Selkie is making a very rude gesture that would be inappropriate to draw if not for the mittens.
I'm still figuring out Truck's design. His first appearance looked too much like a taller and fatter Young Todd. Tweaked his head to emphasize the unruly hair a bit more, and now he's basically a fat Goku. XD
Oh that was smart, she snorted snow. With all that running around, plus her warming packs, even an exotherm is going to overheat. The snow will melt, water her gills, and not refreeze in her clothing too quickly.
OK my bad: “Exotherm” is not a term used in biology, the word I should have used is “ectotherm.”
I totally missed out on what she was doing in the second panel. Thanks alvin. However, this is not going to end well. Just not certain for whom.
dont worry, now we have a medic on standby XD
hehehe that a girl get them piss to where they slip on ice.
wouldn´t snorting snow cool her core down ot the point of hybernation??
Not if it’s only a couple of handfulls.
She also generates body-heat through activity, though, doesn’t she? Maybe not as much as a warmblood, but it could be enough to carry her through until she stops moving. Lemmie googlecheck that theory.
Okay nothing like that has been said on the sites I checked, so I’m probably wrong.
No, you’re not wrong.
Maybe you googled for the wrong thing? Instead of searching for “warmblood” & “coldblood” I searched for endotherm & ectotherm and then I tried homeostasis and in the process I found homeothermy, poikilothermy & heterothermy. I think Selkie is more likely heterothermic; http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/homeostatic-processes-for-thermoregulation-23592046
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterothermy
I dunno, In a survival situation you never eat snow… no matter how good you’re wrapped up and how much you move you’ll burn off a lot of energy melting the snow in your stomach which’ll lead to faster hypothermia in human beings. Selkie being coldblooded and sensitive as she is I forsee this could be a problem.
She just snorted snow? I’m pretty sure that’s only going to hurt her.
Maybe, but it seems to have done her some good in the short term. She’s no longer huffing nor slurring her words.
I feel like it’s going to incite a bad reaction long term though.
Possibly.
. . . just in time for her to get to a teacher and start making a stink about how she was being picked on and how they threw snowballs at her and how she has a condition and *sob*
Clever girl.
😀 😀 😀
Can I PLEASE use the mittens panel for a videogame forum avatar?
Go for it!
I also feel like if multiple kids say Selkie flipped them off, then she’s going to be the one getting into trouble. “Selkie flipped us off so we threw snowballs at her!” the other side could argue that Amanda and her friends threw the snowballs first, but it’ll all come to light that Selkie and her friends were the ones who started the secret snowball fight to begin with so it seems like either way they’ll be getting into trouble for this. At the very least, all the children should get into trouble if snowball fights are prohibited to begin with.
Mittens, remember? All they can see her doing is holding up a hand.
They guessed what she was doing. They don’t have to explicitly state they SAW her flip them off. They’re quite capable of lying and claiming they actually saw her do it. Especially since they know what she’s doing.
And she can claim she was wearing mittens so there is no way she could have done it. They are more apt to believe her than the troublemaker kids who probably have a rep and may even have a faculty member who has just been waiting for them to get caught doing something.
There is also a possiblity that the others will still be throwing snowballs at Selkie’s friends when the responsible adult comes to get witnesses.
Except it’d be 3 against 1 still. A teacher won’t just automatically believe 1 child over 3. And aside from Amanda fighting at school, do we even know the other kids are classified as troublemakers? And Selkie is pretty verbal with things, the teachers have heard her smart mouth before. They’ve seen her antagonize Amanda before and they know there’s not any good history between them. When Amanda was in trouble, the first thing Selkie did was antagonize her before Amanda even said anything to her. We have no idea how the school staff feels about the children at this point aside from Amanda being troubled and Selkie being ‘special needs’ in a sense.
The thing is, Amanda’s group of kids outweighs Selkie’s group. Amanda’s group can easily say Selkie’s group started it and the teachers would have no way of knowing who’s telling the truth unless someone witnessed it. Unless someone from Selkie’s group mentions Amanda’s group crashed their secret snowball fight, in which case Selkie’s group is still going to get into trouble because it seems like snowball fights are prohibited.
The only foreseeable way I see Selkie escaping punishment for a short period of time is if she ends up having a medical problem from snorting the snow and the cold getting to her. By that time, once she’s in the clear medically, the teachers will either lecture her for participating in something prohibited or let her off with a light warning, but then Todd is going to be all over her for putting herself in danger and going against school rules.
Either way, this is going to end with Selkie getting in trouble one way or another.
Don’t forget. She’s a “special needs” child. If they rule against her, they might get sued for discrimination. Probably best to rule FOR her, as a CYA.
So – I’m the only one that had a totally different thought, when she “snorted SNOW”, and her eyes got all bright and she was suddenly full of energy? 😀
Oh my god, that panel with Selkie’s grin and wide eyes has me giggling like an idiot! Bahaha
I feel like we now need a PSA warning all young ectothermic children the dangers the snorting of snow.
Can Selkie give the finger? With those webbed hands, and…how many fingers does she have, anyway?
Oh man! I love the “fat Goku” comment jeje
GASP! The dreaded Double Deuce! Haven’t seen one of those in years. :O