Little Billie still hasn’t learned much about defending himself or those around him. Or much about responsibility and duty.
First step in Krav is to avoid the fight, if possible. But if forced into the fight, the First Rule is not to duck away and abandon those with you.
Maybe a different reason Tirin the Younger went her own way.
Eric Hines
One would think that with all the adventures Billy had with Tirin, he would have picked up at least some basic combat hand to hand skills. I think that mind fuck went way beyond sexuality and messed with him in other ways. Given his previous experience with Amazons, he would know that his responses to those femthugs are absolutely wrong. I dunno, this just seems out of character for him
Or, it’s completely in character with Billy, and he just hasn’t grown the fuck up in the last ten years or so
Probably been safe and protected within the Royal Palace this entire time
If I learned something from Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld” novels, it’s always a bad idea to attack someone you don’t know. Billy might look like an easy prey, but Trina …
Yups, anyone who remains as calm as Trina does when being threatened by a laser-knife is either way more skilled than you think, or is way too crazy to care
I’m not sure I agree with everyone’s ragging on Billie here. I was taught that anything short of a black belt should expect to lose against a knife. (Not a laser blade, mind you, or for that matter a razor.) Even if he had some training, this is not a fight he can expect to walk away from without some sort of combat mod.
Yes, he’s being a wuss. But civilians SHOULD be seriously scared of enhanced blades.
He’s been on Saronia for how long? Ten years? He hasn’t learnt any defense in that time?
At the minimum, defensive weapons or gadgets (he’s been the damn assistant to the Defense Minister for that entire time)
Also, Loretta didn’t pull her blade until after Mask got her back snapped
Billy knew they were going into a bad part of town
Re-reading this. I cannot believe I missed Trina’s expression in panel 4. OMG!
Seriously, if you are pointing an enhanced blade at someone’s throat, and the look that you get is THAT look? Take a step back. Lower the blade. Then start singing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhnBgoAL0xw)
17 thoughts on “Chapter 20, page 9 – Trina to the rescue”
Jan
Hmm, may be she laid up a bigger bread than what she could bake?
E Hines
Little Billie still hasn’t learned much about defending himself or those around him. Or much about responsibility and duty.
First step in Krav is to avoid the fight, if possible. But if forced into the fight, the First Rule is not to duck away and abandon those with you.
Maybe a different reason Tirin the Younger went her own way.
Eric Hines
SciFiBoy
What a pussy… how did this loser ever make it to this age? Oh, yeah… Tirin was protecting his ass up until now.
SFCGator
One would think that with all the adventures Billy had with Tirin, he would have picked up at least some basic combat hand to hand skills. I think that mind fuck went way beyond sexuality and messed with him in other ways. Given his previous experience with Amazons, he would know that his responses to those femthugs are absolutely wrong. I dunno, this just seems out of character for him
Guesticules
Or, it’s completely in character with Billy, and he just hasn’t grown the fuck up in the last ten years or so
Probably been safe and protected within the Royal Palace this entire time
H'Sishi
If I learned something from Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld” novels, it’s always a bad idea to attack someone you don’t know. Billy might look like an easy prey, but Trina …
Guesticules
Yups, anyone who remains as calm as Trina does when being threatened by a laser-knife is either way more skilled than you think, or is way too crazy to care
Lurker314
Am I the only one getting strong Emma Watson vibes these last two pages? Anyone?
Guesticules
You mean Trina? Now you mention it… knew she didn’t look like TirTeen, just hadn’t really thought about who she did look like
merceneiress
Didn’t intend for Trina to have Emma Watson vibes, but now that I look at this page again, I can definitely see that
mysto
How much are we betting that mysterious “businessman” shows up just in time to intervene here?
Guesticules
Intervene on who’s behalf? Loretta has had her back snapped
And mystery-man will have his Escort Bot
Wait, Loretta and friend are Escort Bots, right? Just maybe a different kind of escort service
Guesticules
Wait, got that wrong, Loretta is the Strawberry
Lurker314
I’m not sure I agree with everyone’s ragging on Billie here. I was taught that anything short of a black belt should expect to lose against a knife. (Not a laser blade, mind you, or for that matter a razor.) Even if he had some training, this is not a fight he can expect to walk away from without some sort of combat mod.
Yes, he’s being a wuss. But civilians SHOULD be seriously scared of enhanced blades.
Guesticules
He’s been on Saronia for how long? Ten years? He hasn’t learnt any defense in that time?
At the minimum, defensive weapons or gadgets (he’s been the damn assistant to the Defense Minister for that entire time)
Also, Loretta didn’t pull her blade until after Mask got her back snapped
Billy knew they were going into a bad part of town
Lurker314
Re-reading this. I cannot believe I missed Trina’s expression in panel 4. OMG!
Seriously, if you are pointing an enhanced blade at someone’s throat, and the look that you get is THAT look? Take a step back. Lower the blade. Then start singing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhnBgoAL0xw)
Merceneiress
Haha! Glad you noticed – that was exactly what I wanted Trina’s expression to convey! Thanks for the link to that song too – loved it!