Agreed. This is very similar to how I react to that sort of thing, except I don’t have the option of using a plasma burst to completely oblitirate someone.
She DID get more muscular.
Which is funny, because she would no doubt vaporize said moron with her dainty little palm.
Perhaps she felt a massive ass-whuppin’ Hulk-level pulverizing beatdown would be appropriate in this particular case BEFORE she indulged in said vaporization.
See, violence can be candidly expressed without resorting to obnoxious, guttural vulgarity; which is a common crutch of those with an extremely limited vocabulary.
She tends to get… bigger when… courting Wrath. A demon did once distract her from that with ice cream, IIRC. I kinda think she is like, ancient plant-god trimming running a “small child” emulation. I mean that as in “I’m playing super nintendo games on my PC” emulation, not “pretending to human”. She is Castela, she’s just also a much older thing that’s been learning to people after being adopted by her big sis.
Also, I think it was early in last storyline that had her accidentally flex out of a shirt when emotionally flustered and spooked. ^_^
I still occasionally think about the kids who bullied me, and what I might do to them if I ran into them today—I suppose it’s fortunate for all of us that that hasn’t happened yet.
What is that now – a pissing contest?
Lucys past is kind of scary as well as her school. Where the xxx do those things happen?
But flatten the whole football field just like that seems a bit radical. Even for a fork in the head.
Minnesota seems likely. My Government teacher in high school came down to Iowa from the frozen north, and regaled us of the time two high school American Football players tried to start a fight in sight of a 70-year-old Gym Teacher On the third floor. The gym teacher lifted them both by the throats. One of them tried to punch the gym teacher. the other surrendered. the puncher got thrown down the stairs.
Chameon, Maryland has VERY strict weapons policies but they also have this policy of NOT criminalizing kids. Multiple Probations before judgement at the same time. In Baltimore city YOu can commit felonies while on Ankle monitoring and still get a PBJ.
These things happened in lots of places. Virginia comes to mind.
While I was in elementary school, I had a running battle with one jackass and his little twisted friends… four or more of them versus me. Nothing was done. The last time we went at it, I was told they intended to kill me and I was beaten so badly by a gang of nine kids that I went to the hospital. This last time occurred outside the school property, and the police decided that despite a history of this kid and his twisted little friends ambushing me at school for a year, this was a he-said – he-said situation that could not be proven and refused to arrest anyone. But one kid always gave the orders.
I went home and thought about the situation.
The next day I caught the leader of these little monsters alone in the boy’s restroom, kicked in the stall door and beat him with a loose brick I had noticed was part of the windowsill. Then I knelt down and calmly told him that the next time his friends came calling on me I would find him, no matter where he was and I would kill him. Who got sent to Catholic military school (yup, it existed then) for the summer and eighth grade?
Not that little fucker.
On the bright side, I got a lot better at defending myself and learned new skills. Military school had real rifles and a shooting range. The NRA even gave me a little Marksman award for the 50 foot range. Ah, good times. Can’t imagine anyone in eighth grade gets taught that now.
Cass has been working with her plasma… lots. Whatever she wants vaporized will be. Everything else will be nicely untouched. The floor might be a little scorched from little grease fires.
The real collateral hazard would be from the bright lights.
Awwwwwww! They’re BONDING! That’s adorable!
Little hint Cassie: you were designed as a weapon of MASS Destruction. Ninja Assassin isn’t part of your specs. I doubt your emotionally prepared to be both Assassin and Cleaner.
Depends: I hope she would nuke him, as opposed to say [eeewww!] EAT Him! Either would eliminate the evidence One way leaves fewer scorch marks. Either way the best outcome he can hope for is fertilizer.
@McClaw : move the bodies. hehe she IS a plant ,, an as B0mar sed, “fertilizer”… she can make him completely gone.!! (( ash the bones, (use ash as fertilizer ) absorb the rest.. poof gone in the time it took to write this…))
Metal forks are preferred. You can sharpen the edge as keen as any carving knife, and the untrained eye would probably not notice the difference if they weren’t looking for it.
After posting above, I found myself wondering how you cut both cheeks and nearly take off a nose on one slash? Then I pictured it. The blade goes through one side of the mouth and out the other and the slash continues out of the mouth and clips (or doesn’t) the nose.
Then it hit me: Luci created the Heath Ledger Joker.
Luci is short and right-handed. When she spun around with the knife in her right hand, blade facing the thumb, the blade was in an upward angle, catching the boy’s cheek and scraping along the buccal, until reaching the anterior. At that point the knife connects with the surface of the premaxilla and the columella, separating the base of the nose from the subnasale, then continuing on through the soft tissue above the zygoma.
Gusticus it means it went through one cheek through the soft tissue above the lip off his upper jaw taking a good hunk of his face and out the other cheek
On the journey to learning how to Disassemble folks, it will help to know how to put them back together- hopefully resulting in enough skill and poise to avoid parting them out in the first place.
Any good artist knows his anatomy. [I wouldn’t care to face one in a knife fight.] My mother was a Ripper Scholar. There were endless theories, both in 1888, and every few years since. Some he dispelled himself: a Butcher, a “Yid”[offensive period term Jew,] a “foreign Skipper” if that famous letter is any more authentic then the attempt to imitate he local speech. That alone sparked a recent theory that “Jack” was actually American H. H. Holms practicing his “art” 5 years before the 1893 Worlds Fair Exposition in Chicago. Dr. Henry Howard Holmes is the reason the word “psychopath” had to be invented. To the best of my knowledge, no one ever suspected the Police Sketch Artist, or any of the artists or photographers who worked for the newspapers of the time.
Now I might be a simple country lawyer(Not a lawyer). But I feel behooved to point out the plain fact that Lucie might be a tech…well…biased in her recollections. Pushing someone down stairs and then waiting for them to get up and run at you with a hammer seems a tad….strange. As is attacking someone with a fork to the head. Now I grant you that fork may indeed be sharpened….but if’n its a real attack why not go for the more exposed neck. I’m sorry but it seems to me that this may not be as clear cut(heh I made a pun) as ya’ll seem to think it is.
Well, I can see him pushing her down the stairs and then standing there laughing about it, maybe so busy looking around to see other peoples’ reactions (“Hah, look at what I did to the nerdy pipsqueak, aren’t I a hoot?”) and not expecting a counterattack, so that by the time he realized she was rushing him it was too late. Especially if she has the talent of moving quietly.
As to the fork, I put that down to weapon of opportunity, and if the same douchebag didn’t get the hint after she came close to bashing his head in, he’s likely dumb enough to just jab at the most convenient target: The back of her head.
I get the idea he wasn’t REALLY trying to kill her, just be an asshole, and you do have a point: We have only her side of the story here. Though she admits to her part in it, she may be exaggerating his part in things, or was so on edge in school she overreacted.
Honestly he’d have to be a complete moron if her story is accurate as she said (paraphrasing) she made him screeched and pissed himself. I know that everyone in the universe is willing to LITERALLY poke the hornets nest after they piss themselves.
More importantly I have been accidentally pushed down stairs a coupla times in school….people jamming the stairwells can do that add in the heavy backpack and wham…your down at a landing.
One time I was sure it had been done on purpose…..turned out they had been knocked into me by another kid (yay security cameras…booo suspensions). I’ve also both poked and been poked by multiple utensils at lunch due to turning and point and then forgetting the thing was in my hand.
In the end what I’m saying I guess is her details don’t really jibe with her own details.
I’m willing to bet this guy is actually probably in therapy with some really bad scars still wondering why she came after him (and afraid she will again).
I have seen bullies dumb enough to try to get revenge after being publicly humiliated. It’s plausible that this guy rationalized in his mind that he really wasn’t all THAT scared, that he only pissed himself because he’d had a giant size Slurpee earlier, that he really didn’t scream like a pansy, just shout because she surprised him….yadda yadda yadda. And since she didn’t actually HIT him, she wasn’t trying to, so she won’t try again. I’m not definitively saying that’s what happened here, and again you are correct in pointing out that we really only have Luci’s side of the story.
It would be interesting to find out what really happened with Luci and the guy who was either her tormentor or her victim. It doesn’t sound much like they reconciled or if Luci’s anger management helped her see any other side to the story. It would be interesting if Cass got curious enough about this guy to try to track him down using the resources (MIB, the Library) at her and her extended family’s disposal. They might find out exactly your scenario, and Luci would need to come to terms (again) with the consequences of her temper.
Another question just occurred to me that points to this guy either being cosmically dumb or cosmically unlucky.
If the fork jab was a complete accident, and if he was as terrified by the first incident as anyone with a brain should be, why wasn’t he avoiding her at all costs? Even if they had to both be in the cafeteria at the same time, one would think he’d be staying as far away from her as possible, and thus shouldn’t be near enough to accidentally jab her with the fork.
So he’s either cosmically stupid and decided to literally poke the bear that already almost took his head off,
or
He’s cosmically unlucky enough to wind up directly behind her at the exact moment he lost control of the fork.
Or unobservant enough to not realize she’s there. Which also points to him not exactly being a genius.
As a general point she doesn’t specify an actual timeline, just the stairs incident and that”not too long after that” she was in juvie and anger management…..depending on her viewpoint that could be anywhere from a coupla weeks to a year. Its possible that enough time had passed that he felt comfortable either being around her or attacking her.
I would think it would be a long-ass time, possibly forever, before I felt comfortable being anywhere near someone who had previously tried to bash my head in.
Just had a nasty thought….what if she only assumed they were the same guy. Considering the universe and that she’s happily skipping towards major character status(if she hasn’t arrived at that station already), what if her memories of the occurences aren’t accurate for reasons other than denial?
It’s always the quiet ones. Guess that’s why I like so. 😉
That action sounds about right for protecting friends and family!
Agreed. This is very similar to how I react to that sort of thing, except I don’t have the option of using a plasma burst to completely oblitirate someone.
Is Castela “hulking up”?
She DID get more muscular.
Which is funny, because she would no doubt vaporize said moron with her dainty little palm.
Perhaps she felt a massive ass-whuppin’ Hulk-level pulverizing beatdown would be appropriate in this particular case BEFORE she indulged in said vaporization.
See, violence can be candidly expressed without resorting to obnoxious, guttural vulgarity; which is a common crutch of those with an extremely limited vocabulary.
She tends to get… bigger when… courting Wrath. A demon did once distract her from that with ice cream, IIRC. I kinda think she is like, ancient plant-god trimming running a “small child” emulation. I mean that as in “I’m playing super nintendo games on my PC” emulation, not “pretending to human”. She is Castela, she’s just also a much older thing that’s been learning to people after being adopted by her big sis.
Also, I think it was early in last storyline that had her accidentally flex out of a shirt when emotionally flustered and spooked. ^_^
If you’re gonna do something, do it thoroughly. And into free floating atoms.
For every action,there’s a reaction, and a Castela reaction,is quite a f*#king thing….
You don’t bring a fork to a plasma-hand fight.
fork no… weaponized spork. maybe…. https://xkcd.com/419/
So where is he now?
Witness protection, as soon as MIB finds out about this little exchange…
I still occasionally think about the kids who bullied me, and what I might do to them if I ran into them today—I suppose it’s fortunate for all of us that that hasn’t happened yet.
Castela just went into feudist mode.
Weapon of Mass Deletion… where Mass depends on said fucker’s volume and chemical composition..,
Castela seems very … protective of those she considers to be her friends.
You don’t say? (Ask a four-year-old Atsali about that.)
Magnus did not have to ask.
she has a human friend?
She does now.
Went to Juvie… Probably for having weapons on a school campus.
Yup. His fork didn’t count as a weapon, but her switchblade did.
Note to self: carry a fork for self-defense, not a knife.
No, go for a spoon. They’ll never see it coming.
If he stabs her with a fork, it’s a weapon. If he pulls it out of his pocket first, it’s a concealed weapon.
Plus, the spoon is dull…it’ll hurt more.
Xdrfierdogx. ALMOST went for the SPOOON because its DULL AND IT WILL HURT MORE! Glad to see classic movies referenced properly.
BUT.. Why a spoon cousin .??
Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas!
@robnot: When you cut with a dull edge/blade, it tends to tear more than cut. Wounds with jagged edged are super painful.
<3 Ahh Castela…. My kind of little sister! 😀
What is that now – a pissing contest?
Lucys past is kind of scary as well as her school. Where the xxx do those things happen?
But flatten the whole football field just like that seems a bit radical. Even for a fork in the head.
Minnesota seems likely. My Government teacher in high school came down to Iowa from the frozen north, and regaled us of the time two high school American Football players tried to start a fight in sight of a 70-year-old Gym Teacher On the third floor. The gym teacher lifted them both by the throats. One of them tried to punch the gym teacher. the other surrendered. the puncher got thrown down the stairs.
Minnesota teachers do NOT mess around.
Oklahoma.
Minnesota.
Maryland.
New Hampshire.
Worse parts of pretty much any state, province, or country that’s not got major efforts put into weapon control, yet has public schooling available…
Kids are psychopaths. It’s much easier to notice when you’re one of the quiet kids.
Chameon, Maryland has VERY strict weapons policies but they also have this policy of NOT criminalizing kids. Multiple Probations before judgement at the same time. In Baltimore city YOu can commit felonies while on Ankle monitoring and still get a PBJ.
These things happened in lots of places. Virginia comes to mind.
While I was in elementary school, I had a running battle with one jackass and his little twisted friends… four or more of them versus me. Nothing was done. The last time we went at it, I was told they intended to kill me and I was beaten so badly by a gang of nine kids that I went to the hospital. This last time occurred outside the school property, and the police decided that despite a history of this kid and his twisted little friends ambushing me at school for a year, this was a he-said – he-said situation that could not be proven and refused to arrest anyone. But one kid always gave the orders.
I went home and thought about the situation.
The next day I caught the leader of these little monsters alone in the boy’s restroom, kicked in the stall door and beat him with a loose brick I had noticed was part of the windowsill. Then I knelt down and calmly told him that the next time his friends came calling on me I would find him, no matter where he was and I would kill him. Who got sent to Catholic military school (yup, it existed then) for the summer and eighth grade?
Not that little fucker.
On the bright side, I got a lot better at defending myself and learned new skills. Military school had real rifles and a shooting range. The NRA even gave me a little Marksman award for the 50 foot range. Ah, good times. Can’t imagine anyone in eighth grade gets taught that now.
Physics book and No stall. To the kidneys. Its amazing how much you can hurt someone with a physics book.
Knowledge is power. Power is work divided by time. Work is mass times acceleration.
Books are heavy.
[I couldn’t find the Three Panel Soul comic that did that joke]
Just make sure some of your friends (or bystanders) don’t get caught in the plasma bloom!
Otherwise, very Heinleinian. I like it, and her (both of them)!
Cass has been working with her plasma… lots. Whatever she wants vaporized will be. Everything else will be nicely untouched. The floor might be a little scorched from little grease fires.
The real collateral hazard would be from the bright lights.
34 If you are leaving scorch marks you need a bigger gun.
A bigger… palm?
Remember how adorable we all thought the little pickle was picking out her pot at the Lara mall?
Grrrr.. PARA mall!
Stoopid autocorrect
Autocorrupt
100 points to your account!!
Auto(co)wreck. Brings a smoothly-traveling conversation to a messy stop.
Like seeing a cat in an undignified position. Your body will be dismembered so thoroughly, they will not find two mesons in adjacent galaxies.
did she just go into partial hulk mode?
Awwwwwww! They’re BONDING! That’s adorable!
Little hint Cassie: you were designed as a weapon of MASS Destruction. Ninja Assassin isn’t part of your specs. I doubt your emotionally prepared to be both Assassin and Cleaner.
I think it’s more a case of “nuke ’em from orbit” than “clean up any incriminating evidence”
Depends: I hope she would nuke him, as opposed to say [eeewww!] EAT Him! Either would eliminate the evidence One way leaves fewer scorch marks. Either way the best outcome he can hope for is fertilizer.
That’s not psycho, that’s friendship and being overprotective.
Considering what was being done to Luci and why it persisted, I’d argue that it’s not “over” protective.
As the saying goes, a friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move the bodies.
@McClaw : move the bodies. hehe she IS a plant ,, an as B0mar sed, “fertilizer”… she can make him completely gone.!! (( ash the bones, (use ash as fertilizer ) absorb the rest.. poof gone in the time it took to write this…))
Two psychos having a battle dance?
“In fairness to him, it was a plastic fork…”
Metal forks are preferred. You can sharpen the edge as keen as any carving knife, and the untrained eye would probably not notice the difference if they weren’t looking for it.
AKA a “shiv” in prison slang.
Dangit! I meant spoon.
After posting above, I found myself wondering how you cut both cheeks and nearly take off a nose on one slash? Then I pictured it. The blade goes through one side of the mouth and out the other and the slash continues out of the mouth and clips (or doesn’t) the nose.
Then it hit me: Luci created the Heath Ledger Joker.
Luci is short and right-handed. When she spun around with the knife in her right hand, blade facing the thumb, the blade was in an upward angle, catching the boy’s cheek and scraping along the buccal, until reaching the anterior. At that point the knife connects with the surface of the premaxilla and the columella, separating the base of the nose from the subnasale, then continuing on through the soft tissue above the zygoma.
Don’t know what you said, butt it sounds nasty!
Gusticus it means it went through one cheek through the soft tissue above the lip off his upper jaw taking a good hunk of his face and out the other cheek
Well put.
On the journey to learning how to Disassemble folks, it will help to know how to put them back together- hopefully resulting in enough skill and poise to avoid parting them out in the first place.
Any good artist knows his anatomy. [I wouldn’t care to face one in a knife fight.] My mother was a Ripper Scholar. There were endless theories, both in 1888, and every few years since. Some he dispelled himself: a Butcher, a “Yid”[offensive period term Jew,] a “foreign Skipper” if that famous letter is any more authentic then the attempt to imitate he local speech. That alone sparked a recent theory that “Jack” was actually American H. H. Holms practicing his “art” 5 years before the 1893 Worlds Fair Exposition in Chicago. Dr. Henry Howard Holmes is the reason the word “psychopath” had to be invented. To the best of my knowledge, no one ever suspected the Police Sketch Artist, or any of the artists or photographers who worked for the newspapers of the time.
Joecrouse: it was supposed to have been an attempt at a joke, butt thank you for putting it into ‘laypersons’ terms
Another popular theory behind Jackie’s identity: royalty, can’t remember which one butt believe there was an ‘idiot in the gum-tree’
That’s not psycho Cas, that’s just being neat and thorough.
Not to mention efficient, since you don’t have to hide a body.
Besties, instant!
Thats ma Girl. (Now I’m going to go read the other replies…)
Now I might be a simple country lawyer(Not a lawyer). But I feel behooved to point out the plain fact that Lucie might be a tech…well…biased in her recollections. Pushing someone down stairs and then waiting for them to get up and run at you with a hammer seems a tad….strange. As is attacking someone with a fork to the head. Now I grant you that fork may indeed be sharpened….but if’n its a real attack why not go for the more exposed neck. I’m sorry but it seems to me that this may not be as clear cut(heh I made a pun) as ya’ll seem to think it is.
Well, I can see him pushing her down the stairs and then standing there laughing about it, maybe so busy looking around to see other peoples’ reactions (“Hah, look at what I did to the nerdy pipsqueak, aren’t I a hoot?”) and not expecting a counterattack, so that by the time he realized she was rushing him it was too late. Especially if she has the talent of moving quietly.
As to the fork, I put that down to weapon of opportunity, and if the same douchebag didn’t get the hint after she came close to bashing his head in, he’s likely dumb enough to just jab at the most convenient target: The back of her head.
I get the idea he wasn’t REALLY trying to kill her, just be an asshole, and you do have a point: We have only her side of the story here. Though she admits to her part in it, she may be exaggerating his part in things, or was so on edge in school she overreacted.
This must have been a dumber than average douchebag, to not get the hint after the wall bashing incident.
Someone up there wondered where he is now. My guess is either someone’s prison wife or killed in a barroom brawl he started.
Honestly he’d have to be a complete moron if her story is accurate as she said (paraphrasing) she made him screeched and pissed himself. I know that everyone in the universe is willing to LITERALLY poke the hornets nest after they piss themselves.
More importantly I have been accidentally pushed down stairs a coupla times in school….people jamming the stairwells can do that add in the heavy backpack and wham…your down at a landing.
One time I was sure it had been done on purpose…..turned out they had been knocked into me by another kid (yay security cameras…booo suspensions). I’ve also both poked and been poked by multiple utensils at lunch due to turning and point and then forgetting the thing was in my hand.
In the end what I’m saying I guess is her details don’t really jibe with her own details.
I’m willing to bet this guy is actually probably in therapy with some really bad scars still wondering why she came after him (and afraid she will again).
I have seen bullies dumb enough to try to get revenge after being publicly humiliated. It’s plausible that this guy rationalized in his mind that he really wasn’t all THAT scared, that he only pissed himself because he’d had a giant size Slurpee earlier, that he really didn’t scream like a pansy, just shout because she surprised him….yadda yadda yadda. And since she didn’t actually HIT him, she wasn’t trying to, so she won’t try again. I’m not definitively saying that’s what happened here, and again you are correct in pointing out that we really only have Luci’s side of the story.
It would be interesting to find out what really happened with Luci and the guy who was either her tormentor or her victim. It doesn’t sound much like they reconciled or if Luci’s anger management helped her see any other side to the story. It would be interesting if Cass got curious enough about this guy to try to track him down using the resources (MIB, the Library) at her and her extended family’s disposal. They might find out exactly your scenario, and Luci would need to come to terms (again) with the consequences of her temper.
Another question just occurred to me that points to this guy either being cosmically dumb or cosmically unlucky.
If the fork jab was a complete accident, and if he was as terrified by the first incident as anyone with a brain should be, why wasn’t he avoiding her at all costs? Even if they had to both be in the cafeteria at the same time, one would think he’d be staying as far away from her as possible, and thus shouldn’t be near enough to accidentally jab her with the fork.
So he’s either cosmically stupid and decided to literally poke the bear that already almost took his head off,
or
He’s cosmically unlucky enough to wind up directly behind her at the exact moment he lost control of the fork.
Or unobservant enough to not realize she’s there. Which also points to him not exactly being a genius.
As a general point she doesn’t specify an actual timeline, just the stairs incident and that”not too long after that” she was in juvie and anger management…..depending on her viewpoint that could be anywhere from a coupla weeks to a year. Its possible that enough time had passed that he felt comfortable either being around her or attacking her.
I would think it would be a long-ass time, possibly forever, before I felt comfortable being anywhere near someone who had previously tried to bash my head in.
Just had a nasty thought….what if she only assumed they were the same guy. Considering the universe and that she’s happily skipping towards major character status(if she hasn’t arrived at that station already), what if her memories of the occurences aren’t accurate for reasons other than denial?