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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I mean, that’s kind of the risk you take when you just blurt it out without checking first if they’re already in a relationship. Even before the two-month gap, did she ever get confirmation about his relationship status? I don’t recall that happening. And even if he were still single right now, his response could’ve been “Sorry, I’m not interested.” (That’s what I thought was about to happen, before I saw Krona.) So, while I feel bad for Sydney, this awkward situation was entirely preventable.
In Sydney’s defence, while it didn’t happen much on panel, there was a bit of flirting, some long chats. There were sparks, and I think they both showed interest in each other, and Leon probably was completely single with no immediate prospects two months ago. I don’t think he had even spoken to Krona before Sydney left.
Being impulsive and bold can be attractive, and is overall a good move for Sydney. And it would likely have worked if not for the two month gap.
Sydney’s main mistake here is not pausing to think what may have happened over that time, but given it’s Sydney, yeah, perfectly understandable.
But she’s gotten off pretty lightly. Even without the time difference, relationships don’t often turn out well for returning soldiers. Especially if that soldier was thought dead.
Yeah, I remember the flirting and long chats, but this still wasn’t a very wise move on her part, gap or no gap. He still could’ve been not interested in a romantic relationship, and he still could’ve been non-single, even back then. Assuming nothing had changed would make perfect sense if she’d ever known the initial state of things to begin with, but she didn’t even have that information (as far as we know). Obviously it’s in her nature to be impulsive, and I wouldn’t expect otherwise, but for me personally, this is possibly her most facepalm-worthy moment so far.
When is love ever wise? Still… Ouch. There are people talking about property damage, but that doesn’t seem like a Sidney-esque thing to do in this situation. My money is on her needing some calm wisdom and good friends to not toss a damper on the party they’re throwing for her and feeling worse.
The Colonel seems like she’s got a solid grasp on things, and the highest armor class though, just in case I’m wrong.
Wait what? I feel like there should have been a lead up to this. Kind of came out of nowhere.
There was a lead in, but we were with Sydney for the 53 days while it was happening.
… Which is kind of the way Sydney handles most things in life.
Well, at least they saved a lot after the line-item in the national budget for “shoes” went away…
Personally, I think it would be hilarious if it just cuts to the three of them having a calm, measured discussion with all of them apologizing to each other. Constantly. To the point where it’s just completely awkward for everybody involved.
I would love to see that.
Me too.
Considering who we’re dealing with, I think “awkward” will be a bit of an understatement. Especially since Sydney has been off her medication for several days.
Yeah awkward is guaranteed just because Sydney is involved ;)
Oh, is it time for me to point out AGAIN that NOWHERE IN COMIC nor IN COMMENTS has DaveB stated or even implied that Sydney was not carrying an adequate supply of meds for the TWO DAYS she was away from home/base?
Hasn’t she been gone for 2 months her time?
No, she’s been gone for 57 days (just shy of 2 months) Earth/Archon/everyone else time. For her, it’s been about 2 days. A little less than a day of fighting on the former Alari homeworld and traveling to/wandering around the Fracture, then a little over a day of space jacuzzi canoodling, glowy-butt spicy food aftermath, sleep and arrival back at Earth.
That doesn’t explain assuming Leon wasn’t dating anyone *before she left,* or establish that she thought to ask. And it doesn’t make going from “Get your slutty paws off my space boyfriend!” to “I have decided that we shall date!” in the space of a few minutes very cool, but yeah, for her it’s been a flying-by two days.
No, it’s 53 days their time, 2 days her time (according to her):
Broken down:
Left to chase Sciona at dusk
Went through the portal at night
~ A couple hours grinding/hiding/planning
45 minutes on station pre-Cora
~45 minutes on station with Cora
On ship: “a nap, a meal, a long hot bath”
~2 hrs on ship pre-liftoff (tour, bath, refugees)
On time to Earth: “a nap and a meal”
~3-5 hr nap (6-8 hours between grakz and waking)
~30 min grakz evacuation
~30 min milkshake date
~1 hr aetherium chat/surgery
So really it could be as little as 10-12 hours (she only ate 3 times, only 1 of which could be considered a real meal, which makes that estimate seem right, but I suppose you could stretch it to near a day by adding time to the fight/last will and testament)
When they arrive at Earth, it appears to be daytime in Africa, so morning in America, buuut they finally put down when Ariana is calling it a “night, (with the sun apparently setting), so maybe they spent 8 hours in orbit?
Anyway, I would guess that it’s been about 24 hours for Sydney at most, spread over 2 “days” for her.
My bad, that was 53 days actual time, 57 years Harem practical joke time. Mixed the numbers up.
I was measuring the on-station, pre-Cora times as hours, forgetting that Sydney was exaggerating/misestimating the time, and that the side-note said it was actually 45 minutes. That threw my total time off a bit. And I assumed she slept after the grakz-pocalypse, but there’s no reference to support that in the comic. So, yeah, about 24 action-packed (or reaction-packed in the case of the grakz) hours.
yes, but it hasn’t ever been stated or implied she had. Hence it comes to interpolation and guessing.
And, do you think she’d carry around a two-days supply of meds?
Now she could have, but seeing how she doesn’t really struck as the farsighted kind of people, it doesn’t seem like the likely alternative.
If she has one of the ADHD meds that needs to be taken multiple times a day, it’s likely that she just has the bottle in a jacket pocket 24/7. Or at least in her equipment pouch, which I think I remember other people helped her assemble.
When I was on meds for PTSD I carried a pill minder, and had alarms on my phone tell me when to take them. That’s actually why I even bought a the phone.
Short answer, yes. I would assume that she had enough for a couple of days.
Tch. Tch. SOMEONE has not been reading the comics archive more closely as this is a pointless conversation regarding Sydney’s meds:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-436-muppetosis/
She has generic ADHD meds in a bottle in her utility belt.
How could ANYONE forget Muppet Maxima…sigh
What have Leon and Kronachrome done that requires them to apologize? o_O
“Forgive us for carrying on with our lives. We should totally have stopped everything for a girl we met briefly 55 days ago and then disappeared 53 days ago”
Don’t make the cybergoddess cry, Sydney.
Assuming Krona didn’t hack leon’s brain because she likes him.
Oh that’s a dark interpretation. It seems really out of character for her considering how careful she was about other stuff though.
Maybe she hacked his brain to make him a LOLICON (-_-)
If he were a Lolicon, he wouldn’t want Krona. She’s in her twenties.
It’s not out of character for Syd to SUSPECT Krona of hack-jacking her would-be boyfriend. Jus’ sayin.
I don’t think Krona’s the evil sort like that. Plus I think hacking a brain is probably more complicated than hacking a bladder, hacking hair, or hacking underwear. A lot more variables to consider. A whole lot more. The AVERAGE human brain processes about 400 billion bits of data per second. Not an understatement. The reason we don’t always seem that smart is because the average human brain’s neurons only fire about 200 firings per second, so we’re usually only aware at any given second of about 2000 of the 400 billion bits of information that our brain is processing every second.
Plus, collectively the average human brain has a storage capacity of anywhere between 10 terabytes and 2.5 petabytes of information.
A petabyte is 1 x 10 to the 15th power. One petabyte is one million gigabytes.
The total amount of data on every single facebook page on the planet? 1.5 petabytes. If the brain was a DVR, you could record 33.25 years of HD-TV on it before having to erase a single show.
If you have 20 human brains, and were able to store information on it like a hard drive, you can record the ENTIRE WRITTEN WORKS OF MANKIND FROM THE BEGINNING OF RECORDED HISTORY….. IN EVERY LANGUAGE EVER WRITTEN.
So a single human brain? Yeah it has a lot of variables. Difficult to hack.
Thia would be literally physicalyl painfull to watch… if sydney wasn’t such a scatter brain.
It’s kind of hard to identify yourself with her when she get’s distracted every 5 seconds.
She is probably going to get distracted by something again and forgets about it for a few hours before someone inevitably reminds her of it.
But oftherwise… ouch.
Speculating is fun but I don’t think nothing to drastic will happen. I don’t think Leon is the love of her life. what happened is, IMHO, that she almost died in several occasions (once when at top of her powers, she was stranded far away from home with little hope to come back, such thing make one reconsider its approach to life and she decided to take a little more forward approach, her first bold act was ‘the Woofing’, now she decided that she want to start dating and Leon was a good candidate.
what will happen next will be probably something like:
“oh, shees, this is awkard, forget I’ve said anything (Krona, could you maybe make us forget I’ve said anything? No!? ok) It is hard to remember that for you was more that two months, so you two are together? Congratulations, how it happened? oh right you are both hackers so I suppose it make sense (even if it is a little stereotypical) hey, there is a party next room, aren’t you coming, blah blah blah…” in an awkard fueled stream-of consciusness typical Sydney monologue. :-)
Besides I still ship her and Olivia’s brother/cousin. ;)
Personally ship her with Olivia
Still shipping Sydney with Trent.
Hentai tentacles FTW.
Sydney: …………………My space adventures have also opened my mind to other possibilities! Love triangle!
Dabbler: *enters at speed, succubus sense tingling* :-D
Sidney: *shield-boops Dabbler straight back out the door* TRI- AN- GLE!!
Dabbler: But in n-dimensional geometry, a triangle can be-
Sydney: *triggers rapid door close*
>:=)>
Or has my D&D dice show me, a pyramid gives you four sides and a bunch of triangles.
i prefer the 20 triangles in a icosohedron
Yeah, Dabbler would completely not understand how Leon dating Krona presented an obstacle to Sydney dating Leon, nor Sydney dating Krona, or Frix dating Sydney, Leon and Krona, nor why it would be awkward if she showed up in Sydney’s room with whipped cream and a portable trapeze to ‘help them get acquainted.’
I mean, she’s a super-genius, so she’d comprehend it in a “give me a break, English is my 137th language” sort of way, but her grasp on concepts like monogamy and jealousy is like her grasp on how equivalent “misdirecting fish” and “red herring” are as phrases.
Where we see relationship problems, Dabbler sees relationship possibilities.
Some wild speculation about where this is going next.
Next page…
Krona: “Sydney, I didn’t know…”
Leon: “Uhh, news to me too.”
Sydney: Red faced with embarrassment and with tears streaming down her face, grabs the brown mystery orb. Sydney and the orbs promptly vanish, leaving behind a pile of choker, pip-boy, eye glasses, uniform, boots and My Little Pony™ skivvies.
Max (having just witnessed all this through the doorway): “Sydney!”
Over the next several pages everyone tries to figure out what happened to Sydney. Krona uses her reality hacking skills and sadly says that the nearest she can tell, Sydney has completely ceased to exist. Leon pulls the records out of Sydney’s pip-boy and for the first time Max and the team realize everything that Sydney has gone through the past couple of days.
Later that night, with everyone worried to death about Sydney, Max enters her office, locks the door, sits down at her desk, and breaks down in tears. At this point Sydney reappears out of thin air, wearing an Omnigal costume.
Sydney: “I don’t suppose there are any cake pops left?”
More like “we’ve been dating since before you joined… how did you not notice before?”
I’m pretty sure that Leon and Krona hadn’t met yet when Sydney traveled to future Alari dead world.
Forget both of them. Neither of them were waiting for you at your welcome back party even though you were lost for months. Even Pixel and Sandy showed up.
She. Was. One. FUCKING. Hour. EARLY!!
They probably expected to have a few minutes ‘down time’ before Natural Disaster Sydney descended upon them all
Butt, no, they are completely at fault for continue on with their lives, getting married, starting a family, they should have completely put their lives on hold for ever because some one they barely knew went missing
She may have been an hour early, but everyone else seemed to get the word and make it to the lobby or wherever the party is.
They are in the lounge, over at the video game console.
Look at the box of cake pops and container of tea behind Sydney in panel three.
The lounge has an alcove for the elevator, and not everyone fit in the alcove.
Uh oh. Seems I hit nerve. I don’t care about them dating. For all we know, they’ve been dating since before Sydney joined, and Daffy Duck over there just never noticed. My point is about pretty much everyone else on the team standing there ready to greet her, even if “She. Was. One. FUCKING. Hour. EARLY!!” Maybe you’re getting defensive because you’ve been accused of being an inconsiderate friend before, I don’t know. Here’s why your excuses don’t hold up:
A. She wasn’t an hour early. Dabbler just warned Max over comms that Sydney was arriving within the hour. Max then had time to wrap up her fight, lock the dude up, change into paramilfitary casual, and still be there to greet to Sydney.
B. Even if “She. Was. One. FUCKING. Hour. EARLY!!”, Dabbler would have warned the rest of the team just like she did Max
C. Arianna clearly went on ahead of Max and company, which would explain why everyone was gathered together already.
D. Cora’s ship landed right next to their building. Even if neither Dabs nor Arianna warned them, and Sydney “Was. One. FUCKING. Hour. EARLY!!”, I guarantee they were all aware of the ship, even if it was somehow invisible to their sensors. All they had to do was look out the window.
Anyway. Go be a better friend.
But they were still in the same room which is oddly shaped.
Not everyone fit in the alcove by the elevator.
DaveB told us this in the notes to the previous page.
They aren’t bad friends for not fitting into the little niche where the elevator is.
How would Leon look dressed in this outfit?
https://www.yojoe.com/images/resize/w/MAX/action/86/86card/mainframe.jpg
with that soulless stare wonder if he actualy took the news super hard and was loosing it and krona hacked his brain to help him cope with loss or possible loss of Sydney. and shes just been bugging him this whole time annoying him while he worked type thing xD
Just wait until Sydney finds out that her store has been remodeled or moved to larger location due to all the increased business or that her partner and the Olivia are also dating.
Or Joel and Tony!
Ok, so putting aside the maybe-they-are-maybe-they’re-not nature of their relationship (not terribly ambiguous, she is sitting in his lap), Sydney has been missing in space for 2 months and they decide to flirt in the back room during her welcome back party…the hell kind of friends are these two?! They got on with Sydney like a house on fire but were so unconcerned with her safety that they didn’t want to confirm she’s back themselves? Dabbler has the excuse of having complete faith in Cora’s ability to bring Sydney home, Max looked ready to take off into space to look for Sydney herself, these two can’t be bothered to say “You’re home, we missed you” before they find some privacy.
Dude, they aren’t way off in the back somewhere.
You can see the food right through the archway which Sydney just walked through.
Sydney wasn’t expected for another hour.
I hope somebody makes a reference to harem manga/anime on next page. Like: “Krona, did you hack our reality into harem manga?”
Marion G. Harmon is working on the latest Wearing the Cape book, tentatively named “Consequences.” What are the odds that Syd grabs the seventh orb and appears in Astra’s reality for an early chapter? She could date Mal (Megaton) for a month before returning to five minutes after she departed the Grrlverse. She’d even have her My Little Pony Maxima Macguffin back.
Okay, the odds are awful, except that Mr. Harmon reads Grrl Power and DaveB reads the comments and just maybe both are thinking “Hmmmmm.”
It’s only fair that Sydney visit the Astraverse.
Shows up at The Dome: “Hi Tom. Hi Bob. (She gets it right) Is Astra in? Tell her it’s her friend from the real world.”
+1
Sydney’s Trusight Orb allows her to see things as they are and Ozma’s Seeing Specs reveal the unseen.
If Sydney were to use both at once would she see the studio lights and cameras?
Probably not. But she might see George typing and Dave drawing.
Well, Crossovers have been used as a vehicle for exploring the “Incursion” phenomenon in the “Wearing the Cape” universe. I could see getting another volume of them if Marion Harmon finds more authors to work with.
Superhero novels and webcomics looks like a crowded field to pick from, until you realize how many Authors quit writing each year.
How long since we saw a new “D-List Supervillain” book?
And then many other good series (Such as Robert J. Crane’s Sienna Nealon novels) aren’t set up for the existence of parallel universes.
And then there is a lot of badly written dreck with photoshopped covers.
There would have to be three or four more compatible IP whose authors have the time to collaborate in order to get another Crossover book.
Yeah, I’m trying to catalyze a crossover, here. Sydney, cake pop at her feet, reaches up for the mystery orb hoping she can do an Omega 13 reset and not burst in on Leon and Krona. Instead, she shakily pulls down an eighth orb – a snow globe with a Chicago Skyline – and vanishes.
She awoke to find herself in the past, or present, or future, but not in Leon’s office, suffering from no amnesia and facing a mirror image that was her own. Sydney says aloud, “Trapped in another reality, Sydney Schoville Jr.finds herself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong and hoping each time that her next leap will be the leap home.”
Then POOF! She’s back in the Grrlverse thirteen seconds earlier, where she decides talking to Leon can wait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1EFMoRFvY
we shall date! . . . people who are similar to eachother. Because we’re awesome. Well then. Good job on your end, do carry on.
Seems out of character for Sydney. She just fucked a space woof, after all.
I kinda thought the space woof fucking was kinda out of character, too, but you know, the power of fur…
Damn, relationship comics bring in the comments. Three pages already and it’s the same day as posting.
That dweam wiffin a dweam
And wuv twue wuv wiw fowowe you foweva
So tweasure youw wuv…
Skip to the end!
Wowveween and wife…
So that loud shattering noise I heard was poor Sydney’s heart breaking…
There is only one solution.
POLYAMORY!
You can just see the look of terror in his eyes.
“That’s your solution to every problem”
“I keep telling you it would solve the opioid crisis!”
The Sydney x Woof ship lives to float another day.
Unfortunately Dabbler also has a ticket to that cruise, and so does Cora, and possibly Altus… I’m unsure what the maximum occupancy of that ship really is.
VOTE
Was just introduced to a new hot sauce that Sydney totally needs to try
It combines two of the things she loves: hot peppers and hentai :D
Why is Krona even here? Archon headquarters is a restricted gov’t facility, and Krona is not a member of Archon or a civilian employee (that we know of, anyway).
Does she have clearance to see what might be on his monitors?
And to be canoodling during working hours, at Leon’s desk, is just wildly inappropriate workplace behavior. People get fired for stuff like this.
Because the lounge is like the Dayroom in a barracks, and they are guests to an off duty function for the personnel.
That’s why Maxima is wearing MilfItaly casual.
Also, why does spell corrupt hate me?
I need a better behaved android keyboard.
If only C-3PO were a computer keyboard
I think a keyboard that goes wandering off into the desert would be even worse than the one I have.
So, let me see if I get this right. Sydney has been gone for 53 days, during which she hooked up with a Vargr, a space wolf. Yet there is going to be drama when the human she was interested in was hooking up with someone else at the same time. There needs to be a lot of growing up or GTFOing going on.
No she’s been gone for 2 days from her perspective, she has only just realized that the portal sent her forward in time, and her being who she is means she hasn’t really thought about what could have changed while she “didn’t exist” yet.
Whatever happened to comic-loving hunk and brother-cousin to Olivia, Tony?
I think, if I’m not off on my count, Sydney was ogling him a little less than a week ago, her time? I mean, it’s certainly been two months for him, but I’m sure he still frequents The Mighty Halo’s comic shop.