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Nanase and Her Fox - 29 - HD
🕑 Added 2023-11-18 04:00:02 +0000 UTCYay! That thing I was summoned to do!
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Note: I'm taking next Thursday off from EGSNP for Thanksgiving, but there will be a Thursday sketchbook. Story comics return Wednesday.
I thought it would be a fun quirk if the duplicate indicated "I am successfully doing the thing you told me to do" by smiling.
Potentially cute, creepy, or both depending on the circumstances. I think it adds to the artificial nature of Fox.
I didn't want the smile itself to imply to much on its own. I just wanted it to look like a normal smile. It looking fake, or over-the-top, wouldn't work the way I wanted.
As for Fox's expressions when she HASN'T been given something specific to do while being summoned, those generally reflect Nanase's present feelings, or are similar to faces Nanase herself would naturally make were she in Fox's place.
For example, if I'm drawing someone making a grumpy face, I might make that face myself. If I summoned a duplicate, and I had them draw a grumpy face, they'd likely do the same thing.
(Unless I included "draw a grumpy face" as part of the spell, in which case my duplicate would be smiling in order to indicate successful drawing of the grumpy face.)
(I guess this can get a little confusing.)
Comments
Dan Merget
The phone notification for this strip consisted of Fox looking downward and then smiling, along with enough of the commentary to deduce the first sentence ("Yay! That thing I was summone..."). I assumed the context would involve Fox looking down at her own clothing, and thinking "Yay! There's some clothes I can fold!"
Bastiandantilus
Yay, I can accomplish the thing for which I was summoned so that I can complete my purpose and cease to exist! Existence is the worst! M%s-@ks to existing!
Dan Shive
lol Sorry about the timing
Stephen Gilberg
Oof. I just finished watching a series in which an AI looks absolutely delighted to see people dying.
