Nah, she doesn't want to pay to have dimmers installed- she just keeps those goggles on all the time.

Probably not... she's twelve. I guess the setting of the comic is Earth with a few people knowing how to make better AI than we do now... they're not commonplace or anything though.

The comic isn't set in an alternate dimension or anything. It's just Earth.

Yes, it's his species' alternate way of manipulating objects and is only as strong as you would expect his physical strength to be. It has a range of about ten feet.

It will be, and it's not an operation scar. She was born without those senses. Birth defect. Nothing very exciting. She likes to make up dramatic stories and pass them on to Ferris.

Her pupils expand in the dark or in response to certain physical or emotional stimulus.

On... on Formspring? I'd love to see your fanart, but I don't know what Formspring's capacity to post pictures is.

Uh... I don't actually have anything for this one! I haven't built up that area yet. Uh, come back later.

Nananannanana SUPERMAAAAANNNNN

I was actually just working on revamping the cast page, and I added an 'about' page with a brief summary of the comic's premise. I didn't think of a species/world guide. That's a good idea! Thank you!

Ah, okay, this is going to be long and potentially have spoilers. Heads up!

First, you need a lot of special licensing to legally do 'patchwork' on Frella, because the process can so easily go so very wrong. Therefore, legal patchwork is incredibly expensive and most who need it can't afford it, thus the black market. Kila and her co-workers were all immigrants from other planets who either didn't have licensing because it honestly wasn't a thing on their homeworlds (Kila) or had licensing granted by governments not recognized by Frella and therefore invalid (everyone else)- which is why they couldn't find any legitimate work.

Second, Skir was running his business through local organized crime connections. All the bodies used were supplied by the crime syndicate (though Null-13 was researching ways to make fresh new cloned body parts, and his research was being stolen and used in icky ways, which is a whole other thing). Said bodies were procured in ways that are generally considered NOT OK. Skir did his best to hide this from the employees- Kila and Null-13 don't condone murder, if you were curious.

Third, the operation Kila was working in- called the 'Chop Shop' as a nickname- was not very professional. Due to the bodies coming from mob murders and not an official donor-matching source, they often did not match the patients! Kila would often find herself in the operating room with an opened-up patient and she would just be handed a limb that didn't FIT. She has nightmares about it: http://theworldisyours.smackjeeves.com/comics/1361113/more-blood/

So that's what was illegal about the whole thing. However, a dirt-poor teenage patchworker (and Kila was only about 18 in human years at the time) would usually never become an object of such infamy. Kila had incredible bad luck.

First, Skir's mob buddies thought she was hilarious and would joke with her, be seen with her, take pictures, giving the impression she had more of a connection to them than she did.

Second, the officer who took on the Chop Shop was Mik Neshkitaim. A young, angry Mik Neshkitaim whose father, formerly also in the Planetguard, was in a wheelchair thanks to the Frellan mob.

But what really screwed Kila over was Kila. She happened to be the perfect poster child for what was wrong with Frella. Kila at mentally-and-physical-age-18 was MORE impulsive and rude than she is now. She was also under a lot of pressure at the time, pressure she couldn't handle, and when Mik started coming around questioning people, Kila went off on her and then resisted arrest and said and did a lot of stupid things that the press loved, insulting the Planetguard, bragging, sarcastic remarks, psychotic ranting, giving Mik that scar. There were the mob connections to exploit.

Kila also had the right look. She has those creepy eyes and teeth, she's good at looking sullen and angry, and she was the most alien-looking of the crew to native Frellans, who are lizard creatures. (Mik is not a Frellan herself). Neither Skir nor Null-13 are mammalian and Jareth was too quiet to get a lot of good quotes from.

Also, hey. Cutting up dead people is creepy.

So, much of Kila's outlaw reputation is not from the patchwork itself, but from a combination of overblown media scandal and running into the scariest cop around. Kila could have made things less horrible for herself if she hadn't freaked out, but she was young and very frightened and angry and lacked self-control. Hopefully she's learned her lesson now. Although she probably would have been made an example of no matter what she did. It would've been bad regardless, just maybe less bad if she'd gone quietly.

Although, Null-13 went quietly and wasn't made a scapegoat... and there are reports that he died in prison.

So that's what was so troubling to others!

Kila could definitely have her hearing fixed. She could also get a load of really powerful and really creepy cyborg enhancements if she trusted other surgeons. As for 'uplifted', not exactly.

Of course it is. Corrective eye surgery- and contact lenses- are pretty commonplace today too... some people just don't want them. Some people are weird. Dr. Kao is weird, and though he has no problem with brain implants, he thinks eye surgery is way too risky.

SNEAKERS ARE SHOES

Not currently. My dA IS my main site.

Thanks!

Um, neither! I don't actually know what you mean by this, I'm assuming you're referring to a technique in a program I don't use? It might be a name I don't know for something I actually do.

I shade with a lot of different multiply and screen layers. :)

This is actually the first I'm hearing of it, despite being a big Stephen King fan.

I use fonts from blambot. Sometimes I draw in the sound effect text by hand.

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Kila is Kila. How you view her actions is entirely up to you.