Wapsi Square Forum

NOTDilbert wrote:We also have to remember - she IS the shadow, and casts the person - not the other way 'round - so clothes, hair, figure, horns, etc., are all subject to change. It's all ectoplasm, anyway.....

I'm reminded a bit of Nadreck and the other Palainians, from the Lensman universe. They were physical entities, but fundamentally four-dimensional in space. The forms humans could observe, were three-dimensional "shadows" of their true (unperceivable by us) beings, and these solid "shadows" were subject to change in weird and arbitrary ways from one moment to the next.

Tsillah seems to take this from the opposite direction... a mostly-two-dimensional shadow bring, casting a three-dimensional body.

NOTDilbert wrote:

Dave wrote:

NOTDilbert wrote:Oh, it's Tsillah! Uh, was she that busty before? Don't think so, IIRC she looked like a goblin schoolgirl....

YRC! Based on her trick of dissolving, and the fact that she's just shown Monica two significantly different forms, and looks about twenty years older than when she met Shelly and Justin, I get the feeling that her form and appearance are very much a matter of choice at any particular moment.

We also have to remember - she IS the shadow, and casts the person - not the other way 'round - so clothes, hair, figure, horns, etc., are all subject to change. It's all ectoplasm, anyway.....

"It's all in the mind, y'know." - G.Harrison, Yellow Submarine

WistfulD wrote:Not another one!

Pablo! Seriously! Update the cast page! I am so tired of having no idea who anyone is or what is going on.

Go here: http://home.roadrunner.com/~jhouk/wapsi.htm

Hm.

Uh, two things:

1. I haven't updated that thing in a LONG time.

2. I don't have that account anymore, and I'd actually be surprised if the link actually works. (It does, but I'm not sure for how much longer. Try this instead: http://webpages.charter.net/jwhouk/wapsi.htm)

3. Now that I have the capability, I can publish that into a PDF document, which will make it a WHOLE lot easier to read and update, and host it over on Scribd. Lemme get it updated and then put it up there.

You could also check out the Wapsi Wiki, where pretty much the same page lives with links to some more detailed pages.

Wyvern wrote:You could also check out the Wapsi Wiki, where pretty much the same page lives with links to some more detailed pages.

That's a much better suggestion - jwhouk really had me at "PDF easier to read" and (especially) "easier to update"... *shudder*

Or, of course, you could go here:



FINALLY got it updated. Sheesh, step away for two years and EVERYTHING changes. Even Monica's bust size.

Yamara wrote:Monica's been guarded secretly since she was born (before, really) and each of her open guardians has been more sophisticated.

Dietzel, Tepoz, the GGs revealing themselves, Tina revealing herself, Phix, Nudge's reveal, and now Tsillah.

Also, Tsillah is direct about her being assigned. M is on coffee not alcohol now, so her consideration of her own "brains and power" is coming under the scrutiny, and possible challenge, of those claiming the authority to wield them over the world.

When was Dietzel revealed as a guardian?

Choronzon wrote:When was Dietzel revealed as a guardian?

Pretty much in his first appearance in the strip. He was protecting Monica from soap suds and excessive warmth and (on the previous day) from the shame of an unmade bed.

He has also been known to guard Monica against the perils of an acute lack of pizza.

Ya know ... in the panel with the water shutoff notice, Dietzel looks sort of like an Edward Gorey character.

Mr Earbrass, perhaps.

Dave wrote:

Choronzon wrote:When was Dietzel revealed as a guardian?

Pretty much in his first appearance in the strip. He was protecting Monica from soap suds and excessive warmth and (on the previous day) from the shame of an unmade bed.

He has also been known to guard Monica against the perils of an acute lack of pizza.

Yes--but can he poit pizza directly into the stomach of his charge?

Fairportfan wrote:Ya know ... in the panel with the water shutoff notice, Dietzel looks sort of like an Edward Gorey character.

Mr Earbrass, perhaps.

Diestzel and Mr Earbrass (from The Unstrung Harp)

bmonk wrote:

Dave wrote:He has also been known to guard Monica against the perils of an acute lack of pizza.

Yes--but can he poit pizza directly into the stomach of his charge?

Oh, Dietzel knows and respects Monica much too well to ever do that. He would not deny her the enjoyment of tasting the pizza.

What Tepoz did, was rather rude (IMO). Monica didn't get to enjoy the turkey Tepoz poited into her stomach... she just passed out in a tryptophan haze, and then had a rather unpleasant experience in the loo the next morning. Some guardian he was!