Astrid’s Calamitous Christmas Caper – page 23
…and no, we’re NOT going to get clarification on what specifically Astrid did. We can already assume that’s an entire list unto itself, and probably full of stuff we can’t openly discuss in an all-ages webcomic. Besides, this way you’re free to imagine whatever specifically skeeves you out the worst. So basically, she did whatever Mariska does on her disastrous dates.
And becuase I’m frantically scrambling to get the last few pages finished after a pretty busy and distracting weekend of pre-holiday holiday stuff, I’ll just hedge my bets and say that, even if I forgot to post the new TWC Voting Incentive yesterday, it’s almost CERTAINLY up today. Hopefully, this message will be totally unnecessary, but even if it is, I’ll still leave it up as a document of how frazzled I got during the week before Christmas. The world must know!
Nah, Ol’ Saint Nick is right here – Astrid is acting like she did charity work or something – all she did was do her job, that she’s employed at, on an assignment forced on her by her boss that she tried hard to weasel out of, and complained about the whole time she was on it. Naughties are always that way, naughty 100 times a row and then when they are forced to be nice once, they want to take credit for it and act like the 100x of naughtying didn’t happen. Keep up the good Naughty-monitoring work, Santa! :p
(What do you mean I’m just defending him so he’ll take me off the naughty list!? I’d never do that!!)
I suspect that I already know what Astrid did. After being annoyed that she didn’t get a present from Santa one year (only because she stole her parents space ship to see Augusta while she was sick and ended up spreading what Augusta was sick with to a new planet due to her parents not being willing to wait for the quarantine that started AFTER Astrid arrived to end. And it was such bullshit because the quarantine only took so long to start so that rich people could bribe their way out and the visit had been planned for three months only to be cancelled without any GOOD explanation being given to Astrid. Astrid wasn’t even the one who was responsible for the sickness spreading, the people who collected her without any medical-grade medical equipment was responsible for THAT), she went and stole one of her parent’s space ships AGAIN to raid Santa’s Workshop and take her Xmas Present by force.
…Astrid also succeeded without any evidence against her, which is part of the reason why the Santa Corporation isn’t willing to let it go easily.
It’s been established over in the “Stuff That’s Canon” TWC incentives that the only reason Astrid’s family is rich is because her aunt & uncle got up to a bunch of shady business, so there’s definitely room for her to have picked up any number of bad influences from them during those formative years.
https://fotgallery.faroutthere.com/comic/stuff-thats-canon-page-6/
I was not really sure if her aunt and uncle being rich was the sole source of her family money, or she just resented that they made it dishonestly whereas the rest of her family was no more shady than regular rich people. Or, for that matter, I wasn’t really sure if Astrid herself was really rich, or just one of those people who was only fairly wealthy (due to spoiling by her relatives mostly) but spent 110% of it trying to look a lot richer than she was, because she thinks that’s what’s important. That being ironic, since she fell for a guy who spends all his ill-gotten gains to look like a super-rich philanthropist so that other actually-rich people will donate him more ill-gotten gains. Astrid is very complicated….