Grrl Power #447 – Grand kawaii seizure
One thing Sydney has going for her is that she recovers quickly. Which possibly is evidence that her reactions are dramatized in the first place, but if that’s the case, it’s her bit and good luck dissuading her from it.
A lycan turning into their hybrid or animal form is a little more involved that just enfuzzening. There’s a moment of strain, veins popping, like someone’s about to jump, or they’ve had way too much fiber, but then the transformation is very fast after that. Really, it should have probably taken Kat a bit longer since she’s not practiced with it, but I didn’t have room for it on this page and didn’t really want to break the comedic pacing.
Since I’m not sure if I’ll cover it in the comic proper, at least for a while, yes, Kat has hair in her hybrid form, Gregor doesn’t. It’s actually something the lycan can control. Some think it looks goofy, some prefer their tresses. In Kat’s case she hasn’t mastered the idiosyncrasies of the change, so she’s stuck with hair in her hybrid form until she gets better. Those who have been doing it for a while can even control whether or not they have digitigrade legs, tails, or even how animaly their faces become, but that’s only after they spend a few points on their Fleshwalk skill. A high Fleshwalk skill is jokingly referred to as Flashwalk, cause there’s not that much use for it besides stylin’. Really most feel it’s better to spend your points on skills like “Sniff Test” which refines your forensic nose skills, “Advanced Territory Marking” which is best not mentioned in polite company, and “Clothes Horse” which allows you to find shirts that fit your giant horse neck without getting all stretched out.
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BWAA! That’s great! How embarrassing!
Y’know, I can’t help but think the ear flop and tongue was on purpose, just to see what would happen.
My first thought as well, just to add another layer of cute to her appearance.
Maybe she was trying to see if Sydney would try to cuddle her like she did Barkly . . . er, Gregor.
She’s probably very disappointed now.
Maybe. I certainly would be.
;-D
No no, his name is Barkley now. You were correct the first time.
Oh yeah, that was deliberate :D
And that’s Mister Barkley :P
Mister Harold Barkley. His friends just call him Harry…
;)
I wonder howmuch she could make in playboy
This is how Sydney will die. Death by cutegasm.
I think it’s a toss-up on who’s cuter: Sydney or Kat.
Kat’s visually cuter, Sydney’s cuteness is more behavoiral.
A suble Wallace and Gromit reference?
With that floppy ear, I thought of Kevin and Kell.
Let’s hope nobody brought any golden carrots to this shindig.
Soooo…
How does one get to be a lycan rabbit.
Does one get chased down by a horde of enraged were-rabbits on a full moon in a forest?
Is one left as a sacrificial offering to the local rabbit god?
Does one cross a powerfull witch and is thus forever cursed to have the bloodlust of a rabbit?
I have to know!
were-carrots and were-tea
I dunno, but I hear they breed like bunnies!
Actually, it’s possible to piss off a rabbit pretty good: https://language.rabbitspeak.com/why-you-fiend/
As pointed out there, “A very aggressive rabbit, or one who’s decided you are too dumb for diplomacy, will charge at you and possibly bite whatever part of you happens to be handy.”
Rabbits can attack & bite, perhaps even inflicting a person with rabies. And of course, here’s the best example of an attacking rabbit, caught on film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCI18qAoKq4
Yeah, I raise them and there’s ONE rabbit that will constantly try and bite you if you reach for her food bowl
Hey, we’ve even had a rabbit make an assassination attempt. Just ask Jimmy Carter.
If a rabbit decided to bite me, it’d be on the menu. I love rabbit! One of the best meals I’ve ever had was on a trip to Belgium. On a visit to the Drie Fonteinen brewery the wife and I, after a half hour tour given by the very gracious owner, stopped by the restaurant owned by his brother in the same building. The rabbit ravioli was incredible, with a down-stated (as in, not slopping all over the plate) tomato sauce which was equally tasty.
Wouldn’t that make you guilty of both cannibalism and were-patricide?
I imagine it looks something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMEmBp9MnIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY-GncsZ-UE
They’re far better behaved than the inhabitants of the red fox island.
Heh! That first link shows the best way to hunt rabbits; Gather them around, jump behind a blast wall & drop a frag grenade or two outside of the wall. Rabbit stew for months!
The second link showing a guy almost drowning in rabbit stew.
;)
Naaa, normal grenade means you gotta pick up little pieces. Get an incendiary grenade tho, instantly pre-cooked…
Good call. Easier to pick up a bunch of charred corpses than for shredded…Once you can get past the smell of burnt hair/hare.
Ooh, you can’t do that, all the politically correct folks will be up in arms. There will be flaming hare toupee!
It would be impossible to get the Politically Correct to get up in arms…They happen to be the biggest faction against arms of any kind. Except Big Government will always want to keep theirs…
Tibet did not.
https://www.quora.com/How-did-China-annex-Tibet
Because China’s government was bigger than Tibet’s government…
;)
The Spartans had an army of ~10,000 versus ~150,000 Persians, at Thermopylae.* They won.
In 1939 Britain had a population of ~4,000,000 versus Germany with a population of ~80,000,000 plus all their allies and all of the resources being plundered from occupied Europe. Yet they managed to field 1,963 aircraft versus 2,550 for the Battle of Britain. And won.
A government’s commitment, to defence** counts more than just the relative size of the population, compared to likely enemies.
* Or 300 vs 1,000,000 if you believe Hollywood.
** And thereby the amount of resources it is willing to allocate, from those available. Be that the time and money needed to train and maintain a powerful army. Or the willingness to sacrifice the lives of its population, no matter what the cost, in an ongoing guerrilla war, should they not have the former option.
Typo. UK population: ~40,000,000
And, yes, yes, the Spartans did get killed. But the country (as it become) endured, thanks to the inspiration it gave to fight on, rather than bow down. Which is what would have happened if numbers were all that mattered.
Most likely at Easter. Try to steal any of the Bunny’s eggs, before they are hidden, and you will find that the bite is worse than the snuffle!
Okay, I vote we pressure our great and benevolent artist and story creator to make a comic of Katrina’s misadventures as an impromptu Easter Bunny at either a mall or park function and she slowly gets deeper and deeper into Easter as more and more people drag her around to bigger and grander Easter parties until she eventually end up at the White House and Sydney creates a distraction with space badgers and the Space Llama Pope while Max rescues Katrina and returns her to the Twilight Council.
:-D
Seconded
I dunno. Those rabbits can be darn vengeful sometimesL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpOYGt4Sss&index=1&list=PLCHPnLAfKx7I96ZP8lVJiUxW95DAcp0ap
Lepothrope, not lycan rabbit :) Lykos is greek for wolf, just like Lepos is greek for rabbit :) Thrope is derived from anthropos – man.
So lycanthrope means Wolf-Man.
And lepothrope means Rabbit-Man.
Also sometimes leptos instead of lepos.
https://www.latin-dictionary.org/lepos
Sounded to me like a were leopard. But a were-comedienne is cool too. I visualise a transformation similar to the Cat morphing into Duane Dibbley.
Greek for rabbit is “κουνέλι” (pronunced “kuneli”).
Words like “Leporidae” come form “Lepus” (with an “u”) that’s Latin for “hare”. To form words it’s used “leporī” that is the… uh… dative? I can never remember those terms.
Your “lepothrope” should be “leporianthrope”. “Thrope” is not a word, “lycanthrope” is that way due the superposition “lycan-anthrope”.
Anyway, Latin for “rabbit” is “cuniculus”, we can call her a “Cunicuanthrope” but yeah, that can go downhill pretty fast :) (double pun intended)
Should be a reply to Pander :(
Actually thrope is short for anthropos, which means ‘man.’ And I’m not talking about modern greek.
I’m not aware of that. Where did you get it from?
Plus cunicuanthrope is a mouthful! :)
Saucy, but cunning linguistics. Although I have never envisaged that, involving a rabbit, before.
Don’t be so swallow.
Better be careful she doesn’t get called a were-pig by a Kiwi, that sounds suspiciously like Kunekune :p
In the WoD, werepigs (actually were-boars) were called grundr. :)
Sorry, meant lepUs
Nothing to be sorry about. Your comment had charm, grace, wit and humour!
I believe the generic term is Therianthrope.
You are right.
…which is something I mentioned in the comments on the previous comic page…
;)
Meee tooo!
*brings over dictionary, in mouth, tail wagging*
Actually, I got it from GURPS Beastiary, 2nd Edition…
;)
Mmm… if you are trying to claim primacy, sorry but Yorp said it three pages ago (#444). I just checked and you said “theriomorph” two pages ago (#445).
literal translation of Lagomorph?
The ability to transform into this beast.
Literally: in the shape of a hare
Semantically: that resemble a hare, similar to a hare.
“Lagos” is the latinisation of the Greek λαγώς (pronunced “lhagos”) that means “hare”.
And it’s actually used as the name of an animal order:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lagomorph
“…comprising the rabbits, hares, and pikas.”
OMG, does that include Pikachu?
I’m not sure if it might have been asked/answered in a comment on a previous page, but are there any rules to what kind of were-animals can exist?
For instance, in another comic I read it is predators (and rats) only, though Kat shows here that in the grrlpower-verse that rule doesn’t apply.
Probably everything. There are horses (as indicated by DaveB’s blog).
Though I guess there aren’t that many were-goldfish around.
I dont think there many were-sloth’s either
There probably are. The reason you don’t see them is that they have trouble making it to the counsil meetings on time.
In the WoD, there used to be were-giant sloths but they were all killed off :)
Was going to joke about them forgetting their were identity but I know you’d all chime in about the goldfish memory being a myth.
Same condition applies to many animal-types; long memory, short attention span. There are exceptions, but overall it’s a good “rule of thumb.”
For example, your family dog has a short attention span, so when you leave the house, to them it seems like you’re “gone FOREVER,” but when you return they will certainly remember you!
As an exception to the “short attention span” part of that rule, I present Yorp as the example.
:D
O and there’s also a were-Smilodon.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2192 (under comic)
Although Dave confirmed that was just Gregor trying to pad out his own claim to be a ‘dire’ wolf. So extinct species are unlikely.
Unless… that’s just what they want
usyou to believe!Aaw, now I’m sad :(
Don’t be too troubled. Dave has a lot of the story planned out. But even authors can be surprised where the plot takes them sometimes. You may yet see a were mastodon.
I think we can safely assume that weresmilodons and weresharks may exist somewhere in Daves wonderfull world of imagination.
My post on the next page goes in to that, one of the rare times I pre-write portions of it as it occurs to me while writing or drawing the page. The short answer is lycanthropy is limited to mammals as far as anyone knows, but that doesn’t exclude humans being able to shift in to other animal forms, they’re just not lycanthropes.
Zoanthropy. Or, um, mamanthropy? Zoanthropy, from Zoos (zoe-os) meaning animal is the all encompassing pseudo-medical term but I’m not sure there’s one for a mamal exclusive version.
…Is it appropriate at this time to include Zoolander too?…
I’m just so so grateful that she isn’t a Giant Isopod.
As a proud Aussie, I note Dave’s “weres can only be mammals” rule – and happily look forward to some day seeing a were-kangaroo, were-koala or (dare I hope?) a were-platypus.
As a proud African I look forward to the were-pygmy mouse, were-ring-tailed lemur and were-elephant shrew.
As a proud Cornishdog I look forward to the were-pixie.
What? Pixies are mammals, they don’t lay eggs. And they are real!
*points paw at preceding pages*
Australia and the tropical regions get all the cool mammals. As a proud Swede I don’t have many to choose from. I guess a werelemming could be interesting though. They may outbreed even the werebunnies.
Last night my mum told me that meteorologists have now reclassified Cornwall as sub-tropical. So, you were being more tropical than you thought.
And my folks live in one of the hot spots.
*fans tail languidly*
Well who knows what crazy stuff the climate may do next? The good thing is that you may get a more varied fauna of werecreatures. If one were gets too dominant they may decide to exterminate the humans. Not that you and I need to worry about that since we are a dog and a robot.
*looks glum*
But I am man’s best friend. And woman’s BFF.
A were-reindeer could be interesting.
No Were-Platypus, they’re Monotreme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotreme
Were-Koala – true origin of the drop bear…
Sydney would not be allowed to discuss the defining characteristic of monotemes, unless she was under duress. But I must stand firm with 7thsealord on this. As you can see, from the sidebar in your own link, platypussys are in the class of Mammalia.
Provided they have been properly schooled in how to raise live babies, rather than laying eggs, the details of their personal plumbing do not prevent them becoming were-platypussys.
Thought they was marsupials
They are in a third branch of our family tree. Theirs was the first one to separate, on the mammal tree, then our line diverged into the marsupials and us (the Eutheria).
*wags tail companionably*
Any dragons?
In my fiction, dragon is a sub-class of magic user, being a person that can shapeshift to between exactly two forms, human and dragon, with other abilities besides. (Yes, this is stolen straight from Gold Digger.)
Anything is possible with magic.
In White Wolf’s gaming, they do have were-dragons. They are quite impressive…So much so that it’s a good thing they’re among the rarest of the shape-shifting breeds.
Considering the number of dragons mating with humans (and vice versa)
Oh wait, you said were-dragons, not half-dragons, carry on
In White Wolf games, the shapeshifting (regardless of species) is inherited, not contracted.
…Be afraid. Be very afraid…
In the WoD games, it mainly seems to be animals from different types of spirit animal lore with a few added ones:
Wolf – Garou
Bear – Gurahl
Rat – Ratkin
Raven – Corax
Cat – Bastet
Hyena – Ajaba
Snake – Nagah
Shark – Rokea
Crocodile – Mokole
Spider – Ananasi
Aurochs – Apis (aurochs extinct – ancestors of bulls, apis not extinct)
Bat – Camazotz (camazotz extinct, bats not extinct)
Boar – Grondr (grondr extinct, boars not extinct)
Fox – Kitsune
Coyote – Nuwisha
Turtle – Ao (ao extinct/in hiding, turtles not extinct)
Smilodon – Khara (smilodon extinct, khara not extinct)
Rugosodon (first mammal ever) – Bristlecreepers (both shifter and animal extinct)
Ape – Yeren
Cockroach – Samsa
Frog – Anurana
Rhinoceros – Kerasi
Others who went extinct don’t have names that are still known:
Megatherium (Giant Sloth) – shifters extinct due to war with the garou (giant sloths extinct too)
Ammonites – shifters extinct due to war with the rokea (normal ammonites not extinct)
Falcon – shifters went extinct due to war with garou (normal falcons not extinct)
Orangutan – supposedly were-orangutans went extinct from war with garou (unless Bigfoot is one?)
Otters – shifters went extinct due to war with garou (normal otters not extinct)
All fresh water fish-shifters are extinct due to a war with garou
All other insect-shifters (except cockroaches) are extinct due to a war with the ananasi
I’m noticing a pattern on extinctions… Damn I forgot those Garou were such pricks, no wonder they got replaced by humans
What about apes???
Were-apes are called Yeren, and are mostly corrupted by the wyrm without realizing it.
Yeah, in the War of Rage, Garou killed a LOT of different shifters into extinction, and many others just into very low numbers (some recovered, like the ratkin, others didn’t, like the gurahl and nagah and ajaba, a few barely even noticed that the war of rage happened, like the rokea, and a couple managed to stay clear of it mostly, like the corax)
Garou were mostly jerks.
Yep. They even exterminated one of their own tribes into extinction: The Bunyip. They’re still working on the descendants of the White Howlers, though; known today as the Black Spiral Dancers.
As a long-time Sluggy Freelance reader, I know better than to underestimate a bunny.
If she grabs a switchblade, run.
Forget the Slug, what about Blade Bunny?
Or Battle Bunnies.
Dang, hadn’t seen that one, have been reading Sequential Art for years though, recognized the style
Werebunny sounds fun actualy. You can run, dig and jump well. Just remember to turn left at Albuquerque. Trolling hunters and wereducks is also a welcome bonus.
You know Bun-Bun would be begging Sydney to borrow the PPO.
That filthy flea bag! Bucky O’hare! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyKI1CHPMNw
An Otaku’s dream come true, meeting a real life bunny girl.
Thought that would be a cat-girl, horny adolescent males from the 60’s and 70’s would be a bunny girl
Final Fantasy fans get kinda hot bothered for bunny girls. And cat girls, blue lion-unicorn men, talking red lion dogs….
Kat’s missing from the Who’s who
DaveB is just needing help to determine which mugshot to use, please to be finding the post further down to make your suggestions
I am outraged that Katarina is not in Who’s Who today! I say we riot in the streets until this great wrong is rectified! Rename the comic Werebunnypower!
I might be overreacting a tad.
I made her badge but forgot to upload it, its fixed now.
Huzzah!
Next page:
Sid:”So what did you do… before?”…
Kat:”I was a police officer.”
Sid:” !!!! ”
Kat:” Call me Hopps and you are dead.”
*upvotes this until it reaches the top of the interweb…*
:-O
All the way to the top of Big Ben? Do you have permission from the Elders of the Internet?
Aww, why not panel seven? :(
I’m a bit surprised that she didn’t immediately hug her too.
She couldn’t because her brain locked up due to too much Kawaii.
So… is she a dire rabbit? When she canges “all the way” is she a normal sized rabbit or a huge, human-sized one?
Some of this is getting confusing.
The dire part was just that Greror was a specific sub species of wolf. A dire wolf (now extinct).
Dire wolfs are also not human sized, so presumably, all were species are human sized in their animal form.
Growing fur is one thing, but growing/shrinking bone structure to get a new size is a whole new type of transformation.
There is also the whole Conservation of Mass thing. If you shrink from 200 pound to 110 pound wolf, you have to put that other 90 pounds somewhere; it can’t just disappear.
Explain the functional difference between disappearing and shunting to one of the 20 dimensions humans can’t normally observe.
A wizard did it.
Hey, it works for Grace in EGS.
I am PRETTY sure Gregor grew in sie with the transformation, it even has an “embiggen” ‘sound-effect’. https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/2178
Also, let’s not dwell too much on the conversation of mass/energy with gals shooting lightning or 4 armed purple aliens drawing magic weapons out of a pocket(dimension?)…
The surplus mass change into energy, that’s why some have glowing eyes.
E=mc² Just saying.
The explosion that devastated Hiroshima 71 years ago (to the day) converted about 1 gram of uranium into energy. 90 pounds of energy will cause “glowing” eyes to shoot out Omega Beams, or at least make Cyclops’s eye-blasts look like a mostly clogged bathroom tap compared to Niagara Falls. 1 pound of energy will fulfil the electrical energy requirements for the entire United States for 4 days! Converting all that mass to energy is not the solution, unless you have some place else to put it for a little while.
Whether Conservation of Mass is observed really depends on the setting. In the Kitty Norvelle novels it’s observed so a small female ends up a small wolf (it also means werebears unless they’re already a towering human are going to be disappointingly small in size), in the novel One Foot In The Grave werewolves appear to have more mass than they should (and vampires less) and in the Peter Is The Wolf webcomic clearly they acquire more mass from some unknown location when transformed (with the main female character gaining ridiculous amounts of height and weight from somewhere else).
Bring the phyiscs that allow supers and/or supernatrual beings into the mix, and the “normal” laws of physics tend to sit down and start crying.
Tell that to the incredible Hulk. Some writer who cared a tiny bit about the physics invented a pocket dimension that his extra mass came and went from.
Of course, that ignored the physics about just tacking on the mass and stripping at away every time he transformed (or gets angrier, in some versions he just keeps getting bigger and stronger as he gets madder). And the physics about other dimensions, whatever those might be.
I do not think he ignored the physics of other dimensions. Physicists, and mathematicians for that matter, have shown that other dimensions are likely. And there is even one that seems a close fit (by comic-book standards). They have simply failed to provide the rules by which those would operate, or be accessible.* So the writer was, perfectly reasonably, staying within the bounds of possibility.
As for the mass/strength side of things, the linked article does mention that the strength, contained in that other dimension, in the form of gravity, does vary considerably in different areas. And there are clear correlations between that and mass in our dimension. **
*Beyond indicating that it can, and does, interact with our universe all the time, via gravity. Although they have shown how we could “see” such a dimension, through the way it interacts with our familiar universe.
** Interestingly that final paragraph was started tongue in cheek, and initially ended with a wink. However, as I developed it, it went from an amusing play on words, to actually sounding plausible. Within super-hero comic boundaries, needless to say.
This logic may hint that other universes might borrow from ours when their supers ’embiggen’. The optimal mode of cross-universe matter transfer is via an electrically charged vortex, which explains why your socks disappear from the clothes dryer.
In the GURPS book, Illuminati University, a matter transference can occur between dimensions when Positive Matter or Anti-Matter interacts with an even more rare particle known as Doesn’t Matter. Even as Positive & Anti- forms of matter interact violently with each other, there is no such violent reaction when either of them interact with Doesn’t Matter, instead it forms a minute wormhole that “squirts” them into another dimension.
The reason why socks disappear in the laundry is because some types of synthetic threads contain small amounts of Doesn’t Matter & the reaction occurs when your laundry machines heat up the material.
So Alice did not fall down a rabbit hole? She climbed into their washing machine, with a load of socks?
:-O
At least that explains Dorothy. A bunch of socks must have been swept up, from washing lines, by the tornado, and when she was sucked up too, they were heated up by either the friction or by a lightning strike.
WARNING:
Do not cover yourself in socks and set them on fire! You have no idea what world you might end up in. It could be the world without shrimp! Oh, and you will probably burn to death too.
Is her dad named Harvey?
Wait, wasn’t he a bird, man? o_O
It’s from the old movie with James Stewart, Harvey is a spirit that appear as a tall rabbit, standing on two feets.
Yes, know all about that classic movie, it was a joke about a certain winged lawyer named Harvey
Yes, I doubted, but commented just in case.
I didn’t know about the TV show before your comment, your phrasing catched my attention but at first it didn’t trigger anything because Birdman was Ray Randall to me, however knowing your reputation I decided to google it :)
You, had never heard of “Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Large” before?
Wait, reputation? What sort of a ‘reputation? Is it a good one, or a bad one? o_O
Harvey used to be a superhero, in the grand tradition. As he got older (& a bit slower), he made his way into a law practice. Poor Space Ghost used to be a superhero too, until Blip bit him (he took a space-monkey to the knee) & he wound up hosting kiddie cartoons thereafter.
Thought he ended up hosting a lame Late Night Talk Show o_O
I figure it must have been like hell for him. Some of his worst enemies when he was a hero wound up being co-star guests…
Nope. Tons of TV shows and stuff don’t make its way here, far away, and I can only so much surf *sigh*
You should at least watch one, if you want to see other childhood cartoon heroes get abused for laughs
Is that what it is about? Oh, count me in.
I haven’t seen him.
I can see why Sydney would be drooling. So tasty looking. And very confident of her safety, next to a couple of werewolves. Which speaks well of their society.
Or she is naively brave.
That’s not drooling – that’s foaming at the mouth – i.e. having a fit.
I’m not exactly sure *why* she has done that though. Suppose it’s different to fainting and rocking from shock.
Cute overload, instead of shocked.
Very cute overload! I think Kat is adorable! Though I would have expected Sydney to say “ohhhh” instead of “EEK”
Eek is a little unclear but clearly represents the “squee” noise here, not a fear reaction.
*wipes drool from mouth*
Yea, I was probably projecting a bit.
*hides mint sauce behind back*
I agree with the cutenes overload. As Sydney was making enquiries about being turned into a were, I feel confident that part of the overload was her envisaging how she would look, herself, as a bunny girl. And was probably putting ‘guys like bunny girls’ and ‘if I were a bunny girl’ together and regressing to her scene drooling over the topless guys.
Mint sauce is for use with Lamb (when it’s not Schwarma with Hummus).
I did look up suggested sauces for rabbit actually. None of them appealed more than a bit of mint sauce.
What about Aioli?
I am not familiar with it, by name. Although I used to do a lot of restaurant eating, so may have tried it, and thus be able to recognise it by taste. The Wiki entry did not ring any bells though. Mind you nor did it associate aioli with rabbit.
It is a shame that I do not know good recipes actually, given both my grandfather and great-grandfather farmed and/or hunted rabbits, to supplement the family’s meals. Including during WW2. Sadly they both died, long before I had a chance to meet them.
It’s some sort of new garlicky concoction
Was simply thinking of an alternative to mint sauce
Mum just suggested brown-onion sauce, or the old stand by: HP sauce
Also better than punching (with a huge initiative bonus) when surprised.
Really, I’m surprised she isn’t acting more like this from the sheer excitement:
https://media.giphy.com/media/NAo3kXkznlOOQ/giphy.gif
I see it as Sydney recognizing the necessity of keeping the Council Chambers as “neutral territory.” Any kind of meeting chamber or forum that enforces non-hostility between even normally-opposing factions must have a mechanism for keeping the peace, otherwise any kind of diplomacy or cooperation is worthless.
Every faction here understands & supports common purposes regardless of whether or not somebody loathes & hates any other individual or faction here. With Archon’s presence (Maxima, obviously) included in that Neutral Zone (& Sydney as well, by extension). It doesn’t really take much nerd-cred to understand this on an almost instinctive level.
Good theory.
*hangs bloody steaks around MidnightDStroyer‘s neck*
Now go into that chamber, and see how it works out in practice! Be sure to snuggle up really close to those werewolves. Those are pretty massive bodies, and will need a lot of daily calorie intake, to keep them going.
*takes off meat knecklace & hands it to Gregor*
“Heer’s a snack while we’re waiting for the mages to report.”
Well played. :-)
Mind you, for Kat to do the same, she would have to peel off her skin.
What? You don’t think we ninjas have a representative there too? Masters of Ninjutsu have been attributed with certain Mystical Powers, closely related to Psionics (powers of the mind). The commonly-held Neutral Zone is well enforced, in that, should someone get out of line, then everyone else is agreed to take action to put the offender back in line.
I absolutely lost it and can die happy now. That was amazing and super adorable cute. <3
I mean she’s absolutely adorable in her human form and goes to like 11 on the daww scale when she transformed. A 12 with the ear flop. I had the exact same reaction as Syd. I think she’s suddenly like my 3rd favorite character, give or take.
Ok, this is getting a little too furry to my taste…
Heh, that is really a funny contrast of tastes, given how it directly followed ForceUser‘s enthusiastic response.
Do not fear though, the core of the comic is still furry-free Arc-SWAT.. We are likely to see a fair bit of furry mind, in the lycanthrope faction. But there are plenty of other scaly, slimy and chitinous alternatives in this room. I am sure we can find you something to your taste…
Something with non-floppy pointy ears perhaps? Could we interest you in an elf or a pixie?
It’s ok, I was just trolling around.
And now that you mention it, I wouldn’t mind seeing more of Ingsol’s sirelings (I do have a thing for gothic redheads…)
Question is what kind of elves are they? The elves before Tolkien wrote his books were kind of nasty bastards with a cruel sense of humor. Since then the lore is all over the place with everything from space-faring elves to the Drow.
Yes, the classic sidhe. They might grant your wish. They might grant your enemy’s wish. They might be kind and gracious. They might be vicious and petty. They are the true embodiment of chaos, except for the places where they have a rigid code or rules of conduct that you don’t know, could never learn, and could quite easily transgress while doing something completely innocent. No matter what happens, you’ll be lucky to get out alive.
Or, you run into the Bloomin’ Faeries
Oh wow! A genuine Playboy Bunny!
:D
And the Playboy
mansionwere-bunny burrow changed paws recently. Being bought by a neighbour. Perhaps there will be a wave of displaced were-bunnies seeking alternative accommodation/ employment?Thought there was a dispute over that? Didn’t bother reading the article though
I heard that Hugh Hefner bought the crypt-vault right next to Marilyn Monroe’s. She was his first nude pictorial photo-shoot in the Playboy magazine, after all.
But If I were Hefner, I would’ve gotten the vault right above hers & specify that they inter me face-down…
:P
Or below
In that case, it would work better if she was interred face-down. Granted, she’s got a nice back, but facing her front works better…
Huh…………..
A “Were-Rabbid”
Now there’s something you don’t see every Monday morning
“Were rabbit”
“There rabbit. There castle.”
Sorry, Young Frankenstein was stuck in my head there.
It’s pronounced Fronk-en-steen.
And Eye-Gor.
And Abbey-something.
But why isn’t it Fro-der-ick?
Reason i said “rabbid” instead of rabbit was to distinguish her ability to possibly cause dismemberment and/or fatal blood loss if she feels like it……………….
Rabbits are cute, cuddly little things that make your heart melt
“Rabbids” are monsters, that will eat your heart, melted or otherwise
Both can usually be dealt with very effectively with an AA12 shotgun
Or a toilet plunger.
And that is why the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch was created.
Kat broke Sydney on purpose in panel seven :D
But as DaveB pointed out, Sydney recovers quickly…Especially if you don’t recognize her as “The Mighty, Mite-tay Halo.”
:)
Okay, if you are looking for suggestions for Kat’s “Who’s Who” photo: human version- panel three, were-bunbun- panel seven :D
In panel one, am I the only one who gets the impression that Kat wasn’t supposed to become a were-rabbit? That there was some kind of mistake or accident that resulted in this?
Gregor: We control our population very carefully.
Kat: As if.
Gregor: Usually.
Sounds like it, makes you wonder what went wrong: maybe Kat is actually a rabbit-were: she was supposed to have been Greg’s lunch, but she survived the mauling
Sounds like a hare-raising ordeal for Kat.
Perhaps a hare-larious prank, gone wrong?
I’m sure many would jump at the opportunity.
I ear what you’re sayin!
Hare today, bald tomorrow.
I bet her favorite book is Warren Peace.
Hare hare, here here.
Let’s not go jumping to conclusions…Sydney may very well ask Kat who her favorite author is later.
(But I doubt that this would show up in the comic anywhere)
It does not sound like Dave wants to keep them rabbiting on too long. They will probably hop up the pace soon. Mind you it should not be too hard to do, if he dangles the right carrot in front of them.
Doesn’t sound like the decision was hers.
There would be three reasons for turning her.
1) An accidental rabbiting
2) Dying and the only thing that would save her
3) She found their secret out and was turned. You don’t blab if you are likely to be the one on the dissection table.
Though with ARC around, the latter doesn’t sound so likely. They would drag her away and force her to sign some non-disclosure agreement. More likely to be 1 or 2. Guess we’ll find out at some point.
She says she is new but in creatures with long lifespans, like werewolves, years may seem like a short space of time to them. How new is she?
Well, she wasn’t there the last time Maxi had a meeting with them
Or any of the times before that, either.
We have no info on how long various sorts of beings live in this universe. We shouldn’t assume that werewolves are long-lived (or that they aren’t). Same for vampires and elves.
As I understood it, the populations of were animals are carefully controlled, except for were bunnies because they reproduce like ahhm bunnies.
That’s a myth. They just practice a lot. For which in this particular case I have no objections at all.
Like Dabbles :D
There’s a Monty Python and The Holy Grail Killer Rabbit joke in this somewhere . . .
Right off the bat, I named that rabbit “The Vorpal Bunny.” Somewhat derivative of the magic sword known as the Vorpal Blade from D&D and the poem “The Jabberwock.”
“Off with their heads!”
you mean this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg
or this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk
Brer-rabbit.
Well…..she’s handling it better then the reveal of her new paycheck…..well..slightly?
Hopefully there are no were-slugs or were-snails, since Sydney is the QUEEN OF SALT!
Yeah, that could lead to an unfortunate incident.
she’d need silver salt, tho
Lol.
True but Silver Chloride, AgCl does exist, so no one is safe…
Before Sydney gets too upset about being called a sidekick, someone should remind her that sidekicking is an excellent training ground for Apex Super Heroines. Just ask Dick Grayson. He went from being Robin in a pretty silly outfit to being Nightwing!
Right. Tell Sydney she’s the next dick.
I wouldn’t put it quite like that, methinks. I value my health too much.
Yea, she will be fed up with the jokes about her balls, already. Let alone adding Dick to the equation.
But in any case she will have to train long and hard to live up to her potential.
Then nobody direct Sydney to the Looking For Group comic. Because of Richard, Dick jokes show up occasionally in the comic itself & also in the comments section almost constantly.
I just noticed something awkward. What do the initials for Apex Superheroine In Training spell out?
“Sydney, did you just call yourself ASHIT?”
My bad. Sydney just used Heroine without the Super, didn’t she. She actually just called herself AHIT, which is much better!
NOT just Nightwing. When Batman retired to be Bruce Wayne, he took over the role! Even joined a version of the Justice League! Of course, it was disbanded after one book, but he retained the cape and cowl. Said Bruce wasn’t going to be going out in costume any more. Happened after Batman came back after killing Darkseid. Gotta love the new 52 continuity.
I’m certain she already knows about Dick.
However, i’m sure she also knows about Jason Todd.
Fairly sure she would rather be Carrie
Even now, nobody knows that I was disguised as the crowbar…
Ooops. I’ve said too much.
:(
Please tell me the were rabbit has magical were rabbit powers and an arch enemy named elmer fudd.
And a failed sense of direction around Albuquerque.
Even Sydney has that problem…
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1646
I do too.
One of my projects, writing a book with interplanetary travel, has the line “I knew I should have taken that left turn at Alpha Centauri”
:-D
I have a friend whose sense of direction is so bad, that when he plays a role-playing game on his computer, he has to stick little post-it notes to his monitor with N, S, E, W written on them.
One of the houses he lived in had a bathroom with two exit doors. He got lost in his own bathroom.
Wait,is her father named Harvey???
No one seems to know. Haven’t seen him around for a while.
Sydney( holding right arm in air as if putting on a shoulder): Say hello Harvey!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_(film)
Go there for more info. I doubt this applies to Katrina
Wait! Maybe…
https://www.greystoneinn.net/greystone-inn?sort=176
Nope. Not there either…
…I’ll fetch the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
Ka-Bun!
GAH! For a second there, I thought she had gone, “KA-BUN-BUN”, and I thought we were all doomed.
I’m not sure even Max could handle Bun-Bun or the Tank named after him.
I think the term you should be using for that kind of creature is “Thrope” seeing as the word Lycan derives from the Greek word Lykos which means wolf, hence a Lycanthrope is a werewolf, or man-wolf with Thrope being the part for man. For a were-rabbit the term could be Lapinethrope or some such.
Either way, still loving the mythology being explored in the Grrl universe.
Lepothrope
I know this mainly because I play a game called Asheron’s Call, and on the pvp server, I was going for a bunny theme for my character, so I named her Lepolia because lepos/lepis is latin for rabbit.
Zoos (pronounced zoe-os) is “animal”, giving us Zoanthrope as the generic term for one who turns into an animal.
“Thrope” is not a word, the right spelling is “anthrope”.
Didnt realise there could be other type of Were- animals, but as much as I love to address more on this, will the next page get the plot moving? Im curious about this circle of mages and what they found out about the orbs.
This is moving the plot, just because we don’t have a page of old men in dresses avidly fondling Sydney’s balls doesn’t mean the plot has stopped
Phrasing
…Was deliberate.
You are learning :D
This may not be action, but the plot is most definitely progressing. Just think how profound your life would change if you met a were-rabbit.
“Hey mom, I would like you to meet my new girlfriend…”
Or picture yourself, after having convinced Kat to go public, and taking her to the press conference.
“Hi let me introduce my were-rabbit friend, Kat.
What do you mean ‘Where is she?’, she is right here next to me.
Stop looking at me like I am crazy!”
*Meets a Were-Bunny* . . . .Neat. *Takes Picture* My life would literally not change. Unless there were a hoard of them and they were attacking/eating people and we had to rise up against the bunny invaders. Speaking of, wasnt there a “horror” film about giant rabbits attacking people? I remember it failing because even though there were blood effects and people dying, it just looked too cute to be scary.
Night of the Lepus.
(My lady is a devotee of bad horror/monster movies – the worse the better. I know far more about them than I really want to. We spent a day driving to and around Ajo, Arizona just because the aforementioned movie was filmed there.)
Thank you! Oh my God! that movie was a beautiful mistake that should be watched by everyone!
So much that the Oracle used it to help the Potentials to break the Matrix!
There was also a horror movie about a were-sheep, called ‘Black Sheep’ (not to be confused with the Farley comedy movie).
That, was a local documentary
+10
Seriously. Here :) This is not a joke trailer. This is a real movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-ExKYM5xQY
Whoever pitched that to a studio, and got it approved, must have had some very compromising footage of the key executives. Probably involving sheep.
Not to be confused with this movie
Of course it’s not a joke, it was filmed locally (hence why said it was a local documentary)
That trailer had me thinking about the logistics. Of having to fly German-speaking people all the way from Europe. But the I realised that all it would take is infecting any local German speakers, with were-homosapiens, and you could employ an all Hobbit cast!
Oh no, the other one was filmed in California, apparently (they had to employ a Dutch-man to play one of the Poles though)
…And then there’s the film that has induced horrible nightmares in vegans all over the world;;;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes
This is the eternal struggle of this comic. Sydney will meet and greet for a few more pages, but then the plot will be gotten on with. She’s not going to hobnob with everyone at the council first, even though I totally had stuff written in my head for each of them.
You can still do those once Sydney meets them, eventually, or as the plot dictates
I think it would be awesome for either mini comics or filler comics to have the different were’s take her on missions and its solely a trip to a furry-com or comic-con and they knew she’s the only Archon soldier/ trooper that would willingly go and actually be fun to go with.
I wouldn’t mind if you took the time to introduce her to a were-squirrel named Grace.
This is Book / Vote Fodder right here.
Sydney and the Twilight Council – Deleted Scenes.
Why would there not be various types of “Weres”? If you look hard enough, I’d be willing to bet that almost every culture in the world has tales and myths about shapeshifters with animal forms.
Just because we are the most familiar with Werewolves from European myth doesn’t mean there aren’t others less known to us.
Is she available as an MC for Easter egg rolls? Hopping down the bunny trail, perhaps?
I initially thought you said ‘MC Escher’ egg rolls. It would be much easier. You begin by pushing one down the first stair and it just keeps on rolling.
I saw what you did there, with the stairs. Again and again.
Although it is clearly impossible to have the Easter Bunny perpetually rolling down the stairs. Because we know that perpetual motion does not exist.
No, that is what they want you to believe, to perpetuate the reliance on fossil fertilizer
If you’ve got it, flaunt it!
Or enfloppen it.
Just, don’t do that in public, you might get arrested for indecency
And if she gets away the first time, they’ll call Elmer Fudd.
Sydney’s operating system is still crashing when overloaded, but the reboot sequence is being optimised.
A bit of downtime to defrag will help improve stability.
If Sydney resets her head, on the desk, they are going to think she is strange.
No, wait. That ship has already sailed. Go ahead, Sydney.
I expected a forehead vein on Maxima…
She added a point to armor to prevent it from showing.
The big throbbing vein is on her right side
It was probably just a question of time before it happened. Poor Max have become Sydney handler.
Well, that’s already a given…Max (& to some extent, Arianna too) were appointed as Sydney’s “handlers” even on her first day in Archon HQ:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/939
At least we know Sydney’s ego refuses to allow herself to be called a Sidekick, so much that it breaks the Cute Spell.
I’ve heard of the Trope, “Break the Cute”, but this is one of the few times I’ve seen “Being broken by the Cute”.
Never heard of the quote ‘Break the Cute’ – is it anything like ‘Break the Woobie?’ :)
Actually, it’s “Break the Cutie,” with an I. It does connect a bit with The Woobie.
If Sydney’s neck gets any thinner, she’s going to become a human bobble-head.
You show them, Sydney. Those Lycans aren’t the only ones who can shapechange!
It turns out that she is Scottish, specifically from Caerbannog. Just don’t get her angry.
I wonder if she good at basketball? BTW don’t call her doll!
You’re saying Kat’s nickname is Lola?
Does she also Cha-Cha at the Copacabana? The hottest spot north of Havana?