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Why Are You Looking

by Paul Taylor on October 27, 2016 at 11:18 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Castela, Lily, Phix
Location: The Library

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Discussion (27) ¬

  1. lake_wrangler
    October 27, 2016, 11:21 pm | # | Reply

    Glad she asked. I was hoping she would…

  2. fairportfan
    October 27, 2016, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

    I HOPE Phix can let Pickle down gently about where she comes from and how she was involved in Atsali’s parents’ death…

  3. Ghostforge
    October 28, 2016, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    There is a marked difference between someone looking and finding information for the wrong reasons, than that same person finding the same information, but for the right reasons.

    • GrantCMcCormick
      October 29, 2016, 9:48 am | # | Reply

      “The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
      T. S. Eliot

  4. Adama
    October 28, 2016, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if Phix is going to handle Castela differently because this is the first time she’s been looking for information she needs for a purpose, rather than just looking up for the sake of learning things alone. This may put Castela into the “adventurer” category that Phix has different rules for.

    • Adama
      October 28, 2016, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      For example… will Phix ask her a riddle?

      • Platonix
        October 28, 2016, 1:14 am | #

        I’m not yet ruling out the possibility that Phix just asked Castela a riddle in today’s last panel.

  5. BarerMender
    October 28, 2016, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    Phix has told Nudge it’s no longer their job to filter out the adventurers.

    • Adama
      October 28, 2016, 2:08 am | # | Reply

      My mistake then.

  6. GreatScott
    October 28, 2016, 1:03 am | # | Reply

    I’m glad Phix decided to put Lily out of harm’s way while she tries to take on strong-willed Castela.

    • Bratty Roger
      November 22, 2016, 2:05 am | # | Reply

      Same here!

  7. TazManiac
    October 28, 2016, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    “You’re lucky your parents are dead…”. Besides the normal load that might have on anybody who heard it, then there is the Atsali-Factor to take into account…

    • Wyvern
      October 28, 2016, 1:49 am | # | Reply

      Little kids say things like that.

  8. warhorse
    October 28, 2016, 2:44 am | # | Reply

    meanwhile, the one with abandonment issues is home all by herself.

    genius move pickle…genius.

    • BarerMender
      October 28, 2016, 4:08 am | # | Reply

      I imagine Atsali is somewhere with Nadette or out with Bud. I don’t think Lily would have shown up without speaking to Atsali, if she were there.

  9. BarerMender
    October 28, 2016, 4:18 am | # | Reply

    For the record what Pickle actually said was, “At least you know your parents are dead! Because I know mine threw me away!” (Less the superfluous “that”s). http://wapsisquare.com/comic/threw-me-away/

  10. SirNomad
    October 28, 2016, 6:36 am | # | Reply

    Given that Pickle is much stronger and more dangerous than her sister I can understand why this is being handled with kid gloves. I imagine that most of the people in the know have been having nightmares about this since she began evidencing her powers.

    • TKKain
      October 28, 2016, 7:19 am | # | Reply

      But in the Library, Phix is the Allmighty. Not even Biia, a Titan of Power, could do anything to stop her from knocking her out of the Library. …literally.

      • Cpt. Obvious
        October 29, 2016, 7:26 am | #

        And the library repairs itself, so if Castela would have a bad reaction there shouldn’t be any deaths or damage.

  11. Felix Domestica
    October 28, 2016, 8:05 am | # | Reply

    In irrelevant observations, I’m amused by the fact that Phix’s dress becomes a camisole when she shape changes. I wonder what creatures make clothing for paras whose shape and size change this way, and how much control there is over how the styling adjusts. I’m also amused by the modesty-is-cultural aspects of para life; a sphynx or mermaid can be bare-address on their natural form and nobody notices, but as we saw in the pool if they’re wearing human shape they adopt human modesty. Convenient for the artist, but not entirely implausible; what’s demure on the beach would be daring elsewhere.

    Btw, is there still interest in doing that commission of Phix rampant to balance the Atsali pic I bought?

  12. Centaur71
    October 28, 2016, 8:59 am | # | Reply

    Seek and ye shall find, verily all you wish to know; from the fountain of ages from which knowledge doth flow. If one seeks something that time may have forgot; It can turn out that one wishes they had sought it not…

  13. xdrfiredogx
    October 28, 2016, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

    Pickle’s growing self awareness is actually kind of frightening to watch.

    • sheik
      October 28, 2016, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

      And encouraging at the same time.
      Few are so careful in their introspection.

      • xdrfiredogx
        October 30, 2016, 11:22 am | #

        Yes. I hope she doesn’t wind up regretting it.

  14. Hawk
    October 28, 2016, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

    That ‘girl’ surely has a potty mouth.

  15. Alex C
    October 29, 2016, 6:43 am | # | Reply

    In other words Phix is asking, “Are you sure about this?” I can hear the resignation in her voice, and its something that she really, really doesn’t want to do.

    • PlutoniumBoss
      October 30, 2016, 4:19 am | # | Reply

      That’s what her expression in panel two says, but in panel three she is all business. Whether she wants to or not, it’s her job, not as a concerned friend of the family, but her actual job. She’s not asking the question (completely) as a concerned Tanta Phix. She’s asking it as head authority of the Library. I think Pickle is about to learn that the Library is a very different place for ‘extracurricular learning’.

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