of this, the exact disability and what it entails is often withheld from others, unless it is relevant to their education / discipline / health / etc.
So it would totally be feasible that the teachers NOT know she has gills.
I live with a special needs adult. That one label umbrellas just so many different types of disorders and disabilities, with such a range of severity… It’s everything from a kid who may have a hearing impairment to low-functioning autism. I imagine in Selkie’s case it was an easy hand-wave that her caretakers could give without having to come up with numerous explanations.
YaY im back. If you cant remember ive been here reading since the comic started but i started to have major computer problems. Well i fixed my computer and im back, i have a lot of catching up to do,
Glad it’s working better now, welcome back!
I thought it’d be Amanda!!! Nice fake-out!
People who see Selkie running around shirtless now will know she has gills, THAT;’S bound to get around school.
Incidentally, I just remembered this.
The festering sore on Todd’s cheek from where Selkie kissed him (he’s allergic to her saliva? She’s venomous?)
surely that’s not the first time she’s kissed him on the cheek, is it?
Todd gave her a kiss on the cheek when putting her to bed on the first day, but unless I’ve flubbed my continuity this is the first time Selkie’s given Todd a kiss. She’s hugged him, but that was the first peck.
I hope Amanda gets angry at Heather. She needs to learn that doing this is going too far. I agree with the people saying Amanda is the type to turn her in for brownie points with the teachers. If Amanda takes her back after this than she’ll have a lot to do in order to get most readers to sympathize with her at all in the future like during her small Hamud arc a while ago.
Oh and, by the way, I love Jessie’s reaction to having the teacher put her in charge. She’s REALLY new to this student teaching thing, isn’t she?
God dammit, Dave. I’ve just realized that I want to see what happens with Todd, with Andi, with Selkie, with Mina, with Jessie, with Heather and Amanda, and with Barbara.
And you can’t show them all at once.
If he’s french Canadian, Quoi is correct. If he’s parisian it’s Que, which is pronounced like key when it’s not flat, and like kay when it’s flat.