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Never Be The Same

by Paul Taylor on June 19, 2017 at 8:19 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Atsali, Castela
Location: Gilchrist Home

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Discussion (38) ¬

  1. Treesong
    June 19, 2017, 8:25 pm | # | Reply

    I think that deep down, Castela knows this. But she’s too afraid to accept it yet.

  2. fairportfan
    June 19, 2017, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

    Remember – back in the Orphanage sequence, before the adoption, when she began throwing a tantrum, shwas saying her parents “threw her away”.

    Her abandonment issues are a lot worse than Atsali’s.

    • Jeff Weiner
      June 19, 2017, 9:03 pm | # | Reply

      And neither of then knew Katherine after the archaeological dig incident, and her years of PTSD.

    • Robert Nowall
      June 20, 2017, 11:51 am | # | Reply

      Atsali had parents who died under mysterious circumstances. It would seem Castela *never* had parents—though if the backstory from Calista is true, it’s possible she *may* have had someone who might’ve acted as her parents, but who were made to forget all about her. Which would be even harder to bear.

      • Jeff Weiner
        June 20, 2017, 12:44 pm | #

        More likely Atsali’s parents used non-para portions of their own DNA for Castela’s animal side.

        Why else would Leucoisa be so protective of Castela in her nascent form?

  3. Mark N
    June 19, 2017, 9:18 pm | # | Reply

    And now we get to the crux of the problem. Her fear of being tossed aside. Looks like Bryn is going to have to win the kid over to show her that she does love Kath.and is not going to toss her aside. That and Kath has to let her know that NOTHING is going to change the way she feels about Any.of them.

  4. TazManiac
    June 19, 2017, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

    “I will protect what I have, even against the Ups & Downs of Life and Love…”.

    Sometimes, being smart, works against you…

  5. Jeff Weiner
    June 19, 2017, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

    They could use some divine intervention.

    Like being poited into the Q Room and have a little quality time with Leucoisa.

  6. GrantCMcCormick
    June 19, 2017, 9:32 pm | # | Reply

    Did Castela have similar issues when Atsali hooked up with Nadette? I don’t think so.

    • Jeff Weiner
      June 19, 2017, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

      She was younger then, and Atsali and Nadette are not Katherine and Bryn.

      • GrantCMcCormick
        June 20, 2017, 1:35 am | #

        True — Atsali isn’t Kath; but Kath isn’t Atsali, either. Pickle has been with Atsali since before the Orphanage, and one of Castela’s earliest recovered memories (via the Q Room of the Library) is of Castela protecting Atsali! I would expect that (potential) separation to generate some angst, too.

      • Michael Birks
        June 20, 2017, 3:09 am | #

        That separation’s a-coming. ‘Sali goes off to College soon enough.

  7. BarerMender
    June 19, 2017, 9:46 pm | # | Reply

    Castela, you have to consider the damage if your mother stays a hermit and never looks for love. Where will her happiness go?

    • fairportfan
      June 19, 2017, 11:48 pm | # | Reply

      Back where it was when we first met her.

  8. Akeche
    June 20, 2017, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Break your mama’s heart talking like that, stinkweed.

  9. Akamar
    June 20, 2017, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    All you can do is be there to try to catch her if it goes wrong. love.

  10. Platonix
    June 20, 2017, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me or does Castela’s shadow lack the horns she’s currently manifesting? And is that just an art error or does it actually mean something?

    • BarerMender
      June 20, 2017, 2:07 am | # | Reply

      The left horn is there in the big circle of Paul’s signature. The other shadow horn is hidden.

    • Shela
      June 20, 2017, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

      What BarerMender said – the one goes out of panel to the right, through Paul’s signature. The other would show behind her, hidden by her head and hair.

      • Guesticus
        June 20, 2017, 2:55 pm | #

        You can just see the tip of the one behind her head, in the ‘v’ made by her hair and horn

  11. BarerMender
    June 20, 2017, 2:09 am | # | Reply

    Perhaps this is where Atsali gives Pickle a lecture on how tough Katherine really is.

  12. Carl-E
    June 20, 2017, 2:24 am | # | Reply

    For some reason I can’t see Cas tearing up without wondering…

    Is that – ummmm – sap?

    • Bratty Roger
      August 11, 2018, 10:02 am | # | Reply

      In ^this^ pic it looks like it could be.

  13. Hawk
    June 20, 2017, 4:44 am | # | Reply

    We never come back the same. . . damage is life, life is damage.

    • Sheik
      June 20, 2017, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

      And we either grow over it or let it kill us.

      • Hawk
        June 20, 2017, 12:39 pm | #

        Or it drastically changes us.

  14. scantrontb
    June 20, 2017, 5:56 am | # | Reply

    And HERE is the beginnings of the personality displayed in those two flash forward strips showing Pickle at an older age…

  15. Ed Brault
    June 20, 2017, 6:30 am | # | Reply

    “Hoping to goodness” is not theologically sound: Linus van Pelt

    • Robert Nowall
      June 20, 2017, 11:52 am | # | Reply

      But neither is the Great Pumpkin.

  16. Paul Britt
    June 20, 2017, 6:45 am | # | Reply

    Which two strips?

  17. Killjoy
    June 20, 2017, 10:15 am | # | Reply

    And that, Atsali, is why some of us don’t let ourselves fall in love. (Middle panel.)

    • Vorlonagent
      June 20, 2017, 11:38 am | # | Reply

      We usually get burned a few times anyway…

  18. Robert Nowall
    June 20, 2017, 11:53 am | # | Reply

    Shame, Castela. Letting your fears get in the way of your mother’s happiness.

  19. Shela
    June 20, 2017, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

    The harsh reality that life IS change, hitting in one of the most vulnerable points the girls have. You never get people back the same, though you don’t always see the growth the day to day brings. The only time people don’t change is when they’re dead, and that’s not a result either one of them would welcome. I don’t think Cas is ready to see that yet, though.

  20. xdrfiredogx
    June 20, 2017, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

    It’s easy to chalk this up to abandonment issues but I can’t help but think there is more to this than is readily apparent. I suspect something about Bryn is triggering her beyond just that but I can’t put my finger on what, specifically.

  21. TazManiac
    June 20, 2017, 8:25 pm | # | Reply

    http://forum.wapsisquare.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2068&start=40
    Scroll down about half way to the picture Fairportfan posted up; it’s a Montage of Castela (& Atsali too) at a lager age.

    Since Paul put up these some time ago, we- the reading public, have kind of been following how things would progress to get them to that stage…

  22. TazManiac
    June 20, 2017, 9:56 pm | # | Reply

    PS- “That’s What Love IS!, You Idiot!!!!”…

  23. Centaur71
    June 20, 2017, 9:57 pm | # | Reply

    True enough; look what happened to poor Castela…NOT the girl she once was!

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