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I don’t wanna be “that guy,” but it’s definitely the school’s business if Modest can potentially kill a classmate with a single bite.
It 100% is.
I don’t want to be “that kid” but I bit eyeballs when I was in elementary school.
To be fair, when in the 6th grade and still smaller than the kindergarteners, you do what you have to in order to win a fight. No one ever wants to be bitten on the eye ever again.
Surely I could have killed a classmate if I had bit them the right way too… though I suspect the school already knew that.
I’m sorry, but how exactly were you biting EYEBALLS? I can’t figure out how you’d get an angle on that to actually bite and eyeball. And it’s kinda nauseating, but now I can’t not know how you did that.
And people can die from theoretical eye biting? How is this not something you learn in school?
I was small, often times around half as big as the kid fighting with me (not half as tell, but I could be a foot or more smaller, and maybe 65 pounds). Climb like a monkey bite from the side. I didn’t remove anyone’s eyes with my thumbs and bite, I’d position myself so that the lower jaw would bite at and around the temple, and the upper would hit the eye.
I did once bite a kid’s throat though; that was when the principal cautioned me NOT to do that because I might kill someone.
I wouldn’t start fights, but I would use (almost) every weapon at my disposal to make sure I WASN’T further bullied by individual that did, headbutting, biting, scratching, kicking (I did try to avoid kicking others in the nuts, though). I finally grew my junior year of high school. When I was a sophomore, I was jealous of the 98 pound weaklings because they had a good 8 pounds on me.
As we say in the programming business:
If. And only IF.
I still wonder about why that didn’t work. However other people knowing about it will lead to trouble. Few would want to hang around a little monster who could turn you to stone with her hair, made even worse by the fact they act on their own.
Doesn’t work outside of Yeld apparently. Dunno where but people keep saying Jake confirmed this at some point.
I don’t know if I actually confirmed that. I might have offered it as a possibility.
I don’t remember if I actually confirmed it. I may have just offered it as a possible explanation.
I just assumed that’s the case because the Mermaid’s magic ain’t working right and in the yeld people from this world turn into other things if they stay long enough.
Your story thus far actually supports this idea.
I prefer the dry bite explanation personally. Snakes do that irl too.
I think back when they discussed the Chainsaw Unicorn it was said:
He was a normal human from Jakes world. But he spent so much time in Yeld, so he could no longer life outside it.
It is not that uncommon in fiction for certain abilities to only work with a ambient magical field.
Some superheroic settings go as far as saying that not even supertech or supergenetics works without ambient magic field.
Kinda-ish. Back in Wither Away. The Knight of Chains turned back into a human when entering the mortal world after decades.
It did not happen on his later visit, but he might have had a protective spell put on him that time to keep his form stable.
Ms. Kohli: Expulsion! Or muzzles! Expulsion and muzzles!
Ms. Booth: Danger money! Backdated to Modest’s enrolment!
Meg: Cool! But dangerous! …Edgy!!
Would-be kidnapper: …How did I even survive that??
Convenience store clerk: How did I even survive that?? And what can I do now? I know… *pulls out nylon mesh draw-string bag* *writes sign “ALL SNAKE-HEADED PATRONS MUST WEAR HAIRNET”* There! Fixed! *posts sign*
Guy with large dreadlocks: *spots sign as he enters* *shrugs* *puts mesh bag over dreads*
Convenience store clerk: Ah, no, sir… Sir? That doesn’t apply to y0u… er…
Modest: *enters* *grabs box of chocodiles* Hi! *bangs down exact money on counter* *exits*
Convenience store clerk: Hey! Didn’t you read the sign? You’re supposed to-
Guy with large dreadlocks: *dumps merchandise on counter* And I think I’ll take the hairnet as well. How much?
Convenience store clerk: …
>:=)>
Hope this doesn’t end up costing Modest her friends.
Is it just me or does the Medusa of the website (not the comics, up in the top left) look older then the one in the comics?
I drew that Medusa at the top of teh site around strip 120 (just about the time they first traveled to Yeld). Around strip 360 (when they returned from Yeld) I started to think that Modest was looking too old, so I deliberatly changed the way I drew her, giving her shorter limbs and a thicker body as well as thicker hair.
Both styles are awesome! Either could be the same age depending on how Modest is supposed to be built (though she is cutest now). There’s a lot of height/build variation between kids who are the same age when they are 4-6.
I definitely had the wrong impression of MM’s age for a long time — I was thinking 8-9 year old range. When she started first grade, I had to do multiple doubletakes. I like the younger look and I’d rather have her be younger, so I’m OK with it; just sayin’ you were right to think she was looking older than you intended.
Mind your own business. Oh, if only saying that actually worked at getting you out of trouble…
Pfft. Eavesdroppers.
If you aren’t in the panel shot, you can’t hear what is going on!
Oh dear. Hopefully Jake explains why it did with the mermaid, but not with Gina. But either way biting hair (that Modest can’t control) is kind of a serious thing—even if it is one snake. I wonder if there are snake muzzles?
Eavesdropping is very rude!
And we sink deeper!
Damn right, Jake! You tell ’em! Don’t they have some maths or some dodgeball to do?
Nice save.
Maybe it only works in Yeld?
“No. Mind your own business.”
I laughed out loud. =D
Look at Jake, being all comforting and supportive there. And sticking up for Modest at the end.
Nice.
Oh no, she’s going to be expelled. XD
You could always get her a snood, Jake. (I hear that some guy in Gotham City has a collection of the priceless Etruscan variety…)
Stone or not, biting someone gets you expelled where I come from.. Here’s hoping this world isn’t quite that realistic.
That mermaid cannot mind anyone’s business now that she’s encased in stone . . .^^’
I think Ekans will be a bit more cautious with being so close to Modest knowing this bit of information. . . Hopefully she isn’t the type to cut off a friendship just like that.
I doubt the school will take this well, considering children could potentially be at risk. Really looking forward to how things turn out in the upcoming pages.
wait where did she come from? wasn’t she “sick”?
Mrs. Boothe is out ‘sick’, that’s the vice principal (the one Modest F
alcoln Punched)