Extra Space
Aug28
on 2018-08-28
at 00:01
Chapter: (A)Wash
Characters: Ace, Akane Ryoshi, Denali, Gina "Mama" Gibs, Jaz, Luna, Magenta, na-Nilina, Sky, Steward Ashe, Surety, Veracity, Walton, Wildstar
Location: OIS Gene Rodenberry
Even though they could get their own Basic residential unit and substance, Freeloaders are more common than you’d think in Orion culture. It’s usually a non-sexual relative.
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Veracity
Don’t get me wrong. We are picky about our sex partners.
But for bonding, we could consider more of the right people. Our foster-mother had 3 bond-mates plus the gene-father of our bond-sister Alexy hung around a lot.
Ace
Christmas must have been a hoot when you were kids.
Surety
No more than others. We have 12 aunts and uncles by foster, plus she has 6 and I have 5 by gene-parents. Not counting their bond-partners. So it was about the usual.
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Veracity
Uh, I have 5.
Aunts Mike, Lea, Andromeda, and Susan. And Uncle Apolo.
Surety
And your uncle Fritz.
Veracity
I thought he was your uncle.
Don’t get me wrong. We are picky about our sex partners.
But for bonding, we could consider more of the right people. Our foster-mother had 3 bond-mates plus the gene-father of our bond-sister Alexy hung around a lot.
Ace
Christmas must have been a hoot when you were kids.
Surety
No more than others. We have 12 aunts and uncles by foster, plus she has 6 and I have 5 by gene-parents. Not counting their bond-partners. So it was about the usual.
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Veracity
Uh, I have 5.
Aunts Mike, Lea, Andromeda, and Susan. And Uncle Apolo.
Surety
And your uncle Fritz.
Veracity
I thought he was your uncle.
Until I read your commentary, I thought that perhaps their memories were on the fritz…
No, that’s her uncle
Well, humans are social animals. “Uncle” Fritz probably prefers to be with people and have less, rather than live alone and have more.
So that’s what the fairies did with Fritz…
SO, is that like a random crew member happening top arrive and just awkwardly trying to decide if she should wait or not, or is word spreading about a naked Ace and there is going to be tourist traffic?
That’s Ashe. As Opus the Poet said in the previous strip, she is technically on duty.
Will ask the follow-up question here then: if she is on-duty, why has she been in that Sentō for several pages now?
She has been there since July 23rd
It’s her job as a steward to make sure they have soap and shampoo also towels and washcloths. They were brought on board with nothing but their clothing so hospitality dictates such needs be attended to.
That make sense, she was first shown showing Ace and Akane his room
I’m conflicted… do I get geek points for a Fritz reference nobody seems to have recognized, or do I lose out because it was too obscure?
I would say you get points. And, I’ll bite – Wizards? (I will admit to cheating and looking it up, but very neat ref, I have to say).
Some of us here are old enough to remember Wizards. Alien Abduction makes as much sense as anything.
+200 Geek Points awarded
Wait… She has an aunt named “Mike”…? Really?
My mother was called “Bill” by her relatives until she died, so I can see a Michelle who was called “Mike”.
Or a Michaela, wonder if Aunt Mike is also a doctor (aka, a ‘medicine woman’)
“Wait, is he’s not your uncle..”
“Or your’s…”
“…”
“That tradition of sitting on his lap every time he visited is sounding more and more creepy!”
I think Ace may have stumbled into a Gilbert and Sullivan timewarp: “His sisters and his cousins/who he numbers by the dozens/and his aunts!”
When your family tree is less a tree and more a bramble.
I can relate. We had so many honorary uncles, aunts and cousins growing up that we fairly gave up on trying to figure out who belonged where and on what branch. XD
We had an Italian branch of the family we were not related to, but some of them did leave us stuff in their wills. One of my “uncles” left me an airplane engine, WWII surplus Pratt&Whitney R985. I’m sure it was worth maybe a couple hundred bucks when he got it in trade, but I had to let it go to pay the taxes when he died in the early ’90s. I didn’t make enough in a year to pay the taxes on what it was worth.
The family trees for this adventure were already complicated enough – good luck to anyone attempting to update them to include all the Orions’ biological and legal/social relations… 😀
Turns out Fritz is just a lonely guy who shows up for the free turkey every year.