Marcie
on August 25, 2016 at 12:01 amLet’s get to know some of the Squad 48 people as individuals! Here’s Marcie. She doesn’t talk. In the Walkyverse, this was supposed to be evocative of a quiet, domineering personality that Joyce finds offputting. I hid her eyes with opaque glasses and decided to not draw her mouth, gifting her with an eternally blank expression. She’s also the first character to be drawn permanently wearing gloves, even before Sal picked up the habit. After designing her, I realized her opaque glasses made her look a little like Marcie from Peanuts, so that’s where she got the name. Other than that, the two characters aren’t very similar. Peanuts‘ Marcie, in contrast, won’t shut up.
Dumbing of Age recast Marcie as a skater girl who lost the ability for speech sometime in her youth because of [REDACTED]. Where Walkyverse Marcie is hard to read, Dumbiverse Marcie is especially expressive mostly because she has to be, since the sign language she uses often needs facial expressions to sell certain words and tones.
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I legitimately thought you were going to reveal the truth behind Marcie being mute in DoA there.
I have nobody to blame but myself.
*signs* “I don’t know what you expected”
Don’t worry, I’m sure it will be revealed why Marcie is mute. You just have to wait a couple of years.
Though I think the preview panels do show another flashback, I think occuring in a month or so. Perhaps a hint will appear there?
Cavernous Hemangioma leading to damage to the speech center of the brain. Calling it now.
Marcie has taken a vow of silence; she will not speak until Charlie Brown makes out with Peppermint Patty.
[DATA EXPUNGED]
Object Class: Keter
Nah, she’s Euclid. Now Sal, that’s a Keter all right.
Walkyverse Marcie also kinda resembles a crash test dummy =p
Or Nick from General Protection Fault.
Marcie being spoken at concurrence!
Gotta say, Joyce is right. Marcie is pretty creepy in this scene.
It’s really more Peppermint Patty that won’t shut up.
Pepperment Patty spends like five whole years telling Marcie to leave her alone and go away and to stop talking to her! They don’t really become friends for a while. And even then, Marcie’s kinda a gabber.
I was waffling on calling Robin the Peppermint Patty of the Walkyverse before you said this, but now I’m damn well obligated, aren’t I?
Yay, Marcie combo !
Originally posted:
December 7, 2001
I’m sure it’s probably not intentional (maybe), but it’s really cool how certain Walkyverse characters are having their strips shown at the same time as their DoA characters. It’s happened a couple times with squad 48 members now
Dumbiverse Marcie was actually part of my inspiration for making a character who “speaks” using ASL. Besides that and being a gay girl — well, depending on how you define it, “gay once she gets old enough to have real romantic or sexual interest instead of just little-kid crushes” — with glasses… they don’t have much in common?