72: Coping Skills

Welp, that escalated completely unseen
Hope that doesn’t make Mason feel bad for making them argue though
But hey, what happens, happens, what’s done, has been done.

And more importantly, let’s all feel bad for Claire.
Hoped she had a backstory that’s sad after what Proto said.

It’s an issue thats been brewing between these two since the start. We felt we needed to address why Claire has been behaving so strangely aswell as Sesame airing some of her grievances — which we didn’t really address well before. Hopefully it does give a bit more info as to whom Claire is and her past. Yes we will have a fully detailed backstory coming up for her too! With flashbacks and everything.

I’m not being one to pry to deep into what’s going on but, the interactions between Claire and Sesame make me think of Peebles and Marcy…if you know what I mean….come to think of it, both pairs of characters are rather similar.

I don’t blame Sesame for feeling how she does. I would be irritated too. Excited to see what is in store next page.

Aw, Claire, I know all too well how you feel.
I play a lot of jokes to hide my social awkwardness, (though not at that level). It’s never easy, especially if people don’t know it. You’re best bet is to look upon what you’ve done, and what others have done, cause you will most likely find yourself in the same situation.

Considering how Proto is currently staring at a picture of Claire and what appears to be her dad “from back then . . .”, yeah I think she probably has pretty traumatic socializing issues she’s never mentioned 🙁

Sesame does have a point.
And Mason is caught to the left if you ask me. :3

Poor Claire. I know exactly how you feel.

Anyone else think Sesame looks like Raven from Teen Titans? Maybe with ears?

Maybe this time the picture upload will work.

It did not. I took this picture of Raven from Teen Titans, and put Fera ears on her. It’s really cute, but it won’t upload. So, just use your imagination.

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140824013525/teentitans/images/7/71/RavenMainPic.jpg

One more try… Sadface.

Not really, but since we’re on the subject of Raven, I can picture Sesame’s voice sounding like Raven’s (and Kibbles’ sounding like Starfire’s XD).

Well at least she finally got her problem out in the open. Assuming anyone pays attention to the part where she mentioned she’s poorly socialized.

Claire looks like she is about to go full Hulk on Claire. Also, how does she NOT have friends with those…..assets…

Because not all friendships are about sex..
I’d be hard pressed to call someone who is only friends with you because of your ..assets… a true friend.

agreed. also, her attitude makes her admissible only to nerd/tech/science circles (where those assets are noted, but not agreeable)

Claire going Hulk on Sesame? LOL

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t SESAME the experienced warrior whose ability more closely fits that description?

Mason no

IF Claire had been paying attention (or any of us readers), Sesame mentioned a technology-using culture.

We know (but Claire doesn’t) that the fera aren’t the ONLY race on this planet. If Claire had been paying attention, she would have caught the hint that Dahakian technology does some pretty weird (to Sesame at least) things and THAT is where the answers to Clair’s tech problems will most likely lie.

“Claire, you must go to the Dahaki system. there you will learn from the Dragon-folk, the greatest inventors in all of Evyr.”

Sorry, couldn’t resist

Mason should just do the smart thing and see how Kibbles is doing and let Sesame and Claire have their catfox fight.

hmmm, either Mason stops the fight, or gets hurt by it… he seems like the type to pick them both up by their scruffs, and tell them to calm down… while they try to side-kick each other.

OTOH S, and C have to have a confrontation in order to see the other’s pov…

Story is moving well, all good stuff. 😉

actually, Claire has assumed she was transported to the past. All she (and we) really know is she has been transported thru space, time, or both.
we don’t know how far she was moved physically (since Claire doesn’t seem to know enough astrogation to see her position in the stars) and we have only assumed from the lack of technology she has moved back in time.
Sesame has now mentioned Dahakian technology does weird things. The list of things technology could do ‘weird’ is pretty dang long. Dahakian technology could be ‘leftovers’ from the time before the disaster Kibbles said happened 713 years ago.
What if the gang were to go to dahakian territory and find it’s run by a big, metallic creature that (for some reason) calls Clair “sir”

That…that would actually be very interesting. Instead of traveling *back* in time, Claire would have traveled *forwards* to that hypothetical period that Einstein mentioned when he said the Fourth World War would be fought with sticks and stones. O.O

GO CLAIRE WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND MATH!

Same claire i actually never been in contact with natural light

Well whatever Sesame thinks now, she’ll most certainly believe Claire when she meets Proto. Then I hope we get a real sincere apology from Sesame for not believing her.