A fun misunderstanding
on April 10, 2021 at 12:01 amChapter: Mother Knows Worst
Location: Danny and Billie's house, Linda's Confinement Cube
*squints* That silhouette in panel two, is that danny wearing a bowti– oh god, no, that’s his open mouth in profile, oh god, no
ANYWAY HEY! It’s Linda Walkerton! Wonder what she’s been up to! Looks like NOT MUCH.
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Not much, in all caps, sounds like she isn’t over the eloping.
You can tell she’s bored because she has a chair facing the window.
Yay, my faaaaavorite parent is here!
seriously, I think she’s actually worse than friggin’ Blaine in this universe
At least Linda thought she was doing the right thing.
…which is exactly what Carol said about Toedad one universe over.
When you fuck up your kids’ lives this badly, I think your intentions cease to matter. At least Blaine only fucked up one kid’s life in this universe. Even counting only her adoptive and biological children, Linda had three– and honestly, I think one could make the case that she serves as an abusive mother to the entirety of SEMMF.
Good point. Also, how do you do italics?
Not entirely sure how to indicate it without simply causing the italic effect, but here’s an attempt:
Okay, let me try something else. Do this:
text you want italicized
But remove the quotation marks around the “i”s.
Okay, still not working. Sorry
<I>like this</I>
The brackets I did there with < and > (assuming I correctly remember the code for ampersand)
It uses a limited subset of HTML, as outlined below the comment box. If you enclose text in <em>emphasis</em> or <i>italic</i> tags, it’ll italicize it.
< and > are interpreted as part of HTML tags, so in order to include them literally, you have to use the < and > HTML entities. & is &
(Now let’s see if I managed to do this without screwing up any of the escapes…)
I did! But I was beaten to it.
So like this?
Yay
I mean, there was definitely some awkwardness and trouble from Blaine fathering a bunch of children and never caring to find out or do anything about it – Faz had quite a bit of angst from never knowing his dad, and it was implied Rose and Zaph were dating before discovering they were half-siblings. However, looking at Dumbing of Age, I think that Faz would actually AGREE that it’s preferable to have no father than plausibly-deniable statutory rapist Blaine. And hilariously enough, Shortpacked Blaine never went full supervillain the way Dumbing of Age Blaine did.
Linda, by contrast, raised her children preparing for one of them to have to sacrifice themselves to clean up her problems, ignored the son she adopted/child-swapped the moment her biological daughter was back, and engineered the entire abductee thing that looped hundreds of kids into fighting a war for her – and most of them had just turned twenty at oldest when they got dragged into SEMMF. Yeah, I’d make the case she served as an abusive mother to them.
When did Linda get out of prison?
She didn’t, she’s still in prison. The final panel is a scene change.
So is this a common area? It looks too fancy for a cell.
The location tag says “Linda’s confinement cube”
Ah, she’s in the next cell over from Magneto.
I assumed the bottom part of that silhouette was Danny’s gaping mouth but now that you’ve pointed it out I can’t unsee the bowti.
See, I can only see the mouth, try as I might to see the tie.
I will say, I prefer this silhouette to the way anime characters in profile talk out of their cheek and have solid flesh in front of where their mouths should be.
Don’t get me wrong – huge anime fan – but that stylistic choice has always bothered me.
That does look weird.
It’s probably cheaper and more time efficient to animate that way.
Linda knows about the future kids somehow? How long has she been in prison by now anyway?
HAII showed up for a chat a while back, so I can see her being at least somewhat informed of The Plot.