Grrl Power #1216 – Inevitabelligerent
Even if this cohort of school chums really haven’t done their research on the current state of Earth/Supers/Maxima/The Mighty Halo, you’d think they’d be clued in by Sydney’s seeming utter lack of concern about throwing down against six demons. But then again, maybe in their overconfidence, they assume she’s the one being overconfident. Really, one of the defining qualities of overconfidence is a lack of self-awareness, or at the very least, self-assessment.
Hmm. Well, I guess it’s really a lack of holistic assessment. Since all things are relative, competent self-assessment is nearly useless if you don’t factor in your opponent. Sure, maybe you’re the best fighter on your planet until Frieza and Boros show up to tag team you.
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I like how Aster just appears to be a cool dude
I’m not sold.
There’s shenanigans at play.
Eh its hard to read his … rock face with possible animation? Whatever distrusting vibes are probably intentional.
His body language and tone seem pretty chill though.
And Parfait knows him and doesn’t seem to distrust his portrayed chillness.
you could say he’s pretty…stoney faced.
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She did just threaten to break Brelx’s arm casually before even coming out here. So I’m surprised that he’s so cool about fighting somebody that he knows can one-shot him.
Honestly? I don’t think he has a clue what he is facing. If so? This is gonna be messy and short.
Kind of like the goon pushing an old drunken man and THEN discovering that the drunk is a Grandmaster of the Jackie Chan style of Drunken Kung Fu.
Ouch?
Then again, if he DOES have a clue, Sydney might be in for a bit more than she bargains for, but still…
Bets?
I’d put bets on Sydney winning in 15 seconds if not for combat banter.
Considering it’s Sydney, adding in the banter, I’d say the fight lasts 3 hours.
It might be that he’s even more interested in fighting BECAUSE he knows how powerful she is. Then the probable worst case scenario would be him getting to brag, “I fought the Mighty Halo and walked away!”
Seriously, not every “dudebro” is an insecure wannabe loudly insisting to be an “alpha male.” Sometimes they’re just hot headed but ultimately friendly meatheads who think physical roughhousing face is a fun time and great way to make new friends.
Something tells me someone didn’t do any homework before coming.
Those who DID any kind of research are very wary about Sydney, but the one who didn’t… well… if he is not careful, he is about to find out the hard way about tugging on Superman’s cape.
He’s cocky jock-type that thinks he can threaten and bluff his way through everything. Brelx thinks HIS word is LAW and if anyone, even if it’s a friend that he’s trying to “help”, doesn’t agree, he wants to fight for it. Guys like that never change, a bully’s gotta bully… And that tiny, puny, human isn’t going to make him go away without a fight, no matter what ANY one says. I’d say, grab him with a light hook, fly up a thousand feet or so, and ask him if he gives. if he refuses, let him fall a few hundred feet and ask him again. Or just whip him face-first into the nearest body of water.
Maybe he thinks he has a counter to the Lighthook if he doesn’t get surprised by it.
Do they assume typical Earthers have temple-shrines of themselves as their place of business and are in the habit of pointing that out in the face of belligerancy? Leaked footage of an Earther one-shotting a Fel ship certainly seems to have made waves in the galactic public at large. Or is he one of those people who go “Na man, it’s too late! Imma throw down or lose respect!” I wonder if knowing she believes shes the only one who could stop a “red kryptonite Maxima” would properly terrify them.
I think the bigger demon families are used to being worshipped. No doubt a few of them still pull down a unit or two of mana a month from ancient cults of humans that still worship them. They might not see a simple shrine as a big deal, esp if it’s not consecrated or anything.
He may hvae seen the footage of Maxima one-shooting a Fel ship, but he has not seen Mightey Halo XP Grind a Doomsday World Destroyer Swarm just to solo three Doomsday World Destroyer Motherships
to be fair that is classified. Hopefully it won’t find its way onto the War Thunder forums.
Nah, that kind of stuff is found openleaks.
War thunder forums for specs.
Openleaks for operation after action reports.
Wikileaks is down.
Incognito Market for personel files.
supposedly every time there is a leak onto the war thunder forums the military briefs it people on why you don’t post stuff like that on the internet. in an attempt to improve their aggressiveness, someone with the necessary skill to not get caught should make such a posting about every other month or so. then the people involved will be forced to get creative.. maybe rewrite the ‘do not post classified specs to the internet’ brief in iambic petameter or something.
As far as the stained glass goes we’re assuming that these demons see in the same spectrum as humans, or even that they primarily perceive flesh, instead of a person’s aura or something. Just like flowers have colors that humans literally can’t see without a UV light, but bees can, the physical person in front of them might look very different than the human-sight-optimized 2-d representation of her.
Or maybe their main sense is smell or something.
Not saying that’s necessarily the case! Just one possibility as to why they didn’t react.
So this confirms its about more than just the sex.
Since you can still just ask if a succubui is DTF regardless of their master.
Unless they happen to get a master that gets jealous, which seems like it would be a rarity amongst their communities. And I’m sure the succubus council would intervene if that master wasn’t able to consistently satisfy their succubus.
Actually, I could see a succubus intentionally encouraging jealousy from their master – then having sex with others would be considered cheating, which would make it even more fun.
I think the social contract there is the other way around: the assumption is that succubi get to borrow from the larger mana pool of their master, but ultimately are net positive, and return “with interest”. Given how succubi get mana on their own, it would be serious mismanagement to keep them for personal pleasure.
Given that succubi physically need sex, I assume being of a personality where you could not tolerate the succubus having sex with others would disqualify you from being a candidate for mastership unless you could prove you have both an extraordinary amount of mana, and an utterly insatiable libido.
So, Math?
Na.
His Mana pool is way ~way~ too small for him to have a master relationship with a succubus. 《eye·roll》
The point of a master is to plug the hole in a succubuses soul, not to counter the drain by spending his own mana. That would make owning a succubus quite the liability.
I don’t think we’ve ever seen how big Math’ mana pool is, either.
If his mana is tied into his horniness then he might have the largest mana pool in the galaxy.
As a really strong martial artist, he might have some sort of Qi pool.
I feel like we saw Dabs saying Math wouldn’t survive sex with her, back around the “pool party”, maybe? Seems like the kind of question Syd would have asked about dealing with Math’s……. proclivities…..
I feel like it should have come up as well, but I can’t find anything. Does anyone have a link.
When succubi find people to have sex with, the master benefits from it mana-wise, remember. Jealousy would not be good for the master any more than it would be for the succubus.
Really, both sides are overconfident here. Taking an opponent of unknown but likely considerable strength seriously is the only smart play.
Sydney shouldn’t just assume she can take on six demons with unknown powers, magic abilities and equipment. She at least has a good chance of being safe behind her shield, but
a) she currently doesn’t have the shield up, and if one of them is fast enough and/or has a good ranged option, they can tag her before she can put it up, and then she is very squishy.
b) She knows at least one opponent present is expected to have an ability that can bypass her shield – Lulu is a succubus and therefore should have hypnoboobs, and while they by themselves can’t harm her, it still incapacitates her and puts her invulnerability into question.
c) She isn’t just fighting for herself, her goal is to protect Parfait. The shield can’t do that in the current tactical situation, and trying to suppress them all with the lighthook is much less of a safe bet. Especially if she doesn’t know their powers. For example, Glibph (or is it Tenri?) belongs to a race with possession powers – what if she can possess the unconscious Core and use his superpowers? Sydney doesn’t know about this, of course, but that’s exactly what makes her confidence imprudent.
That said, Brelx is even worse. While assuming that the comic book store owner doesn’t have incredible superpowers was an understandable oversight initially, after seeing her religious iconography and getting his butt kicked once, he really should reconsider. He knows she has strong powers and can easily deduce she has more powers he doesn’t know about. The only way he could be reasonably confident would be by going for surprise, (correctly) assuming she needs to deploy her orbs for powers, either taking her out or quickly nicking Parfait and making a fast retreat, but announcing his intentions with “fighting words” is not going to help with the surprise factor.
Another assumption is that Sydney is up against 6 demons – Aster seems to have accepted Parfait’s decision and is unlikely to support him, perhaps even going to fight against him, and none of the others seem particularly into it so far – no one went to help him last time. He can only rely on Lulu, because he can command her to fight.
Sydney is probably aware of this, and if it’s just Brelx and Lulu against her and Parfait, she’d be right to be confident, because she already beat Brelx once. But she can hardly be sure the others won’t join, and gambling on the best case outcome is not something one should be confident on.
Or maybe the plan is that Brelx gets all the attention with obvious belligerence, while Aster, who’s been playing nice, gets close to Parfait and grabs her and makes off with her while Sydney is distracted by Brelx. I don’t think that’s likely, because it would take a lot of deceptiveness from someone Parfait apparently knows and trusts, and who needs her to keep trusting him, but man, would it leave Sydney with egg on her face.
There is one factor you have not taken into account that is actually a factor most enemies don’t when in this situation. Sydney is actually an exceptionally good tactician with high intelligence hidden by her ADHD fuelled antics. Even when caught off guard she has thought quickly on her feet multiple times to come up with unique solutions to seemingly impossible odds my favorite example being vehemence and for whom the bell tolls seeming to be invincible. In both situations she was quickly able to determine not only their abilities but how to counter them. Also Parfait knows this group and would likely know most if not all of their abilities meaning they would have the upper hand. Brelx on the other hand seems to be a stereotypical bruiser that is used to being the biggest baddest being in the room and being able to intimidate or subdue most opponents.
Sydney is such a successful tactician in part because she has her bubble and is therefore free to think up tactics. IIRC, the only fight she won without sitting safely behind the bubble was against the shadow guy at the beginning of the restaurant fight – where she ended up just beating him with orbs, not clever tactics. Against Troll!Sciona, Aranea, Concretia, she lost. If she has to defend Parfait, she won’t necessarily have the time to come up with something good, depending on what they bring to the table.
> Also Parfait knows this group and would likely know most if not all of their abilities meaning they would have the upper hand.
If Sydney and Parfait are in a situation to share knowledge, the fight is already over, because they’re both sitting behind the bubble and the demons can’t get through.
> Brelx on the other hand seems to be a stereotypical bruiser that is used to being the biggest baddest being in the room and being able to intimidate or subdue most opponents.
He isn’t even the biggest in his friend group, that would be Kraken. You’re probably right – but just making that assumption is still overconfidence on Sydney’s part. Don’t underestimate an enemy because they seem to fit a stereotype.
I think it’s not overconfidence, it’s that she feels secure with these friends of a friend that she wouldn’t mind fighting the guiy who wants a fight. Win or lose they shouldn’t go too far.
If she gets her ass kicked or just tricked and they leave with Parfait, that’s still going to be rather awkard for her.
Fair enough a point.
But both Sciona and Concretina were ambushes and one hit kills. You cannot tactic your way out of a battle that lasts less than a second. The Aranea ‘fight’ is a little murkier, but it was clear (to me at least) that she was trying to use her status as law enforcement officer to deescalate the situation. It did not work and she was not prepared to escalate to force at a moment’s notice. That could be considered a tactical mistake on her part.
In most other fights she is held back either by Maxima or circumstances to get a clear picture of what is going on and then to formulate a plan or tactic for the team (or herself). She figured out Periwinkle’s power and a way to counter them. She was casually talking to Vehemence while she knew he was an enemy and only started using her bubble to cut him off from the magical circle that fed him power.
Against the Kaiju she immediately bubbled up but that was not to buy herself time but simply to survive.
So yes, the bubble gives Sydney the option to buy herself time to come up with a plan or tactic, and she uses it for that reason. But it is not the only reason, and she does not rely on it all the time.
> So yes, the bubble gives Sydney the option to buy herself time to come up with a plan or tactic, and she uses it for that reason. But it is not the only reason, and she does not rely on it all the time.
My point is that it means she usually has time without distractions to think up – because the bubble keeps her safe. When that’s not the case (because she got sucker-punched, or because she needs to act immediately to save Parfait) it’s unlikely her planning will perform equally well as against Death Toll or Vehemence where she was able to carefully think it over.
I don’t mean to say putting up the bubble isn’t the right thing, because it’s very useful and effective, I’m only putting her performance into context.
I mean, the obvious solution if they all start attacking is bubble up around herself, slam the lighthooks around to clear the main area and isolate Parfait, then drop bubble and bubble up again a moment later to contain herself AND Parfait. Unless they can and do one-shot her she can buy herself time to buy time.
One thing everyone is missing, Brelx is making that threat to Parfait, no one else. If anyone else defends her sure, but it’s all about taking her, by force, to the “whatsit” to annul the bonding. Think a desperate ex kidnapping the girl to make her take him back. same type of stupid thinking.
> I mean, the obvious solution if they all start attacking is bubble up around herself, slam the lighthooks around to clear the main area and isolate Parfait
It’s obviously what she would try. It’s not obvious that she would succeed.
If someone is athletic enough to consistently dodge the Lighthook, or fast and strong enough to get away with Parfait before the Lighthook can get there, if someone has some trick up his sleeve impairing Sydney’s vision, if someone has a ranged attack that can snipe Sydney when she drops the shield despite the lighthook, or any number of other useful powers or magic … Parfait is surrounded by them so the Lighthook has it’s work cut out for it anyway.
Sciona is a murderous sociopath. Concretia is a professional who was being blackmailed into working for her captors. This guy… this guy is a meathead who doesn’t want his high school chum getting snatched away by a rich dude. I doubt he’s going to be trying to kill anyone.
He doesn’t have to try to kill anyone. It’s not like Concretia or Aranea were going for the kill. They might go for some non-lethal attack (Lulu is a succubus, she should have something non-physical) or something that wasn’t supposed to be lethal, but Brelx is used to fighting demons with demon durability and/or thinks Sydney’s body is a strong as the Lighthook.
They don’t even have to do anything to her – if they can get away with Parfait, they win.
They don’t seem to be overly interested in kidnapping Parfait, though. They wanted her to come back willingly, but at this point it seems to be “we respect your decision… but Brelx still wants to throw down with the Mighty Halo. You know how Brelx is.”
It’s true that most of them don’t seem belligerent, but Sydney shouldn’t rely on their apparent unwillingness to fight.
If she has to defend Parfait as well, which she likely does not have to do since they’re not going to be attacking her, Sydney can just bubble up with Parfait inside the shield like she was during the Darude fight in Galytn.
No, she can’t, because Aster and Lulu are between her and Parfait. She needs to get them out of the way first. If she get everyone away from Parfait and herself close, she can redo her shield, and unless someone can snipe her in that brief moment, she’s won. But she needs to do that first.
And yes, unless someone pulls out any powers they haven’t shown her so far, she can do it … but by the same logic, Brelx can be confident to beat Sydney, who’s only shown him the Lighthook … hence, overconfidence on both sides.
About b), Sydney was perfectly save when she activated Dabblers Hypno Boobs against Vehemence. In fact, she was the only one not affected at all.
And that was without the Shield even being in play at the time. And she should have built some resistance by now.
As the shield blocked Vehemences Aggro Aura, I would bet it blocks Hypno Boobs.
” While assuming that the comic book store owner doesn’t have incredible superpowers was an understandable oversight initially”
It just occured to me – Syndey is the Level 20 Shopkeep, that is stopping the Murder Hobos.
> About b), Sydney was perfectly save when she activated Dabblers Hypno Boobs against Vehemence. In fact, she was the only one not affected at all.
Presumably because she knew what was coming and looked away.
> As the shield blocked Vehemences Aggro Aura, I would bet it blocks Hypno Boobs.
It doesn’t, Vehemence was affected through the shield.
Assuming he was affected by the hypno-boobs part and not just the… well… boobs part.
Because, yknow… boobs.
Although…. there was at least one point where Sydney shielded up which immediately broke the hypno-boobs hold over her, back in Galytn when she first met Parfait.
> Assuming he was affected by the hypno-boobs part and not just the… well… boobs part.
I’m pretty there’s no distinction there. Succubus boobs are just hypnotic. I didn’t get the impression there was a separate magical effect – after all, they work passively, without Parfait or Decollette intending to use them.
And assuming that Vehemence would himself let get distracted like that during a climactic battle by regular boobs, while also enjoying the rush from his vehemic energy, seems a bit much, even for boobs.
> Although…. there was at least one point where Sydney shielded up which immediately broke the hypno-boobs hold over her, back in Galytn when she first met Parfait.
It broke the line of sight by knocking Parfait over.
An important note with the Galytn situation is that Sydney indicated she was still perfectly conscious and able to think (she shielded up and knocked Parfait down because she was discussing rewiring Sydney’s brain to appreciate having small boobs) while hypno-boob’d, she just wasn’t able to move. But the orbs don’t need her to be able to move – they just need an open hand, and she can control them just fine while hypnotized, paralyzed, etc. So, if Lulu managed to hypno-boob Sydney, she’d still be able to use her orbs just fine, she just wouldn’t be able to change her posture until she broke line of sight (which may just call for the simple expedient of flying up a bit).
This doesn’t really make sense to me, it’s not what hypnosis is. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-196-girls-go-to-the-bathroom-in-pairs-to-talk-star-trek-and-boobs-right/ shows they’re actually distracting. And she leaned in so probably isn’t paralyzed.
I think what actually happened was that Dabbler’s and Parfait’s banter broke her out of it, and she pretended to still be under to catch them off guard so she could get back at them.
I looked back and read it as the shield snapping her out off the hypno boobs instantly.
And notably, she was able to summon the shield orb despite being under hypnoboobs.
She broke out of the effect when Dabbler and Parfait talked shit about her, but pretended to still be under to get back at them.
The hypnoboobs don’t actually paralyze, they just distract.
I’m fairly sure Sydney’s shield prevents all forms of attacks, including hypnotic or mental as seen in the fight with Vehemence. Also teleport proof.
It worked on Vehemence, who was inside the shield at the time.
It’s Nth tech, it probably has some IFF stuff going on.
If it can do that, why can’t it let Harem teleport through? Not even the Lighthook can get inside the shield.
we’re still not sure if light hood can operate inside the shield we just know it operates outside the shield at the moment. could be a upgrade at some point we’re not aware of.
I’m not talking about making it spawn inside. It still can’t get through.
If she gets her bubble up then it’s over and they don’t know enough to try to stop her. These are fresh college grads, not arch-fiends.
They know she has impressive powers that look like magic – trying to get the first hit in on the squishy mage before they can charge up is a classic tactic.
And it’s not over once she gets the bubble up – they can still grab Parfait and get away with her.
Knowing Sydney she probably has come up with a new Ninja vanish smoke bomb that includes Gratz powder
Sydney isn’t taking this seriously because they aren’t and she easily manhandled one of them.
If they actually did more than bluster, we’d probably see Sydney do more than just tell them no.
Syd is actually being quite restrained here. I have seen a few situations sort of like this in real life, bullies walking in thinking they can do whatever they want and running into a master class fighter who tries to de-escalate.
This can go either way, to be honest. If Brex is the only one who wants a fight and Syd can keep it form going too far, then Syd is probably golden. If the others pile on to help him when it all goes south for him, then Syd has problems.
My money is still on Sydney though. Kind of like the situation I saw in middle school when a guy swung at his girlfriend and hit a 3rd degree black belt who stepped between them instead. Liu was less than half the bully’s size and the fight lasted a grand total of three seconds. (Yes, someone timed it)
a) she currently doesn’t have the shield up
Syd *really* needs to take that shield orb passive already. She won’t until she almost dies from an ambush, but she really should.
Agreed. It’s a great mitigation for her greatest current weakness.
I think that if Sydney can take on 4 skyscraper-sized Kaiju + thousands of ships and destroy most of the ships, kill one of the kaiju, and blow a hole through the head of a second one (probably killing it as well), all without sustaining more than a scratch on the cheek and a slightly broken lens on her glasses…..
She can take on six demons pretty easily. Plus I’m pretty sure that Aster and Lillu (sp?) are not exactly feeling like fighting. The others also don’t seem like they’re particularly wanting to fight. Only Brelx is gung ho for fighting. When Sydney threatened to break his arm, Aster was like ‘okay, does that mean we can stay in the store if you break his arm?’
You can’t just make the assumption there’s a linear power level. She won a space battle with raw power vs. raw power.
She won’t be able to do that here because of collateral damage concerns.
She doesn’t know whether there are any powers that bypass raw force. (As a matter of fact, Lulu should be expected to have some of that.)
She doesn’t know how fast they are, and if she doesn’t get the shield up in time, she’s as squishy as any human, as Sciona, Aranea and Concretia proved.
She isn’t just fighting for herself, she has to protect Parfait.
Yes, she’s incredibly strong. But raw power isn’t everything, and her powers come with caveats. It would be smarter of her to keep that in mind.
> Plus I’m pretty sure that Aster and Lillu (sp?) are not exactly feeling like fighting. The others also don’t seem like they’re particularly wanting to fight.
I tend to agree, like I already said, but that doesn’t mean Sydney can just rely on it.
“She doesn’t know how fast they are, and if she doesn’t get the shield up in time, she’s as squishy as any human, as Sciona, Aranea and Concretia proved.”
In each of those cases, Sydney was ambushed, and did not know they were there when they attacked. Here, she already knows Brelx and the others are there. It’s like Batman. The only time he’s usually taken captive is when it’s by surprise.
In short, Sydney has been given prep time, and like Batman, when she has prep time, the odds are in her favor.
She knew Aranea was there, she was just surprised when she actually attacked. This can still happen here. If one of them, especially one who currently doesn’t seem belligerent, has a very fast attack, she possibly won’t get up the shield in time. She’s invulnerable once she has the shield up. She currently doesn’t.
And yes, the odds are in her favor, but that does not equal guaranteed victory.
Where does hypnoboob ever penetrate mr. Bubble?
Both cases I know of the hypnoboob effect are shield free and the one time someone tried a mind control effect on mr. Bubble(Vehemence violence Aura), it didn’t work.
Against Vehemence, who was inside the shield, while Dabbler was outside.
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I keep forgetting people expect the hypnosis effect to be in effect in that page.
I always write it off as Vehemence getting distracted by boobs without the hypnosis effect(requires a less dicriminatory field), but now at least I understand where your theory is coming from.
I actually think the hypnosis is inseparable from the boobs. They’re just boobs that look so fine they’re literally hypnotic. It’s not a separate enchantment on the boobs. They’re distracting the same way normal boobs are, just more so. Kevin is distracted by the boobs – but getting so distracted he stops choking Maxima is more than normal boobs could achieve.
I think you overestimate what’s happening there and underestimate the power of a set of fine boobs.
All that is happening there is that vehemence grip weakens not that he stops chocking her.
Using a large percentage of your available muscle capacity requires a lot conscious effort.
Even a normal set of boobs can be very distracting.
Distracted people are not able to bring the same set of conscious effort than if they weren’t distracted.
Vehemence wasn’t just distracted for a moment. Sydney broke out Jiggawatt who then read the plan, all while Vehemence was hypnoboobed.
Actually, the author comment from #282 confirms that it’s the hypnoboobs effect.
Who says (other than you) that she will be fighting all of them?
This would be a one-on-one fight because Brelx is being a dick who came wanting a fight (even if Parf had decided to go back with them)
No one says that, including me. Here’s what I actually wrote:
“Another assumption is that Sydney is up against 6 demons – Aster seems to have accepted Parfait’s decision and is unlikely to support him, perhaps even going to fight against him, and none of the others seem particularly into it so far – no one went to help him last time. He can only rely on Lulu, because he can command her to fight.
Sydney is probably aware of this, and if it’s just Brelx and Lulu against her and Parfait, she’d be right to be confident, because she already beat Brelx once. But she can hardly be sure the others won’t join, and gambling on the best case outcome is not something one should be confident on.”
I said that she can’t know she won’t be fighting all of them, which is imprudent of her to just assume, even though it’s likely.
Let’s hope that Olivias call from #1212 bears fruits soon.
The only thing I am unsure about, is if she called Maxima or Ariana. Sydney can cause emergencies for both.
Better to always send in the heavyweight supers when Sydney is involved. Just to be on the safe side. Chaos and destruction tend to happen around her.
All Sydney is doing is stalling for time, for she heard Olivia said she was calling for backup.
Peer pressure.
Plus the translator has some issues besides Sydney.
Dave, that wrinkle in Lulu’s arm in the last panel can’t be intentional.
That’s her jacket sleeve.
Has Halo had a lot of 1v3,4,5,etc experience? I know she has a lot of 1v1. Just remember what said Fezzik: “Well, you see, you use different moves when you’re fighting half a dozen people than when you only have to be worried about one.“
On the Alari homeworld she did, but in that case collateral damage and live capture weren’t really an issue.
I mean, the other demons don’t really seem to give a shit about this? So is Sydney really gonna be fighting six demons? Or is she gonna be fighting TWO?
this reminds me of a clip where the guy warns the belligerent leader that two of his men are going to run. He is of course.. right.
I think one, with the potential chance of Brelx calling for aid and getting none. (See Lulu possibly calling for help from Sydney and Parfait a couple pages ago) ADHD multitasking and combat annoyance relief… or maybe consensual violence and making a good impression on Parfaits friends from school?
Lulu can’t disobey him, so she at least will help him, although perhaps not with the most cleverness and determination she’d otherwise be capable of.
She’s been fighting whole armies – and won.
A certain scene from a certain Abridged series comes to mind. Starts with an S ends with An O. A smarter than average flunky worrying that this might be a trap. XD
first and 2nd row is the splash zone
Anyone else thinking she just needs to get Aster a job for Tom?
The collective squelling from my sorority sisters from [was made](sic) it hard to think. Uh is there a missing word in there? I’ve been dropping words when writing a lot of messagese this last week. Maybe I’m just wrong on this one and can’t read.
It’s more that there’s an excess word. If you remove ‘was’ the line suddenly makes sense.
That kind of sloppy syntax is far more common in ~spoken~ communication than in ~written~ communication!
Yeah, Syd, you can put away your orbs – pretty sure Parfait’s got this. With all that yummy Super energy still sloshing around inside her, I suspect she could take them all without breaking a sweat.
Morgan Freeman Voiceover: It was at this moment when the rest of the gang realized, Brelx had completely and totally screwed up.
Loving the energy of Parfait’s sorority sisters, they’re all just OMIGAWDOMIGAWDOMIGAWDANARCHFIENDOMIGAWDYERSOLUCKYOMIGAWDHESSOHOTOMIGAWDOMIGAWD
Also loved the subtle “Party-fae” as a play on “Parfait”
“the squealing was made it hard to think?”
Definitely the translation not working.
In Re panel two, how would bat wings on your head work? Horns on the head aren’t that far from familiar biology but I’m curious about vestigial wings on the head.
head-wings and butt-wings are fairly common in manga. Functionality doesn’t seem to be a consideration
they are heat sinks rather than flying equipment. (have to do something to control the hotness.)
I can buy heat sinks, or maybe even a sexual display. When nature puts energy into something that doesn’t seem to serve any other purpose it’s usually about mating. Blondie seems to stand out from the other succubi in that she is the only one without horns or a standard head.
Built in blow dryer, just go with it.
fan club president.
Succubi are artificial magic beings reusing templates from other species. The headwings might just be a mutation, and whatever species that girl’s dad was has them on the back.
“until Frieza and Boros show up to tag team you.”
Ah, you read that Doujinshi eh DaveB?
So…. anyone noticing how distinctive and sharp the leaf shadows are, and that EVERYONE is covered by them at odd angles?
To misquote an already overused line, “That isn’t a shadow!”
I noticed that as well. I was going to offer @DaveB some constructive criticism along the lines of, “maybe if you soften up the outlines of the leaf shadows they’d look more realistic,” with the caveat that I am neither an artist nor an expert on leaf shadows. ;-)
It might be that. But I’m betting it is the set up for an attack. Either the leader or the other succubus has a power to control shadows. They are about to restrain everyone, or something exotic like switching everyone’s powers.
Am I wrong or has it not been made clear who the big guy wants to fight? Readers have been assuming Sydney, but his speech here sounds like he wants to fight Parfait.
He [B]wants[/B] to fight Parfait.
He [B]gets[/B] to fight Archon, because they won’t let that happen.
That’s how law enforcement works.
Someone powerful [B]wants[/B] to use power to inconvenience others in illegal ways.
They [B]get[/B] wooped by a collectively funded and armed organization.
Up until Parfait showed up, it was going to be a throwdown on Syds unless she brought out Parfait.
Now Parfait is his target if she wont come quietly. Big guy apparently now believes it’s him and his Possie vs Parfait.
Syds will have something to say about THAT fight roster…
On a completely unrelated note now that Sydney can use two light hooks, if she were to then do a light bee teleport would she move anyone held, or shred them?
I think it’s unlikely that anything would happen to someone she was holding, other than that she would drop them.
MAXIMUM INTIMIDATION! ‘I’M THE ONE WHO ATE ALL THAT GRAKZ AND ASKED FOR MORE!’
+1 upvote If they know what grakz is then they know (or would assume) she’s impervious to pain.
some sort of maximum Scottsville Sause should be in her daily carry. it can help with bland food, and like Uncle Iroh, give her a handy breath weapon.
Correction: ‘I’M THE ~HUMAN~ WHO ATE ALL THAT GRAKZ AND ASKED FOR MORE!’
Loosing might not be what Sydney has to worry about. Though of course that is a factor, but what are the consequences of winning? Is she going to find herself the proud owner of a certain Succubus who seems less than enchanted with her current ‘owner’
That’s a realistic consequence of killing Glerx and all his friends in a short timespan except Lulu and Parfait.
If she manages to slowly kill them or restrain any of them that won’t be an issue.
I’m hoping Goose shows up for this.
Gonna rip ‘im a new one.” -Duke Nukem
Olivia has made the call. I’m pretty sure that Ariana at least has Olivia on retainer for just such emergencies, to get damage control geared up and ready to go (fix incidental damage, control the narrative, conceal the horror).
Sydney has maneuvered the belligerents outside, to reduce collateral damage, and under a tree, to obscure long range visibility.
So my take on this is, the demons don’t see or know what’s about to hit them. This is an arrest, not a beatdown.
I don’t remember the artist, but somebody made a comic that had one character saying “Jab, left hook, right cross!” and the other character saying “Hey, them’s fighting words!”
Wasn’t that Sydney’s ovaries?
Yeah, this comic did that gag once: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-295-ovareaction/
Freefall also did it a long time ago: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01071.htm
Freefall did this joke too.
Okay Sydney, here’s the plan: bubble up, use the lighthook to grab his legs, then make him do splits until he cries uncle
Three-way splits.
I think the bubble and the fly orb. because we need to know if viscera can stick to the bubble,
You just know Sydney has been waiting for the chance to say that.
Does this dude just sprout wings when he is horny?
I hate to be that guy, but… How certain can Sydney possibly be that she knows how to defeat one or more demons WITHOUT killing them? Has she even completed her basic training yet? This REALLY seems like the sort of thing where she should call for backup in order de-escalate the situation.
She has by now completed basic training.
Happened in strip #1000.
As whether or not she is certain she can win, without killing them.
In my experience it isn’t the certainty of winning in such cases, but the certainty of survival.
She doesn’t have to restrain these kids she just has to get away with Parfait
The rest of the grand standing is just getting these idiots to fold.
It should be easy for Halo to take down the demons. How many of those huge spaceship kaiju things did she destroy?
The only real question is how she’ll do it. It should be a stomping.
We don’t know what powers, magic or equipment they have. Dabbler is also a demon and once stalemated Maxima.
I mean, you’re probably right. But we can’t be certain.
Dabbler also has roughly a century of experience as an interstellar adventurer. That accounts for a lot as far as learning how to force a draw when you realize you can’t win.
That only helps if you have the power and the assets to force a draw to begin with. Specifically, we know that Dabbler did it by forcing Maxima into an armor dump. But that implies that she has the firepower to do so to begin with, and the defensive ability to survive against even baseline Maxima’s offense. That’s still a lot of raw power.
Grrl Power needs a spin-off comic strip: Good Times with Parfait’s Sorority Sisters
Technically, those literally were fighting words (they even included the word ‘fight’)
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now that I think about it, was the kaiju she fought on Alari homeworld corrupted demons? you know one’s bigger than Tom?
still they seem to be missing a few major clues of something’s not right. along with some of the people have already mentioned, what about the fact that no one is tested and/or mentioned was there not has a magical or power aura? that was one of the things that Deborah did the first time she met Sydney.