Chapter 7 - p58


March 18, 2013, at 12:05 AM

Walk it off, Duane.

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  1. Mmmmm.... Vote at "TopWebCommics.com"
    MagicJim on
  2. Poor Mikaila. :(
    gahitsu on
  3. Yikes. Haha The neighbors. Why, hello there! So sorry we blew up the wall...again. Heh, but umm...well, ahem. It'll be fixed shortly. As usual.
    Carrie on
  4. Poor mikaila D':
    .... on
  5. Parents just don't understand.
    Ruby on
  6. "Have fun storming the castle" comes to mind with that response.
    CptOverkill on
  7. Pft.... Duane raised a Gruftgrammer... I actually don't think Mikaila is dead. 6 years, the could be about Jivi's age, and may be a Black Tounge... the others are prolly dead though, I don't know simon is prolly about matty's age now that I think of it.
    Steaiii on
  8. Oh poor Duane! At least it didn't wax his leg hairs now that would be cruel.
    lazy on
  9. I just love how blase the neighbors are. xD
    Socks on
  10. Duane has some pretty interesting connections to smoke eels... think i'm starting to pick up on something here
    Wul Gus on
  11. I wonder if the other girl's the neighbors' kid. I like her little wave in the last panel.
    Zathyr on
  12. i'd not be suprised if they are the twins in page 33, seams like the most logical conclusion considdering it was duanes shadow she fell thru.
    Banarok on
  13. I absolutely adore how the neighbors don't even get up. It's evidently so routine having their wall vaporized by the wrights next door !
    sigmir on
  14. Those smoke eels are nasty buggers. I'm starting to wonder if they've got anything to do with why galits and zombies exist.
    Echon on
  15. are...are the words in that last panel Duane's? That's such a cruel thing to say about a child. Sounds like the kind of thing you'd say after giving up.
    Thatguy on
  16. The only thing scarier than your daughter meddling in dangerous (physically and politically) magics and ignoring your orders to stop is your daughter meddling in dangerous magics and getting more powerful in them.
    Sir Read-a-Lot on
  17. @Thatguy: Cruel? She almost got herself killed! Children shouldn't be playing with that stuff without supervision, and guilt is a parent's best weapon.
    Rex Vivat on
  18. I think Duane's neighbors win the Unsounded "do-not-give-a-fuck" reward.
    Humming-fly on
  19. It's amazing what you can get used to. Our neighbor boy had bad knees from football injuries, and tended to fall head-over-heels down our stairs every other time he visited our house. It got to be so normal that I went from freaking out and fetching my mom, to casually calling to ask if he was all right without bothering to get up from whatever I was doing. "Y'okay?" "Yup!" "'Kay."
    Tobu on
  20. khehehehehe neighbours not amused :)
    Kurogane on
  21. I bet in retrospect Duane's glad he's had plenty of practice scolding naughty little girls.
    Lord TableShark on
  22. Note to self: don't ever let a smoke eel touch you or you'll get the more painful version of a micro-derm abrasion facial. Yikes. Also, I wish I had neighbors like that...that'd be so much better than the jerks we live next to right now.
    Eilonthay on
  23. Just teach the girl already, so she'll stop blowing everything up.
    Corvo on
  24. @Thatguy: I think it's the mother-in-law. Sounds like something she would say to a girl that was part-Duane.

    My sketch books came today. :D So gorgeous! Now I can't wait to buy the next one!
    Mjinga on
  25. It's a bit scary how Mikaila is oblivious to the fact that a smoke eel just nomnomed on dad's hand. Perhaps worse things have already happened.
    Shelley on
  26. Caught red-handed.
    Graham on
  27. So, is Duane a rector in the religious sense or the academic sense? Perhaps both?
    Jshock on
  28. I'd say that's Duane in the last panel, and I don't think it's cruel at all. It's obviously something she has a history of doing. It's something she's NOT ALLOWED to do, and she's not just forbidden by her parents, it's against the law. She's not just endangering herself or the building she lives in. Duane has every right to be worried and angry, and obviously no amount of kindness or discouragement has gotten through to her.

    Steaiii: No women in the Black Tongues.
    Harper on
  29. Well I see one way this could go. Daughter turns Duane into an attack zombie and he goes Kratos on them.
    Crestlinger on
  30. If it is Duane speaking about the elders, I don't think it's cruel. Harsh, yes, but not cruel. Imagine what can be done with the kind of magic we've seen so far in Unsounded. Pyramy can steal the physical aspects of one form of matter and use it independently to be applied elsewhere. In that sense, it is far more dangerous than your nine year old (she looks about nine) getting into her fathers at-home science lab. She could get hurt far worse than chemical burns and toxic gas. Using pymary untrained seems about as dangerous as taking the car keys and going for a joyride, or playing with your parents power tools. I imagine that's about as much trouble as she's in. Besides that, women are legally prohibited from practicing pyramy, as far as I understand. She's breaking the law, for which her parents are responsible. It could threaten her fathers career, their lively-hood, their social standing, and even criminal penalties. As said above, guilt is a parents best weapon, and add to that some kind of pre-1950's "girls have their place" mentality.
    Noniki on
  31. It leaves me to wonder what happens to these girls... and if we will get a chance to meet them in the future. I hope they didn't die, but i don't see everyone getting to where we are in the story alive... Especially since Duane isn't worried sick trying to look after or locate them though the entire comic. It suggests that either he thinks them better off without him... or dead.
    Xicree on
  32. Looks like the neighbors are more used to this than they should.
    Giush on
  33. Those seem like good neighbors... 8D Whoa how is Mikaila completely not shocked and concerned about her dad's hand skin o-o
    mythee on
  34. You know, as a father & aspiring fantasist I feel like I really missed a step when considering the impact of magic in my settings. "Gifted" children would be a nightmare. Children in an environment where magic is basically available to all would probably be a danger to everyone around them. Nicely written!
    Eric H. on
  35. considering what she can do now, it would be better to properly train her than to forbid her and have her continue to experiment in secret.
    WitUnderPressure on
  36. I would love to vote for this comic on TopWebComics, but sadly the vote link disappeared a while back and hasn't returned. It's a lot of trouble to go hunting for this specific comic on TWC just to vote it up.
    Lunaroki on
  37. So wait, ARE women legally forbidden to learn pymary entirely, or is it just a problem that she's practicing it when she's clearly underage and untrained?
    Kit on
  38. Considering that Mikaila skinned her father, some scolding is a remarkably restrained reaction. I'd be more inclined to point about that he still has one good hand to deliver a well-good hiding!
    RJF on
  39. I find it amusing the way the neighbors think nothing of having a hole blown in their adjoining wall.
    Volk0v on
  40. It took me a bit to figure out what this scene reminded me of, but it's nearly identical to the Lion King scene when Mufasa saves Simba from the hyenas. (Only, you know, with fewer lions and more magic). Simba wanted to grow up to be just like his father. Do they really think that scenes like this are going to keep Mikaila from practicing magic? She might be more careful, and more discrete, but water will flow uphill before she stops altogether.
    Sir Read-a-Lot on
  41. i love how chill they are about their wall having a huge hole in it >u<
    luchan on
  42. Kit: At least in Alderode, women are legally forbidden from practicing pymary. There's always the Third Option, of course.

    WitUnderPressure: See the above, and one has to be licensed to learn and practice pymary. Most people actually can't do it on their own, so the registration process also creates a port so they can, but there are the rare innates like Mikaila who don't need that. She's still illegally practicing, and she can't register to practice, because, y'know, female.

    *crosses fingers* Pretty sure I got that right.
    Harper on
  43. @Kit: Women *can* learn pymary, but they're generally restricted to womanly things, like making children smell like cookies instead of feet, or turning the dog a bit whiter. It's a cultural thing, though. If a woman wants to, she can become a man in Alderode. And then things are a bit more free and equal. Women can learn all they like, but they won't get anywhere with it, since all the pymary jobs (beyond magicleaning kids) are male-only.
    Chessie on
  44. Ahhh. Thought I recognized that girl. http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch03/pageart/ch03_36.jpg
    Pancake Ninja on
  45. The march madness thing is 103-104 unsounded is the 103
    ChronoWaster on
  46. I can't find the reference to women not being allowed to be wrights in Alderode. D= it's annoying me... can someone give me the pg number or wiki article?
    Steaiii on
  47. Ugh, sexist cultures. I'd just disguise as a male. But I'm guessing they make sure you're a male, right?
    Xen on
  48. @Xen: The mark they receive in the rite that allows them access to the khert is on the chest.
    Duskglass on
  49. @Xen: You make that remark as if there are cultures without sexism. In general, whether it's Duane's comment or not he's probably going to comfort his daughter next, or at least apologise.
    Boom on
  50. Its time for the Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament. Unsounded is still in the running but we need to get the vote out. Vote for Unsounded!
    polarwatch on
  51. Well, at least it didn't cost her an arm and a leg...
    AzureRaptor on
  52. Oh man. This is getting more and more tragic. I can see Duane being very selfless to something horrible she does in the near future(or past as it were).
    on
  53. Rub some dirt on that.
    Person on
  54. @Steaiii: Try looking somewhere in the Formspring, not on the wiki. Most information comes from there, actually.
    Pato on
  55. @Boom, yes most all cultures have sexism. I suppose I meant ones where the difference is greater.
    Xen on
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