Red’s Dawn Part 1
Mar19
on March 19, 2015
at 9:00 PM
And now for a look at the morning routine of Tiffany “Red” Thornton.
Sorry for the late update. I got the dates mixed up.
And now for a look at the morning routine of Tiffany “Red” Thornton.
Sorry for the late update. I got the dates mixed up.
LOL, oops. You’d think she’s been a girl long enough not to have this problem any more…
Also, the narration boxes are barely legible at the release resolution.
Maybe but Red has more years of practice doing it this way rather then the others…
I know they are small, but we will correct them in future comics.
Don’t feel too bad, I’ve seen much worse. And I applaud you for the humor this strip brought. Now I want to see her reaction in the next strip..
Honestly I’d expect her to sit on the toilet as a guy if she’s that out of it in the mornings otherwise she’s not going to be hitting the bowl anyway. I mean laying aside the fact she’s yawning, looking up and has her eyes closed she hasn’t noticed she’s not holding anything.
I agree I always sits down in the morning, and doing the night. I think most guys do that. Unless their bathroom have one of these private: male-urinating-while-standing-up-devices that is usually found in public bathrooms.
I used to sit down when I awoke in the middle of the night because my bathroom was too dark to see the toilet.
Then my roommate moved out and I didn’t care anymore. 🙂
I have to give Clarence’s Mom credit, though, for teaching him to put the lid down. That means Red is unlikely to ever sit on an empty rim.
Is it just me, or does Red’s hair seem longer now?
MMMmm, no it’s about right. Awfully thick, but the right length.
Could just be bed hair.
I’m pretty sure it’s manga/anime hair. Split ends run the entire length of each hair, then regrow to their full diameter, like hydras. But without the slime.
Does she not even try to aim? Because, you know, I’d notice that I didn’t actually have any thing TO aim. If I wore underwear to bed, I’d spend a few panicked seconds looking for the nozzle.
Believe me wires can get crossed…
I’ll have to take your word for it, but it is a funny strip.
To be fair I don’t remember half the things I do on autopilot in the morning. I just get up and before I realize it I’m at work…
I have seen, on occasion, some guys just stand there and point their bodies. It’s like they don’t care where the urine goes, as long as it’s away from them.
I’m wondering if the bra has become natural enough that she doesn’t notice it.
Assuming she sleeps wearing a bra.
Gods yes at work there are times you walk into the the toilets and just go “no I’ll wait” I mean seriously yes I get that some guys piss over the seat and the floor but how in the hell do you shit over the floor?
Better question how or why did they do it on the walls….
One guy did it in the sink because the toilet was unsanitary, then there was the guy who clogge the toilet yick.
As a retail worker who sees public restrooms often… I ask myself this question all the time.
My conclusion is always “People are just damn stupid.”
In some cases the perpetrator is from a country that uses squat toilets. They are often trained to the idea that actually sitting down is highly unsanitary.
But sometimes it’s due to homeless people hanging out in public places like libraries, train stations, and the like. I’ve lived on the street, and the fact of the matter is, some of those folks are just scat-tossing crazy.
There’s also the fact that unless she’s taking it on or off its probably not something she’d notice that early in the morning unless it got twisted or uncomfortable.
I’ve shared bathrooms with men of varying ages and just kinda assumed there are a number who don’t particularly care about precise aim. Particularly because I’ve no other explanation for the ‘uring around the toilet’. Like ring around the collar, but urine, and not a collar at all.
Hoo, this won’t be pretty.
The guys over on the ‘chans will like it, though.
I’m wondering if phantom weenis may apply here….or anywhere for that matter.
By all logic Phantom limbs should apply. It’s a condition of the brain having knowledge of years of something being their that is suddenly lost. So yeah Phantom wiener does apply.
Maybe, but I am not sure. It you are talking about the actual medical condition of phantom limb, there isn’t a definitive theory on how phantom limb sensations work. Without a clear understanding of how it works, its hard to say if there is a difference between having a part lopped off or having your entire body re-written into something new. If the theory that it is generated in the cortex is true, then maybe it could happen either way. It the theory that it comes from the peripheral nervous system is true, then I suspected it wouldn’t be the case.
Thinking about all this reminds me that males and females have differing brain structure. So I suppose even if it is a function of the cortex that the reorganization of Red’s brain could have fixed the issue of phantom limb pain.
Off the top of my head, I seem to recall that the major differences with women’s are in more densely packed input and output neurons, which is where the higher verbal skills come from, and lower serotonin production leading to greater risk of anxiety and depression. I suppose having stronger input doesn’t help with anxiety either. Males are more likely to be autistic, schizophrenic or dyslexic which actually makes sense if they all relate somewhat to input/output problems.
Okay, now I am rambling way off topic. While I doubt the medical condition of phantom limb is in play, there is just the fact that in dreams I know I can have a completely different body. Stronger, weaker, female, wings, animal. Whatever. In those first minutes after waking, the sensation can linger, and those dreams involve body parts that I never had in real life, let alone a previously prized part of my body.
It interesting to think that this happened to Red in middle school. That would mean puberty would still be a pretty new thing. Sure, adjusting to having breasts would be weird, but its actually something other girls would still be coming to terms with as well. Unlike Jean, Red never really had more than a glimpse of being a fully-functioning male before this happened. That’s not to say that years of social conditioning, being brought up as a male aren’t a big deal. I’m just thinking about this from a biological perspective.
I am not an expert so please don’ quote me on everything i say but in this case it seems more like force of havit then anything.
Also regarding this i wonder how badly her spacial awarness of eveything go screwed
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As forth phantom limb, the magic far as i know changed her body not how her brain thinks. So depending how the senses an nerves got wired to the brain thier could easily be alot of problems. So we even with a clear understanding of phantom limbs may not be able to make assumptions do to this change of body being don by magical means.
Just so you know, “weenis” is a real word. It refers to the stretchy skin covering the point of your elbows, which has almost no feeling.
Good to know 50s, thanks, I won’t be making that mistake again! Mostly because I prefer the ones I encounter to have the utmost sensation. Did some reading….phantom phallus may also be a real thing.
Red is definitely on auto pilot when going to the bathroom early in the morning. I wonder if in the next strip, If Red does the search number for her penis or she creates a big mess.
Do her parents make her clean the bathroom?
I’m wondering if this isn’t the first time for her. Teenagers and early mornings do not mix very well. And this strip started sometime enough after the change that her parents had already got her a new wardrobe, and maybe a bit of a modeling job.
I wish I had a creepy squirrel monster on my bed! I’ve also found that my autopilot has a scary advanced setting! (driving etc.)
I keep thinking that thing would fit right in at five nights at freddy’s. It’s freaking creapy…..
Is that a take on Ghibli’s Totoro?
And yes, morning autopilot is pretty bad. I’d still at least search my shorts.
Given the premise, though–poor Red. That’s going to be messy. Hope her autopilot includes a shower.
It will be in autopilot that the search number and all over the toilet area. She will promptly shift to manual mode when it come to cleaning up her mess and taking a shower.
Legal says I can’t answer that, but I would like to say that the creapy squirrel monster reminds me of “my neighbor”. 😀
>snrk<
It watches Red sleep and sniffs his/her hair at night.
There’s your creepy imagery for the day…you’re welcome.
She is cute like this and she definatley isn’t a morning person but I agree yikes that stuffed doll. There are some childhood toys that you look at and just wonder who’d buy something that scary for a little kid.
15 years of maleness DOES tend to put one on autopilot… especially early in the morning
… I myself usually get out of bed at 6.20 and wake up at 7.45 🙂
From what i can figure from the comics Red is at most 13 years old, not 15. The scary thing is that looking into it, Red’s figure isn’t that impossible for that age. Melvin’s crew is in middleschool/juniorhigh, 10-14 in age. I suppose they could have stayed back a year but that’s unlikely. On top of that, unless they are just a few months shy of graduating 8th grade, very few people would be 14 yet.
They are all 15 and in high school.
So the comic jumped a head a few years then, good to know. Makes Red’s anatomy less weird too.
It hasn’t advanced years. CD Rudd told me that they were 15 in Jeanie Bottle and they are still 15.
This looks like it’s going to be a search for something that isn’t there a sudden realization, a spin sit and a splash since the seat as well as the lid is now up.
Hopefully her dad has to drop a morning deuce after she pee’ed all over the toilet and floor lol.
Wow…I didn’t realize what was happening/about to happen until I read the comments. I hope Red checks for a “hose” first. If his days start out this way, I see why he was so irritable before.
And this is the easy problems for her. If Luna and BACH MANN have this planned out like i think they do… Well like said easiest of her problems.
I have never had the autopilot “problem”(?) before no matter how tired I am.
Wow, so much analysis. Doesn’t anybody know the Rule of Funny?
Hey just cause i analyze it doesn’t mean I’m not laughing either.
Gotta talk about something.
But OK: Drooling girls are cute.
How long after Red’s Ka-Girl’ing does The Melvin Chronicals take place? Is it before or after the Melvin special that CD posted at the end of last year’s Christmas Marathon?
Shortly after Red is sent off to the girls school.
“Melvin Special”? Got a link? I don’t remember that.
And Luna/BACH-MANN, what does “shortly” mean? Less than a week? I have the idea that your opening scene takes place Friday evening or Saturday, as the first chance The Gang has had to get together after the ka-GIRL.
We didn’t want to put a specific amount of days to it. Again, it hasn’t been long. Red just had her named changed and her wardrobe switched, neither of which takes very long at all. I would say it’s been about a week or so.
Close enough, and thank you!
This is one of… no, this IS the most heavily analyzed comic I’ve ever seen! lol
Oh yeah, love the title of this segment! (The original Red Dawn was a cool movie. 😛 )
I thought it would be funny if the secondary title was “HER WOLVERINE!”, but I was reminded that it may be inappropriate to non-touched people. 😀
Hilarious! Do non-touched people read this?
Good point. 😀
I don’t even know what non-touched means…
I’m touched. Truly, deeply touched. I…I may cry.
I’m not touched…but I think I’d like to be. 😉
Anyone wanna point me in the right direction?
Hahaha! Wait….did I just laugh? Yes, I laughed, but was I actually laughing? Or……..
Pfft. You did not spend enough time on the Megatokyo forums in their heyday.
Misfile’s Napalm Luck is, I think, even worse.
I think forum mode encourages long, detailed posts, with numerous links and modified or annotated comic frames.
Either she’s about to make a mess, or she’s SO good at it, that she can competently not miss the bowl even as a girl. Odds are 90 to 1 favoring the former. Any takers? Yeah, I know, I’ll find out on the next page.
I remember an very old fanfiction about Star Trek Deep Space Nine where exactly this happened to the symbiont Jadzia Dax after changing from a male to a female host which pretty much started this running gag of all gender bender stuff. And coz Dax already changed host several times the thought bubble read “shit not again…”