[0930] Night Of Love
└ posted on Thursday, 19 October 2017, by Novil
- Larisa: Does someone have a c-r-u-s-h?!
- Benjamin: Ha ha…! That was just the fruit punch talking!
- Fruit punch: Dirty liar!
- Larisa: Now come on, Benny! Don’t tell me you don’t imagine what it would be like to spend a night with Luna…
- Larisa: … what it would be like to look into her sparkling eyes while you give her a long and heartfelt kiss, …
- Larisa: … what it would be like to hear her cute giggles while you slowly let your hands wander under her shirt towards her blooming breasts, …
- Larisa: … and what it would be like to finally fall onto the bed together and give in to love!
- Benjamin: …
- Benjamin: Now I do!
- Larisa: Boys are always such pervs!
![[0930] Night Of Love](/comics/2017-10-19-0930-night-of-love.png "[0930] Night Of Love")
Even without memory of the “Divine Comedy” arc, Larisa is still working on her Succubus homework. ;3
@ MidoriLuna:
Dear GOD, no! That stuff is corrosive like you wouldn’t believe.
I’m not sure Larisa is doing such a great job as succubus. So far it looks like she has just made things awkward for Benjamin and Luna. Sure, she has planted perverse thoughts in Benjamin, but that seems to be it. Even if she hooks the two up, I don’t think her words will actually result in quicker action.
Also, water jokes do not become more fun the more you tell them. Very few jokes do not become trite if repeated oven and over in a short time-span.
@ Dina Kitty:
You aren’t a Bob’s Burgers fan, are you? XD
@ Lolikiano:
I don’t know- the devil may have something to say to her about cultivating love…
@ Firedome:
More like a dip in an alaskan lake
HMan0199 wrote:
Fires WILL be started.
HAHAHA!! OMG! I can’t laughing. That last line from her, classic XD
@ Crystalgate:
Good assessment. The girl really doesn’t have nuance or tact, she just likes to turn the situation as sexually awkward as she can. I mean, don’t get me wrong, Larisa probably does mean well, but while her intent was to simply tease Ben, she may not realize that she just described a pretty suggestive scenario involving Luna to a mixed party of her classmates. Frankly, Larisa has the surgical precision of a cluster bomb.
@ The Lurking Chaos:
What’s worse, it’s addictive. The withdrawal symptoms are AWFUL and usually fatal in just a few days. And the worst thing is that mothers drink the stuff while pregnant, and we’re all born addicted!
The only (partial) solution is to dilute it with alcohol.
why do you do these things, Larisa. You’re not a succubus yet, that happens AFTER you die, if I remember right.
StarMech wrote:
I think even Larisa has her standards.
Tom West wrote:
Sheś obviously quoting from some sirupy romance novel.
I dunno, ‘blooming’ sounds pretty much what I as a thirteen year old would have chosen as an alliterative for breasts.
Well, or ‘bouncy’ but that doesn’t really apply.
@ Blaise Z.:
Boi she a succubus!
Tom West wrote:
Why wouldn’t a 13 year old use that kind of language?
It doesn’t show Larissa’s succubus training, which she can’t remember anyway, but rather her native talent for sexual chaos. Why else was she given the opportunity to become a succubus?
Asrial wrote:
Most romance novels do not have literal children as protagonists, and do not emphasize the immaturity of their sexual characteristics.
oledakaajel wrote:
Because a 13 year old is not likely to be emphasizing her (or her peers) sexual immaturity as a way of sounding enticing. On the other hand, a 35 year old might think that emphasizing sexual immaturity makes the description sound more enticing to his quite adult audience.
Ugh.
@ Micah T Mlyniec:
ALWAYS have Larissa write the fanfiction.
Fixed that for you.
@ Tom West:
Did you know that Nabokov’s famous novel did not originally have an illustrated cover? That was by design; because the story was focused on the psychological mess that was Humbert, and not on the titular protagonist. It wasn’t until the book started to be printed en mass, and publishers needed a way to push sales; that they started adding certain suggestive imagery to the cover.
It’s not that I don’t get where you’re coming from, because I think we have this discussion every time the plot turns slightly more mature. But, I really don’t think that’s the authorial intent here. Something that gets a little lost every time Larisa starts doing her supposed ‘succubus’ thing is that she’s a bit more complex a character than that. It’s effectively the ‘cover’ that she puts on her story, that of someone who seems wildly, inappropriately forward for her age. So we constantly have the jokes around what she and Landon have done, or her remarks towards herself and her classmates. She does it so well, you’d almost think it was her true nature. Except in certain instances, like in this particular comic.
True she starts out lecherous, and maybe she does use phraseology that denotes a certain imagry; after all, this is the girl who tried to dress up in a wildly inappropriate costume for halloween at one point. But then she lets up on it. She doesn’t even use the phrase ‘make love’, she just says ‘give in to love’ and I wonder, what if what we see is all just cover, what if she’s not this predestined succubus demon lord, and what if Larisa is just as clueless as the rest of her friends when it comes to sex? What if she’s informed about it the same way everyone else her age is, through advertising and movies and such, and she’s merely emulating what she sees and hears? In that way, how she’s being written is not as a young person obsessed with sex, but rather as the embodied reflection of how sex itself is sold to her generation.
When she goes to apply to be a succubus, under previous work experience it’s just going to be her gesturing at all of the boys in her class
Benjamin where is he on which ladder?
The fruit punch, what a punchline…
Seriously among the most hilarious gas this far.
But am I the only one who’s getting sick of Larissa?
Sure the Succubus thing, but seriously!??!
Tom West wrote:
I’m not too sure about that.
Like “In vino veritas” … all that fruit punch got to his head.
yeah… spending a night with the moon 😀
Benny grabbing his own chest 😀
MidoriLuna wrote:
I’m not certain I’d use the word mature. Anyway, my annoyance with ‘blooming’ is perhaps because it contrasts so much with the purple prose of the next frame. *That* sounds like something a 13 year old might use when mimicking what they think sexy should sound like. Or perhaps something far more coarse.
It’s the emphasizing specifically of sexual immaturity as something enticing that sounds like something out of a Piers Anthony novel and moves the old squick-o-meter. (As well as simply being something that sounds massively inauthentic to my ear.)
(While I’m not a great fan of the author addressing child sexuality, in this case I’d have held my peace if he’d managed to carry it off without the giant ‘clunk’ in the dialog.)
oledakaajel wrote:
At least in my childhood, adults that were attracted to us were “creepy”. The idea of *trying* to attract that sort of person by emphasizing our child-like characteristics would have been, to put it mildly, icky.
Tom West wrote:
You know, some thirteen-year-olds have a well working brain and can express themselves like adults if they want to. Don’t forget that Larissa was mocking Benjamin and therefore might have deliberately chosen a somewhat cheesy wording for describing the romantic/erotic thoughts she “accuses” Benjamin to think.
Larisa’s getting her inner succubus on again, I see
@ MidoriLuna:
I’m still waiting to hear the fleshed out version of Sandra X Larissa, where Larissa wrote Sandra as Sandy, the genderswapped male version of Sandra
Jack wrote:
It’s Sander, actually.
Centaur wrote:
other fun fact, there is no such thing as dihydrogen monoxide. You may be thinking of dihydrogen oxide.
If you have to use science, try pls to use it the right way 🙂
let’s be honest, Ben you were screwed as soon as you met Larisa, This is only a symptom, not the illness. just consider yourself lucky, at least she didn’t actually get you in bed, doing the act then return your consciousness. Just ask Cloud, she is that powerful :3
I guess Larisa learned how to corrupt people through the fourth wall now.
Tom… you realize this is Larisa we’re talking about here? Future succubus, massive pervert, probably read more porn, adult fan fics and seen more hentai and 18+ artwork than most adults?
@ Cobalt:
Yeeees, but they don’t actually ever show that because of the of the age rating. Probably.
@ ZA21:
I never said right away. I specifically said eventually.
@ MegaGame:
I think both terms are acceptable. Plus DIHYDROGEN OXIDE IS WATER! DI = 2! H2! H2O!
Sorry, I couldn’t hold it in.
@ MegaGame:
Technically, according to the IUPAC nomenclature of inorganic chemistry, the proper term would be oxidane.
Anonymous wrote:
“Sorry, I couldn’t hold it in.” Isn’t that a pisser.
Anyway, you could call the stuff Hydrogen Hydroxide or Hydric Acid. It swings both ways.
Cobalt wrote:
It is worth remembering that Larisa does not exist. Every single one of these characters is written by one person, with one person’s experiences, knowledge, etc.
Now, we contain multitudes, but when analyzing these things, keep in mind that it’s not “this is what this person would say”, but “this is what that author thinks/feels this character would say”.
Cobalt wrote:
I don’t think the idea is that she is that much of a pervert. It’s more like she doesn’t care about social standards that advertise some restraint (or often rather show of restraint) against indulging in “pervert” pleasures. I also don’t think the idea is that she’s consuming a massive amount of pornographic material, that would take away a lot of time from her other interests such as landscape painting, fire and overall her social life. She may consume more than expected from a 13 years old (an age where a large percentage hasn’t begun with porn yet), but I’m not buying more than most adults, even if we’d only count those that recently turned 18.
Tom West wrote:
13 year olds of my acquaintance would likely use terms such as “cooties”. This is more 15-16 year old behavior.
Brett Bellmore wrote:
Well, that would certainly be more realistic (well “cooties” 95% of the time, with a 5% veering off into massively self-conscious attempts to act “adult”), but not where the author wants to go.
Brett Bellmore wrote:
I think I understand now. Not everyone is the same. Some people are different, and to some people that’s strange or uncomfortable. Like this is to me.
Have y’all met 13-year-olds of this generation?
They’re not exactly innocent, cootie-fearing kids anymore… Much to my dismay, looking at my 13-year-old brother.
Morbidmort wrote:
Eros (god of love) or Eris (goddess of discord)?
This strip is the 9th Anniversary of the strip. Sandra’s stayed around a long time after saying she hated the job.