Grrl Power #316 – Couture cammies
This page is admittedly a bit goofier than Grrl Power tends to get, the fashion ninjas are definitely a bit Gold Digger-y, but I’m ok with that. Besides, having actual ninjas hanging around Archon HQ is probably pretty good for security, even if they’re more concerned with your hemline than poisoning people from the rafters.
So, the fabrikinetic tailor here is the first Patreon funded cameo in a while, via Adam Glocker. (Have I mentioned lately how much I appreciate the support?) I really should have worked his name on to the page so he’d be on the Who’s Who. (The tailor’s, not Adam’s.) The ninjas too. Bleh. Anyway, for easy reference his name is Ashley and his handle is Iron Cloth. This cameo is a bit weird because I had considered a fabrikinetic for the comic already as an antagonist. I had stuck him firmly in the maybe column because lets be real, someone who can control clothing vs a team of largely female super heroes? I wasn’t sure how that would end without a furiously nude Maxima removing his spine and putting it back in upside down. When Adam’s cameo character had the same power as my maybe guy, I figured I’d un-maybe him and let Adam’s character’s details flesh out a lot of details I hadn’t considered. Most of which don’t make it on to this page but will eventually be revealed.
Think of him as a fabric controlling version of “The Paper” from Read or Die, (if you haven’t seen it, don’t spoil anything by clicking on the link. Just track down the three episode OVA and watch it) which in a weird way makes him one of the more powerful members of the team. He’s not a proper member of Arc-SWAT though, he’s actually in Arc-SPARQ, which is ARCHON’s collection of engineers, tinkerers and inventors. He’s more interested in plying his power and craft for the benefit of the team as a whole, as well as making a healthy living in the private sector.
The Theiss room mentioned on the last page, as many of you immediately figured out, is a reference to William Ware Theiss, the venerated costume designer for the original Star Trek series. He is known for his Theiss Titillation Theory which basically says that the sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off. This isn’t to say everyone who goes into the room comes out with a side-boob revealing costume held together with the glue they use on sticky notes, just that they had to name the room something, and the people who did had a bit of a sense of humor.
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I don’t think anyone expected Fashion Ninjas
And yet everybody thinks they’re awesome! (I assume…)
I certainly do. Excellent callback BTW.
Well, now that Sydney knows they exist, I’m sure she’ll be always expecting them, along with the regular ninjas. ^_^
Now the unexpected has become the expected. Now will she expect the unexpected expected?
Aha! I’ve seen those ninjas before. Now that I know where they came from, I need wonder no longer why they looked so stylish.
Grrl Power is a comic about a crazy nerdette that becomes a superheroine. Humor, action, cheesecake, beefcake, ‘splosions, and maybe some drama. Possibly ninjas.
Tue to his word, Dave is.
Sydney, Sydney, for the last umpteen years you’ve been saying “always expect ninjas”, now they turn up. you didn’t expect them
“Always expect ninjas!”
That’s all I came to post, and I was….
ninja’d.
Please don’t send actual ninjas in response to that.
Send them? They are already behind you!
Along with the Spanish inquisition. Ha! Nobody expects that!
Spam, spam, spam, spam spam, spam, spam, spam.
Spam, spam, spam, spam spam, spam, spam, spam.
Spam, spam, spam, spam spam, spam, spam, spam.
What? You can’t honestly tell me that you were actually expecting the Spammish Repetition, can you?
You win.
I’ve been expecting the Spammish Repetition since GURPS: Callahan’s
^_^
*vomits Paella on Foradain‘s shoes*
Sorry, something I ate must have disagreed with me. Although I bet you were not expecting the Spanish Regurgitation!
Si, Si, Si.
But were you expecting the Spanish Reiteration?
No, but I was expecting your Spanish Intonation.
Specifically speaking, a Conquistador is merely a Spanish Denotation.
Same here. Spider Robinson is tops in my book.
One of the editors wrote a forward about Spider. In it, he described the time when Spider sent a picture of a blueprint for a NASA-designed toilet for use in zero-gravity environments. Look it up for yourself. Spider wrote in the margins, “If I read this right, the shit is SUPPOSED to hit the fan.”
O.o
I see you’ve noticed the seriousness of implications on this page:
DaveB,/i> just subverted Sydney’s own trope…
Some of us did, having run into them before. https://wapsisquare.com/comic/elite-bra-guard/ These were lingere ninjas, a specific sub-set of Fashion ninjas.
And the next page was the one was talking about further down (where she get’s tripped and lands on her pointies) :D
The custom bra maker in Wapsi Square has lingerie ninjas working for her.
From “Opus the Poet” reference, not only does he use lingerie ninjas, but she’s a clan member as well.
“I have a next assignment?”
Somewhere and somehow she was handed a piece of paper with a schedule on it. I blame assignment ninjas.
The wacky second tier heroes of The Mystery Men had a weapon that
made some villian’s clothing immobilizingly smaller.
(If it was snug before, now they had trouble breathing.)
So yes, there is a precedent for a tailoring power used offensively.
That would be the “Shrinker” One of Dr. Heller’s inventions. It was a high temperature fabric adhesive liquid projector based on simple dry cleaning technology. Aimed at clothes, it causes them to constrict until their wearer is unable to move.
or breathe.
And when used on Cassanova Frankenstein’s female henchpersons caused the male Mystery Men to have problems with constricting clothing as well.
I think I prefer Fashion Ninjas to fashion police.
Fashion ninjas actually help you look better. Fashion police just critique…negatively.
Better than I hoped for.
But watch out for Parisian Catwalk Pirates
Saitama from One Punch? Or Saitama from Lucky Star? Or some other Saitama I don’t know of?
Likely Lucky Star.
Apparently Saitama from One Punch lacks an action figure for some reason.
Because he is doomed to obscurity.
Well maybe caped baldy (his official hero name) will get one when the one punch man anime airs
I can’t wait for that Anime! It will be EPIC!
The closest thing I’ve seen to that in a cartoon is Badly Animated Man, and his demonstration of the Two-Position Punch. It literally has only two positions; arm bent, fist clenched, then an instantly-extended arm. As long as you know how fast the fps is running, it can be dodged.
There isn’t a Saitama in Lucky star, there’s a Saitama Prefectural Police Department
Typo alert! “Dais”
Also, last panel. “An Hour? Where the hell were you yesterday!?”
Some Americans would leave the “Where” off. (I’m one of them, though not in writing. Only when speaking aloud.)
Why? Laziness, I guess. There was actually one bloke who sent a letter to the local newspaper, asking why, when reciting a web URL, we pronounce the “www”. WWW stands for World Wide Web, but saying three W’s takes nine syllables, whereas World Wide Web is only three. So instead of saying something like “www.google.com”, why wouldn’t we just say “world wide web.google.com”?
(Answer #1: Because we’re lazy, but we’re not THAT lazy.)
(Answer #2: Because I know people that are computer-illiterate enough that they actually *would* type “worldwideweb.google.com”)
Personally just say ‘dub dub dub’
Personally I have never said it. It is pointless to take up my listeners’ and my own time in uttering it. “google.com” works just as well, when typed in the browser, as “www.google.com”. As far as I am concerned Why Waste Words?
That’s a DaveB ‘thing’.
See also “…the hell are those?” (Big Reveal) and “The hell is my car?” (leaving the comic store).
Whoops! Fixed. Apparently dais and dais both pass spellcheck, but only dais means the platform thingy. Interestingly, spellcheck does not pass spellcheck.
“Dias” might be passing spellcheck because it’s a valid acronym for “Desmoteplase In Acute Stroke” (Desmoteplase is a clot busting drug), “Direct Internet Access System”, or “Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies” (among others).
Or perhaps because it is part of Buenos Dias ?
That’s a much better answer (and far more likely).
Btw in this comment you misspelled dias.
I avoid misspelling “dias” by first trying to think of how it’s pronounced; I think of the battle cry, “Die, ass!”
Except that if you’re trying to spell the one pronounced “Die, Ass”, it’s “dais”. ^_^
Really? Pronounce that as ‘day iss’ (yes, like ‘hiss’ but without the aitch)
And ‘dias’ as a ‘dee as’ (like that “actress”, Cameron Dias)
I think he did that on purpose hoping that somebody would think about it too much and invoke a scanners like nosebleed and if prolonged head burst.
It’s one of my most effective tools as a ninja for carrying out an assassination: Since I’m nowhere near the scene of death, there’s no physical evidence left behind…
;)
I fully expected more drama with the tube, but I’m not really disappointed. XD
On a side note. I feel kinda special being this early in the comments
Yesterday he was busy consoling his ninjas, after someone saw through their cunning nun disguises.
I got to feel real smart in front of my artist wife when I noticed the scissors perspective problem in the last panel! :D
(If you aren’t sure what I’m talking about, look closely at the scissors; the upper blade should be in front of the fabric, like how the upper handle is.
In my opinion, the best part of this page is the ninjas’ weapons in the second-to-last panel: over-sized fashion tools, i.e. scissors and a needle, complete with wraps to give them better grips!
And yes, that does seem to be a little bit of a blunder, considering the fabric appears to be going through the scissors in the last panel. =P
That’s the fashion ninja’s own super power: phased scissors. The actual contact point is only one micron wide. It makes for a cleaner cut.
Yikes, not sure how that happened, but it’s fixed now.
That… doesn’t look right at all. With the way scissors open, the upper handle is connected to the lower blade, not the upper one. And frankly, both handles and blade should be behind the fabric when opened that far. If they’re blunt, and don’t cut when closed, the fabric might get caught between them instead of cutting, resulting in one blade on either side of the fabric, but otherwise…
Ah crap. Ignore me. Thought the scissors were moving to cut a length off, didn’t notice they were cutting the strip lengthwise. I r blind
“You Only Live Twice”. Or is that too obvious?
:)
For this comic, his name is Barrack; David Barrack.
Codename: 005 (plus 2 to be revealed later)
Or maybe Seven of Nine?
Hey Yorp if you want to picture Dave B in Jerry Ryan outfits, well all I can say is what every floats ya boat but please for the love of the elder gods keep that kind of mental imagery away from the rest of us! The children! wont somebody please think of the children! :)
Just remember Yorp is a SICK puppy.
And he’s even demonstrated his puppy dog eyes before…
The internet really isn’t safe for children. Heck, for that matter, a lot of the internet is Not Safe For Work either…
and do you see how much of humanity isn’t safe for the internet?
Mainly because none of them have, yet, survived the process of being chopped up small enough, to be uploaded into the cloud.
Or, that movie with Vincent Price, but instead of poison he drips green goop onto a sleeping nurse, and then releases locusts who proceed to eat the green goop (and the flesh beneath it)
Can’t remember the name of the movie, but he was seeking revenge on the doctors and nurse who let his wife die on the operating table, followed by a sequel where he attempts to resurrect his dead wife
You mentioned Read or Die! Squeeeee!
ROD the TV is pretty good as well, but you definitely need to have watched the OVA first in order to understand it.
Also need to get past the first… ten or eleven episodes to get to the actual plot. Paper power, though, is unusually godly. :-)
THE PAPEEEEEERRR!!! ( is awesome!)
Finally watched through Kill La Kill recently, so this is really seeming like something from that.
Way status: Not lost.
Excellent. Carry on the Way.
Shouldn’t the tube be part of the uniform/outfit…?
Generally, when in uniform, the orbs will be going around her head, so the tube is only needed for compact transport. It will considered an approved variance from the uniform.
It’s possible they make some cloth compartment for the orbs in the uniform.
Maybe some form of holders lining the legs/arms. Something they can easely slip in and out of, while still secured when not in use
Possibly, but not part of her bust measurements.
She needs a tube the matches her uniform.
Tubey was there first. She should have a uniform that matches it!
I thought they would make her a new one out of vibranium so all future times that tubey survives assaults from Maxima level characters completely intact would now make perfect sense.
But would Tubey jr. survive Tubey the first?
We’ve already seen that Tubey can survive the collapse of a whole frickin’ building on top of it. But I think that this guy can be trusted to use highly durable materials if he intends to replace Tubey…After all, this guy is used to working with Supers.
We would all have to agree to never speak of Tubey the First again…
Fabrikinetics… Parian approves
I wish(ed) Parian had (had) more story time in Worm.
(I stopped reading soon after the group was captured by the Slaughterhouse 9. It was too strong hit against my suspension of disbelief.)
Dammit. “It was a too strong …”
It would be ‘too strong a’ I think, actually. Also, you should really read through the whole thing, it’s a pretty awesome story. Parian doesn’t really ever get an important role but, considering that she’s a self-established ‘super-neutral’, that’s not really surprising. She isn’t there to fight and he powers aren’t unique enough for anyone to try and force her to do so.
Thanks for the correction.
Maybe I try again, later, but rather not. I read on some more, then glanced over pages, then started skipping pages, I think until about the middle of the fight with Noelle, but after said point (or rather, the miraculous salvation afterwards), the fun was gone. It was all too apparent that the reader was 100% at the mercy of the writer, and anything could happen, with little respect to inner logic of the story. The reading experience had changed into something much more remote, or even… from reading an actual story to reading a textbook about the story. For me, it never got better, and after an elongated attempt to “re-like” it, I finally gave up and stopped.
(And meanwhile I caught hints about it ending mournfully, which would be a strong reason for me to avoid it.)
You might prefer his next one, then, PACT. He used that one to work on things like overarching plotlines and pre-planning stuff- WORM was a little more off-the-cuff. It had an interesting ending, though- one that managed to wrap a bunch of stuff up and was ultimately bittersweet, as opposed to a complete downer like it could have been.
The amount that stuff kept piling on was a bit ridiculous, but overall I felt it was worth it to read the whole story (probably shouldn’t have started it shortly after the semester started though…). Apparently a not inconsequential part of the was because Wildbow liked to purposely write himself into a corner so he had to figure out a way to get out of it.
YuffieK, glad to see I’m not the only one whose first thought on reading this page was Parian. :-D
It must be a sign of my age but when I saw the “fabrikinetic” tailor do his thing I thought back to the Marvel Comics super-villain: Gypsy Moth.
At last the “… maybe ninjas” mentioned in the advert banner that originally brought me to Grrl Power have made their appearance. But ‘fashion ninjas’ yea, I was not expecting those.
Do these fashion ninjas get paid with shrubbery or ni?
don’t say “ni” they might be running away through a wall hehe
If it was knights that wanted shrubbery, then ninjas would probably want vines.
Wapsi Square‘s Monica. who wears something like a 29GG bra, patronises Lydia, a bra-maker who is also a structural engineer who gives her a discount on custom-made bras because she has a DARPA contract which funds her work with non-newtonian materials and revolutionary catenary designs.
Lydia employs lingerie ninjas>/a>.
Do love those guys so funny reading that Como haha and I was think the same thing good thing these guys are not the same cause halo would be pissed.
Beat me to it.
You ninja’d me while I was looking up the link.
Lots of overlap, it would appear – and likely with Misfile, as well, i think.
Now I can’t wait to see her new outfit.
Even though it’ll be more than an hour gone by when the next page is ready, you’ll still have to wait until Monday. Even then, it make still take Dave a page or two before an in-comic hour has passed.
okay i have to say it
ONLY YOU could have thought of that one lol
GREAT AND CAN I HIRE THEM FOR A FEW OUTFITS PLEASE? hehe
NO!
You suspect that those outfits would include capes, don’t you?
Ashley: *baseball bat made of hardened spider-silk connects squarely with Yorp’s skull* NO. CAPES.
They are -so- out of style right now it’s not even funny.
FASHION NINJAS
Powers: Speed measurement
Weakness: Tubey
Fashion Ninja. my new favorite random characters to pop up in a comic/story XD Totally cracked me up with that one.
Now I am absolutely dying to see the first time DaveB does a villainess outfit and decide he has gone too far in making it skimpy rather than practical. Enter the fashion ninjas!
“Great apologies for altering your outfit, but the TV crews are filming this battle and modesty is necessary!”
I am now loving the mental image of costume damage in a fight revealing something it shouldn’t, only for there to be a flash of speedy black and a tasteful chest wrap to have been attached before the cameras had time to focus.
+1!
That would be kind of “censorship” I could live with :D
The true secret of Ka-Pants is revealed! (Or concealed, as case may be0)
Just alter the outfit in mid battle
you know, the more i think about it, the more i’d like a superpower with artistic applications more than one with combat applications. i mean, it’d be cool and all, but like most of us here i’m sure, i’m not actually a much of a fighter :P the notion of being a telekinetic sculptor is brilliant though
The ability to shape and change buildings and landscapes would be an ideal superpower for me.
I tend to find most super powers that I enjoy visualising myself using tend to involve creating things. And if one cannot be used directly to do that, I love finding ways to do so indirectly.
It is one of the reasons I like following the developments in 3D printing. And particularly enjoy the fact that there are now printers which can print copies (barring a few small parts) of themselves! Provided you can supply the basic raw materials and power to keep them going, that gives you open-ended industrial capability from just one machine!
Keep refining the accuracy of the construction, reducing any errors and increasing the range of things which can be built, and it just gets more interesting. Given that we can already produce human organs and chocolate, it shows just how fast the technology is maturing. Even though the field is only a few years old.
Do the fashion ninjas eat at Le Restaurant des Ninjas https://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01076.htm and following strips?
I see I wasn’t the only person to think of that place.
Darn, you beat me to it.
It seems that French ninja waiters at least do make very good use of the rafters.
Does this page lead to any inspirations when combined with this page?
“….This isn’t to say everyone who goes into the room comes out with a side-boob revealing costume held together with the glue they use on sticky notes,”
it’ll be even more surprising if a male went in
Well, scissor ninja is showing side-butt in the last two panels.
That is a female ninjette
Recruits and NCO’s generally do not get customized uniforms, but off the rack. I guess because Archon is so small, having a huge inventory of NCO uniforms to issue would actually be more expensive than designing them for each person. You also have to consider how each person’s powers are going to affect their clothes. “Hmm, she needs a fireproof uniform? Let’s see what I can do. That one needs to be proof against everything? He may be indestructible, but his uniform can not be.”
where’s Edna ‘E’ Mode?
She’ll have no problems, just as long as they don’t want a cape.
Capes are not part of general and parade uniforms (see press conference and bomb range outfits). See we are good.
Generals can wear capes, if they earn enough stars and have the eccentricity and charisma to get away with it. Perks of the job.
Watch to see if she gets a cameo.
Ashley: No. Capes.
Edna might be a hack, but she’s got at least one thing right…
Yes, ARCHON’s personel are all rather unique in thier requirements, so the standard “One size doesn’t quite fit anyone” uniform provisioning wouldn’t work. I’d also imagine that also due to the uniqueness o each individuals powers and required equipment ARCHON would probably allow a considerable aount of flexibility with regards what counts as part of/can be worn with the uniform than most military branches.
They could always give dispensations of course, but rather than having ot write up a million and one of them it would be simpler to just be flexible and allow variaions and additions so long as they have some kind of sensible reason for them, and make some effort to make them fit in with the general style/colourscheme (eg, Tubey is fine, but paint him to be the same colours as the uniorm).
By the way, Dave… you misspelled “Dais” in panel 2. Stand on the DAIS, not stand on the DIAS. :)
Drat. This is what I get for not reading far enough ahead. Nestor beat me to it.
Interesting, I have a fabrikinetic who is waiting to be introduced in the Divine Blood fiction.
She was used as the character creation example comic since she uses a lot of different options.
Link:
https://fav.me/d6zwrmt
Not to be confused with the “Fashion Nazis”.
wasn’t the bloke who made Hitlers suit’s a fashion Nazi?
just like Hitler’s speech writer was a grammar nazi
That would have been Hugo Boss (for realz).
Well what did you expect Sydney?? The Spanish inquisition??
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
sorry had to be done :P
(usagi pokes head in) and fewer expect the senshi inquisition.
I do….. so far very disappointed….
No one EVER expects fashion ninjas.
After fashion ninjas, we have the T.I. Samurais and the Barbarian gardners. Or Pirates janitors…
I think you mean the “Barberian!”
Nope he is in a class by himself
What? He was the only one in his college class for hair styling?
She always expect ninjas no matter what type they are.
Always. Expect. Ninjas.
Just like she said on https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/346
Yeah, I remembered that one too. Which is why I took her statement to mean she did not expect the ninjas to be fashion specialists.
According to Kim Possible (Embarrassement Ninjas) if you want to be a ninja in the highly demanding times of today it pays better to specialize.
Wow, he’s cute. <3 And talented!
Though what's happening in Panel 7? I can make out two lower calf muscles, but nothing else…
That’s the Ninjas jumping away all ninja-y
That is both ninjas jumping back after taking Sydney’s measurements. Both are doing flips.
Yea, that is a very hard panel to make out, I am afraid. I had to work back from the following panel to get the gist of it. And it took another couple of read throughs to be able to now make the two ninjas out clearly. As opposed to just inferring what they were doing, from the context.
I guess it is a side effect of their ninjutsu.
Their style if formally know as Harberdash-Iri.
Scissor Ninjette is almost touching her head with her feet (if you have further doubts to her gender, please to be noting the fashionable heels she is wearing that Needle Ninja isn’t)
Shoes! Now that helps in the interpretation of that panel, thanks. High heels, not weird hair extensions/ ornamentation.
In the bottom-left panel there is also a hint of boob next to Scissor Sister’s right arm. Not to mention the flowing locks, less-muscular arms, and narrow waist.
This comic often rewards closer examination 8-)
And cute fox-tail hair!
Geez Sydney you forgot your own motto of “always expect ninjas” if you can’t follow one simple creed how are you supposed to fight crime.
Maybe if the fabrikinetic antagonist would be woman, she would survive?
am I the only one around here who thinks that these scissors look odd?
After watching Kill La Kill on netflix. No, they’re relatively tame
Ninjas aren’t doing their jobs if you’re not surprised by them
“his name is Ashley and his handle is Iron Cloth”
From looking at his ponytail it looks like is last name would be Kitsune.
I would like to see him come up with the ’90s version of EXTREME! Sydney.
https://www.newsarama.com/24406-ten-times-marvel-and-dc-went-extreme.html
Some would like to see the ’90s Rob Liefeld version of her outfit. But I don’t think she has the spinal flexibility to handle it. https://unrealitymag.com/images/a-gallery-of-rob-liefleds-anatomical-abominations/
Spinnerette is doing a cross dimension style storyline with something similar. https://www.spinnyverse.com/
Ah, yes. Rob Liefeld. The artist everybody loves to hate, but is still one of the most highly-paid comics artists in the industry. No idea why. The man is consistently late on his work, can’t draw feet to save his life, can’t draw a male character with a crotch that doesn’t look like he shoved a garden spade down his pants, doesn’t know how to draw a curve unless it ends in rippling lats, and has no idea how many teeth are in the human mouth. Oh, and a weird fetish for pouches.
I’m also pretty sure Rob has never actually seen an actual human woman since he has zero grasp on basic anatomy nor how human skeletal structure works.
“Spines don’t work that way, Rob. Nothing works that way, Rob.”
Maybe not modern fat-arsed Americans, but can personally turn that way (maybe not show full front with butt, but at least 3/4 top view, or maybe 2/3)
I actually wasn’t referring to the boobs-and-butt pose; it has been proven that it *can* be done IRL, though it’s uncomfortable. I was referring to things like drawing women with an impossibly thin torso (apparently the artist forgot that women have internal organs too).
Or when the character is in an action pose, and they twist the hips at an impossible angle to fit the butt into the pose, as shown in the link below. Dear artists: Hips don’t work that way. A horse doesn’t work that way.
https://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsuhmsxykI1r34y4ho1_500.jpg
Or where they seem to forget that a woman’s legs are supposed to attach to their hips, just like everyone else’s. You can’t just *THUNK* stick a leg onto her butt, which is obviously what happened here. That’s not her left leg, that’s a leg-shaped tumor. Either that, or her left hip is *completely* dislocated:
https://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrnmr21O4x1r34y4ho1_400.jpg
(This is a persistent problem that Mike Deodato has, btw. Even after more than 15 years, he still has trouble with hips and legs, though to his credit he has gotten better.)
I love that ponytail :)
Unfortunately, with that style of ponytail (vulpytail?) and being an artiste he can get dramatic. Ashley has the tendency when under pressure to clutch at his chest and yell ‘This is the big one Elizabeth!”.
Bonus points for getting the reference.
“From looking at his ponytail it looks like is last name would be Kitsune.”
He doesn’t look at all like any of the Kitsune family.
I was going more for the description as “Mythical fox creature with magical powers”.
Two defining traits are:
“A kitsune is a shapeshifter, and usually when it reaches the age of 100 years, it learns the ability to take on a human form.”
“In some stories, kitsune have difficulty hiding their tails when they take human form”
Basic powers are: “flight, invisibility, and the creation of illusions”
This would make his ARC bio read: Centenarian shapeshifting magic user.
“Other kitsune have characteristics reminiscent of vampires or succubi and feed on the life or spirit of human beings, generally through sexual contact.”
So he got introduced to ARC through Dabbler.
https://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/page/Kitsune
You people are amazing. How the heck did you connect my love of Kitsunes to my cameo character?
Aaaaaaand I’m not gonna say nothin’ on his background, mostly because I don’t want to mess up any of Dave’s plans, whatever they may be, because I don’t know what they are! But yeah, Kitsune are great.