123a: A Shocking Encounter!
Things may be going nice and dandy for Natalie now that she finally reunited with Jean after all these years, but for Melvin and Kazom, things are just getting more complicated, now that a new foe appears on their way to the Azure Archives. Who could this mysterious woman from Melvin’s past be?! The plot thickens!
By the way, for those who aren’t following I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle closely, this page corresponds to a major shakeup that’s happening over there.
But someone else messed it up badly.
I guess Tiff accepted being a woman in this timeline…..or she is possessed. Either way works for me.
Is not just the gender; without Melvin to support and defend Clarence, Mary had free reign to mold him into pretty much a copy of herself.
The question here is, who changed Clarence into Tiffany? If Jean never bought the bottle, then it couldn’t have been Jeanie, could it?
I would think that Mary would junp at the chance to make her son into her daughter the moment it occurred to her that such a thing was possible, even to the point of arranging for the transformation herself.
Do I see a ripple effect here, what ever goes on in Jeanie Bottle effects what going on over here.
My guess: Lazarra herself. She wanted Clarence as her assistant Witch, but didn’t want said assistant to be a boring boy. So she “improved” him into sexy Tiffany.
That one possibility of a witches magic being was used on Clarence and they could also have an agreement with the Genie to put together a anti ripple effect claws to keep protentually earth destroying paradoxes from happening too. We will just have to wait and see on this one.
I do have one question:
Once the time line is restored, both Melvin and Kazon will go back to normal, that already a given. But, will also be Tiffany be going back to normal too, because, now we have witches magic being used on Clarence to turn him into girl now also? I can’t see Lazarra withdrawing her magic from Tiffany after she has used it to change Clarence into a girl herself.
Depends on how the timeline gets “fixed”, I think. There are a number of ways they could do it, and the effects each options would have would be very different.
Well, we should find out soon enough, as while CD is back to the weekly schedule on IDoaJB, Jeanie has left to “fix it” already. And maybe we’ll also find out how, why, and when Jeanie and Neil got back to p. 383. ^_^
Who’s lazarra?
If it’s Lazarra’s magic that turned Clarence into Tiffany, ‘witch’s magic’, then Melvin could EASILY turn Clarence back.
Final panel, should be “former FRIENDSHIP” (I see this was posted by Carlos, and so may not have been proofed by Ropert?)
Should be “proofed by Robert?”
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I did. You may need to do a forced refresh in your browser to see the new version of the page.
Kazom’s cat form looks more buff than before.
Oh, so that’s what looked so weird on him! I thought it was a new haircut!
I’m also liking Melvin’s wizardly outfit.
Melvin share look like he is completely beside himself looking at Tiffany and asking if it Clarence. Tiffany share look like a HOT CHICK!
Waaait … is Kazom more powerful as he didn’t needed to spend power helping Jeanie deal with Blue Genie? Or did that not happened yet?
It did happen already. Funny enough, this special page actually takes place alongside the current storyline in JB. Literally, right at the same time as that one Panel of Natalie, that came out from that JB page linked in the description.
I always took Kazom’s “I probably took 100 years off my life” stuff as figurative and not literal. Crabby old genie doesn’t get enough respect from you young’ns stuff. Maybe it was a moment of real fatigue.
More to the point, I thought the Quat Euzma was smashed when Jeanie used it to club the Blue Genie? Good strategy by the way, it doesn’t take much training to use a powerful magical artifact as a blunt instrument. I can see wizards saying “there’s a club in every magical artifact” the same way the Mythbusters used to say “there is a hammer in every tool.” Except wands, I guess. Useless as a club but you could stick them in the eye with it. Wouldn’t that have surprised all those prissy wizards in the Potterverse.
As for the changes in Red, I guess this is the result of getting separated from her friends for a crash course in Femme Fatalle-ity but it also looks like Melvin has at least some resistance to the ripple effect. Hard to tell at this point, time will tell of course.
> Useless as a club but you could stick them in the eye with it. Wouldn’t that have surprised all those prissy wizards in the Potterverse.
Hahha, reminds me of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (a really good fanfic). Harry suggests exactly that as a way to use the objects in the classroom he’s in for combat in unexpected ways.
Totally awesome chapter.
Kazom be an absolute unit
Does this chapter imply the changes in Melvin and co. were caused by Natalie rather than Jeanie?
Yes, I mean, Jeanie disappeared from the timeline from seven years, and then Natalie bought the bottle instead of Jean or Neil, so obviously Jeanie can’t be involve on this one.
@ Carlos: Jeanie did not disappear for seven years. I wish I could post a sketch, but since I can’t I’ll try and draw a picture with words.
Jean purchased the bottle and became Jeanie on, let’s call it G-Day. Time passes and on G-Day+1 (year) Jeanie and Neil go back in time for burgers and a prom, making it G-day-6 (years). Jeanie gets sick and returns to the present (G-Day+1). Natalie remained in the past and lives a mundane life, purchasing the bottle when Jean didn’t on G-Day. Natalie, with the bottle, continues on until G-Day+1 (year) when Jeanie returns… hugs and sobs ensue, and Natalie gets pissed and sends Jeanie back to fix things.
At no time did Jeanie actually disappear from the timeline for more than a few minutes, at most.
Natalie has control over the bottle, but, I don’t think that Natalie a Genie, at least it doesn’t show her being a Genie. So she could not have caused it. So we either have to have another Genie and/or maybe there Genie structure in place that try to fix thing that break like this, so that there aren’t any universal destroying paradoxes to destroy the Earth by. We will just have to wait and see what happens.
You don’t have to be a genie to cause butterfly effects relating to time travel.
Oh, and congratulations to Melvin on seeing past the change of physical form to find his old friend. (I presume from the surprise that he wasn’t aware of the physical changes yet. ^_^ )
That’s something I noticed, too! It’s impressive that Melvin was able to detect that this is Clearance, despite the massive “upgrade”. 🙂
How close is Melvin with Red? I mean, considering how far the young wizard has gone to help his friend.
I am assuming that Melvin see both BJ and Red like his own brothers or very close friends. That would be on the level that BJ has a relationship with JJ or probably much closer. There 16 year old now and if they meet in Junior high or 7th grade and there in 10th grade now, that would have given them about 3 to 4 to have developed there friendship with each other.
Clarence no matter what was meant to be turned into Tiffany.