Not Gonna Bite 2015-01-15

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Instinct. Pure instinct. :) ;)
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the SHADOW knows... heheheheheheheheheh :?: :?: :?:
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Nadette's "not get in your way" comment eases some of the concern I voiced yesterday. Of course, this confirms to Atsali the level of Nadette's attraction.
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mumble, grumble;
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O.M.G... Asali has shadow-goo all over her knuckles. That's gonna leave a mark... one place or another. :shock:

And, it seems that Tsillah didn't get the memo last time, about not using Library facilities to manipulate people. People tend to resent being manipulated. In this case, The Shadow didn't know. 8-)
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Hmm. Let's take it in reverse order.

3) How does Nadette know Tsillah? Do we have any real answers, or just speculation?

2) Tsillah still has all the people skills and common sense of a golf ball.

1) Nadette, you can say that your are not getting in their way, but isn't opening Atsali's eyes to the idea that there might be other people out there that she might find as (even more) compatible "getting in the way"? It certainly seems to me that it would be a big distraction that would cause Atsali to overthink things when it comes to Jacob, at the very least. "Jacob is being so considerate. Wait, would Nadette be this considerate? More considerate? Why am I thinking of her when I'm with him, darn it?!"

"Shh, relax, babe. I'm not going to bite. And I'm not going to get in your way with Jacob. I'm just going to stand here and hold onto you with my face inches from yours until this moment burns into your hormone-flooded brain." :roll:
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Odds improved they are in the library.

If Tisillah is present the MIB IS involved with where they ended up. So probably Sal's response was allowed for when Lily was sent to get her.

Sali has apparently learned to shadow box!

This implies that wherever they are the normal rules don't apply. I also suspect this might be the first time anyone has actually taken a swing at Tisillah as well. She can be a real pain but I doubt she's gotten too many beings mad enough to take a shot at her. Though being shadow she probably has never worried about someone trying knowing she could not be hurt.

I wonder when Sali acquired the fight or flight reaction? When we first met her she was not aggressive. If surprised she would flinch away not attack. I doubt her adventure with Kathy was enough to change a basic reaction pattern that way. So somewhere she was either trained to fight enough so her surprise reaction is to strike out. The other option for this is her maturing into full siren powers. The change also affected her basic reactions which could be. Sirens are hunters/predators after all so an attack reaction would be a survival trait for them.
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Of course it's Tsillah's fault. It's always Tsillah's fault.
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Thor wrote:"Shh, relax, babe. I'm not going to bite. And I'm not going to get in your way with Jacob. I'm just going to stand here and hold onto you with my face inches from yours until this moment burns into your hormone-flooded brain." :roll:

Yep. And then, "Dammit, Tsillah!" Golf ball indeed.
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well as a Cambion Atsali would be an awesome fighter. As well as a maybe magic user like her possible cousin Merlin.
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zachariah wrote:Sali has apparently learned to shadow box!
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zachariah wrote:I wonder when Sali acquired the fight or flight reaction? When we first met her she was not aggressive. If surprised she would flinch away not attack. I doubt her adventure with Kathy was enough to change a basic reaction pattern that way. So somewhere she was either trained to fight enough so her surprise reaction is to strike out. The other option for this is her maturing into full siren powers. The change also affected her basic reactions which could be. Sirens are hunters/predators after all so an attack reaction would be a survival trait for them.
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Thor wrote:2) Tsillah still has all the people skills and common sense of a golf ball.
Well, if she didn't have dimples already, she does now.
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Thor wrote:Hmm. Let's take it in reverse order.
3) How does Nadette know Tsillah? Do we have any real answers, or just speculation?
Nothing in-comic, but it's presumed that Atsali told Berdine and Nadette about what happened to her - and maybe pointed out who that stupid gal with the weird face tat was that they saw at the shopping mall.
2) Tsillah still has all the people skills and common sense of a golf ball.
You're giving golf balls a lot of credit. I suspect "Tsillah" means "Daddy's Little Road Paver" in some esoteric, long-dead language. (Think about that for a while.)
1) Nadette, you can say that your are not getting in their way, but isn't opening Atsali's eyes to the idea that there might be other people out there that she might find as (even more) compatible "getting in the way"? It certainly seems to me that it would be a big distraction that would cause Atsali to overthink things when it comes to Jacob, at the very least. "Jacob is being so considerate. Wait, would Nadette be this considerate? More considerate? Why am I thinking of her when I'm with him, darn it?!"

"Shh, relax, babe. I'm not going to bite. And I'm not going to get in your way with Jacob. I'm just going to stand here and hold onto you with my face inches from yours until this moment burns into your hormone-flooded brain." :roll:
Yeah, she could have handled that better, but we'll never know what the outcome was because Tsillah barged in.
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zachariah wrote: Sali has apparently learned to shadow box!
Booooooo.... Pun vault, NOW.
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jwhouk wrote:
1) Nadette, you can say that your are not getting in their way, but isn't opening Atsali's eyes to the idea that there might be other people out there that she might find as (even more) compatible "getting in the way"? It certainly seems to me that it would be a big distraction that would cause Atsali to overthink things when it comes to Jacob, at the very least. "Jacob is being so considerate. Wait, would Nadette be this considerate? More considerate? Why am I thinking of her when I'm with him, darn it?!"

"Shh, relax, babe. I'm not going to bite. And I'm not going to get in your way with Jacob. I'm just going to stand here and hold onto you with my face inches from yours until this moment burns into your hormone-flooded brain." :roll:
Yeah, she could have handled that better, but we'll never know what the outcome was because Tsillah barged in.
Did she handle it badly, or did she handle it exactly as she intended?

So much about figuring out Nadette's intentions are complex because we don't know how much foresight she has on the subject and therefore what she is or isn't trying to accomplish.
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Thor wrote:Hmm. Let's take it in reverse order.

3) How does Nadette know Tsillah? Do we have any real answers, or just speculation?
The latter, I think. I can't recall the two of them even being mentioned within a month of one another in the strip.

To speculate: Nadette's question implies that she knows of Tsillah, but doesn't know her personally. She seems to have guessed Tsillah's identity from the clues presented... light and shadow, the form of a goblin-ish little girl, involvement with Library manners, a sense of fashion which could stop a clock, and more diplomacy than God gave the average half-witted termite.

Nadette might know of Tsillah from Atsali's stories, or Tsillah might have been mentioned in Paranormal Social Studies class. In fact, since the first time we saw Tsillah it was clear that she was in school herself, it's even possible that she's part of Gryphon's student body.
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Nice Right Cross. Ali would be proud. 8-)
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