We never did name the ladies from the bridge…
In curls is na-Nillina.
Magenta should be obvious. She will do The Time Warp if asked.
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Walton
Ace! I never got to say how good it is to see you again. You’ve done well for yourself.
Ace
Chief Walton? I’m glad to see you’re doing well, too, of course. But…
Walton
Ohhhh? Don’t you recall that we’re on a name-for-name basis, Ace. Off duty there’s no Just, or Young Master, or Chief between us. Though I do like the sound of “Duke.” We can do it that way if you want.
Ace
Ah. Not necessary, Walton. But…
Walton
But feelining my strong arms around you as my rock hard abs and firm, high breasts press against your back is just a little discomforting, yes? But isn’t it just a little sensually pleasant, too?
Ace
Yes, and yes, but…
Walton
Ace, being a direct, even pure, descendant of the old labor caste. I’m not just big for an Orion, but big for a Lifter. So, I am easily the strongest member of the crew. I compulsively strength train under higher grav settings. Our blue haired Commander Wildstar, there, is three quarters Terran, and our second strongest crewmember.
After her are your sister and daughter. All four of us are quite hetero, and only Stormy really enjoys hugs. Which, everyone gets and I assure you are nothing like this.
It’s going to be at least half a centi- before the males are out of stasis. There are no Lifters among them, nor do any of them find me all that attractive. I either pay for their company or hope for a sympathy fuck.
As such, I don’t get much opportunity to press myself up against a wide, strong back, particularly of someone that’s said I was pretty.
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Walton
You can let me enjoy this for a few moments, between friends, yes? Please.
Ace
I guess. But why is there a line forming?
Walton
Orion myth: men, Orion and Terran, don’t know how to wash themselves properly. Nobody seems to care if it’s true or not.
Ace! I never got to say how good it is to see you again. You’ve done well for yourself.
Ace
Chief Walton? I’m glad to see you’re doing well, too, of course. But…
Walton
Ohhhh? Don’t you recall that we’re on a name-for-name basis, Ace. Off duty there’s no Just, or Young Master, or Chief between us. Though I do like the sound of “Duke.” We can do it that way if you want.
Ace
Ah. Not necessary, Walton. But…
Walton
But feelining my strong arms around you as my rock hard abs and firm, high breasts press against your back is just a little discomforting, yes? But isn’t it just a little sensually pleasant, too?
Ace
Yes, and yes, but…
Walton
Ace, being a direct, even pure, descendant of the old labor caste. I’m not just big for an Orion, but big for a Lifter. So, I am easily the strongest member of the crew. I compulsively strength train under higher grav settings. Our blue haired Commander Wildstar, there, is three quarters Terran, and our second strongest crewmember.
After her are your sister and daughter. All four of us are quite hetero, and only Stormy really enjoys hugs. Which, everyone gets and I assure you are nothing like this.
It’s going to be at least half a centi- before the males are out of stasis. There are no Lifters among them, nor do any of them find me all that attractive. I either pay for their company or hope for a sympathy fuck.
As such, I don’t get much opportunity to press myself up against a wide, strong back, particularly of someone that’s said I was pretty.
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Walton
You can let me enjoy this for a few moments, between friends, yes? Please.
Ace
I guess. But why is there a line forming?
Walton
Orion myth: men, Orion and Terran, don’t know how to wash themselves properly. Nobody seems to care if it’s true or not.
Gotta say…blue hair has always been a particular weakness of mine in chars. And both of them being on the bigger side like she says also is a plus for me. Despite finding the orions attractive, most of them are on the waifish side for me. That blue hair…..
Always had a thing for Stormer from “Gem and the Holograms” 😀
You too huh?
Had a bit of a Shippage for her and Kimber, specially after that filler episode of them getting away from their respective groups and collaborating together and just generally having fun 😀
The waifishness is done deliberately; they have relatively little muscle mass compared to a Terran. These ladies spend most of their lives in something like 1/4 to 1/3 of normal Earth gravity (I forget the specific number… and it was mentioned that this ship is being kept at a higher than their preferred gravity level mostly for Ororo’s benefit — and it’s really only because her bond-parents were the ship’s 1st and 2nd in command that such a decision even happened). Someone on Earth gets more intense exercise getting out of bed and brushing their teeth in full Earth gravity than most of these Orions will get in their whole day.
Their diets are certainly MUCH lower in sugars than the American norm, or else every one of them would be obese.
Also…more then a bit of a thing for strong backs :3
Ace wouldn’t be Ace if this didn’t make him uncomfortable. His cousin, on the other hand, would probably try to live in this room.
Just thinking, what would happen if it was Bruno in that situation.
Would YOU cheat on Peg?
Not twice, for sure!
In that she likely wouldn’t give you a chance to do it twice, sure.
Soooooo… between a rock and a hard place…?
Um … WASHING Lessons?
A lesson from each of the four in line?
This may take a while.
(why do I suddenly envy Ace?)(But also wish him luck, too)
Naa, no lessons. If they teach him how to properly wash himself then they’ve put themselves out of a job. A job they appear to be willing to stand in line to perform. So no lessons.
just a reminder…his ship-suit is within range of her neural implant.
True… but the proper commands to affect someone ELSE’s shipsuit aren’t common knowledge. Stormy shocked everyone when she stowed Akane’s suit without her permission.
Mostly because they didn’t know Stormy knew the commands and because those who are adults have neuro implants and no longer think very hard about any other way to command the ship suits.
That pretty much looks like a ‘get undressed, sit down, shut up and enjoy it!’ situation.
I wonder what’s happening to Gabe right now…
I am reminded of the bath scene fro the anime Negima, where the student assigned to keep Negima out of trouble yelled at him to get naked so she could wash him. The series was extremely far-fetched, even more than Doogie Houser M.D.
And here’s the scene on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIiX9GZOVNI
That is a very unconvincing line of bull… but if I were Ace I’d believe it. Because – what the heck.
Such subtlety!
Wait, what male with eyes would fine Walton unattractive? Although on deeper though when you have at least a 10:1 female to male ratio I guess one can afford to be very picky.
Not quite that bad, if you remember there are physically asexual people in the population. But I’m sure the ratio can’t be any better than 1 male for every 8 females.
That said while I like the “lifters” I certainly would not turn down an offer from any of the waifish ones. After all it would be cruel to deny companionship based on body type to someone who only got to see males every six months or so.
Walton is the Orion equivalent of Serena Williams. I personally think Serena is beautiful, but I’ve seen an awful lot of negative comments about her attractiveness. And that’s putting it very, very mildly…
They’re more concerned about breakage…
Use tougher condoms?
“Breakage” like their spines.
Also… keep in mind that certain men who are aware they have a history of physical abuse against women (however they themselves would put it) are really uncomfortable about getting intimate or even close to a woman who they think might be able to beat the shit out of them. Bullies like weak targets because they get to feel powerful.
…but you’re not likely to hear them explain that reasoning for their uncomfortableness with Serena Williams (even if they have the self-awareness to do so), so they’ll post about how her muscles are “disgusting” instead.
Not all men like muscular women anymore that all women like muscular men. Myself, I don’t care much for the football front line build in a man. My preference runs to gymnast, swimmer, or runners build, most importantly for me is the intelligence level of my partner. While it is not necessary for reproduction, I want someone who can discuss topics with me on an equal level once the love making is done and we are recharging.
@adamas
Standards of beauty vary by culture and times. Among Orions, slender and waifish is the norm, also exemplar of their upper social classes, for most of their history. “Lifters” were a low-ranked labour caste, much like the black “Outers”.
For a parallel example: Up until a century or two ago, a fat woman was commonly considered more attractive than a thin one. This was largely because in order to BE fat, you had to be well-fed and well-off. The poor and struggling were fairly thin in general, due to varying degrees of malnutrition. In Europe especially, famines happened often. Fat people were literally healthier by comparison.
In our modern, western, 1st world countries, food is abundant, to the point even people who can’t pay for it at all can visit food banks and not be at risk of starvation. In fact, eating a lot of cheap, low-quality food is partly responsible for our obesity epidemics. You can be poor AND fat now, easily. However, if you are well off, you’ve can afford the better quality, healthy food; you can afford a gym membership, and probably have the time-freedom to attend one; you can afford good healthcare if your country doesn’t already provide it. Fit means “healthy” now, and fat means “unhealthy”, along with undercurrents of rich and poor. Our perception of what makes a person attractive shifted with this change in our culture.
Wildstar there, and Walton if she could purge her Greenies, would probably love to take a nice long sabbatical to Earth. They’d suddenly find themselves in their “popular period”!
What’s the yellow thing one of the Orion’s is holding?
Some kind of sponge, I’d say. See also two comics back.
Some kind of sponge, I’m guessing.
I am going to hope that is a lufa. In other news, HOLY exploding pants Batman. 😛
the more I look at this scene, the more the yellow thing gets creepy. If you look carefully you can account for all the hands and see that nobody is holding on to it. Is it floating along on it’s own?
Production error? I see no production error. ^_^
The yellow thing is a sponge, either sitting at the edge of the shower, or possibly hanging from a hook on the wall which we can’t see.
See! See! It’s alive! It moved!
Towel? Massage device? You can see it a couple of pages ago, one of the green ladies is using it on another green lady’s back.
Is it me or did Magenta’s position change? Also, is Ace trying to hide how happy he is to see them?
Akane coming in to check on Ace in 3.. 2.. 1..
Do na-Nillina and Magenta look a lil taller compared to the Navigator, Pilot, and Science Officer. Or is it just the angles?
Yes
I admit, I’m trying to figure Magenta out. I’m assuming that either one of her parents is a non-human, like Carver or a really rare reaction to greenies.
Just wondering, who is the one with the orange department markers? In case I get “abducted” and I have to make conversation.
She needs a name, but you saw her on the bridge previously.
Yes, but at this point she has a title, either Pilot, Navigator, or Science Officer, and I want to know how to address her politely.
OK, what’s her name? Ensign Anonymous is out. No red shirt.
Hey, you can’t call a Redshirt “anonymous”.
It’s too many syllables, you’d never get it out in time.