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What Are You

by Paul Taylor on November 4, 2009 at 12:00 am
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Conscience, Shelly
Location: Shelly's Apartment

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Discussion (31) ¬

  1. T.S.Millar
    November 3, 2009, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

    Kinda strange how Shelly is the only person who has a “conscious” while others just have a collection of daemons.

    • J
      August 11, 2011, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      It might just be the same, just a different package/wrapping.
      Either you talk to 5 faces or just one doesn’t mean anything if they tell the same thing!

  2. jwhouk
    November 3, 2009, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

    Her “conscience”… Something not quite right about that.

    • Hinoron
      October 11, 2015, 8:45 pm | # | Reply

      I’m leaning in the direction that Shelly has gotten into her mid/late 20s and never met or heard from this “conscience” before.

      …

      Actually, especially early on in the strip, she could be kind of self-centred and inconsiderate to others. Maybe that fits.

  3. stjen
    November 3, 2009, 11:24 pm | # | Reply

    (Especially if she says things like “Unlikes demons”…)

    • jwhouk
      November 3, 2009, 11:41 pm | # | Reply

      I didn’t say anything because it sounds correct when you say it out. It sounds like something a 10 year old would say.

      • Paul Taylor
        November 3, 2009, 11:55 pm | #

        Oops.

      • hewolf
        November 4, 2009, 7:58 am | #

        Hey, it looked right to me. She is, after all, looking like a little girl. In my experience, most kids ‘tends’ to add S’s to a lot of words. 😉

  4. fairportfan
    November 3, 2009, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

    I like the way she’s pulling down her shirt tail in the second panel.

    • Etak
      May 7, 2012, 11:31 am | # | Reply

      Not only is it cute, yes (didn’t notice that my first two reading-throughs), but also makes sure no panty-shot is given. She IS underage, after all. 😉

  5. ziggy78eog
    November 4, 2009, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Well, I suppose it beats having a grasshopper as a conscience.

    • jwhouk
      November 4, 2009, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      Oh, TOO many good responses to that comment. Suffice to say I won’t be using “Jiminy Crickets!” as an expletive, nor will I comment about what happens when Shelly tells a lie…

  6. hewolf
    November 4, 2009, 5:23 am | # | Reply

    This is getting confusing. She’s a not-demon demon who can die, but demons lie.

    That should be on a T-Shirt: “Demon’s Lie” (with the D inside a square)

  7. Ziggy Stardust
    November 4, 2009, 7:40 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if she’s going to do the floating around thing all the time she’s talking.
    Also, were she part of Pinocchio she’d be wearing a top hat. She would look KICKIN’ in a top hat. She’d be like Slash from Guns ‘n Roses.
    …Oh man oh man I want Slash as MY conscience.

    • Versatek6
      November 4, 2009, 9:35 am | # | Reply

      So any time you screw up, you get a Les Paul busted over your head.

      El Kabong’s got nothing on that!

      • Vex Godglove
        November 4, 2009, 11:33 am | #

        FLCL?

      • kramegame
        January 11, 2011, 10:35 am | #

        HELL YEA! I would love Haruhara as my conscience, or at least Atomsk, the pirate king. I need a little chaos in my life…

      • BMonk
        December 1, 2024, 4:25 pm | #

        As in “Scrooged”, the Ghost of Christmas Present? (Carol Kane)

        “Sometimes the truth is painful, Frank.”

  8. Weertangel
    November 4, 2009, 9:55 am | # | Reply

    She should look like “dark Ophilia” from the Brutal Legend game, she looks wicked!

  9. atristain
    November 4, 2009, 10:40 am | # | Reply

    I see London, I see France, I see Shelly’s polka-dotted underpants!

    (I can’t believe I just signed to post this…)

    • Dave11
      February 9, 2012, 7:54 am | # | Reply

      More likely a leopard print…

  10. kingklash
    November 4, 2009, 11:16 am | # | Reply

    At least Shelly didn’t get Jiminy Lummox or Tinker-Galoot.

  11. The Old Wolf
    November 4, 2009, 11:28 am | # | Reply

    Fascinating. What would combine to incorporealize Shelly’s conscience, and why? Curiouser and curiouser…

    • ziggy78eog
      November 4, 2009, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

      Think Jin. And as to why, I would wager a guess that it was something Jin did to save Shelly’s life during her…quest…thingy, which eludes me at the moment.

      • fairportfan
        November 4, 2009, 2:47 pm | #

        Actually, given Sarcasm Girl’s apparent age, i’d guess her reactionwhen her mother died – when she was ten had something to do with it.

        Shelly had an argument with her mother, yelled “I hate you!” and stormed out of the room

        It was the last thing she said to her mother.

        And she also feels as if it’s her fault her mother died (as i recall) because she couldn’t get help for her.

        So combine a healthy dose of guilt with some self-doubt and then send the resultant mess out on a vision quest three years later when the spirit guide doesn’t show up in time and you spend *way* too much time open to anything that comes along…

      • chrisleech
        December 5, 2010, 9:18 pm | #

        don’t forget she was probably feeling depressed, panicked and angy

      • BMonk
        December 1, 2024, 4:26 pm | #

        Maybe a sort of “reverse dissociation” of the demons due to emotional stress?

  12. jwhouk
    November 4, 2009, 4:58 pm | # | Reply

    And then this big black panther comes out of nowhere and scares the bejeebus out of you – and your demons all merge into a form that looks like you as a little girl.

    And the panther slinks off into the forest, watches Jin give her the “poor little girl, you lost?” routine, and snickers to herself. “Excellent, everything’s going according to plan.”

    • Fairportfan
      June 10, 2016, 9:56 pm | # | Reply

      Oddly enough, that’s not far off.

      It wasn’t the Big Black Cat, and it’s a lot more complex, and the distraction was actually to slow Jin down … but it’s not far off.

  13. fairportfan
    November 4, 2009, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

    “Excellent, everything’s going according to plan.”

    Love it!

  14. John K
    November 5, 2009, 11:04 am | # | Reply

    that’s one creepy voice to have on ones shoulder!

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