# 85 Berserker Queen
Feb29
on February 29, 2016
at 8:54 PM
Chapter: Coming Of Mage
Characters: Melvin Clark, Tiffany "Red" Thornton
Location: Snack to the Future
Hey kids, sounds like all is not well in the land…
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I knew i liked Helga for a reason. She’s probably more of a mother to Red than Red’s actual mother.
And Red’s actual mother is obviously “The Queen”.
“The Queen” obviously wants her daughter to be a good little girl, but has forgotten that the ages from thirteen to sizteen are when kids defy their parents as an end unto itself.
It appears that Red is not getting the support she needs. You know, from her parents.
That much we already knew though.
and in panel 3 and 4.
You can pick those markers up, pretty much anywhere. The Sharpie company will even personalize them for you, if you want.
Hey! Melvin! Her eyes are about 2 feet higher . . .
Yeah, but Red’s inviting him to read her tee.
Actually she’s pointing out the Sharpies in her pants pocket. You know, the ones that Helga “destroyed”.
Ah, good point, for frame four.
But I wonder if Red realizes the effect she creates by pulling her shirt down in frame three.
Also: watch on youtube: v=x_Sh9kNI0dI
[Dang it, that was a further reply to ranck’s comment about eyes.]
That girls school is starting to rub off on Red. She is starting to mimic the speech patterns and using cute ways of saying things. I suppose it’s a survival trait, kind of like starting to pick up an accent from where you move to as opposed to where you were.
What do you see her saying differently than Clarence would have? Do we have a good sample of Clarence’s speech for comparison?
I’m comparing her speech with Saatchi’s excitable rambling, and Red comes off as being pretty well on point.
The one thing I do see is Red’s wild expressions, which do remind me of Saatchi’s. Was Clarence more reserved?
I do believe that Clarence was a little more reserved. Even Melvin and BJ are more reserved that Red is right now. Red is starting to imitate Ida and what says and does and is even starting get animated while saying it. There is also indications that Ida has befriended Red and it more than just a business relationship and that it turned into a friendship of two girls that like to spend time with each other. Nothing romantic or anything, but, just good friend type relationship. There still a lot of Clarence in Red yet, but, Red as Clarence new identity is starting to take her new identity. If you look over the last two or three post, you see Red being surprised herself as to what she was just saying and then continued to saying and repeating what she was surprised at what she way saying.
In other words, she is just starting to come to terms to fact that she a female and male as she use to be.
Possibly. It’s also possible we’ve never seen Red truly excited before. Clarence was more of a secondary character in the initial IDoJB storyline (to the point we didn’t ever get a name) and had maybe a half dozen lines in the whole thing. And Red has been a in “My Life Sucks” mode since, and thus hasn’t been talkative unless it was threatening someone (usually B.J.) with physical harm. This is the first time we’ve seen happy, excited Red. And for all we know it’s the same as happy excited Clarence was.
In this instance I was referring to the “Berserkers,” it’s a cute way of saying berserk.
That could be either regional dialect, or a Warmallet reference we’re not familiar with. I can’t see Red “Girling out” with Melvin and B.J. at this point, as they are her “Guy refuge”, i.e. people she can still act like a guy around without getting raised eyebrows. If anything I’d expect Red to emphasize her masculine habits around them, to the point of acting slightly jerkish at times.
“Masculine” equates to “slightly jerkish”? I object!
But I see where you’re coming from. I think a common perception is that the male approach implies rational problem solving while the female approach implies emotional conciliation.
Both approaches are necessary, individuals of both sexes use varying mixes of both approaches–and both can see the other as rather missing the point, often rightly so.
My personal experience with male nerds-including myself–is that while we like to think we’re calm, rational, Spocks, in fact we’re jumbles of poorly understood, poorly harnessed, clumsily repressed emotions. We can thus present as more than a little girly in our mannerisms when those emotions leak out.
As a result, I’ve seen many male nerds act like Red is acting now.
[NB: This is hasty generalization from stereotypes, not a close, well supported analysis.
One of Red’s problems is going to be learning more feminine ways to express her emotions.
One of Melvin’s problems–perhaps his main problem–is going to be to harness his emotions. His growing powers mean that he can no longer afford unthinking emotional outbursts. “The flaws work the wizard as the wizard works the spells.”
And poor BJ–he’s just run off in a little-girl snit, having no way to either express his distress in a lady-like fashion, or to harness it to achieve self-insight.
Ah, so that is not a t-shirt that was bought that way, but one that Red made herself with markers.
Yeah, it’s the same art as the shirt she wore in the very first comic, though that was a belly t, and this seems to be a regular. One would expect the belly t has been similarly “edited” if not outright destroyed.
um, where’s the update?