Grrl Power #1352 – Ballroom banter
The following is all totally canon:
Sydney: Ooh! Is that Detla? No wait, her hair is pink. I didn’t know Stygans could have pink hair. Of course Detla is the only one I met. It’s cool that her skin is… uh, what color is that. A murky teal? I bet she comes from a tropical region of Stygan-landia. I’m right aren’t I? Like some part that’s very coastal and flanked by chains of islands. I can just picture people with that skin color hanging out on beaches and swimming a lot and doing Pacific Islander stuff. Or it’s the total opposite and she’s one of the… uh, Fire Stygans. Is Stygan society broken down by element like that? Probably not. >inhale<
Dabbler: Let me play through these memories, then I can answer…
Sydney: So that’s a real Angel, huh? Wait, I met an Angel at the Twilight Council. She didn’t have a flaming eyeball halo. Or is this chick like a high-ranked Angel, like a Seraphim, or a Host. Is that a rank? Like, “Heavenly Host?” Or is “host” just the collective noun for Angels? I’d have thought it’d be something like “A wing of Angels.” or “A smug of Angels.” I mean, nothing against Angels, but the seem like they’d be a little self-important. Where are her wings? Can the contract into her, or are they conjured purely from magic? What products does she use in her hair? With that flaming halo, you’d think she’d need some really expensive conditioner. >inhale<
Dabbler: If I could just…
Sydney: Hah hah, I just realized, “Flaming Halo” is what I should call myself when I get a sunburn. Or if I ever eat so much hot sauce it starts coming out of my pores when I sweat. Can that happen? I mean, I know it can’t, but I think it did once. That or I had hot sauce on my fingers and rubbed my hands on my skin. I made out with a guy later that day and his nose started running. We were kissing, sure, but I always brush my teeth before making out. I meant he was kissing… uh, other parts of me… So does that Angel have a flaming sword or a flaming spear, or a flaming bow and arrow? Aren’t Demons fire resistant? Flaming weapons seems like a weird choice to use against them. I know, it’s not fire fire, it’s like, holy fire or something, right? But why not make it holy ice, right? Wouldn’t it be twice as effective then? Are Demons even vulnerable to cold? Hah! That would mean that Demons are all girls. You know, because girls are always cold. Hah hah. Wait! Maybe girls are all Demons? Ooh… >inhale<
Dabbler: …
Sydney: Is that blue chick the one from Tamer: Enhancer 2? …What? I find time to read. She was a blue, six-armed chick with gold tattoos. Hmm. No, in the book, it said she had a pattern on her forehead that looked like an elfin tiara. This chick just has, like… double eyebrows. I guess she’s just a different member of that race. Wait! Dabbler! This chick has six arms, you have four, and you said you didn’t know who your other mother was, right? (DaveB: This is the chick from TE:2)
Dabbler: My non-succubus mother was a Doppelganger, Sydney. I don’t know what race my father was.
Sydney: Oh.
Dabbler: May I continue with the memory playback?
Sydney: Okay.
Dabbler: >inhale<
Sydney: Where does this take place? Is this Fracture Station? It feels like Fracture Station. Like, not because of the decor in the room or anything, but the “I know peripheral things because of context memories” factor. It’s kind of like a dream, watching this. Is it weird that you were there just before coming to Earth, and so were the orbs, but didn’t we decide the orbs have been here for millions of years… wait, what are you doing with that ballgag?
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This month, I’m closing on a new house, selling my Mom’s house, finishing packing Mom’s house, moving city to city to the new house, forwarding mail, canceling utilities, all that. And after that’s done, I get to start the process of selling my old house, which needs a little work before it can realistically go on the market.
SO. I’m going to try and do this vote incentive in stages. Currently it’s just pencils. The TopWebcomics one will update with colors and detail until we get to the no clothes versions, then that will continue over at Patreon. Also there will be a comic or two in between each version to fill out the story.
I know it’s hard to tell from just the pencils, but this is Heatwave and Jiggawatt. The comics will explain why they’re doing what they’re doing. Although I feel like even saying that much makes it easy to guess, but hopefully the journey will still amuse.
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Dabbler needs to invent a “spectator mode” for these memory playbacks, somehow, or Syddles is going to drive her to an early, alcohol-induced grave.
You know Maxima would enjoy the schadenfreude of Sydney driving Dabbler up the wall when she’s trying to share her memory.
I thought the XXXX collar on Dabs was the same think every Arc member gets, so does this flashback take place AFTER she joined?
Her collar is from when she contracted herself to her master (forgot the name of the big fiery dude). Archon using similar styled collars were either inspired by her collar, or a coincidence.
His name is Tom.
The ARCHON chokers were inspired by Dabbles (she had hers first, they copied her)
If I were to watch media with Sydney, it would have to be bad media. Or at least something where her comments and questions were more interesting than the media itself.
That’s a very low threshold nowadays.
It would be hilarious, if decidedly outside the target rating for this comic to have Dabbler do a MST3000 treatment, only not of (bad) science fiction, but of her most favouritest subject in the world.
Mean girls, or meme girls?
embrace the power of ‘and’
I assume that would be a “Murder of Angels”.
Or suicide if they’d ever have to encounter Sydney…
I was assuming they’re a choir of Angels, after “O Come All Ye Faithful”.
So, angels are real, but they obviously not the “conceptual beings crafted to perform the whims of a god” kind.
Just like how demons aren’t innately evil here.
We already met at least one angel, when Sydney first met the Council
Here’s me hoping for a Tamer: Enhancer 3!
me three.!
Tamer: Enhancer a (Trente)Trois
Diddo!
Is any of actual language? Is it a font? (tried a few sites and failed) or am I putting in too much effort and it’s just drawn gibberish?
Pretty sure it’s not a simple alphabetic substitution for English, as there are too many single-character words, and the sentences are too short. It could be an alphabet for a different language, or a syllabary or a logographic writing system, but if that’s the case, we need way more text, and/or a translation to a known language (Rosetta stone style), to actually decode the writing system.
The letter counts match “I’m a dumb spoiled bitch, and that” (if you forget the apostrophe in I’m), as do the repeated letters.
when mentally connecting to human ADHD – succubi be surprised.
“angels drool”?
All depends on what she’s drooling on and why
So I guess calling them Heathers has fallen out of favor.
Xerxa-zi
hehe,, thought of Xerks wrap (gamchas)… that it is used by one for so long. (normally used once, then returned to Ether.) that it develops consciousness…
Hmm, the mask on the horny angel looks familiar…
My guess is that halo’s a cosmetic accessory that a lot of the more affluent angels will wear to show off their affluence. And the angel on the twilight council doesn’t wear one there because it’s kind of entirely politically incorrect. Wearing such a halo on the council would simply come as close to guaranteeing that none of the other members would agree on anything the angel said as one could,
If that dialogue in the commentary is all canon, could we get a bonus page entirely of word bubbles of it, just for the lulz? For one thing, it’d be super easy, and I wanna see how small the text would have to be for it to all fit. For another thing, it think it’d be funny if, in the next proper page, we come back to Sydney with a gag on her, but the context might be lost on archive readers.
Just remember, if you meet anyone who judges you for your heritage you should thank them for letting you know in advance for how small of a mind they have. Regardless if the tone of their words is scorn or pity.
@DaveB a request honoring Spring and summer. GP cast in proper Sundresses with the sun behind them.
Should make for an awesome visual and incentive poster.
Would also give Halo a chance to wear her Holo-Fairywings.
Interesting…
Dabbler doesn’t have a cyberarm in the flashback…
Has Sydney not also met Lapha? So that’d be two she knows. Or is Lapha not a Stygan? I thought Lapha and Detla were the same species though. (Both have names anagrammed from Greek letters, I thought that was a thing with them.)
They were introduced in the same arc (the New York story arc) and DaveB named them loosely for anagrams of greek letters, but they’re not the same species. (Lapha is a member of a species that’s a kind of living spell.) Garamm (lizard guy) was also part of the New York group (gamma), as well as a fourth one whose name I forget named loosely for ‘beta’.
The blue one makes me think Hindu goddess. No idea which one it would be.
Every time I see Dabbler in a new outfit I fall in love with her all over again…
Never ask a succubus what she’s doing with that ball gag.
Is that a Wheel?
So, funny story, I actually have quite a few memories that are third person for some reason. I did some research on it and it’s a thing that happens to a fair number of people. Basically, it has to do with the way your brain deals with memories, it basically reconstructs the memory each time you remember it, and it can make mistakes. Due to TV and video games, apparently its a relatively easy mistake for the brain to make to view the memory in third person, since we see third person perspective so often now.
Also, since this is a mistake the brain is making in reconstructing the memory, things you see that wouldn’t have been in your field of view are just made up by your brain. You’re not actually seeing stuff you couldn’t see before, its just all your brain’s best guess as to what it would have looked like.