Paranatural

Hmm, interesting that Patchworm is silent, given how vocal they've been of Mina's exploits earlier (er, later, in the future, chronologically). Maybe they're not JUST a cocoon, and it's actually part of their... life... cycle? Thing? And this is a still-growing Patchworm?

Also pudgy Mina is so cute.

Yeah, she seems to have lost some weight in the years since.

She apparently used to look more like her mother does now.

And not the first time Sockpuppy has shown up.

Heh, "Boozes... for boys."

Edited by FuzzyBoots on Jan 1st 2021 at 9:56:53 AM

Maybe her weight and Patchworm are connected?

I never realized that Sockpuppy was Hijack, I thought it was a separate artificial spirit like him. Huh :v

I don't think Hijack was Sockpuppy. I think Hijack is saying that he tried to play the role that Sockpuppy did.

Side note, as was pointed out on one of the wikis, this version of Patchworm is undeveloped, as noted by only two gems on Mina's glasses.

What do the gems on Mina's glasses have to do with anything?

Yeah, but the little flashback showing that had Mina as like, really really young. In this page, she's 21, and sockpuppy is still around, so... y'know.

I think Sockpuppy is either a spirit she befriended very young, or the first spirit she made.

Where I saw it noted, the suggestion was that three dots on her glasses (the Tool that Patchworm is tied to) matches up to the three dots on Patchworm. In the early flashbacks of Chapter 7, she only has one dot. In this one, she has two. However, looking at the image now, Patchworm has all three dots already... so I don't know what this means.

is she trying to... grow a wight?

I doubt that since she didn't know what a wight was until after she obtained Patchworm (her glasses in Spender's flashback is the same kind, with the single green dot). It could be that this is the first time we're seeing a spirit's healing process after possessing something, and it just takes a reeeeally long time.

Remind me, was Hijack Mina's?

Yep, artificial spirit, however that works.

Did somebody call for a new character?

She seems familiar... but maybe I'm just mixing up scars.

this is what happens when you led your children watch anime in their formative years

There's a link in the description to a prior appearance in the comic.

So there is! But not what I remember her for. Think I'm just mixing her up with Davy's appearance

Ah, I remember. The one the comments at the time classily named Vageta, as I recall.

She seems to have calmed down in the future.

She’s also trying to talk a co-worker into helping her, not beat up a middle schooler.

Has anyone told her that?

Isn't it the other way around? Her fighting Isabel is later in the timeline than her bothering Mina, isn't it?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. She seems more chill when she's fighting Isabel.

I remember her getting called Femgeta, but that could have been a self serving memory.