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sorcyressWeirdly, despite webcomics being one of my absolute favourite methods of media to consume, I have *very* few characters who started life therein. Mostly it's books, which probably says something interesting and completely obvious about how I relate to text YEP.
But I had Max, who I posted about earlier, and I have Melody Wildflower Kelly. (Did you know her middle name? Do you know where I looked to find it? I'll put a postscript at the bottom if you wanna try and figure it out yourself.)
Narbonic is one of the best webcomics ever written. It's a mad science love story, and it hits on virtually every mad science trope there is, at one point or another. The main cast is four characters: Dave, the everyman computer scientist tempted by the forces of evil, Helen, the wicked biologist with gerbil-based dreams of world domination, Artie, the superintelligent gerbil originally meant to destroy the world but more interested in saving it, and Mell.
Mell who likes big guns, easy answers, and causing a whole freaking lot of chaos.
It is an active shame that I have never sought to cosplay Mell, because we share the whole dark-hair and short-skirts aesthetic. I don't talk like her quite all the time, but I've certainly let her overwhelming Mell-ness infuse my vocabulary (have you known me long enough to hear me call something ginchy?)
Mell starts as an evil intern, getting school credit for serving under a Mad Scientist because the Narboniverse is just the right kind of wacky. She isn't a genius and she's definitely not Mad (not in a universe where that's a documented disability), but she is devastatingly effective about cutting through the bullshit and getting things done. We are men of action both.
I'm not *quite* as excited by guns as she is, but I am more violent than I ever let on, and I would certainly be willing to be the athletic member of the team (note to self, talk about Parker sometime) if necessary. That being said, she's also plenty lazy, willing to let Dave or Artie do things as much as possible so she doesn't have to.
Over the course of the strip, she graduates college, obtains a boyfriend, and quietly gets things done. She doesn't share a lot of her life with her coworkers --she doesn't feel the need to! There's always a weird shock that Mell Kelly has other things going on, but that makes all the more sense to me --I understand the value of compartmentalizing, oh yes.
I think she's badass as hell. You probably should too.
~Sor
MOOP!
PostScript: You can find her middle name (and more!) in the spin-off strip Li'l Mell! I have a strip from this hanging on my wall, from what is probably the best storyline about anything ever --The Horror of Rukavina Caverns!
(I'm really big into children's folklore, okay?)
But I had Max, who I posted about earlier, and I have Melody Wildflower Kelly. (Did you know her middle name? Do you know where I looked to find it? I'll put a postscript at the bottom if you wanna try and figure it out yourself.)
Narbonic is one of the best webcomics ever written. It's a mad science love story, and it hits on virtually every mad science trope there is, at one point or another. The main cast is four characters: Dave, the everyman computer scientist tempted by the forces of evil, Helen, the wicked biologist with gerbil-based dreams of world domination, Artie, the superintelligent gerbil originally meant to destroy the world but more interested in saving it, and Mell.
Mell who likes big guns, easy answers, and causing a whole freaking lot of chaos.
It is an active shame that I have never sought to cosplay Mell, because we share the whole dark-hair and short-skirts aesthetic. I don't talk like her quite all the time, but I've certainly let her overwhelming Mell-ness infuse my vocabulary (have you known me long enough to hear me call something ginchy?)
Mell starts as an evil intern, getting school credit for serving under a Mad Scientist because the Narboniverse is just the right kind of wacky. She isn't a genius and she's definitely not Mad (not in a universe where that's a documented disability), but she is devastatingly effective about cutting through the bullshit and getting things done. We are men of action both.
I'm not *quite* as excited by guns as she is, but I am more violent than I ever let on, and I would certainly be willing to be the athletic member of the team (note to self, talk about Parker sometime) if necessary. That being said, she's also plenty lazy, willing to let Dave or Artie do things as much as possible so she doesn't have to.
Over the course of the strip, she graduates college, obtains a boyfriend, and quietly gets things done. She doesn't share a lot of her life with her coworkers --she doesn't feel the need to! There's always a weird shock that Mell Kelly has other things going on, but that makes all the more sense to me --I understand the value of compartmentalizing, oh yes.
I think she's badass as hell. You probably should too.
~Sor
MOOP!
PostScript: You can find her middle name (and more!) in the spin-off strip Li'l Mell! I have a strip from this hanging on my wall, from what is probably the best storyline about anything ever --The Horror of Rukavina Caverns!
(I'm really big into children's folklore, okay?)