PaRARGdox 34
Largo Castle part 2: So we pop back over to Largo Castle, following on from pages 7.22-25, for a quick catch up on how things are proceeding between Kaycee Jones and Charisma Epoch… about as well as can be expected, evidently!
Patreon: By the way, should it be a thing that interests you, my Magellan patrons over at Patreon have been getting full previews three updates ahead of schedule. And you can too for as little as $1 a month… 😎
Families/Cемьи: Page 10 is now online. Page 11 will go up on Friday May 15, about 6pm Sydney/3am New York time. Stay tuned! By voting you not only get a new page of this story but you help raise Magellan’s profile and help potential new readers find us.
Next update: Sunday, May 24, 2020: What’s Bugging Charisma Epoch? (What’s not??)
That’s so endearing 🙃
Mmm… I’m wondering if somewhere in her mind, maybe in the back, maybe at the front, Charisma is thinking about the fact that in the chroners timeline she was closer to Kaycee… And that’s the timeline where she died.
Actually, does she know about their friendship in alternate timeline? I thought she did when I started to write but now I’m not sure…
Anyway, she might be thinking Kaycee is somehow trying to lead her to her doom by being friendly.
Perhaps Charisma is thinking that powerless Kaycee is trying to ride the coat-tails of the massively powerful Charisma Epoch, at least until she realizes that in many classes Kaycee has better grades because she works so much harder. Kaycee just does not grind her face in that fact.
This is how Batman and Superman would work out if Superman was not raised by a farming family to be humble and Batman did not inherit an massive industrial empire which could build all his fantastic toys and finance his nocturnal activities.
What a cool riff! Turn it back and imagine Charisma raised in a nurturing environment to become just like her dad in word and deed, and Kaycee as an inventive genius who creates most of her own gadgets and has a large personal fortune from the more mundane ones. You’d have the making of the Magellanverse’s World’s Finest 😁
Maybe we still do. 🙂
Mayyybe? 😉 Looking forward to many years of finding out, assuming we can get past the Earth being destroyed and everything.
I absolutely see the parallels between Kaycee/Charisma and Batgirl/Supergirl, with some of the initial style animosity from Bats/Supes tossed in. It’s similar, but also very original seeing as you’ve taken both characters from their proper origins and simply developed them as normally as anyone can be in a world with supers in the first place.
They’re both very real personalities.
Now you have Kaycee sounding like Toni Stark instead.
A character reference that is obscure to me, but the Marvel database at least tossed some tidbits about.My idea wasn’t to make a perfect analogue to Batman, but to enhance her “intelligence” aspect and give her the means to finance her ability to work solo.
Lucky for her, should she work within the Magellan framework she can rely on them for financial and gadget support. It’s only vigilante operatives like Luke/Wombat-Man who require a private fund.
Hmm… 🤔
😉🙃
Hmm… Presumably, though, that Magellan support comes with a hefty helping of Magellan oversight and guidance.
If you generally agree with their priorities, both in desirable ‘ends’ and in acceptable ‘means’ to achieve them, no problem. If you decide that Magellan are misguided in their ends and/or that their means aren’t the best way to do the job, strongly enough that the support isn’t enough to ‘buy’ you back onside, then you’re out on the independent/vigilante fringe.
And depending on your reasons for going independent, the line between ‘dissenting hero’ and ‘villain’ can be somewhat blurry.
Pretty much!! 🙂
It seems Kaycee likely becomes an heiress of a major company when her mother is killed by the same telekinetic that killed her sister, in previous timeline, Trust Fund Wealth as skimmed over in The Things That Matter.
For a name like Charisma, she sure lacks a lot of it.
Also, how thick IS that skull of hers? Darn.
Well, someone has given her an entry on TV Tropes under Ironic Name> Webcomics… 😀
I have no editing privileges on that site 😇
Thanks. Now I’m off on another 15 hour Tropes-Crawl.
Many has been the Clue-by-4 that has shattered against her skull to no effect.
I hope they figure something out together.
No Charisma, she is not thinking that she could be the brain to your muscles.
Now I’m imagining those stupid Life Hack videos in a Superhero verse.
“25 clever ways to preserve your minions.”
“12 more creative uses for doomsday devices. ”
“Superheroes hate him :Save the day by working from home with this one weird trick.”
Or a supervillain with healing powers calling himself Life Hack.
I’d so love to read such Life Hack videos.