Life Strategies 2014-04-01
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Re: Life Strategies 2014-04-01
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You do all have to remember she was abandoned and left at an orphanage. She's probably got some Oliver Twist in her.
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Heheheeee... Tina called her 'Critter-plant'!!!!!
She talks about speaking softer... Does Castela even HAVE a volume control? It seems that she has two volumes... top of her lungs, and smothered by Atsali's breasteses... LOL
She talks about speaking softer... Does Castela even HAVE a volume control? It seems that she has two volumes... top of her lungs, and smothered by Atsali's breasteses... LOL
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I had a little hickup too, with thoughts of transparent 4th Walls and "Is this reeeeealy Castela after all?" and 'Hell, I used to talk like that at five, well almost', and stuff like that.
Then I remembered Tina was back in the forefront again (I mean c'mon, after all...).
'critter-plant', thats hilarious...
Then I remembered Tina was back in the forefront again (I mean c'mon, after all...).
'critter-plant', thats hilarious...
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Soaking up a Zen-like wisdom, and making it part of her life's outlook would seem to be natural for a tender young half-plant like Castela. Soto-synthesis, they call it.eee wrote:'Life strategies' would seem to be a more complex saying and concept than a five year old might normally have in their vocabulary; but then, Castela DOES live with Kath and visits Phix a lot. Little pitchers have big ears and she may have picked up a lot of concepts and words that children normally don't know. And in this case, she's using some of them correctly...
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Well, she certainly used "That's BULLSHIT!" properly...eee wrote:'Life strategies' would seem to be a more complex saying and concept than a five year old might normally have in their vocabulary; but then, Castela DOES live with Kath and visits Phix a lot. Little pitchers have big ears and she may have picked up a lot of concepts and words that children normally don't know. And in this case, she's using some of them correctly...
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Perhaps more of the Artful Dodger?jwhouk wrote:You do all have to remember she was abandoned and left at an orphanage. She's probably got some Oliver Twist in her.
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Upon studying her torso carefully (always an onerous task, that, when involving the ladies from the Wapsi Square cast), her entire body is turned in the third panel when compared to the previous two. In one and two her torso was turned more towards the viewer's seven or eight o'clock, while in the last panel it's turned more towards five o'clock. So either Tina turned her body in the third panel, or else our point of view was shifted. Or we're seeing Tina through one of her eleven dimensions that we're not used to. Perhaps a little bit of all of the above.Dave wrote:I'd guess she turned her stance as well as her neck.Fairportfan wrote:Did Tina just turn her head more than ninety degrees anti-clockwise to look at Castela?
I mean, in the panel before, Castela is standing just behind Tina's left shoulder...
Rare in societies where kids are normally able to be sheltered and pampered. Very common in many other places where they have to grow up right away.Akasha wrote:to all here who don't think kids can be this way at an early age: well, they can be, it is just rare, and depends on what they have gone through.
Castela has been taking lessons on hair mobility from a Gorgon?KnightDelight wrote:Odd how their hair is blowing in opposite directions in the second frame.
If her emotional turmoil keeps on "leaking" out and affecting others as it has done, then it's going to be difficult to keep ignoring the problem.zachariah wrote:Tina does know she is being ignored and apparently is used to it. That is a shame.
Unless ignoring the problem is part of the being affected aspect. . .
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You think that she's part Nepenthes and part corn plant?eee wrote:Little pitchers have big ears. . .
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Yeah, when the typos were fixed, Tina (neck-down) was modified too. (As was the background in the last panel.)Catawampus wrote:Upon studying her torso carefully (always an onerous task, that, when involving the ladies from the Wapsi Square cast), her entire body is turned in the third panel when compared to the previous two.Dave wrote:I'd guess she turned her stance as well as her neck.Fairportfan wrote:Did Tina just turn her head more than ninety degrees anti-clockwise to look at Castela?
I mean, in the panel before, Castela is standing just behind Tina's left shoulder...
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Re: Life Strategies 2014-04-01
She's one sharp Pickle, she is.
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It's not just 'life strategies'. It's also 'difficult' for 'hard' and 'adults' for 'grownups' and being able to extract a nonobvious 'this' from Tina's complaint. Either she's two-natured or it's April Fool's Day.
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We know she's two-natured in at least one sense - she is a plant/animal hybrid. This might have some interesting implications for her mentality and personality... perhaps one aspect of her is more mature than the other?Treesong wrote:It's not just 'life strategies'. It's also 'difficult' for 'hard' and 'adults' for 'grownups' and being able to extract a nonobvious 'this' from Tina's complaint. Either she's two-natured or it's April Fool's Day.
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She shouldn't be ashamed of this, though... they're very distant cousins, from a thoroughly disreputable side of the family that nobody will invite over for Christmas dinner. ]
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Re: Life Strategies 2014-04-01
It seems to me that Castela must be a human-plant hybrid. The only animal form we have ever seen her in is human, so it follows that this is her "normal" animal form, or the easiest for her to assume. Also, she is very intelligent (moreso than most "ordinary" humans, says I) and there seem to be very few species that can say that.
Therefor, she is a human-plant hybrid, not just an animal-plant hybrid.
I have always assumed that she is part human, but people keep referring to her as "animal-plane" so I wanted to put in my two cents worth.
Which I have now done.
Therefor, she is a human-plant hybrid, not just an animal-plant hybrid.
I have always assumed that she is part human, but people keep referring to her as "animal-plane" so I wanted to put in my two cents worth.
Which I have now done.
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The ones using animal/plant hybrid are doing so because Humans are classified as animals (and some animals may just be are far more humane than humans)davids4250 wrote:It seems to me that Castela must be a human-plant hybrid. The only animal form we have ever seen her in is human, so it follows that this is her "normal" animal form, or the easiest for her to assume. Also, she is very intelligent (moreso than most "ordinary" humans, says I) and there seem to be very few species that can say that.
Therefor, she is a human-plant hybrid, not just an animal-plant hybrid.
I have always assumed that she is part human, but people keep referring to her as "animal-plane" so I wanted to put in my two cents worth.
Which I have now done.
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“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”Mark N wrote:The ones using animal/plant hybrid are doing so because Humans are classified as animals (and some animals may just be are far more humane than humans)davids4250 wrote:It seems to me that Castela must be a human-plant hybrid. The only animal form we have ever seen her in is human, so it follows that this is her "normal" animal form, or the easiest for her to assume. Also, she is very intelligent (moreso than most "ordinary" humans, says I) and there seem to be very few species that can say that.
Therefor, she is a human-plant hybrid, not just an animal-plant hybrid.
I have always assumed that she is part human, but people keep referring to her as "animal-plane" so I wanted to put in my two cents worth.
Which I have now done.
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Re: Life Strategies 2014-04-01
Others have speculated that she may be a Titan-plant hybrid.
Castela says she's "part plant 'n part animal", without specifying species, and so far that's good enough for me. This is all fantasy, with fantasy species and "species", many of which display human-like form and human-like intelligence, so I don't think there's enough data on which to found even a proper speculation.
Not that wild-spec is discouraged, mind. But we shouldn't forget, it remains wild.
Castela says she's "part plant 'n part animal", without specifying species, and so far that's good enough for me. This is all fantasy, with fantasy species and "species", many of which display human-like form and human-like intelligence, so I don't think there's enough data on which to found even a proper speculation.
Not that wild-spec is discouraged, mind. But we shouldn't forget, it remains wild.
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I think she's gonna grow up to be a Dryad. He plant-self will finally take root, and her 'animal'-self will be free to move, but still bound to her plant-self.
Or she may have begun as a very young Dryad - and the Blokes in Black Hats spirited her away for the Madboys to experiment on - and was then discarded as a 'failure' of whatever goal they had......
Or she may have begun as a very young Dryad - and the Blokes in Black Hats spirited her away for the Madboys to experiment on - and was then discarded as a 'failure' of whatever goal they had......
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Did anybody ever specify that it was just one species of animal, though? She could have human and rhinoceros and hummingbird DNA, for all that we know.davids4250 wrote:It seems to me that Castela must be a human-plant hybrid. The only animal form we have ever seen her in is human, so it follows that this is her "normal" animal form, or the easiest for her to assume. Also, she is very intelligent (moreso than most "ordinary" humans, says I) and there seem to be very few species that can say that.
Therefor, she is a human-plant hybrid, not just an animal-plant hybrid.
I have always assumed that she is part human, but people keep referring to her as "animal-plane" so I wanted to put in my two cents worth.
Which I have now done.
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The Dryad aspect brings up an interesting possibility:
It's been about, oh, three years (calendar time) since Shel returned from the Time Forest. What if our little Castela was the "wood nymph" of the Yggdrasil?
It's been about, oh, three years (calendar time) since Shel returned from the Time Forest. What if our little Castela was the "wood nymph" of the Yggdrasil?
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Wow, that must have been some party!Catawampus wrote:
Did anybody ever specify that it was just one species of animal, though? She could have human and rhinoceros and hummingbird DNA, for all that we know.
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