[0583] A Lie Has Cold Feet
└ posted on Thursday, 22 May 2014, by Novil
- Larisa: Goddammit, Larisa! Can’t you behave like a normal, modest, respectable, civilized, sane, …, normal person for two lousy hours?!
- Larisa: Just do what Sandra would do in my place! Lie like a rug!
- Harriet: What’s your favorite hobby, Larisa?
- Larisa: I love ice! I want to see it, feel it and learn everything about it! I think about it practically all the time!
- Larisa: Antarctica! Endless planes of infernally cold ice! … I’m getting goose bumps just thinking about it!
- Harriet: Don’t you think inclusion’s being taken too far when a girl like Larisa is allowed to attend a public school?
- Landon: Don’t worry, mom. She’s not allowed within 50 feet of any of the chem labs.
![[0583] A Lie Has Cold Feet](/comics/2014-05-22-0583-a-lie-has-cold-feet.png "[0583] A Lie Has Cold Feet")
ice: now laid too thick
Novil wrote:
What a character should have done and what you should have made a character do is two different things. Larisa should have mentioned landscape painting as her hobby, that would have been the most sensible thing to do in her situation. You absolutely should not have written her mentioning landscape painting, that would not have been a sensible thing to do as this would have created a strip with no reason to even exist.
Often when people says “he/she should have done X instead” about a fictional character, they are talking about what the fictional character should have done had he or she been a real person. That said, other times people actually do mean that the author should have written the character in another way. As a rule of thumb, if a person also expresses dissatisfaction with the work, then you should choose the latter interpretation, otherwise you should choose the former interpretation.
Well Woo learned to lie from Sandra and it worked well for him. Guess that does not work for everyone.
Guess she’s watched “Frozen” too many times.
Larisa could have answered her inner Pinter “You thought *normal* twice!!” and spared herself a counterproductive lie.
@ ArkArks:
My most sincere apologies. I just wanted to justify the comment, and tried not to hurt the author, but instead I just annoyed the fans for doing something so unnecessary.
@ Eric:
errr sometimes she is a bad person. she just doesn’t recognize it as such.
strictly speaking, I believe she is a sociopath.
Now to find out what Larisa really meant. All you have to do is replace the word “Ice,” with “Fire,” and “Antarctica,” with…… I guess “Hell.”
Not many other places that are nothing but fire. Maybe in Hawaii.
How ironic that she’s talking about ice, because now she’s snowballing to failure…huh? huh?
Larisa is so cute in those first two panels. She’s honestly trying to make a good impression.
I have to say it. For all that Landon’s parents are supposed to be religious, Landon’s mother seems like a terrible person.
@ ArkArks:
I think the problem that was being pointed out was that last comic, Larissa was all “Let’s play strip Risk!” without thinking, and all of a sudden she’s super concerned to the point of lying so much she seems as crazy as if she’d told the truth. So we go from care-free and immodest to “I hope I can make them like me! I should lie so they love me!” without any good transition. It did feel a little like there’s a missing page. Still, I enjoyed this “page” greatly! I really like this comic.
@ I’ll Eat Yourself:
Yhea he’s been quiet. Spill the beans Edward! What are you hiding under that indifferent emotionless face???? I have a feeling we will find out.
@ Phil:
Oh definitely not a sociopath. She has empathy and concern for others, is by no means antisocial, or without social conscience. She has ethics and a moral code, but they are HER code, and doesn’t always mesh with mainstream society.
No her primary issues are most certainly pyromania, and has been suggested, some form of poor impulse control. She also displays little concern for other people’s property, but whether that is a disorder, or a choice, is unclear.
Primarily she is uninhibited (or at least less inhibited). And not just in the typical sexual manner that most mean when talking about inhibitions – although clearly there is a degree of that as well – but has few inhibitions about new experiences, speaking her mind, and so forth.
In jjjjVercalos wrote:
In my experience, the more vocal someone is about their religion, the more likely there are to be a hypocrite if not an outright terrible person. Its not universal, but it is very common.
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
Mahatma Gandhi
And before anyone says anything, the quote is about Christians, but I have seen nothing to make me think any religion is better in this regard.
Interestingly, the bible speaks to this.
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.”
Mathew 6:5
@ Gilhelmi:
I think if she used computer simulations it would always end with an explosion and the science teacher staring at the computer stunned that she managed to make an explosion with water.
@ Maltesefan:
Just add sodium.
You have to give it to Landon’s mum, she’s trying to ask nice things… oh Larissa tell them about art, that might work better. 😀
Aww Larissa. . . I think you’re wonderful just as you are!
wobster109 wrote:
Well she scares me. But to be honest, this is even scarier. So I have no choice but to agree.
Oh Larissa. You just had to do the easy thing and pick the opposite of fire. Even I could lie better, if I were able to spit the words out.
Oh and, unless you think getting in bed with Landon will be morally justifiable and you use protection, let that thought burn in a very deep pit filled with hungry monsters
@ Formel:
Oh yeah! She could tell his parents about how she loves drawing nice things, but her dad is really dark and creepy, and one time they had a prank battle where she drew a smiley sun on her dads sad cabin in gloomy woods, and he drew a hanging skeleton on her forest of flowers.
@ Maltesefan:
She would murder all their kerbels and fail all space missions
I am getting goosebumps just thinking about it!
@ Nagini:
I believe it was her use of the word ‘infernal’ that set his mother off. She was, after all, described as very religious.
@ Nagini:
It’s not so much the ice so much as how extreme Larisa is. Larisa is acting as if ice is her favourite thing ever instead of fire but her love of fire is extreme, so of course her ‘love’ of ice is just as extreme. Larisa is a wild person, and she knows it, but she doesn’t have the slightest clue how to shut it off.
@ C. W. Roden:
If I hear Larisa singing “Let It Go,” I’m heading straight for the nearest lake.
Nagini wrote:
I don’t get the joke either
Congratulations, nobody suspects she’s a pyro anymore!
Shouldn´t Landon be shooting Larisa´s evil duplicate by a raygun?
@ Paeris Kiran:
No, because she hasn’t refused hot kisses or said anything hateful towards fire.
@ Mzhades:
Interesting point. I seem to have missed the question: why does she care if they like her or not. Well, there is a difference between not liking her and thinking that she is crazy/dangerous. She might not want the latter for Landon’s sake.
At the very least, she is way out of her comfort zone here.
Really, Larisa, your hobby is actually KINDA normal!
@ Nagini:
Larissa is a Pyro and has NO obsession with ice at all. Landon’s mom is probably bothered by Larissa’s strange “obsession” with it, and can tell something is off, thus she is worried that Larissa is lying to gain their favor (which of course is the truth).