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by Aria on October 16, 2016 at 6:55 PM

Chapter: Mile High Engage

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settled dust in your hair

Lepidolite Mica

So, the “I am the master of my fate” route is the most logical, and desirable, path for Ulrich to take here, but somehow I can’t help feeling like that’s a bit redundant in a series about a girl with perfect control over her own existence.
Oscar Crooks

oh hey those dog t-shirts make sense now.
- Aria
  
  only took almost 400 pages hhh
  - Sandman366
    
    Someone been listening to Elvis while writing up a script?
    - Aria
      
      Pink Floyd, more likely
      - Sandman366
        
        Really.
        
        You have someone declaring “you ain’t nothing but a hound dog”, and you’re claiming Pink Floyd.
        
        Really?
      - Aria
        
        Yup!
      - Sandman366
        
        Well, I guess if that’s your story, and you’re sticking to it….
        
        ….nope, still don’t believe you. ;P
caribouchat

Well, growing is all about changing, isn’t it? You are what you are but not what you will be. And is he, really, anyway? Some wolves look like dogs at time… Or foxes… Coyotes… Dingos… ok, ok, I stop, or there will be a whole zoo there.
- Aria
  
  this comic does like its animals doesn’t it
  - caribouchat
    
    Would Phineas be a monkey then? I wouldn’t be able to choose between chimpanzee and gorilla though 😉
    - Aria
      
      Heee I’ve always considered Phineas to be a rooster, but you’re always welcome to your own interpretations. An ape beating its chest also seems pretty fitting to be honest! I always put a Primeape on her pokemon team
      
      A friend of mine who reads the comic said they always think of her when they see tiny fat birds who chirp REALLY loudly, like they think they’re bigger than they actually are. It’s always neat seeing how people perceive my stuff
      - caribouchat
        
        Yeah, of course, a rooster doing monkey stuff, that’s what I meant, huh.
      - Sandman366
        
        Considering the way the first couple of pages goes, a rooster seems….way too appropriate to not be used to describe at least one of the characters.
Amaaré

“You are a supporting character” Stop being so meta Eisse.
Fighting only makes it more difficult, now that’s a challenge. Phin absolutely would see it as one, Ulrich…I’m guessing he’s reading between the lines more.
- Aria
  
  Phin and Ulrich definitely have different approaches to this sort of thing.
  
  for instance, phineas wouldn’t need encouragement to eat
  - Amaaré
    
    She would DESTROY those tea sandwiches.
  - Sandman366
    
    She would not even let the page be posted before those sandwiches were gone. (Assuming she even let you finish drawing the page…)
Sage

wow, she is cold. Eisse cold….
A Wild Bird

“What a b****!” ~some guy
Sandman366

“You might think I’ll always need to be led. You might think you’ve been evading things I couldn’t fathom. You still think this is your ship.

I’m pretty sure I’m teamed up with someone who wants to go right to those things, and either make friends, or punch them. We’re leaving right after Phin finishes graffitiing her name on the side.

I doubt you’re still interested in being hired by me, but it doesn’t matter. The position has been filled.”

PS: Isn’t you fighting being what you are basically what Commanding is, too?
- Alex Simpson
  
  I kind of see commanding sort of like how building your muscles works. When someone exercises their muscles tear slightly all over and then reform to be able to take and give more punishment. You have to break what’s already there so it can grow into something better.
  - Sandman366
    
    But commanding sounds more like tearing yourself apart completely, all at once, rather than over time. Or at least getting started in it sounds like that.
    - Alex Simpson
      
      Yeah, and then you build the best you EVER.
      
      It’s not a perfect metaphor.
      - Sandman366
        
        “The best you ever”? Sounds like a commercial, now….
        
        If Phin shows up though I’m probably buying it.
caribouchat

Oh, I forgot to tell you: the background and furniture are really great. And those colors!
- Aria
  
  Thank you!!
Elkian

Those suspiciously aquamarine bushes at their backs in the first panel – the same color as her hair and I think her aura – definitely impose an idea of her being in control here.
- Aria
  
  I appreciate this comment so much thank you hee
WeirdEnby

This page is very much Eisse’s colour scheme. I like how you utilized the background to wordlessly depict the power imbalance 😀