126 – Abandonment
Behold! The first solo Liliane strip ever. (If we don’t count the one with her father, which wasn’t really about her anyway)
Because we haven’t seen her in a while.
I wonder if Liliane has any fans among you guys. I know one reader who really likes her, but what about the rest of you?)
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I’d raise some questions about purple jobs girl but Lillian being dateless is too sad! Liliane is my second favorite right after Trainer Nick and not just because of my randomly assigned Gravatar!
What about Purple Job Girl?
And yes, Liliane needs love too.
What about Purple Job Gir-?!….okay here it goes. You asked for this.
Color Wheel Jobs Girl theory: Each Job Girl so far has been displayed in a primary or secondary color. This leads me to believe there is a total of six of them!
Red Job Girl: Works at clothing store and possibly toy store. For some reason willing to help Marie-Neige with a spontaneous presentation despite being rather rudely dismissed by her.
Blue Job Girl: Works at Toy store has had no lines so far.
Yellow Job Girl: Hasn’t appeared yet but has to exist for theory to be true.
Orange Job Girl; Also hasn’t appeared…maybe they work at the beach or something?
Purple Job Girl: Just appeared! Works at a cafe. What are your secrets!?
Green Job Girl: The first Job Girl we ever saw. Works at smoothie bar, high end clothing store, and apparently volunteers for Random Charity. Has easily the most character development apparently holding affection for Mary-Neige and even scoring a date with her. This leads me to believe she is the leader of the Jobs Girls despite what Power Rangers has taught me.
Normal Job Girl?: Appeared in a Flore day dream. In the back of a group shot. Could be any of the mentioned Job Girls (probably Green) or an entirely new one that would discredit theory.
So there! What are you hiding Dez? Surrender the secrets of the Jobs Girls! And who’s Laurence? A sister, a clone, and imaginary friend, or just Flore in disguise!
That’s a good analysis! But I’ll refer you to a tweet from earlier this year :
https://twitter.com/OmegaDez/status/601793095437389824
There you go. ^^
So, should we call them the four swords girl now?
=D
Wow, it does is a thing :) Nice to know.
Heh. That picture brings back fond memories…
And considering Green’s triforce shirt and greater number of appearances, it makes sense…
You’re catching on.
D*mn, looks like in order to try and figure what’s going on with them, I will need to teach myself about old video games :)
Don’t worry, I’m woefully ignorant of Nintendo games too. I’m only familiar with those four because they make a great theme costume and tunics are easy to sew.
Disloyal Subject:
Do you cosplay then?
Not usually, but senior year of high school called for doing something flashy. Sewing a few tunics and being Blue Link for a day fit the bill, and was a lot less difficult/illegal than finding a way to hijack the PA system and subject everyone to my taste in music.
I am struggling to finish a TechPriest costume and a Daemonette one in time for Halloween, though.
Wow, even simpler versions of any of them look hard. Do you have pictures of your work perhaps? Just curious :)
Four Swords and FSA were such fun, underrated games.
It seems that you did the first right guess about them :) Congratulations!
How the hell did I not catch that D: *Hands in Zelda fan card in shame*
LOL.
It’s not like it was super obvious!
Nooooo! My crackpot theory!! It didn’t even last a day!
But you were right on many things. =D
Interesting. Continuing on from my previous analysis (It’s the 6th post above this one, couldn’t get a link closer sorry), It seems the “Green” model has once again been upgraded, tho in another manner. Or perhaps this is an upgrade to 1 or even both of the newer models, “Red” & “Blue”, their upgrades somehow combined in some way? Yes, the fact purple can be made by mixing red & blue could be a strong indicator that the new “Purple” model was made using a combination of “Red” & “Blue”…
…Or that I’m a insane, & just making random stuff up…
OK, can anyone tell me why Daniel the Human keeps saying my name with that weird, cocky “I know something you don’t” look…?
Here, a direct link to the comment you are referring to.
Awesome, thanks. How’d you do that? Best I could do was the link I posted… :(
third try…
You probably got your link from the “#” symbol of the first comment, right? If you look at that link you could see that there’s a number at the end of it: “…comment-28892/”
Well, if you now look at the link on the “Reply” world of any comment, you will see a number at the end as well, in your case: “…eplytocom=29583#respond”
You must take the link at the “#” and change the number at the end, for the number at the end of the “Reply” link – ONLY THE NUMBER – and you will have a direct link to the comment you like.
That’s all :)
Well, at last, for some reason it didn’t accept my post the first two times.
Oooo, awesome! Thanks for that! Gonna try remembering that 1… :)
Maybe Daniel played Four Swords.
All right, everybody, it’s a new day. Frivolesque has been hovering around 100 all month. If you haven’t voted yet, it just takes three mouse clicks, so vote! Daily!
If Frivolesque is in the top 100 at the end of the month, the author will get an awesome prize!
A three-day supply of dried potatoes!
Okay, I really have no idea what will happen. Perhaps the author will explain?
Maybe we’ll get a vote incentive – comment on what you’d like if we can drive Frivolesque over 100 for the month!
At this moment Frivolesque is peaking at place 97.
I did the math a while ago. Frivolesque is usually around place 105-107 all month long (second page, out of sight). If everybody who reads the comments would vote one more time a week, we would be at the first page (top 100) the whole month.
If you already vote on Mondays, how about Wednesdays?
Just one more time.
I’m probably obsessed. I usually stop at Topwebcomics every time I get online after 0300 Eastern time (when the day resets)
Nah, I’m not obsessed. I’m having fun!
I am surprised that no one caught the dried potatoes reference, though.
Dried Potatoes? Chips? T_T
Girl und Panzer
One of my favorite animes.
It was a prize for making a massive effort to achieve an almost impossible save-the-world goal.
A three days supply of dried potatoes.
Enter Enter Mission!
Of course! Council President Azu! That I get for read in a hurry, how I missed that? It’s my favourite anime by far :)
No magic, no demons, no fights, no romances, no sex, no erotic fanservice, no convoluted conspirances, no end-of-the-universe menaces, just a simple direct story with lovely characters, plus an amazing action art. And it works great! :)
Also the most visually appealing intro scene ever :)
Thanks for that memory! ;)
And the sheer, un-fricking-believable accuracy of the armored vehicles!
I’m an armor buff.
Everything else that you said, as well.
The Japanese sure have a crazy fetish for military vehicules.
F*cking yes! :) And the way they move, how interact with the terrain, how they tilt and sway according the actions :)
Also I said no erotic fanservice because to military fans it’s full of :P
I like a lot tanks and battle strategy and so. Although I’m not a military geek myself, I think get a fair share of the references and other stuff and I really enjoy them :)
Searching stuff I found this, never saw it before :P
I’m more of a sword guy, but it’s a fantastic show even for those of us who’re relatively ignorant of tank series.
Last off topic DEZ, promise :)
Wolf, check THIS (click on picture to enlarge)
SO MOE
I KNOW, RIGHT? :)
Lots of lovely characters, but if you don’t fall for Miho, you fall for no one :)
No meganekko though. D:
Nothing is perfect! ;)
I guess they thought that someone sight impaired using a tank would be a little disturbing :P
Actually there’s two and a half (plus a kinda creepy looking one), but not among the central characters nor too appealing either.
Wow! =D
I never watched that show. Was it good?
It is great! :D
Heh, I just deleted a bunch of adjectives :P Better don’t build up expectations, just give it a try, I think you will not be disappointed.
Opening theme.
I love Liliane! She’s such an awesome older sister figure… and figure…
Also, calling it here, she’s either been stood up, or she just realised that she was smiling while there was a girl near her, and she’s not when there’s a guy there. She’s probably not totally straight. Or gay. She’s probably in between. At least, I wish she was. XD
Lol. Why do you wish Liliane was bi?
And I don’t think she even noticed the people next to her. She sure doesn’t look like she’s looking at ’em. ^^;
“Why do you wish Liliane was bi?”
Why would you not? :)
BTW, didn’t you see cynthash’s avatar or her stories? Better you be ready :P
Do we already have a ship, cynthash? :)
Getting there… :3 Also, hello! Liliane is sooooo dreamy! I don’t even know why. It’s not just her boobs, and it’s not just her hair, and it’s not just her attitude. I’d say all three of those, combined with her looks(and hello even her name screams I wanna get to know this cool person). :D
Oh wow.
Another Liliane fan! <3
I'll have more of her, I promise. If you promise you'll stick around. ;)
Oh, I will. I’ve been reading this for months, after my one friend showed it to me. n.n
As I recall, Flore is actually older. But she is very protective of her sister.
Liliane that is. (oops)
Nah, I think that the guy with the hat is just a redshirt.
Liliane has been stood up.
A redshirt who pops up once in a while.
If he tries to pick Liliane in the mood she’s in, he might need his brown pants as well.
But he’s already got a date!
What normal man wouldn’t dump a blind date (Well, WE can’t see her) for Liliane?
One with an overdeveloped sense of honor? Walking out mid-date would be incredibly rude, to the point of being just plain tacky.
What sensible woman would take a guy who just dropped his date for her? It doesn’t exactly speak well of his loyalty. I don’t think Liliane’s that desperate.
Besides, Steak seems like a nice guy, terrible taste in fashion notwithstanding.
I should have known someone would take me seriously.
My answer would be “someone with a death wish”
At the hands of Liliane and said blind date together.
Unless the unseen girl is his sister, in which case she would shake her head and mutter, “My brother’s an idiot” as she watched him get shot down.
“I should have known someone would take me seriously.”
It used to happen to me all the time :) then I stopped doing most jokes.
Tip: the “:P” emoticon seems to help ;)
I refuse to let someone else control me. I will keep making jokes, and thin-skinned people will keep seeing microagressions.
Seems like a fair trade.
Easily offended people offend me. Don’t MY feelings count?
Fair enough :) I wasn’t trying to suggest anything, mind you (well, maybe the emoticon) :)
BTW, it was my decision based on my priorities.
Me! Me! I like Liliane since the start :) even more after school flashback.
And now I’m all sad for her :( she seemed so looking forward this, she was getting fit and everything. I’m guessing the guy is the same she got drunk with a while ago, he better have a very good explanation or he could ended having it worst than Will Smith.
I’m wondering the meaning that Liliane (or her date) picked a sporting bar to meet. In the other hand it’s pretty appropriate that a boxer with a SPORTS hat is dating there :)
I like how the windows aspect change as the time pass :) Not sure if it’s the one-way windows reversing due the change of light, or just that the sun stopped shining over them. Any case it’s the kind of details I love about your art. Well done :)
She’s actually waiting for her date in a little pub downtown. The food is good there. I guess they’re kinda a sports pub too, but it’s a nice place to be.
Anyway. I wanted the window changing to show that it’s a bit less sunny inside, so the light doesn’t blast through the window as much…
And you’re highly perceptive. She’s been into this guy for a while, and I did drop a few hints here and there. But he seems like he’s not taking the relationship as seriously as she’d like.
I visited their site and sports looked like a main part of their theme. But now I read a bit more and it seems like they gave up on that a while ago :P
“I wanted the window changing to show that it’s a bit less sunny inside”
It works, although to me that effect is done mainly by the play on lights you did over her and the table. Actually the overall effect gives the EXACT impression you have in real life in those situations, are you an artist or something? :)
Aw man. It’s 2AM, and the buses have stopped running, but now I really want some pub food. It’s the only thing better than deli food…
It’s an usual Frivolesque side efect :P
Poor Liliane’s doomed to spinsterhood isn’t she?
It might be one of those things where women who are super hot are seen as intimidating. I really don’t know if that’s true as I’m not a women but that’s what T.V. has told me and it hasn’t lied to me yet.
You’re pretty much on the money. She’s too intimidating and controlling for many people.
Really? You are making it look like she could be like, I dunno, bossing around mercenaries and assassins :P
TV couldn’t possibly ever lie to us, could it? :P
TV never lies.
Source: Internet.
And the internet never does.
Never.
Yup!
Awww :(
I actually thought supernatural Gaia can kinda exist in our universe, but now, seeing Liliane alone without a date, I have no more doubts, it’s a parallel universe. I mean, the only reason this guy abandoned her would be death or coma)
It is also possible that the guy could not withstand Liliane’s gaze without the sunglasses.
Without the sunglasses? Nah, that would be like fifth base or something.
LOL
By that logic, Gaia’s gone to 5th base with Liliane.
Ha! I knew someone would point that out! :)
And the answer is like shower boobs fondling in every anime ever: it doesn’t count :P
…I didn’t think about that.
Maybe she feels safe with Gaia.
If he’s ever seen her without them to begin with…
Liliane might be hot, she’s not as perfect as you seem to think she is.
because i did something to her date, that’s why he can’t make it :D
at least in my fanfic mind xD
LOL.
I knew it! It was you!
it was fun mwahahahahah 3:D
Need somewhere to hide the body? That Apple-Mobile-Voice thing doesn’t do that anymore…
xD i’ve packaged him to south africa :D
You know? I’m totally into your “Mona Lilith” avatar :) Pretty good job.
Thank you very much Mr. Not Fred! :D
Liliane stood up. That is so wrong. (I just hope her date wasn’t the victim of foul play. In her line of work, you never can tell)
If they weren’t, they might be soon…
She’s actually never dating people in her field of work. He’s probably some random dude she met.
Good to see the frat-creature again; be’s strangely adorable, like an ugly puppy tangled in yarn. I think gonna call him Steak. Is good name, да?
I think it’s an appropriate name.
I thought it was funny that you brought back Sports Dude.
He also cameo’ed a few strips ago, he was Gaia’s sparring partner.
No wonder he looks kind of dazed.
Why do so many of your characters wear glasses?
I think that all of the jobs girls do…
Glasses are good.
I tried contacts once, but couldn’t stand the breeze on my eyeballs.
It’s a good question. Also one that I’m quite surprised not to be asked more often.
Mostly, I think they look cute, and nobody else seemed to be doing it.
This :)
Queen Elizabeth II becomes longest-reigning UK monarch
I forgot that you guys have a Queen! :)
But it seems that Canadians don’t care a lot about it, one way or another, right? :)
Oh! Erm , God Save The Queen!
I think English Canadians do care about their Monarchy business… French Canadians totally hate it. Unless there’s a royal wedding of course.
Hate it? Good to know, I read a bit and got the impression that people was more like “Meh”.
On the other hand, it do seems to be a little more heat about sovereignty from Canada :) But I don’t want to turn this into a political forum, so nevermind ;)
I guess the older generation hates it, the younger one is mostly “meh” about it.
I do feel kinda sorry for Charles as he has to wait for so long to become King, but until Queen Lizzy dies, he will just have to wait. I can imagine that when Prince Phillip dies(he is 94 after all), QEII might feel differently and retire but then again, she might be like the Queen Mother and live for another 12 years or so.
Elizabeth is cooler anyway.
To be perfectly honest, I forgot all about her. >.>”
… You’re kidding, right? D:
I’m not. I read a lot of web comics, and many of them update only weekly, so even though not much time passes in the course of the story, a lot of time passes in real life. Over the spam of the few weeks/months since she was last seen, and with all of the other stuff I’ve been reading, I forgot all about her. >.>”
You only have eyes for Clementine, I know.
Shhh… >.>”
Is that a hidden cameo in the 1st 2 panels? The Black Beeny Girl looks familiar…
You are right, at this moment the previous strip she was in is “117 – Expansion” and the earliest one is “Invasion”, plus a couple more in between. Her companion is likely the redhead next to her in “Invasion” :)
She is. Notice the darker skin complexion. :)
She’s been a recurring background element since strip 48. Her and the other girl with her.
Aww that’s too bad. How come she doesn’t call him though?
…
Maybe she forgot her phone?
…
Maybe she’s too proud to call, or too pissed at him to see him anymore.
You got me.
:)
I assumed that she was giving him the benefit of the doubt and gave up just now.
Also that either this is the first date and she hesitate to call and open herself to a bad position, or this is not the first time he stood her up.
Well, it could be out of battery, that’s always a possibility, maybe she played too many games on it.
I voted in the Top Webcomic 100 and Frivolesque is back in the top 100 at 95th position.
I’m going to keep pushing every Monday until Dez tells me to knock it off. Or until the other readers tell me to quit being so annoying.
Actually, I’ll probably quit after this month.
Once is fun, more would be just creepy…
I’d never ask you to stop, I like being voted up! =D
Good news, it crept up to 93rd. ^_^
If you are in the top 100 at the end of the month, will you provide a vote incentive? It wouldn’t need to be fanservice, a nice character poster would do.
Gyah. The biggest problem with this is the fact I barely got any time to draw stuff aside from the comic itself. And if I did, I’d rather have two Frivolesque a week, something I doubt will ever happen. T_T
And I have to work on the book and do stuff for the upcoming conventions I’m going to. September is a crazy month for Frivolesque-related work so far. But… I’ll see what I can do.
Ok DEZ, allow me a little feedback, please.
The truth is that from where we are standing that reason sounds hard to believe, because you are posting extra stuff on your other sites all the time (you just did it), any of them could work as vote incentive only with wait a couple days before post it wherever else.
Don’t take me wrong please, you have all the right to don’t do it, and to don’t tell us why, and is totally ok. Seriously.
I apologize if I upset you and there’s no need of a reply or anything, I just wanted to share my mind.
Yeah, but like every normal people, I need some ME time too, but sometimes, I get random bursts of inspiration and end up drawing little things like that one you just linked. I’m probably gonna finish it too. And I won’t feel bad about it.
When it becomes something I have to do every week, the inspiration tends to die quickly. :P
If you think that NotFred and I are ganging up on you, well..
You’re right. We are.
Shhh… don’t corner him :P
Why should you?!
I just tried to point out that you are already doing art that you can use as vote incentive: those very pictures.
If it worries you, vote incentives are not a compromise. Lots of artist do it randomly :)
But again it’s
a pity buttotally fine if you decide don’t do it whathere the reason. Honestly.Mmm, just in case… I’m already voting everyday, and I’m already getting all you are posting elsewhere. That you use something as vote incentive will make no difference to me. It will do to Frivolesque.
Yeah, I’m voting everyday as well. Twelve more and Frivolesque would be in the 80s.
Whew, what a rush!
I just voted again this morning and it’s now 92nd.
It’s in the high 80’s!
THE EIGHTIES!!!!
…now go vote again…
I like all your characters, but Liliane is in the top tier – I rather like strong women.
Orange dude reminds me of that one One Piece character from the CP9, i.e. the guy who could turn into a giraffe and fought Zorro. He just has the same eyes.
PASTA MACHINE!!! ^^
BACKGROUND GIRLS!
Is that the one with the long red hair just off-screen in the first two panels?
Liliane is a great character.
Aw, you really think so?
I’m always under the impression she’s the least popular out of the recurring female cast.
Ugh! There’s fewer things worse than being stood up!
I’m pretty sure the orange dude has been in three pages now, and deserves a name (or at least a reference).