I dunno, symmetry doesn’t really factor into the current meta, except in very specific situations.
TimeLoss
The circle could be complete. In Ryan’s first appearance he lost blood, now in his last? he looses a whole lot more.
TimeLoss
I have to emphasize I am being partly sarcastic. I doubt Ryan really is going to die. Also loses not looses, typos bother me when there is no edit button.
Fred
Well we could say Amber is loosing Ryan’s blood…
3oranges
Not that “looses blood” is so far off, but it probably applies better to the one making the cuts.
N0083rP00F
Sad Sad life. Sad sad death. In all things symmetry.
-B5 Zathras
Big Box
Yeah, Amberblade is kinda over-performing right now. I don’t think they should tweak the damage tho, maybe just the cooldown.
I mean. Hopefully. But that seems mild for the look on Dorothy’s face.
Reltzik
Dorothy probably doesn’t have much experience with violence.
Durandal_1707
I dunno, I’d be pretty freaked out at any kind of knife fight going on right in front of me…
David
This is not a fight. It is a massacre. Amazigirl isn’t here.
HMH
Yeah, fight implies some amount of reciprocation. Ryan never had a fucking chance.
TachyonCode
Even if not for plot reasons, having a weapon stolen from you – which is highly likely even if you are its owner – pretty much guarantees severe injury if not death.
Ryan is a good example of why you don’t bring a weapon to a fight, unless you know everyone is armed and you happen to be working with the elements of surprise, cover, and hopefully distance and backup.
Commander Clash
That is one thing my father and cousin instilled in me. NEVER bring a weapon to a fight if it can be turned against you. Granted they also taught me that if I had to fight dirty everything is allowed. Personally I would’ve thumbed himin the eye, knee to the jewels and then start with curb stomping.
She’s upset b/c there’s a red velvet cake Ryan broke out as a truce offering, and when Amber cut it, it fell out onto the floor and she’s distressed at the wasted cake
yeah, that’s it
HMH
I mean, it’s Ryan’s stupid fault for storing the cake behind his abdominal wall. He could’ve just brought it in a box, but now Amber has to get through all that muscle and guts to pull it out, and they’re just getting everywhere. Party ruined, Ryan. Party ruined.
You don . . you don’t actually need genitalia to rape? i mean, it’s about the power over another person’s body, not necessarily about PIV intercourse . .
Indiana Bones
I seem to remember that there are a number of veins around down there, and while you may not need your genitalia to rape, you do probably need to hold onto at least a majority of your blood
me
Most universities do have plenty of first-responders on hand. I’d say he would have a significant survival probability.
First, Dorothy puking would suggest something really bad happened, like she put his knife through his eye, or going negan and spilling his intestines. Second, the last two panels got darkly Omanis.
Well, people can throw up if they’re really stressed or shocked without any gore present, and I’m pretty sure that this would be enough for some people
The way Amber sees it, Amazi Girl is supposed to be a healthy channeling of her already existing “Dark Side”, where AG can use it to do rightous things, but whenever the Amber part of her uses it ends up, well…like this…
I like how the whole Amber\Amazi Girl is being written, because it’s not a clear-cut good half\bad half sort of thing, but something a lot more interesting
All of the following is based from limited and indirect meatspace experience having known and been friends with a couple people with DID and supplemented with what little I can glean from the case study and research literature on the subject. Hopefully someone can correct me if I’m wrong on any aspect of this. Also, I wish to note that this is specifically a particularly hard area to delve into the literature on, as the associated terminology has shifted quite significantly over time with older terms holding on residually intermixed with newer ones long after their time is officially over.
Neither is entirely the dark side of the other, I’d say. There are, almost certainly, more than just the two of them. Amber as we’ve seen her in class and hiding away playing video games and not wanting to be like her father is definitely the ANP. Amazi-girl is something of a combination the persecutor and protector alter types. Both the Amber and Amazi-girl personalities seem to act as gate keepers. What we’re seeing now, and have seen previously in the segments indicated through red panels, is likely an unnamed sub-alter of the Amber alter which has neither Amber’s fears of being like her father nor Amazi-girl’s super hero based internal philosophical controls to keep her from going all out on the uncontrolled raging violence neither of the main two is willing to engage in.
All of which assumes there is diassociation going on, something we’ve seen no hard evidence of. It may in fact be the case that Amber has actual alters, but at best/worst it’s unproven.
thejeff
You’re correct. She hasn’t actually be diagnosed as such by a trained psychiatrist.
Short of that, she has alters.
vlademir1
It’s been fairly clearly indicated in some of her recent conversations that Amber at the very least percieves them as separate beings in the same body. For purposes of discussing her issues as depicted, treating this as DID seems more than reasonable to me, especially as the timescale used in the comic argues we’ll never actually see her get diagnosed (that’s something realistically months to years in her future).
Discussion (772) - “Your princess is in another castle”
Pearl
D:
Pearl
:O
Pearl
😀
Pearl
D:
Pearl
😀
Emperor Daniel
D:
pjeseb
So, is Dorothy the :O face or the D: face? I already know Amber is the 🙂 face.
pjeseb
😀 ?
(Damn emojis…)
LordSimian
What the hell did I just read?
Not the storyline, mind. Just this thread. 🙂
Reltzik
@Lord Simian:
It’s the newest line of Transformers being unveiled for Willis’s viewing pleasure:
THE EMOTICONS!
….
((surely no one has EVER made this joke before))
nothri
I think its like the reaction one has to learning one has been sentenced to death by snu snu.
nothri
Like so… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBBsBbe7iqk&ab_channel=EliteGaming
Remmington Steele
?
The Mad Academic
I would like to insert a Malazan Book of the Fallen joke here, but so few people would understand it.
Rasputin
I would get it.
Pearl
🙁
Ana Chronistic
uh, you didn’t need that nose, right
K^2
I think Amber just made the scars look symmetric.
Cattleprod
Woo, go symmetry.
Delicious Taffy
I dunno, symmetry doesn’t really factor into the current meta, except in very specific situations.
TimeLoss
The circle could be complete. In Ryan’s first appearance he lost blood, now in his last? he looses a whole lot more.
TimeLoss
I have to emphasize I am being partly sarcastic. I doubt Ryan really is going to die. Also loses not looses, typos bother me when there is no edit button.
Fred
Well we could say Amber is loosing Ryan’s blood…
3oranges
Not that “looses blood” is so far off, but it probably applies better to the one making the cuts.
N0083rP00F
Sad Sad life. Sad sad death. In all things symmetry.
-B5 Zathras
Big Box
Yeah, Amberblade is kinda over-performing right now. I don’t think they should tweak the damage tho, maybe just the cooldown.
Ari
I mean. Hopefully. But that seems mild for the look on Dorothy’s face.
Reltzik
Dorothy probably doesn’t have much experience with violence.
Durandal_1707
I dunno, I’d be pretty freaked out at any kind of knife fight going on right in front of me…
David
This is not a fight. It is a massacre. Amazigirl isn’t here.
HMH
Yeah, fight implies some amount of reciprocation. Ryan never had a fucking chance.
TachyonCode
Even if not for plot reasons, having a weapon stolen from you – which is highly likely even if you are its owner – pretty much guarantees severe injury if not death.
Ryan is a good example of why you don’t bring a weapon to a fight, unless you know everyone is armed and you happen to be working with the elements of surprise, cover, and hopefully distance and backup.
Commander Clash
That is one thing my father and cousin instilled in me. NEVER bring a weapon to a fight if it can be turned against you. Granted they also taught me that if I had to fight dirty everything is allowed. Personally I would’ve thumbed himin the eye, knee to the jewels and then start with curb stomping.
Ana Chronistic
She’s upset b/c there’s a red velvet cake Ryan broke out as a truce offering, and when Amber cut it, it fell out onto the floor and she’s distressed at the wasted cake
yeah, that’s it
HMH
I mean, it’s Ryan’s stupid fault for storing the cake behind his abdominal wall. He could’ve just brought it in a box, but now Amber has to get through all that muscle and guts to pull it out, and they’re just getting everywhere. Party ruined, Ryan. Party ruined.
Sensei Le Roof
Party ruined, Ryan
=
Try end run, rapy AI
chris2315
Well, she tried to make it symmetrical, but she messed it up, so she decided it would be easier to just remove the whole face.
The Other Mike
She’s not Amazi-Girl, she’s Optimus Prime! “Give me your face!”
George_V
Anyone remember Johnny english?
“And a scar shaped like a…banana.”
“Which cheek?”
“Both cheeks. They sort of met in the middle.”
Needfuldoer
Reopening some old wounds.
Ashonai
*Death the Kid relaxes*
Pylgrim
I am hoping for a cross slash that makes a makeshift X. Then he can start his redemption arc as Rurouni Ryanshin.
Ana Chronistic
Ryani Kenshin! SHEESH
(though the angle of that slice indicates level to the ground, if anything)
Lokitsu
“You wanna know how I got these scars?”
NelC
Ryan is the Joker!?
When does he fall into the chemical vat?
Tomas
Look at the bright side; you don’t look like your viral photo anymore.
brasca1
Well if she went below the belt in her cut she would definitely fix it so Ryan never rapes again.
boop
You don . . you don’t actually need genitalia to rape? i mean, it’s about the power over another person’s body, not necessarily about PIV intercourse . .
Indiana Bones
I seem to remember that there are a number of veins around down there, and while you may not need your genitalia to rape, you do probably need to hold onto at least a majority of your blood
me
Most universities do have plenty of first-responders on hand. I’d say he would have a significant survival probability.
Schpoonman
Ooohh boy.
Schpoonman
I was actually a little worried Willis was gonna let Dorothy do the talking, but then Dorothy getting pukey would kill the tension.
I was only partially correct about the sequence of events.
TheAnonymousGuy
First, Dorothy puking would suggest something really bad happened, like she put his knife through his eye, or going negan and spilling his intestines. Second, the last two panels got darkly Omanis.
Guerisso
Have I just been spoilered by a comment on an internet comic that is absolutely completely unrelated?
Sensei Le Roof
Ever wish Netflix would hurry their asses up?
AGV
Well, people can throw up if they’re really stressed or shocked without any gore present, and I’m pretty sure that this would be enough for some people
firestk
what do the people of Oman have to do with this?
AnvilPro
I think I prefer Amazigirl to Amber.
Kernanator
So does Amber. That’s part of the problem.
3oranges
Agreed. Amazi-girl is supposed to be the one with self-control. But it’s partly from her taking it over that Amber struggles so much with it.
Clif
But right at the moment Amber doesn’t want self control or Amazigirl. Dorothy might be wishing for Amazigirl though.
Kris
I think Amber prefers Amazi-girl.
Ophidiophile
I had been thinking that Amazigirl was Amber’s dark side; now I’m thinking Amber is Amazigirl’s dark side.
Sock_V
That’s how it’s always been. It was Amber that stabbed Sal: Amazigirl was created to be what Amber couldn’t…
Clif
Yep.
desolation0
It could be the burnt toast scenario. Both sides are dark and the area in between is tough and dry.
Inbar Fink
The way Amber sees it, Amazi Girl is supposed to be a healthy channeling of her already existing “Dark Side”, where AG can use it to do rightous things, but whenever the Amber part of her uses it ends up, well…like this…
I like how the whole Amber\Amazi Girl is being written, because it’s not a clear-cut good half\bad half sort of thing, but something a lot more interesting
Clif
This. Very much this.
vlademir1
All of the following is based from limited and indirect meatspace experience having known and been friends with a couple people with DID and supplemented with what little I can glean from the case study and research literature on the subject. Hopefully someone can correct me if I’m wrong on any aspect of this. Also, I wish to note that this is specifically a particularly hard area to delve into the literature on, as the associated terminology has shifted quite significantly over time with older terms holding on residually intermixed with newer ones long after their time is officially over.
Neither is entirely the dark side of the other, I’d say. There are, almost certainly, more than just the two of them. Amber as we’ve seen her in class and hiding away playing video games and not wanting to be like her father is definitely the ANP. Amazi-girl is something of a combination the persecutor and protector alter types. Both the Amber and Amazi-girl personalities seem to act as gate keepers. What we’re seeing now, and have seen previously in the segments indicated through red panels, is likely an unnamed sub-alter of the Amber alter which has neither Amber’s fears of being like her father nor Amazi-girl’s super hero based internal philosophical controls to keep her from going all out on the uncontrolled raging violence neither of the main two is willing to engage in.
Clif
All of which assumes there is diassociation going on, something we’ve seen no hard evidence of. It may in fact be the case that Amber has actual alters, but at best/worst it’s unproven.
thejeff
You’re correct. She hasn’t actually be diagnosed as such by a trained psychiatrist.
Short of that, she has alters.
vlademir1
It’s been fairly clearly indicated in some of her recent conversations that Amber at the very least percieves them as separate beings in the same body. For purposes of discussing her issues as depicted, treating this as DID seems more than reasonable to me, especially as the timescale used in the comic argues we’ll never actually see her get diagnosed (that’s something realistically months to years in her future).
John