97 – Age
And here’s the big reveal.
Flore looks quite younger than she really is. Much to her sister’s chagrin.
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That sounds a bit like Tenma and Yakumo from School Rumble, Tenma is the older sister but she looks about 12-13 while Yakumo is actually 16 months younger, she looks years older.
I were more thinking about something along the lines of Ed and Al from Fullmetal Alchemist :3
Your example might be more applicable but since I have never got around to watching FMA, I just have to take your word on it.
You should probably get on that
You would be surprised and possibly horrified by how many of the most popular pop-culture anime, TV and movies I have heard of but never watched.
Take Aust’s advice, go watch some FMA. Brotherhood preferably, since it follows the actual source material.
And I feel sorry for Flore :) I wonder how often she, a thirtysomething women, get younger people to pat her head.
Ops, intended to be a reply to: http://frivolesque.com/archives/comic/97-age#comment-21676
It happens all the time.
That’s why she had such a look of defeat on her face.
Personally, I’d do anything to be able to get headpats. At least, I think so? Autistic, so maybe they’d be less good than I think, what with sensory/touch issues. But… yeah. Wanna be cute and small and get headpats.
Probably could have phrased that better Gaia
She isn’t one for subtleties, that girl.
It could be worse! Gaia could have said “But you said a nice sister…” ;)
Haha.
Although she has no reason to assume Liliane isn’t nice so far. (It’s not like she SAW the flashback. ^^)
Okay this is pretty funny and true in many situations.
I kinda feel sorry for Liliane now as I assumed she was in her 30s.
(⌒_⌒;)
Don’t feel bad. I made the same mistake. I mean how could you not? The shades, the suit, the shorter haircut, not to mention the obvious assets; all classic indicators of a older woman. We were all played! And it was a double play too! Flore looks way younger than she is to further inforce the implied age difference. I guess we should have seen this coming. Flore has her own place which is rare for a teenager. Well played Dez.
That’s just plain sneaky. :D
You guys weren’t completely played. Liliane IS the age you think she is.
It’s Flore that’s not.
And yup. Flore is actually the only girl in the main group that actually owns her place, and isn’t renting an apartment.
So Liliane isn’t a 20yo that looks like a 30yo, Flore’s the 30-something who looks like a teenager…WHOA!
That’s why she drives a scooter. She got tired of being pulled over :)
Now I’m curious about what kind of job she has.
Flore?
Hmm… It hasn’t been addressed in the comic so far, but she works in a library…
I should do something about it soon.
I’ve heard of Humans referred to as having a “Baby Face” (Daniel the Human gets told he’s younger than he is, despite having grey “temples” since he was 20), but that’s a bit of a surprise. I’m guessing that would make her the oldest of the group, & I’d recon she’d need photo ID Cop-badge-flip-out style stored in her wallet…
I have know plenty of people who either looked your for their age or looked older(like myself when I was a teen), heck both my mother and grandmother were the eldest child but both look years younger than their siblings.
Back in the 90s, I worked for a door to door charity sales in which one of my co-workers was 22 but due to her height, figure and baby-face, looked closer to 10. I used to be the opposite, when I was 12 I looked 12 but by the time I reached 13, I looked about 17 due to my height, deep voice and ‘mutton chops’, I was not as happy with this development as you would have expected.
People always think I’m like, 8-10 years younger in my everyday life.
I think it runs in the family.
Flore is indeed the oldest character in the core group. ;)
Heck, only Conroy is older than her in the whole comic so far.
She is!
Indeed!
:O
Flore is Liliane’s big sister,
i always thought Liliane is the older one :3
Flore’s quite vampiric :D
Oooh, appealing plot :)
Wild Ass Theory: Laurence is the vampire who sired Flore. ^_^
That sounds… disturbingly suitable.
Doesn’t it though… :D
I don’t know if you draw well, but I dare you out of the blue to draw what you just imagined…or what I just imagined…or maybe something that would have to do with vampires and Flore being the equivalent of Dracula and the others her minions…or something of the sorts…maybe? ^^
Not only does Oshi draw well, he’s one of the best artists that I know of. :) (haven’t you seen his drawing of Flore, Conroy and Liliane a few weeks ago?)
Haha. Maybe she got bit when she was little.
I can’t decide if this revelation is more shocking, or the fact that Liliane looks so crestfallen that she must not be used to people thinking she’s the older one.
That kind of things could be a really sore point pretty hard to get used to if ever so.
Flore could be jealous of her sister’s figure, and Liliane is jealous of her sister’s youthful appearance…
Haha. She isn’t used to it, but only because there aren’t that many people who know both Liliane and Flore. Remember, Flore is quite the loner.
True, but there’s still those very school incidents. I’d say she still looked a bit the older sister, there.
I still super-love Gaia.
It feels to me like the stress in the last panel should be on the word “older” rather than the word “is”… is that just me?
It’s just you.
:p
Nah, just kidding. that would have worked too. Or: Flore is the older one.
Since many variants would work, our esteemed author in this case purposefully emboldened the word which he deemed the character emphasized.
It rang true to me as I read it, but I guess YMMV.
Remember, your esteemed author isn’t a native english speaker, so sometimes, weird stuff can slip by. I guess the emphasis can work in a few places, but I think I do prefer putting it on “Flore” too like you suggested. Here, all fixed. :)
Always feel free to point out any typos or weird syntax mistakes I might do.
No problemo!
To explain a little more my thoughts:
The stress works on any of the three words (‘Flore’, ‘is’ or ‘older’) – however the use of emphasis in this context is to naturally highlight the important word in the sentence. This sentence is correcting a mistake, so you want to emphasise the word that best highlights that. Both “Flore” and “Older” incorrect part of the statement it’s a reply to. With Gaia’s statement (you look so much older than her!) – you want to emphasise ‘Flore’ and ‘Older’ serve this purpose, but “is” doesn’t really.
If the conversation had taken a different route and Gaia had said something like “Surely Flore isn’t the eldest sister?” then stressing “is” would be the more natural form, as you’d be trying to make a direct contradiction, and you want to emphasise the part of your statement that’s contrary to the previous one.
I hope that makes some sense :)
Yup! Thanks! :)
At last! :)
Time to update Flore’s profile. Two uncertainties less.
You’re right. I should actually flesh out the character profile section of the site a bit more.
Hey, your cast page is one of the better I know, clear, concise, with useful information of both in universe and real life, it works just fine the way it is, I do not think you must update it to include spoilers.
At most, this new information is related with the in comic profiles which you obviously can’t change for the same reason. You could include a direct link to them though.
I was referring to our (the readers’) character profiles :)
The relationship chart is specially useful, I had to do something the kind for some comics I read, it is great having it already.
Mind-f***ing-blow!!
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!? Didn’t see that coming.
SURPRISE!
I thought I told you that before though. ^^
You probably hinted at it but flew right over my head. Haha!
Yeah, I thought Flore was young because she’s small, oh well. I bet she still gets carded at the liquor store
You bet. I should probably do a strip about that.
Hey Dez, how many strips are you ahead by?
Varies between 2 and 4… 3 right now. Why?^^
Just wondering ^_^
To stay in character do it happening at the bakery or something ;)
I can understand the pain
My brother is 3 years older than me and while he looks kind of older, I’m taller than him. (and my mom, too. I blame my dad)
Haha poor guy.
I’m glad that I’m tall. And I’m also taller than my younger brother, so all is well.
… I assume she isn’t joking. But it doesn’t really seem plausible to me.
laying on my back with my feet and hands up in the air
Don’t die!