You may remember Rochelle’s father who made a couple of brief appearances during her feature story with Mindmistress – Buying the Stairway to Heaven – see pages 1 and 24. It would seem Kaycee remembers! When Kaycee refers to being an octomaid she is, of course, referencing her recent jaunt through Fatima’s subconscious starting at page 6.99…
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Next update: Friday March 22, 2013: Kaycee vs Rochelle?
I’m sure the ‘but’ Olga was going to say was important.
great page
yyyeaahh, this could backfire.
Too bad Kaycee ISN’T familiar with Mindmistress! 😉
I did consider using MM… Kaycee is observant enough to be aware of her (and lest you think I’m making that up just now, check out this page from Crossoverkill as MM and Energize arrive at Magellan Island!). In the end I decided MM would be a bit too gimmicky.
Rochelle may have genius-level intelligence, but Kaycee is clearly the smartest. Even if this backfires horribly, it shows a lot of understanding of her environment and calmness under pressure; two hallmarks of what it takes to be a hero even in the real world.
There are different kinds of smart. Kaycee’s may have more… all-around utility.
Yes it can backfire, but the question is will this be strong enough to snap her out of her madness.
well raising the stakes is one way to snap people into action.
Kaycee may not have the raw computational intelligence of Rochelle (in a math-off for example I’m fairly certain Rochelle would win easily), but she appears to be, by far, the wisest person among the second year cadets when it comes to noticing things about people and things and then improvising a practical use for that knowledge.
Or to put it in simpler terms: Kaycee is awesome. 🙂
Then again, this shouldn’t come as a huge surprise as it seems none of the other cadets are anywhere near as driven to succeed as a superhero as Kaycee is, given that she in effect trained herself in preparation for this (probably mentally as well as physically) well before she was accepted to the Magellan Academy. Most of the others seem to be there because they were born with abilities, not because “This is what I’m going to do, come hell or high water!”
“But Rochelle psychotically attacks her father every time she see’s him…”
“but i might not be able to change you back…”