OOPs #185
May28
Make great effort to hide your inner softness, for your adversaries will endlessly seek weaknesses within you to exploit. And none are so vulnerable in spring or winter, in youth or in old age, as a big ol’ softie.
-The Art of War, Sun Tzu
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De Matriarch may be de big softie, but is the right call to check on Lopin. However, being left alone is somezhing unusual for Vislet. Her running into Yannit would be Karma for making poor Lopin cry. Though being the worldly traveller she is, perhaps Vislet knows somzhing useful about the Indrel.
I think it’s actually wise to check in on him tbh, regardless of the real reason for doing so. Poor guy 🙁
hehe pekkit is real lucky he’s really good at his job.
I mean beizel
Beizel is SUCH a mischievous little needler.
Beizel knows he is needed, and indeed loved. Dat he knows dis, makes him a little bold in his teasing/flirting with Vislet I zhink. Vislet on her part by asking him for help, is saying she wants him in her life. Dis for a Yinglet, with no social marriages, or monogamy is as much as Beizel can ever expect to have, besides being written often in Vislet’s breeding schedule, that Vislet writes herself.
Panel four feels like a direct response to my comment to the previous page x)
With the guard’s tail still visible in panel three, I have to tell myself the guards did walk enough far away by panel four that Vizlet and Beizel are out of their hearing range.
And Beizel’s interactions with Vizlet are just too amusing to watch :’D <D
And the irony: Vizlet and Narklet are both secretly mingling with exiles, but have completely different feelings toward them, mingle with completely different exiles, and for completely different reasons.
…oh, Pekkit'd probably be disappointed I used "completely" instead of "entirely". Today.
*puts a shiny green piece of coral looking stuff on Nikary’s seat* We don’t know what Narklet’s views on exiles from Vislet’s enclave is. After all, he has questionable views on Vislet’s auzhority to begin with, so a exile from her enclave may not be seen as a true exile from de Yinglet Council’s viewpoint, and indeed they may be offering Yings like Brakka a way to redeem themselves by undercutting Vislet’s authority. We just don’t know enouzh about Narklet to see where his base of power is, or if indeed he and his supporters are a match for the cunning of Vislet, Beizel, Kattajak, and de Trademaster.
*places some fresh clams on Nikary’s seat* You may entirelies bes needings zhese… ;p
Oh tankies! ^^
I hope she sets up a plan with Lopin to make Kass a matriarch. It would make sense not just from a political stand point, but to set up some extra protection for Kass and his group of friends. I also imagine House Ivenmoth would jump at the chance to see how it grows and to see how well things will work for a group of varied races.
Um, making Kass a Matriarch would require de one thing that Kass so far has absolutely, and positively shown no inclination for, breeding. Dat could change, with enouzh oysters. But so far, unless Kass gets anozher male in her life, or somone gives “Zhat Zhing” to Elim (Valsalia did a nice one shot of dat) and he remains male, no Yinglet will follow de traditional Yinglet Patriarch/Matriarch power structure wizhout there being a “Reward” for doing zhings for the Matriarch. Zo far, Lopin is living a kink fantasy more than following Kass’s orders. Until dat changes fundamentally, Kass will have respect due to being a Ivanmozh Officer, but not as a Matriarch.
I’d wondered something about that. Egg layers, if well fed and healthy can & will still lay sterile eggs. Or in the case of some lizards EG: Komodo dragon have managed have young without a male around. lol
I too have wondered about dat in past posts. De best I can come up wizh is dat in fact dis is currently happening for Kass, and she is producing eggs on a regular basis. However, Yinglets could be a species dat absorbs infertile ova instead of laying zhem! Kass is truly unique in history as a Ying that has reached breeding age and actually refuses to procreate at the drop of ze hat, and in a position to be observed to see de results by a scientist, so it is so, so exciting! So watch Kass for de mood swings as she goes through hormonal cycles that inspire her to be a bit more crazy than usual.
In a related note, Beizel being superbly smug lately (and a bit overprotective) is partly due to the results of oop 61 and Vislet is likely pregnant wizh his kids currently, and may lay soon.
Of course Kass’s nightmare would be that Yinglets are one of the species capable of Parthenogenesis, as she is made of Yinglet, and is therefore absurd. And seeing dis is zomezhing dat happens in nature in multiple species on Earth, dere being a dozen or so little Kass clones would be adorable.
Just a peek into one of Kass’s nightmares, but a truly adorable one.
Yeah. lets go with they “absorbs infertile ova”. It would not help survival to lose resources; on other hand could squirrel away sterile egg for lean times… And now in my head canon Yinglet have Century Eggs buried away in alkaline clay as how they’re still around.
I knew she cared.