Grrl Power #1111 – Costume quest
Harem should use the map to find the Info Desk, where she can ask about the secret backdoor used to sneak the rest of the team in.
It makes sense that if you’re designing the Death Star, it’s a reasonable bet that you won’t get a lot of interlopers running around in the halls, so some maps on the walls making it easy to find things probably isn’t going to compromise security. Well, as long as you don’t advertise the location of the secret self destruct button or anything like that. But even marking out where the Emperor’s personal restroom is located, or the main reactor chamber won’t really compromise security because even in a “secure” base, there’s going to be people guarding important areas.
That’s probably a pretty cushy job, guarding a thing in a secret and/or impermeable base, because there’s really nothing to do… right up until there is something to do, when the base does get infiltrated, and that’s when you get strangled by an extension cord from behind and your corpse is used to jam up the gears on the thing that keeps the base from exploding.
Of course, if you’re the guy guarding the Emperor’s private bathroom, then you know that the Leftenant in charge of your squad is going to be a real hard-ass because he thinks keeping anyone else from ever using that restroom is his ticket to a promotion and failing that simple task means he’s gonna get force choked.
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I went a little simpler with the art this time, which is to say I didn’t add like 9 passes of lighting and detail work. I wasn’t trying to chintz out on the time input or anything, I’d been browsing around ArtStation since I like torturing myself with all the amazing art there, and found a few people who do nice clean styles that are more Arcane (the League of Legends Netflix show) than Love, Death and Robots, and by LD&R I mean the ones that are like “Look at how realistic our skin textures are!” and not the ones that are more Pixar-y or just like 2D cell art or whatever.
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Someone remind where not having masks in your uniform is on the arch villain list?
Literally #1 on the list:
My Legions of Terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass visors, not face-concealing ones.
Admittedly, some of them have “normal” lives that they don’t want associated with being Evil Overlords, but…
It’s not…
It is! Literally the first thing on the list: http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
The mask suits might value their anonymity – especially, if as Harem considers, she’s a rich patron.
At least from each other.
They probably do have to reveal their name towards the organisation.
Maybe they do have a super that can see through Masks (unlike the “true sight” orb)?
Or maybe they have someone that can place a invisible mark on people, so they can instantly spot any infiltrators even through clothing?
They could even have a subcutaneous RFID chip.
Of course, since all the Harems are quantumbrain entangled, Harem #2 (Goth) can tell Max and the rest what Harem #5 (Bleach) is seeing.
Having the detention level of your secret base clearly indicated though… I guess it helps Goon Squad not get lost.
Abby, or Schoolgirl, not ‘Bleach’
Her canonical name is apparently Co-Ed.
Those names are not names, they are descriptions (and personally never understood why ‘Co-Ed’ was only used for girls, when it means ‘co-educational’, meaning the school is not unisex and applies to both boys and girls)
A description that’s used as an identifier is a name.
Yeah, but it’s not a name
And yes, perfectly aware that there is only one Daphne, and everything one experiences they all experience mostly simultaneously (slight delay depending on what the others are doing at the time)
And these names were just a personal identifier
Pretty much any and all questions of that sort can be answered with “because men were the default”. Colleges and universities were assumed to be for men, with male students. Given that mindset, allowing women was what *made* them coeducational – therefore, women were the coeds.
It’s toxic masculinist drivel, of course.
Guess just grew up at the wrong time in the wrong country
Have a couple male-only and female-only schools, but the majority of them are mixed (and they all have uniforms, even the public ones)
Before various life events interfered I started attending Texas Women’s University. As a male, did that make me the coed?
No, it’s the place that we had gotten to then, and it was shorthand for the the unwieldy “college girl in a coeducational setting”.
R.e. force choked – he probably would be, imagine if the Emperor really needed to go but couldn’t because it was occupied!
You wouldn’t need a guard on the emperor’s bathroom because anyone caught there knows that they will be force choked. Anyone brave enough to risk it will eventually thin themselves out of the herd. The easiest way to do it though is to block the door with one of those janitorial cleaning carts.
i heard (not sure if it’s still canon) the assassin droid IG-88 uploaded its’ consciousness to the 2nd Death Star but wasn’t able to do much, other than mess with the Emperor thru overriding the automatic doors
Legends are only explicitly non-canon when they’re disproven by canon material. Until then, they’re still Legends – and the Star Wars galaxy has a lot of legends floating around in it. ;)
I’ve got that book!
It’s one of an anthology.
It’s buried away at the moment, but yes, one of the IG-88 droids (there were 4 or 5 of them, with cloned cores) did do that.
It REALLY annoyed the Emperor.
Like you said, there was a little messing around with doors, and it corrected some wayward shots from the gunners controlling the death star laser to take out some more rebel capital ships … However it also chose to ignore the small ships that made it inside, because “what could they do? It was now all powe…”
From memory, I could be wrong, it’s been a long time since I read it, Boba Fett himself was responsible for taking out at least two of them… It seemed to irk him a bit when seemingly the same droid turned up again once he had already killed it.
Some good Boba Fett stories in there, including how he escapes from the Sarlacc pit. Twice.
Brave, or stupid?
Sounds silly, but this is a rich club and knowing where the rest room is might as well be a requirement they need… Especially when the alternative is losing a person bankrolling your entire operation or someone who could destroy an entire city by snapping their fingers.
Where is the Vorp in and Unvorp Out? Wouldn’t it make sense for another of Harem to remove the one she just took out to the outside? Less change of her waking up and sounding the alarm?
Harem can’t carry a person, with the single exception of Varia-while-touching-Harem. Too much mass, but Varia’s combo-powers interact a little oddly in ways beneficial to Varia.
It’s not exactly that Varia’s power makes her mass not count for Harem’s limits. It’s that Varia can *also* teleport when she’s touching Harem, so she uses her *own* power. Harem doesn’t need to expend any effort to move her…because she’s *not* moving her. It’s even been mentioned recently that Varia even though Varia’s power lets her piggyback along when Harem teleports, she can teleport on her own to some place that Harem isn’t. It’s just that the she’ll lose the ability to teleport on arrival, since she won’t be touching Harem anymore, so she’d better not have got to someplace that she’d need a teleport power to get out of.
It would make sense, yes, however I’m quite certain that it was already stated that Harem cannot transport another person with her. The case with Varia a couple strips back was that Varia herself can teleport when in contact with Harem.
She can’t teleport other people (aside from Varia, due to her own power). She both has a weight limit, and can’t teleport other living things.
I don’t know of a “no other living things” limitation. I haven’t seen her teleport a hamster, but no known reason she couldn’t.
Harem cant transport anything living (except for her digestive tract … ewww) and her weight limit is VERY low. see authors note and relevant comments (good luck!) on the previous page.
Remember that Harem isn’t able to carry other people with her. People are simply beyond her “carry limit”. This does raise the question of if she can carry a small baby with her, but that’s not something I want to get into right now.
For a fully grown adult woman, she would need to chop them into pieces (killing them in the process and leaving behind a bloody mess) just to be able to vorp them out. The alternative is to drag her unconscious body to the exit. But if she can do that, then it’s more useful to be letting other members of the team in. It’s much faster, easier, and more legal to hide the unconscious body.
No, it’s not about ‘carry limit’, she can’t even carry a potted plant
And… she did hide the unconscious (and naked) body, in one of the stalls
She very explicitly does have a mass limit to carry stuff – it was outright stated in #207.
Not when it comes to people, animals or even plants: it’s a straight up “NO!” (she discovered than when she tried to bring the class hamster home for the holidays… )
I’ve probably missed something due to not reading ALL the comments, but can’t she “hump the Barett”, a fairly heavy long range rifle? Also, see conversation with quartermaster below:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-207-ill-take-six-of-these-twelve-of-these/
Barett is about 25 pounds (google). Add some pounds for clothes and ammo and she’s probably able to do about 40.
Depends on whether it’s loaded or not, I suppose. I think the Ammo for it would weigh a good 10 LBS more.
It’s just a 10 round magazine, so it probably comes out to 3lb, maybe 4lb.
I was thinking in terms of bringing at least one reload, so double that at least.
She can bring the extra ammo in a separate trip – I suppose the original mag as well.
Probably better to bring materiel as-needed, rather than overstock and have to abandon it.
A potted plant is a living thing, so the restriction on that is not part of the weight limit restriction.
Where was it stated that harem can’t teleport living things?
All I have seen Dave B mention is not being able to carry people (possibly due to the weight limit).
Humans have a lot of bacteria and parasites on and in them.
The idea that she effectively sterilizes her skin (and maybe her insides) and ANYTHING SHE IS CARRYING when she teleports is pretty significant.
Does it:
a) not go with her
or b) die on teleport
What about viruses and prions – are they alive enough to count?
We know she can teleport dead organic matter or her clothes wouldn’t go with her.
Where was it stated that harem can’t teleport living things?
About the first time she showed up.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-60-operation-cover-our-asses/
…but unlike all the others, she can’t take anyone with her. Clothing, equipment, easy, but no people. Possibly nothing else living.
“POSSIBLY nothing else living”.
So it’s not canon, but Dave speculation.
You mean, speculation from the author?
I bet this is a waitress uniform
… That matches all the males? o_O
The suit+hood+mask combo is worn by multiple apparently high-ranking members of the organization. It’s not a waitress uniform.
This is a high class villain lair. The Waitresses clearly would wear Anime Battle Maid costumes.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/742953269758358576/
Not having a map in a secret base? How else are enemy agents supposed to find their way around while infiltrating your base! Makes perfect sense, unless you follow the advice of the evil overlord handbook!
You always have maps posted. Not completely accurate maps, though.
Wait, was that guy passing? Or was he going to wait?
Well, that would be the wrong room for him. He’s heading for the next door down the hall.
Not wait to use it, wait for her to come out
And this is yet another security measure, if you’re paranoid enough.
Nobody goes anywhere alone. Identity confirmation on _every_ encounter, even if it’s “just” coming back from the head.
Random Male Suitmask: …did you change your makeup in there?
Co-Ed: Uh, yeah. Well, refreshed it, really. I didn’t like the way it went with this-
RMS: Cool. Show me your makeup kit. *thumbs panick button in pocket*
Co-Ed: …shit…
“Security is inversely proportional to convenience.” At some point you get so paranoid with checks that either you can’t get anything done, or people just start ignoring them. Constant buddy system outside your assigned office is a pretty reasonable measure though.
RE: The Death Star exhaust port callback. Remember that whatever else the Empire was, it WAS a government and while the actual construction was done by slaves, the architectural design was let out to the lowest bidder.
The design was made by a traitor, that ‘flaw’ was intentional
Eh, honestly I think whoever managed to make the exhaust port for a reactor that powers literally the entire Death Star only a few inches wide is a genius. It’s a reactor, it’s gotta vent somehow, and the fact its vent was inches on a planet sized object is very impressive. If we want to blame anyone, blame the person who let the plans for the death star leak, how else is anyone going to find an inch sized hole on a planet, much less know it’s the reactor’s exhaust.
Same person who designed the ‘flaw’, leaked the plans
I think it would be pretty obvious it was the exhaust port, if the exhaust from a reactor powering something the size of the Deathstar were actually being dumped through that small of a hole. The flare from that sucker would constitute a capital weapon by itself.
That there was only one exhaust port on a base that big is a miracle.
Unless all other ports have several angles making the shot really impossible
Umm, is ‘Parial Scream’ supposed to be ‘Partial Scream’? if not, never mind
Parial scream: to scream like a pariah.
Parial means a pair, or in poker a pair of face cards.
The map might show a secret room that’s meant to catch infiltrators.
Ummm… unless parial is an adjective I am unfamiliar with, you misspelled “PARTIAL” in box 9. Sorry, Dave.
No lies, after a long time as an architect and inspector, I approve of the fact that there is map. There should be a number of them. Even as a GM, if a facility is well used, there is going to be at least evacuation maps in case of a fire and the halls are at least marked and numbered. After all, any place is going to have new hires coming on and they need to know where to go.
I’ve worked in high security areas and can confirm: they have maps. “How to get around” is not one of the secrets.
How do you know you can’t go in that room? You have a map and so you know the difference between Star Gate Command and Janitor’s Storage.
Saves on the “sorry, I thought I was going to the cafeteria” excuses.
One time my less-cleared intern ass was allowed into a highly-secure area for reasons. The path we were allowed to take to the meeting room was marked the whole way and we were shown a map beforehand. We had an escort, no detours were allowed and there were big “UNCLEARED GUESTS IN AREA” signs alerting people. I’m surprised I was allowed to say hi to people I knew as we passed. Well, not really surprised, they told us we could. It was an odd mix of super-serious and aware of how silly it seemed on some levels.
I worked for a number of years at a large psychiatric hospital. There were a number of buildings with the same floor plan but over the years missions of various building drifted. Teaching new and temp staff the lay of the land was always a chore. The buildings had maps but I also had to keep maps of the grounds.
There are so many violations of the evil Overlord list here that I can’t even keep up with all of them. This is going to be a fun breakdown for one of the teams I’m sure
Halo: And Home Sweet Home. What’s up?
Harem: We got attacked last night.
Halo: Yeah, I heard about that.
Harem: So we arrested them this morning. I just have to write up my report.
Halo: [ Reading over Harem’s shoulder ] Unn-hun. Okaaaay. Wait, what?! Is that for real? Didn’t guys at least read the Evil Overlord list?
Harem: I admit, it did make our job easier.
Having your baddie suddenly switch from a red lip to a metalic blue lip, isn’t conspicuous at all… Honestly Harem, this is a covert op. You should have chosen more “blending in” make-up choices for the day.
From the point of view of anyone else, MaskLady literally went into a bathroom and came out wearing a different color lipstick. Not really that suspicious. Now, the visible hair color change…
Super fucking suspicious for anyone in a world with literal superpowers who is trying to run a covert facility.
This doesn’t even require genre savvy, just an ounce of sense.
We do not just randomly change our lippy in the middle of the work day for s&g’s.
Really? You intend to speak for all women on this one? Because I’ve known… at least two that would and have changed their lipstick in the middle of a work day.
And grew at least 3 inches… Harem is taller, though I guess if you aren’t in the same height range it’s less noticeable.
Um… Lipstick?
Next time Harem wants to disguise herself as the enemy,she should find someone the same size and build as her…so less complaining about undersize footwear…!
You should have a map with some false information sprinkled in. Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Meeting Rooms etc. are accurately marked so visitors and low-level employees know where to go, but “Main Power Core” actually leads to the shark tanks via a trapdoor, and the actual access to the power core is in a room marked “Storage #5”, which only select people know.
This was supposed to be a top level comment.
She was lucky to find a female at all, and you want her to be picky? o_O
Unlike women in most superhero comics the women of the Haloverse come in many sizes so its easier Said than done.
The date in the filename of today’s image is “2022-12-20” but today is Dec 19th.
Yeah, I’m a lot of fun at parties. Or I would be, if I ever went to any.
Actually, it is the 20th, has been for three and one half hours (give or take a few minutes)
Hard dissent with Dave.
Secret base should go like submarines or any big navy boat. You label zones but no stinking map to help people not use to it.
Soldiers that work there are gonna end up learning the structure by heart and any outsider is gonna end up lost without any help to navigate it.
On a ship where everyone literally lives there for weeks/months at a time this works. Maybe even in a lair based in an island volcano. Even allowing for prison levels and weapons caches, a lot of this facility is likely to be office space. That evil Starbucks isn’t going to manage itself. A good reason for having a centrally located secret lair is that people come and go in the course of their evil (at least relatively evil) jobs.
Leftenant? I do believe you mean “Lieutenant” using the British pronunciation. Unless there is a Rightenant in the Emperial military….
Except, DaveB and Archon is US, and they pronounce it ‘left’
You’ve got that flipped – the US pronounces it as it’s written. It’s the Brits who had to make the French word weird.
And *everybody* spells it “lieutenant”, no matter how they pronounce it.
That’s because it’s French.
And we all know what happened to the French Lieutenant, right?
He met a nice woman?
Only after getting injured.
I wonder what the French for “totally worth it!” is.
Never seen the movie, had only heard about it, and just found out that it was originally a ‘postmodern historical fiction novel’
French makes French words weird.
Also, disdain for mispronouncing “croissant” is the most French thing ever. Change my mind.
The British know its a French word. It actually means “place holder” or “representative”. There are quite a few words like that in British English for whatever reason, and it doesn’t bother them. They also know the Americans use the French pronunciation, and that doesn’t bother them either. If you spent your life worrying about words spelt the same but pronounced differently, or spelt differently but pronounced the same in British English, you’d never get anything done…
Leftenant is a rank specifically used by sinister organizations.
Lipstick
Came here for this exactly.
I’m guessing that nobody at the base bothered reading the part of The Evil Overlord’s List where maps are supposed to be mislabeled.
Well, it remains to see whether the map is labeled correctly.
You should have a map with some false information strategically sprinkled in. Cafeteria, Bathrooms, Meeting Rooms etc. are accurately marked so visitors and low-level employees know where to go, but “Main Power Core” actually leads to the shark tanks via a trapdoor, and the actual access to the power core is in a room marked “Storage #5”, which only select people know.
Somewhat offtopic, but the lifeguard job is similar to the secret base job.
From Dave’s comment… “That’s probably a pretty cushy job, guarding a thing in a secret and/or impermeable base, because there’s really nothing to do… right up until there is something to do, ”
A lifeguard basically gets paid $1000/minute while he is saving the 1 kid for the summer, he just gets paid slowly over 2 months of work. ( I worked at a pretty quiet pool, maybe other people saved dozens / year)
See, it’s somewhat relevant. It relates to something Dave said!
wait, she teleported without watching, looking or knowing that room, i know its a bathroom, but stilll?
Maybe she got a good enough look while the door was open
The door was slightly open, so she could see the inside.
“Had to take out the only terrorist with feet smaller than my sister…”
– John McClain
if their feet were bigger than your sister, that better be one dang tall woman.
If they were bigger than your sister’s, though, that would be understandable.
Blue lipstick.
Will be noticed.
I would agree whole-heartily but then how would we know it was Harem?
Among mostly men!?
She took off her choker?
She don’t need it remember? One of her is right there with Max
It would give away her identity even more than blue lipstick. It is probably tucked in a pocket so she can still be tracked by Leon.
Besides, I’ve seen women change lipstick either because they ran out or just worn different colors during the time of day. A big fuss about something that’s basically petrolatum jelly mixed with either wax or mineral oil and food dye. And flavoring? I don’t know never cared for women that painted themselves up. Call me weird… doesn’t help I’m allergic to half of the stuff out there, kissed a gal with some on and I looked like my lip was stung by a bee. The rest of it few women seem to know how to use it, unless you’re a stage actor or a goth, don’t glop it on!
So you hit that design flaw with a photon torpedo or an analog. Ours is about 6 feet long, golden in colour and travels well above the speed of sound. The other option is on the other side of the Atlantic disarming a desperate mole.
Another super-villain dumb “genius”, “Let’s all wear masks and the same caped outfit so the good guy’s won’t know who we are!” It’s a uniform, they’ll know who to watch for and when you change ya dinguses! Don’t flaunt your “power and prestige”, hide that! No one notices the pizza guy (unless they have YOUR pizza) or the maid (unless she’s hot lol) or some guy walking down the street in aging clothes. The best disguise is NO disguise just in how you move and act. Be just another face in the crowd. And don’t act like “I’m better than you, bow down to me and get out of my way!” you will be noticed. Mainly by the very people you DON’T want to. Sure wear it on the base, but walk away in a stained t-shirt and ragged jeans or a frumpy dress. Wait, just had a image of the big guy that Chimy bit the hand of walking to his car in a mumu… LOL
I’m not bashing Dave’s writing, I’m bashing super villains in general. Even regular villains are “big shot” types, or just violent…
You want to look at least respectable, so people don’t give you the side eye. Best for day-to-day is probably Business Casual – just a boring clerk on the way to the daily grind.
I wonder if the security guard on the cameras noticed that the lady coming our of the washroom is a couple of inches taller than the one that went in.
I want to know what is in lady Masksuit’s pockets.
Harem’s hands?
No gum or breath mints?
To be fair, the Death Star DID have free maps publicly available. Artoo was able to easily bring up a map by scomplinking into the nearest data terminal. I imagine all the other droids on the Death Star can do the same for anyone who needs a map to where they can disable the tractor beams.
When you gotta go…
“Of course, if you’re the guy guarding the Emperor’s private bathroom, then you know that the Leftenant in charge of your squad is going to be a real hard-ass because he thinks keeping anyone else from ever using that restroom is his ticket to a promotion”
I’m getting strong Arnold J. Rimmer vibes from this.
Oh, everyone, there’s a new vote incentive up, even though it’s not posted. Think blue!
and shiny
If they are tasked with commanding the squad guarding the Emperor’s personal bathroom, wouldn’t they be a lieu-tenant? Or are they are a leftenant who is guarding against lieu tenants?
I mean, this place is the size of a large scale mall from ye olden days. Not only is a map sometimes needed, a bare bones one isn’t going to be catastrophic even in the narrow chance someone does break in. Which I don’t think is going to be the case here, it’s probably has enough things labeled that the team can figure out “okay, this place is suspiciously unlabeled and is where I’d put the thing we’re looking for, move out”
What was a cowl-level member doing using the bathroom down on the maintenance level? Is this more intrigue, or just a convenient plot device? Stay tuned!
Might of been touring the base or that map was a hallway not the entire base (which I doubt) I’d check with Dave but Dabs told me it’s dusty and full of cobwebs in his head LOL. ;)
RE: Vote Incentive Cora
…NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPITTY MCNOPENOPE, OF THE NOPEVILLE MCNOPENOPES IN NOPE COUNTY, NOPECHUSETTES, UNITED NOPES OF NOPERICA.
Whatever that unholy and unclean abomination of styles is Anathema, neither 2D, nor 3D, and it literally hurts to look at.
I will agree that hits the wrong side of uncanny alley worse than the first final fantasy 3D movie. XD (Sorry, but yes, worse than the Final Fantasy the Spirits Within.)
I think it’s the eyes. Don’t they just say, “Hey, I’m demon possessed!”? Also, the face is subtly banana shaped, the sort of thing people pick up on an unconscious level.
That was what I came here to say: The uncanny valley? Yeah, Dave, right there, you’ve nailed it with astonishing precision. Did somebody give you a topographic map?
Surprised me, because you’ve previously been nowhere near it.
Personally don’t see a problem
Maybe if someone could actually point out the problem rather than just get overly dramatic and not say anything helpful
And what the Bill Shanks is a ‘banana shaped face’?
https://i.etsystatic.com/7256643/r/il/e63e22/3817003863/il_794xN.3817003863_gfv0.jpg
not quite this.
https://www.costumepub.com/images/Product/Large/MC-fw93315.jpg
more this.
Thank you, don’t see how either relate to Cora though…
Starting with the eyes, her right eye and left eye don’t match in terms of expression; Right has that inviting simple bottom curve, left has the bottom double curve that generally implies hostility, and that double curve isn’t matched by the facial musculature beneath it. So the two eyes are saying different things, which brings “crazy” vibes. Maybe that was intended?
Moving up a bit, the shape of her forehead is a bit off, in that the brows don’t terminate on the top side, they go all the way up to the hair line with a pronounced depression between. At least the highlighting says this. You’d normally only see that in a skull that had horns coming out of it…
On the right the transition from the jaw to the side of the face is accentuated, on the left it’s suppressed. The same with her cheek bones. This with the eyes produces a subliminally disturbing asymmetry. Now, the faces of real people aren’t perfectly symmetric, but studies have shown that, as a general rule, the more symmetric a face, the more attractive it is.
There are a few other minor things, but they add up to a face that’s disturbingly “off” to my perception, anyway.
And let me be clear, even when I was actively doing art, I couldn’t have done as well as that. So I’m not saying it was badly done. Just that it landed in the “valley” for me. Might be because I studied anatomy in college, and I’m expecting a face to line up with the underlying structures I know are there. I can’t help but look at people’s faces in terms of bone, muscle, and fat, overlaid with skin, and Cora’s here looks like there’s something wrong with that structure in some places.
Now, I’ll give Dave artistic license for the fact that, despite her being born without limbs, her torso looks nothing like what people actually born that way look. A realistic look in that regard would probably be even more disturbing. Put it down to advanced plastic surgery?
That helps, but personally don’t see any of that, but also not artistic or tend to spend much time looking at peoples’ faces
My right eye is higher on my face, than the left, slightly!!
I like it. it is very rarely that a conversion from 2D to 3D ever looks right and yes her eyes say “Say that again” to us so yeah a bit disturbing but I know I didn’t say it I’d be carefully side-stepping away in hopes of escaping the coming splatter. LOL…
I’ll admit it was a bit hard to look her over before I realized who it was, between the eye’s and outfit was a bit ummm “distracting” but it’s well done!
For me, it was more the freckles :)
Also, it was the lines where her holo-arms and -legs attach that clued me in on who it was