Her mother’s name is Violet.
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Magenta
I don’t metabolize greenies properly. OK? It runs in the family.
na-Nilina
Everyone knows that. We just wonder how you got named, “Magenta.”
Magenta
My mother has a sick sense of humor.
Denali
Can’t you just change your name?
Magenta
I have a sick sense of humor, too.
Narration
Basically, both conditions run in the family.
I don’t metabolize greenies properly. OK? It runs in the family.
na-Nilina
Everyone knows that. We just wonder how you got named, “Magenta.”
Magenta
My mother has a sick sense of humor.
Denali
Can’t you just change your name?
Magenta
I have a sick sense of humor, too.
Narration
Basically, both conditions run in the family.
I think it’s a nice name
Rocky Horror Picture Show fan?
She will do The Time Warp.
I don’t LOL. I do, however, giggle. (And I hate giggling!)
One wonders if her best friend’s name is Columbia.
Not really. Columbia won’t do The Time Warp.
Is that why they are not best friends? o_O
That’s sad 🙁
Columbia is currently in the med ward chatting up Kimi, but she and Magenta happen to be friends, we haven’t seen so on page.
I just wonded if her mother just liked Rocky Horror.
Sounds like my kind of girl – both of them.
I have a similar sense of humor.
Are the first two panels supposed to have no speech bubbles? I feel I’m missing something.
It’s the awkward silence as, first, everyone’s attention centers on you, and then second, you realize that everyone’s attention is centered on you.
Does it seem like that there is a lot of survivor’s of Aesop Hab disaster that makes up the crew of the Roddy?
IIRC Galadriel rescued what survivors she could find. That tends to breed a powerful personal loyalty. Many of the orphans like X and her brothers probably ended up as Wards and I’d guess a lot of the younger survivors joined ExCorp when they came of age as a way of paying the Galadriel back.
Their entire population is about 50 million. There were 10,000 survivors of the Aesop disaster, (which previously had a population of 5 million). That’s 1 out of every 5000 remaining Orions alive today. They’re only spread to so many places too, so it’s not really odd at all.
Also noteworthy: Habitat Aesop had been one of the last major holdouts of “highborn” racial purists. Some of those who couldn’t let go of their old attitudes, despite not having any of the wealth or influence to still live like a noble class, aren’t doing to well, living on Basic Income, not doing anything meaningful with their lives because they were raised to believe they shouldn’t have to. Others, who could pull their head out of their asses and wake up to the new reality, would be more likely to join the Ex-Corps, where people can advance and be successful by their own merits, rather than entirely by nepotism and trading favours with other “nobles”.
Although, speaking of “nepotism”, quite a lot of Habitat Aesop’s orphans were adopted as wards by the then-Princess Gally, who is now Empress, of whom Peach is one of the most popular natural daughters, and up until her recent promotion, this was Peach’s ship to command, and to fill with staff. Even presuming minimal deliberate favoritism, a great many of Aesop’s orphans are her siblings by adoption, so she is probably familiar with most of their names, abilities, personal histories, etc (up to a reasonable point; there’s a lot of them). Moreso than some other Orions from elsewhere, at least.
If you were Captain, and you have a ward-sister named [Blank] who you remember growing up always wanted to be an engineer, you remember seeing her A+ tests up on the refrigerator, and she helped you study for the engineering portion of YOUR fleet exams… she’s probably a strong candidate for the Engineering crew of your ship, isn’t she?
I’d have thought “Rose” instead of “Magenta” (then they’d both be flowers as well as colors, and thus adding irony to sick sense of humor)…
Well, she’s not the only Orion with her condition. There probably are some named “Rose” out there. There does seem to be a large portion of the more progressives in the population (probably over-represented on this ship) who like to name their children after Earth culture (either TV characters or even place names… any noun is fair game, apparently).