Grrl Power #733 – Lurv triangle?
Uh oh.
Keeping in mind that Sydney and Krona are two of the most powerful beings on Earth (Krona far more subtlety, granted) this could go down in several ways. The building will probably still be there next page though.
So yeah, this is what Sydney needed to do before diving in to the party. Obviously, she didn’t picture it going down like this.
Academically, Sydney knows it has been nearly two months for everyone else, but it may take her some time to recognize that they haven’t been sitting around with their thumbs up their butts the whole time. Life goes on, even if a great deal of it was spent pacing around worrying about Sydney. They had no idea if she would survive being stranded on Alari Prime until Cora arrived at the planet two days ago. The carpet in Maxima’s office has some furrows in it.
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Maybe they were co-op coding and when they were tired after an all nighter then took a nap. This could be a thing too. OH! She could totally hack his chair and make it “Puncture resistant” you know… for reasons.
I think stain-proofing would be vital too.
OrAnd a ‘Dabbler stay away’ aura.Puncture resistant?
What’s his name, after the Vehemence fight, got turned into one of Dabbler’s temporary sex slaves. The next day she went after him again and his erection punched a hole in Leon’s chair.
Leon is not a super. Besides an erection that hard could damage her more than the chair.
Oh right!! thanks
Leon’s not a super. Besides an erection that hard would not be pleasant for her either.
Yeah, we know he isn’t a super, but it’ll still help his chair survive another brush with Barberians super pecker.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-372-conquest-rodeo/
At least we know that Dabbler eats healthy. A large part of her diet seems to include super-bone meal.
(all puns intended. yes, all of them)
Then you ain’t doin it right.
Gotta be a story there!
Well, I’m glad to see Krona is still around, she’s almost as adorable as Sydney. I *was* kinda hoping that it would help Sydney to have someone around with a similar figure and size, it might be a bit of a boost for her self esteem… and then “she took Sydney’s guy.” Oops.
(and yes, I realize the fallacy there, that’s why the quotes. Poor Sydney and her nonexistent impulse control.)
Sydney has no need for a snail’s pace-impulse drive, she uses an aetherium causeway!
You all know I’m going to say it, but it’s still happening:
She’s gone plaid.
Next on Xuriel’s daily interdimensional live porn channel: aetherium causeway strength sex drives, how to get one and how to tune it for ideal results!
I guess Krona will have to go on “The List.”
So I guess this means that Sydney will have to steal a boyfriend.
Watch out Harem!
I don’t think Harem has ‘a’ boyfriend. Perhaps a stable…
I am fully thinking that this is 100% Dabbler’s preparation still in progress.
This is Sydney, she’ll probably go after Clover’s dad. He’s so fluffy.
Mr Barkley is way too old for Sydney, I can’t see him being at all interested.
A little session with the molest orb, a nice flea collar after she washes his fur in the bath: he’ll be a docile dire wolf .
If someone showed interest in Clover, she’d probably go for it. Why? Because weredirehoneybadger just don’t give a… well actually…
Day late and a dollar short, Syd. Life is short, gotta grab it by the horns before you get gored.
The bad kind of goring, not the good kind like Frix can do.
No who’s who? What madness is this?
Now I must read through all the comments and learn how many times this has been asked/explained.
Dave explained it right in the commentary, it’s Krona. No worries if you skipped the commentary though, but it’s almost always worth reading.
Sometimes the Who’s who doesn’t show
If you go to the direct URL rather than just the home page (hit back then forward again) the who’s who shows up. There’s currently a bug where it’s not working on the homepage view.
Yeah if you really want someone to seriously date you, surprise them by demanding it out of the blue at a large gathering of all your mutual friends and coworkers.
That always works out well.
It’s worked pretty well for me! I’ve gotten a lover every time I’ve tried it*, no joke**! In fact, that’s why I have such a rich*** and full**** life, surrounded by family***** and loved ones******.
* I never tried it.
** Yes it is.
*** I’m poor.
**** I suffer from soul-crushing loneliness.
***** I don’t have a family.
****** My fans count as this, but they’re usually busy so I don’t get to interact with them much at all.
Ah yes, the first commandment of evaluating marketing and legal copy: “The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.”
Modern version: “The large print yeeteth & the small print yoinketh away…”
Don’t forget, after disappearing for nearly two months…
I dislike Krona. Her powerset is sort of story-universe breaking. Up to this point I was hoping she had been subtly written out.
She can “edit reality” – that strikes me as a bad idea to include in your story, because how far can that go? The answer is too far.
My understanding is that her powers are restricted significantly because she’s just an average human as far as intellect. she’s no super genius, so she can usually break down the universe’s “code” only in very simple ways and limited contexts and tweak a variable here or add a looping construct there, block this little pathway or save this state, but she’s still quite unconfident
In the wrong hands, like perhaps Deus, her powers could probably be utilized for greater impact, but even in that situation, the question is, does it rely on her brain directly? Can someone else actually force her to do something she doesn’t want or know how to do already?
The interesting response to that is, can she make herself smarter?
Of course, she may be completely and understandably unwilling to apply her powers to her brain…
Even if she hasn’t been written out, my recollection is that her using her power was essentially written out. That works for me, because I agree with you that the ability to edit reality/create save points goes too far and removes the possibility of dramatic tension, but on the other hand she as a character was perfectly engaging.
Her “thing” seems to be that her powers don’t come with an instruction manual. So, she could do pretty much anything, but (as we saw with the “save points”) it’s a lot of trial-and-error and she doesn’t want to “oopsie” the universe…
I wonder if Krona keeps herself in check when she’s about to try something more complex with the simple thought “If I do this, will I get an Error 404: Universe not found?”
That’s your personal viewpoint. We have characters who can easily destroy all dramatic tension in this comic who have no leashes like Krona does. Dabbler is perhaps the most intelligent being on the planet, with technology that makes everything Earth can throw at her look like harmless toys. And actual-to-goodness magic. She’s also apparently fought and possibly killed gods. We have Maxima… just… Maxima. We have… honestly, just your pick of the team. And Sydney herself, hoo boy. She has a nearly invincible bubble, and can warp space-time on the local level and on a cosmic level.
But you’re worried that Krona can upset the nature of the comic, when she’s too afraid to go God Mode and always has been, even before she realized how badly she could screw up. She’s used her powers in the comic to this point almost entirely on an apparently-harmless and almost petty scale. And that’s before finding out that even that much can cause severe damage to the universe. Unless you feel that Sydney having to go relieve herself off-panel was somehow dramatic tension. The girl could bring an end to most things as we know it and instead she’s been quietly using her powers to do things like change hair color, hack bladders, and swap out underwear on top of little save points that didn’t work like she thought – and made an excellent plot device for storytelling before people started bellyaching about it because they let their imaginations run wild. Leading to the far more morally objectionable situation of Maxima basically kidnapping Krona, someone who she doesn’t even have authority over.
You have to admit that Krona is a lot better looking than Thanos.
I think the most important thing here is that Sydney and Frix can just have fun, but human x human (if that’s even what Kronachrome is and if not it is what Sydney & Leon are… I mean seem to be) are ‘supposed’ to be monogamous?
Leon could be the luckiest guy in eight universes if Sydney’s next words are along the lines of “Can I get in on this?”
I’ll do a different comment for what I just now thought Sydney might be.
Eventually that would end in a turf battle.
The turf never wins.
Leon is the Turf.
Polyamory is a thing.
Except Leon is usually alone. Not many leet hackers have workmates.
Wrong thread sorry.
Polyamory is a thing but usually is not a good idea when you know the other parts of the ‘poly’ from barely less than… what is it? less than two months for Leon, even less for Krona (subjective time)?
The point of dating, Sebastian, is to get to know someone better. As a polyamorous person, the issue you’re presenting is one that only comes up when trying to form an actual relationship.
I will be very disappointed in Sydney if she reacts badly to this since she only laid claim to Leon in her mind, and not but hours ago was having sex with someone she just met, yet he and Krona can’t have grown closer in the time she’s been away without Sydney becoming upset.
Based on what I think I know (I might be working off of false information), it’s almost impossible to have an enduring polyamorous relationship unless everyone involved has feelings for everyone else – if it’s two girls loving a guy who loves them both, but the two girls don’t love each other, then the relationship will be strained and possibly broken by its reliance on a single person juggling two people.
As far as this applies to this comic, we have a few pieces of solid relevant information and a few assumptions that we can make based off of what we can see and what we have seen. For solid information, we have:
1: Leon is sexually attracted to women, based on his reactions to getting shoulderboob and similar events.
2: Sydney likes Leon. While it’s been indicated that he’s been on her mind, we don’t have enough information to make assumptions on whether this liking is romantic, sexual, or both.
For assumptions, we have:
1: Leon and Krona have some level of affection for each other. It might just be a romantic “I like being with you” rather than anything sexual, but it’s still safe to assume that they like each other to some extent.
2: Krona’s use of her powers to replace the panties of a woman she’s looking up the skirt of with a thong suggests that she’s sexually attracted to women. That could have been a spiteful act instead of a lustful one, but her thoughts at the time made it seem more like she considered it to be eye candy.
3: it is possible for Sydney to be sexually attracted to women. This is an assumption because the only instance we have of this is when Dabbler made her introduction with her aura on full blast, and this was noted to make even the straight women there hot for her.
From this information we can draw a tentative conclusion that a stable polyamorous relationship would be possible between the three, but would likely end up leaning heavily on Leon.
I havent really seen anything so far to even imply that Sydney is attracted to women sexually in any way. The closest I’ve seen at all is her acknowledging that her teammates are annoyingly sexy and gorgeous. In fact, with the Dabbler aura, Sydney later was saying, while staring at Dabbler’s hypnotic boobs, “seriously, no homo but…”
She pretty much spelled out, she is not sexually attracted to women, although she has no problem with others being sexually attracted to women (ie, Peggy, Harem, etc) from previous statements made by her.
Sydney’s Species
Watch Doctor Who, and meet Bad Wolf. “I create myself.”
The god-level items (the orbs) might have been created by Sydney, but not yet. She’s the god that created the god items, and left them there for herself to find. Gods don’t have to live chronologically, and we already know (via her wormholes) that she already doesn’t have to if she doesn’t feel like it.
At no point has it been suggested that Sydney can travel through time. The time displacement took place as a result of Sciona’s uncontrolled wormhole, not Sydney’s aetherium causeway.
There’s still one undetermined orb also :)
At no point yet. Not that I personally subscribe to the theory, but the amount of levelling still available to Sydney implies that she’s got plenty more surprises up her metaphorical – and even she doesn’t yet know exactly what they’ll be.
Its well and good that they’re probably dating like objects now. but
What kind of assholes are sitting in their office when there is a “welcome back you’re not dead!” party going on? I cant’ believe no one told them–because they apparently gathered everyone else.
So.. what..
Is leon just an asshole? Krona didn’t know her well though so I could see skipping out.
Not that Leon really knew her well either come to thinik of it. but has had about as much interaction as other folks that seemingly were party bound.
Maybe he’s just doing monitoring duty and krona doesn’t care. that’d make sense
You have a point. They’re too well acquainted with Sydney to be sitting this out. My most generous guess is that they were so wrapped up in each other that they didn’t hear a word anyone said about the party.
Sydney is also early. They probably just missed the “shes here now! Get to the lounge ASAP!” text.
They proably snuck off for a make-out session earlier and didn’t get the text. Or were so into it they ignored it.
Also.
What the heck is Leon’s eyes doing in all the panels?
I mean I wrote that previous comment but now I”m like.
Is he just a meat puppet here?
I dont remember if his eyes were always WTF mini blank super open. Not like any other eyes I can think of so far.
Seems odd. Unless Krona is being squiffy.
Probably just eye dilationnfrom adrenaline. He’s got the first most powerful being in the inown universe on his lap, and the third most powerful being in the known universe (who is known for poor impulse control at the best of times) demanding a romantic relationship with him. Seriously, this is a case of ‘a bear has adopted you as its cub, but the tiger wants to cuddle’. Whatever is about to be fought over is likely to end up colateral damage.
That is most certainly his mind telling him his best case scenario is not to move and hope the scary power users let him live.
Pure adrenaline and fear for the situation he is in locking his muscles.
No, not an innocent cake pop. Even the cake couldn’t slow things down enough for Sydney
On a lighter note, let’s complain about…
I mean yellow sponge cake pops? You guys could do better than that for a ‘welcome back’ cake.
Rat on a stick anybody?
That was a thing when I lived in the Philippines.
Also monkey.
It was a poorer place back then, and I haven’t thought about how much it must have changed after they got rid of Ferdinand Marcos.
Oh look a rabbit trail.
It’s been a while… I honestly didn’t remember Sydney being interested in Leon (or anyone, really), nor who Krona is at all (and she doesn’t seem to be on the cast page).
There was the nerd bonding moment early in the comic…
This is one of thoes things that seems to have come literaly out of the blue for
Leon, on top of which Syd went from adding Leon to her list (in a good way) to platonic hanging with Maxima to weatever and a milkshake with her furry alien friend to suddenly Leon. Um wut. Seriously wut?
Seriously this is a pointless bad plot twist. At best they just hung out and geeked out over video games what several years ago our time, and then got her in trouble for not sleeping…. to this.
Yah web comic book paceimg. At its worst.
I think you will find it is reader lack of attention to important details. At its worst.
Sydney had already written down Leon’s name, in The List. But significantly inverting the book and putting his name at the back. Whilst Maxima joked that Leon should look out, this could be taken one of two ways. Either he was someone who had particularly irritated Sydney, and was worthy of particular attention for vengeance. Or he was good enough that the reverse side of the list was reserved for very special people. Of which nobody else (including people who have saved her life or otherwise bonded with her) has ever qualified to be entered there.
Add to which we do know that Sydney does make notes about potential husband material in her list (recall her picture of her wedding to Wolverine).
As for ‘moving fast’, geeks can judge things at a very different pace to the general populace. Especially those with poor dating experience (Sydney is ‘as pure as the driven snow’) and emotional immaturity. So, pacing wise, the story has gone from a mundane “welcome home” scene, to a moment of drama. Its very unexpected nature only heightening the emotions conveyed (to those of us who care about Sydney).
“Pointlessly bad plot twist”? How do you know it is pointless? You had not anticipated the story going this way, so I doubt you can anticipate why it has gone here, or how it will affect the ongoing story. So how can you reliably conclude that it is bad?
It is providing an emotionally climactic conclusion to a dramatic space adventure. One which leaves us in a pivotal position where things could either go well (if Krona, Leon and Sydney manage to overcome this dramatic shock and use it to bond as close geek friends) or could go apocalyptically badly. Or go somewhere else we cannot anticipate. Dave has great skill at that.
The previous page had us returning to “business as usual”. Whereas this page was highly dramatic, very emotive and opens up huge potential for story divergence. Which is bloody good writing!
Considering how the pair spent hours nerd-bonding late into the night a little while back during her training days, I’m not surprised she’d think him worthy of dating.
Shoot, we need her for a translation too
She was interested in Leon? What did I miss? I’m so confused. Also….did she just get a furry boyfriend?
Rember way back in the “Certified Nerd” scene, she pulled out “The List”, flipped it over, and made some notes while looking at Leon.
Yup, the comic has many subtle details that are worthy remembering over the years. For which rereading the comic, from time to time, does help to both spot them and connect the significant scenes. So the late night heart-to-heart between them, after clubbing, becomes much more significant.
As regards the “furry boyfriend”, Sydney’s assumption, on that front, was rudely broken by Frix deciding to shove his snout down Dabbler’s cleavage just now!
Also, he’s a SPACE boyfriend. He’s only a boyfriend in space.
Also, she’s not ready to be part of a reverse harem.
Exactly and to Sydney her way of asking him on a date in that fashion is pure firewalking. If you hesitate you get burned more. I have a feeling she’ll bounce back quickly. After all she’s bound to meet many more guys in her line of work and god help the idiot who actually hurts her.
She once commented that “Leon Scoville” has a nice ring to it, around the same time she mentioned that whomever she marries is going to take *her* last name, not the other way around.
All I really want to say is I love the very subtle blue arc in panel 3.
im hearing the DBZ videogame enter new fighter drum wood sound on each the four turn around panels in the dun dun DUUUN theme XD
Sydney is a quality waifu, accept no substitutes!
Yes!
Ummm … does that make Wolverine a waifuwaifu?
I don’t know, but you should absolutely ask him in person if he is a waifuwaifu, I’m sure he will react well.
Waifurine
A waifuhusbando perhaps?
I think Full Metal Alchemist made an appearance as her love pillow after a “helpful warming spell” from Dabbler?
Yup.
The Wolverine scene was much earlier, when he made an appearance in The List, as a cute picture of him getting married to Sydney.
I think Krona looks like she may be about to cry, in panel 9.
This would be a good thing. It could avert a global catastrophe! And maybe allow Sydney and Krona to bond and become friends.
She’s VI – she can introduce Sydney to some really nice were’s.
“This is OMGWTF. He’s a living chainsaw, like Icon is living armor.”
Sydney: “Um, nice to meet you?” (puts out hand)
OMGWTF: “Don’t worry, this hand is really just a glove I can control with my vampiric telekinesis. Plus my blades aren’t moving right now.”
Sydney: “You’re a vampire? How does…”
OMGWTF: “You know nanotechnology can be programmed to basically grow a machine, right?”
Sydney: “Oh so… you’re a chainsaw that was grown like a tree.”
OMGWTF: “Not exactly. Cyborgs are basically just disabled people like Cora with really good prosthetics. I’m biomech, like the leviathan species from Farscape, biologically both mechanical and organic. The organic part of me was enough for the vampirism to take hold.”
Spoiler: I’m a fan of Farscape and Soul Eater.
In the third panel, Krona’s head is clearly not low enough for it to be anywhere near Leon’s genitals, nor is it high enough for them to be kissing, and his shirt is on and appears closed, so there’s little doubt in my mind that though we’re being seemingly led to think this is something sexual, it is not that.
The only question is why Krona IS there, at the approximate level of someone sitting in a chair – were they working together? is he consoling her over the loss of a friend or family member? Is she picking something up? Is she hacking something that requires her to be close to his chest? Bending over a bit to see something better? Smelling a flower he pinned to his hoodie?
Countless possibilities that fit better than they are doing something illicit during a welcome back celebration they definitely knew about…
Necks can be erogenous zones like the hallow of your collarbone or the nape of your neck maybe she was nibbling on his earlobe. Where do most hickies show up?
Or at the point of the lower back, where other animals have tails, like say Cats!!!
Mmm, possibly, but the slow chair turn and their respective expressions say otherwise to me. Although I agree that there was no outright sex going on, one would hardly expect that in a work office, next to a busy communal area and an unlocked door. But a bit of kissing and cuddling (which is what it looked like to me) is something that the relatively relaxed culture here would accept. Aided by the fact that Leon is a civilian employee and Krona is not even beholden to Archon, other than as a guest.
Yeah, noticed that as well, was going to make a comment after reading other comments to avoid duplicating comments, so adding this comment to your comment about how sad Kronachrome looks
I think she’s just surprised, Sydney and Leon have similar looks on their faces.
Surprised in panel seven, about to cry in panel nine (pay attention to her mouth)
And Leon’s eyes have him about to scream in terror (*insert Homer’s two days of screaming after remembering finding Smithers’ dads body*)
Psst, Sydney. Get him to play Doki Doki Literature Club…
Oh that is so sad!
I must go cries more.
As Jon Lovitz crooned in Hotel Transylvania 2: AAAAAAAAWKAAAAAARD!
hawkward…
I really thought Sydney was going to give a gift/fruit basket to the clothes guy before she enjoyed her party. I just figured that was what she was going to do before anything else. Thank the guy who indirectly saved her life…. or at least ask where he was so she could thank him.
*tips hat*
That is certainly due, in good time.
Interesting to note that it is a Patreon created character due the plaudits.
It just occurred to me that one of the higher functions of the flight or truesight orbs could be the ability to either A Travel Through Time or B See The Future!
Sorry for the unneeded dramatic capitalization.
You wouldn’t want her to get it too early because those powers would be both crippling and dangerous.
Sure, you might be thinking you’d win the lottery. Simple, Right? Actually that would be the least dangerous thing you could do.
Let’s say you wanted to pick up a girl in a bar. You’ve got super powers and you can keep trying this forever!
Ok, so the first few hundred tries you are trying every pick up line in existence. You burn a few weeks, no biggie.
The next few hundred times, you try every pick up technique you can find on the internet. A few more weeks, you’ve got forever, right?
You come up with more and more stuff to throw at her, because, dammit, you are gonna score. Before too long a year has passed, and you ego says you will win this one.
Eventually maybe you discover that you’re not her type.
This is an over exaggeration, but theoretically you could walk inthat bar at 21 and walk out at 65.
That’s time travel. You are moving forward, aging while everyone is holding still.
What about seeing the future?
Dr. Strange does it, and it all turns out fine. That’s a comic book. Who’s to say the in 1.4 Million ways the future could turn out he only considered one perfect because it’s the only one that Ben and Jerry’s brought back Scotchy Scotch Scotch Ice Cream an 1.3 million of them half the universe didn’t die and everything else was mostly OK?
(Yeah, I’d go for the Scotchy Scotch Scotch, too.)
But the desire to have a perfect outcome could overwhelm the ability to produce a good enough outcome. Besides, even if the body was somehow not aging during the process of reviewing all those futures, the mind would quickly get ancient.
Your point is brought up in a show I like. Here’s a clip of your same viewpoint: https://youtu.be/XiGvytrIhB4?t=917
This works very oddly with a passing notion I had that Krona is really a shapeshifted Alan Turing…
… but somehow, it does work.
I’m actively afraid of my own imagination.
(I know I’m obsessed with the whole sex transformation thing, what with being a fan of series like Whateley Academy, El Goonish Shive, and so forth. Being NB does that to a person. Don’t at me, brah.)
Can do that to a person, I should say. Obviously not every TG/NB person thinks this stuff is great, and quite a few think it is terrible.
…I might take some care with a guy who literally killed himself over growing breasts.
Urk, there is that, true. I don’t know why I didn’t recall that.
sooo did he lewd a loli?
she’s about Sydney’s age, a 20-something.
…You had the cake pops just for the dramatic drop, didn’t you?
What’s weird is, after Thursday, I couldn’t guess what Sydney was planning, but I did an archive dive for her interactions with Krona, presumably for no particular reason.
I thought she would break the “I brought more refugees” news, or get Krona, Specs and Dabbler together to explain her new orb-insights, like the ability to call up the grid whenever she wants.
It’s kind of strange though. Yeah, I get the whole time wise issue but if a coworker disappeared for two months and reappeared and we were happy enough to throw a party for them coming back, even people in IT would come for a few minutes just to say welcome back and snag a few goodies. And its not like they wouldn’t know about it, Leon would be monitoring chat and news lines and known about the ship landing bringing Halo back. And they did have that little impromptu news conference for a few minutes in from of the building.
Sydney wasn’t due to arrive for another hour, plenty of time for chair-noodling
That news conference out front was to get rid of the press before Sydney landed, and Ari would have succeeded if not for that brat and her dog :P (want a better Scooby gag, hire a smarter writer!)
So what is her plan here? One space boyfriend and one Earth boyfriend? Nerdboi in every spaceport? I’m not judging, it’s a perfectly acceptible arrangement so long as everyone knows what’s what and agrees to it. Just doesn’t seem like a Sydney thing to do.
Consider Trent.
I’d pay to watch that threesome!
I feel like we just skipped a panel (or several)… What happened to her big announcement?
That was it. She just dropped the bomb on poor Leon and Krona who probably never saw it coming, and poor Leon may be thinking his career at Arc May be over because of reality, seriously he now has to work with someone who just announced she wanted to date him in front of his Girlfreind? Both of whom happen to be the most powerfull people on the planet? Oy!
Let me put a real life twist on this.
What may be one of the most powereful weapon systems in the US just triggered the scandle book.
Leon May be thinking in part “at best my career here is over, one of the most dangerous people on the planet just called dibs on me with my girlfriend who may also be the most dangerous person on the planet is sitting in my lap.
Never mind that based on real life structures the guy (Leon)who aparently is the actual IT boss for Archon has a job identical to that of the US coastguard s current O8 /RADM in charge of there Cyber security office, even if he is a Civilian, given that aparently hes literaly it. with all the ramifications THAT has, given Halo is still a private.
Yah Ariana only thought she needed to break out the scandal plat book over Max and Hiro.
Seriously Ariana is probably going to need a bigger staff just to keep up with Halo.
That is easily solved. Halo has seen enough (highly successful) military action to be jumped up the grades. Having personally defeated an alien fleet, I think rear admiral would be just fine for her. ;-)
Nope.
Higher grades (even enlisted) denote command over lower grades. For just the sort of thing in this episode Sydney still doesn’t have the discipline for command.
If you look at a list of people who have earned the Congressional Medal of Honor, there are a lot of privates and private first classes over the decades. Their deeds and bravery were recognized but they didn’t have the discipline for command.
Sydney is a competent tactician, and has a wide range of abilities.
When she focuses, she can run a business (okay, she does have a partner who does a lot) and she’s not intentionally negligent or unfair about things. Nonetheless, she’s not ready for command yet.
She’ll get there over time.
The entire situation with ARC is a giant command and legal quagmire that I don’t think was intended.
First off the Sr Officer is a one star General. for the entire nation.
by comparison the Commandant USCG is a Full 4 Star Admiral.
The commander for the South west district of the USCG is a one Star Admiral. And because Coast Guard “captain” is actually the same rank as a US Air Force Col, the Houston Galveston regional commander here also actually outranks Maxima, Legally that means what where there responsibilities overlap (Law enforcement including Autorisation to intercept, force down or shoot down and or sink Civilian aircraft and boats of any size including Cruise ships Supertankers and container ships) Literally the Coast Guard would have the authority to give any orders to any other branch they feel is needed, and could even override Arc orders on that. Hell if they felt they had to a USCG light patrol craft or even a Helicopter could order a US Carrier to basically pull over and submit to boarding if it was in the middle of a operation involving any of its responsibilities. and the Commander of the Ship being boarded by the USCG better have a Damn good reason to ignore the Coast guard in those situations.
The other problem is Leon a GS employee or a Contractor or is he actually a enlisted or officer rank just alowed to be out of uniform for whatever reason, since he seems to be the go to guy in charge of IT stuff, he may be anything from GS 6-11 (or higher if they are planing on actually expanding ARC to be more regional with ARC bases all over the US and not just one high value skyscraper target) or if he is in charge of ARCs IT system and network he may actually be on the SES pay scale because yah hes their IT and cyber security Boss.
That said for a 1 star General he has very few people under him even if his command includes all the arc branches.
Why was he at his computer and not at the party waiting for Sydney? Do they not care about Sydney?
that should have been an hint for Sidney that her feelings for Leon were not mutual
Looking at this page hurts in a personnel place. Dont worry Sydney! You have a ton of potential husbands in the other room! YOU WILL FIND SOMEONE!!!!! -SOBS SOBS SOBS-
Sydney wasn’t due to land for another hour!
And they probably figured she would be tied up in
interrogationdebriefing before the partyeveryone else seemed to be ready for them when they were waiting in the main room. As far as I can tell, I think Leon never got the hint that she liked him.
According to Arianna when they landed, everyone was inside decorating.
Except for two somebodies who snuck off for some petting
Yeah, and when you have that many people hanging around, only a few will be actually involved in hanging up a single small banner and a couple dozen balloons (unless each cake-pop was individually rolled by hand… )
Leon could also just be a little clueless about when girls like him, and Krona was very explicit that she liked him.
Well, she has had two months to let him know, we have no way of knowing how long they have been ‘sharing chairs’, they could have only started last week (their time)
Very true
I need an animated series of this comic stat.
Dropping hints on websites frequented by major animators might be a good way to bring that about. ;-)
What websites do major animators frequent? Besides something like twitter.
I don’ts knows :(
I know a lot of authors hang around here. But we do have a bunch of anime fans here, so I was kind of hoping that some of them might be more up to speed with that kind of thing.
*sneezes then makes noises like a bee*
Hopefully we can get a viral buzz going.
Just remember, Sasha Whitefur, is a 7.5 foot tall anthro snow Leopard and a Polymorph. Before I forget,the Daughter of Tiamat The Chaos Dragon, an honest to Chaos Goddess.
Krona is cuter anyways.
*sigh*
And here I was, shipping a permanent relationship with Frix.
It can still happen! Sydney X Frix is best ship! Let the shipping wars begin! Grab your swords!
Welp. time to back down amicably.
No, No, No…it’s time to have Dabbler prepare the Jello Wrestling arena, and start playing the fight scene music from “Amok Time”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dnZHea_TI0
30 minutes later “Well I would be angry.. but she’s kind of funny just standing there staring blankly”
“Why are you drawing glasses and a mustache on her?”
“Has she moved?”
I wonder if Krona can rewind time to warn Sydney before she does this and gets everyone embarassed? Also keeping Leon out of the loop regarding cheating opportunities may be a bonus.
Alternatively, they may be pissed off Sydney is a stickler for monogamy when they wanted a threesome “as soon as possible, do you have someone in mind?” as said before Sydney entered.
I wondered that too.
Or, just for Leon and Krona to come out of the office before Sydney barges in.