Red was a boy until a new genie tried to get Melvin a girlfriend. That's when the genie turned Red into a girl so Melvin could practice talking to girls, and forgot to turn her back before disappearing. Red is hopeful that her situation is only temporary.
Yeah, turns out it’s just a WordPress plugin. I hadn’t been involved with setting it up on CD’s other sites, so I had no idea until I looked through the admin dashboard thoroughly.
Something you have to consider is that Red just came back to school after Summer break. And over that time, she’s gone from nerd to celebrity. So of course the people who didn’t already actively hate her are now on her bandwagon.
I came up with the “Girls suck!” comment and I couldn’t be happier with it. When I asked Bachmann to put it in there it was for precisely this comic’s scenario. Thank you Carlos for finally paying that off! ^_^
@Jacqui well, Red has spend some time in this school already, and as you can see her career has kept growing during that time along side her popularity… for the most part at least.
@Jacqui When Red was first there, she was a nobody and the IN Crowd of girls probably look down on her. But, now that Tiffany is super hot modal, she is all of the suddenly popular even in an all girl school and other girls are going to want to be around her for that reason alone. But, you have other girls that are going to be jealous of her and are going to speak all kinds of bad things about her. That just human nature for both Guys and Girls, but, girls just do is a little bit differently than we guy do it.
And I would not be surprised if she will have other girls who will suck up to her, and pretend to be her friends because they want to take advantage of her. Ugh. Give me the people who mock you to your face any day. At least with them you know where you stand.
It look like Tiffany can only be called Red when she around Melvin and BJ, but, she has to put up with being called Tiffany at home and at school, which is 90% of the time. I wonder just how long that Tiffany can hold out before she give up and just accept the name of Tiffany as her new name. Tiffany being called Red around Melvin, BJ and not Tiffany appear to be a losing battle. But, Tiffany insisting on being called Red is a weak, but, defiant act against her parents attempt to have her as a girl instead of guy. Red has resisted being called Tiffany for two months before the summer vacation, but, been called Tiffany for the last three months. By Everybody that see her or who have become fans of her, will refer to her as Tiffany too.
Typhan’nee (he who hunts by the light of the moon) is the name of a magically sex changed barbarian warrior in the Exiern web comic. Naturally the people of the southern kingdoms spell it as Tiffany (she who spends her daddy’s money on diamonds). Unlike Typhan’nee, the magic that changed Red doesn’t change others as well.
No, that about the right size for her. Remember that she is also about half a head taller than either Melvin or BJ too, besides having two double DD Breast also. So Tiffany a fairly good size for her age and well built too, but, she still not fully grown yet. So she may still grow a few more inches before she stop growing altogether. She also seams to be photogenic too, which doesn’t hurt either, beside having connection, like her father.
girls, if Tiffany has been working in War Mallet she probably knows a little about basic combat which you do not. Better behave yourself or you might find out the hard way how awesome Tiffi really is.
That’s a nice theory, but unfortunately gaming (at least the current version) doesn’t actually teach any real combat skills. A little bit of strategy, perhaps, but no actual fighting tactics.
I’ve thought that it would be cool to have a game that actually used real combat moves, but it would probably be too tedious to learn and too slow to play. Pity.
I think he means all of the posing for the War Mallet action shots. He is invoking the theory that the best way to look like you know martial arts in photos / videos is to know some actual martial arts, thus suggesting that Tiffany got some basic lessons as part of her “Acting” lessons.
That’s an interesting theory; and not one I’ve heard before. I wish most of the actors in Hollywood movies subscribed to that idea; most of them use standard 4-blow SAFD moves, and look ridiculous, at least in action shots.
I was watching some movie with a friend a few months ago, and he asked what I kept laughing at. I froze the movie and pointed out that the two combatants were completely out of range of each other, and clearly weren’t even trying to hit their opponent – they were just swatting the tips of their swords together. Now he says, I’ve ruined it all for him; thanks to me, he can’t watch movie sword fights any more without realizing how fake they look.
Look into the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) medieval re-creationists that practice heavy and light fighting skills. They train in heavy and light armor while using a variety of weapons. It’s a good place to train before going to the Armored Combat League (ACL).
Aside from comments about her grades, they are not wrong though. She has got where she is due to her parents connections (and genie magic) so some resentment is a bit warranted.
The irony of that statement is that while it may be true it also ignores the fact that her parents are assholes who couldn’t give a damn about what she wants, and never bother to give her any attention. It’s really a the grass is always greener on the other side kind of thing.
The bit about the other girls not realizing that Tiffany’s parents don’t give a damn about what she wants is compounded by the girls’ inability to imagine that she could NOT want to be famous and glamorous, since it’s something that all of THEM want. For a male equivalent, it’s like the jock crowd being unable to imagine that Mr. Popular Guy doesn’t want to be on a sports team.
Actually, natural redheads have the thinnest, and sparsest, hair, of any hair type. If you see a redhead with huge amounts of thick hair, you can bet it’s from a bottle.
I’m also a fan of the Web series RWBY and it’s soundtrack and I am getting reminded of Weiss and elements of her backstory. Though to be fair that’s less of any thing of intent and more a case of similar stories following similar tropes.
The rich kid with the aloof parents who don’t give a crap about what their kid wants. As Path to Isolation hints the “enemies” around her like those three assholes. Next we will probably, find that some of her so called friends don’t really care about her for herself, but only want to use her for what they think she can give to her. That’s another song shout to The Path Of Isolation by the way. “Enemies surround me but the worst appear as friends.” It’s the type of trope you can expect to see. What’s I look forward to see is how the creators PLAY with the tropes.
THAT is where the possibilities lie.
For example, and this is just one possibility, does Red once learning more about people using her, decide to eat with the people who are being assholes to him because at least he knows where they stand, where as with everyone else he can’t tell who his his/her friend and who is her enemy?
That’s just one possibility, another is that she/he withdraws more to his circle of friends outside of school. Anyways you slice it there is potential.
No, I don’t think so. If you go back to Jeanie Bottle where Clarence was turned into Tiffany, she the only one that wasn’t wearing grasses, before or after her transformation from a boy to a girl. Red aka Tiffany, I think she so blown away with what happening, that her eye just classed over and just gives the appearance that she has contacts.
Well, actually, maybe?, either that or she is trying to kept a secret identity with the Clark Kent method, I haven’t decide yet, would you like to see more of Red with glasses?
The neckties will be under the sweater in the future! Don’t gonna lie, I mess my references while making the uniforms and draw them this way, and I hate it, this will be fix in the next story, with even a propper reason as to why. As for the skirts… not much I can do about the design, just try to draw them better, cause I admit sometimes they can look a little rough.
They’re not badly drawn, it’s just that the huge purple checks are pretty garish. Mute the colors down and make it a diagonal plaid, and it would be tolerable.
Hay Carlos, I thought of a real funny thing you can do with Melvin and Tiffany or Red with BJ standing there. Have Tiffany or Red complaining about all the work she has to do and all the modeling she done and how much time she has to spend doing it. She get a call on her sell phone while there watching her and she has to do a live shoot where she has to walk the runway and where she needs to have an escort for this formal shoot. She hold her hand over the phone so the people on the other end can’t hear what she saying and complain to both Melvin and BJ about it even though there going to pay her $500.00 to do it. Of course both Melvin and BJ eye open wide at hearing that. Then she complains some more about how she going to have to get a an escort and they pay him about $100.00 per dollars per night when they need to have one. Melvin hear this, he immediately offer to be her escort for the night. After doing that Red realizes what she said and done, it uncomfortable for, but, she check with the caller on the other end if she can use Melvin as her escort. He ask does he have any experience at being an escort. She say, no, he doesn’t. He say if we use him, your going to have to show him the ropes of how to escort you and I will let you use him.
The primary purpose of an escort is user the Model out of the limousine at the beginning of the live shoot and through the crowd and to the back stage and at the end of the live shoot, to pick her up there and escort her back to the limousine too. He also rides in the car with her to and from the live shoot too. Now Red has to instruct Melvin how to escort her, so she get two set of chair side by side and a second set of chair just in front of the second set of chair and she enlist BJ help to act as the driver of the limousine and then they do a little play acting of how to escort a model to her shoot. BJ complains and Melvin offer him $25.00 so he can know how to escort Red or Tiffany and make the other $75.00 of the $100.00 that was offered.
And of course Melvin going to have to get just a little bit closer to Red that he really should have and she has to also look sweet and charming too. Which couches all kind of looks from Melvin and BJ too. Like welcome Tiffany would Melvin and BJ. Depending on how you do it, it would be really funny too and would be a good addition to this series also.
@Jacqui No, Jacqui, it has to be a boy that escort a girl model to those evens and there are no exception to this rule. Red may possibly think about it and may even like the idea, but, No even she would know that, that not possible and would be a bad idea to even to try to do something like this. The only thing here that she has any control over is which man or boy that going to do the escorting. Because, girls to have there favorite guy escorts that they prefer to be escorted by.
OK, everyone; time to figure out what kind of surprise announcement Red has in store for Melvin, after a whole summer away.
Here are my guesses, in rough order of increasing shock value.
1) Red has decided she likes being a girl.
2) Red will join Melvin & BJ after school, wearing makeup and a pretty floral dress that she picked out for herself.
3) Red has a girlfriend… and Saachi is jealous.
4) Red has a boyfriend. [And Saachi is weeping bitterly.]
5) All of the above.
If the in group tries to do a smack down on red and Tiffani kicks the cxxp out of all three of them she will get herself expelled and have to go back to public school where she will be with Melvin and BJ. Oh yeah, and with Saachi, It just now hit me that Red has never been kissed by anyone of either gender, male, female or other as the case may be.
Personally, I’m thinking Red’s on the edge.
Possibly coming to a boiling point where he/she decides they can’t handle any of it anymore and choose, in his opinion, the only viable way out….
Sad…..
She probably is on the edge and it will probably brake one of two ways.
1. She give up and accept her new place in live as a girl.
2. Or she step over the edge, like the edge of a building and ends it that way.
Third way: Doesn’t give up, just begins to find things she likes about being a girl. I think a lot of her stress comes from being pressed to an extreme role, an all or nothing thing she has no control over. If only she could withdraw a bit, and find the bits and pieces she likes, and build her own persona, become her own girl for herself and (maybe) a boyfriend.
There’s an uncomfortable real world parallel with grade school boys (and girls, but I’ll use the male example), who play with dolls or try on their sister’s dresses, just to see. Kids like playing policeman, cowboy, astronaut, knight, and even sometimes princesses, without making a permanent career choice. But some get so bloody, kack-handedly “accepted” for their parents’ political or financial reasons, that they find themselves scheduled to have their genitals surgically whacked off before they ever get to actually, ahem, whack off.
Really, really want her parents to SHOVE OFF and let Tiffany explore and find out who she is. They’re doing a lot of damage in pursuit of their own goals, not Clarence’s or Tiffany’s . Accept, support, guide–but this whole high pressure gig is horribly destructive–the stage mother syndrome to the nth degree.
Actually, Red doesn’t have a third choice. She will either be beaten into a form of being a girl whether she like it or not or she will cash in her chips. Your supposed third choice will be an off shoot of the first choice Red has. What Red parents are doing to Red will permanently affect who Red is and how she views herself. What they are doing to her is to serve there own best interest and goal and not for what best for Red. The only question here is, is Red going to survive the assault on her person by her parents and how she choose to deal with them.
In the short term, she going to have to tolerate them, because, she only like 15 or 16 years old. But, once she is 18 year old and out of high school, she will have a modeling career that might net her $500.00 to $1000.00 a week, because she a hot model and in big demand too. Then Red or Tiffany can tell her parents to SHOVE OFF. But, by that time, who Red is will probably already been decided and she will be Tiffany forever. Even after five months of being Tiffany, certain attitudes and thought process are starting to set in and become a part of who she is. Unless Red is changed back to a boy soon, it “GOOD BY CLARENCE!” AND ” HELLO TIFFANY!”
Ok guys, I just want to leave this message here because you never know who is reading this comments:
Whatever Red decides to do with her live is up to her or him assuming Clarence never accept life as a girl, not her parents, not even the magic in her body. I am not going to spoil my plans with her, but just to be clear, her parents my have a lot of control over her life now, but Red is a smart kid, with good friends and even a helpful tutor in the model industry where she is stuck right now, there is nothing stoping her to live her life as the kind of person she or he decides to be, we all know how shitty the adolescent years may be, but we just have to learn from them, not let the them to define us. Again, no matter how many terrible people are in her life right now, there is still people who cares for her, heck, Melvin spend all his summer looking for ways to help her, and almost let the Butterfrog rip up Kazom’s face for her “this” morning!
Just to leave an example, and I know this is a subject we usually don’t bring un in this kind os stories, but just to let be know we don’t need to bring up extreme solutions, assuming once again that Clarence never accept to live the rest of his life as a girl and that there is not a magical solution to this, there is no reason for him to not live as a man once he reach 18 years old in just a couple of years, which would mean he would only expend 3 years of his whole life as a girl, that still is an option assuming the genie magic didn’t turn him into a girl in body and soul, in which case she will just live her life as the kind of woman she decides to be. In any case, there is absolutly NO reason to bring this to the edge of a building, life is full os solutions, even if some may be harder to find!
“Whatever Red decides to do with her live is up to her or him assuming Clarence never accept life as a girl,”
Yes, essentially my point. Red’s choice.
Two minor points:
Characters who have experienced magically instantaneous, physically perfect sex changes are a bad model for reality, and vice versa. Red (And Misfiled Ash, and Exiern’s Typh) all remember being male, and waking up one day as female.
Also, We do not know how deep the magic goes–it might eventually affect Red’s emotional state. (But that of course is writer’s choice.)
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And I’ll agree that, as a matter of storytelling, having Red kill herself seems a Bad End. One way or another, I want her to change or adapt.
@50s refugee Oh, I fully agree that this kind of transfortamtion stories that involve magic are not the best example of reality, but again, I don’t know who may read this comments in the future, and I just wanted to leave clear that no matter what do you think of Red’s situation, wathever you think is funny, unfair, lucky or screew, and no matter how she looks at it now, what to do with her life and how to improve it is STILL on her power, or them if anyone prefer to leave that idea open (fun fact, as a spanish speaker, the notion of use plural as a gender neutral term is something that requires getting use to), again, I wouldn’t spoil my plans for Red, heck, those plans are still open even for me, but there is no need to go over the edge here!
Thing is, Red has practice being a warrior woman. True, it’s just a role, but an inspiring one.
(And I think the extreme there is little beyond what this comic usually does. )
Im sorry, Benny, but as I’ve read the strip from the beginning & have reread it, it’s not blushing but more like flustered & frustrated. My comments sort of address that. Read from the start, Ben, and note Clay’s reactions & sense.
There’re hints all alone that allude to the frustration….
Jim
Poor word choice on my part. I should have just said she went red in the face as that could cover ANY reason for her face to turn red. I meant to say that there was SOME reason she was turning Red, weather that being embarrasment, frustration, or something, else, without soecific about the cause. In hindsight I should have looked up the use of the word blush in the dictionary, as I thought the definition of the word had been expanded to mean becoming red in the face for ANY reason. I was incorrect about that, the definition is still the same.
Also I meant to be vague about the reason on purpose, because ANY and/or ALL of the possible reasons for being Red could apply. She could be embarrassed, she could be frustrated, she be frustrated BECAUSE she’s embarrassed. Etc…
Does this help? I hope I did a better job of explaining myself this time around.
By the way, Blondie, you’re not one to talk about “Cow tits”.
*AHEM* “Did you see her grades? Her parents must be spending as much on tutors as they do on her looks…” No, it’s just that she’s a really a boy who’s more than a little nerdy, and actually LIKES learning. Unlike savages like you who know that your looks are all you’ll ever have. (Don’t mind me, just exposing the various stereotypes in play here.)
Fun fact, Blondie (A.K.A Debbie or Deborah) only have two lines on this page, most of the lines here come from the short haired redhead (Madison on the tags), with the glasses girl (Alisha) having 3 lines in total, we are about to see more of Debbie’s character in the next couple of pages, but I hope this one helps to showcase what kind of lackeys Madison and Alisha are, and where their priorities reside!
By the way, “proper welcome” chills me to the bone. Read this sequence over at monstersoupcomic dot com /?comic=page-22-crush . (Starts a few strips before, but this is enough. Read on for the next strips, though, this is just the runup. You’ll know the page I’m talking about when you see it.)
I am doing some rereading. I have an IDEA where this MIGHT be going. I want to finish the reread to be sure. And I will post my speculation if if the reread supports it. But if I am wright I like the idea.
So I have a theory I am working on. The theory is not complete, but I thought I’d give you guys an early preview. Basically I am guessing that Red’s mother is/was the leader of Red Magic Matriarchy and she was one of the factions that opposed Melvin’s father. If true it would explain alot.
First of look at the image of the Red magic user in the link here https://melvin.jeaniebottle.com/?comic=concentration-key-or-p-t-s-d
it’s a woman
Second read this link https://melvin.jeaniebottle.com/?comic=ranged-attacks-are-the-best
The way she was nice to Melvin but ignored her own son before he turned into a daughter implies two things. One she wants to use Melvin for what his father’s legacy and two, she did give a shit about her own kid back when he was a son and couldn’t be her heir but now that’s she’s a DAUGHER she’s showing her around to her friends as her “heir.” No wonder Red finds it creepy.
Oh let you not forget all the “princess,” and “queen” lines.
Finally, and speaking of https://melvin.jeaniebottle.com/?comic=into-the-blue-wizards-lair
& https://melvin.jeaniebottle.com/?comic=transmojification
There is the way Kazom creeps Red out combined with the way he is the first to adress her as “princess” while the latter COULD Have just bee the shirt and attitude. The way it is compined with the first point plus all the other evidence gives me the opinion that Kazom was keeping an eye on her because of who her mother was.
Now I will admit I could be wrong, this may not be what Bach-Mann intended and even if was that dosnt mean Carlos intened to continue it. Still I can’t help but point it out.
Well, it’s an interesting theory… speculative at this point, but we’ll see.
I can address one part, though… people who treat their own kids badly, often put on a very different picture to the rest of the world. So the fact that Red’s mother was “nice” to everyone but her own kid doesn’t necessarily mean anything other than that she fits the model of an abusive parent. And now that she is showing Red off to everyone makes sense, too; she’s suddenly got a “mini-me” to brag about, and live vicariously through.
And – the red witch – it COULD be a woman. Or a man in a long cloak.
Oh, and the bit about Kazom… Kazom is a bit of a lecher. Remember how he liked to ogle Melvin’s mother when she didn’t know he was looking? While Red is changing shirts, Kazom has one eye open… (see here) So I think Red is picking up on his attitude, and that why she finds him creepy. Besides, a talking cat-genie is a little creepy anyway. He was better when he had a human-shaped form – and a better sense of humor, too.
Hmm… I always thought it was because Kazom was sweet on Susan. The rest I will grant you except for the fact that green magic user looks more masculine then the other two
The other part of the theory (which is even more speculative) had to do Red intrest in Dual Classing and being affected by Genie magic mike make her different then normal witches, including said possibe ability to dual class magics. I will spare the details for now as even as it is is speculative and I am unsure if you all are still interested in this part of the theory. Suffice to say I noticed the comic was paying attention to colors as in Magic: The Gathering (having not played I had to do research on what the colors meant) and that the one Wizard DESPITE being born into a house split between Black and Blue was ONLY a Black wizard. That combined with Kazom mentioning the fact that despite genie magic and witch magic not being able to mix were somehow amplify each other was the basis for this theory on why Red could dual class.
That being said this wasn’t ALL there was to the theory, there’s even more to it including a role for Melvin to play.
If you want to hear the complete (highly speculative, although some parts are more speculative than others) let me know. I will post it complete with page links.
Also it’s not so much about what they are wearing as the lines on the body. If you look closely the Red and the white/yellow one have breasts, the green one, not so much.
Or at least, that’s their torsos look like in comparison to the green one. Their figures are basically more hourglass in shape. I suppose I could be reading to much into it. Still it seems odd to have the designs of two be different from the other without a purpose.
Usually when a comment have to many links it is send to pending, where either Roger or me have to aprove it’s posting, that’s what happen to your comment, also, there are some trigger words that may send some comments to spam, but some are less obvious than others.
Also, interesting theory, but I can’t comment about it.
I didn’t expect you to. Thanks for explaining the delay though. Sorry about the double post. I wasn’t sure if I had mesed up the first time I will remember multiple links cause delays and be more patient in the future but this time I didn’t want to risk loosing my data so I copied and pasted my post.
Why am I getting a “Trix coven” vibe from that trio in the last panel . . . oh, because they’re bitches. Right.
Though Tiff seems to have gotten pretty popular since last year. Meant to put this in my last comment, but forgot.
Oh, we don’t have the 5-minute-edit feature installed on here? I should see if I can fix that.
That is a super useful feature, and I’m delighted you set it up!
Good job!
OK, it should now be possible to edit your comments for the first 5 minutes after you post them.
THANK YOU, Robert! I’ve always wished for the edit feature, but didn’t realize that it was so easy to turn on.
Yeah, turns out it’s just a WordPress plugin. I hadn’t been involved with setting it up on CD’s other sites, so I had no idea until I looked through the admin dashboard thoroughly.
HUZZAH! We can edit comments now! Wait a second . . .
EDIT – Okay, yes we can. Thank you, Robert! Maybe Neko should start paying you with fruit instead of peanuts, considering how helpful you are . . .
Fruit? You think we have fruit money?
Money? Fruit literally grows on trees!
Shhh… don’t tell Robert, he’ll go pick outside to get them instead of eating the peanuts we pay him in.
@Neko:
You should hire squirrels, instead. I hear they work for peanuts.
It violates the Squirrel-Girl Union 292’s rules in regards to fair wage payments.
Surprisingly, Pet Elephants don’t have a union. (Unless they work for a Zoo or circus).
Did we see these girls before?
No, but I like to think we have been hearing of them for a while!
Though it seems Red is popular with the other students. Those earlier strips made it sound like it was all of them.
Something you have to consider is that Red just came back to school after Summer break. And over that time, she’s gone from nerd to celebrity. So of course the people who didn’t already actively hate her are now on her bandwagon.
Friggin’ high school.
I came up with the “Girls suck!” comment and I couldn’t be happier with it. When I asked Bachmann to put it in there it was for precisely this comic’s scenario. Thank you Carlos for finally paying that off! ^_^
Not specifically, but we all know the type.
@Jacqui well, Red has spend some time in this school already, and as you can see her career has kept growing during that time along side her popularity… for the most part at least.
Makes sense and she did make a few friends at the school already.
@Jacqui When Red was first there, she was a nobody and the IN Crowd of girls probably look down on her. But, now that Tiffany is super hot modal, she is all of the suddenly popular even in an all girl school and other girls are going to want to be around her for that reason alone. But, you have other girls that are going to be jealous of her and are going to speak all kinds of bad things about her. That just human nature for both Guys and Girls, but, girls just do is a little bit differently than we guy do it.
And I would not be surprised if she will have other girls who will suck up to her, and pretend to be her friends because they want to take advantage of her. Ugh. Give me the people who mock you to your face any day. At least with them you know where you stand.
Oh my god, the high school flashbacks!
LEAVE ME ALONE! YOU ALREADY TOOK MY DIGNITY, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?
*ahem.
Sorry. I’m okay now.
Wow, talk about a bunch of evil b-… witches.
I direct you to my earlier “Trix coven” comment.
I guess that makes sense… after all, Trix are for kids!
No no no, don’t try to drag Samantha down with that insult by proxy of her actually being a witch.
Oh, you’re right, that’s an insult to witches. My bad.
And “bitch” would be offensive to dogs…
@“And “bitch” would would be offensive to dogs…” this made my day.
It look like Tiffany can only be called Red when she around Melvin and BJ, but, she has to put up with being called Tiffany at home and at school, which is 90% of the time. I wonder just how long that Tiffany can hold out before she give up and just accept the name of Tiffany as her new name. Tiffany being called Red around Melvin, BJ and not Tiffany appear to be a losing battle. But, Tiffany insisting on being called Red is a weak, but, defiant act against her parents attempt to have her as a girl instead of guy. Red has resisted being called Tiffany for two months before the summer vacation, but, been called Tiffany for the last three months. By Everybody that see her or who have become fans of her, will refer to her as Tiffany too.
You mean Clarence?
Yes, Jack. Tiffany can no longer use her old name Clarence, but, she was trying to use Red as a stop gap measure to being called Tiffany.
His friends still call him Clarence though.
Actually, Melvin & BJ call her, “Red”. (Her legal name is now Tiffany.)
Typhan’nee (he who hunts by the light of the moon) is the name of a magically sex changed barbarian warrior in the Exiern web comic. Naturally the people of the southern kingdoms spell it as Tiffany (she who spends her daddy’s money on diamonds). Unlike Typhan’nee, the magic that changed Red doesn’t change others as well.
Hmm, Tiff seems to be a bit taller than her group of fans. I had thought she was more average height . . .
No, that about the right size for her. Remember that she is also about half a head taller than either Melvin or BJ too, besides having two double DD Breast also. So Tiffany a fairly good size for her age and well built too, but, she still not fully grown yet. So she may still grow a few more inches before she stop growing altogether. She also seams to be photogenic too, which doesn’t hurt either, beside having connection, like her father.
girls, if Tiffany has been working in War Mallet she probably knows a little about basic combat which you do not. Better behave yourself or you might find out the hard way how awesome Tiffi really is.
That’s a nice theory, but unfortunately gaming (at least the current version) doesn’t actually teach any real combat skills. A little bit of strategy, perhaps, but no actual fighting tactics.
I’ve thought that it would be cool to have a game that actually used real combat moves, but it would probably be too tedious to learn and too slow to play. Pity.
I think he means all of the posing for the War Mallet action shots. He is invoking the theory that the best way to look like you know martial arts in photos / videos is to know some actual martial arts, thus suggesting that Tiffany got some basic lessons as part of her “Acting” lessons.
@ijuinkun:
That’s an interesting theory; and not one I’ve heard before. I wish most of the actors in Hollywood movies subscribed to that idea; most of them use standard 4-blow SAFD moves, and look ridiculous, at least in action shots.
I was watching some movie with a friend a few months ago, and he asked what I kept laughing at. I froze the movie and pointed out that the two combatants were completely out of range of each other, and clearly weren’t even trying to hit their opponent – they were just swatting the tips of their swords together. Now he says, I’ve ruined it all for him; thanks to me, he can’t watch movie sword fights any more without realizing how fake they look.
Look into the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) medieval re-creationists that practice heavy and light fighting skills. They train in heavy and light armor while using a variety of weapons. It’s a good place to train before going to the Armored Combat League (ACL).
@SGT Lewis:
Yes, I’m extremely familiar with the SCA, but they use boffers, not steel. Even their rapier contests resemble sport fencing more than actual fights.
Aside from comments about her grades, they are not wrong though. She has got where she is due to her parents connections (and genie magic) so some resentment is a bit warranted.
The irony of that statement is that while it may be true it also ignores the fact that her parents are assholes who couldn’t give a damn about what she wants, and never bother to give her any attention. It’s really a the grass is always greener on the other side kind of thing.
P.S. I love the artwork.
Yep. There’s always a down side to everything, which people often don’t discover until they actually try walking in someone else’s shoes.
The bit about the other girls not realizing that Tiffany’s parents don’t give a damn about what she wants is compounded by the girls’ inability to imagine that she could NOT want to be famous and glamorous, since it’s something that all of THEM want. For a male equivalent, it’s like the jock crowd being unable to imagine that Mr. Popular Guy doesn’t want to be on a sports team.
PS. Don’t forget the hair. All of that red hair.
Actually, natural redheads have the thinnest, and sparsest, hair, of any hair type. If you see a redhead with huge amounts of thick hair, you can bet it’s from a bottle.
I’m also a fan of the Web series RWBY and it’s soundtrack and I am getting reminded of Weiss and elements of her backstory. Though to be fair that’s less of any thing of intent and more a case of similar stories following similar tropes.
The rich kid with the aloof parents who don’t give a crap about what their kid wants. As Path to Isolation hints the “enemies” around her like those three assholes. Next we will probably, find that some of her so called friends don’t really care about her for herself, but only want to use her for what they think she can give to her. That’s another song shout to The Path Of Isolation by the way. “Enemies surround me but the worst appear as friends.” It’s the type of trope you can expect to see. What’s I look forward to see is how the creators PLAY with the tropes.
THAT is where the possibilities lie.
For example, and this is just one possibility, does Red once learning more about people using her, decide to eat with the people who are being assholes to him because at least he knows where they stand, where as with everyone else he can’t tell who his his/her friend and who is her enemy?
That’s just one possibility, another is that she/he withdraws more to his circle of friends outside of school. Anyways you slice it there is potential.
Red aka Tiffany wears contacts?
No, I don’t think so. If you go back to Jeanie Bottle where Clarence was turned into Tiffany, she the only one that wasn’t wearing grasses, before or after her transformation from a boy to a girl. Red aka Tiffany, I think she so blown away with what happening, that her eye just classed over and just gives the appearance that she has contacts.
Well, actually, maybe?, either that or she is trying to kept a secret identity with the Clark Kent method, I haven’t decide yet, would you like to see more of Red with glasses?
Carlos, Robert is making a pun on the word “contacts”, in panel 5. 😉
What would life be like if you couldn’t deliberately misconstrue something?
@Robert N:
Umm…. “Literal”? Also, considerably more boring.
I know it’s a minor thing, but the uniforms are hideous. Glad I went to public school.
I agree. They would look better with the neckties tucked under the sweaters, and if the blue-and-black skirts were tartan instead of checkerboard.
The neckties will be under the sweater in the future! Don’t gonna lie, I mess my references while making the uniforms and draw them this way, and I hate it, this will be fix in the next story, with even a propper reason as to why. As for the skirts… not much I can do about the design, just try to draw them better, cause I admit sometimes they can look a little rough.
@Carlos:
They’re not badly drawn, it’s just that the huge purple checks are pretty garish. Mute the colors down and make it a diagonal plaid, and it would be tolerable.
Still don’t like uniforms, though.
Well Red is becoming popular
Hay Carlos, I thought of a real funny thing you can do with Melvin and Tiffany or Red with BJ standing there. Have Tiffany or Red complaining about all the work she has to do and all the modeling she done and how much time she has to spend doing it. She get a call on her sell phone while there watching her and she has to do a live shoot where she has to walk the runway and where she needs to have an escort for this formal shoot. She hold her hand over the phone so the people on the other end can’t hear what she saying and complain to both Melvin and BJ about it even though there going to pay her $500.00 to do it. Of course both Melvin and BJ eye open wide at hearing that. Then she complains some more about how she going to have to get a an escort and they pay him about $100.00 per dollars per night when they need to have one. Melvin hear this, he immediately offer to be her escort for the night. After doing that Red realizes what she said and done, it uncomfortable for, but, she check with the caller on the other end if she can use Melvin as her escort. He ask does he have any experience at being an escort. She say, no, he doesn’t. He say if we use him, your going to have to show him the ropes of how to escort you and I will let you use him.
The primary purpose of an escort is user the Model out of the limousine at the beginning of the live shoot and through the crowd and to the back stage and at the end of the live shoot, to pick her up there and escort her back to the limousine too. He also rides in the car with her to and from the live shoot too. Now Red has to instruct Melvin how to escort her, so she get two set of chair side by side and a second set of chair just in front of the second set of chair and she enlist BJ help to act as the driver of the limousine and then they do a little play acting of how to escort a model to her shoot. BJ complains and Melvin offer him $25.00 so he can know how to escort Red or Tiffany and make the other $75.00 of the $100.00 that was offered.
And of course Melvin going to have to get just a little bit closer to Red that he really should have and she has to also look sweet and charming too. Which couches all kind of looks from Melvin and BJ too. Like welcome Tiffany would Melvin and BJ. Depending on how you do it, it would be really funny too and would be a good addition to this series also.
You COULD throw in some jealousy from Sachi and/or some misunderstandings from the Girl Melvin’s actually interested in as well, if you want.
That’s a big wall of text. Also, Red would just go with Saaichi just to piss off her parents.
@Jacqui No, Jacqui, it has to be a boy that escort a girl model to those evens and there are no exception to this rule. Red may possibly think about it and may even like the idea, but, No even she would know that, that not possible and would be a bad idea to even to try to do something like this. The only thing here that she has any control over is which man or boy that going to do the escorting. Because, girls to have there favorite guy escorts that they prefer to be escorted by.
Red was wearing glasses at Liam’s victory party when Ida made him tinkle in his pants. I thought Tiffi looked cute in glasses.
Since this is an old girls school, i wonder if any of them have a crush on Red. Who knows, maybe Deborah picks on Red because she actually likes her.
OK, everyone; time to figure out what kind of surprise announcement Red has in store for Melvin, after a whole summer away.
Here are my guesses, in rough order of increasing shock value.
1) Red has decided she likes being a girl.
2) Red will join Melvin & BJ after school, wearing makeup and a pretty floral dress that she picked out for herself.
3) Red has a girlfriend… and Saachi is jealous.
4) Red has a boyfriend. [And Saachi is weeping bitterly.]
5) All of the above.
Step up and place your bets!
What about Red having a girlfriend and it is Saaichi? And a girlfriend is far more likely since she goes to an all girl school.
@Jacqui: Since Red was away all summer, I figured that there wouldn’t have been any opportunity to get together with Saachi. (shrug)
(And since she wasn’t at the elite school, same argument applies to not having gotten to know anyone there.)
But we’ll see.
If the in group tries to do a smack down on red and Tiffani kicks the cxxp out of all three of them she will get herself expelled and have to go back to public school where she will be with Melvin and BJ. Oh yeah, and with Saachi, It just now hit me that Red has never been kissed by anyone of either gender, male, female or other as the case may be.
Personally, I’m thinking Red’s on the edge.
Possibly coming to a boiling point where he/she decides they can’t handle any of it anymore and choose, in his opinion, the only viable way out….
Sad…..
She probably is on the edge and it will probably brake one of two ways.
1. She give up and accept her new place in live as a girl.
2. Or she step over the edge, like the edge of a building and ends it that way.
The question is, which way is it going to break?
Larry: “She gives up and accepts her role…”
Third way: Doesn’t give up, just begins to find things she likes about being a girl. I think a lot of her stress comes from being pressed to an extreme role, an all or nothing thing she has no control over. If only she could withdraw a bit, and find the bits and pieces she likes, and build her own persona, become her own girl for herself and (maybe) a boyfriend.
There’s an uncomfortable real world parallel with grade school boys (and girls, but I’ll use the male example), who play with dolls or try on their sister’s dresses, just to see. Kids like playing policeman, cowboy, astronaut, knight, and even sometimes princesses, without making a permanent career choice. But some get so bloody, kack-handedly “accepted” for their parents’ political or financial reasons, that they find themselves scheduled to have their genitals surgically whacked off before they ever get to actually, ahem, whack off.
Really, really want her parents to SHOVE OFF and let Tiffany explore and find out who she is. They’re doing a lot of damage in pursuit of their own goals, not Clarence’s or Tiffany’s . Accept, support, guide–but this whole high pressure gig is horribly destructive–the stage mother syndrome to the nth degree.
Actually, Red doesn’t have a third choice. She will either be beaten into a form of being a girl whether she like it or not or she will cash in her chips. Your supposed third choice will be an off shoot of the first choice Red has. What Red parents are doing to Red will permanently affect who Red is and how she views herself. What they are doing to her is to serve there own best interest and goal and not for what best for Red. The only question here is, is Red going to survive the assault on her person by her parents and how she choose to deal with them.
In the short term, she going to have to tolerate them, because, she only like 15 or 16 years old. But, once she is 18 year old and out of high school, she will have a modeling career that might net her $500.00 to $1000.00 a week, because she a hot model and in big demand too. Then Red or Tiffany can tell her parents to SHOVE OFF. But, by that time, who Red is will probably already been decided and she will be Tiffany forever. Even after five months of being Tiffany, certain attitudes and thought process are starting to set in and become a part of who she is. Unless Red is changed back to a boy soon, it “GOOD BY CLARENCE!” AND ” HELLO TIFFANY!”
Ok guys, I just want to leave this message here because you never know who is reading this comments:
Whatever Red decides to do with her live is up to her or him assuming Clarence never accept life as a girl, not her parents, not even the magic in her body. I am not going to spoil my plans with her, but just to be clear, her parents my have a lot of control over her life now, but Red is a smart kid, with good friends and even a helpful tutor in the model industry where she is stuck right now, there is nothing stoping her to live her life as the kind of person she or he decides to be, we all know how shitty the adolescent years may be, but we just have to learn from them, not let the them to define us. Again, no matter how many terrible people are in her life right now, there is still people who cares for her, heck, Melvin spend all his summer looking for ways to help her, and almost let the Butterfrog rip up Kazom’s face for her “this” morning!
Just to leave an example, and I know this is a subject we usually don’t bring un in this kind os stories, but just to let be know we don’t need to bring up extreme solutions, assuming once again that Clarence never accept to live the rest of his life as a girl and that there is not a magical solution to this, there is no reason for him to not live as a man once he reach 18 years old in just a couple of years, which would mean he would only expend 3 years of his whole life as a girl, that still is an option assuming the genie magic didn’t turn him into a girl in body and soul, in which case she will just live her life as the kind of woman she decides to be. In any case, there is absolutly NO reason to bring this to the edge of a building, life is full os solutions, even if some may be harder to find!
“Whatever Red decides to do with her live is up to her or him assuming Clarence never accept life as a girl,”
Yes, essentially my point. Red’s choice.
Two minor points:
Characters who have experienced magically instantaneous, physically perfect sex changes are a bad model for reality, and vice versa. Red (And Misfiled Ash, and Exiern’s Typh) all remember being male, and waking up one day as female.
Also, We do not know how deep the magic goes–it might eventually affect Red’s emotional state. (But that of course is writer’s choice.)
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And I’ll agree that, as a matter of storytelling, having Red kill herself seems a Bad End. One way or another, I want her to change or adapt.
@50s refugee Oh, I fully agree that this kind of transfortamtion stories that involve magic are not the best example of reality, but again, I don’t know who may read this comments in the future, and I just wanted to leave clear that no matter what do you think of Red’s situation, wathever you think is funny, unfair, lucky or screew, and no matter how she looks at it now, what to do with her life and how to improve it is STILL on her power, or them if anyone prefer to leave that idea open (fun fact, as a spanish speaker, the notion of use plural as a gender neutral term is something that requires getting use to), again, I wouldn’t spoil my plans for Red, heck, those plans are still open even for me, but there is no need to go over the edge here!
Thing is, Red has practice being a warrior woman. True, it’s just a role, but an inspiring one.
(And I think the extreme there is little beyond what this comic usually does. )
Red’s blushing.
Im sorry, Benny, but as I’ve read the strip from the beginning & have reread it, it’s not blushing but more like flustered & frustrated. My comments sort of address that. Read from the start, Ben, and note Clay’s reactions & sense.
There’re hints all alone that allude to the frustration….
Jim
Poor word choice on my part. I should have just said she went red in the face as that could cover ANY reason for her face to turn red. I meant to say that there was SOME reason she was turning Red, weather that being embarrasment, frustration, or something, else, without soecific about the cause. In hindsight I should have looked up the use of the word blush in the dictionary, as I thought the definition of the word had been expanded to mean becoming red in the face for ANY reason. I was incorrect about that, the definition is still the same.
Also I meant to be vague about the reason on purpose, because ANY and/or ALL of the possible reasons for being Red could apply. She could be embarrassed, she could be frustrated, she be frustrated BECAUSE she’s embarrassed. Etc…
Does this help? I hope I did a better job of explaining myself this time around.
A whole summer spent like this – with Hitler and Brunhilde (aka mom and dad) running her life…
I’d have given in to the icepick lobotomy by this point lol
“Skitter account”: of course, all I can think of is the aliens from Falling Skies.
I really hope that Tiffany finds a boyfriend. (And I know who I want it to be, but I won’t push that.) Probably the odd man out here, though.
By the way, Blondie, you’re not one to talk about “Cow tits”.
*AHEM* “Did you see her grades? Her parents must be spending as much on tutors as they do on her looks…” No, it’s just that she’s a really a boy who’s more than a little nerdy, and actually LIKES learning. Unlike savages like you who know that your looks are all you’ll ever have. (Don’t mind me, just exposing the various stereotypes in play here.)
Fun fact, Blondie (A.K.A Debbie or Deborah) only have two lines on this page, most of the lines here come from the short haired redhead (Madison on the tags), with the glasses girl (Alisha) having 3 lines in total, we are about to see more of Debbie’s character in the next couple of pages, but I hope this one helps to showcase what kind of lackeys Madison and Alisha are, and where their priorities reside!
By the way, “proper welcome” chills me to the bone. Read this sequence over at monstersoupcomic dot com /?comic=page-22-crush . (Starts a few strips before, but this is enough. Read on for the next strips, though, this is just the runup. You’ll know the page I’m talking about when you see it.)
I am doing some rereading. I have an IDEA where this MIGHT be going. I want to finish the reread to be sure. And I will post my speculation if if the reread supports it. But if I am wright I like the idea.
Rise of the Moon Princess poster. Saved, printed and framed. Love the art work.
So I have a theory I am working on. The theory is not complete, but I thought I’d give you guys an early preview. Basically I am guessing that Red’s mother is/was the leader of Red Magic Matriarchy and she was one of the factions that opposed Melvin’s father. If true it would explain alot.
First of look at the image of the Red magic user in the link here
https://melvin.jeaniebottle.com/?comic=concentration-key-or-p-t-s-d
it’s a woman
Second read this link
https://melvin.jeaniebottle.com/?comic=ranged-attacks-are-the-best
The way she was nice to Melvin but ignored her own son before he turned into a daughter implies two things. One she wants to use Melvin for what his father’s legacy and two, she did give a shit about her own kid back when he was a son and couldn’t be her heir but now that’s she’s a DAUGHER she’s showing her around to her friends as her “heir.” No wonder Red finds it creepy.
Oh let you not forget all the “princess,” and “queen” lines.
Finally, and speaking of
https://melvin.jeaniebottle.com/?comic=into-the-blue-wizards-lair
&
https://melvin.jeaniebottle.com/?comic=transmojification
There is the way Kazom creeps Red out combined with the way he is the first to adress her as “princess” while the latter COULD Have just bee the shirt and attitude. The way it is compined with the first point plus all the other evidence gives me the opinion that Kazom was keeping an eye on her because of who her mother was.
Now I will admit I could be wrong, this may not be what Bach-Mann intended and even if was that dosnt mean Carlos intened to continue it. Still I can’t help but point it out.
@Ben:
Well, it’s an interesting theory… speculative at this point, but we’ll see.
I can address one part, though… people who treat their own kids badly, often put on a very different picture to the rest of the world. So the fact that Red’s mother was “nice” to everyone but her own kid doesn’t necessarily mean anything other than that she fits the model of an abusive parent. And now that she is showing Red off to everyone makes sense, too; she’s suddenly got a “mini-me” to brag about, and live vicariously through.
And – the red witch – it COULD be a woman. Or a man in a long cloak.
Oh, and the bit about Kazom… Kazom is a bit of a lecher. Remember how he liked to ogle Melvin’s mother when she didn’t know he was looking? While Red is changing shirts, Kazom has one eye open… (see here) So I think Red is picking up on his attitude, and that why she finds him creepy. Besides, a talking cat-genie is a little creepy anyway. He was better when he had a human-shaped form – and a better sense of humor, too.
Hmm… I always thought it was because Kazom was sweet on Susan. The rest I will grant you except for the fact that green magic user looks more masculine then the other two
@Ben:
Being sweet on someone and sneaking a peek aren’t mutually exclusive. He definitely likes her.
I agree about the Green mage – mostly because of the hat. But with cosplay, who can tell.
The other part of the theory (which is even more speculative) had to do Red intrest in Dual Classing and being affected by Genie magic mike make her different then normal witches, including said possibe ability to dual class magics. I will spare the details for now as even as it is is speculative and I am unsure if you all are still interested in this part of the theory. Suffice to say I noticed the comic was paying attention to colors as in Magic: The Gathering (having not played I had to do research on what the colors meant) and that the one Wizard DESPITE being born into a house split between Black and Blue was ONLY a Black wizard. That combined with Kazom mentioning the fact that despite genie magic and witch magic not being able to mix were somehow amplify each other was the basis for this theory on why Red could dual class.
That being said this wasn’t ALL there was to the theory, there’s even more to it including a role for Melvin to play.
If you want to hear the complete (highly speculative, although some parts are more speculative than others) let me know. I will post it complete with page links.
Also it’s not so much about what they are wearing as the lines on the body. If you look closely the Red and the white/yellow one have breasts, the green one, not so much.
Or at least, that’s their torsos look like in comparison to the green one. Their figures are basically more hourglass in shape. I suppose I could be reading to much into it. Still it seems odd to have the designs of two be different from the other without a purpose.
I pasted a post with several links to earlier comics but it doesn’t seem to want to take. Any idea why?
Usually when a comment have to many links it is send to pending, where either Roger or me have to aprove it’s posting, that’s what happen to your comment, also, there are some trigger words that may send some comments to spam, but some are less obvious than others.
Also, interesting theory, but I can’t comment about it.
I didn’t expect you to. Thanks for explaining the delay though. Sorry about the double post. I wasn’t sure if I had mesed up the first time I will remember multiple links cause delays and be more patient in the future but this time I didn’t want to risk loosing my data so I copied and pasted my post.
Is it just me or does Debbie have shark teeth in the last panel?
I guess this means that a feeding frenzy is a “proper welcome” for Red.
So, the breast shrinkage has been solved, sometime off-panel?