Grrl Power #576 – Coed captivity
This is one of those pages that would definitely benefit from being able to flip to the next one right away, cause there’s obviously a bit of a jarring transition here, and who is that blonde? I mean, I think there’s a pretty big tell, but I wrote it, so I’m hardly a neutral observer. I don’t want to just say it outright, in case anyone wants to figure it out for themselves, or likely just read it in the first few comments.
By the way, I think Dabbler’s cleanliness cantrip is really like a 4th a level spell if it can excavate that much gore in one go.
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Girls have cooties
Dabbler has cooters…
*ba dum tsssss*
Dabbler has Cooter’s…
…undivided attention.
A sheep, snake and a drum are falling from the cliff…
I’m thinking that’s not Dabbler but the other Succubus who was at the meeting, what’s her name
Decollete. But she does not have one green eye and one blue one. Which Dabbler does.
I know, two years late, but … the eyes have it.
I laughed when I realized she’s saying exactly what she’ll be doing to him.
Cooter: abducted by monsters, one of whom wants to drain his sexual essence.
Uh… I don’t think any wants to drain Cooter’s. Pretty sure everyone’s good on that.
Dabbler feeds on essence, not looks. Also she’s omnisexual enough to even like it extra if it ticks off Maxima, and makes the rest of the team remember they’ll all get a chance…
Cooter…..the “broccoli” of sexual essence.
Broccoli is green, so that’s racist. Cooter’s more like cauliflower…
;)
I just tweaked on to her wearing an Admiral Akbar shirt, so “it’s a trap”. Love your writing style man
Even better – it’s a jar of honey. So it’s a “honey trap”. Which is exactly what is going on here. XD
I’d have guessed that she took the feat for unlimited cantrip casting, and she’d cast it 20 or 200 times to get that level of effect.
So, that’s how dabbler gets people to volenteer?
That’s not a feat, that’s just how Cantrips work. That’s kinda the point of them.
Not in 3.5 it wasn’t
3.5 was a joke.
Not as bad of a joke as 3.0… Oh look rangers get a D8 hit die and a favored enemy. nothing else.
which wasn’t as bad as 2.0. let’s hear it for incremental improvements!
It had its issues as did all version before and aft4er it. Pathfinder, where cantrips could be cast repeatedly, was not the fix to 3.5 that it promised to be. The makers said they wanted balance, and did boost up the martial classes to narrow the gap between them and the casting classes. But then they lost their notepad with their design goals on it and proceeded to boost up the casting classes as well, leaving the disparity between martial classes and casting classes firmly in place.
So Pathfinder turned into D&D 3.5+ instead of D&D 3.5 Balanced.
AD&D2E is where it should have stopped
If you D&D is what you want from an rpg anyways. Lets hear it for Shadowrun 2nd ed. and WFRP 1st.
I’ve tried AD&D2 in WW2 setting. It did NOT go well. On the upside, much fun had been had, not from the role play, but from ridiculous mechanics.
The real challenge with ADD2 was playing high-level characters – not usual 5th level up, but close to 30-35. At this point you could one-shot young dragons with magic missile. I had MG who could still lead us trough interesting and fun campaign like that ^_^
In the end, the system is just a base – it’s perfectly fine to introduce GURPS play system into Faerun, and play by the D&D 5th handbook in WH40k setting – as long as you don’t do this publicly, because you’ll get sued by Hasbro twice, and lynched by die-hard fans.
The problem I have with this is that people assume you need to balance Magic against Melee, which is just… Stupid.
Why should my sharp metal stick be able to hold even a candle to the ability to warp and rewrite reality at a whim? Answer: It shouldn’t.
What needs to be balanced is the Casters and the Martials. Which it conveniently is. Casters can nuke an entire field but one lucky hit turns them into a puddle, while Martials can take fucking forever to bring down to half-health.
They didn’t work like that until 4.0. There were entire kits you had to take to get cantrips for “free” earlier then that. You’d sacrifice your highest casting slot in some cases….
Nah, mate, you’re thinking of the At Will powers.
Cantrips have been done properly since Pathfinder.
Wouldn’t that also have resulted in an equal amount of makeup? Cooter doesn’t look like a bad impression of a drag queen right now.
Notice how his make up is purple and hers is pink?
Cooter is now awake. Has Sydney recovered yet? I figured they would have to wake her up somehow to take the bubble express back to the surface. I am not sure if they or the Council schlepped a snoozing cooter out of the (no longer) impenetrable vault.
Has anybody else noticed the window?
It can’t be that high security with a window.
The view from it backs the theories that they didn’t take him back to ARC and this is work for the council.
Looks a lot more like a one-way mirror than a window.
Definitely, since the last panel has “totally-not-Dabbler” doing what looks like a 4th wall breaking acknowledgement and thumbs up towards the camera, but orientation wise she is directing it towards that panel behind Cooter.
I’d say it looks more like a bolted-on picture frame. That it might hide supersmall camera+microphone is just the perks of having it, other than adding cultural enrichment to the testing chamb…I mean holding cell.
It’s a holding slash interrogation room, not a High Security Prison cell like Opal and Kevin were slash are in
Kevin, most likely still there… Opal: most definitely NOT there in the pressurized high-security lock-up, since she was the one making the wormhole/stargate transport things for Deus and Heavenly Sword, etc…
That’s why said “were slash are”: one is no longer being ‘held’, the other doesn’t know what time his shoe is
He’s to busy dealin with the munchies to care what time his shoes is
You figured out the time? It’s munchies-time!!
And in no relation to panel two, meteorologists say that the November full moon this weekend is known as the Beaver Moon.
I looked this up to see if you were pulling our collective leg. Oh, it really is, and it’s tonight!
Umm.. the shirt says a lot……’its a trap”
“Admiral Ackbar’s Select” brand honey (ie a honey pot trap).
Yeah, thats been the most clever visual joke yet Id say. Kudos to the author!
Oh stockings and garter tattoo. Just today my coworkers and I were talking about how when in WWII they changed from stockings to shaved legs some women would draw on the seam on their legs.
Well, the main change was because the silk from the stockings was repurposed into parachutes
Yeah! Weird how things can turn into a major part of fashion/body image.
nylon, it was nylon
Nylon was what they came up with as a replacement for silk, due them being used as parachutes
The material in stockings was a requested resource during the war (like metal and other things) so women took to shaving their legs and drawing on the seams to give the illusion of what was considered sexy at the time.
And using some kind of stain on first that would colour their legs to match the non existent stockings.
not quite sexy, more, so they wouldn’t be mistaken for an “easy” woman
I saw those IRL once – it’s pretty silly looking.
if a spell could clean up that much at once, I’d say probably a first level spell, maybe second. in cantrip form, it would just be prestidigitation, which can clean or soil about one square foot at a time
so, two to four uses?
never mind, i forgot how much smaller foot was than meter
fine, so 100 castings. cantrips are free anyway
Cooter is filth, but he is right about that wake up call.
/thumbs up
Three thumbs up?
I think there is more than just thumbs being up here.
That escalated quickly. It escalated quickly as well.
If that ISN’T Dabbler, I will eat my keyboard. And I was sure of that even before I twigged the dichromatic eyes. And the Ackar Honey (trap) shirt.
There are a couple of tells.
I had the impression that Coot was a fairly seasoned monster hunter who had been doing that sort of thing for a while… which makes me wonder how he’s falling for such an obvious ploy. Wouldn’t he have encountered shapeshifters/illusionists/mind messing monsters prior to this? You know what they say about when something seems too good to be true!
1) Remember, she’s literally hypnotic.
2) Remember, the crew that broke into the vault didn’t have any problems fooling him.
I had the exact opposite.
Seeing as he couldn’t even see through the veil I doubt he had ever encountered anything actually supernatural before and he was just on some deluded quest to rid the world of monsters without knowing anything about actual supernatural creatures.
Even the way Dr. Chuckles described Coot’s backstory made me think that his family wasn’t really killed by monsters. Maybe it was a freak accident, or regular humans, if he was a child when it happened it is easy to see how he blamed ‘monsters’ for something his juvenile mind couldn’t comprehend.
either that, or the Veil fails ‘locally’ if something truly horrendous happens nearby, such that the psychic vibes (or whatever the magical mcguffin is that makes it work) is overwhelmed and the “real” faces of the monsters stop getting edited out… if that happened, then he could indeed have seen “monsters” kill his family like he says. the way Dr C described it was more along the lines of how WOULD a “monster” talk about ANOTHER “monster”? he doesn’t seem to consider HIMSELF a “monster” therefore he used the air quotes when relaying that bit of info… not trying to put a harsh on the vibe by bringing reality into play, but do you think Hitler considered HIMSELF a “Monster”… no i’m pretty sure he didn’t… yet the rest of the world sure does… see, it’s a matter of semantics, Cooter probably did see the real forms of the entities that killed his family and rightly so he thinks they’re monsters, but Dr. C sees them from the other side of the equation, probably as “normal” people that have been mislabeled by the media and other propaganda producing outlets like religion, politicians, etc…
Lots of answers to that one though.
Crazy humans in costumes.
Coot was cursed.
Monsters in question like torture so spelled him to see the truth temporarily.
Coot was standing in some kind of protective circle during the attack and comes from a family of magic users – but was too young to have learned anything.
And doubtless many others.
In our world we still refer to people as monsters. They are humans committing inhuman acts. He could be referring to them.
Or even a seasoned tinfoil hat wearer (which probably has no effect on the veil) and thinks monsters are real along with the earth being flat.
That is in part with what I meant that his juvenile mind could’t comprehend it, if the killing of his family happened a long time ago that is. He heard someone say that it was done by a bunch of monsters and took it literal instead of figurative.
So it’s just a convenient co-inky-dinky that there are ‘monsters’ in their world? o_O
Um… except the monsters that murdered his family?
Just throwing my 1 and 1/2 cents into this arena of madness, but has anyone given serious consideration to the fact that Cootert may actually be a super himself?
Not like it really matters if it is Cooter or Wyrm, wither way the path’s are different, but the destination is the same.
I thought so as well, and mentioned as such previous page. I’m thinking he either unknowingly is a super with regenerative powers, or Wyrmil is behind it somehow and using Coot’s body/form to restore himself.
Regenerative powers… huh… I guess that would be some super strong regeneration.
What if he has powers like… phoenix? Coming back to life when he dies, possibly with no memory of dying.
If so, I doubt he died very often.
(probably too far-fetched, but… whatever.)
If he is a super he managed to avoid the “perfect human form” attribute that comes with the package in all cases we have seen so far, with Pixel being the only semi-exception.
If he is a supernatural/alien/fey/whatever then he is still affected by The Veil, which doesn’t seem to be the case for the rest of the supernaturals/aliens/fey/whatevers.
Cooter was brought in by Sciona to be her patsy. Either he died and the portal failed or he died and the portal succeeded. In either case no loss to Sciona. And of all the available candidates humans have the vastly larger population to draw some idiot from. Cooter probably advertised his services as a “monster hunter” on Craigslist…
All that seemed to be needed from the patsy otherwise was free will and willingness to go along with the plan. And given that Sciona’s victims at the Wars factory were all strung up instead of freely giving their blood and calling her mistress Sciona, it seems clear that Sciona has no form of mind control and needed someone she could string along with some line of BS.
I had forgotten about all supers having the perfect physique. Guess that rules out him being a super, or at least a natural one. He could still be a super (now) due to some artifact much like how Sydney is one.
Perhaps his form IS what he considers the perfect form. After all, who decides what is perfect anyway?
He has pretty big muscles and imagine that for someone like Cooter that comes pretty high up on the list of preferred features.
Or perhaps he simply has the most perfect entrails from which to reform?
Or the ideal form for a redneck is a valid if unusual onefor a super(such as idealized runner form verse maxima’s).
I thought the ideal form for a male redneck was Lil Abner Yokum. And the female equivalent was Daisy Mae (or Moonbeam McSwine, if you’re brunette)
what if he got some high level regeneration as unintended side effect from Sciona’s potion of bomb?
I’m sure any of the supers could get themselves a pot belly if they ate enough and didn’t burn it off with exercise.
Or, like Harry Potter, that which didn’t kill him only added to him and made him stonger.
Except for spinach. Spinach adds pure muscle instead of any fat, but it’s only temporary. Just ask Popeye.
Popeye Doyle? o_O Thought he was more into pork pies
I’m oddly more surprised he figured out what she was trying to pronounce
Probably easier to hear past lisp if it’s actual audio and not text.
You know, the thing about this interrogation technique is that I know a lot of people who would pay good money to undergo it.
Im already in line.
…With wallet in hand & a video camera set up on the side.
Maybe not Dabbler, but the other succubus? The one from the Council, whose name I am failing to recall at the moment. I think the eye color(s) are the clue.
Dabbles’ cyber eye is blue, she even took it out (at dinner) to show Maxi and Anvil
Decolette would never sink so low, she was taught to be sophisticated in her seductions, and I think she has quite strong principles against the kind of raunchy behaviour that Dabbler prefers.
Think geisha, not “ms. wet t-shirt”
Or think Marilyn Monroe – an actress that managed to be stylish at the same time as being a favourite pin-up
And the very first Playboy ‘Playmate’
Not by her choice.
You saying that Hef forced her? o_O
Pretty wild accusations there, but that seems to be the trend now: accuse someone years (decades) after the fact, when there is no proof to back them up, and when they didn’t even report it to anyone at the alleged time, and then you get people happy to join the sludge-flinging with sharpened torches and lit pitchforks leading a parade to the nearest gallows (or most convenient tree or high horse)
Hef didn’t force her OR ask her permission. She’d done the picture for someone else years before and Hef later bought the publication rights for the picture so he could put it in his magazine.
But when she signed the model’s release, she also signed away the rights over those images…Which would also include who those pics get sold to later. Her choice to waiver any such rights against third-party sale was in the paperwork.
It wasn’t by choice. It was also entirely legal. Doesn’t contradict
There is no contradiction. Going purely by the information provided in this thread, Marilyn’s choice was made at the time that she originally had the photos taken, and signed the rights to the photographer.
Which means he could do whatever he wanted to with them, at a later date. The fact that she, at that time, would not want them published was overridden by her earlier choice to sign her rights away.
Sometimes the choices we make have much delayed consequences. But we have to live by them nonetheless.
They were existing photos that Hefner appropriated for his magazine.
https://www.revelist.com/celebrity/playboy-marilyn-monroe/9647/hefner-has-always-maintained-that-monroe-made-playboy-a-success–in-fact-hefner-will-be-buried-next-to-monroe/7
Heh, Cooter doesnt stand a chance here. He’s gonna spill everything.
I wouldn’t want to be the person that has to mop up that spill.
Archon does have a janitor, who is used to having to clean stains on the ceiling.
If that is indeed where they are (the reinforced window style hints underwater facility, so maybe still in part of the vault facility, or another Twilight/Atlantis base, but it could equally just be super-proofed, and thereby an Archon one).
This page has the grossest thing that I have seen in this comic. I’m talking about ear hair closeup.
Even grosser than nose hair long enough to braid? o_O
I’ve seen no nose hair in this comic. Any claims of nose hair in this comic is fake news.
Didn’t say it was in a fictional setting…
I disagree guesticus AD&D 1E is where it should have stopped
I *love* the Tattoo’s on her legs. Old fashioned stockings ftw.
I have seen those on a girl at a beach locally. I agree they were very nice.
Not so great on her grandmother though.
Yeah, not good to get a run in your tattoo… :eek:
I hope she cleaned up Syd after passing out on that floor. Either that or she’d get the hose when she got back to HQ.
*wardrobe malfunction sense tingling*
Wow, Maxima is so hot on this page! O_O
He he. I doubt Maxima would conduct an interrogation in that manner. But I get your drift that smoke must be coming out of her ears, on the other side of that one-way window, behind Cooter.
One green eye and one blue eye? Is that what you meant by the “pretty big tell”?
‘Cause there’s LOTS of tells; that one’s just the clencher that makes it a “sure thing” instead of just a “safe bet”.
Heh. Yea.
Hey Dabbler, didn’t your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?
That’s how Succubae feed, there is no other way for them, at least, not one that is as satisfying
You wake up from a vampire sleep spell to a beautiful woman dressed in white and blue giving you a comforting hug?
This must be heaven…
Is there any kind of creature Dabbler won’t try to hit with the sex-whammy? =_=
Her species breeds with aliens around the galaxy, so her tastes are broader than just the western human ideals. Although I imagine Dabbler does have standards, given being a presently permanent residence on Earth and her choices available here.
I’m confused about the perspective in panel… 3? 5?
Panel 3 is Dabbles bending over in front of Coot, panel 5 is Dabbles leaping into Coot’s lap, but side-saddle not straddling
I find it funny how everyone is saying that is dabble but they are forgetting there are two succubi now and one actually is blonde if I remember correctly
Deco doesn’t look anything like this blonde (hair shade and length are different), specially concerning the eyes
We’ve already seen that when she pulls up the succubus thing to become your fantasy mate, hair length and color change to match the targets ideals.
I’m personally curious to hear if Maxima is copacetic with this form of interrogation or not.
Why wouldn’t she? Would you rather they be a little more physical (and not in the fun Dabbles way)?
In the words of Col. Maxima Leander: “Tone it down Dabbler!”
Cooter hasn’t exactly committed any crimes, let alone any crimes on US soil, so it’s probably not Dabbler.
Dabbles is an independent ‘contractor’, Coot was caught in a secure underground facility, regardless of where it is he is still guilty of being somewhere he had no legitimate business being
Breaking and entering is a crime. Likewise burglary. Even if he was stopped before doing so he is still guilty of doing so he is still guilty of attempted theft and conspiracy to commit burglary. Citizens of countries do not loose a jurisdiction’s protection simply by being outside of their national boundaries. For example I am aware of British individuals being tried for committing murder in one of the Latin American countries, in Britain.
The complication which normally occurs is that the local jurisdiction usually asserts its precidence, and the foreign one accepts that. Which may well be happening here. Dabbler could be conducting the interrogation in a Twilight facility, by their invitation.
That is not necessary however as they could cede their rights to allow Archon to try him under US laws. Albeit at the risk of exposing the Veil. If so however he would need to be tried under the rules set down by international maritime treaties, as they were probably not within the 3 mile limit of American shores (and if they were see the opening sentences).
As such he is likely to be charged with piracy. I do not know how American laws treat that nowadays, but last I heard the penalty was hanging from the tallest yardarm until dead. Which I daresay has been updated somewhat.
US laws don’t apply in international waters.
Or a few other places.
At the border between the United States and Mexico, the border itself is a few miles wide and outside each nation’s jurisdiction. No man’s land.
Actually they do. Not as regards all laws (which is probably what you are referring to), however the US (amongst most other nations in the world) have signed up to treaties on how laws are handled in international waters. And these then form part of US law. Ergo US law does operate in international waters (subject to the limits of those treaties).
If you think about it they have to. Otherwise US navy personnel could desert, take up piracy or whatever they fancied, without a care in the world. And could return to the US without fear of punishment.
However because the US has signed up to international maritime treaties, they can enforce the laws which have been agreed therein. Which we can see from that extract (relevant to present day laws) includes imprisoning pirates. What it may also say as regards capital punishment though I have no idea.
Piracy tends to be covered under international maritime laws unless within US maritime borders.
I’m just going to cut and paste this: Maritime limits and boundaries for the United States are measured from the official U.S. baseline, recognized as the low-water line along the coast as marked on the NOAA nautical charts in accordance with the articles of the Law of the Sea. The Office of Coast Survey depicts on its nautical charts the territorial sea (12 nautical miles), contiguous zone (24nm), and exclusive economic zone (200nm, plus maritime boundaries with adjacent/opposite countries).
If within US jurisdiction, Yorp is correct that piracy is handled by US law. If it’s not within US jurisdiction, then I believe there are laws that have been agreed to by most countries through the International Maritime Organization, which is an agency of the United Nations. There are also probably various treaties between different nations to determine what laws handle piracy in international waters as well.
I’d love to discuss this more but I’m going back to doing my caseload on Monday so I’ll be pretty sparse this week on any posts :)
I think you slightly misunderstood my intent. Which is to say that once a country has agreed an international treaty (and enacted whatever internal legislation that may be required to recognise the treaty under their own laws) then that treaty becomes part of that countries laws.
For example, withing the E.U. any law that is agreed across the community, is initially framed as a treaty, giving the broad outlines of what the various member countries are committing themselves to, and any mandatory aspects. Each country then passes a specific law to implement the terms of the treaty.
So in that case it is the law of the land which applies. If some aspect of it breaches the treaty though then the courts would indicate that the law needs to be amended, to comply with it. But they would not consider the treaty to take precedence over the law. Although they may rule that the law cannot be enforced until it is amended.
For other kinds of treaty though I imagine that they will be considered the authoritative document, and the participating countries simply ensure that their legislation recognises that.
Either way though the terms of the treaty become a part of the national law. Be it indirectly, by passing a law that mirrors it, or directly by bringing the treaty into the body of law.
As usual just said with my layman’s knowledge, and the potential for error. Albeit based on various new stories about such issues, over the years.
It depends on if it’s in international waters or not honestly. Sorry, can’t type more right now.
I have not contested that, at any point. I am just saying that the fact that the US ratified the agreement on how to handle matters in international waters, means that forms part of their law.
Loosely speaking on land you use the law of the state you are in, or federal law for appropriate crimes. There will be some provision for how you determine jurisdiction within territorial waters. Whereas in international waters you abide by the terms of the relevant international treaties (and, in some instances traditional laws of the sea that have no formal agreement).
This is important because some nations do not recognise some of the international maritime treaties, or choose to modify them, and make unilateral declarations as to their rights. For instance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea
Which means that there must be a body of US legislation which says ‘we recognise the following maritime treaties, but with the following amendments’. Otherwise such declarations would have no legal standing and be unenforceable.
Likewise if they wish to detain a pirate, captured in international waters, there must be a legal mechanism to show that US courts have the jurisdiction to do that (as I cited above it is part of the constitution). Those countries which have not ratified the agreements (or who renounce any of the traditional laws of the sea) would need to make their own laws covering how such are handled or have no legal basis for detention or other enforcement.
TLDR
The Constitution of the United States is part of the US law and it is that (combined with the maritime treaties) which gives US courts the right to detain pirates captured in international waters.
*wags tail cheekily*
“that countries laws” = “that country’s laws”
eh…
I first cursed about the broken cast page, then i saw Dabber’s eyes on the banner…
First i was just know, there is something familiar with her (the banner always changing), and when begun backtracking the council’s members when i met her image again, and recognise it.
It’s Dabbler, The eyes give it away. The Admiral Akbar shirt is a nice clue, and so is her talk about sexual essence.
I have just one question, why is Dabbler using that ridiculous lisp? Coot has never heard her voice before, so why not just use her normal voice?
tongue piercing…
Have theen no indication that thith illusion hath tongue pierthingth, and Dabbleth doeth not thpeak with a lithp at normal timeth (forked tongue, sure), thum people thpeak with a lithp even without pierthingth
Oh, and it’th not all ‘eth’eth that get lithp’d, but some ‘thea’th (‘c’s) do ath well
i guess i just jumped to that conclusion, to complete the trashy image, not that tongue piercings are neccessarily trashy but it rounds out the package
Probably because it is (or at least is presumed to be) part of Cooters’ Ideal Sexual Partner Package.
+1 (probably barring the mismatched eyes* mind.
* I was going to say heterochromia iridis, but one of Dabbler’s eyes is cybernetic. And we do not know (excluding any spoilers from Dabber’s previous appearance in Wereworld) whether that is due to matching her original colouration or it having changed at the time it was replaced.
I don’t enjoy the way things are getting oversexualized in the comic. The way it was used in the past was more.. prude. It still had strong connotations but a lot was left to the imagination. Currently it is just vulgar and lewd.
I agree – it’s gotten to this point for me; that I wouldn’t recommend this comic to my friends anymore. :(
Even allowing for that one of the main characters is a succubus.
I really enjoyed this when it first started too, it’s sad to watch it going downhill like that.
That conversation between Max and Halo about where to look when talking to the fourth wall, then Dabbler does this and in the right direction.
Yup.
Conveniently done by placing the 4th wall in front of the observation window to the interrogation room. So although it appears that she is looking at us, she is either checking out her own reflection (not shown) or directing her wink at the observers beyond. Or both.
Dabbler… Dabbler WHY
1) Nourishment. It has been a long trip and Dabbler is barred from intercourse with teammates. So she needs a snack!
2) Interrogation. The team needs to find out information fast and this is an effective way of befuddling him into spilling everything he knows.
3) Manipulation. Dabbler has used her power to find out what kind of girl Cooter likes and has assumed that form. This maximises the returns from 1) and 2).
I hope the blonde with the lisp and dichromatic eyes stays around in the comic.
She will. But in many different guises.
Maybe her cantrip required multiple applications. Then she added the eyeshadow for giggles.