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Growth Spurt 01

by Paul Taylor on June 12, 2016 at 9:03 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Atsali, Castela
Location: Gilchrist Home

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  1. Jabberwonky
    June 12, 2016, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

    NEVER tell your parents you’ve go nothing to do…

    • Gyrre
      June 13, 2016, 3:03 am | # | Reply

      Or your boss.
      “If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.”

      Me and my brothers got to help our mom clean houses during the summer way back in grade school, so learned how to clean very well. Lazy coworkers hate it.

      • Fairportfan
        June 13, 2016, 8:21 am | #

        Or the Chief (as in CPO)

      • Bratty Roger
        July 6, 2023, 2:30 am | #

        @Fairportfan
        I believe it’s ^only^ the Navy that refers to its enlisted personel ranked above E·3 as ^Petty^ Officers 🙄

  2. The Old Wolf
    June 12, 2016, 9:33 pm | # | Reply

    Pickle is so adorable

  3. Fairportfan
    June 12, 2016, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    There is (for however much longer) a “Castela age ten” up for sale in the eBay page.

    Everything but her eyes and cheeks is 100% human, and we’ve seen her do those, so it’s a choice to do it that way.

  4. BarerMender
    June 12, 2016, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

    I thought Atsali was strong as an ox. Why couldn’t she do pushups?

    • Fairportfan
      June 12, 2016, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

      She might be able to do pull-ups all day. Sheer strength doesn’t necessarily mean you can do some exercises easily.

    • Adama
      June 13, 2016, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      Maybe she’s not as strong in her pure-human form as she is in other forms.

      • SeanR
        June 13, 2016, 8:58 am | #

        Maybe she seriously underestimates her own capabilities.
        Some teenagers do that. Some adults, too.

      • BarerMender
        June 13, 2016, 11:19 pm | #

        That”s true, SeanR. When I was fourteen I could run up to a cattle gate and vault it with one hand while carrying a gallon of milk in a mayonnaise jar, and I thought I was a weakling.

      • Michael
        December 23, 2017, 4:44 pm | #

        I kicked over 200l drums, rolled them some 30m in the sand and stand them up with my hands only and people were looking funny.

    • Guesticus
      June 13, 2016, 4:44 pm | # | Reply

      Pushups uses different muscles than doing pullups

      • Fairportfan
        June 13, 2016, 9:18 pm | #

        We don’t know that she can do pull-ups; i just mentioned them more-or-less as another exercise she might be able to do…

      • Guesticus
        June 14, 2016, 9:56 pm | #

        Just saying that they use different muscles, so while she may not have the strength to push off the ground, she may have the strength to lift herself up (specially if she has the hollow bird-bones)

  5. BarerMender
    June 12, 2016, 9:42 pm | # | Reply

    Living here outside Orlando, I’m afraid to go out for a bite. I wish Atsali could come with me.

  6. Fairportfan
    June 12, 2016, 9:44 pm | # | Reply

    interesting. let’s see if this trips moderation

  7. BarerMender
    June 12, 2016, 9:45 pm | # | Reply

    Do we have a new rendering of Atsali? She’s looking like Heather.

    • Fairportfan
      June 12, 2016, 9:49 pm | # | Reply

      Mostly the pose/body-language, i think – a tad more adult-confident; surviving the street fair (or whatever horrible ordeal Nadette forced her to enjoy) has leveled her up, even if she hasn’t noticed yet.

      • CaptXpendable
        June 12, 2016, 11:39 pm | #

        She’s sure matured a lot emotionally, go back to February and she still seems more like a 5-6 year old. Now she seems more like a 10 year old and I notice she’s stopped stuttering.

      • CaptXpendable
        June 13, 2016, 12:31 am | #

        Oh, crap. Nevermind. I got turned around and confused the names. (I’d kill for an edit feature right now)

    • Guesticus
      June 13, 2016, 4:47 pm | # | Reply

      Thought she was Monica at first

      • Bratty Roger
        June 28, 2016, 7:39 am | #

        Well, she certainly LOOKS a lot like Monica in th first panel.

  8. Bizkit
    June 12, 2016, 9:56 pm | # | Reply

    All you have to do to grow six inches taller in one night is be a plant creature; it’s that simple. XD

    • Fairportfan
      June 13, 2016, 9:19 pm | # | Reply

      …and all you need to do to add about five cup sizes overnight is be half-siren…

  9. MerchManDan
    June 12, 2016, 9:59 pm | # | Reply

    Dang, I want Atsali’s shirt. Though maybe not in a v-neck.

    • txmystic
      June 13, 2016, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      If it were more obviously burnt orange, I’d say “Hook ’em!”

      In black, I think I’d rather have the “shocker” version…

    • txmystic
      June 13, 2016, 7:50 am | # | Reply

      I wonder if it those “bursts of energy” that made the blackthorn so interesting to the shadow agency as weapon…

      • BarerMender
        June 13, 2016, 4:55 pm | #

        It’s her extreme power. Being of the fae evidently makes her godlike in this world. Indeed, the fae are godlike, and they can’t hurt her.

  10. Jayessell
    June 12, 2016, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

    Our little girl is growing like a weed!
    She’ll be into Atsalli’s old clothes soon.

    • Fairportfan
      June 12, 2016, 11:11 pm | # | Reply

      Not 100% sure she isn’t already – pretty sure those can’t be her exiating shorts, given the growth.

      • CaptXpendable
        June 12, 2016, 11:30 pm | #

        I don’t think Castela is supposed to be nearly as big as Atsali. The perspective, to me, looks like Atsali is standing a ways behind her.

  11. G
    June 13, 2016, 2:47 am | # | Reply

    Is it… Safe for a plant to be eating chicken salad?

    • BarerMender
      June 13, 2016, 3:12 am | # | Reply

      The mayonnaise would be the killer. Fat isn’t good for plants. That’s why you shouldn’t give your Venus flytrap hamburger. Clogs the system. But Castela has said she’s part plant and part animal. Also, she’s magic, so that excuses a lot.

      • BarerMender
        June 13, 2016, 3:19 am | #

        Oh, wait. It didn’t say chicken salad. It said chicken.

      • Wyvern
        June 13, 2016, 7:42 pm | #

        Plants aren’t usually supposed to eat chickens either…

        Hm. What if little Pickle had literally eaten a ton of chicken? An average hen is around five pounds, for a round number, so that means she’d have to chase down and consume about 400 birds. Good think Paul didn’t have to draw that. *grin*

  12. BarerMender
    June 13, 2016, 3:13 am | # | Reply

    There’s a spelling error in Atsali’s last speech. Wit should be with.

  13. Bratty Roger
    June 13, 2016, 4:01 am | # | Reply

    Judging by the shape of her hips in panel-1, I’d say that Castela looks like someone who should be (approximately) in 5th grade.

    • Fairportfan
      June 13, 2016, 5:29 am | # | Reply

      Well, yeah, i’d say so.

      My granddaughter is ten and she’just finishedfifth grade. The drawing availabel on eBay {last i looked} says “Castela age ten”, and definitely puts me in mind of Maggie.

    • JuankiMan
      July 19, 2018, 10:27 am | # | Reply

      Taking into account that she’s a living tumbleweed crotcheted into the shape of a girl, I think she looks however she wishes to look.

  14. Robert Nowall
    June 13, 2016, 6:44 am | # | Reply

    “Our little girl is becoming a woman…”

  15. BarerMender
    June 13, 2016, 6:47 am | # | Reply

    Paul said on Facebook Castela is 8 in the strip. Castela at 10 is a future drawing.

  16. Sigurther
    June 13, 2016, 8:45 am | # | Reply

    Holy shit! Shot up like the literal weed. Good choice on the chicken and spinach, nummy and healthy.

  17. Meander
    June 13, 2016, 9:19 am | # | Reply

    “Did Mom put up a Christmas tree?”

    Is Castela green?

    And, aw – I’m going to miss our widdle Pickles!

    • Guesticus
      June 14, 2016, 9:58 pm | # | Reply

      Well, she is a plant-based critterling, so it’s possible in her ‘normal’ humanoid state she is green(ish)

  18. Green
    June 13, 2016, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

    Something is odd with Castella’s age. Several times I’ve noticed her age apparently shifting with her moods. I get the impression she’s significantly older than she seems, but some trauma has caused her to regress out of self-defense. Her magical nature allows her apparent physical age to regress along with her mental state. I’m guessing that this growth spurt is an indication of her “healing” enough to relax the regression and take a step back toward her true age.

    • Fairportfan
      June 13, 2016, 9:23 pm | # | Reply

      If she was what the shadow government was developing in the sequence with toddler Atsali recently and she was just about … ripe … at that point, she’s only chronologically a couple of years younger than Atsali.

  19. BarerMender
    June 13, 2016, 4:58 pm | # | Reply

    Paul said she has ancient wisdom (she’s tens of thousands of years old) but her mental age is the same as her apparent age after being manifest as a child. So she sometimes comes up with wisdom beyond her (apparent) years but couldn’t explain it later.

  20. Centaur71
    June 13, 2016, 5:38 pm | # | Reply

    D’awww; Our lil’ cactus cutie is growin’ up… *sniff*

    • Wyvern
      June 13, 2016, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

      It looks like somebody has been watering her!

      • Guesticus
        June 14, 2016, 9:59 pm | #

        Must be all that fertilizer Sali has been dumping on her 😛

  21. Ashonai
    February 8, 2017, 7:20 pm | # | Reply

    Dang, she’s getting smart.

  22. Bratty Roger
    May 21, 2024, 11:13 am | # | Reply

    Castela’s legs are no longer tree-trunk shaped, below the knees 😏

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