Endtown by Aaron Neathery for November 27, 2015

So, there’s a slight chance that Kirbee was an entertainer before The End? Steady work, if you can get it.

Everyone should realize that and be done freaking.

The more I see of Kirbee, the more I like her…

What about Cooper?

Kirbee’s INT was her dump stat but she put it all into WIS.

The March of Dimes.

Because a Freak is a terrible thing to waste.

Waxing philosophically, Kirbee?

This is the new normal.

I’m still curious about Kirbee’s tail not growing back but then I’m lost as far as to how much time has elapsed so I don’t know if it should be or not!

Actually Kirbee don’t look as stupid to me but a lot a like kid. I quess she is young adult acting as child, while in contrast Chic is a child acting as adult.

@Diat60Interesting point. I thought that question like ‘normal’ as in ‘not near the Unity’.

Says the lizard woman embarrassed about having a 10-foot long retractable tongue, and no tail.

Its hard to guess how old Kirbee might be. The fact that she thinks being a freak and having normals throw dimes her way is cool suggests that she must have been young at the end, too young to have understood how degrading that sort of thing would have been. This would have put her in a different situation than Wally and Holly who were both adults when everything ended. I wonder if her ditziness is a result of her being young when the End came and she came to Unity. She could have been at an age where she was willing to accept what adults told her as the truth. She might have been inclined to continue trusting them as she grew older, or unwilling to accept that the colony was as evil as it was. I think the phrase, “I’m done with being a freak!” suggests a change in her attitude towards life. She may no longer be trusting to the point of extreme naivete.

I regard Kirbee as being in her mid-to-late thirties. She is not a child now, and she was not a child just before the war, wight years ago. She just has a child-like simplicity to things in the world. She can’t grasp bigger pictures, and she doesn’t try to work out complex reasons and motivations. She’s not good at reading emotions. She exists in the here and now, and she operates by the rules of being a good person, in the way she was brought up.In that case, for her, life just is what it is. Hardships are like water off a duck’s back.Being a mutant before the mutations? That would have been cool, because it would have been a nice little earner. Kirby is just too simpleminded to spot that mutating before the mutations is a contradiction in terms. It’s a nonsense recursion, and hence the joke.

Gives a whole new meaning to “Get your freak on!”

Brings to mind “The Incredibles”……When the Supers lost the respect of the people, they had to pretend to be normal to fit in with the rest of the world. But even though they could not use their powers, it did nothing to change the cold, hard fact that they would always be Supers.…Then Syndrome formed a plan to eliminate all the Supers, then create a situation where the people needed the Supers. Syndrome would ‘save the day’, and when he was old and had his fun, he’d sell his gadgets to the people. He would make everyone Supers.…“And when everyone is Super… no one is.”

I’d love to see how Kirbee would get on (or not) with Jacob Jackrabbit. Or the followers of the late Allgood.

I recall Dash replying to his mother’s reply that “Everybody’s special” by saying “No one is.” I don’t recall Buddy PIne getting his PHD, but I do remember his quote, it was a taunt to the Parr family.

Regarding Kirbee’s tail not re-growing, reptile tails are mostly fat with only a little muscle and bone or cartilage. Kirbee probably hasn’t had enough time or enough food to re-grow her tail, yet.

It takes a long time to regrow a tail, and it will never be as nice as what was lost – usually stumpy and off-color.

I notice it’s “eight years ago.” Was it five years or six years when the story opened?

Recently tardigrades (water bears) were found to borrow DNA from other organisms to gain some of their attributes. They do this after dehydrating, which fragments their own DNA, and the foreign DNA gets caught up in the defragmentation. The beneficial traits get passed on, and this has resulted in tardigrades being able to survive in the extremest conditions, including the vacuum of space.The mutagen may work in a similar manner, by fragmenting DNA and defragmenting it to remove congenital disorders, but its designers didn’t account for foreign DNA getting caught up in the defragmentation. If the mutagen is based on a retrovirus, it could have easily escaped into the wild, like HeLa cells have done.