page 1249 – meaningful adult relationships
OOOoooh, THERE’S a face we haven’t seen in a while. At long last, every single one of the new Nitpickers introduced during that spree of Christmas comic introductions has made SOME kind of appearance in a regular page of Far Out There! If only I could get back into the swing of two-pages-a-week, that wouldn’t have taken nearly as long. Also, attentive readers will notice I changed the color effect a bit so that it’d be a little less seizure-y.
Though speaking of the update week, I’ve decided that I AM going to push the new TWC Voting Incentive day back to Friday, so that I’ve got a bit more breathing room between that and this. So, technically speaking, we ARE back on the classic Tuesday/Friday update schedule… just not really.
EDIT: Well, that took MANY hours longer than I expected, but the new Incentive is finally up! It’s… very different from anything I’ve done in a while!
Wait… is that thing (which The Kid used in relation to the cosmic-gag order that hadn’t run out during the Xmas Special The Kid was introduced in) just a catch-all solution to all of The Kid’s physical problems? Or does The Kid have a series of those disks that flash and cause their eyes to flash in tandem while in use and this is a different one of those?
I’m asking because using a thing that was known to be useful during an event involving the space-time continuum being torn open to summon/produce an effect and that was likely notable in the events that created a cosmic-gag order to pull Mariska out of a potentially deadly garden bed seems like overkill. Even if it was something that was simply used as a camera that couldn’t be stolen, and the gag order was to keep some historical politically embarrassing event a secret, it would still be overkill.
It’s just Mariska being in life-threatening danger, it’s not like it’s something that doesn’t happen three to sixteen times a week.
Answering that would require an in-depth discussion of just what that blinking stuff The Kid uses actually is… which I’m TOTALLY not doing so that I can avoid spoilers, and not just because I barely even know that myself yet. What would give anybody THAT idea?
In-Depth? Why? It’s either that The Kid has one blinking-circle-pattern or they have several. Apart from the third option that they have access to a single blinking-circle-pattern that can, in theory, be used to access all the blinking-circle-patterns, each with notable power, but in practice can only access randomly selected ones and The Kid has only learned how to utilize the consistent matter-manipulation-power-variant that they all have in one form or another.
Well, that and the underlying “Go here and do X” prompt that has them showing up to things like Nitpicker Parties they weren’t invited to and the like.
Well, you know how it is, I’m deathly afraid of randomly providing an underwhelming answer now when I might be able to come up with a really clever answer later. That’s especially true with The Kid, who I think has a lot of potential for use as really mysterious, unpredictable character. I guess I’m afraid if we, out of universe, figure out too much about how she works, then that’ll bleed into how I write the characters in-universe reacting to her.
That makes sense.
Oh, and, in that case, I predict that the colour-shifting disk’s only powers are telekinesis & equivalents and the eye-colour thing that happens to The Kid while using it. And is probably one of the, if not the, least dangerous things The Kid has on herself at any point in time.
The second most dangerous is her trenchcoat, which stores many of her dangerous things in ways that, if touched by someone else, will likely result in the attempted thief’s death.
The most dangerous is her hat, which, while completely mundane, would send The Kid into a murderous rage with results similar to, if not more extreme, than Stillez after Tax gets hurt.
Oh, and, finally, I predict that the part of the Nitpickers Contract related to Stillez was initially a hopeful theoretical written up by Sophia with the knowingly vain hope of applying it on contracts related to The Kid, but had to be applied to Stillez instead due to her lower levels of predictability, penchant for wanton destruction for giggles, and the fact that The Kid is technically a Nitpicker and thus under the purview of the Nitpicker’s Guild.
It is worth mention something that I’ve put in The Kid’s entry in the Cast pages, but hasn’t really appeared in a comic yet: Nobody’s even sure when/how The Kid became a Nitpicker, there’s no record of her actually training or joining or anything. One day, everybody just realized she’d always been on the roster, despite NOT having always been there yesterday.
That does not change anything about my predictions about her level of danger, predictability, carried weapon stash, or the fact that the Nitpicker’s Guild is officially responsible for her and has had too many difficulties to find legal loopholes through which they could prevent themselves from being responsible for her actions before they had to add the Stillez Clauses to their contracts. The act of which shut off a full third of the legal loopholes they were hoping to use in relation to The Kid.
Exactly! I’ve been careful so far to only come up with lore that won’t restrict my ability to add on more lore later! 😀