Wapsi Square Forum

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/middle-name/

One downside of being small again...

Now we know Shelly's middle name.

I think she'd prefer we didn't.

What were those legends, about being able to control someone if you knew their name?

I wonder if Bia can still use the Mom Voice ™ to any effect, on Shelley.

I have a feeling that Conscience knew just what she was doing, when she headed into that particular passage in the Library.

She'd figured out an additional, very slightly more subtle way to create mayhem and avoid boredom.

Oh, hi mom! For a bit there, you looked just like Connie. Sorry about that. Have you seen her lately?

Technically, wouldn't her first name be Michele? Usually, when they pull out the Middle Name, you also get the full First as well.


This brings the question: Do you see Connie as Shelly's sister, or daughter? I fall into the daughter camp, but it's a close thing.

Dave wrote:I have a feeling that Conscience knew just what she was doing, when she headed into that particular passage in the Library.

She'd figured out an additional, very slightly more subtle way to create mayhem and avoid boredom.

And, somewhere nearby, she is HURTING herself laughing.

And probably Phix or Nudge (or both), having put her up to it, is, too.

Helley forgot Connie has access to other dimensions (like the basement with the boilers/furnace) and can go there without having to use a portal.

jeffepp wrote: This brings the question: Do you see Connie as Shelly's sister, or daughter? I fall into the daughter camp, but it's a close thing.

Neither, really. She may look like a younger Shelley, but she is more of a familiar or companion than anyone with a familal attachment.

jeffepp wrote:Technically, wouldn't her first name be Michele? Usually, when they pull out the Middle Name, you also get the full First as well.


This brings the question: Do you see Connie as Shelly's sister, or daughter? I fall into the daughter camp, but it's a close thing.

Appendage. She may be the fusion of Shelly's demons and Tina 1.0's soul, she may be separate and sentient and able to operate away from Shelly; but don't forget, when Shelly dies, Connie dies. They're a part of each other. Even if they occasionally drive each other crazy...

ALERT! ALERT!

She just used her MIDDLE NAME!!!!

ALL HANDS ON DECK!

Its funny how a mom can use a middle name, a principle uses mister or miss but a father uses general terms such as boy or you girls to get the same effect.

After all those years, Shelly still hasn't mastered thinking things through before acting.

Given that Conscience seems to have at least some slight ability to alter her own appearance, it is possible that she's just messing with Shelly some more by pretending to be Bia. It's not as though Shelly's middle name would have been a mystery to her, after all. That seems a bit too unlike Connie, though, so this Bia is probably the real thing.

I wonder if Bia chose Shelly's middle name? Since Bia knew that Shelly was part sphinx and thus could take a form that is partly covered in fur, Elise might have been a minor bit of foreshadowing.

Dave wrote:I have a feeling that Conscience knew just what she was doing, when she headed into that particular passage in the Library.

She'd figured out an additional, very slightly more subtle way to create mayhem and avoid boredom.

Oh yeah... that was quite deliberate