His slime trail is *exquisite*.
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Don't wear that while eating escargot, Selkie. It'd be a bit rude.
What’s morbid about the first one?
Maybe it’s a child’s funerary vestment?
It’s a Sue and Kathryn dress. She would be a Sarnothi Vampire.
It could be that it’s just black, some people don’t like to wear black outside of a funeral.
Well, it’s black and red. If Sarnothi bleed the same color blood as us, it could be interpreted as a militaristic outfit. But it seems unlikely considering the circumstances of this village.
Either that, or if the art is true to appearance (I don’t mean to offend Dave, but being real… not the best artist in the world…), it’s a backless outfit and may be considered “sexualized” clothing in their society… which would explain a reluctance to let children wear it. And use of the word ‘morbid’ is just a polite way of putting it.
I was under the impression that all sarnothi outfits were deliberately backless, or at least sideless. Something to do with living underwater, I figured. He’s probably objecting to kids wearing black.
Yes, because their gills are on their sides – makes breathing easier.
Well, every time we’ve seen the back of a character, it’s been covered, so I have to assume that part’s irrelevant.
I suspect the red symbol has a meaning that had not yet been revealed to the audience.
Also @tana, sarnothi bleed blue (copper based blood)
Where did I miss this? Sarnothi and Vulcans are both copper-based?
When Grandma and Grandpa first visited – Grandpa ate a fish eye, Grandma fed Selkie a grape and made her puke – the cat bit her arm. That’s when we found out she had blue blood.
But I don’t believe it’s copper. Our blood is iron based. Iron oxide is red, and our blood is red. Spock’s is copper based. Copper oxide is green and his is green. So if hers is blue, it should be based on a mineral that oxidizes blue.
Can’t think of which one, though. Aluminum oxide and lead oxide are both white. Silver is black. Titanium, maybe. Does Titanium oxidize?
Hemocyanin is the copper based equivalent to hemaglobin used by some invertebrates, and is blue. Also look up horse shoe crab blood for a good visual on the color. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemocyanin
I kind of wanted Dave to answer this question. 🙁
Nevermind, he does in the notes of the next page.
Hmmm…. so the Sarnothi equivalent to a vampire would be a leech, I suppose? Somehow that doesn’t seem romantically equivalent. And yet, if the Jin ‘Sorai patron spirit is not the barracuda or the pike or something fast and menacing, but rather a slime trailed mollusc, I suppose that it could find poplar resonance.
Meanwhile, this makes me think that over at Apple there is now an R & D group working those insane development hours to come up with an underwater version of the iToys which not only cannot short out at the bottom of Lake Superior, but which is actually readable and easy to use by persons with webbed fingers or wetsuit gloves and can connect wifi signal despite the density of water… I imagine the NSA and the USA Navy both insisted that they get nudged into starting this project ahead of any potential competition, the way that MicroSoft got nudged into their forced release of Windows 10 ahead of WannaCry.
That made me think of a (very silly) book I had read called Blood Oath. In it, there is a point where the main character asks the vampire if he ever got romantically involved with humans that he would feed from. The vampire just gave him a dirty look and asked if he ever felt romantic about cows before having a steak sandwich.
His slime trail is *exquisite*.
Shiny, ooooow sparkles!
That’s probably an expensive gift from Fehn. Thoughtful, too. I don’t know if he knows about the vacuum that Selkie has been brought up in, which makes it even more special.
I hadn’t noticed that Fehn is Jin’Sorai until yesterday.
So I’m guessing it’d be the Sarnothi equivalent of what goths usually wear.
It would be a freshwater snail, though, right? Just please don’t let it be an apple snail……
No, It’s Windos that’s slow, not Apple.
Considering the outfits all have meaningful symbols, maybe that symbol is like the death-deity or something…
actually, i think its some kind of warrior/enforcer suit, making it inapropriate for a child, yet since he´s clearly selling it among his other wares, it would be ok for a grown up…..i think we saw selkie´s mom wearing that dark colour in one of the flash backs, which would explain why she is subconsciously drawn to that particular suit out of everything else in the place.
Do you have a link to that comic?
I wanna know how you dye something *underwater*.
Maybe that’s why Jin’Sorai are periwinkle?
A dye solution of something slightly denser than water (so it would stay in a bucket) that does not mix easily with water (a delay organic perhaps). A simpler solution might be an aquious dye that is set in by heat. Add clothing, dye and ambient water, seal in a water tight bag, and heat entire contents of bag (they have non-fire methods of heat generation) to activate and set the dye, then cool to ambient before opening the bag.
That is an awesome idea of how they do that!
Hey, that sounds like it would work.
I am in awe of your chemical skills. This is why once I finally passed Chemistry I never went back to it again.
Seal it in a container with the liquid you are using to dye is my best guess. It’s also entirely possible (IMO even likely) given their amphibious nature and their technical prowess that the Sarnothi can make use of underwater buildings which are sans-water.
*dense organic