Jinx 2014-03-11

[Sphinx-Napped]

if tis was with headphones on i would sure enough be ear raped with that squeeeee judging by how big the lettering is i can imagine everyone trying to cover there ears

[Atomic]

If the two share a log relaxing jacuzzi would it be a slow Jinn fizz?

Jar. Feed.

[Boxilar]

This is quiet a journey Shelly went on in a fairly short time. She started mentally as fully human up until her time in the forest. That is when she found out she was part Sphinx. From then on she was struggling with learning how to master her abilities as a Sphinx with Phix's help. From the meeting with Bia in the library to now she made huge steps in leaving her human side behind. The idea of killing another being and sharing the meal with her grandma is far from the mindset she had before. She was also told about the lies Bia pulled on her during this as well. It takes either great will power or large external forces to change a person this much this quickly. Combat will do it and other high stress events. So where are the ones that Shelly went through. Learning about BIa was upsetting but not stressful in the right way, that was just depressing for her.

Now she is calm and confident in what she is. This sort of change seldom happens this quickly. The Shelly we see here is not the Shelly we are used to seeing. This is a whole different Shelly. Would be nice if we found what sped the change up.

Eighty thousand years is a long time. Just before the Viama Cell returned her to her point of origin, Shelly couldn't remember who she was o anything about her life before the Forest. When she returned her memories came back in a rush. Her story arc up until Bia showed up and spilled the beans was about Shelly trying to get a handle on her Sphinx side so she could go back to her old life, the one she had forgotten as she became a feral being while trapped away from everyone for eighty millenia. The Sage of the Forest would have had to do things as a guardian Sphinx that would have horrified the old Shelly. There was that wall of skulls, far more than fifty some odd versions of Shelly can account for, even if all her other selves died in the Forest.

I don't think this change is a sudden one. I think it happened over a long, long time. What we're seeing is Shelly accepting what she had been fighting before. Her encounter with Bia made her realize she can't go back to the way things were.

Hell, none of them can. Not Shelly, not Brandi, or Bud, or Monica and especially not Jin.

Jin brings out M's inner child? And vice versa?

Hmmmm... I've seen Mon and Jin Squee before... why the blushing now? Maybe Monica is getting a grasp on just how much Jin means to her... To be honest, for all their head butting, Monica has been closest to Jin than she was to Bud or Brandi

Hard not to be close to someone who's thoughts you can hear and that you've watched over for a decade or so.

[analyst]

Shelly is probably the only one there that could give as good as she gets when it comes to hugs.

Also, Jin does look a bit like Isabella doesn't she (Whatcha doooin?)

[eee]

Oh GOOD, Jin's back in the mix! This should be nice!

Except I'm a bit concerned about Shelly's "...someone who needs you just as much." It could be that Jin and Monica are just best girlfriends and provide each other with emotional support that no one else can. Or it could be that Jin's having problems, too...

Also, I wonder how they managed the timing of that 'poit'. Unless Shelly has learned new skills, SHE can't 'poit'. Jin can, but how would she have been able to know when to do it? Maybe Bud was watching, she and Shelly and Jin had set all this up, and Bud 'poited' Jin in at the critical moment.

Or Tepoz is buried in the sand somewhere nearby.

And now Euryale has a new person to hug...

[Boxilar]

Oh GOOD, Jin's back in the mix! This should be nice!

Except I'm a bit concerned about Shelly's "...someone who needs you just as much." It could be that Jin and Monica are just best girlfriends and provide each other with emotional support that no one else can. Or it could be that Jin's having problems, too...

Also, I wonder how they managed the timing of that 'poit'. Unless Shelly has learned new skills, SHE can't 'poit'. Jin can, but how would she have been able to know when to do it? Maybe Bud was watching, she and Shelly and Jin had set all this up, and Bud 'poited' Jin in at the critical moment.

Or Tepoz is buried in the sand somewhere nearby.

And now Euryale has a new person to hug...

Well, Jin has always been able to hear Monica's thoughts. And while Jin has gotten what she wanted, and essentially human life with all the things that go with it, there has to be some adjustment to suddenly being vulnerable to things that were beneath your notice before. She suddenly has a lifespan, can get sick or fatally injured and is going to experience the effects of growing old. Monica will grow old as Jin does, even if she "resets" at the end of her normal lifespan as the rest of her friends remain youthful and vital. And Monica needs to connect to her humanity as she gets deeper int the supernatural side of things. While Amanda can help with that, she hasn't been thare and done that. Jin has. She knows what ti is to be an invulnerable, immortal engine of destruction, and having become human again, will be able to relate to Monica in a way that no on else can.

Regarding Shelly and why she doesn't need Monica the way Jin does, and why she won't be able to help Monica the way Jin can. I think one thing Bia told her was true. Shelly's humanity was burned away eons ago. She remembers being human, and for awhile she desperately wanted to go back to living a human life. Those who knew the truth and cared about her, Nudge and Phix, for example, wanted to give her that, at least for a little while. But the truth is, Shelly hasn't been human for a long, long time, and while she and Monica will always be close, she can't relate to her on that level any more. Shelly has excepted her place in the supernatural hierarchy and now has responsibilities and duties that preclude living a human life.

[Catawampus]

OMG! Our little Shelly is all grown up now. She has even developed a taste for her fellow sphinxes (ewwwww!!). Still, now that she has crossed that barrier, I don't think I can look at Shelly quite the same again. The only threshold left is killing humans. The way things are going I expect to see that as well as her inhibitions fade more and more. I'm sure, not that long ago, killing a sentient creature would have been unthinkable to her. The eating raw part totally repulsive. Not anymore. She's an official "monster" now. The killing and eating doesn't seem to faze her at all. In fact she's proud of it. She's losing her humanity, fast.

On the Other hand, she did share her kill with grandma, so I guess that's something. A gruesome, bloody, disgusting, utterly vile something, but something. She still shares at least. But only with family. I wonder if that's what Phix was talking about when she arrived? It's the sphinx way I guess. We should be thankful for small favors I suppose. After all, it could have been Shelly as the main course for the Apo instead. Though with that titan blood, it's doubtful that will ever happen. She may be more powerful than grandma ever was. Not to mention grandma going on an all out freakout to avenge Shelly's death if it did. She probably wouldn't stop until every Apo in the place was dead or she was. Hmmm, I wonder if there are any other half human sphinxes in the place or if they're all animal-headed apos?

Eh, different cultures have different values, and each culture considers its own ways to be the proper and normal ones. For all we know, the sphinxes might look at our "civilised" human society and be utterly shocked and horrified by what we casually do: locking people up in prisons, having people starving while others live in incredible wealth, destroying landscapes to build suburbs, raising entire populations of animals for the sole purpose of killing them, spending a third of our adult lives sitting in little offices trying to earn enough money that we can maintain a basic standard of living, killing each other en masse over vague principles (without even putting the bodies to some use afterwards as dinner), green-lighting reality programme after reality programme on television, whatever.

Shelly is a sphinx, and among sphinxes and other paranormals is acting according to how sphinxes think is proper. In some ways it is a change from how she was, but not that much of a change. She was always protective of her friends and of those who she felt needed protection, while at the same time always had very violent habits. What has changed now is more the application of those traits and the potential scope of action of those traits, rather than the traits themselves. As we saw after she and Monica had their little paranormal-powered romp through the city, Phix has been working on making sure that Shelly maintains proper behaviour and decorum. . .as sphinxes understand such things.

[NOTDilbert]

Shelly: Rookie atropotraic Sphinx.
Monica: Demon Shepherd, Jaguar Girl.

Together they fight (demon) Crime!

[DilyV]

I'm happy to see that Jin is doing well... Her recovery was in doubt there for awhile...

[zachariah]

If the two share a log relaxing jacuzzi would it be a slow Jinn fizz?

Jar. Feed.

Deposits a bottle of sloe in the jar. There you go it's fed.

[starkruzr]

There's nothing unethical about what Shelly did. Either she killed the apo or it was going to kill her. Their use of the body afterward is just being non-wasteful, that's all.

[zachariah]

This is quiet a journey Shelly went on in a fairly short time. She started mentally as fully human up until her time in the forest. That is when she found out she was part Sphinx. From then on she was struggling with learning how to master her abilities as a Sphinx with Phix's help. From the meeting with Bia in the library to now she made huge steps in leaving her human side behind. The idea of killing another being and sharing the meal with her grandma is far from the mindset she had before. She was also told about the lies Bia pulled on her during this as well. It takes either great will power or large external forces to change a person this much this quickly. Combat will do it and other high stress events. So where are the ones that Shelly went through. Learning about BIa was upsetting but not stressful in the right way, that was just depressing for her.

Now she is calm and confident in what she is. This sort of change seldom happens this quickly. The Shelly we see here is not the Shelly we are used to seeing. This is a whole different Shelly. Would be nice if we found what sped the change up.

Eighty thousand years is a long time. Just before the Viama Cell returned her to her point of origin, Shelly couldn't remember who she was o anything about her life before the Forest. When she returned her memories came back in a rush. Her story arc up until Bia showed up and spilled the beans was about Shelly trying to get a handle on her Sphinx side so she could go back to her old life, the one she had forgotten as she became a feral being while trapped away from everyone for eighty millenia. The Sage of the Forest would have had to do things as a guardian Sphinx that would have horrified the old Shelly. There was that wall of skulls, far more than fifty some odd versions of Shelly can account for, even if all her other selves died in the Forest.

I don't think this change is a sudden one. I think it happened over a long, long time. What we're seeing is Shelly accepting what she had been fighting before. Her encounter with Bia made her realize she can't go back to the way things were.

I agree the forest started it but that is not where it came from. We know how Shelly was when learning to control her powers when being coached by Phix. The Shelly personality at that time was still the Shelly we knew just frustrated, confused, and angry as she struggled and learned about her past. At the time she met Bia the meeting and it's results were fairly hard on Shelly and Nudge went to comfort her and provide support. Since that point we saw very little of Shelly and what was happening to her and showed the personality changes. This Shelly has shed almost all of her human inhibitions and worries. She is composed and sure in her power. She has even enhanced her appearance by a large wow factor. Then casually announces she is a fully accept Sphinx, killed and ate the one doubter, is working with MIB and replacing Jin in it. Is this the Shelly we know? She has changed in major ways in a very short time. Something did happen to push the change and we do not know what. I find it very hard to believe she woke up on day and said to herself, "Heck I'm gonna through away everything I've lived by since birth, adopt a next set of ethics and view point. This will be good. So which Apo is lunch today?"
That type of change does not just happen, somehow it is forced to happen. So my point is what did happen after Shelly met Bia?

[kingklash]

And then, tomorrow: Atsali, Berdine, and Nadette go to Driver's Ed!

[Dave]

And then, tomorrow: Atsali, Berdine, and Nadette go to Driver's Ed!

I wonder if the ursamorphs will show up for Driver's Ed as peramelemorphia? They'd make such a cute pair of crash bandicoots.

[sheik]

I think there may be an explanation for Shelly's change in demeanor.
In some versions of the ways of the supernatural, the act of eating someone you have defeated imbues you with their "strength", that is to say something that will make you somehow better or at least more like the victim.
In eating an Apo perhaps Shelly has become more Apo-like, or at least has become better aligned with her grandma's side of the family.

[jwhouk]

And then, tomorrow: Atsali, Berdine, and Nadette go to Driver's Ed!

In doing so, Atsali accidentally drops the transmission in the parking lot from shifting gears too hard.

[KnightDelight]

And then, tomorrow: Atsali, Berdine, and Nadette go to Driver's Ed!

In doing so, Atsali accidentally drops the transmission in the parking lot from shifting gears too hard.

To get an idea of what that might look like, here's a candid picture of another Siren behind the wheel; http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p425 ... 51b276.jpg
Now we see why a Siren's neck has to be long and graceful. Apparently, however, this one's isn't. Her father may have been a linebacker.

[Mark N]

Oh GOOD, Jin's back in the mix! This should be nice!

Except I'm a bit concerned about Shelly's "...someone who needs you just as much." It could be that Jin and Monica are just best girlfriends and provide each other with emotional support that no one else can. Or it could be that Jin's having problems, too...

Also, I wonder how they managed the timing of that 'poit'. Unless Shelly has learned new skills, SHE can't 'poit'. Jin can, but how would she have been able to know when to do it? Maybe Bud was watching, she and Shelly and Jin had set all this up, and Bud 'poited' Jin in at the critical moment.

Or Tepoz is buried in the sand somewhere nearby.

And now Euryale has a new person to hug...

Well, Jin has always been able to hear Monica's thoughts. And while Jin has gotten what she wanted, and essentially human life with all the things that go with it, there has to be some adjustment to suddenly being vulnerable to things that were beneath your notice before. She suddenly has a lifespan, can get sick or fatally injured and is going to experience the effects of growing old. Monica will grow old as Jin does, even if she "resets" at the end of her normal lifespan as the rest of her friends remain youthful and vital. And Monica needs to connect to her humanity as she gets deeper int the supernatural side of things. While Amanda can help with that, she hasn't been thare and done that. Jin has. She knows what ti is to be an invulnerable, immortal engine of destruction, and having become human again, will be able to relate to Monica in a way that no on else can.

Regarding Shelly and why she doesn't need Monica the way Jin does, and why she won't be able to help Monica the way Jin can. I think one thing Bia told her was true. Shelly's humanity was burned away eons ago. She remembers being human, and for awhile she desperately wanted to go back to living a human life. Those who knew the truth and cared about her, Nudge and Phix, for example, wanted to give her that, at least for a little while. But the truth is, Shelly hasn't been human for a long, long time, and while she and Monica will always be close, she can't relate to her on that level any more. Shelly has excepted her place in the supernatural hierarchy and now has responsibilities and duties that preclude living a human life.

True. There is also a point that these two best friends (who will age as humans) have mates that also best friends (who will age as humans). This makes the relationships of the two couples far more compatible than living with immortals that do not age at all like Shelly and Justin. Shelly and Justin will be there for Monica later when she will need them as she returns to youth and life after she loses the three of them in the future. It is a sad but inevitable point that Monica will have to face.

[Boxilar]

This is quiet a journey Shelly went on in a fairly short time. She started mentally as fully human up until her time in the forest. That is when she found out she was part Sphinx. From then on she was struggling with learning how to master her abilities as a Sphinx with Phix's help. From the meeting with Bia in the library to now she made huge steps in leaving her human side behind. The idea of killing another being and sharing the meal with her grandma is far from the mindset she had before. She was also told about the lies Bia pulled on her during this as well. It takes either great will power or large external forces to change a person this much this quickly. Combat will do it and other high stress events. So where are the ones that Shelly went through. Learning about BIa was upsetting but not stressful in the right way, that was just depressing for her.

Now she is calm and confident in what she is. This sort of change seldom happens this quickly. The Shelly we see here is not the Shelly we are used to seeing. This is a whole different Shelly. Would be nice if we found what sped the change up.

Eighty thousand years is a long time. Just before the Viama Cell returned her to her point of origin, Shelly couldn't remember who she was o anything about her life before the Forest. When she returned her memories came back in a rush. Her story arc up until Bia showed up and spilled the beans was about Shelly trying to get a handle on her Sphinx side so she could go back to her old life, the one she had forgotten as she became a feral being while trapped away from everyone for eighty millenia. The Sage of the Forest would have had to do things as a guardian Sphinx that would have horrified the old Shelly. There was that wall of skulls, far more than fifty some odd versions of Shelly can account for, even if all her other selves died in the Forest.

I don't think this change is a sudden one. I think it happened over a long, long time. What we're seeing is Shelly accepting what she had been fighting before. Her encounter with Bia made her realize she can't go back to the way things were.

I agree the forest started it but that is not where it came from. We know how Shelly was when learning to control her powers when being coached by Phix. The Shelly personality at that time was still the Shelly we knew just frustrated, confused, and angry as she struggled and learned about her past. At the time she met Bia the meeting and it's results were fairly hard on Shelly and Nudge went to comfort her and provide support. Since that point we saw very little of Shelly and what was happening to her and showed the personality changes. This Shelly has shed almost all of her human inhibitions and worries. She is composed and sure in her power. She has even enhanced her appearance by a large wow factor. Then casually announces she is a fully accept Sphinx, killed and ate the one doubter, is working with MIB and replacing Jin in it. Is this the Shelly we know? She has changed in major ways in a very short time. Something did happen to push the change and we do not know what. I find it very hard to believe she woke up on day and said to herself, "Heck I'm gonna through away everything I've lived by since birth, adopt a next set of ethics and view point. This will be good. So which Apo is lunch today?"
That type of change does not just happen, somehow it is forced to happen. So my point is what did happen after Shelly met Bia?

I think meeting Bia was the catalyst. Remember, up to that point, Shelly didn't know about her Titan heritage and believed she was going to live the normal "four score and ten" after which she would die of old age like any human. There was no point in trying to participate in the larger Sphinx society if she was going to quickly grow older, weaken, and eventually die. She would be at the bottom of the pecking order from the beginning and be regarded as a weakling half human who was going to be gone in an eyeblink (by Sphinx standards) anyway. Then Bia comes along and Shelly finds out she's actually a Sphinx/Titan hybrid, is immortal, and is one of the most powerful beings in the universe. Suddenly, participating in Sphinx society became not only possible, but a near necessity.

The last we see of Shelly after the Bia reveal is here.
Before that point, anytime Shelly wasn't emotionally stressed or in full Sphinx form, she made a point to keep her teeth pointless.

The next time we see Shelly she has cut her hair, seems to be more relaxed and accepting of her true nature, to include sporting carnivorous teeth even when sheis in an otherwise "human" form.

In short, I believe the encounter with Bia and the revelation of her true parentage is what forced her to accept who and what she truly is, and her role in the universe at large.

[KnightDelight]

I think there may be an explanation for Shelly's change in demeanor.
In some versions of the ways of the supernatural, the act of eating someone you have defeated imbues you with their "strength", that is to say something that will make you somehow better or at least more like the victim.
In eating an Apo perhaps Shelly has become more Apo-like, or at least has become better aligned with her grandma's side of the family.

I think that would be more of a chicken and egg thing. She would have to have been like that before she killed the poor hapless Apo in order to have done the deed in the first place. Obviously she didn't pull her punches. Of course, it may have been more of a fierce battle than when we saw Phix deliver the head exploding single punch. A more drawn out conflict would have brought out Shelly's sphinx blood-lust to an Nth degree, really putting Shelly into full-on-gut-level-savage sphinx mode. That, in turn, giving her the desire/need to eat her opponent.

We don't know what went on in the Forest, but it may be she never had to face that sort of thing thanks to Connie. She certainly didn't seem all that savage or self assured when she first returned. She learned to be a sphinx while there but not how to be a sphinx among sphinxes. She lived alone and apart from sphinx society. Just the occasional visit from grandmother, whom she didn't even know was grandmother at the time.

Shelly has realized where her destiny truly lies. I think now she will become more and more withdrawn from Monica and the human world in general, mostly making contact with it through her MIB duties. Human doings will become more and more mundane and irrelevant to her. She has a complete family now and none of them are human. Not even dad. Thus her pushing Jin as Monica's new best friend. At least Shelly can take Justin along on that ride since he is immortal and supernatural as well. Hopefully dad can be introduced into the new fold at some point. After all, he has sphinx blood in him as well, and his mother IS Phix. He may be immortal for all we know. Monica, OTOH, may find it impossible to take Kevin along. She's immortal, he's not. She's powerful, he's not. She is being drawn deeper and deeper into the supernatural. Eventually, it will become clear they have separate paths and will have to break up. To protect Kevin if nothing else. Monica may also tire of everyday human pursuits, as well, as she gains a broader perspective of the supernatural universe. A case of "how ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm?" and all that. Of course, in the Wapsiverse anything may happen, and Kevin may be either already secretly supernatural as well, or will end up becoming so in some way.