OOPS #365
Aug14
All right, looks like everything’s up and working! I’ve been sitting on this site redesign too long, and just needed a couple days to get everything remade. And in a strange bit of good (?) timing, my Wacom tablet died a few days ago, which I assumed was the universe’s way of telling me to get off my ass and update the site already. Thankfully Wacom made a speedy repair and delivery back, so I’ve already sketched up the first few panels of the next OOPs page.
And a special shoutout to Xandispin, who first suggested a site update several months ago, then set up this snazzy new WordPress layout for me to customize (which I then sat on until this past week). Thanks man; it took me long enough to get around to it, but without you the site would still be looking like something from the early 2000’s!
Seriously, I was manually creating pages and re-entering every altered link when there was a new page, using a long-defunct version of Dreamweaver 2001. That gets tiring real quick.
Anyway! There’s some new stuff in the Art & Extras section now as well, which you might not have seen if you don’t frequent Deviantart and such.
Oh, so Vizlet DID fill Kass in!
Very good, now Kass gets to flex those mercantile skills! Hopefully they aren’t too rusty, or at least he can shake the rust off pretty quick
Schmooze the guy, Kass! Schmooze him GOOD! He believes himself and his way to be so superior, so if you play in to that, this should be easy. But… is it ever truly easy? What tricks does ol’ Narky Nark have up his… sleeves?
Narklet is intelligent, but he’s young and he has a big ego. I think he’ll be easy to flatter
I will now and forevermore view Kass getting serious as Yinglet Kass summoning Human Kass like a Stand behind our favorite diplomat.
I don’t think that is Kass. I think it is supposed to be Kass’s father, since he is calling upon the skills his father taught him.
Ehhhh, doubt it. The stand looks about the same age as Cass before his accident. We don’t know how old his dad got to be of course, but I doubt cass would imagine him as being his own age
human cass jumpscare! 😀
i do love the fit though.
and very “here comes the smoulder” energy
I think that is actually supposed to be Kass’s father, since that is the person he is thinking about.
He’s doing it! He’s releasing his Bankai!
I was imagining that Kass was going to argue to Narklet that he is doing an important job for yinglet kind, showing the humans that yinglets are more than pests to kill or pets to keep and protecting yinglets from the dangerous human nations by forming a strong alliance with a friendly one. Maybe he is still going to do some of that after saying the right things to get Narklet to like him.
So… Kazz is going to *sell* him a bill of goods, then.
Yeah, this should be fun…
Narklet saying that “even a single one” would “undo generations of progress” is… weird. It’s really weird, actually; it doesn’t just sound to me like hyperbole from a fanatical person–it’s too specific of a consequence, it doesn’t make sense to say that if you just mean that it would be a horrible loss or that it’d be a grave return to the old ways or something.
There’s actually a few things here that make me suspect that line is hiding something: there’s another phrasing quibble in that “outside of the enclave system” is another strangely precise way to word it if the intent was just to express that it would be deeply unethical or something; Vizlet’s plan to get (or at least her Machiavellian reaction to) Kass cutting free a Yinglet with an underdeveloped shelltooth; the fact that the culture (presumably including the enclave system) was handed down by a single gifted male; and the fact that said system has Eugenicsâ„¢ built in.
Together, it seems like there’s some reason that the elders need females to stay within the enclave system beyond just protection of the valuable and sacred; Narklet’s statements here combined with the structure of the society and precisely how Vizlet seems to want to subvert it all add up to make it look like there really is something dangerous about a rogue female beyond political sway or the risk of an unaffiliated enclave forming.
My main guesses right now are either that the strict breeding control that exists in Yinglet society as of now is being intentionally manipulated in some way to serve an as of yet unclear goal (specifics in spades you see), or that it’s as simple as them having seen what happened after Vizlet was exposed to human culture through travel and recognizing that that jeopardizes their control. I’m not terribly confident in either, but I’m pretty convinced there’s some actual reason beyond the cultural that this is so important.
Unfortunately depending on how (obviously a former human/intelligent/unfavorable towards Kass/indoctrinated/politically shrewd) Narklet actually is, that makes me worry shmoozing might be about to fail Kass; compromises are hard to reach when you have a hidden agenda that makes compromise implicitly unacceptable.