![[0155] Rebel Heart](http://www.sandraandwoo.com/comics/2010-04-15-[0155]-rebel-heart.png "[0155] Rebel Heart")
100% authentic Burmese rebel wear.
Being a rebel in real life is far less romantic than being one in a video game. Ye Thuza is 16 in the photograph, and she’s not carrying that assault rifle to shoot at some tin cans… Although she’s rather upbeat and was convinced to fight for the right cause, you can see in the last strip that she’s still somewhat messed up.
According to this article at Human Rights Watch Burma had the highest number of child soldiers in the world in 2002, most of them being in the regular army (where they get beaten and abused on a regular basis), but also a significant amount in one of the various rebel groups. Since then not much has changed. Girls are rarely recruited by the opposition armies, but I guess they happily make an exception when a girl with the abilites of Cloud’s mom wants to fight for them.
It’s always bad when a strip consists of five panels since that’s too much to fit into one row and results in ugly whitespaces when put into two rows. Which is, however, still better than an unnecessary extra panel.
- Ye Thuza: Missed you so much, darling.
- Yuna: Daddy!
- David: …
- David: … Angel, are women still allowed to enjoy being housewives?
- Ye Thuza: ’Course not, dear. That was outlawed by the C.O.S.M.O. act years ago. The punishment is having to watch Sex and the City for no less than 100 hours.
- Ye Thuza: But you know…
- Ye Thuza: … I’ve always been a rebel.
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Yuna…
Guess they’d moved on to FFX by the time she was born, eh?
White space is awesome when you do it right! Check vert-is-ninja.deviantart.com she’s teh haxorz yo.
Grab the grip Darlin`, you ain’t a gonna hit anything holding it by the stock.
At some point, I should have started commenting. I really love Sandra and Woo! And Ye Thuza is one awesome mom and woman!
Way to make parents look cool, almost nobody does that in their stories.
His dad is somehow reminiscent of Sephiroth…strange
Anzer’ke wrote:
Really? I think his hair style is closer to a certain Quasi-emo Final Fantasy protaganist *coughsquallcough*
I honestly don’t see in what manner she’s “still messed up”. I realize that she is, and that being recruited to fight in a war while you’re still a teen is obviously going to leave some marks, but I don’t see what those marks are. Forgive me, I’m not trying to stir anything up, I just have trouble seeing beneath what’s presented to me directly. I’m a junior in high school, and I still need help figuring out the main idea of reading passages and summarizing them.
@ BarGamer:
<3
My dad is from Burma. He was a rebel, something along the lines of the students were against the military. I don’t know if he would be considered a rebel, though. Loving the Burma parts in the comic, though.
Dangit, sorry for commenting again, but I meant to say that “my dad was a student”, not a rebel.@ Shane (My Burmese Name):
His younger sister looks like my older sister
Soooo, his father gave him the name of a badass (if bitchy) video game character and got him sword training, while his mother forces reaction training upon him. Ok..sooo Cloud is being raised to be a ninja rebel?