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Bother You

by Paul Taylor on January 15, 2018 at 11:31 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Castela, Scarlet, Shawna
Location: Gryphon Middle School

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Discussion (46) ¬

  1. Mark N
    January 15, 2018, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

    Ok, the girl looks like a true innocent here.

    • Negatron
      October 12, 2019, 3:43 pm | # | Reply

      Which is nice, since…

      *future SPOILER here*

      NEITHER of them gets to date Hiroshi…
      but they do date each other.

  2. The Aussie Bloke
    January 15, 2018, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

    Having one of those “beat my head against the wall” moments there, Scarlet?

    • gyrre
      January 16, 2018, 2:44 am | # | Reply

      Seems that way.

      It’s a nice twist not having it be Hiroshi behind Castella, too.

      • Siarles
        January 16, 2018, 7:14 am | #

        Oh no, this is much worse than having Hiroshi behind her.

      • Killjoy
        January 16, 2018, 9:45 am | #

        Nope, this is just as much the “standing right behind me” trope.

        Ugh.

    • Naldru
      January 16, 2018, 11:54 am | # | Reply

      http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RightBehindMe Yes, the “standing right behind me” trope has a long history and many web pages.

  3. Tombone
    January 16, 2018, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Feeling a bit of deja vu there Scarlet and Castela?

  4. Cortanis
    January 16, 2018, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Aaaaand there goes the school.

  5. FreeFlier
    January 16, 2018, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    And Castels BSODs . . .

    Or maybe it’s a Pink Screen of Death (by embarrassment).

  6. B0mar
    January 16, 2018, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    … And JW nailed it Congratulations! Shawna does not seem actually EVIL here. I read her previous expressions as confidence that she had Hiroshi nailed. The parallels are endless:
    Hiroshi-Atsali-Castela for Oblivious
    Hiroshi-Timothy the Lightning Rods
    Castela-Scarlet-Shawna ALL the “Other Woman” and I agree with Mark N all Innocent
    Yup! “Déjà vu all over again” Recursively Fractal.

  7. Tiger tomcat
    January 16, 2018, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Don’t know which of the three feel most sorry for, Scarlett because she was in Castela’s position a couple months ago, Castela because she just got hit with a truth bomb, or poor Shawna because her dreams of being with Hiroshi got shattered big time

    • Cyberspooked
      January 16, 2018, 2:05 am | # | Reply

      “Nuke it from orbit.. That is the only way to be sure.” Shawna got hit hard on this one. I thought Castela needs to stop dancing around the bush and just go for it before things get more complicated.

    • Cyberspooked
      January 16, 2018, 8:32 am | # | Reply

      Better nuke it from orbit… Just to be sure. Castela and Shawna are both going to be in for a rough ride after this.

      • Bratty Roger
        August 5, 2018, 2:27 am | #

        If it comes from orbit, with high enough mass &velocity, it won’t even have to be a nuclear–warhead!

  8. Jeff Weiner
    January 16, 2018, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    I might feel sorry for Shawna if I knew more about her. Like what kind of para she is, for example.

    • Cmdrpowers
      January 16, 2018, 10:06 am | # | Reply

      Pixie, says Paul

      • Jeff Weiner
        January 16, 2018, 2:41 pm | #

        Almost as bad as Fae?

      • Rezby
        January 16, 2018, 2:57 pm | #

        They’re still people. You can’t really attribute generalisms to individuals. Come on, atsali had this whole arc of dealing with a few people thinking all sirens or succubii were sluts.

  9. TazManiac
    January 16, 2018, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    (I cant believe I’m the one spotting this-) “…spy OR you…”

    • Killjoy
      January 16, 2018, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      I noticed it.

    • RBZ
      January 16, 2018, 10:24 am | # | Reply

      People noticed it. But you happened to view the strip and comment before they did, so they didn’t feel the need to duplicate.

    • Akamar
      January 16, 2018, 10:30 am | # | Reply

      Not all of us are spelling/grammar oriented nazis, and can understand the intended context without needing to dwell on errors

      • TazManiac
        January 16, 2018, 12:51 pm | #

        Yeah, not really a Nazi about grammar (the Language is meant to serve us, not the other way around…) But I do get stuck on mispellijngs (actually in this case a word substitution) ’cause it jars my flow-of-reading.

        So, I’m going to be unrepentant about pointing out stuff; Paul does it all the time and seems pretty responsive in correcting them.

      • Guesticus
        January 17, 2018, 1:19 am | #

        Sometimes, the author slash creator doesn’t notice these things, and having it brought to their attention can allow them the chance to fix it

    • Sheik
      January 16, 2018, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

      I read it as just a typo, in fact is was so close to [ON] you had to call it to my attention.

  10. KSClaw
    January 16, 2018, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    Soooo, would part of this be Dayllas fault, since she thinks the whole flower-head thing was soooooo funny?

    • Carolyn
      January 16, 2018, 7:44 am | # | Reply

      I agree. Daylla has been a complete shit about this whole thing. I really hope she gets called out on it.

  11. LN
    January 16, 2018, 2:59 am | # | Reply

    Scarlet’s expression in last panel reflects my feelings about this whole arc, I have to say.

  12. Carl-E
    January 16, 2018, 5:05 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Shawna’s got a bit of a drama hairtrigger…

  13. KnightDelight
    January 16, 2018, 6:50 am | # | Reply

    Isn’t it about time for one of them to put their fist through the gender changing wall?

  14. mrz80
    January 16, 2018, 8:02 am | # | Reply

    (*cue Malcolm Reynolds, sitting starkers on a rock miles from the nearest spaceport*)
    Yeah… that went well…

  15. WEKM
    January 16, 2018, 9:01 am | # | Reply

    Oh, damn.

  16. Robert Nowall
    January 16, 2018, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    Love stinks, doesn’t it?

    • scantrontb
      January 16, 2018, 10:57 pm | # | Reply

      Nah, Pickles hair smells like ROSES…

      • Guesticus
        January 17, 2018, 1:21 am | #

        Not all roses smell as pleasant

  17. Killjoy
    January 16, 2018, 9:43 am | # | Reply

    This whole situation is Scarlet and Daylla’s fault… mind your own damn business, stop meddling, stop trying to “help” people.

    • Akamar
      January 16, 2018, 10:32 am | # | Reply

      Yup. Or just be forward and talk to someone. “What’s up? It’s hard not to notice the flowers and Violent denial… “. But… Preferably, truly privately.

      • Syncline
        January 16, 2018, 12:04 pm | #

        Yeah, I kinda mentioned this 4 pages back.
        Cas never needed an intervention or prank session, she just needed a hug and some quiet venting time; but she didn’t get it until now and it was in far, far too public a place- which of course was not her fault.
        Let’s be sure to traumatize everyone involved, shall we? Ah, immature teenage friends…

  18. JMWR
    January 16, 2018, 11:07 am | # | Reply

    Other thought, Shawana may also be (if she’s at all like I was as a teen) be in the belief of “If i care about them then I let them be with who they are happy with- even if it hurts my heart”. She just heard these two have a history and may be jumping to the “well OBVIOUSLY Hiroshi is going to want to be with HER and she obviously has feelings so I don’t want to but I shouldn’t be a jealous so and so like that fey cause then I’d be a hypocrite”. I mean, there was a whole strip showing her opinion on what that fey did just for being jealous and petty.

    • Guesticus
      January 17, 2018, 1:23 am | # | Reply

      Actually, Shawna and Hiroshi have more of a history: they knew each other before he got Reggied, and she was happy to see him again, which means she was probably missing him and wondering where he was for the last year or so

  19. Syncline
    January 16, 2018, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

    This is round 2 of “as the romance turns” with Cas. I’m sure we all want it to work out for her.
    It would be nice to think Cas gets a fair shot at Hiroshi, but Shawna could very well end up with him despite Cas’s feelings; this has already happened before once before to Cas and frankly life can be very unfair.
    Being a good human being doesn’t automatically move you to the front of the line in relationships; two or more people are voting after all. Anger, bitterness and frustration about the randomness of life is a common result.

    • Xerxes Aragon
      January 16, 2018, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

      Third possibility: Hiroshi is actually interested in someone OTHER THAN Cas or Shawna, leaving them both hanging out on a limb. Oh, what a tangled web we could weave out of that one…

    • Guesticus
      January 17, 2018, 1:24 am | # | Reply

      None of them are human though, least of all Stela

  20. McClaw
    January 16, 2018, 5:52 pm | # | Reply

    What are the chances of a Castela/Hiroshi/Shawana trio?

  21. Robert Nowall
    January 16, 2018, 8:38 pm | # | Reply

    Are there any eaves to drop at Gryphon High?

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