Grrl Power #1215 – Petition to annul and/or anal
I tried to make Dabbler’s grades accurately reflect her personality. She’s one of those “bored with school for normals” types. Edging? Boring. Hurry up, I have other stuff to do. Calligraphy? Who cares. I only need to be neat enough to inscribe enchantments. Sexy Cooking? Okay, that’s kind of fun, plus who doesn’t like cupcakes? The only reason she didn’t get an A+ in Assassination is that she refuses to be subtle. It’s loud and there’s often collateral damage, but she always gets her target. Which, is usually like a bag of flour that students doing Home-Ec at the local high-school have to carry around like it’s a baby. Stuff like that. Yeah, in Demon High, you have to worry about succubus assassins coming for your flour baby. Succubi who are in their 3rd year and have show promise can start to take real contracts so long as it doesn’t interfere with their other school work.
Once a succubus accepts a collar, asking her “Hey, did you do that willingly?” or “Are you being treated well?” or any other question along those lines isn’t productive, since her master can order her to lie. There are a few people in the succubus hierarchy who can circumvent this problem, however. The Arch-Matriarchs obviously can, but don’t themselves often involve themselves in the affairs of the newly collared. Not that they’re too good for such a task, in fact their whole deal is protecting their race from subjugation and abuse. They’re just wildly outnumbered. A few of them do feel the task is beneath their direct involvement, after all, a well fed succubus who is also an accomplished sorceress can live for a very long time. They’re not immortal, but the churn is very slow, and being treated essentially like a queen and arch-mage for a thousand years can make anyone start to forget about “the little people.” That’s why the newest/youngest arch-matriarchs are always given the role of Defender of the Race.
They have a virtual army of field personnel that conduct regular interviews with newly collared succubi, and those people have special artifacts that are capable of allowing a succubus to disobey her master while she’s equipped with it. In addition, concerned individuals can bring a succubus before the Electio Striga (I’m sure I butchered the latin there, because, you know, Latin. (Apparently you have to conjugate every god-damned word in Latin sentences.) Electio Striga is supposed to say something like “Selection Witches” which is just slang for the real term for the organization anyway.) But hauling a succubus before the Striga rarely produces results, as most cases are like this, where someone is butthurt they didn’t get what they wanted. Brelx is courting disaster here, because the Striga don’t like their time being wasted by entitled whiners. There are… fines. Brelx is belligerent, but he may have some political pull or another angle to try and pull this off – if he can get Parfait away from her summoner.
The September vote incentive is up! Let’s call it the November vote incentive and just say I’ve still got two I.O.U’s, eh?
Well, Dabbler is doing her Dabbler things, and the Patreon version has a nude variant and a comic that… I don’t know, expounds on the goings on of the initial picture?
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Huh. A fully Bedazzled German Beer Girl Dress that is actually skintight thermoptic camouflage.
Now that, I’d like to see!!
Yeah, but good luck actually seeing it…
Dirndls are traditional Bavarian dresses (some for work, some festive) – not to be confused with those abominations too often seen at Munich Oktoberfest.
Or on the route there or from – barfing all the way. Yuck.
We live along that route and try not to be here during those 2-3 weeks.
“traditional” as in “some rich city guys decided this is how the landfolk looks, 100 years ago”
a proper tradition should at least have started through the middle ages!
“The transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.”
…According to a quick Google search.
While I respect your strict standards, I choose to believe a tradition is whatever your kids keep doing after you stop telling them to.
And no, I didn’t typo “fact”, that was copy paste. Weird.
Wikipedia’s oldest source(if you want a full historical analysis do it yourself) dates back 1535 on the painted picture of a noble woman dates back to 1535. Wheter or not that is middle ages depends on your historian. At school I learned it was.
Should I seriously post some photographs of my grandparents?
And no; they weren’t rich or city-folk.
Poor country-people from Lower Bavaria.
Yes; about a century ago.
And fashion changed since the MA.
A Dirndl still is traditional clothing in Bavaria like a Hanbok is in Korea.
“traditional” as in “some rich city guys decided this is how the landfolk looks, 100 years ago”
a proper tradition should at least have started through middle ages!
“One of the Succubus super-sorceress sex goddesses”
It’s a wonder that Parfait didn’t have to wipe a little of Sydney’s spit off her face after that series of silibants.
Parfait is a succubus, she probably wouldn’t even have an issue with a bit of bodily fluid on her face.
She would probably take it as a compliment.
Thuffering thucotash!
and thicc thighed thucculentth!
If you’re a Normal High School student carrying a bag-of-flour baby, and it gets assassinated by a succubus, do you fail that class?
my man…. how painful was it with that shading?! amazing work! beautiful on the ladies.. but by god… must have been frustratingly tedious.
The leaf shadows were actually pretty easy. Just a multiply layer at 40% clipped to the foreground.
lol I love that she got an F in edging.
She probably enjoys the release too much :P
that report card must be really old. devil could probably make quite a bunch of money with a viewing / waiting room for cookies
It must be tough to be a conservative succubus like Dabblers mom and have a rebellious daughter. Teens these days eh? Wasting time on tinkering when they should be out seducing virgins.
A bag of flower? That would get smoked by the end of the first day
Hah hah, I obviously meant flour. Chrome spellcheck doesn’t help with homophones, malapropisms, or spoonerisms. And that plugin Grammerly just wants me to add hyphens to everything. So many hyphens.
And then the spell check insists on chaning that to hymens.
And succubi are all-in on REMOVING hymens.
we need one of those links talking about what the Hymen actually is, what its for, and other fun trivia to make people blanch. seriously it is not a little flap over the hole to protect the contents like you see on Tylenol bottles. (I am not spelling that polysyllabic nightmare of a word!)
… Asprin?
Acetaminophen? Easy enough to spell.
or doing names correctly. has proved one of my comments changed dabbler to devil. I mean yeah close enough but not precise. heaven’s forbid you do Hermione or Dumbledore, Mxyzptlk (superman) – gets up even worse when you try and have computers do text to speech translation
the word hyphen always makes me think of little midget gryphons just flying at top speed to try and sneak in between words like stealth fighters.
That sounds like a chapter out of a Xanth novel.
Or anagrams. Had an editor at the newspaper screw up the photo caption for the town Christmas Parade by putting, “Satan’s little helpers passing out candy to all the good children.” Opps
Amazing job with the shadows of the trees. You didn’t have to do all that work, but it’s amazing to see.
Technically you only conjugate the verbs. You decline the nouns and adjectives. The image is that the nominative case (the case of “I” and “she” and “we” in English) stands up erect and strong, and then the other cases (such as the accusative case, the case of “me” and “her” and “us”) get progressively less firm and start to lean over, or decline. Yeah, those Romans! There’s a reason they gave us words like incubus and succubus.
Hmmm. Does your universe have incubi as well as succubi?
I think Dabbler mentioned at some point (maybe when she noted her doppleganger heritage) that there are no male succubi/incubi. Apparently none of the lonely mages who created their ancestors had any interest in male sex golems.
Yeah, not even the female mages
That seems improbable
It may be that some of the mages did make male sex golems, but they weren’t popular enough to “evolve” into succubi (looking back at the comics discussing it, we see what appears to be a bear golem, and I don’t think any of the succubi today look anything like that, but I could be mistaken). It may also have been that, when they were made capable of reproduction, it was decided that it would be problematic if they could breed with each other, so they just stuck with making female ones. It’s also entirely possible that the archmages that kicked it all off were all male, and none were openly homosexual or bisexual (we don’t know anything of the morality at the time, but considering it was thousands of years ago, the archmages was a boys-only club and men who liked men were ostracized and disinvited, if not outright assassinated).
You can be succubi never decline to conjugate.
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I’ll see myself out.
And what’s stopping dingle-dick from finding another succubae?
They tried every others in their class and they all punched him in the dick? Gotta be rough to be turned down by a succubae…
Maybe he likes Parfait?
Do you really think he just wanted any succubus?
Where the hell are you getting ‘succubae’?
It is a pun.
That is the correct plural for succubus, is it not?
Oops! Wasn’t meant to be multiple :(
No, plural is “succubi”.
Only if they swing both ways :P
Hmm, ‘succubi’ has the red squiggle under it, ‘succubae’ does not
No idea what the issue is with your spell checker, because “succubae” isn’t a word.
Succubae -is- a word.
It’s the plural of succuba, which is sometimes used in place of succubus (which I’m pretty sure is folk etymology because people thought a word describing a female entity shouldn’t end in “us”) but mostly has its own meaning.
Right. So it’s a word. :)
According to the spell wrecker, succubi isn’t (three options are given: succubae, succubus and succumb, and no, haven’t personally added anything to the dictionary)
Get a better spell checker.
You invent one, and will use it
Looking it up on Wiktionary, I see that it gives succubus, plural succubi or succubuses, as an English word derived from the Latin succuba, plural succubae. It actually makes more sense for it to have the feminine -a/-ae endings. But if you’re going to use the English form for the singular, succubus, it’s more consistent to use the English form for the plural.
Though if I were going to be pedantic, I would say that it’s preferable to use the plural form succubuses, which treats succubus as an English word, rather than succubi, which attempts to be a Latin plural but is not the plural of the actual Latin word. It’s like saying “octopuses” instead of the pseudo-Latin “octopi” (the actual Latin is “octopodes”).
Latin and Greek plurals are treacherous. Most of us say “rhinoceri,” but the proper Latin plural form turns out to be “rhinocerotes.”
I’m pretty sure that it’s because they actually like each other and are friends, so he wanted her to be his succubi, and since it was down to her and the angel guy, he feels annoyed that someone who wasn’t actually in the finalists for Parfait was suddenly made her master. Plus Parfait does seem to consider Aster a friend, and Aster seems to consider Parfait a friend (even though it’s likely that Parfait’s number one choice was going to be the ‘pansy angel guy.’ Aster probably would not have as much of a problem with that since it would have been more Parfait’s choice than Tom being thrown in there at the last moment by Parfait’s mom.
How do we know Tom was Momma’s forced choice? Didn’t Parf say she chose Tommy because of how he treated Dabbles and she wanted to be like her cool big sister?
It seems to be implied by today’s page, and Parfait went along with it because of her admiration for Dabbler and wanting to follow in her footsteps. Also likely influenced by her mother.
Is… Parf’s hair growing?
I think it’s more fluctuating than anything else. Her and (and clothes) are made out of smoke and obviously look like they are obvious indications of her actual power pool. She just fed, she’s overflowing with tantric energy = more smoke and options( and cool clothings)
Check panel one, the length of the hair is greater than it’s ever been
It got longer after she shagged Core. It’s sort of indicative of her mana bar.
This. She also seems slightly taller, and has acquired a Vampirella collar. She’s pretty much at max power right now, gonna be veeery difficult to demon-nap at this point.
Did you just go ‘This’ on the actual author’s explanation?
To be fair, I didn’t notice who the poster was either.
Despite the orange border?
How many people notice that?
“This.” is an expression of agreement an support. Are people not allowed to agree with the author? Or are people in your social circles using “This.” differently? If the latter, how do they use it?
You don’t need to ‘support’ the Author when they are explaining something about their comic that may be unique part of their world-story
I think it’s indicative of her power level after having had sex with a super.
Was just checking if anyone else noticed it, and if it was intentional
I notice that Brelx never actually answered the question of what gave him providence to go to earth and threaten to vandalize and kill people. Even without actually doing so, just the threat while drawing a weapon is probably enough to any foreigner without diplomatic immunity or enormous amounts of political heft to be politely but very firmly shown the door if it came to any reasonable authority’s attention.
Brelx is just has poor social skills outside of demon society, unlike Aster or Decolette or some other demons.
I’m not sure “drawing a weapon while threatening people” falls under the purview of poor social skills. It might certainly have a root in it, but it’s still “getting arrested and barred from all weapons for the foreseeable future” territory rather than “awkward situation” territory.
Who among us has not brandished a deadly weapon at a total stranger in a comic book store, I ask you?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!
I mean… not in a comic store. Not yet, anyway. :)
seems appropriate for a lawyer to quote a passage about how the procedures should be followed.
:)
Clearly he’s just an impatient mofo with no impulse control.
Especially in Texas!
Call bullshit on that report card.
Unless Dabbler drastically pulled an about face out of coursework I think she deserves at least an A in both Seduction, Fashion and Edging.
;)
Well, she’s being graded to the standards of a Succubus Finishing School. Given who her mother is, it’s probably the Harvard of Succubus Finishing Schools. That and she just doesn’t have the patience for edging.
Still, if Dabbler is an example of a weak-at-succubussing succubi, an average one would be terrifying.
And Parfait has been shown to be above average from Dab’s reactions.
You’re looking at it from a human perspective. Succubi have higher expectations
somewhere in the tests is getting a boner from a skeleton. then a rise from a corpse.
Also, don’t forget Dabs has had a century or so to mature since she was in school. Her nerd side was particularly ascendant then, and she may have been rebelling against her mother, who probably encouraged the “traditional” succubus skill set. She learned to appreciate those skills more as she got older.
The fashion one seems to be right. Her outfits so far are (mostly) gaudy and/or practical. As the text on the report card shows: that is not Proper Succubi Fashion.
I find it adorable zat you zink a report card of a neural-divergent student has any correlation to zeir actual capabilities. I know my report cards back in za day would be very different if I was graded just on actual ability instead of how much homework I did or how I spelled words zat have bolf T and H in zem. Reading za comments on her report card shows a lot of za grades were partially punitive for her “disruptive” behaviors.
Also I agree wiff Deanatay, you are judging her current skills not adolescent Xuriel.
You might want to look into the history of the old English letter Thorn. You’ll get a new appreciation for Th and stop being such an annoyingly pretend-unique snowflake.
Please use easily readable versions of whatever language you write in. If you put excessive amounts of “flourishes” in it’s hard to read even for people who know what you’re doing and unused to it, and makes people who don’t know think you are doing a racist stereotype.
If you think its fine please start your entries with an explanation, then start writing how you choose to :D
I think Dabbler clearly lacks the attention span for Seduction or Edging, and Fashion is very much a matter of perspective.
I think part of her poor grades is not so much dablers ABILITIES but rather how much attention she puts into school work. she’s a genius and perfectly CAPABLE of edging or seducing or fashion, but school mostly bores her so she spends her time creating active optical camouflage systems in her dress making class and using it to steal all the power cores from the sports cars in the parking lot. A poor grade in seduction CLASS doesn’t necessarily mean dabbler sucks at seduction, but may indicate she just didn’t care enough about school grades to show up to class or do the assignments.
Kinda interesting to note Lulu is standing beside Sydney, and not Brelx
She might consider Brelx to be a bit of a jerk, even if they’re friends.
We all have that one friend who we know is a jerk but for some godforsaken reason, we still hang around them.
I’m not sure it has any meaning. It looks more like the group circled up roughly as they were already standing, which could mean that Brelx isn’t exercising his control over Lulu all the time.
It’s completely out of left field, but I wonder if it’s turned out that Brelx isn’t actually interested in the sexual aspect of his succubus, and that’s what Lulu has a problem with. He’s got her running errands, doing his laundry, filling out his job applications, etc., and she can’t refuse, but she never really gets her end of the deal.
Except, they changed location
And they are not just friends, he is her ‘Master’ (for now) and she already expressed dissatisfaction with him (obviously reading too much into it… maybe)
A lack of sex would literally kill a succubus.
If only succubae were limited to only having sex with their master…
Oh wait, they aren’t, and they don’t even have to be in the same (or neighbouring) dimension to receive mana from their maste
The fact Dabbler flunked edging is kind of sweet actually. She’s not just in it for herself, she wants her partner to finish too…unless her partner gets off on edging. I guess that’s a too bad in that case.
I don’t speak Latin but I speak a Romance language or two. ‘Witches of choice’ in Latin, as best as I could work it out, would be ‘Pythonissae Electionis’ or ‘Maleficas Electionis’, the first being a diviner witch and the second a curse witch.
Malafina Electare. Works or Bruja Electare.
Well… _electare_ is the infinitive of the rare verb _electo_ ‘to choose’ (the more common word for that meaning would be _eligo_, _eligere_) and thus not what we’re looking for. Instead, ‘of choice’ is indeed _electionis_ as Kaddo says. For ‘witches’ my lexicon suggests _strigae_ (DaveB’s _striga_ is singular ‘witch’), _maleficae_ (Kaddo’s _maleficas_ is the accusative case), _veneficae_ or _magae_; _pythonissae_ can be translated so as well but was likely primarily associated with the oracle-giving priestesses in Delphi, which is not the kind of magic we’re looking at here. I can not find _malafina_ at all, the closest seems to be _maleficium_ which can mean ‘witchcraft’, and _bruja_ is Spanish for ‘witch’ but not of Latin origin – Wiktionary says likely Celtiberic.
Considering Latin conjugation, I’ll just put this one here:
‘What’s this, then? “Romanes eunt domus”? People called Romanes they go the house?’
Click on the “Latin” link. :)
no. I have this wisdom roll that says Bad Idea. send Pander, lawyers love Latin. is says so in this epic brief.
We don’t love it. We tolerate it. When we use fancy latin words it makes us sound a lot smarter. Quod erat demonstrandum!
DaveB never said that the Demon Realm uses *perfect* Latin, they’ve been using the language for eons, so some variation would be normal!
tracks. this irritates people who don’t know Latin and torments people who actually know Latin. as a bonus it makes the demons sound intelligent.
Syd’s and Dabbler’s mom kbitzing over brunch about their kids and why they didn’t turn out the way they expected… XD
I could totally see that. :)
And both daughters pouting in the background :D
No, not ‘pouting’
Sulking? Sulking sounds about right
I have come to the conclusion that children can counted on to do one thing, break their parents’ hearts. something to use to spread assault and battery throughout the land: tell the unlucky in love that this is preparation for parenting.
Clearly this dispute should be solved by the traditional succubus dispute solving method: Naked Jello wrestling.
It would be less fun between Tom and this guy, but it’s tradition.
Wait, so Dabbler REALLY IS a space princess?
Dabbler is according to this I think. Unfortunatly the betting pool was on Varia being one. :(
She is more like Adrienne from Princeless. The Princess who did not consent to be locked away in a tower, guarded by a dragon and meekly waiting for Prince Charming to come rescue her.
The dragon also did not appreciate the situation after it was explained to her that she was there basically to be killed eventually.
Xuriel was not impressed with the future that was laid out for her and took matters in her own hand as well. There was no tower or dragon (that we know of) in her situation, but being effectively sold to somebody and then spending the next 1000 or so years doing only what /they/ wanted and having no freedom to do what she herself wanted (*), translates to a surprising amount of the same as a princess locked away in a tower for tradition and her parents’ sake.
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Okay, so maybe that sounded better in my head than it reads on paper.
But when will Sydney bring it up that she was right?
Less than a second after finding out :P
Okay, luckily it doesn’t seem as serious as it could have been. Brelx seems to just be an abrasive guy who couldn’t handle the responsibilies of being bonded to a fresh Succubus, and literally just needs someone to beat the shit out of him when he makes a mistake. Sydney should have him neatly handled in short order.
Brelx might lose his chance to ever have a succubond after this but thats up to the appropriate institutions to decide.
Dear God, Sidney’s gonna have her own demonic cabal/friendship circle at this rate. By being understanding, willing to learn, and…herself. good grief interstellar demonic super hero Scooby-Doo, anyone?
Okay Gang, let’s get in the Mystery Meat Machine and get a clue or two. Sorry, but two of you are gonna have to wear these wigs, and one of you gets this extra thick pair of glasses. No fighting! I WILL turn this motorhome around and we won’t be solving anything for a week!
Now I really would like to see a story arc where Sydney has to go undercover at Hell High as a succubus.
I mean there is no way such an arc can be written that will not come across as suspension of disbelief breaking levels of contrived, but it would be so much fun.
Could probably pull it off if you drop the succubus bit.
Poor Brelx. It sucks as a human to peak in high school, imagine how much worse it is for a nigh-immortal demon. Fortunately for him he seems to lack the capacity for self-reflection that would make him aware of this.
And the second part may be a reason for the first.
(Just saying…)
At that moment, Olivia comes running over and informs Sydney that “a purple with blue stripe four arm being is here to see her…”
Since no one else has mentioned it, the shadows dappling on the group on this page is really well done.
Called it, that Xanadu was one of the succubus matriarchs. Also seems like she might be one of Those Moms…
Xanadu: XURIEL! Get in here, young lady! We need to discuss your report card!
Dabbler’s Dad (“Daddler”, if you will): Now, honey, we’re not angry at you…
X: We Are EXTREMELY ANGRY AT YOU!!
D: An ‘A’ in Assassination! That’s my girl!
Teen Dabbler: *smiles shyly* Thanks, Daddy!
X: Stop it! You coddle her too much! Young lady, as a member of this esteemed Family, you have a legacy and a reputation to uphold! An ‘F’ in Seduction is absolutely Unacceptable!
TD: But Moooooom, I don’t wanna be a seductress!
X: Don’t be ridiculous, dear, what else could my daughter be?
TD: I want to be… *face lights up* an Engineer!
X: GASP! *recoils in horror* You wash that filthy mouth out with holy water this instant, young lady!
D: N-now, honey, engineering is a respec-
X: A STEM graduate? In MY House?? NEVER!! You are GROUNDED, missy! No teleports for a month!
TD: But Mooooom! I have a temple raid with my friends this evening!
X: Not anymore, you don’t! You’re going out streetwalking with me and my friends! When you can seduce ten people in a night, THEN we’ll talk about teleporting privileges!
TD: You’re SO MEAN!! I HATE YOU!! *storms off*
X: I know you don’t mean that! I’m doing this for your own good!
X: You try to learn your daughter some good old fashioned values and standards and she just get angry….
DD: Don’t worry dear, it’s just a phase teens go through. I’m sure she will grow out of it. Heh, I remember you wearing purity rings ironically, but look at you now, a real conservative role model. Everyone call you a slut around here!
W: Ugh, please don’t remind me. But thank you dear.
I love this. I love everything about this as well.
*is temporarily incapacitated by laughter*
Do you understand how rare is is for Ro Jaws to make a joke that does not involve an awful dad-humor-level pun? I’m encouraging more of it! :)
I’m glad I could demon-strate my ability to make not pun related jokes.
From now on my headcanon is that conservative succubi are promiscious and their teenage daughters rebel by being prudes.
I’ve seen that recently, in another of my fave comics:
https://buttsmithy.com/archives/comic/p-1117
You ruined it, dangit. You had it and you ruined it.
Sending in a single ninja because I’m in a good mood, though.
I love this. I love everything about this.
I do love the sense of human-vs-universal scale on display here. After everything we’ve seen about her, Dabbler’s considered C-grade at seduction in her own society.
Well. She was in High School. She was also pretty explicitly an awkward nerd in High School according to Tom. She has likely improved significantly since then.
Maybe! Although if “seduction” is taken separate from her tantric aura she may actually be WORSE at it than she used to be.
Dave’s said that like with a lot of bright kids with middling grades a lot of this is coming not from lack of Capability so much as lack of Interest, and she hasn’t necessarily needed to keep up practice with “manipulate via subtle body language and speech patterns” on a planet where “push the ‘You Want Me’ button” works as well as it does.
More than that, I was just enjoying the idea that “capability at seduction” could have a scale different from Earth’s much like how “capability at lifting” or “capability at flying” more obviously does.
I totally get being super smart, but being bored easily in general, and that it particularly means not turning in assignments, but I call foul on the F for edging. Gotta political. For the boredom, she can easily conceive a number of things while making the subject putty in her hand(s) (and whatnot).
What kind of a tantric death star focusing lens would you need to convert vibrators into a laser?!
Well, even the succubus teacher had to admit it was impressive.
Dabbler’s version of a Honey Trap involves a server, firewall, lots of network cables and some specialty software, which she wrote, of course. This looks like the server you want to hack. If you infect it with ransomware, it traces back to the criminals automagically.
Dabbler has many times said that she “isn’t a good succubus” according to the standard, so it doesn’t surprise me she and her mother are at odds. As far as “edging” goes, it’s not for everyone, my wife would of gotten an F– in that respect (although, she would of excelled in other areas), and no I’m not going into details LOL! It’s clear Brelx has an agenda and Parfait was part of that, and from what we’ve seen and heard, he has NO right to decide who “gets” Parfait, he just decided it was the thing to do. I’d LOVE to see what Dab’s is going to say to these “kids” about the whole thing, if she doesn’t just kick some ass by time it’s about over. I doubt Tom’s reasoning wasn’t the same as the rest, he’s already a big cheese in their world, so the clout he got from bonding with her wouldn’t of made much of a difference. It seems bonding is a big deal among their society, so it’s a boost if they “get” someone in good standing.
I actually do see her getting middling grades in seduction. There’s probably a part of it that’s supposed to be subtle. Dabbler tends to tap back, back, low punch to harpoon someone and yell ‘Get over here!’ or ‘Come here!’. Mainly because she doesn’t want to play seductive, she’s ‘When you got it, flaunt it, and I got it!’. And that’s the modern mature version. Note how many people actively resist even when she’s got her auras up — I’m remembering Sydney’s first meeting with her and the reactions of everyone else in the room.
…is it just me, or does this seem to be building up to Parfait being sold to Sydney for a peppercorn?
I don’t really see anything that implies that is likely but it could happen it just doesn’t seem to be a necessary step at the moment.
Hmm, something about the leaf shadowing is bugging me. More about how it’s wrapping around Sydney. Like all panels except 4 seem to have the shadow coming mostly from behind her. (Though it IS a neat effect.)
The rest I can buy as ‘wind moving branches around’, but I guess it doesn’t quite look like the shadows are coming from ‘above’.
Comedy/non-serious idea: They’re about to be attacked by someone controlling the trees. It’s all foreshadowing, in the shadows.
The Shadow Knows!
So, Dabbler IS the succubus equivalent of a princess. Well, Sydney’s guess seemed to have been right on the money ! (Her guess from allllll the way back on page 378)
Thank you for the page number. I remembered that they had a “mystery parent” pool going on Varia’s father including her being space royalty, but couldn’t remember where Sydney got the idea that Dabbler was or if I was making it up.
It came up when Sydney and Dabbler was talking about the alien Syd noticed at that club, Syd was trying to understand who and what the waitress was and as always she jumped to Dabs history. I doubt anyone could carry a normal conversation with Sydney, there’s always something shiny or a squirrel near by… LOL
I really love Parfait’s side angle look in the 2nd and 6th panels. Nice work!
[looks at my monster fucker permit] you and me, sister! Cheers to that!
Ha, someone put Dabby in the corner for not dancing dirty enough.
Regarding Dabbler and her mom, it fascinates me how many parents feel the need to define who their children will be. There seem to be a lot of people who seem to feel the need to keep their adult children just a little bit dependent on them as a way of extending that control.
My latin isn’t very good but I think it would be Striga Electia for singular and Strigae Electiae for plural?