Grrl Power #648 – 9th class accommodations
It seems that despite Sciona’s intelligence and planning, she has to keep pushing off her goals. Well, she’s adaptable and patient. Well, she’s not really patient, but she does what she needs to. Determined. That’s the word she puts on her dating profile. Right after “psychotic…ally goal oriented.” Her hobbies include long walks on the beach, slaughtering innocents and draining their blood to power her spells, macramé, and plotting revenge.
I mean, macramé. What a weirdo.
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*Queue Jewel’s Song, “Who Will Save My Soul”*
*Sings horribly off key….*
To commemorate the loss of a race, and their ongoing soul-searching, I have composed a mashup, of the following:
Body and Soul – Libby Holman
Greedy Soul – Liam Gallagher
Hey Soul Sister – Train
Hole in My Soul – Aerosmith
Hospital for Souls – Bring Me the Horizon
I Got Soul – Young Soul Rebels
I Know You Got Soul – Eric B. & Rakim
L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever) – Kasabian
Lost Soul – Screaming Lord Sutch & the Savages
Love Will Save Your Soul – Grouplove
My Soul’s Got Wings – John Mellencamp
Save My Soul – Mike + the Mechanics
Sell My Soul – Seether
Shepherd of My Soul – Kutless
Soul Companion – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Soul Hacker – Fear Factory
Soul Killing – The Ting Tings
Soul Meets Body – Death Cab for Cutie
Soul One – Blind Melon
Soul Power Pt. 1 – James Brown
Soul Sacrifice – Santana
Soul Sucker – Ozzy Osbourne
Soul Survivor – Beverley Knight
Souled Out!!! – Conor Oberst
Soulful Lady – Michael Chapman
Souljacker part I – Eels
Souls Of The Departed – Bruce Springsteen
Stoned Soul Picnic – The 5th Dimension
Summer Of All Dead Souls – …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
They Want My Soul – Spoon
This Dying Soul – Dream Theater
Tornado of Souls – Megadeth
Troubled Souls – Jack Savoretti
We Sold Our Souls to Metal – Soulfly
Who Will Save Your Soul – Jewel
*soulfully sings mashup*
There’s also Manu Dibango’s “Soul Makossa”, Maceo Parker’s “Soul Power ‘74”, King Curtis’ “Memphis Soul Stew”, Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirits in the Sky”, and of course the Bar-Kays’ “Soul Finger”.
I’d like to add my favorite “Save My Soul” by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5IEt63qOSI
soul, from mad world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9vB94bpw_A
Soul Surfing – Fatboy Slim
Mr Soul – Neil Young
All You Have Is Soul – Tracy Chapman
Birdhouse In Your Soul – They Might Be Giants
Sell My Soul – Midnight Oil
Spirit On The Water – Bob Dylan
Spirit Is The Journey – Johnny Clegg
Spirit – The Waterboys
*Looks upon what she hath started, and it is good.*
*Sage nod of approval.*
Souls: every one talks about them though they are not a proven fact. Unless you listen to Whitley Strieber or any religious person. But so far there is no soul shaped place in physics for it. yet our brains create it every time. And some of those imagined souls have parts and layers depending on if it from ancient Egypt or ancient China or some where else. Come on someone in biophysics, prove the much talked about “soul” exists.
In much of my fiction souls exist and have been proven in 1880 and from then on the physics and typology of souls is known and exploited. The way the soul is treated differ in fiction from killing you if you remove it to turning you into a murderous psychopath to becoming “super animals”.
It seems that we don’t use our soul. If we did we could do amazing things. Some other advanced species like the Mi-Go do use them. And even a few humans do. You have to do it if you want to do real magick. (Crowley)
Alien invasion never makes sense to me of an occupied world. The same scenario as in “Earth Versus The Flying Saucers” (1956) by Ray Harryhausen who wrote the script for it. They are the survivors of a disintegrated solar system. Belligerence isn’t a good tactic with us. Make peace and humanity will carve a place for you. We could have given the Martians the frozen lands of the poles instead of their offensive invasion in 1898-1899.
“The way the soul is treated differ in fiction from killing you if you remove it to turning you into a murderous psychopath to becoming “super animals”.”
And that’s why the multiverse was made in such a way as to make the spiritual mechanics behind everything not so easy to “find” or “prove” by just any Tom, Dick, or Harry species who’ve just reached the scientific level of igniting their planet’s farts for fun and profit.
Personally I am awaiting the results of a large scale experiment, which would have oblique relevance to the existence or non-existence of the soul. Which I have mentioned some time before before, but it continues to intrigue me.
Select hospitals, on both sides of the Atlantic, will have any patients scheduled for serious operations, interviewed before hand. Included in the questions to establish their base-line mindsets, regarding death and the like.
Afterwards a researcher will be to paw, in order to interview them immediately on waking. In particular, if they had a close call, or actually needed to be revived from death!
Note that there have been many anecdotal accounts of people floating out of their bodies, in such situations. And quite often supplying fairly credible descriptions of what they ‘saw’. Making sure that there is no chance for contamination of any recollections, through speaking with others, improves the reliability of such testimony.
But wait, it does not stop there!
Because various iconic scenes (say Micky Mouse) have been painted on top of the mounting for the surgical lights.
In other words, if there is someone claiming to have had an out of body experience, from a perspective above that, then they should be able to point out this anomalous picture!
All surgical and medical staff have agreed not to try and find out what the pictures are (presumably cleaners get to see them, but are sworn to secrecy). As such nobody the patient may talk to, before the researcher reached them, should be able to contaminate the results.
It was scheduled to run for 10 years. Sadly I have only a very vague impression of how time elapses. Us doggies experience it very differently to humans! So I have no idea if it is overdue or yet to report.
But it should provide compelling support for one camp or the other, upon conclusion.
With the implication being that if out of body experiences are corroborated, in this manner, then it would give good reason for folks to claim that ‘this confirms the existence of the soul’.
I exclude myself from either side of the debate mind. As I consider both to be true simultaneously (i.e. souls do not exist and souls do exist). So my interest in the results is purely academic curiosity.
Don’t forget Starburner (Steam Powered Giraffe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26zq-myzEvk
that second frame is so sad to look at :(
So given her comment about “eventually” and the fact that she is currently melting into the mist. I’d say what we’re looking at is a possession bid on a pretty grand scale. I suspect however, that most of these loose souls will he caught in limbo as a side effect of the veil. The strongest will likely go after those hosts without souls, coma patients, stillborn, unborn, and politicians.
With a few souls incarnating as infants over time for the forseeable future.
Given that future grrl power isn’t a warzone of ensouled monsters and aliens. The numbers of sucessful transfers will be very low. Probably just enough to secure a council rank. (Not that they’d take one).
Or Sydney’s shield proves impenetrable to souls and she accidentally acts as a cork in the portal till it spits her and a few lucky alari out.
Or option3, there is a magical ancient site in place designed to prevent such an occurence that conveniently activates in response to the incursion
At least thats my take.
We know that since this is a flashback that the invasion is mild enough that Sydney can play RPGs with her friends at the comic book store so at this point it’s really a question of what makes it that way
My option 4 is the rift is closing and all of them do not make through to earth.
And all this is a Flash Back from the Beginning of the comic.
Yes, it is Flash Back from the Beginning, the Beginning is set a couple months ahead of ‘now’
Really much easier to think of the first few strips as a “flash forward”, given that it is the only exception to the rest of the timeline (and extremely brief, 4 strips covering half a day at most?).
And that glimpse was only “a few months” into the future, we are now several weeks (about 1 month maybe?) into that future. If Sciona does manage to invade through the portal with her army-in-a-jar, I bet it takes her more than 2-3 months to get it fully reconstituted and ready for world domination.
There is another flash forward too in Marion’s book:
Wearing the cape – Team-Ups and crossovers ;)
It is also the author’s preferred way of describing it.
When ‘flashback’ does work is if considering the entirety of what we see to be the story as narrated from that future Sydney. And I know more than a few people view it that way, hence likely cling to that term as a result.
However we have learnt something about Sydney, since the story started, which shines new light onto that assumption.
Sydney likes play acting. In particular we have seen several instances of her playing the part of being a character in a super hero story. More than once looking and talking into the 4th wall (and getting it wrong once). Plus a couple of instances of trying to force a scene break, to get past the boring bits she was living through. And more.
So it is entirely consistent that when we see the ‘flash forward’, at the beginning, Sydney is simply doing more of the same. She is not the narrator of this story. She will just be play-acting at being the narrator, when we reach that point.
Most importantly we have not had any instance of her narrating the story since. Which is something you would actually expect from a narrator!
Sciona is now going to become the vessel for all that remains of the people of her planet (according to the general consensus). Kind of a “mass transit” occupation. Should she now be called “Soul Train”?
(sprained my shoulder reaching for that joke)
I’m more getting the “My name is Legion: for we are many.” vibe here.
Will she be the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace, or the flagon with the dragon?
But which holds the brew that is true?
Well she just broke the chalice from the palace, so I expect that she is the pellet with the poison.
Draining their blood to power her macrame. :)
She’s bringing the thetans to earth.
There are worse things than Macrame she could be doing PS1 resident evil speed-runs on twitch.
sciona deciding to be a titty streamer would be funny. especially funny if done to taunt max.
Scientology origin story!
Careful, you’ll have Titan claiming that you’re mocking him. Wouldn’t want that to happen, again.
Running with themes suggested by several threads …
The unstable wormhole, after the explosion, is no longer anchored on the Earth side either. Rather than moving around in space, like at this end, it is moving in time. The heroes, being close to it, will come out slightly before the explosion. Hopefully, from the lack of devastation, and Achilles’s bemused response to any query about that, Dabbler may deduce the correct state of affairs and get them to evacuate fast!
The Earth end of the wormhole though keeps going back in time, and by the time that the Alari souls arrive it is several hundred thousand years ago. Hunting around the planet the only bodies that they can find, which are remotely like their own, are some primitive hominids. Having no other options, they possess them.
In due course they complete their evolution into humans, and history proceeds pretty much unchanged.
Even up to the point where one of their descendants is standing on the Alari homeworld, with seven obs, being scanned by the scout of a genocidal fleet.
“Deep scan concluded. Alari soul detected! Summon the mothership!”
Seeing it getting smaller, Achilles has stepped into the wormhole and has temporarily stopped its collapse, his invulnerability meeting the irresistable universal force and prevailing. He has the back part of one shoe left after the blast…
Achilles’ “any kind of sign” comment will be capped off humorously with the lot of the travelers emerging at some speed (still in Sydney’s bubble, now greatly reduced in size to the mild discomfort of all but one demon) catching Achilles and splaying him on the shield bubble’s surface. They push all the way out of the mountain…
They find a shaken but not stirred Mr. Amorphous outside after his prior impact, with Peggy swooping in.
Back in the remnants of the lair, between large pieces of stone, the remnant of the now tiny wormhole is finally disappearing, cutting off an arm and silver-haired head just coming through, spilling blood that seems a bit more animated than it should…
Heh.
That would actually be a pretty neat origin story for the supers on Earth. And the reason the population started to surge was because a full strength Alari soul made it to earth and had started stirring things up.
That could also be why sciona decided they needed to invade, perhaps without even realizing it. She felt too at home on Earth, and so decided that meant she wanted to conquer it. Everything else was just denial of her true feelings.
Interesting angles. Although the ‘origin of super powers’ would need a bit more work, given that they do not appear to have any super powers.
Although flight is not something that humanoids can normally do, so that is a possible angle. But it would be rather contrived, requiring several steps or assumptions, in order to convert that into the multiplicity of super powers on Earth in the Grrlverse.
Especially as the wings can be explained as being natural, if we assume that they are grown from substances not present on Earth. All our calculations about whether winged flight is possible for human shaped and sized creatures are based upon muscles and bones formed from the elements available on Earth.
However if the Alari homeworld has a range of exotic elements not present on Earth then their wings could grow naturally with properties far beyond any we could either evolve or engineer on Earth.
So it is actually simpler to rationalise them as not having racial super flight, than it is to explain how such could be translated into a variety of super powers.
Aha, but inspiration has just struck me. We know that Sciona herself has cracked an issue which has eluded the Twilight Council, for 3,000 years. Namely she figured out how to copy super powers, using her blood magic. Which implies a deeper understanding of super powers, than the Council have, given that they could not even program the Veil to recognise supers.
So she, and possibly other blood mages, or descendants, could have gradually been modifying humans, through their blood, to develop the super powers.
Currently the community is split. If they are all just souls, then my line of thought stops there.
However if Sciona’s body has survived, and she is acting as a host for them, then it continues.
Sciona injected at least eight different blood buffs into her body. Of which we can identify:
• Cthilia’s gaze attack
• Super strength (possibly Wyrmil)
• Super toughness (ditto)
• Regeneration (ditto, or troll or Pixel)
Leaving an extra four unaccounted for. Plus if it was Pixel’s blood providing the regeneration,* then there would also be laser claws, invisibility and were-jaguar elements too. Clearly not activated, but Pixel could toggle hers, so no reason why Sciona could not either.
Provided that Sciona acted promptly and managed to extract samples of those, from her own blood, she would actually have the seed powers to start such a program.
* The controlling ‘brain/ creature’ of the super power copying construct slithered away. It had copied Pixel’s powers, so there is a vector by which that sample could have reached Sciona.
I love that you ran with my zany idea :D.
I was more thinking that the powers would have evolved over time, but admittedly I didn’t actually think it much through.
It is fun to riff off clever suggestions. :-D
Especially when you can reach unexpected bonuses like also accounting for the origin of Lycanthropy. Pixel would be the mother of all werewolves, werejaguars and all the other lines.
Of course there would also be an interesting paradox but, heck, that is part of the fun of time travel!
That’s how Marvel explained the origin of the Zombie outbreak: the final zombie being sent back in time to start the whole mess
Well that could explain the “comet” that hit earth and took out of the dinosaurs.
Why Japans seems to have a lot of spirits runnuing around.
why she will mutter “oh, no. Not again” after getting a too close portal haircut.
This was was scionas second time round the time lines.
Earth was Alari home planet.
Fyi: JP youkai are not just ‘evil’ (as portrayed in most translated US manga)
I think superpowers may actually be much simpler – it may be a single gene that acts as a translation key – without the gene, other DNA behaves normally, however, the “super gene” may take existing DNA and derive powers based off that – further evidence to this possibility is the super who’s powers change based on who she touches, as she temporarily causes her gene to run power translation based on their DNA.
just a thought, but who’s to say those souls are Alari?
Sciona. Sciona said they were Alari. She would know.
There’s something utterlyy hilarious in the incongruosly mundane image of a supernatural being/alien invader/psycho cultist hiding in the midst of humanity having a internet dating profile in one or more related sites. Guess it’s the irony and/or contrast in what it implies of her, in the “not so different after all” or maybe the “really in need of sexing but oh, so bad at gettting it and a little desperate” or a bit off either/both. Don’t know.
She communicated with them and by her monologue and actions seems to recognize them as such?
Kind of the whole implied point of the last two pages involving her?
When did she get her leg back? I thought Dabbler shot it off about 2 weeks back, and she was using her wings to walk. Otherwise, it looks great.
Sciona regenerates. When we saw her in the Mars factory, she commented ‘Troll blood does you good’, in the context of why she was healing. Recently we saw her injecting a cocktail of eight different types of blood. One of which must have granted her regeneration again. Since taking the damage we saw her with it partly regrown. Now it has completed the process.
The Akari regenerate from injuries very fast. Her nose is no longer broken as well, her wing tip is back, and we saw her leg reforming the last few panels. Plus Dabbler outright said she regenerates.
An important distinction though … actually less important now that they all appear to be extinct … is that Alari cannot regenerate. But Sciona could, by use of her blood magic.
Loose spirits upon the earth? Scientology validity activated!
Oh noes, the story is true! Another galaxy is firing ghosts directly at the Earth!
>.>
<.<
"By our powers combined, We are Captain Alari!!"
I'll see my self out…
*reloads the rifle*
Yes… yes you do that, pardner.
We’ll miss you!
(If you’re lucky…*chambers round*)
Several commentors have indicated that I am about to discover how Scionalogy works. I don’t know too much about it but I guess that means that several of our celebrities are actually Alari possessed?
Either that or are lizard-like aliens, in disguise.
May explain what Green Jean was really doing in the bar: visiting distant relations :D
Or was that the lizard doing the Charlton-grind on Kenya? o_O
It would be interesting is Halo`s last orb would activate because of the souls and be like a container becasue it sucks in the souls. Or if the souls really posses somebody that her unknow orb would activate to determine who is possesed or/and help to get rid of the extra soul from the possesed body.
I don’t remember this being answered in the comics, but do Incubi exist, as a male version of succubi or not.
It has been revealed, and no they do not. All succubi are female. The only way that the species reproduces is with males of other species. It involves very complex factories. However we only know the latter from the author’s blogs, and so have no details in comic.
are all offspring of a succubi also succubi or will some of them be of whichever race the succubi had the child with
would a succubi be able to produce male children
It is your first option above. They are always only succubi and as such none will be male. As an observation though Dabbler has very different looks to Decolette. So the male parent will presumably influence the child’s characteristics, if not determine either their race or gender.
Dabbler is an exception to many rules though, not least is the fact that she has three parents! But this would serve to explain why she differs so much. Whereas if you check out the scene depicting Dabbler’s schooldays (which is cannon, barring any homages) you will see that Decolette is closer, in appearance, to the succubi depicted there.
You know, I still feel like if she just asked nicely, Arc would help her relocate her people.
I mean, not to Earth, obviously, they seem like difficult neighbors, but maybe Venus or something?
They would be obliged to assist refugees from a genocide, by international treaties. Although they can well claim that only humans would be covered by such. However that would require checking the wording of such treaties to see if it specifies ‘humans’ or ‘people’.
The latter is far more common. And sometimes it is even more laxly termed (or simply not defined in any way). Which is how we sometimes see news reports of animals being elected to political office.
Well, we didn’t see a news report of it, but there was Incitatus (Caligula’s horse) who got appointed to the Roman senate. Okay, it didn’t win an election. But Incitatus was almost certainly the first recorded animal government official.
In 1938, the people of Milton, Washington elected Boston Curtis as their Republican Precinct Committeeman. Boston Curtis, of course, was a mule. It wasn’t Boston’s idea to run for office. Most of Boston’s ideas centered around eating grass, or maybe pooping, until one day, the mayor of Milton dragged him downtown to the courthouse and put his hoofprint on some documents. One election later, Boston was a republican precinct committeeman.
That’s small potatoes compared to City Councilmember for Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1959, this position was won, fair and square, by a rhinoceros, in a landslide victory by over 100,000 votes. No one had to be tricked into it, either. The politics of Sao Paulo were a complete mess at the time, so the citizens were essentially saying “We would rather vote for a rhino than keep these jokers in office.”
In 1981, the citizens of Sunol, California held a mayoral election. Bosco Ramos, a pro-democracy Lab-Rottweiler mix, won the job. To this day, if you walk into a Sunol bar, you can get a likeness of him to piss beer into your mug when the bartender lifts his leg. (No, I’m not joking!)
In 1996, Frederico the goat ran for mayor of Pilar, Brazil. He was found dead under mysterious circumstances, so he never won the election, but he was ahead in the opinion polls at the time.
Rabbit Hash, Kentucky (yes, the town’s name is “Rabbit Hash”) has been electing animals as mayor since 1998, partly because they have nothing better to do, and partly to get some attention. The town almost went under in the 70s and is basically being maintained by a historical preservation society. The most recent election was won by Lucy Lou, a border collie.
I love everything about this post…
“Waiwaiwait, I voted for a rhino? An actual RHINO??”
“Well, I told you it was.”
“I thought you meant he was a RINO! You know, Republican-In-Name-Only!”
“Nnnope, actual rhino.”
Here is some seriously impressive flying!
Peggy, the gauntlet has been thrown down. That chinook pilot has pulled off a feat comparable to your precision shooting. I expect you to be as good in your osprey!
We still do not know why sciona really wanted to go to the Alari world?
Was she hoping to find someone? Could also explain why she is sad.
You must have missed some of the dialogue, as that was explained. She boasted to the team that now she was home she would return to Earth [with an army of Alari], conquer it, unify all the governments and enslave all the humans.
Credibility that this was not just idle boasting can be found by examining Deus’s “book of conquests”, where we can see that Sciona is listed as a “Duchess”. So unless it was just a courtesy title, she would have the political power to raise an army. Further Dabbler’s testimony corroborates that this is just the kind of thing the Alari were know to do.
Yes. When she saw the devastated city, she revealed that she had contacted here, prior to travelling, and they were fine. So she had expected everything to be as normal. Making this totally shocking for her.
looks like she got really dizzy sooner than expected