Grrl Power #873 – Pyrrhic matchmaking
You’ve all been waiting for it. Ray and Maxima will meet soon.
Sydney isn’t a lazy person necessarily, but it’s probably easy to imagine that when confronted with a frustrating job, she might gradually start putting less and less effort into it. Aster was an extreme example of how Earth is truly not ready for alien immigration, but there aren’t any languages on Earth that use the “Extended Galactic” alphabet, which accounts for the linguistic needs of about 85% of known space faring races. The difference between that and what Sydney can input into her tablet is like the difference between ASCII and UTF-8. Which is to say 128 characters vs. 1,112,064.
That’s the long winded way of saying that even the aliens who communicate in phonetic languages might have funky names. Sure, Glurbglorb might be easy to almost spell correctly in English, even if it’s really pronounced Ǫ̈lᴞrbglӛrb̈. But if the alien walks up and says, “My name is Glurb(click)glorb, Sydney probably doesn’t know how to get to the ǂ key on the tablet, so she’s going to start coming up with nicknames. Not out of spite, she just has a line of twenty aliens to get through.
The same thing when she asked someone their gender, and they said “quintflim,” and Sydney was like, “Come again?” and then the alien explained that “xers” race has five biological sexes. Sydney then discovered that none of the 58 genders available to pick from on her tablet really dialed in on quint-sexuals, so she started picking “pangender” for everyone who wasn’t obviously male or female. Again, not out of spite. She just wasn’t given the right tools for the job.
She also knows that while accurately cataloging all these tourist would be an unbelievable gold mine for scientists in a number of professions, she’s smart enough to know that’s probably not what the motivation behind all this cataloging is, and she’s happy to half-ass those results the same way her tools were half-assed.
I’m mad at myself for not thinking to name the previous comic “Scent of an alien woman” but, eh. I post these late at night and sometimes the brain isn’t firing on all cylinders.
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Whoop, panel 3 indicates Ray may have a vore fetish…
Oral, not vore
Definitely vore.
Everything about this guy reads like he’s trying to get himself killed. I doubt he has ever actually gotten laid. Short of cloning multiple versions of himself simultaneously specifically for that purpose.
I am going to say oral was the intent.
although a species using avatars to experience fetishes that otherwise realistically would not be sexual in a realistic setting…but horrifically painful and fatal.
-yes I have written vore/unbirth, but generally not complete consumption but closer to food fetish, something immortals do like Frankenhole logic, or life forms with indestructible flexible bodies *as a form of bondage*…one reason I guess one experimental slime story I wrote has somehow become one of the most popular things I ever wrote on some sites..but to each their own; although I will never understand the whole digestion and gore thing *discovered after writing erotic horror thinking I was juxtaposing erotic with horrific to make it more unsettling…but the internet made sure to inform me otherwise…so no more of that.
Rhuen… Nobody asked.
Tired and bored equals over share, but I don’t care .
Just because I wouldn’t have considered asking doesn’t mean I didn’t want to know
Ray Cosmos having a fetish for dying in horrifically painful ways was what I was implying. I don’t really understand the attraction of vore etc. either, but then I also don’t understand why someone would be as much of a jackass as Ray Cosmos so I guess I kind of grouped them together. :P
Wut
Sexy: full body massage with flexible, warm, wet, and muscular structures, like long flat tentacles, and for BDSM, being contained by and with the entity you are with, close to them.
(which is the fantasy aspect)
Not Sexy: Being crushed and asphyxiated in total darkness while being slowly and horrifically melted in acid.
(the reality)
that there are people who fetishize the later is what puzzled young hornier writer me and backed away from them or writing anything that came across like that anymore.
the start of this was Ray’s comment about falling into her mouth forever, which internet, raise eyebrow, assume oral sex, but being a creeper, and access to who knows what tech and/or magic…just back away slowly. and never go into the “niche” rooms in the back of a magic porn shop.
PS: as the reference might be esoteric now as its been off the air for awhile, Frankenhole was a weird adult swim stop motion show about Dr. Frankenstein, one of the themes was he and his wife had obtained immortality, but become so sexually jaded they had to do horrific painful things to get off anymore; like Hellraiser (pleasure and pain have become one).
Is anyone else picturing the Zathras scene from Babylon 5? Just me?
I think you meant to write “Pyrrhic Matchmaking”.
* adds another entry to List of Band Names *
Whoops.
Are any of Sydney’s nicknames on the “Make Maxima say” Bingo card? Because this is a perfect opportunity.
Would that count? I thought it had to be spontaneous.
Nope, Dabbler was very deliberately manipulating Max into saying “booby” in #218, this would absolutely count.
Sydney’s last three words are directly from the card we saw at the restaurant. (and not used yet, so at least she is thinking ahead.)
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-218-battle-break-or-the-most-dick-way-to-block-something/
Did not think of that – and for additional notes, what we’ve seen of Sydney’s card:
[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-425-in-case-shes-ever-a-damsel-in-duress/]
>cough< Shorn oscillate excelsior >cough<
ROFL!
Hopefully “No” is on an unseen part of Sydney’s card, otherwise it is “Nil Points” for Sydney.
There’s a group called ‘Cherry Poppin’ Daddies’, made famous by their cover of Zoot Suit Riot in the movie The Mask. They’ve got a song called ‘Sockable Face Club’. I can’t help but start humming it on the last panel…
It might be fun to flip the script and have Maxima become inexplicably infatuated with Ray.
I’m sorry, but… “ewww” was my immediate reaction.
Or we could break your arms and through you off a cliff. If you survive, we might not finish the job. Give you a sporting chance.
through? Through what?
Remember we are dealing with super powers. like super strength and/or invulnerability. So just like it says. “through you off a cliff.” It’s like defenestrate. Only instead of a mere glass window. It’s a rock spire of arbitrary thickness. ie. like in Dragon Ball when the combatants blast each other through a mesa.
Or we could break your arms, and through you, off a cliff.
That seems about as likely as someone becoming randomly infatuated with a dead skunk.
Yep, it could be funny in a Pepe LePew kind of way. No one would understand why it happened and Ray, despite all of his smarm, wouldn’t know what to do with her once he had her interest.
She might possibly do it if shw thought it would annoy Dabbler!
“Bell noise in G minor” is just priceless :)
(adds to list of album names) Yes, but the question is did she make the sound or say the description.
Maxima and Ray are going to meet.
…
Someone call the viscera cleanup squad! And, yes, tell them to bring twice as much bleach as last time.
overall though, it would be better yet with sydney (and her tongue-no-jutsu)
5 bucks says he draws on that mustache.
He could have his hairstyle genetically programmed.
I’ve known a couple of gentlemen who rocked the pencil thin ‘stache. The tended to be men of a certain age and with a bit of vanity but it a thing that is done.
Oh definitely, and certain people can even pull it off. For instance, Walt Disney, Kent Taylor, Errol Flynn.
This guy… Is not one of them.
Don’t forget, Sammy Davis Junior, the dude this guy was modelled (visually) after
Okay why is it okay for them to be that way but when this guy is doing it to them it’s weird. There better be a good explanation to this.
Because they know when to stop. They only are playful about it. This guy is actually harassing them and knows they don’t like it.
Maxima literally attacked Dabbler and Dabbler has gotten multiple explicit ‘quit uit Dabbler’.
With Cora this isn’t the case, since she gave Sydney the possibility to not experience it by first warning her crew to not have ‘word I forgot, but was obviously sexual’ with her unless she wants to.
Actually it is VERY hypocritical of Dabbler and Cora. They do FAR worse than have corny pickup lines.
Dabbler has sexually groped Maxima after breaking into her room when Maxima came out of the shower. :)
Dabbler regularly does sexual things to make Maxima uncomfortable. :)
Dabbler groped Maxima when she was first called in to analyze the orbs. :)
Cora pretty much was pimping off her crew to Sydney (if she was into that stuff) – admittedly with Frix she was though.
Cora and Dabbler were about 3 seconds away from penetrating each other in the Archon hallway, and when confronted by Maxima about it, she was called a prude for not being okay with it. :)
Compare all that to… cheesy pickup lines. Seems a bit unfair that for that crime, they would want Ray Cosmos, galactic gigolo, to be sent back into space without a spaceship. It’s not like he has any fewer boundaries than they have – and so far it seems like actually quote a bit more since he hasnt gotten handsy.
Actually, I read the interaction between the Succubi and humans in this comic as more of a serious cultural clash.
Everything that humans read as sexual Dabbler and Cora consider perfectly normal behavior, due to how the kind of society in which they were raised. To them, humans probably seem to have dozens of weird phobias, to the point where it’s hard to interact casually at all without causing offense. From Dabbler’s point of view, the scenario where she got punched into a wall after groping Maxima’s breasts would draw parallels with someone attacking you with a club because you tried to high five them after playing a soccer match with them. That’s abusive to the point I’m actually surprised Dabbler stayed on Earth at all, let alone continue working at Archon.
Ray Cosmos, on the other hand, seems to be just being rude on purpose. Maybe his species thrives on annoyance and considers it socially acceptable to irritate everyone they come in contact with. But until I see a justified reason for his behavior, I’m inclined to think Ray Cosmos is just a jackass.
Yeah, Dabbler groped Maxima twice(maybe fun to know the second time was easier to dismiss this way than the first time) and has shown to have any idea of Maxima’s sexual morals when she made some sexual reference in the twilight council, got a punch on her shield for it and said something in the sense as “I didn’t think you would recognize that as a sexual reference”
Ah yes, the ‘thin edge of the wedge, you have to fit one before you can fit two’ quote :)
“Dabbler has sexually groped Maxima after breaking into her room when Maxima came out of the shower. :)”
Yeah, and she literally got punched through a wall for it, but Dabbler seems to be okay with the price of doing business.
But… that doesn’t mean she’s not a hypocrite.
I am assuming that Dabbler’s plan when she came into Maxima’s room was NOT to get thrown through a wall – it was to get bus-ay with Maxima. :)
When they do it, they’re playing with a person. It’s directed at the mind within the body, not just the body itself. Succubi are aware of the non-physical events, the emotions, the energy exchanges, that occur between people like perhaps no other creature could be. With Ray, presumably, there’s no meeting of minds, just physical, surface-level interaction. It’s not even lust, just slease. He practically made the comparison himself in the extra panels.
Why settle for a standard when for the same price you can have a double standard?
It could be that the problem isn’t that he’s hitting on them, but rather that he’s doing it /badly/. Like his game is so bad it’s offensive to expose a pro to it.
So we can look forward to seeing this guy’s face punched inside out?
There are a lot of famous sci-fi names Sydney could go with: Buck Nekkid, Sam Francisco, Peter Rabbit, Buster Keaton.
That wouldn’t help; Maxima would know all of them.
Wait, what? Since when are ‘Peter Rabbit’ and ‘Buster Keaton’ SF names? o_O
Buster Nuts would be a great Porn Star name.
I hope this person wouldn’t do sex with males.
I would be horrified by a person with that self chosen name near my very precious private parts.
All they want is to Buster Nuts
Well, the rabbit brothers who become the ship’s cooks on the Pegasus after “More Terrible than Chains” are named Roger, Peter, Harvey and Oswald.
… No idea what that is
Der Google tells me it is a version of “Sexy Pirates Romance Novel” written with anthropomorphic characters. I guess it would be something printed by Harlequin Furry Romance.
Great… now I have that “Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Ah” song stuck in my head. :P (Which I’m only aware of because Alvin and the Chipmunks did it, back in the day)
Close, the guy who did the Chipmunks, David Seville, did “The Witchdoctor” a few years before he invented Alvin, Simon, and, Theodore
https://www.letras.com/david-seville-and-the-chipmunks/10031/
Wow. Sydney lifted the chorus for that joke.
Alvin & Co. did perform covers of the song a couple times, first in 1960 and then several more times starting in 1983 for their rebooted cartoon.
Its neat that Syd actually remembers a lot of the alien names. Even if she can’t spell it or fit it in the required spacing/program. They really should’ve gone with Audio IDs. “press button to state/smell name”
I think a list of names in smell would be a stack of scratch and sniff cards.
Syd, just go with “Baz Wibbley III”. Don’t go overboard.
“See the little one over there? She destroyed a few ‘Planet Wreckers’ by herself and has a bit of a temper. Try to not do anything to get yourself… *intentionally trails off while making a very grim face*
“She also once threw a man by his tongue.”
“Really? People pay good money for that on K’jathan 7!”
*makes note of species whose sexual organs are located in the mouth*
*also note for handshakes, some species have sexual organs on the end of some limbs.
No glove, no love.
just remember to smell the glove first.
in times of excitement our skin takes on a semi-permeable state. In which we can become pregnant by anything, a kiss, holding hands, or even a toilet seat.
-paraphrased Kiff Kroker.
How would Max react to Ray?
Maxima: “My name is Lieutenant Colonel Maximillia Leander, but you can call me-“*Grabs him where the sun don’t shine. “-Sir. Are we clear?”
I think *Grabs her by her genitals* would be annoying, like he’s constantly calling her by name, all the time, just for the kicks. Or is that for him? Like he has to *Grabs himself by his own genitals* to try and get her attention? I hope he doesn’t think that genital grabbing is a standard on the planet, or he will either be offending everyone or walking around “Handling his business” in everyone’s direction.
He just has to speak to offend everyone
Ray is an entrepreneur/scammer/salesman/louche figure/womanizer. He can act as anything if properly motivated.
I suspect not being thrown into the sun is a proper motivation
Why not save their names as an audio file as a stop gap measure? Or in the case of the fleurian, have them write out their name with a drawing, attach an explanation of how the symbols would be pronounced, and an explanation that her name is nonverbal.
Or have a native Terran record the closest approximation to be sure it’s an Earth-friendly transliteration.
…writing that just made me realize, given that the Archon headquarters is canonically in Texas, that Sydney probably has a strong Texan accent. …Everything I know is wrong. Nothing against the Texan accent, but I’m not sure that’s the first choice of Terran dialects to spread to the stars.
depends on where in Texas, its a big state after all and different corners and the interior have somewhat different accents being common.
If you speak with a person who was not a native english speaker it could be worse…
English with a thick french acent is like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5uX4ftYaU4
Americans are often harder to understand than that. Oh, of course…
You Sydney is not a native Terran? o_O
You heard the lady. The rest of the planet presumably disowned Texas, and thus Texans are considered non-native Terrans.
Or they’re all descended from aliens. That would be a good explanation too.
Something tells me Sydney would have fit in perfectly at Ellis Island back in the old days. And I have new insight into how a lot of immigrants with names like Worzckzytanskyi (which I just made up, and is probably not a real name anywhere, please don’t hate on me) were dubbed something like “Worksky” on their arrival certificate by tired officials dealing with their 50th non-English speaker of the day.
“Mike Wazowski!“
I think that was part of the joke there to begin with, happened here in Australia too, my grandfather went from Cocky to Cornelius aka Con.
Ellis Island is where my Grandfather’s name of Bengston got turned into Benson.
My mother’s family has the surname Charles. I’m given to understand that’s some Ellis Island shenaniganery.
Doesn’t surprise me, the second Sydney gave Aster as a vocal chord friendly name I thought it was a reference to Ellis Island. Very aware of the number of immigrants whose names were Anglicised at least there, nearly every family I know has at least one story associated with a name change from immigration in the USA.
I get it even if I don’t agree with it, some of our names are strange, funny in the local language or even occasionally offensive depending on where we arrived emigrating to different places.
Fortunately my family never suffered such an injustice.
To be fair, a lot of the people coming through Ellis Island probably got shafted on their names too.
No probably about it. Lots and lots of documented cases. A lot of it was honest best efforts but….
First the people filling out forms at Ellis didn’t even have access to accent characters. You may notice that Americans have dropped virtually all accented characters from our written language. This got enforced, hard, as typewriters started to be the standard way of doing, well, everything.
Second, a lot of people come from countries where the actual names of the letters are pronounced differently and their ‘u’ sounds like what an American would write as ‘oo’ or their ‘e’ sounds like what an American would write as ‘a’, etc. This probably could have been cleared up with some back-and-forth checking, but in many cases it wasn’t.
Third, a lot of people came from countries where the actual alphabet is different, and then the clerk at Ellis is left trying to figure out what to do with a name that’s spelled in Cyrillic or Arabic or Greek letters.
Fourth, a fairly large fraction of immigrants were illiterate and couldn’t check or verify anything the clerk was doing.
Fifth, they tried to direct people to clerks who spoke their languages, but regardless, a fairly large fraction of immigrants were processed by clerks they had no language in common with. And here, sometimes “best efforts” started taking the form of “these poor people have been waiting here for days already, can’t jam everybody up by spending a lot of time on any one case.”
Clerk: “What’s your name?”
Immigrant: (reciting the only English phrase he knows, and a lie often told to people by people selling spots on migration boats) “The streets are paved with gold!”
Clerk: “…..Okay, mister Theodore Stephen Gould…”
Is anyone else remembering the Election night sketch from monty python’s flying circus?
Interesting vocal anatomy to be able to produce three Bell noises simultaneously in a chord. I wonder if when they use those sounds in speech there’s a 30s pause in the sentance as the ring fades out to silence. Maybe continuing without the full ring is considered very informal or rude.
I’ve got two bucks that Ray is going to be incredibly genteel and polite to Max.
Here’s the theory: He’s a well known space skeez, clearly, and he’s got to be aware of his reputation, so he can be pretty much be his unabashed self to Cora and Dabbler. It’s clear he’s also done some research about Earth, and certainly knows Max is ridiculously powerful. It wouldn’t take much more research of publicly accessible media to discover that she is also a staunch feminist. (1st or 2nd generation, most likely, definitely not a Newgen feminist, but never mind that…)
Now Ray’s a player, (or at least believes himself to be) so he’s going to bring his gentleman (gentle-sophont?) A-game when introduced to Max. So initially, an amazing first impression, much to the dismay of Cora and Dabbler.
We can probably assume that Ray will fark it up at some point, but there is a ton of room for comedy hijinks and misunderstandings between the four of them until he does. Sydney could even pick up on the gag and use it to needle Dabbler.
Given that Ray will be meeting Max in the next comic or two at most the plot is already “in the can”, I’m sure. But hey, it’s fun to speculate, amirite?
That would be hilarious if Ray was able to do that.
Never underestimate the acting power of a thoroughly motivated shttps://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-873-phyrric-matchmaking/comment-page-2/#comment-856077alesman/entrepreneur.
Never underestimate the acting power of a thoroughly motivated scammer/entrepreneur/womanizer/salesman.
It would definitely be a GOOD example of subverting expectations, since most of us are assuming there is going to be a threat of violence or an image of Ray’s feet sticking out of a wall or the ground in the next comic or two :)
Given that he’s alive, he presumably has either been very lucky, or has learned how to stay just on the right side of the line. Dabbler and Cora clearly don’t like him, but they haven’t killed him either, and they’ve both shown a predilection for lethal force.
Except anyone seeing dabbler cover up around him will have all their red flags raised in an instant and be on guard around him.
Nevermind red flags, that’s all the way in radiowave frequency flags.
I join on that.- The reason Ray is a Sleaze with those two it’s because of who they are and how they act.- Around someone as no-nonsense as Maxima he is also a no-nonsense business man.- He is an adaptive polyempath, that adapts his behaviour and mannerisms to the interlocutor. Which would be tremendously hilarious, instead of “Sleazy douchebag gets punted by maxima”.
I really really really hope that’s the case :) I mean either way it’s going to be funny but what you and the OP mentioend would be so much funnier.
Sort of like how in another webcomic that I read (Erma), the grandfather was being described as this monstrous being who inspired terror in everyone and who was probably going to hurt Erma (and Emiko’s husband as well)….. and when he sees Erma he instead acts like some doting grandpa giving her a hug and taking her for a tour of the palace and the throne room and everyone else is like… wtf just happened, jaws open agape. It was hilarious to me.
After this, Maxima will finally realize what a great catch Deus is.
Ironically, Ray is God’s gift to other men, by virtue of lowering the bar enough for absolutely anyone else to clear it.
That’s why I send him a box of fresh grah every midwinter solstice. If it weren’t for ray, the standards wouldn’t be low enough for me to get married much less anything else. As a bonus my mate is even the same species as me…though that one squid still send me cards.
That reminds me of the Family Guy episode where a tobacco company that Peter was working for hired an ugly girl to stand by Meg so she looked prettier in comparison. :)
Nope, no he’s not, just because you avoid stepping in one pile of shit doesn’t make you go leap in a previous pile shouting “It could have been worse!”
Lol.
Max: “I guess I can’t be too mad, it looks like you at least did some of these properly, or at least picked something simple, like ‘Mr. Ni’ here.”
Sydney: “…Much as I hate to contradict you when you’re letting me off the hook, I feel you should know his actual name is, and I’m not making this up, ‘Ekky-ekky-ekky-ekky-z’Bang zoom-Boing z’nourrrwringnmmm’.”
Max: “…I think I have to give you that one either way.”
Hey, that’s the guy who stiffed me on delivery for a shrubbery!
I’ve been getting definite Space Dandy vibes from this guy.
I’ve never seen that show, but I have seen the cover art for it. I can’t promise I wasn’t influenced by that for his visual design. I don’t know how he acts in the show, but I would guess like a flamboyant space Elvis maybe?
Somewhere between Spike Spiegel and Vance the human stampede.
addition: add in a dash of Nabeshin as depicted in Excel Saga.
Thaaaaats why this guy looks familiar. I’ve been trying to remember the name of that show for ages. Such a hilarious romp.
If she keeps going like this, her naming preferences are going to be a tourist attraction in and of themselves. ‘Get named by the Graaz eater, your one stop shop for a legit earth disguise!’
So, that’s basically what happened to a lot of immigrants to America. The people recording names got lazy and just made stuff up to get the line moving. Probably not a great example to follow in the modern age, tbh.
After Max meets Ray she will say that he has his mind in the gutter. As well as his spleen, liver and various other body parts.
And if they weren’t already, and he doesn’t show some self-control, all of his bits shall be in the nearest literal gutter?
Panel 6 has a really good Maxima image! Love it!
“He also objectifies woman.”
“He likes heavy chicks.”
“He has magic fingers.”
“Something something rock hard abs… I can keep going”
You know… I think this counts as attempted murder and man do I hope they succeed. Tired of this dude’s crud already.
Also come on Maxima at least suggest a solution for Sydney here, some of these names are fucking impossible! Besides, we can market this, “Be the first whatever on your block with a for real nickname from Earth! For an extra 25.95 we will give you a nice document making it an official earth nickname! Impress your friends, humilate your enemies, attract mates!”
Thank you, Maxima.
Sydney, just write it phonetically and describe anything that doesn’t have phonetic equivalence.
Actually, having a sound byte of them saying their name wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
Yup. Sadly the form doesn’t come with a sound byte option, and Sydney does not have the time or the skill set to program up such an option. And I really doubt that she is able to translate random alien noises into the phonetic alphabet.
I have no idea what the vast majority of the (non-latin alphabet) symbols actually mean, and actually have to look them up whenever I come across a word that I want to figure out how it sounds. Which is a simple task, but doing the reverse is most definitely not.
Which means Sydney will be restricted to use English style spelling and it will be a terrible approximation that even other human/English speakers would be hard put to associate with the actual name sound.
But, yea, even a lame attempt is better than a joke name.
The phonetical writing has three relevant drawbacks.
First it’s phonetical, so all other ways of communication can’t be recorded
Second it’s limited to the used alphabeth(even the phonetical alphabeth only has all humanly pronouncable sounds)
Third it’s hard to learn to determine from the sound of the worth how it’s spoken.
So, does Cora have bio-luminescent freckles? It’s kind of looking like she might.
It’s great Monty Python reference to the Silly Party as well.
Skeezy as this guy is, Dave’s facial expressions are on point with him and this is some of the best work at alluding to motion in a while.
Y’know, it’s the ones that have important differences from humans that I identify as being likely for the greatest mutual benefit for import/export. Fleurians for example do most of their communication by scent. They should be introduced, with proper warnings etc, to skunks. As a potential weapon, or a potential ‘guard dog’ for their places, or depending on whether they even find skunk scent annoying at all, possibly as an amusement, exotic curiosity, party icebreaker, or even area-affecting aphrodisiac.
Aster should also wander through the local conservatories, botanical gardens, and plant nurseries to see if there’s a whiff of anything unexpected and amazing that might be a hit back home.
“They walked like Men”, 1975, Clifford Simak.
Fondly remembered book. Remember the car chase scene?
For most of the names that are actually audible, can’t they just edit the computerized form to record and store the name as an m4A file? Or the written version as a Jpeg, and then let the alien in question make an “Also Known as” that humans can pronounce in a human alphabet?
In future, yes. Working in the field and having to process 20 aliens each, before they wander off out of sight, no.
If they can be issued with a tablet that can take a photo and incorporate it into their file, then they could also use the speaker feature to record their name into their file as well (“Press this button to hear their name in their native language”)
Something we need to remember about Grrlverse history, is that people of myth and legend can actually be real. And that includes Midas. Looking at Ray Cosmos’s comment, he indicates that Midas “literally” put women on a pedestal.
Midas’s “statues” may well have been sold at auction offworld, and could have helped put Earth on the galactic map, as a place where beings with super powers (and/or powerful magic et al) shape world history.
Meanwhile any distinctive artifacts, from his reign, would have been systemically hidden/melted down/disposed of, as they would provide strong evidence that myth was actually real, and thus risk the populace being inspired to find ways of overcoming the Veil.
Those ‘statues’ or ‘artefacts’ you speak so dismissively of, use to be people before he bad-touched them
So Midas may have been a super? Would make sense.
Maybe Michelangelo was a super that turned people to stone. Would make sense why his work was so realistic.
Nah, not a super, just a gorgon
or just as the myth goes a man cursed. After all his food and drink also turned to gold.
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so… what happened to it?
An accident, apparently.