IIRC, she’s been whatever her classification as a Para who used to be a very intelligent spider who interacted with Fae magic to become a shapeshifting-capable human/spider hybrid woman for at least four years*. I’d be very surprised if she hadn’t been practicing diligently, so it’s to be expected. Good on her!
*:I’ve been reading since the pre-Chimera days. I’m not entirely sure what the timeline is, but I know there’s been a couple of time skips, e.g. it feels like we skipped directly from ‘Castela will be a middle-schooler’ to ‘Castela is in High School’? also we learned that Lakshmi and Owen have a daughter who is an adult, because we met Roxanne as an adult and were then informed that she was Lakshmi and Owen’s daughter after Owen and Lakshmi last appeared in the comic 16 years previous.
I have a theory, but I don’t want to bum-rush the payoff on Friday. I suspect we’ll get to the bottom of this soon enough, although I predict there won’t be much substance, in the end.
The clueless is strong with these two….. Neither of them knows that they are hot. And that together dressed as they are the sun itself is low on BTU’s compared to them.
“Do you remember anything other than the color of the bikinis?”
“They were…pneumatic…”
“What about their faces?”
“Um….”
“Eye color?”
“…um…”
“SKIN color?”
“…uh….”
“Seriously, you are an embarrassment to humanity.”
FreeFlier:
Yep… I know a ‘free thinking’ girl who asked me,
‘why are men so obsessed with looking at women?’
me- ‘ they cannot help it, its a deep instinct.. ‘
her- ‘well its seems stupid… :/’
me -‘ well ok, if you see a wonderful chocolate cake in a window, can you ignore it????? :O’
her- ‘ aagh, ooo… yes, I see what you mean… where is my chocolate????? 😛 😛 ‘..
Nah, they are about average.. and then Atsali appears, and wonders what the ‘problem’ is…. :/ Its only some Americans are fixated on that – if her waist was the same as her chest size, most would look AWAY!!! 😀
Apparently the “big bazooms” thing is cultural.
I read some time back that someone did a meta study of just what people of the male persuasion found sexy in females world wide.
They found only one constant across all cultures, a waist/hip ratio of 7/10. It turns out that this was known even to the ancient Greeks who, in their obsession with mathematics, recognized it as the “Golden Ratio”.
I for one happen to agree, although my personal tastes also run to the Victorian Hourglass Figure and the (unfortunately) contradictory well muscled physique, the latter two being mostly determined by dominant testosterone levels.
You didn’t read his entire post (apparently).
It was a world-wide study.
There are cultures (mostly aboriginal natives in Africa and South America) where both male and females go topless.
so the size of the female’s breasts is almost without notice (to other members of that culture).
In fact, there are cultures in South America where full nudity (male and female are nude at all times) is the norm.
In THOSE cultures, clothing is a ‘magical’ second skin.
Obviously, members of those cultures are extremely aware of EVERY aspect of their environment (which is good, since even touching some things in their environment can kill you)
“outback”?
You will notice I did not mention Australia.
Unless that is the phrase some folks use for “away from big cities” that I was unaware of (VERY possible, in truth), it does not state my intentions.
I did state the aboriginal natives of Africa and South America.
“Aboriginal” being the actual term used by the scientists/experts who actually study those cultures (not just for the natives of Australia).
I do not know enough about the natives of Australia to include them in my statement, though I do not doubt some of them would qualify to be included.
Also, I do not intend to mean my statement as degrading to the cultures I am speaking of.
In many respects (a great number, in fact), Aboriginal cultures are MUCH more worthy of respect than the so-called ‘great society’ in the cities.
If I had my ‘druthers’ (which I don’t, in truth), I’d be living with the ‘abbies’ in stead of the ‘civilized’ folk.
It’s adorable that they don’t get how good they look. I do have questions on how Val eats though. It’s a hole behind the mast right? Does she just kind of toss food in or is their a kind ethereal body dynamic that she has?
It’s not a hole, it is a mass of writhing tentacles mixed with various non-Euclidean features. There is certainly a mouth of some sort in there, although it might be made up of one or more tentacles…
Which raises a thing I’ve wondered about ever since she was introduced. Why hasn’t she either learned to turn all those tentacles into a human face, the way lots of paras have with their own anatomic oddities (consider Pickle and the various xxx-morphs like Timothy and Scarlet), or had some kind of cosmetic surgery? Seems as though if there’s one of those two that she can’t do because of something in her nature, the other one should be possible.
Her “face” is like a cross betrween the Sarlacc from star wars and Cthulhu’s litte baby cossin. Watching her eat must be the stuff of lovecraftian nightmares. being male I could focus on whats going on from the shoulders down with little problem. while chanting in my head. ( she’s a really sweet kind person and would never hurt someone who doesn’t piss her off. SO DON’T PISS HER OFF BY STARING IN HORROR. )
Thanks for that. That was actually rather interesting. Now this really makes me question how she speaks. Spoken human language kind of has this basis of syllables using the lips and tongue in conjunction. If she has some sort of basis like an octopus, has she managed for form a double for such things with the tentacles?
Given the kind of proportions that spiders likely find attractive (closer to Pixar Women), Digit probably doesn’t consider her current body much to look at.
Since arachnids (spiders and scorpions) and insects are mostly aroma/pheromone-based creatures, I doubt digit has ANY idea how vision effects her surroundings or the reactions there-in.
In fact, there are even entire species of insects (driver/army ants come to mind) that don’t even have eyes.
Their reactions are almost entirely based on pheromones.
If you happen to see a line of driver/army ants journeying along the jungle floor, don’t kill any.
If you did, you better be ready to move VERY fast and quite far.
That scene in the Indiana Jones movie where ants took a full-grown man into their nest isn’t entirely fiction (driver/army ants rarely have a static nest).
Hot girls that don’t know they’re hot. That’s actually a thing. My best friends sister suffered from that syndrome. Totally gorgeous and thought she was completely ordinary, and was mystified about the goofy-ass and occasionally creepy behavior of boys around her. We had to sit her in front of a mirror and say… “Take a good look, and pretend that isn’t YOU.”
I would say a ‘similar’ thing to their ‘protective’ boyfriends… 🙂 😛
“don’t be angry about people staring etc at your girl, JUST be proud that she is WORTH looking at!!!! 😀
I love your outlook on the matter, illiad.
I also love how Samurai and company finally ‘revealed’ to the girl how she actually appeared.
I have noticed the girls who think they’re ‘ordinary’ or even ‘ugly’ tend to be much more beautiful of spirit and personality than the girls who know they look good.
Unfortunately, it is extremely rare for a good-looking… ANYONE… to also have a good personality
Honestly Clueless Hotties. It is defined as a person that, while quite attractive, does not realize that they are or why people would bother paying attention to them. Our teen Half Fae Hiroshi falls into this category as well.
Is that an enthusiastic smile I’m seeing form on Digit? I mean she’s developing her facial skill quite well.
IIRC, she’s been whatever her classification as a Para who used to be a very intelligent spider who interacted with Fae magic to become a shapeshifting-capable human/spider hybrid woman for at least four years*. I’d be very surprised if she hadn’t been practicing diligently, so it’s to be expected. Good on her!
*:I’ve been reading since the pre-Chimera days. I’m not entirely sure what the timeline is, but I know there’s been a couple of time skips, e.g. it feels like we skipped directly from ‘Castela will be a middle-schooler’ to ‘Castela is in High School’? also we learned that Lakshmi and Owen have a daughter who is an adult, because we met Roxanne as an adult and were then informed that she was Lakshmi and Owen’s daughter after Owen and Lakshmi last appeared in the comic 16 years previous.
She’s also quite intelligent and a diligent student. I imagine if she puts her mind to learning a new skill, she picks it up rather quickly.
I have a theory, but I don’t want to bum-rush the payoff on Friday. I suspect we’ll get to the bottom of this soon enough, although I predict there won’t be much substance, in the end.
booooooo. XD
You could predict that just by flipping a coin. Heads you lose, tails you win.
…No, dear, not weird at all. Cluelessly hot, however, is a whole other story… O!O
Ah yes, she’s totally talking about “People Watching”, the animated web series from Cracked magazine and Winston Rowntree – right? 🙂
The clueless is strong with these two….. Neither of them knows that they are hot. And that together dressed as they are the sun itself is low on BTU’s compared to them.
Yup.. It needs one of their clumsy male friends to say, “hey, you know you could be mistaken for a young Pamela Anderson??? :E :E 😀 “
Hotness, the perfect disguise.
“Do you remember anything other than the color of the bikinis?”
“They were…pneumatic…”
“What about their faces?”
“Um….”
“Eye color?”
“…um…”
“SKIN color?”
“…uh….”
“Seriously, you are an embarrassment to humanity.”
Only to straight female humanity . . . straight male humanity will understand perfectly.
Back in the 1970s there was an armed robber who wore only a motorcycle helmet for his robberies . . . AFAIK they never caught him.
FreeFlier:
Yep… I know a ‘free thinking’ girl who asked me,
‘why are men so obsessed with looking at women?’
me- ‘ they cannot help it, its a deep instinct.. ‘
her- ‘well its seems stupid… :/’
me -‘ well ok, if you see a wonderful chocolate cake in a window, can you ignore it????? :O’
her- ‘ aagh, ooo… yes, I see what you mean… where is my chocolate????? 😛 😛 ‘..
I think they’ve been understudying Atsali for obliviousness . . . though they still haven’t reached that level.
Yet.
Well, mostly it’s the big bazooms.
Nah, they are about average.. and then Atsali appears, and wonders what the ‘problem’ is…. :/ Its only some Americans are fixated on that – if her waist was the same as her chest size, most would look AWAY!!! 😀
Apparently the “big bazooms” thing is cultural.
I read some time back that someone did a meta study of just what people of the male persuasion found sexy in females world wide.
They found only one constant across all cultures, a waist/hip ratio of 7/10. It turns out that this was known even to the ancient Greeks who, in their obsession with mathematics, recognized it as the “Golden Ratio”.
I for one happen to agree, although my personal tastes also run to the Victorian Hourglass Figure and the (unfortunately) contradictory well muscled physique, the latter two being mostly determined by dominant testosterone levels.
They’re average FOR THIS COMIC.
As for the rest of humanity, That’s still to be determined.
Sheik: nice references, but… you seem to have forgotten the stuff **above** the waist…. :O
You didn’t read his entire post (apparently).
It was a world-wide study.
There are cultures (mostly aboriginal natives in Africa and South America) where both male and females go topless.
so the size of the female’s breasts is almost without notice (to other members of that culture).
In fact, there are cultures in South America where full nudity (male and female are nude at all times) is the norm.
In THOSE cultures, clothing is a ‘magical’ second skin.
Obviously, members of those cultures are extremely aware of EVERY aspect of their environment (which is good, since even touching some things in their environment can kill you)
Valkeiper2020:
do you mean the part where he forgot entirely about ‘above the waist’ ??? (except for the first line… 😛 )
surely you must know about standard beauty contest measurements?? https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_ETHN_053_0425–no-half-measures-for-beauty-queens.htm
‘world wide study’?? All I find is ‘golden ratio’ of the face… or some fashionista that is a math fan, getting really confused..
I think the cultures you are talking about are ***very deep*** in the ‘outback’ (about two days drive to find)… or a ‘historical preserve’..
“outback”?
You will notice I did not mention Australia.
Unless that is the phrase some folks use for “away from big cities” that I was unaware of (VERY possible, in truth), it does not state my intentions.
I did state the aboriginal natives of Africa and South America.
“Aboriginal” being the actual term used by the scientists/experts who actually study those cultures (not just for the natives of Australia).
I do not know enough about the natives of Australia to include them in my statement, though I do not doubt some of them would qualify to be included.
Also, I do not intend to mean my statement as degrading to the cultures I am speaking of.
In many respects (a great number, in fact), Aboriginal cultures are MUCH more worthy of respect than the so-called ‘great society’ in the cities.
If I had my ‘druthers’ (which I don’t, in truth), I’d be living with the ‘abbies’ in stead of the ‘civilized’ folk.
here we have been calling them mamal bumps as per as cass quote.
Digit is adorable, and her plan for a day at the pool would exactly mirror my own…
It’s adorable that they don’t get how good they look. I do have questions on how Val eats though. It’s a hole behind the mast right? Does she just kind of toss food in or is their a kind ethereal body dynamic that she has?
It’s not a hole, it is a mass of writhing tentacles mixed with various non-Euclidean features. There is certainly a mouth of some sort in there, although it might be made up of one or more tentacles…
Which raises a thing I’ve wondered about ever since she was introduced. Why hasn’t she either learned to turn all those tentacles into a human face, the way lots of paras have with their own anatomic oddities (consider Pickle and the various xxx-morphs like Timothy and Scarlet), or had some kind of cosmetic surgery? Seems as though if there’s one of those two that she can’t do because of something in her nature, the other one should be possible.
Her “face” is like a cross betrween the Sarlacc from star wars and Cthulhu’s litte baby cossin. Watching her eat must be the stuff of lovecraftian nightmares. being male I could focus on whats going on from the shoulders down with little problem. while chanting in my head. ( she’s a really sweet kind person and would never hurt someone who doesn’t piss her off. SO DON’T PISS HER OFF BY STARING IN HORROR. )
Well, if Great Cthulhu is her father, the rest of her must favor the mother.
she could be some version of octopus, like Sam in http://freefall.purrsia.com/
have you seen them eat?? :E
https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/howtofeedagiantoctopus/
Thanks for that. That was actually rather interesting. Now this really makes me question how she speaks. Spoken human language kind of has this basis of syllables using the lips and tongue in conjunction. If she has some sort of basis like an octopus, has she managed for form a double for such things with the tentacles?
Given the kind of proportions that spiders likely find attractive (closer to Pixar Women), Digit probably doesn’t consider her current body much to look at.
Since arachnids (spiders and scorpions) and insects are mostly aroma/pheromone-based creatures, I doubt digit has ANY idea how vision effects her surroundings or the reactions there-in.
In fact, there are even entire species of insects (driver/army ants come to mind) that don’t even have eyes.
Their reactions are almost entirely based on pheromones.
If you happen to see a line of driver/army ants journeying along the jungle floor, don’t kill any.
If you did, you better be ready to move VERY fast and quite far.
That scene in the Indiana Jones movie where ants took a full-grown man into their nest isn’t entirely fiction (driver/army ants rarely have a static nest).
do an archive dive, Digit has quite a lot of experience… 😀
“People watching”. Yeah, that’s mostly it, or should I say partially correct, people are definitely watching them partly, perhaps more focused…
Hot girls that don’t know they’re hot. That’s actually a thing. My best friends sister suffered from that syndrome. Totally gorgeous and thought she was completely ordinary, and was mystified about the goofy-ass and occasionally creepy behavior of boys around her. We had to sit her in front of a mirror and say… “Take a good look, and pretend that isn’t YOU.”
I would say a ‘similar’ thing to their ‘protective’ boyfriends… 🙂 😛
“don’t be angry about people staring etc at your girl, JUST be proud that she is WORTH looking at!!!! 😀
I love your outlook on the matter, illiad.
I also love how Samurai and company finally ‘revealed’ to the girl how she actually appeared.
I have noticed the girls who think they’re ‘ordinary’ or even ‘ugly’ tend to be much more beautiful of spirit and personality than the girls who know they look good.
Unfortunately, it is extremely rare for a good-looking… ANYONE… to also have a good personality
a couple HOT babe alerts wearing bikinis? Oh yeah; nothing to see here, AT ALL!
Wait until they’re wearing ‘monokinis’ or ‘slingshots’.
THEN there’d definitely be something to see.
And I’m not gonna mention thongs, g-strings, or ‘teardrops’.
Oops!
Perhaps they’ll meet up with some of the starers in the evening, when they go dancing.
Valerie’s lack of self-esteem might prevent the nightclub dancing scenario
maybe reduce the possibility, but not prevent it.
After all, she IS trying to come out of her shell.
Valery is a very capable person.
If she puts her mind to doing something, there is a very good chance it’ll happen.
Matter of Digit, once having eight legs, can dance on two…
Honestly Clueless Hotties. It is defined as a person that, while quite attractive, does not realize that they are or why people would bother paying attention to them. Our teen Half Fae Hiroshi falls into this category as well.
Hiroshi would easily fall into the ‘flighty’ category, I think.
He is aware just how unaware he is and has been taking measures to operate around it.
Not fully effective measures, but he is trying… very trying.