Muffiny Miscellany

This one is intentionally relatively simple; no tricks or fancy backgrounds, just Team ⑨ hanging around and having good times together. And I have neither regrets nor shame for the title. Oh, hey, also, there's nine panels! That worked out nice.

Rengeteki is a midboss who appears in Lotus Land Story and Mystic Square; she doesn't even have a fanonical name, technically, although someone apparently tried to give her that name a while back. It didn't stick, though, since apparently only a few people were trying to do it and a few more picked it up. I've had "Rengeteki in Team 9" in my list of comic-ideas for a bit; it was one of those things I couldn't use because it wasn't a complete idea, and I didn't have anything to use it with. So here's a comic starring Team ⑨ ...

I also thought it would be funny to have Utsuho in Team ⑨, even setting aside the fact that she's going out with Cirno in Nekokayou-canon. I had to make her leave, though, because she was making things ... crowded.

I just couldn't get satisfied with Wriggle's line in panel 4, whether she¹ should say "human Japanese women" or "Japanese human women." I eventually decided on the latter (obviously).

I got the punchline from a conversation on IRC, but there really is only one possible answer for the question of Cirno's apparent-age.²

Transcript

1. Narration Box: Girls are hanging out ...
   (Team ⑨ is hanging around in the woods: Cirno, Utsuho, Wriggle, Rengeteki, and Daiyousei are there. Cirno, Rengeteki, and Daiyousei spend the entire comic hovering.)
   Cirno: Y'know, I was just thinking about how all youkai pretty much look like humans!
   Wriggle: Yeah?
   Daiyousei: I've noticed it too, now that you mention it ...
2. Cirno: (waving her hands) Yeah, it's like ... not just fairies, but also, y'know, like hell-cats and fireflies and stuff! And they're all young and stuff!
   Rengeteki: Young? But ... I know *you're* more than 60 years old, Chilly ...
   Wriggle: I think she means we *look* like young humans, Renge.
3. Cirno: Right! And --
   Utsuho: Unyu, sorry Cirno, but I have to head back to the reactor ...
   Cirno: Aww, okay. Bye!
   Rengeteki: Later, Okuu!
   Wriggle: It was fun hanging out!
4. (Utsuho exits.)
   Cirno: But yeah, it's like ... Dai, you're sorta like ten, I guess ... and Okuu is seventeen or something ...
   Regeteki: Chen looks thirteen, doesn't she? And Mystia's ... sixteen, I think ...
   Wriggle: (to Rengeteki) It's hard to tell sometimes, some Japanese human women just look young, right?
5. (Cirno gets a catlike smirk.)
   Cirno SFX: "pleased that she started a discussion" face
   Daiyousei: Yeah, Wriggle, I would've had you pegged for either a youthful eighteen, or a precocious fifteen.
   Wriggle: Haha!
6. (Cirno begins to frown.)
   Rengeteki: (thinking too hard) And, uh, Okuu's owner's ... sister's ... girlfriend ...
   Daiyousei: You talking about Koishi's girlfriend Flandre?
   Rengeteki: Yeah, uh ... she's eleven. Except when ... she's ... seventeen.
   Cirno SFX: "Except now they aren't paying attention to me" face
7. Cirno: (with a kind of stupid-looking smile) So, uh, how old do I look?
   Cirno SFX: "Complete failure to sound natural" face
   Rengeteki: Hm? I think you look ... maybe ten, or eleven ...
   Wriggle: I'd say closer to eight ...
   Daiyousei: (flying forward) Nahhh...
8. (Closeup as Daiyousei flies up to Cirno.)
   Cirno: Yeah?
   Daiyousei: For *you*, Cirno, There's really only one possible answer for what age you look like.
9. (Further closeup; Cirno has an anger-vein popping, and both of them glare darkly at each other behind cheerful smiles.)

KamuiK

Wed 15 Jun 2011 05:08:02 EDT

Kimiko Muffin - This is also the first time I did this with Wriggle in particular, ironically.

Well, isnt Wriggle just cross-dressing boy?... Uh wait a sec...

bp3500

Thu 16 Jun 2011 00:13:50 EDT

...
Wait, there were profile links? *looks directly under the comic*
wait, those were profile links?

Formica Archonis

Tue 21 Jun 2011 03:15:53 EDT

Awww, hope you're feeling better soon!

KamuiK

Tue 21 Jun 2011 12:56:29 EDT

Get better soon.

bp3500

Tue 21 Jun 2011 16:47:05 EDT

Actually, when you said "profile links" I thought they were going to be linked to the profiles on this site, not on touhouwiki.

bp3500

Wed 22 Jun 2011 01:48:58 EDT

yeah, basically. and since I have no shame, I'm not afraid to point out my flaws.

To quote a random person who is a friend of my friend: "Time Rich and Shameless people are the best." I have both of these qualities. :)

Wymar

Wed 22 Jun 2011 03:05:43 EDT

Having a massive headache myself, I can totally understand your lack of productivity.

Doing the thinky thing while ill, do not want.

DiMastine

Fri 24 Jun 2011 03:30:49 EDT

I find your lack of charisma disturbing

I think we have a patient for Hina