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Insomnia

by David M Willis on October 1, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - When Somebody Loved Me
└ Tags: carla, sal

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    October 1, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    THREAT LEVEL: [empty]

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 1, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      Being insufferable doesn’t work as a threat if it’s your default mode.

      • nothri
        nothri
        October 1, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        Sure it does. You just explain that you keep the majority of your insufferability in check and that your opponent has only ever seen like 1% of your true power. If pressed you can issue a tactical nuclear war of obnoxiousness!

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          October 1, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

          Being insufferable sounds a lot like being an anime character.

          • nothri
            nothri
            October 1, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

            Well, going four episodes in which all you do is scream and power up IS pretty goddamn obnoxious, I’ll freely admit.

            • Psyme
              Psyme
              October 1, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

              Only four episodes? Must be a pretty fast paced series.

              • Noeryu
                Noeryu
                October 1, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

                Its the abridged version im sure

                • Lume
                  Lume
                  October 1, 2014 at 6:16 am | #

                  Abridged? Heck no, it’s an animated GIF

          • vmgx
            vmgx
            October 1, 2014 at 9:08 am | #

            She have yet to find a pie.

        • Cybersnark
          Cybersnark
          October 1, 2014 at 10:34 am | #

          Like when Rarity demonstrated the difference between complaining and WHINING.

          • Gordon
            Gordon
            October 2, 2014 at 5:08 pm | #

            That’s one of my favorite episodes.

  2. liahansen
    liahansen
    October 1, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Her ultimate technique

    • Lel
      Lel
      October 1, 2014 at 8:09 pm | #

      THIS IS NOT EVEN MY FINAL FORM

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        October 1, 2014 at 10:13 pm | #

        TLB

  3. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    October 1, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    …Still not convinced that that isn’t Walky.

    • MrSirk
      MrSirk
      October 1, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      A wig, a bra stuffed with tissue, and sucking in that stomach….maybe it could work?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        October 1, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

        But the smell of McNuggets and sauce remain…

        • Gangler
          Gangler
          October 1, 2014 at 2:52 am | #

          Sal’s clothes nicely mask it with the smell of cigarettes.

    • deathjavu
      deathjavu
      October 1, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

      Well, the alt text about not sharing feelings reminds us what the twins have in common

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      October 1, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

      I think Sal would notice if Carla were actually Walky in disguise.

      • Gangler
        Gangler
        October 1, 2014 at 2:53 am | #

        You just have yet to witness Walky’s gifts as a thespian.

    • Triniking
      Triniking
      October 1, 2014 at 7:13 am | #

      Walky could pull off a mid-riff. I was not informed of this!

  4. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    October 1, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    The pies are coming out, Sal. Be warned.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 1, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

      • newllend
        newllend
        October 1, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

        I thought that’s what they called it when you wanted some poon

      • Stephen Bierce
        Stephen Bierce
        October 1, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

        Aren’t they ALREADY up the Amazon River without a paddle?

      • nothri
        nothri
        October 1, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        Well, he really is talking about pies. As in the baked goods. So…yes, I guess it technically is what the kids are calling it these days. Because they are pies, and the kids these days call them pies….because that is what they are called.

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          October 1, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

          Damn it, I just finished dinner. All this talk of pies has renewed my hunger with a vengeance.
          …I’ll bet Amazi-Girl has Hostess Fruit Pies in her utility belt.

          • Ivan
            Ivan
            October 1, 2014 at 8:24 am | #

            Carla has a Dongle hanging under her utility belt.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            October 1, 2014 at 12:08 pm | #

            Nope. Justice Fruit Pies.
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FakBfSnRKjo

            • Evil Math Magician
              Evil Math Magician
              October 1, 2014 at 6:22 pm | #

              NO, not Justice Fruit Pies, the delicious treat you’d have to be crazy to hate!

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            October 1, 2014 at 2:36 pm | #

            And an amazing hair pie right below the utility belt. (rimshot)

            -runs away

          • gwalla
            gwalla
            October 1, 2014 at 5:19 pm | #

            Oh shit yes we need an Amazi-Girl Hostess ad.

        • Lume
          Lume
          October 1, 2014 at 6:17 am | #

          Can I have a slice of graesh please

  5. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    October 1, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    You will be incapable of suffering me!

  6. Emperor Kiva
    Emperor Kiva
    October 1, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Carla, you need better threats than that.

  7. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    October 1, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Because she was so good a skating a person’s head exploded from the awesomeness and she vowed never to skate again.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      October 1, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      Being as awesome as Sal is truly a curse.

    • newllend
      newllend
      October 1, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      Man is every arc about Sal going to be connected to some deep cyclogical tragedy from her past that some how ended up ruining some else’s life?

      Because if that’s the case there’s going to be a lot of people challenging her to a brawl late at night.

      • SilentRain
        SilentRain
        October 1, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

        did you mean psychological?

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          October 1, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

          No, Sal is one of my repressed personalities 🙂

          Well, it sounded good when I thought it, doesn’t make much sense typed out though.

        • Cybersnark
          Cybersnark
          October 1, 2014 at 10:41 am | #

          Cyclogical tragedy = a tragedy stemming from Cyclonus.

          • Slinx
            Slinx
            October 1, 2014 at 1:37 pm | #

            Every Sal arc is referencing her tragic bicycling accident. First we saw her on a motorcylce. Then playing with a toy truck. Now with skates. The wheels are foreshadowing!

            • SilentRain
              SilentRain
              October 1, 2014 at 2:28 pm | #

              your avatar is fascinating and disturbing

              • Lume
                Lume
                October 1, 2014 at 8:30 pm | #

                YOUR GRAVITAR IS PERFECT

              • Slinx
                Slinx
                October 2, 2014 at 3:59 pm | #

                It’s an imagined “pink haired George” from El Goonish Shive. Also, I love Rain (the comic). The characters are so entertaining!

                • SilentRain
                  SilentRain
                  October 3, 2014 at 1:42 am | #

                  i actually new what it was it’s just pink haired george fascinates and disturbs me

                • SilentRain
                  SilentRain
                  October 3, 2014 at 1:44 am | #

                  is it possible to edit these comments
                  i just noticed i typed new instead of knew

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      October 1, 2014 at 2:59 am | #

      “Why? I’ll tell you why. Because I choose not to skate!”

  8. newllend
    newllend
    October 1, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Being insufferable seems to be a theme for every character here.

  9. Godozo
    Godozo
    October 1, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    “What part of ‘I don’t want to’ are you going out of your way not to understand?”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 1, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      “The part where I care about what you do or don’t want.”

  10. Anon
    Anon
    October 1, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Still shipping HMS Salcar. Bon voyage!

  11. sps48
    sps48
    October 1, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    I’m still surprised Sal cared enough to do Carla’s bidding. I’d thought better of the character.

    • Killjoy
      Killjoy
      October 1, 2014 at 9:16 am | #

      How does shoving Carla’s smug assumptions and self-declared superiority to the entire human species back in her face constitute “doing her bidding”?

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        October 1, 2014 at 9:52 am | #

        And she’s doing it because it’ll take her mind off of worrying about Billie… I mean, ‘insomnia’.

      • Thomas64
        Thomas64
        October 1, 2014 at 2:04 pm | #

        She cares what Carla thinks of her. Cool people are not supposed to care what other people think. Chink in armor: detected!

        • Killjoy
          Killjoy
          October 1, 2014 at 2:13 pm | #

          Again, taking a smug jerk down a few pegs is not the same as caring what they think of you.

          • Thomas64
            Thomas64
            October 1, 2014 at 3:45 pm | #

            Sure it is.
            If Sal really doesn’t care what Carla thinks, why bother taking her down a notch? It’s not like there’s anyone else around to impress.

            • Killjoy
              Killjoy
              October 1, 2014 at 4:51 pm | #

              So you don’t grasp the difference between taking someone down a notch and caring about what they think of you?

              Oh well.

              • Thomas64
                Thomas64
                October 1, 2014 at 5:00 pm | #

                So why did Sal give her little skating demo? To shut Carla up, that’s why, but why feel the need to do that if you don’t care about that person’s opinion? You’re not making sense.

                • JWLM
                  JWLM
                  October 1, 2014 at 7:04 pm | #

                  No — to humiliate Carla by showing that she was stupid. Nothing can possibly affect Carla’s view of Sal, but lots of things can affect Carla’s view of *Carla*. And, from Carla’s response, this one stung.

  12. Regalli
    Regalli
    October 1, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    I smell a friendship coming!

    … You know, eventually.

    • J42
      J42
      October 1, 2014 at 7:02 am | #

      Smells like teen spirit. From really far away

  13. Catullus
    Catullus
    October 1, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    I keep recognizing bits and pieces of these comics from their Tumblr previews, and it never becomes less surreal.

  14. pyrophobia
    pyrophobia
    October 1, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Carla: BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      October 1, 2014 at 1:03 am | #

      Mushroom, Mushroom?

      Oh wait no

      • AndromedaRage
        AndromedaRage
        October 1, 2014 at 5:25 am | #

        Mustaches! mustaches!
        …sorry wrong one

      • NaYa
        NaYa
        October 1, 2014 at 1:28 pm | #

        Snaaaaaake!

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      October 1, 2014 at 12:11 pm | #

      CREAM PIE CREAM PIE

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        October 1, 2014 at 12:15 pm | #

        (I will pre-empt any ‘creampie’ jokes with a litte Bugs ‘n’ Bogey:)
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWnHtMU1TZU

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      October 1, 2014 at 10:16 pm | #

      NAKED TIME!

  15. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    October 1, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    Oh look at the time, I really should be going to bed, we’ll continue this conversation never.

  16. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    October 1, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

    I don’t like smoking joints either, Sal. I prefer MJ-infused teas and cakes, like in the good ol’ Victorian era.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      October 1, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

      As much fun as fire is, smoke is something I will never trust. Baked goods, on the other hand… Well, I still don’t trust them, but they’re delicious anyway.

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      October 1, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

      Most of the times I have tried smoking I never got more than a slight buzz, about like one beer. One time (the first time) I did get high from smoking and another time I ate a brownie. Those two times I was seriously wasted and spaced out and did not enjoy it. I have concluded that weed is not for me.

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        October 1, 2014 at 2:58 am | #

        oof, Yeah, marijuana clearly won’t work out well for everybody. I don’t take very well to alcohol myself, especially beer, since most of it tastes bland and nasty.

        • dralou
          dralou
          October 1, 2014 at 5:14 pm | #

          Most beers tasting bland and nasty ? Some time ago, I would have assumed you’re from the USA, but friends of mine who actually visited the country told me there ARE good tasty beers in there, made in the USA no less, even though most of them are stouts…Now, I’d say wherever you are, if you’re interested into trying new beers, look elsewhere than inside the supermarkets, maybe try and find the closest actual liquor store. If they haven’t got any, well, they’re not a good liquor store, then, but they could help you locate another source. And If you’re from a country where they are proud of their beers and their diversity, maybe go for other stuff than the cheap ones, they usually sit in the same alley… yes, in the supermarkets.

          • gwalla
            gwalla
            October 1, 2014 at 5:24 pm | #

            Dude, don’t pull the “no there are actually really tasty beers out there, you just haven’t tried them” thing. It never works. And unless you know what beers they’ve tried and that they’re lousy, you cannot discount the possibility that they just plain don’t like beer. It’s not uncommon.

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              October 1, 2014 at 10:18 pm | #

              srsly! Is there alcohol in it? I guarantee I’ll hate it. Same with coffee. Don’t tell me I just haven’t tried the “right” ones like you know me |=/

            • dralou
              dralou
              October 3, 2014 at 11:40 am | #

              My answer was motivated by the “since most of it tastes bland and nasty” part of JessWitt’s comment. By experience, I know that there are a lot of beers that are far from bland, and with a variety of differences, from the fruity ones to the aggressively raspy ones.

              Granted, I don’t know what beers you tasted, and the fact that you like them or not is not my business. If my comment made you feel attacked, I apologize whole-heartedly. But if you think that “most of it tastes bland”, I’m just saying that you missed some kinds of beers. That’s why I said “IF you’re interested into trying new beers”…

              Again, your tastes are not my business. Just don’t say that most of them are bland, because it’s false.

              • gwalla
                gwalla
                October 3, 2014 at 11:47 am | #

                I actually like beer. I’m just saying, based on personal experience, that trying to convince somebody that they “just haven’t had a good beer yet” when they’ve already determined that they don’t like beer usually just annoys them.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      October 1, 2014 at 12:57 am | #

      Not a joint, just cheap stanky tobacco.

  17. JA
    JA
    October 1, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

    You will suffer me!

  18. nothri
    nothri
    October 1, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

    And that’s how Sal wound up living in the Amazon.

    Trust me, its hilarious if you read Shortpacked.

  19. Jeffrywith1e
    Jeffrywith1e
    October 1, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

    she’s still shorter, even with the skates on

  20. deathjavu
    deathjavu
    October 1, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

    The alt text about not liking to share feelings: in case we ever forget what the Walkerton twins have in common.

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      October 1, 2014 at 1:05 am | #

      Ha! Bonus internet for you!

  21. Ben
    Ben
    October 1, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

    Because spiting Malaya is the best thing evar.

  22. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    October 1, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

    Yup, surprised Sal bothered.
    But I did figure either she wouldn’t bother to because of cool factor, or she would because Sal never does what you expect her to do.

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      October 1, 2014 at 3:29 am | #

      I certainly didn’t expect her to enter her onw room through the door.

      • Clif
        Clif
        October 2, 2014 at 11:57 am | #

        Isn’t it in her roomate agreement?

  23. Malchus
    Malchus
    October 1, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

    Think this through, Carla: The the more insufferable you are, the more people will ship you two.

  24. NF
    NF
    October 1, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

    Okay, now I ship them.

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      October 1, 2014 at 1:06 am | #

      I have to say, I really don’t get this ship. Do you see *any* chemistry here??

      • JA
        JA
        October 1, 2014 at 1:38 am | #

        more hatefucks on slipshine ships? 🙂

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        October 1, 2014 at 2:12 am | #

        For some people, that’s the draw =p

      • gwalla
        gwalla
        October 1, 2014 at 5:25 pm | #

        They were in a panel together! OTP!!!1

    • Camachri
      Camachri
      October 1, 2014 at 5:20 am | #

      Welcome aboard the S.S. Skatewinning, comrade~

  25. Gigafreak
    Gigafreak
    October 1, 2014 at 1:06 am | #

    Great. Now I’m gonna worry that Sal was involved in a horrible skating accident which destroyed Marcie’s vocal chords.

    • thatindianguy
      thatindianguy
      October 1, 2014 at 2:03 am | #

      How would a skating accident destroy vocal chords?

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        October 1, 2014 at 2:12 am | #

        foot-in-mouth syndrome?

      • JQuire
        JQuire
        October 1, 2014 at 5:47 am | #

        Ice skating crash leads to Marcie ended up with a blade to the throat like Clint Malarchuk?

        P.S. there if you have to google Clint Malarchuk…beware there’s video of that accident that comes up.

        • vlademir1
          vlademir1
          October 1, 2014 at 7:01 am | #

          I’d personally presume a skating accident that did significant blunt force trama to her larynyx. We’ve, to my memory, seen nothing to indicate ice skating for any of these girls, and blunt force trama can do enough of the right kind of damage to make normal, understandable speech impossible

          • JQuire
            JQuire
            October 1, 2014 at 7:40 am | #

            I guess that’s true….I’d figured Sal’s axel-esque jump yesterday was a figure skating carry over. And (to my mind) figure skating fits in better with the show-biz helicopter mom and complicated race issues than roller figure skating (is that what it’s called?)…but that might be down to a lack of familiarity. *Shrug*

            Either way: Skate to the throat!
            And Clint Malarchuk. O:)

        • Killjoy
          Killjoy
          October 1, 2014 at 10:39 am | #

          That was what I speculated yesterday after it was pointed out that the spin-jump was very iceskating-esque. An iceskate to the neck of a child could easily do irreparable damage to the vocal apparatus.

          On the other hand, have ever seen a view of Marcie’s neck that would reveal a scar of some sort?

          • gwalla
            gwalla
            October 1, 2014 at 5:30 pm | #

            I thought it was just a spin. The ground isn’t shown in the third panel, and Sal isn’t positioned in relation to it (just for composition purposes). The way I read it is:

            1) a spin
            2) a leap (definitely not in a figure skating style)
            3) landing in a crouch (also not typical of figure skating)
            4) stand looking awesome

            • Killjoy
              Killjoy
              October 1, 2014 at 7:34 pm | #

              I can see what people are getting it from, though. The “spin” could also be the windup motion to a figure-skating style jump, and some figure-skating jumps do end with one leg extended.

              • gwalla
                gwalla
                October 2, 2014 at 11:52 am | #

                Those wind-up motion to a spinning jump is an arc, not a tight spin–cutting the arc short is what generates the spin. One leg is sometimes extended on the landing, not in midair. If the legs are extended in midair, that’s a split jump, which doesn’t spin. And in either case the knees wouldn’t be bent.

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            October 1, 2014 at 9:51 pm | #

            Not in this comic http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/fun-2/ No visible scars there.

    • NikkyD
      NikkyD
      October 1, 2014 at 2:59 am | #

      You had the same thought as me. I’m guessing that skating accident lead to Marcie having brain trauma that destroyed her vocal synapses.

      • JWLM
        JWLM
        October 1, 2014 at 6:57 pm | #

        IRL, brain trauma would be wildly unlikely. Marcie is simply too functional for that — we know she could talk when she was five or so, and plasticity has plunged by then. Any injury which could complete loss of laryngeal function would have wrecked a hell of a lot more.

    • Zaxares
      Zaxares
      October 1, 2014 at 3:22 am | #

      Yeeeep. That’s my new pet theory as well.

  26. Lonas
    Lonas
    October 1, 2014 at 1:53 am | #

    AGGRESSIVE PERSONAL SHARING!

  27. Thomas
    Thomas
    October 1, 2014 at 2:21 am | #

    For someone who’s seemingly impervious to peer pressure, Carla is pretty oblivious to detecting that quality in others. (1st panel, 2nd balloon.)

    Or “Carla, stop being a jerk. Now you’re just trolling her.”

  28. Bill
    Bill
    October 1, 2014 at 3:42 am | #

    The only skating we have seen Carla do is when she skated away from the Wal*Mart parking lot after the Amazi-Girl incident.  She claims to be skating in roller derby, but we have only her say-so to go by.

    Sal, on the other hand, has demonstrated her skating skills.  At this point the win goes to Sal.

    • clodia
      clodia
      October 1, 2014 at 8:53 am | #

      Actually, Carla is not currently skating in roller derby. She has concerns that they wouldn’t accept her.

      • JWLM
        JWLM
        October 1, 2014 at 6:56 pm | #

        She should have caught on that things were not as she’d assumed when Sal knew perfectly well that any women’s Derby team would take Carla.

        • Fit-to-freak
          Fit-to-freak
          October 1, 2014 at 11:52 pm | #

          That literally just happened in yesterday’s comic though….

    • Will
      Will
      October 1, 2014 at 11:40 am | #

      We also saw Carla skating when she almost crashed into Danny and Ethan.

      • Bill
        Bill
        October 1, 2014 at 12:44 pm | #

        I forgot that scene — Thanks.

  29. ShaggyDonahugh
    ShaggyDonahugh
    October 1, 2014 at 4:37 am | #

    Oh Carla, you hateful loving bongo you.

  30. Merilboné
    Merilboné
    October 1, 2014 at 8:16 am | #

    Nosey people. Can’t just they shut up. Like, forever?

  31. Mo
    Mo
    October 1, 2014 at 9:02 am | #

    At a quick glance, I thought that newspaper rack was an arcade machine. I was like, “Wait, did Sal just time-jump back to the early ’80s?”

  32. Kirt
    Kirt
    October 1, 2014 at 9:39 am | #

    On a much more trivial note… What is Carla *wearing*? Are those legwarmers?

    • JWLM
      JWLM
      October 1, 2014 at 6:54 pm | #

      I assume that they’re shinguards.

  33. Los
    Los
    October 1, 2014 at 10:24 am | #

    Maybe it’s because I binge-watched Daria last week but now I read Sal’s parts and hear Jane Lane with a southern twang in my head. I think it fits.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      October 1, 2014 at 10:12 pm | #

      I hear Sal’s voice as appeared in an old, now unfindable It’s Walky! animation… *kind of* a gritty Rogue from the ’80s X-Men cartoon but not really??

      (would love to find it again but no luck)

    • Wildkarrde
      Wildkarrde
      October 2, 2014 at 2:12 am | #

      Just a few days ago I was going to ask if I was the only one that always heard Sal using Applejack’s (MLP:FIM) voice. Clearly I am.

      I’m still ok with that.

  34. Iron
    Iron
    October 1, 2014 at 10:38 am | #

    If we should talk about feelings they would be called talkings.

  35. Hellhound
    Hellhound
    October 1, 2014 at 12:40 pm | #

    hehehe i know why she doesn’t skate in public.
    She don’t want anyone to find about here embarrasing past.see she really is:
    SAL SPARKLES ,a Canadian Pop-skater who skated exclusivly in Mall Parking-lots.

    • Chase
      Chase
      October 1, 2014 at 4:32 pm | #

      Let’s go to the Mall! To skate

      • anonymous
        anonymous
        October 1, 2014 at 5:28 pm | #

        Let’s Go to the Rink!

        Does that mean Sal has five dogs or plans to after college?

        • anonymous
          anonymous
          October 1, 2014 at 5:30 pm | #

          Also, doesn’t this comic already have a Robin?

          • Clif
            Clif
            October 2, 2014 at 12:04 pm | #

            Well, yes. But she doesn’t seem to be all that Robinesque..

  36. Vree
    Vree
    October 5, 2014 at 5:41 am | #

    You don’t understand…Her parents died getting ran over by a skater in an alley after watching The Mark of Zorro.

  37. a4lbi
    a4lbi
    December 22, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    I’m readin’ through and I realize for some reason, I have Sal sounding 47% like Oerba Yun Fang in my head.

    Huh.

  38. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    April 15, 2015 at 12:23 pm | #

    …Sal would probably snap and beat the hell of the other team. Or possibly of her own teammates.

  39. kkiten
    kkiten
    April 9, 2016 at 11:22 pm | #

    For some reason it surprises me that Sal doesn’t like weed

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