Comic for Friday, November 6th
Argh. So many words. It’s like I’m paying penance for all those wonderful text-free action sequence pages.
Writing Peter in this form is hard, because he’s a better speaker than I am a writer when he’s like that – I’m better at writing his more ponderously-erudite-yet-vaguely-petulant speech pattern.
And with all those words, I’d be staggered if nothing was spelled wrong, though I’ve scoured through it a few times, feel free to let me know if I’ve gone full dumb-dumb (if there aren’t any errors, it means someone beat you to correcting them, not that I wasn’t a dumb-dumb…).
I tried to convey some level of… discomfort in Otte, but I’m not exactly an master of conveying facial expression especially when I only have the bottom half of the face to work with š ; but that’s why his font is randomly different here. I dunno.
Wonder who the Kor’s World solider is after? Bet that won’t come up again… š
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This is definitely another side of Peter… I like it ^^
He was sort of coasting on his reputation till now it seemed… everyone assumed he could handle any situation, now we are seeing him walk the walk…
We’ve had a pretty slow ramp to getting to know the characters, largely because there are a crap ton of them time gets divided š
We’ll see what of Peter is myth and what is real in time š
I see that Mione has her “game face” on. I also see that she isn’t a Designer Child. Did she follow Tyler to Malsa, or is she from somewhere else?
Peter is quite impressive when he is showing leadership ability, which poses the question: Is he playing at being a slacker to throw people off, or is he a slacker who can rise to the occasion? š
We’ve seen a lot of combinations now haven’t we… Amy and Emmi have non-natural hair colors, but natural eye colors. Mione has non-natural eye color and non-natural hair color, but they don’t match, Maia, Naomi, Ikirium and others have matching non-natural colors… Peter, Tyler and most of the older people or foreigners have natural eye colors and hair colors.
While I suspect that clever folks like you will have mostly decoded it when you get a little more info (ie: see more people); it’s a little tricky because it doesn’t always follow the same rules when it comes to foreigners, earlier generations, and exceptions š
I’d say the second of those of Peter as I don’t think the disheveled careless part is an act… but it’s a little more complicated. Peter isn’t highly socially adept naturally; we’ve sort of seen this. But when he has a role to play, he can frequently nail it. He’s a schemer and actor, capable of projecting fairly immense confidence and charisma, but lacking a real understanding of interacting with people or the calm control someone like Tyler or Arron usually has.
Usually when his social interactions fail its because someone throws him off his plan or he’s failed to plan for people acting like humans, but he excels at both the adaption of the plan and the delivery of his role as long as he has any amount of time to prepare; for him this was executing “RallyTheTroopsSpeech.exe” which he’d managed to adapt from other plans to the situation in the space of a long sigh š
… I need to learn to write shorter comments… these sort of comments probably scare off poor-would-be-commentators… š
From what I gather, Designer Children were gene-selected for specific traits. Their eyes and hair color matching is a matter of law to mark them as such. It seems to be fairly recent in origin, and unique to Malsa, but that last is not completely clear.
I’m assuming that some wild but non-matching hair color is artificial, similar to how teens and young adults wear their hair here on Earth. š
And your comments are informative. They only look long because they are squeezed into a fairly narrow column. š
Mium, Mir* and Ryn are characters that don’t have their natural hair color š
It’s not unique to Malsa, but it’s mostly common in the region Malsa is in; there only a few countries in that area that either don’t have the law or variations of it; Malsa is home to one of the larger populations of Designer Children though.
Designer Children are obviously not a universally popular idea in world; the practice is outlawed in some parts of the world entirely, and even a few countries in the general region of Malsa; and we’ll probably see the reason they are allowed (and quickly booming) in Malsa.
*I think this one should be sort of obvious š