![[0098] The Flower Girl](/comics/2009-09-28-[0098]-the-flower-girl.png "[0098] The Flower Girl")
The current story arc started with this strip: Bribe Money.
To be continued.
Dang, another tragic incident of violence happening in computer games because of reality. 😉 This will be the last Final Fantasy VII related joke for some time, though.
If you should have trouble remembering her because she’s not been around much yet, that’s indeed Larisa. You can expect to see her more often in the future.
Update: In the comment section of this strip our reader gerardo tejada raised the valid point that Larisa can’t eat ice cream herself since she’s a diabetic. However this shouldn’t prevent her from inviting Cloud to the ice cream parlor. She could still drink a cup of coffee or something like that there.
In other news, we have a new t-shirt design for women and girls in our store. It is based on the ironic twist to the political slogan “Viva la Revolution” seen in our popular strip Viva La Revolution Or Do Re Mi Ti La Do Re Mi So Fa Do Re Do. If you don’t like the pink color of the t-shirt you can chose among several other ones, as well as other shirt types.
- Larisa: Welcome back, Cloud… I’ve got a very special present for you!
- Cloud: Really? Thank you!
- Cloud: “On Forging Katanas and the Art of Swordplay” by Master Musashi!? This book’s been out of print for decades!!
- Larisa: I found it on Ebay.
- Larisa: In the mood for a bowl of ice cream?
- Cloud: Yeah, sure..
- Richard: Why are you replaying Final Fantasy 7? And why are you attacking Cloud and Aeris with Tifa on purpose?
- Sandra: I’VE GOT MY REASONS!!
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But wasn’t Larisa more of a tomboy? Strange indeed…
I’d rather like to play Final 7 again. If someone would care to send me a Playstation and a copy of the game, that’d be swell. Also a memory card. I know I have my copy with a lovingly made hand-drawn map of the Great Glacier somewhere…somewhere over the rainbow.
Cloud – as open to bribary and corruption as the rest of us are.
I’m not sure where you got this impression. You can’t pigeonhole Larisa anyway. She’s doing whatever she wants to do. And today she wanted to dress in a flower dress and to flirt with Cloud.
Oh puberty! puberty…. : )
Well, her character design and attitude does fit the one of a tomboy… At least it’s the impression it gives me.
Wonder how this is gonna end.
from russia with love….
yeah I remember eslavic girls can be very tricky, oh meories, moemories!
but maybe Larisa is toying around, if not….. in my experience Cloud is as well as dead (or married) in there, at least till Larisa found him boering.
Ah, those eslavic girls… some day i will reform Yugoslavia and make it a shelter of democracy for their people.
Lax and 6127, she is not a tomboy, she is a femme fatale of sorts. Really you dont know what they can do till you met them:
(song) those cold skined
and heat flavored eyes
of the east
where the snow
dont melt
and flowers grow with vodka on their soil (song)
Novil: A chaotic character that you mentioned before, right? Sure, but never crossed my mind that this would be one of her choices to act.
Gerardo: Heh, than I hope I survive the meeting of such creature 😀
Poor, poor Cloud. That innocent, naive child can’t even BEGIN to fathom the hellish maelstrom he just stumbled into…
aaaahh the good old take it off on the games kinda way, someone should give her God of War, its much more satisfying to do 😀
AERIS must die!!!!
I can’t be the only person that felt that what happen to her was to try to redeem her. She just was not a person that I could care for.
XD
This is one of the best ones, in terms of how much I laughed. Good one!
I’m suddenly picturing Woo in black costume weilding a long katana 😀
After everyone talking about Larisa’s slavic background makes me think of James Bond.Also I think Cloud forgot how vengeful Sandra can be.I can only hope there’s anything left of him once she gets done with him.
Slavic? ah so thats how you say it in english! it souns like slave so I was hesitaiting to write it that way.
So I went out with a Slavic girl (her parents were from poland) and Ive met people from Croacia and Russia, Russian girls have quite a temper, Afable and Strong. When you are in a foreign country all your “Typical” personaliti comes out, sudenly there is no place like home or sudenly you feel like a “russian” “german” “chilean” “peruvian” etc… Both Cloud and Larisa have that complex of “romantic roots” their parents are foreigners, and Cloud is obsed (he take it personal) with politics on Birmania and Larissa just have to get a Revenge “Russian Style” (not mafia style, not viking style or KGB style).
All the kids are molded like their parents, i feel the children hawe both interests and morals of their mom and dads. I mean when you like music and your kid also like music but a completly diferent style.
Well, a sad commentary on some of our ancestors, but slave and Slav both come from the Medieval Latin “sclavus”. Because so many Slavs were enslaved. I wonder if Larisa knows about the origin of the word “slav”…
I have absolutely no idea what this has to do with the comic. This has to be the most off-topic comment I have ever read on Sandra and Woo.
It doesn’t have anything to do with the comic. But it does has to do with the comment just above his.
[quote]Slavic? ah so thats how you say it in english! it souns like slave so I was hesitaiting to write it that way.[/quote]
Anyway, I don’t blame Cloud. There’s ice cream at stake here!
Larisa… Huh? I never pictured her to be in a dress…
Nice way to vent Sandra! Lol.
I’ve not commented in a while but I wanted to drop in to tell you what a wonderful job you’ve been doing.
I’ve really liked the character development you’ve been working through of late. Keep up the good work.
And Larisa is so one of my favorite characters. You can never plan what she will do next.
Awwww, last of the FF7 jokes for awhile?
But I loves them so!
Great job on the comics!
“Of course, you realize… this means war.”
Ah, young love. <3
Hmm… i’d lie if i said i didn’t see this coming. Through the “Chaotic Neutral” description of Larisa i knew she wouldn’t always be a tom boy, as Chaotic Neutral is, she’d be prone to do something unlike herself sooner or later.
Though i’ve got to say, think back to Sandra, she was lying around all tired and exhausted, heard Cloud was coming over and insta-warped herself into a flowery dress. Cloud must be quite popular with the ladies.
how totally uncool of her!!!
You know, it really is interesting how a singular storytelling experience can have such massive and long-lasting ramifications across different generations, lifestyles and cultures. I refer of course to the phenomenon of Final Fantasy VII which has proved remarkably enduring given that it first occurred in an industry that’s so swift moving and dismissive of what’s gone before.
I played the game when it first came out (having lost my RPG virginity to Suikoden a month before, I found it slow and cumbersome…then a friend showed me that there was a run button. Interestingly, this also happeend with Morrowind, many years later. I am Idiot) and got a kick out of it, especially the music. I’d never have thought that it’d be so big though.
There are children I know younger than the game that know it and love it as intimately as the first gang of fans way back in ’97 (was it 97?). Seeing the influence of the game in a comic is another reflection of that. I’m always interested in this sort of…well, it’s not a cult following, it’s rather something more than that. Successful media, that’s it. I find successful media fascinating and love, hate or, as in my case, feel fairly happy about having played it, FFVII is a bit of a phenomenon in those terms.
Also, I’m wasting time at work. Hurrah!
Well FFVII was fine, but the first and the best for me is Chrono Thriger
anyway Larisa is Diabetic.0 can she eat Ice Cream just like that?
Oh Aerith you will always be in the hearts of the ones that played Final Fantasy VII….
Really an amazing story, with loveable characters and semi realistic setting…..sigh…how I miss old games…
Erm is the relationtship with sandra the same that it was with Tifa…in the FF VII XD…. oh my brain just exploded *again*
I know how Sandra feels.
like the pet like the master lols
@Novil In the immediiately preceding comment, gerardo tejada had said: “Slavic? ah so thats how you say it in english! it souns like slave so I was hesitaiting to write it that way.” I was explaining (primarily for him) that the similarity he had noticed was not merely a coincidence. I should probably have put in an “@gerardo tejada” – if only to clarify my intentions to anyone who didn’t read my comment immediately after his. Sorry for that.
I’m more confused on how Sandra was able to hax FFVII, and make it so you can attack your party…
*Scratches head in confusion*
Actually, no. She very well could eat ice cream. I’m a diabetic and I eat ice cream all the time.
The confusion arises from the two kinds of diabetes. The kind that requires insulin shots has no dietary restrictions, except for the insulin itself as compensation for the carbohydrates that one eats.
They have sugar-free ice cream
Also, you can buy FFVII on playstation store for $10 to play on PS3 or PSP
I love this strip in so many ways….:)
Hi! My first comment here!
I had to say about the ice cream thing, my ex-boyfriend has diabetes and I recall him eating ice cream… I think it’s possible to diabetic to eat ice cream, they just need to remember take the shot after it if they eat lot of it, and of course obviously it’s not recommended to eat lots of ice cream or any other “unhealthy” food. Diabetics diet is all about healthy food, to keep it under control.
Funny how things are so different there. I’m from Finland and having a diabetic child in every class in school was normal, and people are used to it too. I can’t imagine a situation like the school banning the use of insulin like in the strip before!
I am a diabetic myself (and Finnish too :))and I eat a lot of icecream. There even are some low-carb versions of icecream in Finland.
In a related accident. I and my friend were going to a bar and as usual I’d take my shot outside because there are usually some guys with fear of needles and I don’t want to see (again) some bloke fainting in the bar. Anyway, we went into this secluded and shadowy tunnel to the inner yard of the blockhouse and I raised my shirt to take the shot when I heard a terrible yell and my insulinpen is stripped from my hand. Stupefied I stare to this older man, about 50 with moustaches who is yelling at my and my drug use. Carefully we try to explain my situtation to the guy for several minutes but with no noticeable effect so I grab my pen and we run for it. Later we read about the insident from the local paper and police search that was organized to find us…
@ Fastjack: Interesting anecdote. It’s always nice to read quality comments like this. 🙂
Oh dear. That could have been a problem. Anyway, I’d watch out if I were Larisa.
The illegal copy was sold for 30$ in my country, and I’m not joking. The used original PS still can be found for 60-120$ depending on condition and accessories.
videogames are a therapy: angry? go play videogame!
imagine if she didnt had released all that anger on the game? poor cloud and poor larisa.
@ Enzeru Kagai: Well, of course. Cloud is a bishounen after all, and they pretty much get all the girls in animes.
And I can tell this is going to start a very heated rivalry between Sandra and Larisa. Only one woman will remain standing! The prize: Cloud!
Oh Sandra, too bad you can’t say you were trying to build up their limit breaks, that only works in VIII.
You could always pull a “Death Becomes Her” and watch Seph killing Aeris over and over again.
Hrmm, so if Larissa is Aeris, Cloud is Cloud, and Sandra is Tifa, does that mean that Woo is Yuffie? Hrmmm.
Well thats not completly true….if her sugar is on a low level larisa is able to eat icecream too or if she can use her mathmats to injur before the rigth dose of insulin.
I know that, cause my father is a diabetic since I was born.
Poor PS controller.
Actually a diabetic person could eat ice cream. It all is a matter of watching your blood levels. I have a parent who is a type 2 diabetic and a brother who is type 1. They both can have ice cream, or pie, or even candy. Being diabetic doesn’t mean that you suddenly cannot eat most sweets, it just means you have to think about things and plan accordingly.
kraenieldamage wrote:
Thank you for making that point. With a diabetic brother, and mother, I always have to sigh and shake my head when people say ‘Oh aren’t diabetic’s not allowed to eat certain foods?’ and calmly explain to them that they actually can. They just have to give an appropriate amount of insulin for them.
@ Hokorippoi:
no… no…
I hated when Aeris died.
sad memories
@ gerardo tejada:
actually, yes diabetics can eat ice cream (i should know, i am one: type 1) just have to be careful about it.
Cloud, quick! Take to the hills while you still have the use of your legs!
all i hav to say is . . . . . . .
FRENZY!