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Hurting Someone

by Paul Taylor on May 12, 2016 at 10:42 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Abbie, Devyn, Nadette
Location: Norwegian Flight Field

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  1. garbud
    May 12, 2016, 10:50 pm | # | Reply

    Well as we all said she is a bear.

    • Vorlonagent
      May 13, 2016, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

      She’sa not a bare! She’sa wearing a neck-tie!

      • Alex_L_H
        May 16, 2016, 5:08 am | #

        Wokka wokka!

  2. BarerMender
    May 12, 2016, 10:53 pm | # | Reply

    Damn, she makes a big bear. I know I shouldn’t ask, but… where does the mass come from?

    • Wyvern
      May 13, 2016, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      Chicago.

      • Irishshift
        May 13, 2016, 2:35 am | #

        Naaa that’s where cubs come from! ;P

      • MidnightDStroyer
        December 3, 2020, 6:31 am | #

        There’s a reason why the Sears Tower has its particular shape…

    • maarvarq
      May 13, 2016, 3:19 am | # | Reply

      Hyperspace.

    • JCfromNC
      May 13, 2016, 6:01 am | # | Reply

      Same place it went to when she turned herself into a skinsuit.

      • Fairportfan
        May 14, 2016, 1:17 pm | #

        …or a hat

    • scantrontb
      May 13, 2016, 6:16 am | # | Reply

      E=mC^2

      i’ll bet that All the shapeshifter get their energy from the rotation of the galaxy, just like the Golem Girls get theirs, the only real difference is that the energy collection and shapeshifting is done via organic components, versus the mechanical ones the GG’s have, since they’re made of “clay”. all Mayhuel did was learn how to convert the organic to mechanical in her formula for making Golems… and also the reason the GG’s are more powerful than any organic being, simple because the organic material would get damaged by the energy throughput well before a mechanical system would for the same energy flow-rate.

    • DMC_Run
      May 13, 2016, 10:05 pm | # | Reply

      You’re assuming that her bear-shape is not hollow. In fact, her hollow fist might resonate like a drum, much the same way that a wrestling ring is designed to amplify the impact-sound of someone slamming their body down upon it.

      • Iceburgh69
        September 15, 2017, 9:17 am | #

        If it was hollow, her fist wouldn’t have the mass to displace 2 girls.

  3. AvengerReloaded
    May 12, 2016, 10:58 pm | # | Reply

    It could be a mater of density. The non-fuzzy form is probably densely packed.

  4. BarerMender
    May 12, 2016, 11:04 pm | # | Reply

    If Devyn is five feet high, that bear must stand eight or nine feet at the shoulder. I’d say it weighs over a ton. Probably well over.
    That’s a lot of mass to pack in a teenage girl.
    Of course, Wapsi-world is magic. Maybe they don’t have conservation of mass. Still, that’s a big shift.

  5. Scotty
    May 12, 2016, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

    Now? Now you ask where the mass come from and goes? After Sphinx’s, Dietzel and Atsali in her different forms; now you want us to explain this?

    Well, I know where the mass comes from
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    The same place those odd socks disappear to in the dryer. 😎

    • CptNerd
      May 12, 2016, 11:34 pm | # | Reply

      Hm, it’s always my even socks that disappear…

      • Michael Birks.
        May 13, 2016, 1:57 am | #

        I think you’ve got an ‘off by one’ error.

    • BarerMender
      May 13, 2016, 12:23 am | # | Reply

      I’ve brought up the subject of mass before.

      • BarerMender
        May 13, 2016, 12:24 am | #

        Incidentally, if you take the dryer (or more likely, the washer) apart, you’ll find the socks. They get sucked behind the tub.

    • me
      May 13, 2016, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

      No, missing socks are the larval form of wire coat hangers. Haven’t you ever noticed that socks disappear, and you’ve always got an extra coat hanger?

      • Barermender
        May 14, 2016, 11:52 am | #

        You don’t know anything. Safety pins are the larval form of coat hangers. And coat hangers, in case you don’t know, transform to bicycles. Ask any bicycle shop about found bicycles.

      • Barermender
        May 14, 2016, 11:59 am | #

        Socks are the larval form of plastic grocery bags.

      • Barermender
        May 14, 2016, 12:02 pm | #

        I minored in Botany. I know all about these things.

  6. Scotty
    May 12, 2016, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

    You know, I was going to complain about Nadette’s tie losing its color, but then I realized she’s ‘nekkid’! She’s probably losing control and not holding form. Impressive, Paul, most impressive!

    • BarerMender
      May 13, 2016, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, check the thumbnails turning into claws.

    • Guesticus
      May 13, 2016, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

      No, she started wearing clothes so Sali can slip a hand underneath and cop a feel

      • Cpt. Obvious
        October 30, 2016, 1:30 pm | #

        That’s for dates. Wearing clothes for school would be indecent… Or something… And now I’m confused…

  7. Jenny Everywhere
    May 12, 2016, 11:39 pm | # | Reply

    Boy howdy, she’s just one heck of a mama grizzly, you betcha!

  8. Boxilar
    May 13, 2016, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    I never got why everyone just assumed Ursamorphs weren’t predators. Bears may be omnivorous, but they’re still apex predators at the very tip top of the food chains they’re part of. As to Nadette’s mass, I think this is her true form. Like Phix, Shelly or even Atsalli, I think she can dump excess mass into the same between place folks go when they *POIT*. The two Sphinxes start at around 1000 lbs and can add or subtract mass and body parts according to their whims at the moment. In full Siren mode, Atsalli is around eight feet tall with a thirty foot wingspan. Like the Sphinxes, she can dump body mass and subtract or alter limbs to an extent. Paul has said she has hollow bones, so like most birds she’s probably lighter than she looks. In her “fully human” form she probably under 80 lbs. Looking at Nadette, she looks to be at the upper end of a Kodiak Grizzly, so probably in the 1200 to 1800 lb range. A 1200 bear will stand around 6 ft at the shoulder and 12 to 14 feet tall standing on two legs.

    • BarerMender
      May 13, 2016, 12:48 am | # | Reply

      1200 to 1800 strikes me as shy. I know a Hereford bull can easily run 2000, and Nadette is way bigger than any bull I’ve ever seen.

      • Boxilar
        May 13, 2016, 2:01 am | #

        Yeah, but big browns are rangier than than most big herbivores under all that fur. The biggest Kodiak to date was an 1600 lb bear that was 14 feet from nose to tail with paws the size skillets.

    • Simon
      May 13, 2016, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      This one looks a lot more than 6 ft at the shoulder. Even allowing that the girls are both fairly short, Nadette is around twice their height… call her 10 ft to the shoulder.

      Oh, and according to Wikipedia, the biggest Kodiak was an estimated 2400 lb. But if the proportions in the comic are accurate, Nadette is bigger than that. A *lot* bigger.

      • BarerMender
        May 13, 2016, 12:25 pm | #

        Yeah, if she can make the earth move hard enough to throw both girls three feet in the air, she must weigh about 10,000 tons. Maybe she borrows mass as she needs it. Without limit?

  9. Jayessell
    May 13, 2016, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    It’s not as if matter is being created, it’s only being borrowed. She’ll put it back later.

  10. hihi-oh
    May 13, 2016, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Serious case of pot calling the kettle black!

    • Michael Birks.
      May 13, 2016, 1:59 am | # | Reply

      I suspect that Nadette has been where she sees Atsali going.

      • Deehota
        May 13, 2016, 8:04 am | #

        Pot/Kettle was my first thought as well, but Michael’s response has me wondering. Even so… Irony abounds.

      • Guesticus
        May 13, 2016, 10:18 pm | #

        It’s not irony, nor pots and kettles, it’s someone who has done something she doesn’t want a friend to have to experience

        Maybe she ‘grizzly’ed out and mauled someone, she knows how bad that feels and she knows how it will destroy someone like Sali to seriously hurt, or even kill, someone

      • Guesticus
        May 13, 2016, 10:33 pm | #

        Oh, you meant the last panel

      • Fairportfan
        June 17, 2021, 11:40 pm | #

        Well, i don’t think we’ve ever been told why Berdine and Nadette transferred to Gryphon High…

  11. Andrew Bassett
    May 13, 2016, 3:10 am | # | Reply

    The mass comes from however it worked in Animorphs. Something about hyperspace? I don’t remember the details.

  12. RBZ
    May 13, 2016, 7:22 am | # | Reply

    Uh oh.

    Anyone else consider the implications of Atsali spotting a very large bear apparently attacking two of her friends (and her girlfriend apparently not in sight)? I can see this easily turning into Atsali v Nadette with everyone else getting in the way (and potentially hurt) in their attempts to calm them down.

    • Simon
      May 13, 2016, 9:19 am | # | Reply

      Nah. Granted, Atsali isn’t the most perceptive person around, but she *is* aware that her girlfriend is an ursamorph, even if she maybe hasn’t seen her in full bear form before.

      • Iceburgh69
        September 15, 2017, 9:22 am | #

        Paras still go emotion first, logic second. That’s a well-documented response to imminent danger.

  13. Sigurther
    May 13, 2016, 8:23 am | # | Reply

    Meanwhile I’m here laughing my ass off at the expression on their faces in panel one. Too much!! XD

  14. Trish
    May 13, 2016, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    Nadette, your irony’s showing 🙂

  15. Terabiel
    May 13, 2016, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    The extra mass comes from dark matter. That’s why it can’t be found, it’s all hidden in the shapeshifters…. or in hyperspace/subspace. Either work really. Protective mommabear gets much rawr!

    • scantrontb
      May 13, 2016, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

      nope. Dark Matter has already been revealed as being the material that makes up the Akashic Records., back when ?Devyn and ?Abbie were talking about how us Muggles are still clueless about what it is so that’s why we call it “dark” matter.

      • Iceburgh69
        September 15, 2017, 9:23 am | #

        Still applies, though.

  16. BarerMender
    May 13, 2016, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

    Another thought: Nadette is a seer. What has she seen?

    • scantrontb
      May 13, 2016, 10:19 pm | # | Reply

      i’d wager on not much, because she has strong emotional ties to Atsali, therefore her Seer powers don’t work too well on things that concern Atsali.

      or conversely, she saw what happened to Abbie and Devyn, and Atsali being remorseful afterwards… but she DIDN’T see that it was HERSELF that caused the injuries!!! and here we go with a self-fulfilling prophesy: she is apparently in denial about her OWN Predat tendencies, and thus ignores them in her normal everyday life, and in her visions, so when she sees Atsali getting violent at the jai-lai match, and then possibly here (but maybe misses the intervening stuff, so she thinks it’s connected) and in her befrazzlement about not being able to convince anyone about Atsali possibly hurting anyone, she loses more and more control, and finally snaps!, thus injuring Abbie and Devyn… and everyone else rushes over in sympathy/ gawking/ first aid, etc, etc… Atsali is ashamed that they got hurt at all, and thus the Prophesy has been fulfilled!

    • Guesticus
      May 13, 2016, 10:21 pm | # | Reply

      Better yet, what has she done in the past?

  17. BarerMender
    May 13, 2016, 5:03 pm | # | Reply

    I don’t think she was worried about herself. I remember her threatening to knock Atsali down. She could probably have done it, if she could move fast enough to hit her.

  18. Robert Nowall
    May 13, 2016, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

    She’s just a bear for punishment…

  19. Brenton miller
    May 13, 2016, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

    attacking your friends in anger while worrying your girlfriend will do something similar…way to go Nadette

    • BarerMender
      May 13, 2016, 11:31 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, come on. That wasn’t an attack. Just a little jostle to get their attention.

      • Fairportfan
        May 14, 2016, 1:21 pm | #

        Sound effect oughta be “GIBBS!”

      • Simon
        May 15, 2016, 5:14 am | #

        Yep. When a bear attacks you, they’re usually quite clear about it… most of your guts will be hanging out, for starters…

  20. Will Adams
    May 13, 2016, 5:57 pm | # | Reply

    OK, did not see that coming….

  21. DarQuing
    May 13, 2016, 9:22 pm | # | Reply

    Oh hey, Bear-Nadette. :3

  22. Daryl
    May 13, 2016, 9:34 pm | # | Reply

    Is that bear….crying? Or is that just some weird coloring artifact in the second panel?

    • Guesticus
      May 13, 2016, 10:22 pm | # | Reply

      Believe it’s just and error in the inking

  23. Daryl
    May 13, 2016, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    Also, you cannot tell me that this wasn’t entirely on purpose.

  24. Bergman
    May 14, 2016, 3:38 am | # | Reply

    Well, she certainly hit the bear basics of that conversation…

  25. Jeff NME
    May 14, 2016, 5:55 am | # | Reply

    Nadette is the scariest Care Bear ever. :-p

  26. Mickk
    May 14, 2016, 6:34 am | # | Reply

    On the matter of where the mass comes from…..

    Hammerspace.

    The same place all those heros keep their HUGE swords, guns etc.

  27. Werewolfdragonking
    May 14, 2016, 5:31 pm | # | Reply

    Page is here ….. Okay I come back on Monday

  28. Centaur71
    May 14, 2016, 6:34 pm | # | Reply

    I just LOVE the (cartoon) expressions on Devyn and Abbey’s faces!

  29. Weertangel
    May 15, 2016, 3:10 am | # | Reply

    Wow, this is the first time she has shown us her non-humanoid bear form.
    And Girl, u are about to hurt those 2, so might wanna dial it down a notch..

    Then again,maybe we see their true forms now as well for once 🙂

    • Fairportfan
      May 15, 2016, 9:23 pm | # | Reply

      She’s not gonna hurt them.

      That’s just the equivalent of the 2 x 4 you carry under the wagon seat when you’re driving a mule team.

  30. Sleepy John
    May 15, 2016, 11:15 am | # | Reply

    OK, now we have to hook her up with Doc Nickel.

  31. JuankiMan
    July 19, 2018, 7:07 am | # | Reply

    When a supposed “bevie” can turn the into a giant grizzly at will the distinction between bevies and preds seems rather arbitrary.

  32. Myk Streja
    September 5, 2019, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

    And Nadette proves that bears are predators too. So, she’s worried that Atsali might hurt someone?

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