Grrl Power #796 – Cinq-o de bail-o
This page is important because on the page I’m drawing right now, Sydney is eating fried cheese, and without this page, you guys would all be like “Wait, where’d she get the fried cheese?”
Decollete’s primary income is in the fashion industry, but this nightclub is a regular evening haunt for her because, well, she likes the atmosphere, but it’s also a low effort source of tantric energy for her. Really, any (mature) succubus has little trouble picking up playmates, but in this environment, she can pretty much pick and choose them as she likes.
Sydney, as previously mentioned, isn’t the kind of girl to go trawling for dudes. All her boyfriends she met through mutual interests, and Frix was really her first “I like your abs and want to see more of them” encounter. Even having popped the seal on a mostly physical dalliance, she’s still a long way from being the kind of gal who would just sit down at a table with a bunch of hot guys and try and have a conversation with them. Besides, guys like that, what are really the chances they’d be into hearing someone talking at length about why 3.5th edition D&D is superior to 4th edition, or why Stargate SG-1 is better than all the Star Trek TV shows with the possible exception of DS9?
I mean, the stereotypical behavior of guys tells us that they will put up a with a lot if they think it’s going to get them on base, but most people are running an investment vs. time calculation in their heads.
Granted, I and a lot of people reading this comic would probably be thrilled to engage in topics like that with some potential partner at a social gathering, but three hot dudes like the guys Decollete has in her sights? I somehow doubt they’d be into topics like that. But you never know. You roll the dice anew with each encounter, and if that encounter is into discussing why the bell curved Hero dice system is better than the flat probability of D20 systems, then you know you’ve rolled a critical success.
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Sydney’s afraid of that sort of thing for the moment.
And what DOES Dabbler say?
When Sydney first meets Decollete, Dabbler says that Decollete is “one of those succubi” (when Sydney is surprised Decollete was concerned about being rude by making a double entendre). Dabbler doesn’t get to elaborate on “those”, because Decollete deflects her by saying “If you mean one that is properly educated in decorum, diplomacy, empathy, fashion, and charm, and not just one who is a succubus by birth, then yes.” It’s a little verbal sparring (with implied impending naked wrestling cat-fight) until Sydney interjects.
Wa pa papapa papapa pow?
Is it just me, or is Sydney focusing on Decollete’s… decolletage in almost every panel? Not that I blame her, but usually she’s blushing (and/or blustering, see the “chocolate peach” comment back at the pool page) when admiring well endowed women.
its exceedingly on display, I’m not surprised
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Literally hypnotic.
She looks at them when she’s wondering about her motive, and when she says ‘depending on… factors’, both are referring to her succubis nature which is represented by her figure.
Dabbler did say that they’re literally hypnotic
Rainbow shots? At least it’s not in the dark :P
Seems got Dio’s Rainbow In The Dark mixed with Ozzy’s Shot In The Dark :(
oh it’s not an issue, you’ve just pulled off the double pun
And, classic songs are still great songs :D
Now there’s a mash-up challenge. (For someone better at such things than I.)
Why wouldn’t a succubus own and frequent a nightclub? It’s like a fish trap. Yeah, it’s easy enough for her to catch fish anywhere, but having a good supply coming to her makes it easier. I also suspect that she has a really comfortable suite above the club.
And she can be sure the fish won’t complain or there were misunderstandings. Win-win :D
It’s more akin to a Bear waiting on annual salmon migration…so much they can afford to pick and choose and eat only certain parts.
Well, more like a bear camping the spawning grounds of the fish.
Or you could say, shooting fish in a barrel too.
That kind of Succubi “trap” would be a Love Hotel instead of just night club.
Nah.
Decolette probably just takes two or three of them home every night. Or goes to their place.
Even Syd can’t keep her eyes off that chest.
Just like she did when meeting Dabbler the first time!
i dont care what Sydney says, i think she’s very Bi-Curious!! at least Boob Curious.
Sydney could be thinking, “Well, they are just like my pair, but a bit bigger and more on display. Oh, yeah. Up there. Umm, what was she saying?” Dabbler explained that certain parts of a succubus are literally hypnotic.
yeah, that might explain the first panel, but not he fifth.
They’re literally hypnotic, so it would take immense Force of Will to Not Look. Even for people Not Attracted to Boobs
Uhh, Deco is deliberately leaning forward, so they are even more on display (and fuller in Sydney’s face)
Which means, when she was around Dabbles, she wasn’t being a prude, she was being a snob, holding it over Dabbles for going to finishing school when Dabbles hasn’t even been to a Finish school (she thinks Finland is where all the fish come from)
or the last panel on #792… heehee
It is unlikely that Sydney is bicurious. At least there is nothing in the comics so far that even hints at this.
And that includes the many shower scenes that consistently show Sydney as either disinterested (usually because she is too tired and too under or over caffineated) or acutely uncomfortable about being surrounded by some of the most beautiful women on the planet.
Keep in mind that people who do not think breasts are exciting may still look at them.
Especially because Decolette’s breasts are hypnotic and because Decolette’s decolettee is not constrained and only theoretically confined.
To quote Grace from EGS:
“My relationship senses jiggle”
“You mean tingle? Spiderman’s senses tingle”
“Good for Spiderman. MY senses jiggle”
Grace was, at the time, playing with ‘change blindness’ in a CCG tournament full of geeks, so one guess what size change she was playing with…
If Decollete made a sudden hand gesture would she be chesticulating?
Eyebrows all over the page – I love it!!
Random thought… is Guybrush Threepwood a Disney prince now? I’m pretty sure that’s not what Dave is going for but he was the first character that came to mind when I saw the middle dude.
I think that’s a blond Flynn Rider from Tangled
Nah,it’s Prince Adam from from Beauty and the Beast. Not to be confused with Prince Adam of Eternia.
I believe that is correct.
Nah man, it’s Matthew Mercer but with a lighter hair color.
Nah, man, it’s Matthew Frewer with a wig. XD
I agree, definitely looks more like Flynn Rider: https://tangled-2010-movie.fandom.com/wiki/Flynn_Rider?file=Tangled-disneyscreencaps.com-859_(1).jpg
Beyond the fact that Disney Princess franchise love interests are all classified as “Disney Princes,” Eugene’s background is a spoiler for the well written Tangled tv series.
I thought the guy looked like the player’s avatar in that old arcade game. Dragon Quest? It was a gamer where the graphics were pretty much the draw, as the game play was pretty much “enter a new screen, select the correct one from 3-4 options or die.” So memorization was pretty much all you had to do, plus a little bit of timing your moves. But the cartoonish graphics were pretty good for the day, and also amusing, so I fed it a bunch of quarters.
Dragon’s Lair.
I don’t know. Everyone has different tastes but I don’t think I’d make out with the guy that looks like a Disney prince. The Spanish twins look okay, but princey seems like a creep.
Well obviously the Hero system is superior, but in order for things not to bog down your players have to all be relatively quick with mathematical calculations though the math required isn’t hard.
A lot of people just won’t be able to pick it up. People who might have been your friends for years. The level of detail is such that it’s actually a Superhero Simulation rather than a Superhero Roleplaying Game and not everybody enjoys spending their leisure time pushing themselves mentally to that degree.
Play Hero system with people who already play Advanced Squad Leader. Play D20 Games with people who play Catan.
Not a fan of the hero system personally, I like way more granularity. I think we can all agree d20 is weak. I’d use one of the many percentile systems out there. It’s a linear progression all other things being equal, but it’s fast, granular and easy to mod.
Also in the HERO system you could spend hours building a character and have them expire in the first few minutes of game play.
That can happen with any system.
Hero system makes it possible to build virtually indestructible characters…if they can’t do much else.
In the original Traveller game, I had a guy die of old age in the character creation system before he ever played in the game at all.
As with most things, context makes or breaks the statement.
A D20 is just fine in D&D, as long as the character level and power level are constrained. Once you hit about 8th level or so, and the characters have +3 or greater items of various types, then a D20 starts to break down.
But a campaign to build characters up to that point can easily last a year or more at one play session per week skipping major holidays. And if you then retire those characters in favor of fresh ones, the game can go on. Or you can enter the area where the D20 is simply inadequate, if you choose.
“Well obviously the Hero system is superior, but in order for things not to bog down your players have to all be relatively quick with mathematical calculations though the math required isn’t hard.”
I always wondered why the Champions character sheet just didn’t come with ‘CON 23’ already written in. Because, really, it might as well have been.
Moe “I bought that game when it had staples” Lane
I also love the flexibility of the Champions character creation system. Got an idea? You can build it (if the GM approves).
I also started with the stapled version.
GURPS was also good for flexible creation in non-superhero genres.
As far as game play, I am system neutral. My dice are weird.
GURPS suffered from two huge problems:
1) DEX was the key combat stat, valuable far ahead of any others. If you had a high DEX your character was just a combat beast, being good with all weapons (even using default values) and having a high defense as well. Being strong or tough just could not compare.
2) Very slow combat. It was so “dice vs dice” based that combats ran slowly. And high character skills can mean a lot of rolls that end up in a null result before any damage is done. In D&D you roll to hit using your BAB and bonuses against your opponent’s AC. If you hit you hit, roll damage. In GURPS you roll to hit against your skill, which if it is a 14+ is already about a 95% chance to hit. Then your opponents gets to roll a defense. And again if the target has any single high defensive skill this can mean a fairly high chance to succeed in nullifying the attack. Twice as many rolls per swing is more than twice as long to resolve a single action, and then multiply that out throughout the entire combat.
Only a caster might
We had always assumed in D&D combat that your “attack” roll was the one that had a chance to get thru, after all the feints, parry’s, and easily blocked attacks you would have in a normal fight. rolling that “critical hit” meant you hit a weak spot ect. rolling for every swing and block sounds tedious.
Sure, and combat is even described that way in one of the DM guides. But that’s fluff, and we’re talking crunch.
I was stationed at Twenty Nine Palms, California when Champions first came out (1980 or 1981) and the comic book store in Palm Springs where I went on weekends put one of their first copies with my pulls to sell to me.
Love at first sight.
That’s why they make dice roller apps, for people who are slow at math and don’t want to carry a literal bucket of d6 for playing Shadowrun (my Shadowrun character rolls 14 d6 for defense because he’s really tough and has outstanding armor and literally can’t die in game)
Also because Shadowrun was apparently made to sell six sided dice. The fact that on average, you need to roll at least two dice a second time throws that into sharp relief.
I’ve seen Shadowrun players with their literal buckets of dice, so I know you’re not kidding. I’ve also seen a 500+ dice action, wherein those dice buckets were needed. (To be fair, it was a ritual action involving multiple people, and it took them an extended period of in game time to do it. But it was still over 500 dice rolled for one action.)
I might’ve had rolls like that in first edition Champions.
But they plugged the loopholes by second edition.
It is pretty much the archtype for heroic dudes. What was the sword-slinger’s name again? Dork the Boring, or something like that? That was the dawn of the quarter-sucking games, like Gauntlet. WIZARD YOUR LIFE FORCE IS RUNNING OUT — WARRIOR IS ABOUT TO DIE — ELF NEEDS FOOD BADLY — VALKYRIE HAS EATEN ALL THE FOOD LATELY. Ah, good times…
Tabletop gamer since 1980 (AD&D, V&V, Traveller, GURPS, Pallidium, Champions not only with staples but B&W cover!). Game preferences are never “obvious”, except to the people with said preferences. I agree w/ Oberon re GURPS. Re Hero system, some people have to settle for CON 18 if they’re starting from a lower point base. Pallidium isn’t bad until you get into Rifts, then its fucking powergamer wet-dream godmode. I like d20-based mechanics over fistfuls of d6 but not necessarily THE D20 system. I’ll get back to that. Bell-curved probability results are useful, but the curve itself imposes its own constraints. That 50% probability of rolling a 7 on 2d6 (aka the peak of the curve) just gets shifted upwards with dice modifiers, so with enough modifiers, you can accomplish the impossible half the time. Adding more dice just pushes the mean towards the average, with increasingly freakish variation (hi or low) becoming (remotely) possible. Percentile tables are good (fill-in-the-blank Law) if you need finer grain than 5% blocks (1/20=5%). I don’t like D20/4E because of the pick-and-choose players do, irrespective of fit with the world, for level abilities that feed each other. It becomes all about “what rules supplements do you have that no one else does?”.
Dacoilette has used confused. Sydney has agreed in her confusion.
Haha but seriously Decollete doesn’t seem like a bad girl more like she’s looking for a helping hand to avoid a potentially awkward if not outright embarrassing situation
Nah, she’s just offering to share dinner with sydney. Out of politeness, you know.
Actually, she’s just more subtle with her seduction than Dabbler.
Is it just me, or does the one in the middle look like Flynn Rider?
It’s the smolder.
Is Sydney going to head back,or wait until the others are ready to depart?
Uh, “Stargate SG1 is better than Star Trek”???? Hot take there Dave!
Why are you booing him, he’s right.
SG1 is better than Trek, but Firefly is best of all!
Quark was clearly the best evah.
Ooh, that’s a hard call.
Firefly vs B5
I’m actually unsure on that one.
Who is Decollete talking to in panel 3? What question is she answering?
Talking to herself, and thusly answering herself. She happens to be agreeing that all three appetizers at the table are tasty looking.
She’s picking up Sydney’s sudden hormonal response to the thought of spending time with three hot guys and a succubus. Sydney’s trying hard not to drown here and her buddies should be coming to her rescue, but aren’t.
I think Garbler has it sussed. Decollete is fanning herself when she says “Ah yes please”. That sounds like Sydney has just dumped an erotic response to the trio in the air and D is asking for more. Luckily S is strong and she pulls away from the tantric trap D is trying to weave. Maybe next time.
I think she’s simply saying “Yes please” to the thought of the tantric energy she can feel from the three of them already.
I’m pretty sure the second panel is supposed to be Sydney talking, not Decollette. … i.e. a mistake.
I can’t figure out how that would work. Sydney asked a question as the last speaker of the first panel. Why would she be the one answering it?
The two Spaniards are obviously 12th level Clerics, and Mr. Disney is a 14th Level Bard.
Oh puh-lease…no better than 3rd lvl. While I expect the bard to have a high charisma roll, the clerics to? At 12th and 14th lvl’s they would be better equipped and way scruffier than this. not a staff or pectoral scapula between the pair of clerics, hint the bard is low is no instrument.
CHA is the stat which dictates the number of times per day and the strength of Turn (or Rebuke) Undead attempts, so it isn’t outrageous that a Cleric would have a decent charisma score.
exactly. and the bard is a Bardic Dancer… not Disney friendly thus his name
Mr. Disney is a roughly 5th level Ranger at best. He’s hoping his high CHA stat makes up for the abysmal DEX score and the fact he used his Bonus Feat on Lucky. He should’ve rolled a Rogue, but he’s not stealthy enough.
The Twins are a Rogue and Bard respectively. The Rogue once rolled a natural 20 and somehow shouted an active volcano back to dormancy, while the Bard managed to Charm an entire primitive society… Minus the Warlock but really, who’s surprised?
The day that Sydney does a social activity of this sort when she ISN’T going incognito is going to be a day of revelations for her. I don’t think she really groks what her new social status is, even now.
Hmm… the wording feels a bit odd between the first three panels, especially between the second and third, which feels like it’s missing a transitional sentence for Decollete to be responding to. I’m not sure which way I’m to read them, intonation/pacing wise (and if I’m to be honest, panel three’s expression+pose confuses me a bit too). It ends up sounding awkward in my head each time.
In other news I love how Decollete cleverly works in that bit of disarming humour!
Yeah, she’s got an…interesting speech pattern, and I can’t figure out the voice myself.
Threw me a bit, too. P1: Decollete asked Sydney to join her [in an activity], Sydney asked for more info about said activity, then P2: Decollete answered with a location. P3: Decollete expresses intense interest in…???
Decollete’s face and posture in that last panel look to be saying ‘much more interesting things to smack a little southward than a shoulder… hmm?’
Some of the dialog balloons seem to be pointing to the wrong speaker
or positioned oddly.
No, Deco is simply responding to herself in panel three, maybe catching a little appetiser from Sydney
You know us so well Dave B. Your audience is a bunch of unapologetic nerds. Oh well, at least I’m in good company here.
Heh, whenever see your name, two words come to mind: Big. Jobs! :D
Wonder how many people would get the reference :P
It wouldn’t surprise me of there are a few readers of 2000ad in the audience of this comic. Probably not many young hipsters like me who think that refering to old and obscure comic characters will make me dem more special than I really an.
I was never into Dredd, and was working full time and in high school full time when it launched. I was keeping up with a huge amount of titles, a lot of science fiction, and beginning my fleets for Star Fleet Battles which launched in ’77 also.
One European import I did begin buying was Heavy Metal (even without Star wars 1977 was a massive nerd year) which later spawned a movie featuring many of my favorite storylines from the early years (as well as the obnoxiously adolescent Den, sadly) as vignettes.
Dredd was okay, but DR & Quinch was what got me to subscribe.
Gotta love some Heavy Metal. I discovered the magazine back in the late 70’s. It got a little bit too porny in the 90’s but the story quality has picked back up. I think I still have the soundtrack to the movie on vinyl stashed away someplace.
Heavy Metal was a European import? I thought it was done by the penthouse publisher? I loved those Frazetta covers.
Bob Guccione, who founded Penthouse also had a magazine called Omni a glossy that covered “science and science fiction. It had some good sci-fi stories but was mostly the sort of thing that yuppies with pretensions of being intellectuals would keep in the coffee table. Heavy Metal was a French import. The American version started out being published by the same people who did National Lampoon and shared some editorial staff. As a teenager n the late 70’s the art was an eye opener.
Well I know I’d be interested in letting them take a roll to hit my weak spot, if ya know what I mean. But I guess I understand not wanting to. I’d be disappointed if I couldn’t talk Pathfinder with a potential partner, or if they weren’t interested in how the current Spider-Man comic was going. But this is more a random encounter than a long term campaign, right?
Everyone is seeing Disney prices with those three.
All I see is troupe of three caballeros.
One is a fashion designer and the other two are stylists.
In game terms. A smarmy bard aka leisure suit Larry and two swashbucklers both named Ignacio Montoya.
No, they should be Juan & Rodrigo ;) https://youtu.be/BQ0mxQXmLsk
Too bad… it seemed the one brother who had the smaller beard was checking out Sydney as opposed to the other two who were staring at Decollete. I mean, if a guy is checking Sydney out over a succubus who has literally hypnotic features, well… that’s got to mean something about his tastes.
It means he have a great taste in women if you ask me.
This leaves me wondering. Is there any benefit to being a succubus’ wingman (winggirl, wing person?)? Can you ride on the coat tails of her tantric aura? Sydney is attractive enough to attract attention on her own but I wonder if there isn’t some bleed over of succubus power to bystanders.
3.5 better than 4e= yes, it is the superior edition. Especially compared to the trash fire of 4e. 5e is admittedly better as an intro for new players, but it runs out of depth quickly after extended play.
Sg1 vs Star Trek= Seasons 3-7 of Next Generation are some of the best sci-fi television ever made, but Star Gate is also pretty cool
Oh no. 4e is much superior to 3.5, except in the matter of keeping the money rolling in, which appears to be a concern of Hasbro’s.
Word bubble in 2nd panel appears to be coming from the wrong person .. ie not Scoville…
So, Decollete uses her powers to send three guys who were drooling over the ladies off to get drinks. Sydney chides D for the abuse, but D shrugs it off. Suddenly, D spots an opportunity for Tamatha to feed by proxy. Off goes T. Suddenly D has S all for herself, for a moment. So she of course offers up time with the three amigos from the beginning, who now have an array of rainbow shots in front of them. And for just one moment, Sydney almost falls for it, giving Decollete a little taste. It looks like Decollete was hunting Sydney from the moment she entered the club, and like any good predator she used whatever opportunity was offered.
That was my exact take on this.
In the kitchen:
“Okay, We have a large appetizer platter, with extra mozzarella sticks and pepper poppers. Boss’s tab, so make it good!”
“On it! 7 minutes!”
“Oh, and they want the peppers to be ghost peppers instead. Do we have any of those left in the fridge?”
“I’ll check.” … “No, but we have a bunch of scotch bonnets for the super-suicide sauce. I could use those.”
“Go for it!”
“Right. 10 minutes! Now where did I put those safety glasses? Got’em.”
Scotch Bonnets are usually much less hot than Ghost Peppers but IMO they taste way better.
Scotch Bonnets have a pleasant sweet taste. I always give them bonus points for being cute.
A Caribbean Jerk sauce or a Scotch Bonnet mustard sauce are some of my favorites. Except for Walker’s Wood (they seem to be able to ruin the good points of a Scotch Bonnet mustard sauce for me.
Scotch Bonnets are usually around 300,000 – 350,000 Scovilles while Ghost Peppers run about 900,000 – 1,000,000 Scovilles, so yeah, about a third as hot.
…and now Robyn wants fried cheese too. ;p
With all purpose Greek seasoning.
Don’t you mean all purpose Geek seasoning? :D
Wait, Sydney thinks 3.5 is better than 4E? She is utterly cancelled.
You are objectively wrong. 3.5 is way better.
4E was so bad that I couldn’t find a group playing it in DFW. You know it’s bad when finding someone to play with in a metro area with the population of the state of MA is a fruitless task. Lots of people playing 3.5 and Pathfinder, but crickets for 4E.
4E was far better balanced. The major issues people seemed to have with it were:
1) It was far better balanced. Yep, people wanted the unbalanced mess that is 3.5.*
2) It was fairly ‘vanilla.’ You could do one of ~3 regular options in a combat, and your more powerful abilities were on limited use timers.
* I’ve played piles and piles of 3.5 across the years, and it can be fun. But it isn’t even slightly balanced and anyone who claims otherwise is not a credible opinion. When I ran I allowed physical characters access to any source book they liked (my approval required only for 3rd party crap that could go way off the reservation), and all T1 casters (wizard/sorc/cleric/druid) got access to none. Even limited to just the PHB abilities and spells they were far more powerful…
“Besides, guys like that, what are really the chances they’d be into hearing someone talking at length about why 3.5th edition D&D is superior to 4th edition, or why Stargate SG-1 is better than all the Star Trek TV shows with the possible exception of DS9?”
Ask Vin Diesel. A LOT of big muscular guys at the gym are also geeks. When you start out playing roleplaying games as a kid, and then grow up to realize, “Hey… I can get big muscles like my avatar if I move enough iron discs around,” you tend to end up with the muscles and the geekiness.
Can someone explain panel 3? I can’t make sense of any of it, why she’s saying that, why that look is on her face, why her hand is (presumably) waving in front of her face. Maybe I’m being silly and missing something obvious, but I just get completely lost right there, though every other panel makes sense. (my only idea is that maybe Sydney is meant to be saying the third speech bubble?)
I had the exact same thought. “Disney prince” seems a little colloquial for someone like Decollete to be saying, and my brain trips trying to go from panel 2 to panel 3 with how that conversation flows.
These last few pages remind me of the Dresden Files. There was a similar set up, for similar reasons, for similar types of ‘feeders’. Only, this is far more PG-13.
Guys interested in that stuff are probably not out clubbing in the first place, whether they look the part or not.
I met my wife playing 3.x D&D
Quite a hottie
You know, at first, I read that line as “the gentleman who looks like a Disney _ponce_.”
(Which actually makes a lot more sense now that I think about it. :D )
The guy in the middle in panel 2 looks like ProJared.
I’m all about the bell curved Hero dice system. It has the potential to give much more nuanced percentages than the simple 5% flatline of the D20.
It’s true, 3.5 D&D is vastly superior to 4th edition. (He said, thus fanning the flame war.)
Joke’s on you, everybody agrees on that…
I like the colour grading the way the shots are placed on the table.
You know, despite that Dabbler started facing off with Decollete almost immediately as she was introduced, we never really see her speak ill of Decollete behind her back… and there were a couple opportunities to do so. The conclusion I eventually drew from this is that Dabbler doesn’t actually dislike Decollete, so much as she very much enjoys picking a fight with her. Which… if you consider Dabbler’s relationship with Maxima… really says a lot more about Dabbler’s personality than it does Decollete’s character.
It’s almost as if Dave realized he’d basically let Dabbler introduce Decollete to us, the audience, as an elitist snob character we should prepare to actively dislike as an antagonist, but that wasn’t actually his intent for Decollete’s character; just Dabbler’s opening salvo to stir up an entertaining conflict. He’d then have to spend the rest of Decollete’s ongoing pagetime patiently demonstrating to us that she’s good people we (the audience) can freely warm up to, and that other characters than Dabbler can get along with Decollete just fine (even Dabbler, except that she would probably find it more fun to fight).
She is an elitist snob, how you feel about that is entirely up to you
Butt, that is clearly not all she is, just like all the other characters: there is more to them than what you first see
That’s certainly the first impression she gives while squaring off against Dabbler, yes, but Dave has spent every scene with her since that softening her in our eyes, making her more likeable and relatable. She has sneered at no one else since. Rather she’s shown a great deal of patience and willingness to be friendly to, talk with and explain things to Sidney (who is many things, but certainly not “high-class” or someone Decollete might think of as a social peer) all without condescending to her.
Call it the difference between an “elite” and an “elitist”, or between “classy” and a “classist”.
This most recent scene shows her helping an unfortunate, virtually abandoned young teenager by taking her completely under her wing, committing to being responsible for her for likely several years at least… compared to most people who can’t be bothered to slow down their walking long enough to put some change in a homeless person’s cup. No, I think Dave has worked hard to put the “snob” label to bed for Decollete.
That’s… because she’s an elitist Succubus snob, even the most snobby of elites can be pleasant when not around someone not even in their class-range or something they consider a threat (put two snobs of equal rank in the same room and watch the venomous fur fly)
And what better way to show superiority than to mould a fresh young untainted child succubae in your own image
If she is still this nice, pleasant, friendly succubae next time Dabbles is around, then you will be correct (personally expecting her to be how she was the last time they met, with maybe added snobbery by bringing up Tammy. remember the comments whe Tammy first mentioned how Deco found her? mentors don’t usually go looking for a mentee unless they have an ulterior motive, like… being an elitist snob who has had a ‘run in’ with an inferior riff-raff and wanting to prove they are better by training someone)
I never thought Decollete was introduced as snobbish. She was being perfectly nice to Sydney, and behind Dabbler’s back Decollete speaks positively about her and her unusual life “accomplished adventurer and scientist.” Only when Dabbler shows up and takes a jab at her she bothers to defend her own lifestyle and is otherwise fully polite, and Dabbler doesn’t seem very insulted.
The only thing looking bad is when Dabbler checks the hairband, indicating she doesn’t trust Decollete, but that’s more Dabbler being paranoid, as indicated by the flavor text.
You prove your lack of perception yet once again.
She has whatever issues with Dabbler that their shared past has evolved. But Decollete has never snubbed anyone, or shown any other signs of elitism or snobbery.
And you show you lack of brain-power once again: you don’t have to snub someone to be an elitist snob
Feel free to point out anyone that Decollete has acted snobbish or elitist towards. Just one, that’s all I ask.
If you can’t (and you can’t), then while your statement is accurate in general it does not apply to Decollete, and thus proves yet again your colossal ignorance. You read your own special brand of idiocy into everything, and then act insulted when you are proven wrong again and again and again ad nauseam.
O_o. Yes. Yes you do. That’s what those words mean.
I’d say Decollette is definitely ‘elitist’, but with justification. Not so sure about ‘snob’; for me that implies a dismissive looking down on the inferiors, as opposed to the sort of ‘noblesse oblige’ attitude that seems to be her default. “I don’t just think I’m better than the rest of you in this context, I know it. Here are the relevant credentials. Let me use my superior abilities and connections to help you out.”
I’ve found Decollete vaguely irritating since she was first introduced. However, that very last panel has her making such a cute face that I have trouble hating her now.