Or not.
She’s a Bonsai Master, VERY knowledgeable about plants, and who doesn’t relax around their hairdresser? I begin to see why Shelly recommended her, instead of taking Castela on herself.
Also, as I suspected, Tattoos of that quality, are very likely Japanese.
Tattoos are very controversial in Japan. Having what you may consider a discrete tattoo will be enough for you to be denied entrance or asked to leave a lot of establishments. Traditionally only criminals got tattooed and in the yakuza they were used to show membership and status. It also ment that there were no way to leave the yakuza. Once you carried their tattoos anyone seeing them would know you were a criminal no matter where in Japan you went. And if the local families caught wind of someone from another family sneaking about you might just wake up dead.
If Jacqui got her tattoos in Japan odds are she either belonged to a yakuza family, was in a relationship with some criminal or were involved in some not necessarily legal activities at the fringes of society.
All in all I hope she got those tattoos somewhere else…
They are primarily on her back, aqnd while they exend to her elbows, we ar e looking at her front. From this angle, she’s pretty much covered head to toe.
No, we should be able to see the ones on her right arm, at least in the second frame. Here’s an example of her arm tattoos from the front: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/justjacqui/
I can see her left elbow indent, so she’s not wearing a longsleeved baselayer.
That nervous-grin-and-blush energy could bounce back and forth between Pickle and Luci, like light bouncing between mirrors in a laser tube, picking up power as it goes. The resulting beam of Stimulated Embarrassment could upset people for blocks in every direction!
That’s a really scary description. Never thought I’d think of nervous-grin-and-blush energy as being amplified by stimulated emission of embarasment. I guess that means you’ve just invented NGBASEE.
Not quite as catchy as LASER, so you might want to work on that name…
There’s too much prior art for me to claim to have invented this. This same effect has acted as the primary power source for most situation comedy TV shows, and rom-com movies, for many decades. You can probably find the equivalent in written literature, all the way back to cuneiform on clay tablets, and back to the telling-stories-around-the-fire-in-the-cave era. 😀
My uncle brought an oak tree home from Japan in the late 1940s or early 1950s. He was bluntly offended by Bonsai, at whatever unimaginable cruelty had inspired some nut, and then his children and grandchildren, to keep that poor stunted tree on the very point of death for two hundred years. He’d paid an exorbitant sum for the poor thing, mainly just to rescue it from (as he understood it) an eternity of protracted torture.
He brought it home and planted it under the Oklahoma sky, in fertile soil with plenty of sun. It was always kind of a peculiar tree because its first big fork was at ground level – like it had several trunks but one set of roots. But once it got started, it grew into a healthy tree.
Bonsai trees are peculiar, the tree very much has to agree with being miniaturized. Out of fifty cuttings only one or two will take to being a bonsai. Getting perfect cutting and then getting the perfect shape for that tree is the labour of a life time. Trees that take to being bonsai will often live hundreds of years longer than its wild counterparts. Oak trees almost never take to being a bonsai, and I say almost never because I know of *one* example of a healthy oak bonsai.
Jacqui will be surprised to find out she knows the four most powerful people on earth: Brandi, Bud, Monica, and Castela. Not necessarily in that order.
When Paras meet each other while in human form do they say…
“Hello, I’m [.name.] and I’m a [.type.]. Pleased to meet you.”
Or do they hold off on the ‘type’ stuff unless it’s pertinent to the situation?
(Sorry. I can’t be around open flames because [.reason.])
My sister is a Florist, and I never got into the whole dying flowers thing. I gave my best friend a Magnolia Tree, when his mother died, and a Japanese concoction of grafts that wouldn’t have looked like that naturally, when his older brother followed. Bill’s job doesn’t leave him a lot of time to care for either, but the Cherry Blossom Chimera is doing fine, and the Magnolia Bush is infested with root parasites. A skilled gardener should be able to find a happy medium.
Come on, Luci, you’re the grown up. Greet your student.
First class NOT involving plants? Oh, Jacqui, what you don’t know!
Yeah, she’ll get a shock the first time Castela thinks about The Boy.
Or not.
She’s a Bonsai Master, VERY knowledgeable about plants, and who doesn’t relax around their hairdresser? I begin to see why Shelly recommended her, instead of taking Castela on herself.
Also, as I suspected, Tattoos of that quality, are very likely Japanese.
B0mae, look up a dude named Lars Krutak.
Tattoos are very controversial in Japan. Having what you may consider a discrete tattoo will be enough for you to be denied entrance or asked to leave a lot of establishments. Traditionally only criminals got tattooed and in the yakuza they were used to show membership and status. It also ment that there were no way to leave the yakuza. Once you carried their tattoos anyone seeing them would know you were a criminal no matter where in Japan you went. And if the local families caught wind of someone from another family sneaking about you might just wake up dead.
If Jacqui got her tattoos in Japan odds are she either belonged to a yakuza family, was in a relationship with some criminal or were involved in some not necessarily legal activities at the fringes of society.
All in all I hope she got those tattoos somewhere else…
Luci is the tatooed one. Jacqui has freckles, like Atsali.
Beat me to that one, Jeff
What happened to Luci’s glorious tattoos?
They are primarily on her back, aqnd while they exend to her elbows, we ar e looking at her front. From this angle, she’s pretty much covered head to toe.
They were on her back, weren’t they? I don’t remember for sure but that’s where I’m pretty sure she had them.
Opposite side of her arms?
No, we should be able to see the ones on her right arm, at least in the second frame. Here’s an example of her arm tattoos from the front: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/justjacqui/
I can see her left elbow indent, so she’s not wearing a longsleeved baselayer.
Maybe she’s wearing long gloves? Or perhaps it’s a fold in the fabric of her sleeve?
Here’s a clear picture of Luci’s tats: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/preconceivednotions/
At least in the posters we saw! It was Shelly who had her ink on the front.
This really seems like a dangerous duration.
That nervous-grin-and-blush energy could bounce back and forth between Pickle and Luci, like light bouncing between mirrors in a laser tube, picking up power as it goes. The resulting beam of Stimulated Embarrassment could upset people for blocks in every direction!
That’s a really scary description. Never thought I’d think of nervous-grin-and-blush energy as being amplified by stimulated emission of embarasment. I guess that means you’ve just invented NGBASEE.
Not quite as catchy as LASER, so you might want to work on that name…
There’s too much prior art for me to claim to have invented this. This same effect has acted as the primary power source for most situation comedy TV shows, and rom-com movies, for many decades. You can probably find the equivalent in written literature, all the way back to cuneiform on clay tablets, and back to the telling-stories-around-the-fire-in-the-cave era. 😀
i’m not entirely sue Castela HAS teeth, but with the intensity of those smiles, I expect to hear the CRUNCH of pulverized enamel.
My uncle brought an oak tree home from Japan in the late 1940s or early 1950s. He was bluntly offended by Bonsai, at whatever unimaginable cruelty had inspired some nut, and then his children and grandchildren, to keep that poor stunted tree on the very point of death for two hundred years. He’d paid an exorbitant sum for the poor thing, mainly just to rescue it from (as he understood it) an eternity of protracted torture.
He brought it home and planted it under the Oklahoma sky, in fertile soil with plenty of sun. It was always kind of a peculiar tree because its first big fork was at ground level – like it had several trunks but one set of roots. But once it got started, it grew into a healthy tree.
Bonsai trees are peculiar, the tree very much has to agree with being miniaturized. Out of fifty cuttings only one or two will take to being a bonsai. Getting perfect cutting and then getting the perfect shape for that tree is the labour of a life time. Trees that take to being bonsai will often live hundreds of years longer than its wild counterparts. Oak trees almost never take to being a bonsai, and I say almost never because I know of *one* example of a healthy oak bonsai.
Jacqui will be surprised to find out she knows the four most powerful people on earth: Brandi, Bud, Monica, and Castela. Not necessarily in that order.
Quite
Not involving plants…
I know…
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Typo in the last panel: “This I Luci”
When Paras meet each other while in human form do they say…
“Hello, I’m [.name.] and I’m a [.type.]. Pleased to meet you.”
Or do they hold off on the ‘type’ stuff unless it’s pertinent to the situation?
(Sorry. I can’t be around open flames because [.reason.])
My sister is a Florist, and I never got into the whole dying flowers thing. I gave my best friend a Magnolia Tree, when his mother died, and a Japanese concoction of grafts that wouldn’t have looked like that naturally, when his older brother followed. Bill’s job doesn’t leave him a lot of time to care for either, but the Cherry Blossom Chimera is doing fine, and the Magnolia Bush is infested with root parasites. A skilled gardener should be able to find a happy medium.
They’ll be fine.
Waiting to see if her yoga involves a flowerpot.
-“This is the first time I’ve heard of using a pot for meditation and relaxation, but in your case it might just work”
(a few minutes later)
-“Hey, Cas!” bangs on pot “Snoring is not a part of meditation. Besides, you’re half thorn bush so why do you even snore?”
Oh, so that’s why Luci was chosen
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnd, TALK!