Grrl Power #310 – Dabbler’s happiest meal
Dabbler’s hammer isn’t a physical hammer, it’s a melee only amnesia spell. I just happens to look like a hammer. It also isn’t a broad spectrum amnesia solution either. When Dabbler starts doing tantric stuff with someone, she can set a marker to roll their memory back to. She can’t just clonk someone with that hammer if they see classified documents or discover she’s really an alien or whatever.
The Barberian (named by you guys) should probably get his own Who’s Who entry at this point. I’ll try and get that up today.
Edit: To clarify one thing for those of you concerned and so you don’t have to go hunting though the comments for my response – Barberian fully knew what he was getting into last night, and he’ll eventually remember most of it, just not some of the more intense aspects. Her wipe spell is a bit like a flashbang, it’s a total whiteout for a while, then stuff mostly returns to normal. I will revisit this on a future page just to make sure it’s clear.
I was going to do a page of Harem driving with Sydney into the base and touching on the configuration of the building layout, but that would have involved me drawing car interiors and exteriors, roads, and some of the other vehicles Archon keeps in the garage. The real reason I skipped it though was while informative, nothing particularly amusing was going on, and I was having trouble with entertaining dialog. Turns out the previous page may need some clarification, so there might be material there for a bonus page for book 2, like Sydney asking if Harem has to compensate for the Coriolis effect and the like.
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I couldn’t get half-way down without the “rape” overloaded conversations here completely ruining any kind of enjoyment from the comic. I’ll come back in a few days and hope this is settled down a bit. I’m quite sure Dave would not do anything like that with such intent when creating his comic. Discussing such a hot topic always brings out lots of animosity and negative connotations, when none are even meant to begin with. I suggest you make recommendations for clarification to Dave before making it sound so accusatory in the forums. Cya.
so THATS who rapes alien abducts. sucubi into pegging
i guess thats a little bit better than the big eyed midget men with robot tentacles people always imagine…
Also, “For start”? Do you perhaps mean “For a start”?
Or “for starters”, but remember, Dabbles is still learning English as a 17th(?) language, so some inaccuracies are to be expected.
Yeah, probably should be for a start.
Anybody notice Sydney seems to be a bit ambidextrous? Either that or she didn’t like where she had her arm device yesterday and just didn’t feel like moving it, or hadn’t been told how to open it yet, till today.
Originally, Maxima slapped the cuff on Sydney’s right arm during the press conference. The fact that Sydney was using that arm for making a specific gesture is a strong indication that Sydney is right-handed. Which means that Sydney would have an easier time of using it if it’s on her left wrist.
When Sydney got home, she flopped directly into bed without bothering to deal with it first…Indeed, that’s what she used to call Dabbler when she suddenly sat up in bed & it was still on her right arm.
So, yeah, I think Sydney has a decent reason for switching it to her other arm, compared to yesterday.
Didn’t she already have it off when she got home? Wasn’t she carrying it when she came through her bedroom door?
Right-handed but have always worn watches on the right wrist (but that’s probably just me :( )
Just you, most right handed people wear them on their left wrist and the main buttons and control knobs are typically on the left side. As a lefty this tended to be cumbersome for me as it meant taking it off bending weird ways to control it with covering it and wearing it on my left wrist was distracting.
I’m another rightie who likes wearing arm-thingies on the right wrist (and, probably like you, gets asked about whether I’m a leftie all the time because of it). I just figure anything that I’m doing that’s too important that I can’t look at the wrist which the watch is on while I’m doing it, it’s probably too important for me to be looking at the time anyway.
Yeah I’m right handed but have always worn watches on my right arm, I think it’s a carry over from too much computer gaming where my left hand spends more time dancing over the keyboard while my right hand is on the mouse.
I’m ambidextrous, but I prefer using my left hand for drawing and writing (I just find it’s a little more control). Unfortunately I usually have to use my right hand so I don’t get graphite on the side of my hand. With sports I tend to just switch from left to right for stuff like tennis, or bowling, or baseball.
But with watches… I don’t wear them. Maybe I will start with the iWatch, then I’ll have to see which hand is more comfortable :)
I’m ambidexterous but typically favor my right hand because so many things are more convenient with the right hand… scissors, can openers, lots of things are made if not exclusively for righties then when you find it laying around it’s made for righties. Also writing is more convenient with the right hand because with the left hand you smudge things. So yeah, I’m right handed by not by choice, naturally ambidexterous.
So… I wear my watch on the right hand. I’m always doing most things with my right hand, might as well check the time on my right hand too.
As a south paw I wear watches and the like on my right wrist. This is to make it easier to check while I do things with my left hand. Now if she is a rightie and the odds are good she is she would want to switch it out at sometime. Just easier to use that way. Granted one more south paw in the world dominate project can’t hurt.
That and if i recall correctly most of the “left handed” population is actually ambidextrous, with just a small portion being true lefties. Myself I use my left hand for some tasks like writing and my right for others. It really depends on which hand I learned with in most cases, or how similar a task is to something I already use a particular hand for.
I do not believe you recall correctly. I am left handed and only do a very small number of things right handed, all of them involving using both hands anyway. Such as playing a viola, bass, or guitar. People say I’m playing “right handed”, but really both hands are involved in fine movements so it really isn’t a valid label. I played baseball for years as a kid so I do tend to catch with my right hand, which was the hand I wore the mitt on.
My right handed sister bowls left handed, but that’s because she learned to bowl while her right arm was broken and in a cast.
Acctually, true ambidex is extremely rare. However, i learned today that English lacks a neccessary Word that we have in swedish. I, as a leftie, have trained myself to be “ambidex”, however, i cannot multitask, which true ambidex can.
So, Dabbles is wearing Harem pants (not to be confused with pants worn by Harem, unless we get confirmation ;) ), but is she also going ‘commando’? :D
According to Dave:
The inventor (in universe) of such a disgusting garment should be burned at the stake! Full transparency or nothing at all!!
My votes for nothing at all, but it’s a PG comic. :(
Ah, but that which is partially hidden becomes more fascinating. A hint, a tease of what’s there draws curiosity, a desire to see what’s hidden in a way that a more complete concealment fails to do.
+1
+1
Artfully concealed is way sexier than plain ol’ naked.
It doesn’t require a “full reveal” to be sexy. As a famous celebrity actress has been quoted, “Be careful what you show & what you don’t show.”
;)
Was a joke, people…
Starts as a joke, end as a serious discussion.
That’s comments for you.
I’m sorry but I couldn’t hear this conversation without this scene popping into my head where two characters are discussing the very same concept
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgQEGNOU_QI
Heh! Watching that video clip, it was mentioned that it’s art if you can’t see anything. Patently FALSE! Can a person develop the curiosity to unravel a mystery if there are no CLUES to bring the mystery to attention?
A distinct lack of something is all the clue you need to start the hunt for clues.
Which is why the white sundress is one of the greatest creations in history
The odds are very good I think, that Dabbler *is* the inventor.
If that skirt is supposed to be silhouette only, then Dave should probably nix the crotch lines under it. ;D
Nothing magic about it, it’s called low opacity fabric, like the not-quite-sheer silk that’s been used for thousands of years for this very purpose among elite and socialite women.
It started with the ancient Egyptians, who were already weaving & wearing fine linens at a time when pretty much everyone else was still wearing animal hides…
;)
Out of all the present men, and those on Dabbler’s call list, she picked the most naturally horny for everything with boobs (since she’s powered up by lust, not the sex itself, so hornyness for EVERYTHING adds to her power)
Such men are so ridiculously easily seduced (being one of these myself, I know).
The only dark implications I wonder about:
-Losing your soul to a succubus (worth it!!!)
-Pregnantcy (less worth it… it’s a slow rolling demonic invasion but if demons are immortal, that’d be an issue after some millenia)
-Demonic STDs. (definitely not worth it)
-Dabbler being unable to keep a regular since he would need daily memory wipes, or couldn’t let her to to work or something. (where do I sign up?)
-Bed repair fees. (higher cost than a hooker there, but worth it if you can afford it)
Hmm, on a ‘displayed horndogness’ scale, I would have to put Math far above the Barberian.
If she used Math last night, he would have been USELESS today. Better to use someone not on the team if they have things to do.
Math is also not actually super powered. Probably. Maybe. Does super horndogness count?
Math has what’s known as a “Charles Atlas superpower”
He probably also has low level porno senses
I’m a big fan of Dabblers hair-do in this strip! There are more perks to bagging a superhero hairstylist than one would think. I wonder if he was doing up her hair while they were getting down or whether it was a halftime event…
…halftime event. An artist of his caliber would want no distractions.
As a completely random point…. I now think one of Halo’s unknown orbs will be a mimic orb, allowing her to partially copy an ability… so Sydney can get a hammer for hammer space…
Or alternatively, she could temporarily find herself with tantric based powers, become disgusted and immediately… Ahem… “Drop the ball”.
(I love puns!)
The bottom runes of the Amnesia Hammer appear to say “FORGET”, but I can’t make out what the top runes say. Anyone have a guess?
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For some reason, thought of this scene from Buffy: “I can ride you at a gallop till your legs buckle and your eyes roll up. I’ve got muscles you’ve never even dreamed of. I could squeeze you until you pop like warm champagne and you’d beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.”
On panel 7, Dabbler is missing her arm band.
panels 7 and 8 actually
Only in 7.
Because as seen in panel 4 the band does not completely encircle the arm.
So what appears to be missing in panel 8 is an illusion, do our seeing the gap between the armbands ends.
What you are looking at on panel 4 is both top right and bottom right arm pressed together, the arm band does go all the way around the top right arm. look at panels 11/13 for example.
so I am going to stand by my statement of both 7/8 being off
Last panel misses a pun from Dabbler:
“Whoops, i nailed him….*again*….” (totally not hummed alike some britney spears’ ol’ music…)
I just wanted to drop by to say how much I love the comic! (Also A++++ for ace Sydney! MY HEART FOR THE ASEXUAL GIRL IMMUNE TO SUCCUBI)
Nope. She specifically drools over men without shirts, and is drawn into Dabblers boob hypnosis. Not ace, not immune. But yes, comic is quite loveable.
Where in the world did you get the idea that Sydney is asexual?
The very start of the comic shows her crushing over one of the male regular customers of her shop. She was literally drooling over the display of ARC beefcake when brought in. She actually stated her weakness was shirtless guys with nice abs.
It has also been repeatedly demonstrated that she is not immune to Dab’s charms by any stretch of the imagination.
@Maura
Nah, it’s not that Sydney is asexual, it’s just that she’s straight (for evidence of this, see in previous scenes how she ogles the guys with their shirts off; but when dabbler’s pushing her lust aura when she meets Sydney, how Sydney’s thinking “Not a lesbian”.)
It might also be furthered by the fact that Dabbler’s not human, and Sydney knows it.
I like Dabbler more and more every time she talks.
Sorry Dave, I’m still going to go with “Take this page, burn it, and do a do-over.” Or just the second half of it. The Barberian being physically and mentally exhausted because he hasn’t slept in 36 hours and spent a good portion of the time in between having sex is good, clean fun. Just leave it at that instead of spoiling it for some people by following up with the roofie hammer.
That hammer was so he wouldn’t be spoilt for human women, remember, Dabbles has muscles humans don’t
Second that.
Having an ex-lover that far outclasses most other women does not lead to much sexual satisfaction in the rest of life. It is rather a subtle curse.
Also, if he doesn’t remember too much of the event, he’s less likely to turn into an obsessed stalker…
There are two reasons the roofie analogy doesn’t quite hold up.
First of all, we don’t have confirmation that Dabbler impaired the Barberian’s ability to provide consent. While we know she’s capable of it – both magically and morally – we don’t know she did that to him.
Second of all, she isn’t trying to keep the sex act secret. Like, at all. That supports her claim that she’s causing him to forget for his own good.
No roofies involved, magical or otherwise. DaveB has only said about a dozen times now that Barberian consented and the memory wipe was just to keep him from remembering the details of how incredible the sex was so he would not have to go through life disappointed about sex with other women. She’s just that good at it.
I absolutely LOVE Dabbler’s hair and facial expressions in this page! Especially her annoyed face when she starts summoning the hammer. Brilliant! xD
I love Dabbler in panel 4, so I’m hoping that image ends up in the top rotation. Also, sensible of her, but I hope our hairdresser doesn’t have work today! XD
STDemons?
Meh, alien diseases are probably not compatible with humans.
There are only VERY few diseases that are compatible with multiple animals on earth (including humans), and we evolved side by side on the same planet. An Alian would be way further from a human than a banana (geneticly)
Of course in real life there’s no way, without Sufficiently Advanced Technology, that humans and aliens could interbreed. In a setting where they are able to do so the rules are clearly different, probably including it being easier for diseases to cross the species barrier.
Who said they are breeding?
To quote the character information on Dabbler: She has a complex heritage, suffice to say she is roughly 1/2 succubus, 1/3 doppleganger, and 1/6 some unidentified alien species.
In order for this to happen she was either genetically engineered OR her varied ancestors managed to breed, which in the real world would be impossible.
A wizard did it.
1/2 succubus – succubus can breed with anyone – it’s part of their innate magic ability
1/3 doppleganger – doppleganger can probably take the appearance of any species, including the genetic compatability
1/6 unidentified alien species – since it’s unknown, it might have an ability to impregnate other species, or be able to fertilize sperm of other species, or has access to Sufficiently Advanced Technology. Or has some sort of offshoot of a common ancestry with the doppleganger which is somehow sufficient enough to allow for interbreeding.
Why would it be impossible? they’ve proven housefly and elephant DNA is able to successfully mix, there’s just no idea out there about how to give the result the nutrients needed to grow, but it can be made. Why would a human and a human shaped thing have a hard time mixing?
Also, the things that have a different number of chromosomes, just can’t have offspring. Kind of like the horse, donkey, mule thing.
They won’t mix unless there is assistance. If you look into animal hybrids they are rare outside man bred ones and when they do happen it’s between closely related species and the offspring are infertile. (The only exception I can think of are dogs and wolfs, and one can readily argue that dogs are simply domestic wolfs.)
Anyway my point is that if it’s possible for species that would be incompatible in real life to interbreed it’s likely that it’s easier for diseases to jump the species barrier as well.
My wife & I never wanted to actually breed, but we enjoyed the practice…
;)
“Kneels facing Lake Geneva ”
All Praise to the Great Gygax for that!
Let’s hope that Dabbler has had HER vaccinations against Earth germs. It was only about a hundred years ago (well within her lifetime) that those pesky Martians tried their invasion of Earth and were taken out by the microbes they found here.
For all we know, that may have been how Dabbler got here in the first place, by hitching a ride with those guys.
In exactly the same way, Earth germs would have no effect on Alien life forms.
Those Martians were aliens, they were Incas who escaped the destruction of their people on Earth, and wanted to come back for revenge
*obviousjoke* I don’t think she was very far from that human’s banana. */obviousjoke*
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Eh, Sydney could technically make a hammer. Take her lighthook thingy and make a shaft out of one length and then have it go in a repeating rectangular pattern at the top. The bigger the hammer the “flatter” it will be.
What other “spells that look like things” does Dabbler have?
Magic rusty knife that takes your temperature.
Magic evil spider that applies make up.
Magic scalpel that removes contact lenses.
I was thinking the same thing, actually… Perhaps that’s one of the levelups for the light hook, being able shape it like a Green Lantern ring or something…
“Magic probe” for a truth spell?
“Flashbang”. Sounds like Dazzler’s kind of weapon all right.
Dabbler that is. Both in this case.
One of the few times I’d actually like to get a “flash in the pan.”
Hmm. I can’t help thinking there are some mixed messages here… that forgetmenot hue for the Malleus Oblivia. Might as well nickname it Rosemary and be done with it :D
At least the Barberarian got in a homage to Sgt. Shultz.
Not only does he “know nothing,” he also “saw nothing” because the hammer got him from behind.
Seams a bit bad that the Barberian has all of his memories removed. Surly just most of them should have been enough (the extra muscles, and other things no mortal woman could have given him removed). He would then have had sex with one of the sexiest females on the planet, but with barely any details. Way better than removing all of it, and opening up for Dabler to actually have a relationship if she so chooses.
Ah, didn’t see the new edit, now it works like i hoped it would.
Its obvious that dabbler has muscles other women don’t, she has ARMS that other women don’t!
Just think of it that way, Sydney. You’ll feel a lot less grossed out if you don’t take her every word as something sexual.
I, however will continue to look for sexualization in everything in she says!
:)
I actually thought about the arms at first but then realized what she meant. Impractical on a real woman, but if you basically eat sex you should probably have some extra muscles down there.
The actual beginning of the digestion process is chewing it up…
Now that I’ve said it, that sounds pretty painful.
:/
As long as she doesn’t have a second set of teeth for her second ‘mouth’
Considering her succubus heritage, not likely to have teeth there…but dabbler also sprang from aliens too, so who knows?
At any rate, it’s the chewing I wouldn’t like. Gentle nibbling should be okay though.
How’s about an extra to tongue down there?
Dave, I can’t believe you missed the opportunity to make a “debriefing” joke. So disappoint. I expected so much worse from you!
“I tried to debrief him myself, but he was wearing boxers!”
Wait… de-brief him about what? About the commando raid?
Anyone else think that Dabbler’s hair looks a bit like Twilight Sparkle’s did in the most recent episode?
Just wanted to say you absolutely nailed the expressions and body language, it’s great.
That’s what he said!
Well, he would have said that, if he could remember :P
On the next page I want to see a couple Harem’s coming in with a pot of coffee, a jug of OJ and 4-5 requests for a styling appointment time … “We got Arianna to pitch in a salon for you downstairs in the mall with a cot in the back you can sleep on.” “Yeah she owes Suzy News a styling and she wants first dibs for herself…”
I like the hammer too. It shows that Dabbler likes the 3 Stooges too. (I hope)
Actually, Sydney’s reference to eye-poking is most like the 3 Stooges. Dabbler’s hammer is more like Bugs Bunny or Wile E. Coyote.
I can remember (barely) a couple of different Stooges shows where Moe hit Curly in the head with a hammer. Didn’t do much to Curly, but deformed the hell out of the hammer!
After uncle Ben, Dabbler create a new quote…
“With great power, come greater parties”
With great parts come great responsibilities.
With great responsibilities comes a great need to party.
With great power comes the great ability to not give a f***
“With great power comes the great ability to not give a f***.”
Actually, MidnightDStroyer, quite the opposite. It could be argued that, in Dabbler’s case, great power comes with the great ability to give a remarkable f***.
+1
If random bad guys start getting pages up on the who’s who before Shawn, the SEAL that dares people to club him and keeps… Grenades… in his trunk, I will be well and thoroughly disappointed.
I always thought the “powerless” heroes that can play in the heavy traffic because they are just that good were always more interesting anyway. If this goes long enough you should do a mini-series with just him and Peggy.
Just saying.
Superpowers open the door to philosophical considerations.
Envision the following scenario.
1) D first comes into contact with X
2) Stuff happens
3) D applies save point to X
4) Stuff happens
5) D resets X’s memory to save point.
6) Stuff happens
Now if we agree X@1 and X@2 are “the same person” surely we agree X@2 and X@4 are the same person. And surely we agree that the body-of-X@2, the body-of-X@4 and the body-of-X@6 are the same. But (in the limit of perfectly effective mind reset), what is the relation between the mind-of-X@2, the mind-of-X@4 and the mind-of-X@6 ?
For while X@4 and X@6 both are capable of remembering and acting on all that X@2 remembers, X@6 would not be capable of remembering and acting on any experience X@4 had. To X@6, X@4 is at best a historical personage whom X@6 has had no contact with.
Thus a perfectly effective mind reset allows the removal from the future of the world the uniqueness of X predicated on events @4. In a rarefied sense, this is analogous to killing a person and swapping in a innocent clone, like a teleportation booth that waits for your copy to arrive safely before “erasing” the superfluous original. Perhaps it is hard to sympathize with an original who lasts but a fraction of a second as “you” jaunt to Paris, but the same original might have to wait a decade if you jaunt to Alpha Centauri. Would the visceral horror of the latter fade a bit if travelers had their consciousness suspended so that even the quickest mind never had to confront the reality that they were the unlucky original? Likewise, does a perfectly effective mental reset that takes a grueling hour to tweeze the neurons to an earlier state while the target is fully conscious seem more horrible than one that takes but a fraction of a second? Such reactions are just to the circumstances of the implementation choices, not the underlying ethical and philosophical questions.
The mind wipe given without advice or consent to character of Phil Coulson of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was given, as was (necessarily) the experimental traumatic treatment to reconstitute him as a biped with a pulse, as an act for the “greater good,” and not even necessarily an evaluation of the character’s personal good.
Likewise with Dabbler’s example, the paternalistic evaluation was made that the target would only stand to benefit from erasure when such an evaluation could only be made with an experience-limited empirical guess. ( In a universe with superpower, can one categorize any information as utterly valueless? The case was solved when a Mr. Barberian informed the medical examiner that some alien species could indeed wield the stiletto with the requisite accuracy and force even with all limbs restrained…) The examples are dissimilar in that any of X@2, X@3 or X@4 could have been consulted and given informed consent to erasure. Patients with serious medical problems can and have given informed consent to cutting out parts of their brain, so this should not be troubling from an ethical point of view — it’s two adults attempting to made the best decision for the future, even if philosophically we might quibble that future is missing one of the two.
As Dabbler’s actual mind reset is more of a after-the-fact administration of effective PTSD treatment, so that every future sexy moment won’t be overshadowed by “the event” rather than true erasure, it and the issue of informed consent seems to lie in the realm of cultural norms, not ethics. Dabbler’s succubus culture might recognize the duty for well-meaning aftercare while Dabbler’s alien culture may realize fully informed consent to medical treatment is not of primary ethical concern when dealing with technologically backwards cultures that don’t have the same scientific underpinnings. When the target of your medical care isn’t in shape for a 16-hour lecture on the variable geometry of orgone psychothaumic mereostasis, the risk is negligible and the (paternalistic) prognosis is uniformly positive, then Dabbler’s cultural norms might indeed to have “mommy kiss it better.”
Vampire and Succubus cultures, to the extent that they exist, will tend to develop norms for interacting with their available nutrition sources. And to the extent that they are philosophical beings, said cultural norms will develop along ethical lines. Those ethics may however not correspond to your cultural norms which have been developed in a history where your people did not consider themselves delicious.
Barberian knew what was up. And like Dabs is saying, he’d be ruined for human women if he remembered EVERYTHING. >.> As for the whole rape/NC thing? Not seeing it. Seduced, maybe. But I’m 99.9% sure he said yes. An awful lot of times last night.
Hah, I love doing stuff like that in succubus/fantasy female RPs, I get a kick out of the succubus/etc knowing that she’s technically ruining my character for human girls. And also, hey, Barberian kicks the “gay hairdresser” trope right in the teeth!
He could easily be bisexual. And Dabbler is a shape shifter.
Or is that just illusion? I’m not sure.
Or, he could be 100% straight
Pretty sure Dabbler wasnt turning into a man or she wouldnt refer to herself as a succubus, since there’s something else called an incubus which is the male variant.
He & dabbler were fighting just last night, until Dabbler has to stop Jiggawatt from killing everyone with radiation poisoning. So the Barberian has just confirmed for himself that make-up sex is the best sex.
Remember, he didn’t actually wanna fight anyone and just went to the throw down because his other powered baddie buddies convinced him to.
He was actually relieved that he had the option to just surrender. Especially considering he was more than happy to give Dabs a time out from their fight in the first place.
I’m actually hoping he becomes a regular. With that many women and metro guys, Archon is going to need a good hair dresser. Especially a powered one, considering it would be difficult to say the least, for a regular person to cut the hair of someone with a degree of invulnerability :)
Thank you for posting this. I was so turned off by the retarded “HE WAZ T3H RAEPED !!” histrionics I had to bail out of the comments for a couple days. I think that says a lot more about the mental issues of some of the posters who invented “rape” out of thin air and then refuse to give it up when it’s clear they are just being retarded.
After, quite literally, YEARS worth of comments on these pages to the effect “Hurr durr I sure wish Dabbler would fuck me until I passed out.”
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Anyway. In the original comic where Barberian breaks off the fight to let Dabbler do something more important I really fell for him as a cool character and hoped he might get a chance to be recruited (Jabberwocky, too, BTW. For reasons). When he, almost shyly, was happy he had a surrender option, that just nailed it for me that I hoped he would have a chance to join the team.
I can see how Dabbler chose him once the dust cleared to offer him a proposition. How could a girl not find him cute enough to at least follow-up? And such a gentleman, too.
I’m not expecting him to suddenly be a featured Team Member, but he also seems one of the good guys who just needed to fall in with a better crowd. Also, the comedy potential for a locker room scene where all the other guys are apple-green with jealousy that he got some quality time with Dabbler.
“C’mon, man! Give it up! What was it like??!”
“Uhhh. Dunnow, guys. I really can’t answer that”
“No WAY!! You can’t hold out on us!! It was DABBLER, f’r chrise-effen’-sakes!!”
“No. Really, guys. I can’t remember the details. She did something, said it was for my own good. Pretty sure I really liked it … but …..”
“AAAHHHHHHHhhhhhrrrgghhhhh!!!!!”
*cut scent to girl’s locker room*
“WH-what was THAT ..??!” :shock:
“That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when the six-fingered man killed my father.“
Nothing like hypersensitive webcomic justice warriors flying into histrionics over a completely fictional situation, eh? BTW, cue the same over your use of the ‘r’ word. *ducks, runs away giggling madly*
All that ranting and raving and nobody noticed that Barberian had in fact been debriefed?
We noticed but some people got worked up on the supposed rape thing.
A point DaveB already made in his original comments section – it was & is consensual. Yes, dabbler has the unholy hotness factor, but that doesn’t remove choice from the equation. As for the 2 other points – the Hammering is a courtesy job done so she doesn’t get people obsessed with her, & to not ruin the enjoyment of sex forever for her partner(s); 2nd – she could, but won’t, use her powers on a person to coerce sex with them – unless its like she did during the fight with jabberwocky. Its a point of pride for her to just get people to want her. That would be why dabbler loves messing with maxim, she wants to “win” her on her own. (I imagine that is her version of succubus pride, to get dates with out using her powers to do it.)
As a inal random note, earlier its said dabbler gets excited by anything, I took it to mean anything randomly interesting…. Which of course means sometime soon Sydney is going to be added to her hit (on) list…. neat!
I think that any relationship that develops between Dabbler & Sydney would be more likely the Big Sister/Little sister type. The way they’re talking here is like how the Big Sister is describing her “hot date” last night, while the Little Sister would be reacting when still at the age when “little girls think boys are gross.”
HE USED MY NAME SUGGESTION!!!! YAAAAAAY
Congratulations you have achieved recognition on the internet.
So..¿do you wanna a name for the barbarian?.
Im think “Sulik” be a good name.