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Confirmation of Nadette's seer ability... and reality overwhelms Calista.

Reality hurts, yes... but her teary response is probably better, in the end, than going back into "tough denial" would have been.

The next big question, will be the details of just why she has no friends. Did she ever have friends (who are now gone, gone, gone so far that even their shadows cannot be seen), or did she never have any friends? Maybe, as a Fae princess, she was kept away from other Fae children because they "weren't good enough" to befriend royalty? Non-Fae kids were kept away because "Fae are dangerous"?

True, Atsali's there, and Bern' and 'Dette would want to be part of the group. And she just has to meet the rest of the Gilchrist household.

Good grief! Calista is a Peanuts character.

Awwww, poor Cricket. Dry your eyes your highness,(and I don't mean that in a sarcastic or derogatory way) you have a friend in Atsali and when you have one good friend can others be far behind 'Da Bears' fer instance?

How about taking Cricket over to Mucho Mocha for a nice soothing cup of tea? I'd love to see Nadette and Tina size each other up...

txmystic wrote:How about taking Cricket over to Mucho Mocha for a nice soothing cup of tea? I'd love to see Nadette and Tina size each other up...

Oooooo -- there's a good mix!

Cricket is eventually going to have to grow up (a bit, anyway), and she's just going to have to deal with the fact that's it's not her pants that make her look fat, etc.

She really is good at Glamour!
I was expecting to see her true form again.
(Assuming that Was her true form.)
Ms. Mermaid couldn't hold it in, and she wasn't having an emotional crisis.

Cricket said she'd mastered glamor by he time she was five... so maintaining the illusion wouldn't be an issue. However as we can see, some people have weapons that can cut through the glamor to the heart of the matter. Even royalty can be fragile and have their feelings trampled. Seems Cricket may be a whiz at maintaining her glamor but still has trouble keeping her feelings bottled when faced with the truth.

Gee Sali makes friends really fast. From them smacking each other, to sarcastic remarks, to crying jag. Yep that really defines becoming friends doesn't it. I know it can happen fast but I don't see the keys in personality that lead to instant friendship. So now it depends on how cricket responds, or if she even notices, to Sali's friends statement. She had a better friend filter before during the swimming lesson. And becoming friends with the bears was tough for her, she was so embarrassed. So where did that filter go?

shadowinthelight wrote:Good grief! Calista is a Peanuts character.

That's what i was thinking. Calista is Peppermint Patty. All tough talk and act, but is a real softy and lonely. She wants friends and wants acceptance for who she is. Unlike PP who had Marcy, Calista has no one

WilliamCA wrote:

shadowinthelight wrote:Good grief! Calista is a Peanuts character.

That's what i was thinking. Calista is Peppermint Patty. All tough talk and act, but is a real softy and lonely. She wants friends and wants acceptance for who she is. Unlike PP who had Marcy, Calista has no one

Until now.

This is better than her smashing the table - or Nadette - or running for the girl's room in tears. And Atsali seems to be doing the right thing, here, offering immediate reassurance. We'll have to see how this goes.

I AM curious, though. To judge from what Nad' said, Cricket HAD friends at one time, but now they're all gone. So gone, even their faces and shadows have vanished. I'm curious as to what happened. And why.

In spite of being Fae/immortal, Calista/Cricket is still a little girl/young teenager trying to learn how to deal with emotions and interacting with others.
Reminds me of my daughter when at the age of 15 bemoaned that she "had no social life". My wife and I discussed that at my daughter's recent wedding reception. A no-host affair at one of the more trendy pubs in Los Angeles with 200 of her closest friends. . . .all dressed as their favorite character.

BUT, unlike my daughter, it would appear that something happened to Calista's prior "friends". Just have to wait and see where this goes. . .

What is it with brunettes? They're all oracles or misanthropes or both.

Yamara wrote:What is it with brunettes? They're all oracles or misanthropes or both.

They ran low on power. It's called a brown out.

Drops a hamster powered Jet Car into the jar.

eee wrote:I AM curious, though. To judge from what Nad' said, Cricket HAD friends at one time, but now they're all gone. So gone, even their faces and shadows have vanished. I'm curious as to what happened. And why.

Judging from this reaction, and contrary to her reputation as a badass, I'm hopeful that nothing sinister happened...she's probably really good at building emotional walls and erasing those that hurt her from her genetic memory...

Let's hope her friends were not expunged by force.
Getting the "higher authority" that took Cricket's friends from her involved in this could result in a real donnybrook.

sheik wrote:Let's hope her friends were not expunged by force.
Getting the "higher authority" that took Cricket's friends from her involved in this could result in a real donnybrook.

No higher authority took them so there is none to get involved. They were gone and no trace of them was left on Cricket of them. Either this happened in another dimension, or cricket is a lot older than we think. I have no idea how long it would take a young fae to grow up but they have a very long life time.

zachariah wrote:

sheik wrote:Let's hope her friends were not expunged by force.
Getting the "higher authority" that took Cricket's friends from her involved in this could result in a real donnybrook.

No higher authority took them so there is none to get involved.

Ummm... how would you know that for certain, based on what's been said so far?

If Cricket did have friends, who have been "erased" from her life somehow, there's no evidence either way as to who, or what may be responsible. It could be an enemy, or a higher authority (such as her parents?), or a purely natural force, or (as you suggest) a great deal of time or distance. Since we know that Wapsiverse time is changeable, a higher power (or enemy) might have "retroactively erased" friends from her timeline - hence, they "never were".

They were gone and no trace of them was left on Cricket of them. Either this happened in another dimension, or cricket is a lot older than we think. I have no idea how long it would take a young fae to grow up but they have a very long life time.

What Nadette said was ambiguous... it's subject to multiple interpretations (as oracular statements often are). Her words don't even actually confirm that Cricket ever had any friends at all. All she really confirmed, is that she cannot detect any trace at all of friends on Cricket's aura/soul/being/body/whatever.

Yes, she did say "They're gone", but as she then says she can't see even their faces or shadows, I'd say she can't be certain that they ever even existed in the first place.

My hunch is that Calista's upbringing may have been constrained and/or hostile somehow, and prevented her from ever developing any friendships with others of her age. Not all that uncommon a situation even among humans and it would tie in nicely with the general theme Pablo seems to be following here.

Time will tell.