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Grrl Power #1158 - SHOT
🕑 Added 2023-06-01 10:01:00 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Yes, Maxima can metabolize an incredible amount of alcohol. So much for a low-key start to her evening.
Max has literally never been an adult and looked inconspicuously human. She knows how they're supposed to act, but she's always been the center of attention one way or another. Let's see what happens.
If you had super strength or telekinesis, etc., the temptation to "create parking opportunities" for yourself would be real. Especially if some jackass is parked crooked or is taking up multiple spaces. You'd be morally obligated to relocate that car into a tree or next to a fire hydrant.
I actually had planned on a whole page of Max driving around until I realized I'd be condemning myself to drawing not just her car, but a whole bunch of other cars blocking her access to parking. I can draw a car if I have good reference, but I'm not one of those artists that lives for drawing cars and/or mecha. Like there's no way Shuichi Shigeno, the artist responsible for Initial D, wasn't super into drawing cars before he set out to create that manga. I can assure you neither this or any other comic I work on will heavily feature cars. Unless I somehow become an expert at Blender.
Comments
Bharda Sullivan
Max has zero experience being a normal adult, and has reverted to being a 13-year-old, because that was the last time she did “normal.” Consider: her first move was to take the shiny new car she’d driven maybe three times, and get a speeding ticket, and is now drinking on a fake ID, being clearly _way_ to excited, and obviously not understanding how normal barroom conversation goes. And I say that someone who routinely orders pizza with, “enough extra cheese to gag a goat.” I do genuinely hopes she makes some good, real not-work friends, but I also kinda hope someone shows up to big-sister her through this experience before she get’s too hammered to realize that she _is_ hammered, and starts making super-powered Poor Choices. I mean…it’s a great bit and all, but I find myself being genuinely scared for her. This may be the first time in her adult life she’s ever not had to be “on.” Sudden depressurization can be hideously damaging, in more ways than one.
Some Ed
I guess I also gotta be THAT guy. Maxima may tell herself that she's failing due to inexperience in navigating the mundane world as an adult. However, there's nothing unambiguous about "Actually, what's the most alcohol you're legally allowed to sell me in one go?" There is no amount of out of touch that could plausibly explain that as something one thinks of as normal behavior. It's possible that she thinks it's normal showboating. I recall one of my college associates did something like that, imitating something his favorite pro wrestler had done on camera. Fortunately for his liver, he turned out to be a flyweight when it came to holding his liquor... He claimed at first that he was trying to blend in as normal. But he admitted that the character he was trying to imitate was nowhere close to normal - one of the characters that stood out the most in a set of characters that strove to stand out. To be clear, this is absolutely behavior that someone in Maxima's situation could do on a night out, and she could totally be lying to herself and say that she's trying to blend. But deep down she knows she's absolutely not trying to blend in. She wants a night out as someone superlative like she is, but without the media. Chances are moderately decent she's going to find out the media goes after superlative and they just flock to her because she's a known superlative.
Deltarno
Well at least she found a nice bar, but I doubt this will end well. Hopefully she can find some drinking buddies. Also, any chance for an enlarged version of tiny Max raging in her car?
Aclys
For the parking scene... Could max not simply use her tk-lifting feature to lift the car while in contact, ie driving it, then just fly herself up and such to move the car into an available slot?
