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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "Undercover Wenches in Trouble," pt. 3 of 3
🕑 Added 2020-01-15 16:01:23 +0000 UTC(The previous installment of this story fragment can be checked out here.)
Per your votes in a recent Patreon poll, here's part 3 (of 3) of a commissioned DiD short story in proto-Empowered format, drawn for a generous friend who appreciated not only my earlier con sketches of a wench-ified Kei and Yuri, but also my depiction of a young Red Monika from back-up stories I wrote and drew twenty-odd years ago for Joe Madureira's comic Battle Chasers.
Quick notes on the story (okay, "story") pages:
Note that this is the Red Monika from the second, "flashback" story I wrote and drew for Battle Chasers. (Was mildly annoyed to notice that I wasn't given a story credit in the recent BC TPB, but you may rest assured that I wrote both of 'em.)
Panel 2: Okay, that's a tad icky.
Panel 4: This was drawn during the era of the so-called Mysteriously Intermittent Post-Millennial Torso Glitch I've often mentioned in Empowered webcomic commentaries, so I'm not sure if Yuri's exaggerated proportions were a deliberate stylistic choice on my part, or just a garden-variety screw-up.
Note: I'm certain that a page 10 of this story exists, but I just couldn't dig up a scan in time for today's post.
Moving on, next up are a pair of related, late-90s con sketches featuring Red Monika distressing the Angels. (Despite the lack of dates on the pieces, I can tell by the characters' nose structures that they predate my abrupt, early-2000s switchover to "minimal nasal indication," as seen in the two comic pages.)
Now, as I mentioned earlier, my genetically upgraded, cyber-enhanced, ultra-tech-geared versions of the Dirty Pair would easily wipe the floor with Red Monika if she tried anything along these lines. However, a possible in-universe rationale might exist for these unlikely scenarios!
See, check out the panels below, from a "Kei'n'YuriCon 2141" convention scene appearing in 1995's Dirty Pair: Fatal But Not Serious issue #3:
(Kindly ignore the "Los Angeles Bonitas" bit, which may or may not be a deliberate error on my 25-years-ago part.)
So, yeahp, all these stories of an inexplicably distress-prone Kei and Yuri may very well be virtual-reality simulations of some sort. Case closed!
Anyhoo, next week we start up serialization of the "cocktail-dress Kei" story y'all voted for as the #2 option in the poll mentioned above. Wheeee!
TOMORROW: Time for another installment of I Am Empowered, the Twitter-format prose experiment dealie!
Comments
Strypgia
I'm going to assume the Red Monika story is one of the sims, which covers why the Angels are so easy to subdue. Someone has it on easy mode!
Otaku Twenty-Four Seven
The Kei Vs Red Monika is dated '99 in your sig on the piece so I'd guess the Yuri Vs Red Monika is probably the same date. Really hope you find the 10th page for this set!
Burninator
Man, not sure if that con vendor is brave or just dumber than a bag of hammers to be slangin dubious sims of Kei and Yuri in the vicinity of the actual Kei and Yuri, given the risk of the Lovely Angels taking offense either at the product or the lack of royalties and the possible resultant consequences. I mean, I'm not sure you'd be real eager for Kei and Yuri to drop by your next con booth and see any of your distress work. Also, I'd strongly advise against screwing around with those SimRelationship scenarios; I saw somebody post about dreaming a full relationship(I imagine dreaming runs on pretty similar if not identical mental circuitry to what a sim'd be mucking around with), and it turns out the mind can have difficulty separating something of that intensity cleanly from reality, the person in question still sometimes breaks down in tears twenty years after they woke up, mourning the wife and daughter they never really had.
JoJack86
Great scenario, really enjoyed this whole set!
Vlaphor
Loved it. In a way, it kind of reminded me of the Vanquished Queens series of books, which I do consider a positive. Hope we get more.
Lex of Excel
Gotta love how these scenarios can be repurposed that way. "It was just a fanfic/fantasy" is the new "he was just a doombot."
