Grrl Power #175 – Pose dramatically much?
Maxima’s pretty much done showing off now, it’s hard to top “delivering dramatic backlit speech while wreathed in flame ” anyway. Of course Sydney has to butt in with her comments. Maxima may not like the press but she’s realistic enough to know that her little speech will be oft-quoted in the press and online, and to her this is like Buzz Aldrin adding “…and one medium sized step for a giraffe, cause they have really long legs.” to the end of another famous quote.
Fun fact, this is a redraw of the first color page I ever did for the comic. I knew this scene was going to happen for a long time. I’ll post that sequence next Monday I think. It’s pretty interesting seeing how stuff has changed in the last few years. BTW, I drew the original version of this page before I had ever seen Hellsing. In case you’re wondering why that’s relevant, every episode of Hellsing has like 5 scenes in it with someone doing the “cloaked in shadow with the big grin and the glowing round glasses” meme. I know I’ve linked DBZ Abridged here before, well the same guys did Hellsing Abridged, and in both cases, I think the abridged spoofs are by far the more entertaining versions.
Next Monday I have to resume the once a week schedule, but it was nice getting through a few extra pages relatively quickly. Who knows how long it will take me to find a job though, maybe there will be some bonus pages here and there. Anyone in the Dallas area hiring? Design/layout stuff? IT? (not phone support, like on-site, in office stuff.) Front end web stuff? (I don’t know how to program unfortunately) That’s the tough thing about job hunting these days. Anyone looking for web HTML/CSS also requires PHP/ASPX/Javascript/AJAX, and anyone looking for 2D art also requires ZBrush/3DSMax/Maya.
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Max is 200% made of awesome there. Easily competing with Alucard for awesomeness (and… *ahem*… sexyness).
Hey, how about them fighting for the next vote incentive? If you take suggestions and feel comfortable fanarting, of course… Just thought I’d throw it there.
p.s.
YAY! Hellsing abridged! I love those videos!
JESUS WANTS A HUG!
Max vs. Alucard….
o.o
…that’s going to be beyond epic!
I’d say that depends on which Alucard, you have the original comic version, which was pretty dang awesome, you had the original anime Alucard, which was alright, but not fully as awesome, then you had the Hellsing Ultimate Alucard which went to beyond comic series awesome. In each version you met up with different levels of villain as well which in turn effected the level of awesome of our blood sucking ghoul of a hero as well.
Damn, your skill set is exactly what our marketing team would need but we’ve already failed to convince our boss to budget for more people and we’re at the other end of the continent from Dallas.
You’re in Saskatchewan? because if Dallas was any closer to the middle of the continent we would be in Kansas. :)
Incontinent Is accurate if they see this and have to change to their Brown pants. Other ‘In-s’ of note: inerbriated Maxima, incompatible with team, inconceivable power, inhospitable environment, and ingratitude of Arianna.
Telling potential foes that they might end up inebriated if they fight ARC would more likely encourage rather than deter them.
Don’t forget “incredibly fireproof”
or infuriated at halo ;)
maxima >>> https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbQhPpbMqHI/S3tSiaHO9xI/AAAAAAAAASc/KUR5Lw5LQaM/s400/ProfessorTomoe01.jpg
Is it just me, or does Maxima seem to act like a villain sometimes?
Unlike Arianna’s idea to present the heroes as some sort of justice league, Maxima is straight to the point that they are here to take down villiany and she is backing up that statement with a massive show of force. I think her concern for the public image comes second to what she wants the possible villians to see and fear. Arianna wanted a Superman image while Maxima went for a more Batman route.
Good point, Batman really was a PR nightmare…
Second? i’m pretty sure her concern of what the public thinks of her come in just about dead last, hahah
lol nah id have to say she cares to some degree. She goes along with Arianna for the most part and does restrain herself before the public ( usually). At the end of the day I think she is trying to protect the populace as best she knows how. Paint a target on yourself and have all the bad attention on yourself so everyone else is safer. I feel and hope the fact she throws all the burdens on herself comes up in the comic. She sort of has that “I can do it so you stand back” sort of mentality
I’d say Wonder Woman. Batman never kills unless he’s in the Golden Age of comics. Wonder Woman has no compunctions of killing or threatening to kill. Besides, she has the lasso of truth which is golden, Maxima is golden and wouldn’t hesitate to beat the truth out of someone.
Diana was also a soldier in her mothers army bruce was never in a real military unit.
And lets not forget the super powered backed feminist mind set for both wonder woman and Max. They do share alot in common though I like WWs outfit a pinch better.
I’m thinking more like Patton.
So…when does she get the important job of marshalling inflatable tanks?
Keep in mind that old saying about “when you’re a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”
Whatever one may think of her otherwise, Arianna is basically “a suit”. She thinks and operates primarily in terms of bureaucracy, politics, deal-making and so forth. This makes her well-suited for the PR side of things, schmoozing politicians and chatting with corporates, and so forth. She might even think of her activities (at least subconsciously) as being the most important part of ARCHON – not unknown for people in her position.
Max is a warrior. You certainly don’t want her trying to sweet-talk or schmooze ANYBODY. But when it comes to ARCHON’s most basic mission (fight evil supers), she is the one you want in charge, definitely not Arianna.
Or Sydney. If you favour the eternal reign of the Dark Lord of Chaos. But go on. Think about it. Fun!
This page…it’s so beautiful. *sheds a single tear of joy*
Awww
It took me some time but Sidney does have some impressive control over her physical being.
The body is meant to be upright, if one hangs upside down for a length of time the blood will flow with gravity and said individual will pass out (probably the least dangerous outcome).
It is something that most people won’t experience and as a result many think that they can hang upside down for a while but if you try to hang upside down for more than a minute you better have paramedics standing by.
I remember when a prestidigitator did the same thing (hang upside down for an extended amount of time). People thought that it was not worth wile and followed suit in an attempt to demonstrate it… only for them to pass out. A radio host was among the people, in the middle of a broadcast while he was upside down the paramedics were called and I think he was taken to the ER.
Knowing her, Sidney might be rotating :)
… In an aggravating manner, certainly.
The flying orb generates it’s own localised gravity field around the user (so even if she looks like upside down, she’s standing upright in the orb’s gravity field) – which is why her hair / clothes remain in these positions :)
I’m totally hearing Achilles sounding like Hermes: “….MY MANWICH!”
LOL
Sydney never learned about the Rule of Three.
There are multiple rules of 3. Which one are you referring to?
Less than three shall never be?
Things come in threes?
The rule of three writing principle?
The decker grid?
The right hand rule?
Lots of rules of three. This is some obvious ones.
No, I believe he was referring to the overarching Rule of Three
Though, of course, the Quotes subtrope also applies.
What does she make her clothes out of, Asbestos?
read the comments dude, maxima’s powers make her clothes invincible too
Who bothers to read the comments these days?
Me.
+1
Me as well actually, was being slightly more than a little ‘snarky’
oh, my bad
Don’t worry, most people won’t take the time to read it. =OP
too late…
Her rampant feminism shuns the flames away, thus protecting her from losing her clothing in a fire of her own making.
that, good sapien, was a perfect way of explaining this
Dude I mis-took her for alucard for a sec perfict
First press conference and she already declared war. That’s gonna work out great for all of them.
Declared war on WHO?
The only one she’s warning is potential supervillains, and they had already declared war on that the second they announced they existed
Aye, but villains isn’t a clear enemy. With a large threat/display like that it would be easy to be judged as declaring war on anyone that isn’t “with” them. Those who consider themselves outcasts due to their abilities even if they are not breaking the law may feel their freedoms threatened. More so, due to the way the news works, the mass public will see 2 sides of the picture. Archon recruiting supers to their ranks or destroying and capturing those against them.
Basically it was a poor PR move for an agency that is suppose to be protection. It is like if a cop shot at you first to warn you against breaking the law. It’s gonna freak people out in a bad way.
What’s more, every other nation in the world is going to look at this and think “So you say that ARCHON is only going after evil supers. We’re supposed to take your word on that? Because no government agency has ever exceeded their limits before.”
Basically Maxima revealed that she is a reusable weapon of mass destruction who has no compunction about killing her opponents. Whoever they may be. (And everyone else has zero assurance that such “rogues” will be “bad guys.” What if she decides that France is a rogue, or a sitting elected official?)
If you ask me, this was easily the stupidest thing she could have done, short of punching baby seals to say “This is what happens to bad guys!”
Plus side: baby sealskin gloves
Minus side: global thermonuclear war
Ooo, I want those gloves
How would something feel so good and wrong at the same time.
That’s the best feeling
This is why special forces commandos and other elite soldiers make lousy spokespersons. They’re trained to seek and destroy, not to politely explain anything beyond “surrender or die.”
I disagree completely. Maxima clearly defines who she is declaring war on in page #172: people with superpowers who believe his or her “power gives [him or her] primacy to hurt or rule over others.”
Deof, have you heard of the Elite? They were a group of metahumans in a DC story called What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way?, who felt that in order to keep people safe, supervillains needed to be put down right away instead of just arrested.
Maxima’s statement here is a lot like one from Manchester Black, leader of the Elite:
“This is a call-out to the shadow cabinets, petty dictators and all-around tossers of the world. You’re on notice. We’re not bound by lines on a map or political alliances or government bodies of any kind. We are our own bosses, and we have a very simple job. There are the good guys, namely us and the bad guys, namely anyone who treats anyone else like trash to further their petty aims. We turn bad guys into memories. So mind your manners, lads and lasses or we’ll blow your house down. We’re the Elite. You asked for us, world. Now you got us.”
The point of the story was that the Elite’s pragmatic, take-no-prisoners style of crime-fighting didn’t work. People adored them at first because they seemed proactive and effective in comparison to heroes who wouldn’t kill, but without their colleagues’ idealism and respect for the lives of others to act as a restraint, the Elite’s darker natures took the helm almost immediately, and they crossed the line from “pragmatic” to “ruthless” to “monstrous” in no time.
Within the first few issues, they tortured a pair of captured terrorists for information by letting alien bugs devour their brains, and eventually they decided to “resolve” a dispute between analogues of Israel and Palestine by murdering the governments of both sides.
The problem with Maxima making such an announcement is that she’s saying “If I think you’re a bad guy, then all bets are off”. In other words, she is boasting about her own willingness to kill and treating it as something utterly ordinary – and that is NOT a good attitude to see in someone with that level of power, any more than having the leader of a country call his opponents animals and swear to hunt them down to the ends of the Earth: there’s too many ways for someone like that to become a monster.
Now, for a military officer, the ability to take another person’s life is absolutely necessary. However, a soldier who can’t recognize the gravity of that act, or worse yet, enjoys the power that killing provides, is not a good soldier. They’re a war criminal waiting to happen, because they no longer possess the ability to recognize their enemies as anything but one-dimensional caricatures, and that means they can harass, torture, and kill them indiscriminately – to the mind of such a disturbed individual, “the enemy” are no longer considered people, so any empathy they would normally possess is shut down. That sort of mental segregation is what allows otherwise ordinary men and women to commit unimaginable atrocities – to them, the people they hurt “don’t count”, so they didn’t feel the guilt they would normally feel for causing another person harm. It’s why members of racist organizations can advoate genocide and mass murder, then go home, talk to their children about what their day was like, and kiss their spouses goodnight.
Picture one of the soldiers who tortured people and took pictures of it at Guantanamo. Now imagine if they had the powers of a wrathful deity, and were given membership in a government organization which can protect them from any repercussions of their behavior, as long as they keep bringing back the charred remains of enemy metahumans to prove they’re a useful asset.
Of course, it’s VERY unlikely that any of these unfortunate implications are actually opinions that DaveB holds – he just wanted to make a badass moment, and it is fairly badass. In fact, he might even be doing this deliberately to set up conflict between members of ARCHON who aren’t willing to go that far and their colleagues who are.
Either way, I’m really looking forward to how it all shakes out.
Oh dear, looks like the italics key went a little overboard in my previous post. Sorry.
I fixed it. :)
Thank you very much, my good man!
meh, my idea is still funnier than the logical explanation.
Was labeling this comic as #176 a mistake, or was there a reason #175 was skipped?
The shockwave from the explosion blew the comic right over the top of 175 to 176.
No real loss, it was just going to be a filler page with all the girls in bikinis bathing in the flames.
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You might have missed it, There was a rare and GLORIOUS, Thursday update.
So–you jokers STILL wanna claim this is 1kt max? Seriously, I want the Author’s idea as to the strength of this explosion…< /beg>
As near as I can tell, Maxima threw the tank about 50 yards, or half way across a football field. She tossed something at the tank, which made a slightly larger than tank sized hole in the ground. That tossed up a little ball that exploded. The fireball that created (visible as a white sphere inside the gold dome) is just a bit bigger than the hole, maybe 10 years across. The gold dome is a shockwave and firestorm and it is kind of hard to tell how far that spreads. It looks like it only gets a little further out than Sydney’s shield, but only Daveb knows for sure.
Maxima’s Yo-yo Blast:
10 yard wide fireball.
150 yard wide firestorm? Maybe 200?
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was rather small by the standards of modern day nuclear weapons. It was a mere 12-18 kilotons.
“Little Boy” (the bomb dropped on Hiroshima):
300 yard wide fireball.
2 mile wide firestorm.
The US supposedly has dismantled all of their “strategic” nukes, which were 9-10 megaton bomb.
B53 Nuclear Bomb
2.5 mile wide fireball.
9 mile wide firestorm.
The largest bomb ever actually tested was the “Tsar Bomba” created by the Soviet Union. 50-57 megatons
Tsar Bomba:
5 mile wide fireball.
40 mile wide firestorm.
So–2.5kT nuke. Assuming that our 100-150′ estimate is correct. Interesting that the ratios seem to match.
Wonder how fast she can make them? (And clearly she doesn’t have the blowback problem of the nuclear artillery shell….)
I didn’t try and estimate the explosive yield of Maxima’s Yo-yo Bomb because I honestly don’t have a clue how the math for such things works. From the looks of it, the Hiroshima bomb was 30 times more powerful than Maxima’s, and if things are as simple as that, it puts Maxima’s Yo-yo Bomb at about half a kiloton of TNT.
That’s easily inside the non-nuclear range. The US Military fields a non-nuclear bomb with a yield just over 1 kiloton, and Russia has one with about double that power.
Hi kids! It’s time for phun with physics.
When America set off a H bomb on Bikini atoll they thought that the lithium shell was mainly inert and the blast would be around 5 megatons. It turned out the lithium was more reactive than they bargained for and they got a yield of 15 megatons. When the soviet leadership found out they told their scientists ‘if America has bomb of 15 megatons then we will have bomb of 150 megatons!” Their designers basically thought that yield was insane and intentionally under-built the test device for the 50-60 MT range.
phun phact number 2:
Even though you can get bigger EMPs with bigger bombs, the blast damage from an (aerial) explosion maxes out at about 150 megatons. Computer simulations show that above that size the atmosphere can not be pushed sideways fast enough and the majority of the blast will just punch a hole straight up and out of the atmosphere. (Which would be a really cool way to launch a space probe if you don’t mind the collateral damage.)
Are you talking about the Orion project “Ol’ Putt-Putt”?
The acceleration of such a delivery mechanism is likely to puree any living passengers, unless it is crewed by Achilles and Max, and maybe Hiro.
Actually no. The engineering was worked out a long time ago. Launching it from the Earth would be problematic but as a propulsion system outside the atmosphere it would be the best use of nuclear weapons I can think of. If you want to read a good Sci-fi novel use of it read “Footfall” By Niven and Pournelle.
Orion combines the best of both chemical and ion rocks. A high efficiency AND a high thrust. It is the only propulsion system that we know of that can do this.
IIRC, it can easely propel a craft up to a few percent of the speed of light
The biggest problem would be (of course) the stray dust, rocks and particles hitting your ship at those speeds. Even a cloud of gas hitting you at 2% of the speed of light is going to have a hell of a lot of impact.
Is that the Tsar bomb?
If maxima threw the tank 50yards from in front of the shield then we can easily guess the blast has gone 65 yards from the middle so double that to find how wide to compare with the nuke stats. 130 yards wide minimum. We don’t know how wide the firestorm is yet.
So the webcomic updates Thursdays as well then? It only says Monday but…here we are….
Bonus comic post due to creator being unemployed and avoiding serious job hunting for a couple weeks. Says he is going to buckle down now though so bonus comics will be less likely. Unless you give him a $100,000 and then he will could commit to the comic instead of pointless commercial drudgery. Its all in the reading. Was I the only one who did the reading? /Stark
I wonder how hard it is for some people to read the text that DaveB puts under his comics…
Everything is explained
Does anyone even realise DaveB even posts a blurby under the comic? Most people seem to read the comic and go straight to re-posting the same thing a dozen+ people have already posted (and had answered a dozen-and-one+ times already)
Every time Sydney does that I can’t get the Fresh Prince’s theme song out of my head for a few moments. “Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down”
Holy moley! I just checked out how much some other comics I follow are making on patreon.
https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith
Might be worth trying it for grrlpower.
He also has literally 100x as many readers as me, but yeah, it’d be worth setting up an account there. That is an impressive figure though, and that’s just from patreon. He also has ad revenue and book sales. Truly living the dream.
Maxima’s power keeps her clothing intact. It has been well established that Achilles’ power does -not- keep his clothing intact. First the marshmallow goes up…
Next, he redefines the term “smoking jacket”.
Holy Shi—- Yami?!? Did she just pull a Yu-Gi-Oh?
I don’t see Max making everything Arianna sees be pixelated anytime soon.
Off Comic: The cast banner up top has the 5 Harem shot for me. It just occurred to me that Harem _is_ the seven deadly sins… [[wrath]], [[greed]], [[sloth]], [[pride]], [[lust]], [[envy]], and [[gluttony]]
Pride and envy are divided up among the bunch equally. The other five are biased toward one body.
White hair = greed, playing both sides to gain the attention of all. Red hair = gluttony, always shown eating on the couch (just a really fast metabolism). Yellow hair = lust, kissing flirting even with her own selves. Black and White hair = sloth, how often is she shown “doing” anything –must be the one taking all the classes. Original is wrath, always angry at something or rebelling even against the military structure she joined.
It’s not a fast metabolism. She’s just eating for five.
She isn’t showing yet.
On Comic: When looking at the blast effect, don’t forget the placement of the field and the tank. The crowd in the bubble is at the lowest part of a bowl (little flat at bottom mind, but still a bowl). Maxima placed the tank into the foothills surrounding, did the yo-yo attack and has the blast being funneled back toward the crowd –by design, I think the tank drill part wasn’t straight down, it was angled about 45 degrees so that all the flotsam melted into it would react to the blast and slosh out again like a squirt gun. To me this suggests she can feed more bang continuously into that little sparkly thing she threw, sort of a controlled reaction at a distance. Much better than a single earth shattering kaboom, she is the very Faucet of Destruction
Last thought: The cameramen in the press: “Yeah we got some great footage… Camera? Digital of course! Only the bes… Hardened? What do you mean?” “Nooooooo!!!!”
” I , am , so , fired “
No EMP as it wasn’t nuclear and it wasn’t an airburst.
I remember the Cheeto smear on Maxima’s sleeve. I can believe that the scorch and burn won’t get THROUGH her uniform, but not that it won’t get ON her uniform.
Burn marks are damage. Max her power blocks damage.
Cheetos is extra matter, can’t block that.
Also max is currently focussing her power on defence. She wasn’t with the cheetos
“this is like Buzz Aldrin adding “…and one medium sized step for a giraffe, cause they have really long legs.” to the end of another famous quote.”
Trigger belly laugh! :-D
The important things we’ve learned in the last two updates are thus: Maxima can blow shit up good, but Halo’s shield can block that. We also have it confirmed from the author that Halo’s shield blocks out sonic damage, which is a real boon since sonic attacks pierce most defenses. This also means a few other things…
Maxima is still able to communicate with the press, despite the fact that she should be drowned out by the explosion. Also, as we’ve confirmed, Halo’s shield blocks out sound, so common speech should be impossible to hear. That means that the communication collars are most likely built by Dabbler to circumvent situations such as this.
This implies that Halo’s shield cannot block radio signals. Not quite sure what that means, but it’s a thing.
Also incontinence. That’s something that’ll happen to anyone facing Maxima’s shiny pew pews.
or the shield has ‘smart’ filtering, and blocks the explosion sound wavelengths, but not Maxima’s voice
No, I HATE the idea of “smart filtering.” That’s just dumb. The reason it’s dumb is because it ruins clever observations and deductions.
Can you imagine how rude it would be in the first couple comics if the DM told Sydney that the bad guy’s shield can block lasers because it’s a”smart shield?” The author has established that isn’t how things work.
I’m simply amused at the whole ‘smart thing is dumb’ idea.
The shield only blocks harmfull things. So the shcokwave is clearly harmfull, but Max talking isn’t
Pretty sure Ari will differ on that :p
Hey, man, words can hurt!
The shield doesn’t currently block radio signals. Halo has some control over its properties (she made it bigger), so maybe there’s a setting for blocking electromagnetic interference. Maybe there’s even a button to block light-based attacks.
Maxima may not appreciate the addition of the Giraffe, but I’m am sure Ariana does, significantly lightens up the extra dark atmosphere Maxima was casting about.
It occurs to me, we’re one weapon test short of finished.
Sydney still has to learn that the bank robery was staged, and that it was Achilles that fired at her. W may even find it if the PPO has an ’embiggener’ or similar options.
Ah, are you going to make Achilles run all the way back from the mountains again?
bwahhahaha sydney. . . incontinent
BTW dave, if your still looking for work you can try my gig, Pizza Delivery driving, the pay isn’t too great, unless you count the tips, but you can arrange a schedule that gives you plenty of time to draw. Plus you would be making something in the way of a living while you look for a better job more along the lines of what you want. Its something to keep in mind if nothing else and could give you lots of ideas for characters to write into the comic. Lord knows it’s certainly given me tons of material for my writing.
Three comments,
First, sponsor the maker of her clothing. If the press required Halo globe of protection but Maxima’s clothing did not, score for the brand rights. Apocalypse clothing, only $500,000.95 custom fitted, 30 second guarantee in actual apocalypse.
Second, Halo should have said “or innocent”. But I am an instigator so I would say such just to be contrary.
Third, first panel in next comic is a panoramic of Halo and her globe of protection with Maxima flying out side of it above a crater hundreds or even thousands of feet deep…
If they were ‘innocent’, then they wouldn’t their ‘rogues’
That’s actually a MAJOR point: what happens when the “rogues” are in fact innocent?
Sydney innocently (pun intended) popping off that addition in the first panel of next comic would ascend to the level of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArmorPiercingQuestion with enough potential drama to be a running plot arc, or at least character development for more than one main character. In fact, given the storytelling skill Dave has shown thus far, I would not be surprised if that is his plan for the next comic. (It’s hardly the only possibility, of course.)
Panel 1: “it is I, Fujimorapantsu! And I was your opponent this whole time! RO-RO-RO-RO…”
sorry for the jesse-cox ref, but it just popped into my head when I saw that and some others talking about anime…
All I want to see now is someone go toe to toe with Maxima, and win, and be polite about it.
“That was fun. Let’s do that.. oh.. wait.. Away from the city, this time.”
Programming, at least the basics, is rather easy to learn. It might take years to learn the advanced tricks, but many guides have been written for newbies to guide them through simple stuff. For instance, https://www.chipchapin.com/WebTools/JavaScript/example1-01.html .
Now, granted, most programming jobs require a BS degree in a relevant field (like Computer Science), for good reason. But if you can code up some examples and show a decent gallery, some employers take that as an acceptable substitute, especially if you’re concentrating on the visual effects side rather than the deep business logic. (You might also want to search on “standard programming interview questions”, so you can find out what kinds of things you’ll need to answer in order to get a programming job.)
(Also, you might want to avoid ASP or any other Microsoft-branded Web technology. You can make a lot better product that way, usable by a lot more people. More importantly, your skills will be useful to more employers: ASP sites still use JavaScript, but non-ASP sites don’t use ASP.)
I’ve been thinking about the strip before this one and all the hopes and dreams some of us had about it damaging Maxima’s outfit *gets lost in thought for a minute of two xD*
Now what about Mullet-guy. Achilles. I didn’t see anything about -him- having a “makes clothing unbreakable aura-thingy” ….. does that mean in any fight with enough explosions and such his outfit will eventually be totally destroyed? I mean really… what would be the point of giving body armor or even clothing that’s hard to damage to him? not like he needs it…
Also…would “being in the buff” add points to his taunting you until you do something stupid abilities?
See, this is my problem with Maxima. Most of the time she’s professional and no-nonsense, but there are also moments like this where she seems to enjoy showing her power and terrifying people just a little too much. Kind of unnerving when she’s possibly the most powerful being on the planet.
Hellsing moment there anyone?
Just saying.
MARSHMALLOWS HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
… So her powers extend to her clothes too? Whipped by the wind but apparently impervious to fire?
Oh… and the sound thing of course, but I’m more a visual guy so I don’t think about the audio stuff much…
She’s really terrifying.