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Still Awake

by Paul Taylor on October 25, 2019 at 12:11 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Barbara, Castela, Mindy, Scarlet, Shawna, Timothy
Location: The Black Forest

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Discussion (40) ¬

  1. Great Scott
    October 25, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. Why did Paul do an emphasis of Mindy asleep as panel 4? Is this somehow related to that “clark kent” drawing in the main Forums we were pointed to a few strips ago?

    • MadBoy the Merciless
      October 25, 2019, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      Probably. Without the glasses, her Masking enchantment is no longer active.

      • Centaur71
        October 25, 2019, 3:49 am | #

        What’s a Masking Enchantment?

      • Dave
        October 25, 2019, 6:54 am | #

        The “Clark Kent” drawing suggests that Mindy’s glasses are a talisman of some sort, which help mask her true appearance. When wearing them she looks like a typical “plain Jane” teen, with freckles or acne (can’t tell which). When she removed the glasses she’s stunningly beautiful (presumably because she’s descended fairly directly from the goddess of love).

        So, we’ve sorta concluded that the glasses are a magical tool: a deliberate part of the Masquerade which makes it possible for paranormals to live among humans without attracting too much notice, just as Atsali’s anti-transformation talisman is. This is a fan conclusion, not “revealed Word of Pablo” but it seems like a good bet.

    • Steve
      October 25, 2019, 1:20 am | # | Reply

      A) She didn’t hear the warning and WILL go a-wandering solo…

      B) Panel 1# next strip will be panel #4 with something new and spooky in the background…

      C) Someone/thing will startle her awake and get a full 1/4 Aphroditic gaze…

      D) Run-of-the-mill progression from the ‘backpack reveal’ from the Hitoshi arc?

      • Centaur71
        October 25, 2019, 4:02 am | #

        You forgot E); a cut to morning with everyone finding Mindy gone

      • FreeFlier
        October 26, 2019, 7:30 pm | #

        Also F) Mindy waking up to find everyone else gone.

    • Guesticus
      October 25, 2019, 10:46 am | # | Reply

      If you need to ask why panel four without looking at panel four, there’s something you need to know (clue is: there are two of them)

  2. Dave
    October 25, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Unless, of course, she isn’t… in which case she is the prime candidate for someone who wanders off to the loo by herself, and gets eaten by a grue.

    I wonder if she knows about saying PLUGH?

    • Great Scott
      October 25, 2019, 2:44 am | # | Reply

      what about “Plover”, “Y2”, and “xyzzy” ? or Fee Fie Foe Foo?

  3. Centaur71
    October 25, 2019, 3:47 am | # | Reply

    So in other words, Mindy DIDN’T hear the warning…

  4. Robert Nowall
    October 25, 2019, 7:39 am | # | Reply

    If she’s asleep before the others, then it’s time for the traditional putting of her hand in a bucket of warm water.

  5. soloran
    October 25, 2019, 8:11 am | # | Reply

    is it me, or is Scarlet looking more and more like Phix these days? and is that why she’s my favorite out of this group?

    • Xerxes Aragon
      October 25, 2019, 9:16 am | # | Reply

      I was thinking the same thing.

      • Centaur71
        October 28, 2019, 10:08 am | #

        Huge juggs and hourglass figure aside; its likely her compassion tempered with the wisdom she utilizes to get everyone to function as a cohesive group and remain friends. IMHO

  6. Xerxes Aragon
    October 25, 2019, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    Mindy has certainly blossomed in just a few days of story time. Compare the massive cleavage she’s showing in the last panel to when she first appeared back here: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/almost-lost/

    • Xerxes Aragon
      October 25, 2019, 9:30 am | # | Reply

      And it’s not related to removing her glasses. We were seeing this change in the past couple of pages while she still was wearing her glasses.

      • JSStryker
        October 25, 2019, 9:54 am | #

        Maybe riding on Hiroshi’s shoulders triggered her into a major growth spurt…

      • LukeLicens
        October 25, 2019, 10:17 am | #

        Could have happened before they even arrived, since that’s the first time we’ve seen here without something hugged to her chest since the single panel you linked before. Could be that as a quarta-goddess her body is more of an affectation that reflects her mental and emotional state, like Cass’s. It’s not like she’s the first para to spontaneously ‘blossom’ in this comic.

  7. Scott
    October 25, 2019, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    They have the same optician. 🙂

  8. Cortanis
    October 25, 2019, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    … and so we have our first future “victim” as it were.

  9. Guesticus
    October 25, 2019, 10:49 am | # | Reply

    Nice to see Mindy doesn’t drool from her mouth while sleeping

  10. Guesticus
    October 25, 2019, 10:50 am | # | Reply

    Is Stela deep-cleavage diving in panel one? o_O

    • Steve
      October 25, 2019, 5:07 pm | # | Reply

      To be fair, the “rising moons” make up the better part of her field of vision in that configuration!

    • FreeFlier
      October 26, 2019, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

      Hypnotized.

  11. Myk Streja
    October 25, 2019, 11:10 am | # | Reply

    I can’t see any reason for the fourth panel. The only difference I can see is there is no swirl pattern on her glasses now, and she sleeps with her mouth open. Probably snores.

    • Robert Nowall
      October 25, 2019, 2:52 pm | # | Reply

      I’m thinking they shoved some pillows under her head and pulled the blanket up.

    • Jeff Weiner
      October 25, 2019, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

      Freckles?

    • jwhouk
      October 25, 2019, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

      It’s subtle – her appearance has changed since she was awake.

      • cyberspooked
        October 25, 2019, 11:21 pm | #

        I can think of two things that are not quite so subtle…. of course I am a single guy so I notice these things… lol

      • BarerMender
        October 26, 2019, 11:08 pm | #

        It’s subtle, all right. I’ve leafed backward clear back to where we met Mindy and haven’t seen a single freckle. Barbara shows up with freckles sometimes, but not Mindy.

    • Guesticus
      October 26, 2019, 4:02 pm | # | Reply

      If you feel there needs to be a reason for panel four, mayhaps you came to the wrong webic 😀

  12. Graymalkin56
    October 26, 2019, 3:00 pm | # | Reply

    I think it’s the knapsack, not the glasses, that is her masking enchantment.

    • Dave
      October 27, 2019, 10:03 am | # | Reply

      If the “Clark Kent” sketch is canon, it’s very clear that the glasses carry a masking enchantment, since taking them off had such a strong effect on her appearance. There was no backpack present in that sketch.

      I agree, she seems to be using the backpack to conceal her figure from being seen, so it’s a “masking” of sorts, but I don’t think we’ve been given any evidence that is enchanted. That sort of concealment works just as well even if the backpack, and the young woman are 100% mundane.

      Being acutely self-conscious about a newly-nubile body isn’t a rare thing for teen girls, and it looks to me as if Mindy is struggling with that issue, and reacting just as a mundane girl might.

  13. BarerMender
    October 27, 2019, 8:04 am | # | Reply

    The glasses are curious, in that they don’t seem to have any optical effect. The sleeping gear behind them is neither enlarged nor shrunken, neither is it distorted. This must be significant.

  14. BarerMender
    October 27, 2019, 8:08 am | # | Reply

    I’m also curious about Barbara’s form of address: “Captain.” Does that signify something, or is it just an oddity of their friendship?

    • Dave
      October 27, 2019, 9:49 am | # | Reply

      They’re nerds, and we’ve seen that their relationship includes a significant amount of nerdly role-playing. They were King Arthur and his horse Patsy from “Holy Grail” in the way to class one day.

      Considering Barbara’s mannerisms of late, and her use here of “Captain”, it seems that they are also role-playing the relationship between Kirk (Mindy) and Spock (Barbara).

      • BarerMender
        October 27, 2019, 7:46 pm | #

        Could be.

  15. Otter
    October 27, 2019, 9:37 pm | # | Reply

    In the top panel at http://wapsisquare.com/comic/tell-ghost-stories/, she is not holding her backpack, and her breasts suddenly are big enough to sit atop Hiroshi’s head.

  16. GaijinGuy36
    October 29, 2019, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

    My theory is that the time-space continuum desires a buxom female as the focal point of the story. With Monica barely even in the picture any more, The Powes That Be settle for boobifying whatever females are being focused upon.

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