Comic 1097 - Take Michelle around Southden
Posted on 8th Jul 2018, 7:22 PM
in Hope
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Author Notes:
You look at books, you buy some random things (including souvenirs and cat magazines), and you hit up a local pub.
You and Michelle do some drinking, and experience the joys of sort-of-drunk karaoke in a public space.
Finally, you get dinner out on the docks. ...And do some more drinking. Michelle's tube cop constitution seems to be handling her alcohol a little better than yours.
A little.
"It's kinda messed up, ain't it?," she says. "Like... I was thinkin' about all the traumatic shit we went through, and... it sucks. It sucks, but--if all this awful stuff hadn't happened... we never woulda met. Any of us. You and Finch'd still be makin' no money at some dump of a hospital, I'd still be gettin' pushed around by Vasquez... Fuse'd still be sellin' drugs and stealin' jus' to afford food, Caius'd still be a bouncer at a sleazy night club, and Liz... hell, Liz wouldn't even exist."
She takes another drink, leaning back in her seat. "It sucks, it all sucks... but man. It's weird to think about, y'know? I can't tell if it'd be better if Thale hadn't ever pulled this shit. I guess we won't know 'til it's all over. And... he got where he did 'cuz of our messed up system o' rich assholes havin' all the control, people with money tellin' th' police what to do and all that. But when it's all said and done... we'll have the power to stop that. Right? Everything Finch's figured out, how far Fuse has got in his hackin' skills... not even gettin' into everything you can do.
We... we can make sure nothin' like Thale ever happens again. We're already figurin' out how to buy up banners an' stuff, and with Lydia and the Griz doin' their podcast... we're on our way to changin' minds. We're on our way to like... changin' the world. We can take this whole... stupid... unbalanced society, one that's crushin' mutants and tube cops, and the poor, and... we can fix it.
And Thale did it. Thale caused this, he caused us. He didn't jus'... screw himself over, he screwed over the whole deal that made him. We can undo the whole mess from the top down, now... once the big jerk's outta the way, we can knock over the throne o' every other big jerk tryin' to play king."
Michelle leans over, almost laying her head on the table. "I'm prob'ly gettin' ahead of myself, though... we ain't even beat Thale yet, officially. We're s'posed to be relaxin', and I'm over here thinkin' about startin' a revolution or somethin'. Hearin' about the Deck, though... they're pretty much regular people, and they already made a lot o' difference over here. We're regular people armed with crazy nonsense, that've been through way too much. ...We could make a difference, too."
Michelle stares out over the water for a little while before bringing her attention back to you. "What're you thinkin' about?"
I think we should practice on Lumpy, before we do it on ourselves
Also, uh, deep things.
Everyone is entitled to ship whoever they please, and I'm always game for debate on these subjects, but it would be nice if we could avoid any shipping wars and hurt feelings over it.
We should probably get back to the hotel at this point.
Also, we should tell her we are happy for her/ proud of her.
She has come a long way.
That said, the Discord serves as a better venue for long-form discussion, debate and deliberation, so it can be helpful before one leaves their comment here... or after, putting up new comments based on things you figured out in the conversation.
Senpai, maybe you could sprite a nekomimi Mine (NekomiMine?) and have that be a vote incentive for the rest of ever? XD
Blood powers to make cat ears and cat tail. This is what I have been thinking about, Michelle, and it is a very important thing to think about. :D
In other words, if we do this, ouch
All human devices are designed for ears on the side of the head. If you go ears up top, you're going to run into "compatibility" problems. Also in this particular scenario, it'd mean having to open up 2 holes at the top of the skull and, ideally, closing the two holes at the sides of the skull that'd be left over (not to mention the brain rewiring work).
By the same token, a big, fluffy tail is an absolute pain to fit into a pair of pants unless they are specifically designed for a big, fluffy tail. See this article on furrae fashion for more. Skirts, by extension, become problematic as tails are a good source of wardrobe malfunctions for them.
Claws are a pain in more than one way. They're pretty much completely impractical unless you specifically want to render/destroy something; and if you don't, well goodluck. Structures that come to a fine point tend to wear and chip easily and so need to be carefully maintained. They also have a tendency to trap dirt and need to be cleaned out.
(Also HOLY crap, I'm at the current page?!)