Grrl Power #792 – Vitamin-T
Happy thanksgiving to those of you who do that sort of thing.
So this is the other big difference between a human girl and a preadolescent succubus. Their tantric needs are marginal, and if you’re a young succubus living with her mom, there’s going to be some to spare. Just little blobs of tantric energy tucked in some Tupperware containers in the fridge. Actually I’d think you’d want your tantric energy hot, but demons probably have a microwave equivalent. Micro Hellfire.
If there really was a Target or something in little Succubus Town, they could charge admission. Actually, little Succubus Town could charge admission for people wanting to do some quality sightseeing, and the thing is, the succubi probably wouldn’t mind at all. Especially if the admission fees counted against their property taxes or HOA fees or something.
I don’t know why I find the idea of… well, not hell, literally – in the Grrl-verse, demons really are aliens that live on other planets, but imagining their worlds as hell-like… but also weirdly modern in a lot of ways – is something that I find really amusing. Like, yeah, there’s rivers of brimstone and ancient fortresses and vast dungeon complexes, but there’s also chain restaurants and broadband and sports teams and colleges and star ports. I guess in a lot of ways it’d be like Japan or parts of Europe, where there’s the old world and the new world across the street from each other. Yes, there’s a crypt of unfathomable evil, but right next to it is a quickie mart that sells dungeoneering supplies. And across the street is “Sal’s Trustworthy Appraisals” that identifies and appraises dungeon loot, for a reasonable fee of course. And right next to that is a Malefactor Pylon, but it won’t corrupt your soul if you stay out of the cordoned off area.
I thought there might be some speculation about the identity of Tamatha’s mentor, but there’s only so many possibilities from the pool of characters I’ve already introduced… plus I forgot about her choker till the last minute, and that pretty much gives it away.
It’s Decollete.
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Literally hypnotic…
I mean, when its a dress like that.
Ya’ know, it’s times like this that I really appreciate all of DaveB’s hard work in his study of Boob Physics…
The great sacrifices he has had to make for his art.
Let’s hear it for our next contestant!
Also, yay!
Also, is that Miss Blood-Oriented Evil-O whose name I forget….?
You mean Sciona? No, it’s Decolette.
Decoltee-ette.
Sydney, for a hero in training you have pretty poor spacial awareness.
That’s part of the reason she is still in training.
Sydney has pretty poor spacial awareness for a super hero.
No idea how my comment got here twice, but I guess that means I’m pretty cool!
That can be said of most humans.
Normally her lack of spacial awareness is because of her bangs. :)
Décolleté! Last time we saw her she and Dabbler were having a leer-off. Whatever happened to the hairband she gave Sidney?
Dabbler took it away to check out it before she was allowed to wear it regularly and then stuff happened to distract from it.
O look, a distraction!
What were we talking about?
We were talking about distractions. Such as, scroll back up and look at that last panel again.
Cue the hypno-boobs
hey look it’s Decollete, I would recognize that rack anywhere!
I mean there literally are only 2 possibilities we could guess, Dabbler or Decollete.
Cereal shame it wasn’t an unknown third (was really hoping it was)
No cereal shaming.
Demon-O’s are part of a balanced breakfast.
Wait wait… I think I recognize that neckline that’s the lady she met at the rooting the one who was talking to dabbler right?
The succubus from the meeting who looked one second from jumping Dabbler, I assume?
I love how Dave put her name right in the commentary and people are still speculating.
Also, Dave, it should be “make do” and not “make due” in panel 5 :-)
Not much different than having the same question asked repeatedly in the comments. Some people are incapable of reading what others have fully hashed out before.
To be fair, this comic usually is into the second page of comments within just a few hours after DaveB posts it. Not everybody has the time to read everything.
Everyone was too distracted by the last panel to comment as quickly.
Make due is a historical variant that is no longer accepted.
Maybe this is supposed to be a hint as to just how old Decollete is, that she’s actually somehow pronouncing it in the way people did a hundred years ago?
Tamatha, the young succubus, is the one saying it. Decollete hadn’t arrived yet.
Yeah, and who helped teach young Tammy? She probably picked it up from being around Deco so much
Tammy is probably associating those two words as a single phrase rather than individual words, like how some people learn to read syllabically (ie by sounding out each part of the word) while others learn to read in ‘blocks’ (ie each word as a whole)
No longer accepted, because the origins of the phrase have mostly been forgotten.
“Dues” are fees or taxes. After unexpected misfortune, such as a poor harvest, those would still be owed to the local authorities/nobility, and you would need to scrape together way you could – and paying these dues is called “making due” (in the same way that getting to school lessons on time is “making class”).
So, if you had clothes/fencing/equipment were wearing out then – to avoid gaol, forfeiture of property, or worse – you had to “make due, and mend” instead of being able to afford the purchase of replacements.
This was then later into corrupted to “make [it] do, and mend” – referring to making the old object suffice for purpose.
No longer accepted in some venues, where there is no interest in etymology.
“Dues” are taxes, or guild fees. Paying these is “making due”, in the same vein as “making rent”.
Not paying taxes to the local nobility/authorities would result in gaol, beatings, forfeiture of property/assets, or death. Not paying guild fees would result in eviction from the guild, meaning you were basically unemployed.
So, if your income was unexpectedly low, you still needed to find a way to pay – and any worn-out, broken, or damaged clothing or equipment could not be replaced within your budget. You (literally) had to “make due, and mend [the broken stuff]”.
This eventually morphed into “make [it] do, and mend” by people who thought it referred to making the broken stuff sufficient for purpose, especially once Craftsmen’s Guilds and Serfdom started to peter out.
I did not know that. Thanks! :-)
I usually don’t read the commentary. here or with other comics. It’s not what I’ve come for.
The commentary here is usually highly informative, and not just about the actual posted page
Boobs. Uh, I mean, boobs. I mean, boobs! Shit!
Giggidy!
Those are bobs. In that top, they bob around a bit.
“Well, that’s because you have big jugs. I mean, uh, your boobs are huge. I mean, I want to squeeze them. I mean..”
O.O wait – just guesgging and probably wrong but I recognise those highlights. It would be hilarous if Harem is her Mentor so that’s my guess. It would also explains why she keeps bringing the crew to this club every time they go out!
It… it literally says who it is in the description AND the sidebar.
Just roll with it, a lot of people read the comic, some at partreon, and even here a lot of the readers the jump right into the coments, not the unhidden text.
And this is the internet so you know there will be some who jump to the comments section without even reading the comic first.
Wait – you’re saying there’s a comic strip on this forum?!
(> _ <) ヅ
At the bottom of the description. I am probably not the only one who charged to the comment section as soon as they saw where Sydney’s eye were focused.
Yes… I know. I saw and I don’t care. There were Two subjects in the above. “I recognise those hightlights”. And “it would be hilarious if”… I won’t say that I knew the Name of the girl without reading the comments but I recognized the hair colours and the collar. I knew the girl even if I couldn’t remember the name.
BUT I STILL think it would have been funnier if the owner of Club Untz and this lass’s mentor was Harem. Or one of the Harems at least. So I maintain my sentence.
This isnt Oontz, this is someplace in Dallas a short distance from Sydney’s Comic Emporium. Oontz was in New York and seemed to have lots of lounges off of the dance floor. This place is mostly a big dance floor with a mezzanine to watch from and overhead trapeze acts.
One Assumes that the name will be a pretty good double entendre. (No pressure on making the name epic, DaveB.
She used to get “listless”?
Yes.
It means lacking in energy or drive.
Thanks.
Whenever people have said that I’m listless, there’s also been a lack of mental energy as well – not just a lack of motivation to do, but to even contemplate doing. When someone made me get dressed and go to the doctor’s office, it was very disorienting – not in the “I don’t know what’s happening?” sense, but the whole concept of doing stuff felt foreign.
We’ll just call you: Hey You!!!
Logic-Module: On
If Tamatha had Tantric energy deficiency during her youth, even though very little environmental energy of that type would have sufficed, doesn’t that also mean that her foster or adoptive parents didn’t … tend to their bedroom fire ?
If she didn’t have a single parental figure to start with, she probably would have had only one soon.
Logic-Module: Off
Some couples don’t have sex, you swapped the “logic” and the “preconception” modules
They might also just not do it while she’s here, which is often enough that the room doesn’t get charged with energy.
Or they just don’t feed on family
Or she wasn’t raised by a Succubus. She said she didn’t know about the Veil until her Mentor found her.
That doesn’t really have anything to do with l3lue7hunder’s comment.
Even if she was raised by a pair of mortals, she would have been able to feed off of their tantric energy whenever they had sex.
A lot of people avoid having sex when the kiddos are around. Particularly if one is a screamer.
In the 1960s there were dozens of married couples on TV sitcoms that never had sex. In fact, apart from Gomez and Morticia Addams, nobody in any show had ever had sex even if they had half a dozen kids. Mr and Mrs Addams? They definitely had sex.
Ah the Addams family, the only passionately in love couple on television for a long time. The only couple that actually slept in the same bed I think as well. Always showing how they loved each other and never got into fights (other than ‘oh wait I’m supposed to act like this at this point?’ comedic mockery of various sitcom tropes), they also never really judged anyone. Sure they thought other people were strange and bizarre in thinking but always shrugged and welcomed them anyway. I seem to remember a few episodes where they helped families get over differences and become closer due to their example.
Herman and Lily Munster, of “The Munsters”, slept in the same bed, but I think only one episode showed the bedroom.
Yeah, was just gonna mention the Munsters, certainly can remember at least one episode showing them in bed together (and several episodes with Herman in his gown and long cap and Lily in her gown and cap)
Makes you wonder at the bizarre mentality of people back then that the only two couples shown sleeping in a single bed and in obvious love with one another are the ones depicted as bizarre and monstrous in appearance and/or nature. While the ‘normal’ couples like Lucy and Desi or the Dick Van Dyke Show sleep in separate beds that are at least a yard apart and barely wide enough for a single human being to lay down on.
Remember how long it was before you saw anyone kiss, or show a toilet (not someone using one, just a toilet in general)
Not much fucking going on in colleges anymore. Way too dangerous.
Danger never stopped most people I’ve known.
Less than it used to be, condoms are everywhere now.
I think he means the other type of danger. The one of a bad breakup leading to one of the partners facing rape charges.
“bad breakup”? Is that what they are calling it these days. It was “boys being boys” when i was young.
No, the exact same thing used to be called regret. Or, “falling out of love” or “embarrassed after the walk of shame”.
Now it results in charges.
For every false accusation there are 100 that don’t get reported because of fear of being accused of BS like that.
But if even one douchebro is afraid to assault his fellow students because of this, I call it a win.
Abraham Lincoln pointed out that 64 out of every 37 statistics posted on the internet.
One set of crimes does not make another set okay, and in this case like so many other groupings of things which are interconnected allowing or winking at one causes both it and the other to increase, leading to a positive feedback loop.
That doesn’t stop the hormones at all.
No, but it empowers discipline and willpower.
immediate mental image of a sydney moment *stares* “Are you the bouncer?”
Dcollette: Well, depending on context, “Yes, very much so.” or “When I need to be, but I have that guy by the door to take of that usually.”
Or
“There is *some* bouncing I tend to do, but not in this top unless you want to be lucky.”
Oh, I kinda hope she does this on the next page!
I see Decollete’s name in the Who’s Who credits,so is she Tamatha’s mentor?
I keep trying to read Decolette as Dolcette. Do not mix those to up and whatever you do – do NOT google the latter.
Who can mix those up?
Fem can.
A dolcette is a musical instrument that could be described as the end result of the mating of a piano and a harp.
Dulcimer
Yes, a dulcimer is a musical instrument, dulcet is a tone, usually seductive
You never heard of someone being described as talking in ‘dulcet tones’? o_O
Typo in Panel 5:
“I had to make due” should be “I had to make do”
RBZ’s right.
Sappicgasm’s right about RBZ being right.
No, they are both not
Howard Johnson is right!
“Bob Dole!”
Heh, being unemployed and getting a benefit meant you were ‘on the dole’ :P
As noted elswhere, “make due” is the archaic form of today’s “make do.” Perhaps Tamatha has picked up bad habits from her mentor.
In other words the only reason “Make Due” isn’t right and “Make Do” is right is because enough people were not right, long enough to make it right, and make wrong what was right.
So I say, they are both right, because, “that’s what I said, what did you hear?”
“Make due” is actually a historic misspelling of “make do”, not its archaic form.
And, luckily, no one here is trying to champion “make dew”
That is what archaic means: historical
And ‘make due’ came first, which means ‘make do’ is the modern misspelling
This is English, the most bastardish of bastard languages. If we want to get our point across, we’ll find a way, and if we can’t make it clear, we’ll make dew.
Is it bad that my first thought reading that last panel was “Busted!”?
Busty is more like it.
Ah, the tantric value of a pickle, banana, and bratwurst sandwich. Even if at the time she didn’t know why, Tamatha got it right.
Missing the point…
All of those items are phallic in shape and since it’s been fed to a succubus it becomes obvious why the artist chose those particular food items… at least it’s obvious to me…
Happy Thanksgiving, ya animals!
Wowsers, Sydney really blew her Aware/Notice skill check to pick up on the ominous music of that approaching cleavage. LOL
Goggle til ya Wobble!
Ok, so I recognize Morrigan Aensland from Darkstalkers shopping with her kid. I guess that is how Sydney is imagining things going from Tamatha’s description. I never got the idea of small wings growing out of the head like that, but it is distinctive.
It was the style for awhile. Devilman was the same. The wings on the waist just above one’s asscheeks is another weird choice they often went with at the same time, often together.
head wings are inspired by old paintings of demons.
waist wings were inspired by a type of dress that was popular, especially with high class ladies at the time more so than now.
Thought waist (or hip) wings was a sign of one of the Higher Order of Angel, not sure which one, butt one of them has four sets of wings (with one pair conveniently located on or near their butt)
The Seraphim reputedly have three pairs of wings (one pair to fly, one to cover the feet, one to cover the face; they’re positioned that close to the blazing glory of the Throne). I don’t think any text mentions where those wings are rooted, but hips seems reasonable for the covering-feet pair.
I have always been a huge fan of that material in panel seven.
One of the best things to come out of the disco era…
Excellent visualization, DaveB
That leaves a lot!
That last panel really should have nipples poking through the dress.
Not if she is wearing pasties to keep them in check
↑This!↑
Huh. You know, replace that hotdog with some sweet) (or spicy) italian sausage, and slice the banana and pickles lengthwise, and that could make for an interesting sammich. Gonna have to try that one of these days, I *do* love weird sammich combos. Needs a big fat kaiser roll tho, none of this silly white bread nonsense.
Begin Tangent/
A sad majority of white “bread” technically is not bread at all when the main ingredients listed are – enriched white flour and gluten – as opposed to – enriched wheat flour. – Notice the difference?
White flour is pretty much extra fine ground cellulose fibre, usually sourced from conifers.
/end Tangent
Also, most bread that does use wheat flour in the US is really more like a cake than a bread, anyway. ;)
All that sugar…
I guess if you buy mass market brand stuff instead of from a bakery.
Older people who grew up when homemade bread was significantly cheaper than store bought bread generally buy from bakeries which make bread like they grew up with.
Have started eating brioche bread, tastes nice and fruity without the fruit, at least to me
There is a place that makes a good Tomato Basil bread near me, and all the varieties of rye.
Usually I like something coarse with seeds. Sesame, poppy or caraway – anything’s fine just with butter and sorghum molasses.
I love Wheat Bread, especially, if it has Sesame Seeds.
Odd tangent, for certain, but I question it’s validity. Cellulose is an ingredient in many food products, but as for your claim of it essentially being a replacement for wheat flour in the majority of white bread, I can find no evidence. Even the cheap-ass store brand bread I get doesn’t list cellulose but does list ‘wheat flour’ instead of ‘white flour’.
I’m more annoyed that you hijacked my potential discussion about tasty sammich combinations than anything. XD
Missing the point…
All of those items are phallic in shape and since it’s been fed to a succubus it becomes obvious why the artist chose those particular food items… at least it’s obvious to me… then you talking about slicing those items lengthwise makes MY tantric region retract in fear…
I rather like Tamatha the chill, low-key succubus. It’s a nice change of pace. I hope she can keep those qualities after succubus puberty has finished smacking her around.
Is it just me, or does present-day Tamatha seem like she’s getting teary-eyed?
Oh thank goodness, she IS being chaperoned. That was concerning to me.
In fairness, she’s a Succubus, not human. She literally needs to be around areas like this to SURVIVE.
So stop trying to push your own morals on her.
In fairness, she’s a literal sexual predator in an environment filled with her prey. Between the dangers she poses to other people (if she chooses to abuse her powers to harm them) and the dangers others pose to her (if a demon hunter decides to deal with her before she can grow up and become a fully matured threat to humanity), wanting to see her be chaperoned is less “pushing my morals on her” and more “wanting to reconcile her needs with those of those around her.”
So stop assuming that characters with names and speaking roles are automatically more important and deserve more consideration than the faceless sheeple who aren’t friends with the protagonists.
She is not a danger to anyone.
Well, that’s not exactly true. She’s stronger, faster, and more magical than any regular human. She could beat up a grown adult if she had the inclination!
She doesn’t have the inclination though, so not to worry.
That is essentially, what I meant.
She is a danger, she just chooses not to be, don’t give her a reason to change her mind
I’m actually dumbfounded to see someone use the word ‘literal’ correctly.
↑This!↑
You… do realise she is being chaperoned by a succubus, right? o_O
That’s like having John Wayne Gacy being chaperoned by Jeffry Dahmer
Now its gone from Dolcett to Long Pig.
Honestly, all I had to do was see the cleavage and I thought Decollete, Sydney looking right to said cleavage only reinforced that. Not sure why that is other than she has a great set.
Succubi breast are hypnotic and draw the eyes.
Demon-Os, now with extra sugar, fortified with Vitamin T
Vitamins T ’n A.
The one guy in the grey pants on the dance floor has no feet. Must make for some interesting dance moves.
It is not nice to shoe shame.
He reminds me of a character from a sci-fi book I had read ages ago and one of the characters was a double-amputee who faked legs and walking using Telekinesis. I think the ruse was revealed when a bad-guy shot his pant legs off, or was it that the pants were sliced at the knees with a light sabre? Fuzzy memory is not as useful as fuzzy logic.
By the looks of it Mr Footloose is just doing a walk-on-by
It’s the Invisible Man. He forgot to put his shoes and socks back on after relaxing in the booth.
Or the veil flickered slightly to come up with a solution to hide his talons when they were revealed.
For a second when she started talking about vitamin supplements, I thought it might turn out that Tamantha was actually older than she looked, but a tantric energy deficiency while growing up stunted her growth significantly. I could imagine Succubus mothers keeping their child in the next room over from their bedroom or even in the same room when they “feed”. Sex doesn’t have the same stigma for Succubi and the tantric energy probably settles the baby more than the noise disturbs them. Succubi mothers might even get more active depending on the needs of a growing child.
I wonder how much Tamantha knows about her mentor’s other job. The Twilight Council does a lot of secret stuff, but I don’t think its existence is supposed to be a secret to those covered by the veil. Tamantha seems to be a pretty fringe member of the paranormal world and a bad liar, so Decolete may not tell her everything right away.
I sort of wondered why Tam didn’t use a glamour, but I suppose it’s unnecessary with the veil and she may not know how. It might also use tantric energy which she probably can’t spare much of.
There is no n in Tamatha.
Also, Tammy sucks at glamours. Possibly due to starting training super late, or just having a natural ineptitude.
Here’s a vote for Sydney inviting Tamatha come hang out in the store from time to time.
Seconded. ;)
Thirded! (^‿^)
“From time to time”? Assuming age and situation permit, give her a job! Someone with such a unique appearance would be an asset to a place such as the Emporium. And depending on which section of the store she covered, she might even get a charge as well as getting paid.
Demon-Os coming to a lootbox store near you!
You know what I just realized? That halo and the halo from young justice have very similar powers and abilities even if they aren’t identical
Maybe Greg Weisman is a fan of Grrl power.
oh my
The comic archive for decollete only has THIS comic linked.
Someone needs to get a-taggin…
“Yes, there’s a crypt of unfathomable evil, but right next to it is a quickie mart that sells dungeoneering supplies.”
Jason- is there a gift shop?
Michael- Jason, this is Hell, of course there’s a gift shop.
Bonus points for quoting The Good Place.
It’s “decorous”.
Unless she is in… de-chorus, mon :P
Could someone please remind me why Deco has a fancy choker, thank yous
Fashion?
Because they are freely available for anyone to purchase?
Oh right, can vaguely (hopefully not wrongly) remember that the reason Archon started with the chokers was because of Dabbles, so maybe it’s a Succubus thing