“Kinda”
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Out-of-Placers
A story of inconvenient changes
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“Kinda”
Shading: Oniontrain
OOPs now has a Russian translation which updates shortly after the English pages are posted!
Now also in French:
And Ukranian:
And Lopin singlehandedly helps stop a catastrophe. This is.. touching. Getting past their fear of the situation to help Yannit out.
Also good gods that fourth panel is terrifying. With what we’ve seen of their reflexes and raw power… Yeah.
You make a great comic, I continue to find myself hooked page by page
Well this is interesting. The indrel Clockwork Orange themselves to force-learn survival responses to their biggest threats, and now Ran is going to have to reverse-Pavlov her to knock some of the training loose. Or give her a bowl of peppermint. Actually, there’s a thought… it looks like her sniffing is happening via her antennae bulbs. They might be able to tie a pouch of something over each one to dampen dangerous scents.
Surprisingly articulate… Articulation of her distress, considering she’s in a state of panic.
Yannit is such a trooper. Here she is drowning in the Indrel equivalent of standing under an air-raid siren, but still holding it together well enough to ask Lopin for assistance. Some fresh air really will do her good and clear her spiracles. Also Kudos to Lopin for getting over Yannit’s initial scarygirl display, showing that personally getting to know someone strange to you helps reduce the tendency to think of them as a scary monster, even when they are acting exactly like a scary monster.
This couple pages has done a great job of showing just how much we underappreciate Yannit’s dedication, intelligence, and curiosity. She seems so goofy, until you realize she is basically the leading expert in a field the rest of her species openly shuns, willing to go to extreme lengths to study, including learning how to understand and speak a language that is entirely alien to her people, becoming an exile from them so she can immerse herself in that language and culture, and effectively bombard herself with an environment where she can’t possibly be comfortable just so she can understand the people that live in it.
Good on Lopin for helping someone he’s scared of. Especially when that person is terrified.
Baxxies? Yannie? (don’t you mean Laurel? lol sorry not sorry) I never took Lopin for one to give such names… but maybe I should, he-heh.
Still though, I feel very bad for Yannit… she’s been traumatized into learning to fear Baxxids, mostly instinctually, but still, I’m not sure how Ran could fix her… I hope he can…
Hah! Yannit wants to scream because of Kalgkur’s wormsmell. Just like Kalgkur screamed back in #41 when he had a bug land on…
….ohhhhhhh….
You seem to be quite the noticer.
Notice: You noticing what I’ve noticed has been noticed and you are on notice.
Really glad to see Lopin handling the situation competently, looks like Ran was wrong and he has his uses as a lieutenant after all. I’d like to see that continue, and I’d like to see how they’re going to handle this in the future.
Also, interesting to see someone finally point out the obvious, that the Baxxid are giant killer worms, and would likely devour every other sapient species if they weren’t so intent on being part of a functional society. I wonder if they will ever be able to handle this with the Indrel… Perhaps they can use this as a trade advantage? I also wonder how they are currently dealing with it: I’m guessing there is a rule that they don’t send Baxxid to deal with the Indrel? Or there is the dark possibility it hasn’t happened yet, considering they don’t like to leave the castle.
Couple things. First, yes, it is obvious the Baxxid can be giant killer worms, but have consciously decided not to. Hence why He-Who-Knows-What-He-Did is chained up.
Second. As for the Indrel, they as a species mostly keep to themselves. They might have not gotten the memo that the Baxxid have moved past their instincts. Not as sure about this one, though, since we have no indication on what the Baxxid think of the Indrel.
It’s also possible that the Baxxid they encountered didn’t immediately realize that they were fully sentient: they don’t wear clothing, they don’t speak in a way that other races can understand, they don’t actively try to socialize with anyone outside their group, and even Yannit has this Gurgi/Golem-esque way of speaking that makes her sound unintelligent until you remember that she is from a culture without speech and is basically some sort of linguistic genius for their species, the equivalent of bordering somewhere between an extreme otaku anime nerd and a doctoral level researcher of foreign cultures.
They may have literally assumed that the Indrel were just animals, just as most humans assume yinglets were barely above animals themselves. ( and on that note, golly, this story sure does a good job of Leaning into how realistic levels of differences between alien races can make perfectly explainable Behavior come across as animalistic or juvenile )