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Happy Now

by Paul Taylor on April 7, 2021 at 10:57 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Atsali, Castela
Location: Gilchrist Home

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Discussion (52) ¬

  1. ZybotAus
    April 7, 2021, 11:01 pm | # | Reply

    Soo . . . Absolutely wasn’t aware of this . . .

    • ZybotAus
      April 7, 2021, 11:04 pm | # | Reply

      Ruddy autocorrect!! Atsali !!

      • Sean
        April 8, 2021, 9:43 am | #

        It works just fine in the Autocorrect version!

      • TazManiac
        April 8, 2021, 3:47 pm | #

        Yeah. I hadn’t noticed ’till you said something…

  2. GrantCMcCormick
    April 7, 2021, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder if Atsali recognizes the name. My guess is that she will.

    • Khyrin
      April 8, 2021, 1:56 am | # | Reply

      I would hope so: Leucosia was her birth mother. Atsali and a still-plantoid Castela were hiding a saferoom together as directed by Leucosia the day she died. The MIB found Atsali firmly ensconced in Castela’s vineswhen they cracked open the saferoom.

  3. jeffepp
    April 7, 2021, 11:41 pm | # | Reply

    So, Phix is also on vacation… Mmm hmm, I see. What a coincidence.

  4. Dave
    April 7, 2021, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

    A sudden silence ensues, as Atsali realizes that Pickle may, quite possibly, have access to copies of all of Atssli’s baby pictures, embarrassing baby stories (“At’sawi need potty!”) and other useful blackmail items.

    That’s far worse than something as trivial as learning that Pickle could blow up the entire universe.

    • Chris
      April 9, 2021, 11:12 am | # | Reply

      To be fair, Castela (at least part of her) is the oldest thing in the universe. She probably has (or has access to) every memory from her time as a child, so she doesn’t need a replay to remember that. No, the danger here is that she can SHARE those via the Q Room.

    • illiad
      April 10, 2021, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

      peeps need to ‘further back’ to when they were both *really* little kids… 😛
      http://wapsisquare.com/comic/running-late/

  5. Leak
    April 8, 2021, 2:11 am | # | Reply

    Yet another situation where you don’t want to get “Your mom” as an answer…

  6. Chris
    April 8, 2021, 2:26 am | # | Reply

    I think we might see a bit of a throw-down here. I don’t think it quite registers with Castela that Leucrosia is Atsali’s mom. I mean, she knows it, but doesn’t equate that Atsali would love the chance to see her own mother again. I can see Atsali getting worked up, but also not quite realizing the power Cas has. This should be interesting to watch unfold.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 8, 2021, 5:51 am | # | Reply

      Does it register with Castela’s Leucosia that Leucosia was Atsali’s mother?

    • Syncline
      April 8, 2021, 7:23 am | # | Reply

      In a very real sense, Leucrosia is Mother to both of them, who died to save them both. I think Cas is very aware of the price Leucrosia paid for them to live.

      • buzzsaw
        April 8, 2021, 7:26 pm | #

        And I think that the universe is very, VERY lucky that Castela’s Blackthorn side had not completely awakened when she saw the replay of what transpired that day, and the sheer depth of emotional despair she experienced.

  7. Robert Nowall
    April 8, 2021, 5:54 am | # | Reply

    Didn’t know Atsali was drinking alcohol these days.

    • Dorje Sylas
      April 8, 2021, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      They grow up so fast, with time skips.

      • Robert Nowall
        April 8, 2021, 10:32 am | #

        There was that time in Japan when Atsali had that job in that German bierhaus…

      • illiad
        April 10, 2021, 3:09 pm | #

        or how about the *fastest* puberty yet…
        skinny atsali -http://wapsisquare.com/comic/beautiful-flower/
        skip a few pages forward, and she is ‘stung by a bee’ :O

    • Dave
      April 8, 2021, 10:54 am | # | Reply

      At least she now knows that the beverage contains alcohol (unlike the eggnog incident when she and Nadette were 16).

  8. Matt Grayson
    April 8, 2021, 6:35 am | # | Reply

    And thought reading your diary was bad…

  9. kingklash
    April 8, 2021, 8:46 am | # | Reply

    Oof!

  10. jwhouk
    April 8, 2021, 9:19 am | # | Reply

    This… will not end well.

    • dragma
      April 8, 2021, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

      Or it could end extremely well, After all they were orphaned, not given up.

  11. txmystic
    April 8, 2021, 9:27 am | # | Reply

    So much for the comfortable Pale-Ale buzz…

  12. Centaur 71
    April 8, 2021, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

    Zounds! Methinks thou hast mayhaps touched a sore spot with her…

  13. Gyffes
    April 8, 2021, 6:39 pm | # | Reply

    “Jesus Fuck!” has long been one of my favorite imprecations to exclaim.

    • Ayshela
      April 9, 2021, 12:15 am | # | Reply

      Mine too! I squeed a teensy bit seeing a version of that, stifled a snicker, and waited for the *kaboom*

    • TazManiac
      April 11, 2021, 10:44 am | # | Reply

      Our little Tumbleweed is indeed quite the salty little sailor from time to time…

  14. txmystic
    April 8, 2021, 7:42 pm | # | Reply

    BTW, does “Buca” refer to Buca Di Beppo? If so, I have had experience with their dessert of a 30-kilo wedge of triple-tiered chocolate cake. It fed my family of 4 for weeks afterwards…

    • jwhouk
      April 8, 2021, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

      And it made my wife sick after she ate hers.

    • J-Earl
      April 9, 2021, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      I do miss Buca.

      • illiad
        April 11, 2021, 5:38 am | #

        Look up the english translation… it is related to ‘feed your pie hole’ but of course there are ruder versions! If you are welsh, there is ‘cwm’ 🙂 😛

        and ‘Buca Di Beppo’ is the chain of restaurants..
        And if “https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/your+eyes+are+bigger+than+your+belly” then it is your own fault!!!! 😀 😀

  15. Brandon
    April 8, 2021, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

    I hope when Atsali inevitably goes to meet this version of her mom, she doesn’t see what Cass saw. I doubt she wants to re-experience that day with more detail than the first time.

    • Ayshela
      April 9, 2021, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      as I understood it, she would experience what Cas sees now – it was saved at the end point of all that, so the command to run ALL material would have to be given again.

  16. Tiger Tomcat
    April 8, 2021, 10:34 pm | # | Reply

    Castela you should be careful when you drop a block or dam busterof a bombshell like that on your big sister

  17. Tiger Tomcat
    April 8, 2021, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

    Castela you should be careful when you drop a block or dam buster of a bombshell like that on your big sister

    • Ayshela
      April 9, 2021, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      perhaps – but equally, Atsali really does need to learn when to stop poking. Or, “don’t ask questions you aren’t absolutely sure you want the answer to.” Knowing Cas, and the conversation just previous, that point SHOULD have been well in mind.

  18. J-Earl
    April 9, 2021, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    They say that silence is empty of sound, but the 3rd panel quickly became the loudest one of all.

  19. W.
    April 9, 2021, 9:23 am | # | Reply

    You mean all this time you could talk to MOM and DIDN’T THINK MAYBE I’D LIKE TO!?

    • Ayshela
      April 9, 2021, 5:46 pm | # | Reply

      That point occurred to me, too, but notice carefully that Cas says “A Q Room version of…”
      This is NOT Atsali’s mom. Not completely. This is a version compiled from everything she ever wrote, and from all her transcribed voice notes, but there is a lot to a person which exists outside of that. The Q-Room version even said, at the time, she was the next best thing but not her. Given Atsali’s extreme trauma at the last time she DID see her mom, being presented with someone who’s almost-but-not her mom is a prospect to be considered carefully.

      • scantrontb
        April 9, 2021, 8:10 pm | #

        but did she actually SEE her mom’s BODY, i would assume the guy that rescues her and Pickle from the Safe Room wouldn’t have woken her up/ moved her to where that could happen while the body was still there… all Atsali knows is that she got told to go in the room and hit the red button, then got stuck there for so long she fell asleep in wet pants because that’s how long it took… and then immediately afterwards got thrown in the Orphanage system… did she ever get the real behind WHY she got sent there or was it all ‘covered up” so that the bad guys wouldn’t find her/Pickle? and did Pickle KNOW that Rahal was Atsali’s last name? im not sure but when she saw the recording showing that scene, i seem to recall that she was more interested in HER side of the story and sorta ignored Atsali’s side.. is that a correct memory?

  20. Valkeiper2020
    April 9, 2021, 5:58 pm | # | Reply

    LoL
    Somebody’s mind just went ultra-blank (and it wasn’t our fav little plant).

    Atsali definitely knows that name.
    She certainly was surprised by what what Cassy said.

    Now, which explosion will be bigger… The RED GIANT star Betelguese when it supernovas or Atsali’s when her mind re-engages?

  21. Fairportfan
    April 9, 2021, 6:11 pm | # | Reply

    Apropos of nothing at all: I like Big Bird’s original hair.

    With the current hair, sometimes she looks a lot like a tall version of Bud…

    • txmystic
      April 10, 2021, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      If it were not for the round vs square glasses and slightly longer hair, she and Scarlet look very similar

  22. Loxmyth
    April 10, 2021, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Trying to guess whether Atsali is more blown away by discovering this is possible, or disappointed that it didn’t occur to Castella that this might be something her sister would want to — need to — know about.

    Then again, it didn’t occur to me until now that she might *not* have mentioned it. Admittedly she was a bit distracted at the time, but it’s been a while…

    (BTW, I know it’s necessary for plot, but I’m still trying to figure out how all humanoid-ish critters in this universe have seemed to experience human-style puberty at human-style ages, no matter what their actual phylum. Function follows form, I guess; mimic human form and growth well enough and the morphogenetic field pushes you the rest of the way.)

    • Ribert
      April 10, 2021, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

      I seem to recall Atsali having challenges with the wings and tail and other things as she was hitting puberty. You’re probably right about having the habit of mimicing humans but I suspect during puberty and other life stages, it becomes a matter of “I knew how to do this before. I can do it again — I think.”

      • illiad
        April 11, 2021, 9:10 am | #

        puberty?? see my post April 10, 2021, 3:09 pm !:)

        and ‘school rules’ http://wapsisquare.com/comic/too-dorky/
        where she met Nadette and friends 🙂

    • illiad
      April 11, 2021, 5:50 am | # | Reply

      I guess it is for ‘fitting in’ with the human world… also better for handling human-made stuff..

  23. Graybeard
    April 10, 2021, 9:17 pm | # | Reply

    One thing I don’t get here: how does Atsali know that Phix has “been away”?

    • Paul Taylor
      April 10, 2021, 9:49 pm | # | Reply

      Atsali has been to the museum for school. =)

      • Matt Grayson
        April 11, 2021, 10:43 am | #

        Took me a second there…

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