He doesn’t mince words. -EDIT- After some thought, I want to officially place a Trigger Warning on the comments section for this strip due to some reader speculations of sexual assault. I don’t like to use trigger warnings lightly, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Selkie being half Sar'Teri is the final mutation of one of the original story draft concepts: in some of the first drafts Selkie's Clan was the oppressor, and not the oppressed.
Preliminary dialogue for this bit had Pohl attempting to gently remind Gien that he's overstepping his boundaries giving him such an order, only to be pushed into it anyway. Trimmed it back for space, but here's the original extra dialogue. Pohl: Um, technically Gien, I'm not Jin'Sorai, so... you CAN'T really give me an order like that. I mean, just... you know... technically. Gien (glaring): Hmm. Well, tell me this then Tel'Dora; if I were to find your local Whisper and tell her this situation, would they give you a similar order? Pohl (realizing he's a bit trapped.): Ummm... well, yes. Most likely... Gien: Then MOVE.
A line of dialogue got cut from this one to keep the focus on the suppression aspect of the device (which is really the important bit). The proximity trigger for the message display Selkie had been watching was set too far. Hence why it first went off while she was already in the car driving away from the building. It's a detail I meant to show the thing was assembled hastily, but I left t out of the comic proper for space reasons.