Isher, this would be a lot simpler if you were bi and also found rats attractive
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Out-of-Placers
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Answer carefully, Lopin!
Isher: Having a minor panic attack as she thinks about things she’s been trying not to.
Lopin: Stares in “I regret asking this question”.
My first read of Lopin’s expression was “trying not to laugh.”
But on second glance….yeah I can see some “Uh oh how do I answer this” in there.
I had the same exact reaction.
If that’s the medical area that there in, Than I can see Kass ether walking in just about now to check up on Isher, Or she’s been there listing from around the corner after walking in and pausing when she heard them talking
Pretty sure it’s back up in their quarters, because the medical section looks different and they likely sent her back up after properly treating the wound, though that raises the question of why Lopin wanderered in, or why she slept in her uniform. Perhaps she doesn’t normally have a place to sleep there and decided not to go home last night?
… suddenly wondering, if she had gone hime, would Yannit be there…
Even though Lopin and Isher are likely both regretting this conversation right now, this is a really important catharsis for Isher to get through. Lopin … just keep being the best boy.
I love this page. Because this is exactly one of the things I love in transformation trope. The consequences. Complications. If your partner is suddenly someone else. Something else. How would you react, how would you cope. It doesn’t only change the character transformed, but anyone and anything around them as well. I already praised this comic for showing psychological/sociological changes in Kass, but man, it’s still going on on this topic. I really, really love it.
Part of me feels like this is continuing some of the transgender themes, as it’s relatively common for spousal relationships to break down when one person starts transitioning, simply because the other person isn’t interested in that body type.
Delving deeply in dark sorrow
for attraction fallen away
and aversity to vapid thoughts,
or so she fears. Is it a sin to want
a relationship whole, with lust not gone,
for a horned maiden? Or has she simply
lost love’s meaning? Lopin has regrets.
Golly, this story just keeps delving into so many questions about romance and sexuality, with Isher grappling with her own heterosexuality and lack of xenophilia. Of course, it’s perfectly natural to no longer be sexually attracted to someone if their body changes drastically in a way that makes them no longer sexually attractive to you, as is’s obvious from stating it. I think she focused too much on the sexy man aspect of why she liked him, and now needs to remind herself of the fact that he’s a good friend.
Um, Isher is really, really into Xenophilia, seeing she’s not Human, or at least partly human. Is zhat she’s not into Yinglets, mostly.
I’m glad to see this part of Isher being touched on again, it was an important part of her character and I feel like last time i saw it was back in the beginning
It hasn’t really come to the surface much, but I think it’s very much baked into a lot of what she does and why.
Lopin, is a Yinglet. We have simple tastes, vs zhat of humans, who have endless shades of attraction and arousal zhanks to zheir so, so long lifespans zhat zhey can take zheir time in courtships and stuff. For Lopin, it was a simple litmus test, yes or no as to being still attracted to Kassen, zhough if Isher had turned it around on Lopin, and asked if he was attracted to Kass de Yinglet, he too might have had a mixed reaction.
Are they “Simple”, or just way less concerned about species characteristics when looking for partners for sexual gratification? Obviously he’s not going to have much experience with Isher’s idea of a years-long romance with a human, nor would he understand waiting as long as she has to tell someone her feelings, but that’s not “simple”, just a different situation.
Also, do we know Lopin is still interested? I think he prefers to be “bred” by males, rather than to breed females…
It’s hard for me to tell if the last panel is Lopin scared of how to answer, or just afraid of big, scary lady in general.
Overwhelmed, I zhink. Isher is a big, scary woman when going zhough a existential crisis, but is still Isher, and it was implied earlier zhat Isher and Lopin talk regularly, so he’s kind of used to her by now. Zhat and being surrounded by people who could kick his ass for weeks now, kind of maxes out one’s sense of imminent danger.
Lopin zhought he was going to get a simple answer, and now is all “Did I do zhis, and what do I do now to fix it?” because he’s a Yinglet, and while he’s been around humans, and near humans, he isn’t hard wired to understand non Yinglet emotional responses.
My own interpretation was that he was not expecting this big and intense of a trauma/info dump when he asked the question and is afraid and overwhelmed from the response. Though I’m sure Isher’s size is exacerbating the problem for him.