The last time Selkie got too far away from her hairbow
-EDIT- Fixed some continuity errors regarding lack of snowfall in panel 2 and a lack of waterbending bracers.
I frequently run outside under dressed in the winter. Bad idea. Baaaaad.
The last time Selkie got too far away from her hairbow
-EDIT- Fixed some continuity errors regarding lack of snowfall in panel 2 and a lack of waterbending bracers.
The link to the earlier comic doesn’t work unless I remove the extra characters from the end of the url.
Thank you, and also thank you to All Purpose Guru as well, for the assist.
dave you forgot to draw her bracelet
Dude, my pleasure.
Here’s a fixed link. https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie580
Don’t mean to nitpick, Dave, but it looks like Sai Fen isn’t wearing her armbands in panel four.
I feel like this is going to be either really bad or really sad
Bad as in they know her and have a blood feud or sad because it’s a lost friend
I know I’m super excited by this development, I thought Selkie was just going to tell Sai Fen about her bow not give a demonstration! But knowing Selkie this actually is quite true to character. I’m excited by the prospect of finding out who her mother is in relation to the war, and whether it was foreshadowing when Selkie asked if she was a mermaid princess or something.
Gotta see how this plays out.
Looks awful summery, out the door, in frame two. With all that green grass.
I second the “panel 2 doesn’t look wintery” sentiment, but not the “looks awful” one
That’s a “Southernism”. Equates to “looks extremely”. 😀
Like saying, “That’s a fair bit of rain,” at a torrential downpour. “A fair bit,” being a euphemism for, “WTH, I’ve never seen it rain like that in my life– WTH happened to the sky?”
Oh no…please tell me her mom isn’t a war criminal. But that they know something bad has happened…no wait. I don’t want Selkie’s mom dead.
Selkie’s mom is still around…
https://selkiecomic.com/tag/plo-quar/
That was a recording, had to be made before she gave Selkie up too.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie122/
Plo Quar is in that page (albeit, barely).
!!!!!!!
So just seeing this has kind made it click in my head. I have a very Selkie reaction to the cold. If my body temp changes too quick I break out in hives and have gone into anaphylactic shock from it more than once.
I have decided this means I’m part sarnothi 🙂 I mean I’m a swim coach, it’s only fitting 😉
I really like this arch. I hope Selkie gets some answers!
where are the two bracelets that Sai Fen was wearing the last time we saw her? i hope the “poor life decision” that was made wasn’t to steal the darn things! and that Sai Fen is stuck right now using her OWN glowy magic-stuff the maintain the bubble of water intact… either that, or her hair bow destroyed them somehow (probably as part of my previously post about how her mom set the bow up to warn her to get away, maybe it also puts out a jamming effect on any other glowy stuff)?? i mean it’s bad either way, but believe it or not i hope that it WAS the bow… and that way it’s not really Selkies fault…
I was wondering the same thing. Magic water!!
Why do I get the feeling that Selkie just revealed she’s either
A) The lost Jin’Sora princess. Freaking out Sai Fen with this revelation.
–or–
B) An unwilling Jin’Sora/Sarnothi spy.
Obviously *something* in the recording freaked out Sai Fen, the way she called for Pohl. Looking at the previous time she got too far from the hairbow, it’s not clear that it started looping before she touched it and caused the recording to terminate. Also, since this is the second time she got too far from the hairbow, it might not be the same recording.
It’s possible Selkie just handed her the bow and ran without any explanation or warning, leaving Sai Fen unprepared for what she is seeing.
Or, possibly, since the tech is sensitive to personal proximity… it could be a very VERY different reaction/recording since another, possibly opposing-faction Sarnothi is holding the bow.
Looks like it’s time for some revelations – let’s just hope it’s not of the 4 horsemen variety.
I have only 1 Question. A big one.
Why does it seems Selkie is happy when she is running outside.
It seems to me like she is smiling.
Or ?
SHe’s excited to be sharing her Sarnothi special secret with someone who can giver her answers and obviously has similar technology.
My totally unfounded guess is that Selkie’s mom is a princess or whatever the sarnothi equivalent of royality would be.
What are the odds that Selkie’s swoosh is just to trigger the bow, and not due to Sai Fen’s reaction?
That’s exactly what it is. That’s why she said she is ‘making distance’. The bow only shows the hologram when Selkie gets far enough away. It doesn’t seem to activate until she is outside.
Ah. I was under the impression that it was more of a “blast radius” sort of ‘distance’.
Dave knows we love to see the “Selkie swoosh” – patent pending.
well here is my thoughts one is selkie is the granddaughter of the head of the Jin’Sorai clan in page 406 we see the 4 heads of the clans the Tel’Dora the Mor’Kama the Jin’Sorai and the Sar’Teri and selkie’s mom kind of looks like the head of the Jin’Sorai clan or two she did something to help the Sar’Teri kill the Jin’Sorai.
Dude. Punctuation. Why should I read your post if you don’t bother to make it readable?
well here is my thoughts. one is selkie is the granddaughter. of the head of the Jin’Sorai clan in page 406. we see the 4 heads of the clans the Tel’Dora. the Mor’Kama. the Jin’Sorai. and the Sar’Teri. and selkie’s mom kind of looks like the head of the Jin’Sorai clan. or two she did something to help the Sar’Teri kill the Jin’Sorai.
Holy crap… I was looking back at a few past strips with Plo Quar’s name in the tags (to see if she did look similar to the Jin’Sorai here: https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie406/ ) and I came across this strip with her name in the tags: https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie122/
I kid you not I zoomed in and looked at each panel to see if I could spot someone similar to her… panel 8, brunette with the ponytail, yellow tank top, behind Antoine’s head, looks to have bluish-purplish skin. Either it’s a mislabel, or proof that Plo Quar (hopefully) isn’t dead as a few others have suspected.
Definitely intrigued to find out more about Sai Fen’s reaction, as well as what Pohl may have to say too. Seems like Monday can’t come quick enough now! ;A;
If you read the comments on that strip Dave confirms it’s her. Nice catch, I totally missed it back then.
Yeah I noticed that when I went through the comments later to see if anyone else caught it. I more or less noticed it on a total fluke, I can’t say I noticed it the first time I saw the strip. ^^;
So Selkie’s mom is alive and just sorta… around? Living her own life somewhere? I understand there are probably some circumstances here, but uhhh… does she just intend to come back and collect Selkie sometime? I really hope this isn’t some, “Selkie and her mom are royalty so they both went into hiding separately under assumed identities.” thing. Unless Selkie’s family were very aggressive in seeking revenge on the humans, I don’t see why they’d need to be separated even if their clan was the ‘bad’ clan. It seems like her family would’ve had to had been aggressive in attacking, but maybe that’s why her father hasn’t been shown in the flashbacks. Maybe her mother was more peaceful, but was frightened her daughter would be targeted if they were together.
I dunno, the whole thing seems off and the only way I can rationalize it, is that her family was part of the bad side and now fear drives her to keep her daughter secluded and away from her in order to protect her… but even so, their race isn’t all over the place on the surface, so that seems a bit extreme. I mean, she, herself, was walking out in the open, seemingly carefree and… honestly, Selkie sticks out. If someone of her kind saw her, she’d be recognized instantly as to which clan she was a part of. So she’s not really safe this way either. It doesn’t add up… need more information darn it!
I know… it didn’t make sense to me either. For now though it seems like her mom isn’t dead, but maybe Sai Fen and Pohl might recognize her. Maybe she’s an old friend or something like that, but that’s just a little thought. If they don’t know her personally, maybe she is an important part of the Sarnothi refugees on the surface or something like that. Maybe she’s involved with the CIA; Agent Brown, along with Agent Then, seem to be a little involved with Selkie’s life. Then said something about Selkie “awakening”: https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie578/
And Agent Brown seemed to just… appear when Selkie was dropped off at the orphanage: https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie238/
So maybe her mom is somehow involved with the CIA and working on integration, or working for them, but I can’t say I really have any ideas for sure. We won’t get solid answers until the comic brings us to that point though; it could be soon, it could be later… it could be much, much later. Who knows.
My thoughts don’t feel so straight, hope that made any sense… >.<'''
Waiting fullness is.
Whoa! That is a *great* catch. So it tells us she’s still alive and even living among humans (she’s even dressed like one).
Indeed, however the big question right now is why she had to separate herself from Selkie… and why they’re in the same general area, however they haven’t run into her at all yet. My best guess is it has something to do with protection. I don’t know about the whole “Selkie’s a princess” theory, but maybe her mom is important in a political party of some sort, or maybe working for/with the CIA. And keeping Selkie in the dark about it is her way of protecting her? I can’t say for certain though.
Well, even so, it doesn’t really make sense as to why she needs to be protected. From what? Pohl and his family live together as a family on the surface. They weren’t forced to give up Suko. The reason why Selkie needs protection eludes me. And are they somehow incapable of protecting and keeping her safe with her mother around? The government can’t keep them both safe together?
And again, safe from WHAT? Her own kind? There’s so few around and we’ve not even SEEN anyone aside from Pohl’s clan. From humans? If that’s the case, her being separated from her mother is silly. Pohl and his family do it just fine.
So clearly it’s not to be protected from humans and seeing as how her clan and general species is so few and far between I can’t imagine why she needs to be kept safe from them either. My only real train of thought is Selkie’s immediate family were somehow directly involved in something terrible. Maybe her father was very evil and violent. But then, even if he was, why is her mother able to walk about so freely? She’d be easier to trace than Selkie and more of a target because she’d be more recognized than Selkie…
So what’s the deal? … Or maybe her mother MADE a deal with someone and had to give up Selkie as a result…?
I can’t say I really know any of the answers… it’s difficult to say what or why any of this is happening, I myself just don’t know. There’s a lot to think about or consider but we don’t know what the truth of the matter is. Whatever the reason, we’ll find out whenever it’s addressed. Though it may be hard to wait and find out. ^^;
Maybe whatever danger they were in that made her give up Selkie already passed. My impression is she just dropped her off somewhere and people didn’t know what to do and the government got involved only after that, maybe they tracked her down and offered her protection too, but after the fact.
Mother birds fly away from their babies and act hurt so the predators focus on them and not on the helpless babies.
I don’t know if any predator species acts similarly, but this is a legitimate reason to separate from one’s loved ones, IF and ONLY IF you have good reason to believe that the enemy will focus on you to the exclusion of your loved ones, or won’t be able to track down your loved ones on their own.
Stuff like Spiderman, X-Files, and the like often end up with “Let’s leave the kid/girlfriend here and in the dark, and run off somewhere, so the enemy who wants to hurt us can easily get their hands on the kid/girlfriend since we didn’t tell them what they needed to protect themselves and aren’t around to help them when it happens.”
Finally caught up! Yay! I’m completely in love with this comic! I can’t believe how weirdly similar Selkie is to little bitty me, though. We even have the same 504 plan.
Yays! Glad you made it all this way.
Looking forward to another 800 pages and then some!