Amanda doesn’t have Selkie’s Sneak modifiers.
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SELKIE: Good match.
TEHK: Yeah, yeah. And thanks or whatever for fixing the thing.
TEHK: Maybe you're okay. Maybe.
SELKIE: Heh. Don'ts do me any favors, Freckles.
TEHK: And tell Amanda to stop spying.
AMANDA: I’m just trying to figure out why you’re threatening me.
TEHK: Already told Selkie. Ask her, I'm not repeating myself.
AMANDA: Yeah well, don’t ever scare me again, or I’ll get scary.
TEHK: Ugh, dude why are you so CRINGE?!
AMANDA: YOUR FACE IS CRINGE!
TEHK: Ugh...
TEHK: Yeah, yeah. And thanks or whatever for fixing the thing.
TEHK: Maybe you're okay. Maybe.
SELKIE: Heh. Don'ts do me any favors, Freckles.
TEHK: And tell Amanda to stop spying.
AMANDA: I’m just trying to figure out why you’re threatening me.
TEHK: Already told Selkie. Ask her, I'm not repeating myself.
AMANDA: Yeah well, don’t ever scare me again, or I’ll get scary.
TEHK: Ugh, dude why are you so CRINGE?!
AMANDA: YOUR FACE IS CRINGE!
TEHK: Ugh...
One day I'll write an arc where people aren't spying around corners. One day. But not this day.
If it came to a throwdown, my money is on Amanda. Even with her opponent having claws, fangs, and venom.
I thought that they had gotten into a fight once already.
Yup. And I doubt they’ll ever need to have another one.
For not having been raised in this culture, Tehk already has an impressive command of the vernacular.
Apparently children, regardless of species, pick up slang through their pores. Even if they don’t understand it, they’ve heard it enough to be able to use it in proper context most of the time.
I’m willing to bet Tehk understands the context perfectly well, though.
It can be hilarious to ask them to define it sometimes.
I was reading an article recently that made a lot of sense to me. They said that all those sounds babies are making are actually them attempting to say words they hear their peers use, and they are repeating them over and over again trying to get them right.
How much of that is true, I have no idea. I have no experience on the matter, but I thought it was a fascinating theory. I say “theory” because I have no idea how you’d be able to actually prove that.
Amanda weaponizes her cringe.
Given what we’ve learned over the past few pages, Amanda is lucky she went with “your face” rather than “your mom.”
Or, no luck at all. Either because Amanda was listening in, or Amanda already tends not to “Your Mom” people, what with her OWN mother baggage.
Sneak modifiers are hard when you have bright red hair.
Ah, young, prepubescent love – how sweet it is! I remember how my sister and I, around age 8 to 10, would spar….
(dunno what Dave has in mind, but in a cohort with as much shared experience as these kids have, there are bonds forming that should last)
Tehk.. don’t you realize Amanda *knows* how to fight a Sarnothi her size? She knows how to stop your screech, she isn’t afraid of your venom spit, and she’s got Advantage on grapple checks and pinning. Don’t poke the Eel!
I’m waiting for the moment Tehk finds out about Amanda’s…green eyes glowing thing….
He already “knows” about her laser-eyes…. though I’m pretty sure that currently he thinks that Selkie MADE her the bow-tie to “give her” the laser-eyes… he does NOT know that the bow-tie is a SUPPRESSOR for said laser-eyes…
Now that’s how you use the Uno Reverse Card Selkie. Take notes.
I know this isn’t great to admit, but I’d love to see Amanda kick Tehk’s ass. I know this is a difficult situation, I know these are kids, but blackmail ain’t a great look and in this case he got what he wanted without any repercussions, that is going to encourage him in the future.
You know how that saying, once a liar, you can never really trust what they say? I believe that applies to blackmail as well. He needs to have consequences for this.
Tehk and Amanda deserve each other.
“…and that’s how I met your mother!”