Lorlara is always fun to write. I think it would be exhausting writing (and reading) a full 24 page comic following her through a day in her life, but I think she’s terribly amusing in small bites. Such a comic would show her being loud and enthusiastic for the majority of pages, but one would have her sitting in a leather chair in a study, quietly looking over a thesaurus while stirring some tea, the going, “Ooh!” and scribbling in a notepad. And then the remainder of the comic would be right back to her voluminously stumping for Deus. That or delivering blistering Yelp reviews in person when a cafe sells her a slightly stale croissant.
In case you’re wondering, there is a race of “split-head-oids” and it’s not the Umbrivion we saw earlier. They also don’t call themselves split-head-oids. But Sydney knows quite a bit about alien races now thanks to her temporary possession by Lapha. Since Sydney herself is not an aetholith herself, her retention of Lapha’s lifetime of memories is rather spotty at this point, so she doesn’t remember what a split-head-oid’s formal species name is. The fact is, “split-head” or “tongue for brains” or “straw-head” or just “dick head” or “dick for brains” are common racist slang that people use to describe them, Lapha included, which is why it was the first thing Sydney’s fumbling brain locked onto, not realizing it was an epithet.
While I was writing this page, I couldn’t decide if Deus immediately pegged Tzerki as Sydney. I’ve gone on in the past about how identifying body language can be, and Sydney isn’t exactly trying to act like not-Sydney here. Most aliens out and about use some level of voice alteration, since everyone has universal translators, but on top of that, their specific Glowbods are further altering their voices enough that some A.I. wouldn’t casually match them with Earth media exemplars. Super intelligence has a lot of upsides, assuming it doesn’t come with some sort of super psychosis, but one of the kind-of-downsides is that Deus has a *lot* of data to sort through. Not just libraries worth of book learning and historical knowledge. Like Data listening to four operas at once, Deus can assimilate multiple information sources without it getting jumbled up into gray memory goo, and he’s been paying more and more attention to galactic information streams in addition to all the Earth knowledge he’s constantly sucking up. He’s well aware there’s like a trillion people out there, so meeting a loud, quirky, roughly-the-same-height Mantellan who reminds him of Sydney doesn’t necessarily give him definitive insight into her identity.
The fact that he’s 90% sure Ixah is Maxima is a factor, but if he sees Tzerki hanging out with Cora, the game is probably up.
Oh, look who it is in the vote incentive. The NSFW version is finally up at Patreon. Plus a bonus pic.
I think she would get in trouble for doing this. She’d mess up the… floor of the waterfall? Is that what it’s called? The receiving pool? No, probably not that. Anyway, she’d churn things up and cause a ton of weird erosion.
Since you might be wondering, Niagara Falls is about 165 feet high, so Babezilla obviously doesn’t have to be full sized. I’d say she’s about 175-180 feet tall here?
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