Comic for Monday, July 20th, 2020
First week of “retirement”… least we are well on time. Pretty sure sometime this week will we back to buffered updates on patreon. Admittedly last week was not quite as productive as I’d hoped, but it was my first week of “retirement” and I had some things to sort out, so there’s that… and had quite a bit owed on other fronts of things I’d said I’d do and had to do. But we are getting caught up.
Sort of hard to tell with the style I draw the comic in, but Eliana does look fairly similar to Ila (though Ila appears younger, obviously); Eliana suspects Arkady would notice because Arkady knew Eliana when she was Ila’s age. If Arkady thought that or not, who knows… though he does seem to have some degree of suspicion around Ila, there are a lot of potential reasons for that given his day.
As to why Eliana trusts Naomi when she doesn’t really think her Family would, there’s a few reasons…
Eliana knows Naomi at least by reputation from Arkady, and is aware while Naomi may or may not be on her side, Naomi would be unlikely to be particularly duplicitous about it, while Families and their spying and infighting habits tend to have their default suspicion set quite a bit higher. Eliana doesn’t necessarily trust that Naomi isn’t up to something, just that Naomi isn’t up to anything that particularly concerns.
Eliana herself isn’t necessary what I’d call normal anyway… she tends to hold her own council on many things. She seems to have never shared that Mium used to hang out on their roof despite seemingly knowing that and having encountered him there. She tends to avoid talking when large groups of people are involved, though has no problem talking to just a few people. She is also fairly at ease around Naomi because Naomi isn’t from the Families, and is impressed by tactical mages only in so far as “hey that’s cool”, which is not how Eliana is used to being treated. In a way, Eliana admires Naomi’s powers, as Eliana, who has trouble doing things like walking, would have some degree of envy of someone whose powers seem to involve being able to run and jump however they seem to think they should be able to, rather than how physics seems to think they should.
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Does anyone else get the impression that Naomi would consider a fight with “the family” as great fun?
Well, @PastUtopia: I see you’ve decided to celebrate your new-found freedom by GOING BACK TO YOUR OLD ARTIST-KILLING FULL PAGE POSTS!!!
Just sayin’
Oh, wait, it only LOOKED like a full page.
Never mind. 🙂
Yeah, I haven’t decided if I will go back to actual full pages or not yet. I’ll try to get the buffer built up again before I get too rash there.
In a way I like full pages a bit better as I can either split them or sprawl panels between them more easily as needed, but I want to make sure we are updating at least weekly.
I like full pages, too, but personally, I’d rather see you store up a buffer so fat that you could take the occasional weekend off without feeling guilty. 🙂
That ain’t gonna happen if you go back to posting full pages too soon.
Pick up a phone and ask for Mium. No need to dial, or even unlock it…
Press any key (or don’t) to reach your local Mium.
“… your (possibly) local Mium (wouldn’t ya like to know).”
“Fear not citizens, Mium here…..”
“I wasn’t scared until you showed up…”
Don’t be too hard on Eliana. Everyone is impressed by mind-over-matter wire-fu in real life. Got to be faster paced than in the movies at least.
For what it’s worth, I’m impressed by my ex’s ability to manage paperwork (including filing for tax refunds, despite her dyscalculia), and she’s impressed by my ability to run around and jump like it’s a normal activity. Also my abilities regarding lifting heavy boxes, opening jars, reaching things on high shelves, …
To be clear, I’m not claiming I’m anywhere near Naomi’s league. I am, in fact, less capable in these things than many people who are 6’2″ tall (my height as listed on my drivers license), though my extra difficulties in reaching things on high shelves due to only being 6’1.75″ tall is probably not that significant.) and are considered ‘fully ambulatory’. I’m just much better at them than a 5’5″ home ambulator with EDS.
Gravity still refuses to let her fly though. She is not happy about that, especially the way that Ila seems to enjoy hypersonic flight, sans vehicle….
Eventually, Naomi will steal Sydney’s List…
Do you guys think Ila would be able to teach Naomi how to fly?
They are both (to my limited understanding) innate mages, so I lean toward probably not, but it would be cool. Flying seems like something they would both enjoy.
Naomi *knows* how to fly. She just needs to practice enough to refine her technique. Because she’s an innate booster, that practice frustrates her, so she doesn’t do it. So she can’t really fly.
If I understand Past’s explanation correctly, this is more or less the issue that keeps most innate mages from being as versatile as natural mages.
For what it’s worth, the same sort of thing keeps me from working out, doing eye exercises, and all sorts of stuff.
As I understand it, flight requires rapid recalculations of several variables at once. Since Naomi doesn’t need to calculate anything to do at least most of what she does, she rarely, if ever, does any calculations.
So, probably not. :),
Congrats on your newfound freedom!
It’s definitely been a novel experience… You forget what light looks like when you are so used it just being a twinkle at the end of the tunnel 🙂