208 – Change of Mind
Marie-Neige never reacts the same way when she meets a new girl.
Shout out to my friends Ariane Martineau and Laurence Perreault for suggesting nice outfit ideas for this new character!
For my English speaking readers out there who are curious, yup, hyphenated names are quite common in French. Especially with biblical names like Marie (Mary), Jean (John) or Pierre (Peter). There’s a ton of girls called Marie-Something in Quebec, so having two in Frivolesque isn’t far-fetched in any way. Marie-Neige (Snow) and Marie-Lune (Moon), however, aren’t all that common, though, but I just can’t have boring names in this comic. All that’s left is to have a girl called Marie-Soleil (Sun) in it for good measure.
Fun fact, I had a crush on an local actress called Marie-Soleil when I was a teenager. She died, though. T_T
Also, my mom is called Marie-Andrée. Yes, Maries are everywhere. Strangely enough, girls simply called “Marie” are not that common. I guess the name sounds old-fashioned by itself.
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There’s only room enough for one Marie.
This is a problem since Marie, Mari and other variants of Mary are so common.
“There can be only one.” (Highlander)
“Two Maries enter, one Marie leaves.” (Thunderdome)
“This town ain’t big enough for the two of us, Marie.” (Every B western.)
?
“It’s raining Maries”? (with apologies to the Weather Girls -_^)
It’s like the One Steve Limit
Pretty much but at least you gave her a different name past the hyphen.
Or the No Homers Club?
The sign says “No Marie ‘s'”. We’re allowed to have one.
I thoroughly approve Marie-Lune’s outfit. Her hairstyle and headband reminds me 2B from Nier Automata.
Also, good riddance to those two guys. I guess Marie-Lune will annihilate them in the most humiliating way.
2B is my waifu.
2B or not 2B, that is the debate in certain forums.
I _really_ hope you have an understanding girlfriend, if that’s the case… (Unless you and she share 2B, like I would with my “better half” if I had one… -_^)
Oh, she has her husbandos. But they’re of the 3D variety and she doesn’t understand why mine are of the 2D type.
But 2B is 3D, right?
well kinda reminds me of a song,
“Mary Moon, she’s a vegetarian.”
pretty character btw, and love that sleeveless turtleneck! :>
So she didn’t like the company of those fine “gentleman” and she hates the girl that helped her get rid of them? Sheesh Marie-Neige, there is no competition of who’s the prettiest girl in the room.
No competition to be prettiest? Blasphemy!
I bet it’s Gaia. After all, she can simply throw every other girl out of the room.
I knew a girl exactly like that.
Oh yes! There she is! ^_^
Chloe, Marie-N’s reaction is women’s logic. You’ll never understand that, you’re just “one of the guys”. ;-P
This comment made my day.
You’re welcome. :)
I’d say M-N hates M-L here not because the latter gathers more attention or diverts it, but because M-L enjoys and M-N does not. And, for me, they look like one of them is the evil twin of the other. Maybe both.
Each can be the Evil Twin of the other! How economical!
It could be worse, Marie-Neige. They could have switched their attention to someone within your group! That could have been catastrophic for everyone.
They might have tried to hit on Clementine without glasses. I wonder if she’d have been happy about that.
And if they did, would Marie-Neige become jealous of Clementine receiving the attention OR suddenly possessive of Clementine, as in “You can’t have her, she’s MINE”?
I don’t know. I’m not sure Marie-Neige even knows.
Did Marie-Neige and Chloe moved to Marie-Lune’s bench once she left with the “fuckboys”? Or did they stay and the same spot and the background characters mysteriously changed space? XD
The background crowd moves I guess. They’re not statues. Also, my perspective is off.
The steels girl was doing a moon walk together with carrot top.
you made my day, if i’m good at animation i should make them doing the moonwalk xD
You’re welcome, too! :-)
I can already picture the animation. Just take panels 2 and 3 and create an in-between-animation where the girls slide back while the guys slide forward like a counter-weight. Try it if you want! ^^
Of course the background characters aren’t statues, but it just felt like they were in line waiting, but the line kept getting longer and longer.
I just made it work for myself: Marie-Neige moved there, dragging Chloé by the arm, trying to sit where Marie-Lune was so M-N could try and get a “better shot” at being noticed XD
Don’t know how that would work for her, though XD
It’s not a line, they’re just hanging out in the back. And no, Marie and Chloe definitely didn’t move. (you’ll see they’re at the exact same place in next week’s comic). My background perspective is just really screwed. I’ll probably try to fix it when the third book comes around.
Oh my stars, look what I’ve found… THIS explains everything! She’s one of THEM!
http://frivolesque.com/archives/comic/somnolence
What?
Uhm… Liliane has the same heart in her sppech bubble? It’s a hidden sign, right? A message planned long ago? It can’t possibly be a mere coincedence, right? Right?..
Ah! XD
Nah, it just means she’s speaking in a playful, loving manner.
Tempted to make joke that Marie-Neige should take some vitamin C, (as in our citrus girl Clementine), to treat a bruised ego.
But probably having to explain that vitamin C really is used to reduce bruising ruins it. “If you have to explain the joke it ain’t funny”. I’ll shut up now.
The awkwardness of the comment goes well with your profile image.
Randomly assigned, but I have advanced the science/art of awkwardness greatly here and in the real world. :-(
Hey. Marie-Lune already has an entry on the cast page.
Of course! (And Catherine too, haha)
I think I have the only webcomic out there who cares about its cast page.
Well, Frivolesque and Flaky Pastry.
I appreciate it. It’s annoying and sad when you check the cast page of some webcomic that ended years ago and all it says is, “Coming soon”.
I did check Cast page and was surprised to find Marie-Luna there, yeah. I was yet more excited to find that you also updated Relashionship chart. That (and the fact you’ve never missed a single week without update) makes you The Most Responsible WebComic Author in the Internet I’ve ever read)
Aw. Did those stupid filler with Mr Toad count as an update?
And I’m pretty sure most professional webcomic creators don’t miss updates either.
Yep, they definitely count. I’m reading pretty many webcomics, and hiatuses are way too common, unfortunately( It’s not like they are everywhere, but still.
I like the Steels girl best.
They’re the original characters of Oshi!
Next will be Marie-Étoile.
Doesn’t sound too good as a name though…
No, if there are any more Marys, it will Marie-Antoinette and she will bring cakes. ^_^
“Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.”
J’espère que le gâteau n’est pas un mensonge.
If it’s doesn’t make sense, I blame Google translate.
Nah, it’s pretty good!
I find it odd that they’d translate Marie-Antoinette’s “brioche” by cake in English, though. A brioche is definitely NOT a cake.
And rumor has it, she never actually said it in the first place.
Come to think of it, I think it’s a very good translation given the context and that the likely audience wouldn’t know what a brioche was.
The essence is “at hearing the peasants had no <staple peasant food>, she replied: let them eat <luxury food items>”. Whether it’s a cake or brioche doesn’t really matter. And it would probably detract from telling the anecdote to have people ask “but, what’s a brioche?”
Suddenly a rival appears…
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER
They’re being taken in by a pretty face.
Same thing happened in the He-Man episode Evil Lyn’s Plot.
“When a good woman goes bad, a good man goes right after her.” –Mae West.
Well o.k. Now all we have to worry about is that death grip that Marie has on Cloe’s arm…or soon will have. Something tells me Cloe is not getting away unscathed.
In reply to Dez’s comment about hypenated French names, it’s true. I’ve seen a number of Jean-Jacques, Jean-Yveses, Marie-Claires, and even a Marie-Pascale once. Between hyphenated French personal names and British hyphenated family names (Rhys-Davies and Nathan-Turner to pick two famous ones), I don’t know which group is worse.
…Actually, yes I do. Someone in the southern US of mixed French-English heritage. They’d probably have a name like Billy-Bubba Jean-Paul DuPont-Smythe. Ack! XP
Oh, we have many hyphenated last names too. Mostly from the post Quiet Revolution generation, where it was popular to give children the last names of both parents for feminist reasons. I’m one such kid, having both of my parents’ names. The trend didn’t stick, though, since it makes things really complicated later in your life. XD
Marie-Neige Saint-Vallier
Touché! I thought it’d be funny, her having 4 names. Like my brother.
This comic has the biggest amount of comments I’ve had in ages.
Things are looking up and as of this post, Frivo is ranked 195th.
Yeah, I was just about to comment on the sudden comment explosion, too. :-)
I guess Ms. “of the new house” didn’t just attract the comic boys’ attention. Even the French version has comments this time! One of them is not going to be happy once even Gaia will get her glasses. XD
But where will this rivalry go?
Has Marie-Neige met her match? Or her… “Match”?
How about devoting a Frivolseque strip
to SunTzu and the palace women.
Keep up the good work on Frivolesque.
And some one just happens to be wearing a shirt of what Marie-Neige is feeling right behind her
“Steels”?