I think it’s like getting a provisional license in Hero Academia. McBell has completed several missions on her own before school finished, and was given credit for those missions and it all added up to her having passing grades early.
My guess is this is a legal loophole. It means McBell isn’t gonna be put in the Computer System, as she’ll technically never become a sophomore. It also gets rid of her being legally forced to be a clown, it would be her choice if she stuck around.
I knew Bout would be “laying low” for a while, but somehow I didn’t register that he quit the College before McBell brought it up just now. I guess it would be a bit too silly for Burke to be super-literal about his “if you walk out that door…” ultimatum.
Me as well stumbled over “Bout quitting”, but I think that he left school already in order to take the job als Burkes bodyguard. Since it all happened in ONE DAY, he might be allowed to come back, now that he is (probably) unemployed.
“Completion of the Clown College curriculum” according to chapter 1, page 37. Ordinarily this would mean four years, Mcbell aimed to do it in two. So Squeaky here just cut her best estimate down by one and a half years with a pen-stroke.
I feel like that’s a way to give her a choice. The whole problem here is that McBell never learned to choose for herself what she wants to do or who she wants to be. By cutting her sentence, Squeaky just forced her to choose whether she wants to remain a clown or get out before the ship sinks.
whaaa??
I think it’s like getting a provisional license in Hero Academia. McBell has completed several missions on her own before school finished, and was given credit for those missions and it all added up to her having passing grades early.
That top row of panels feels like an older trans woman talking to her younger friend who recently came out
My guess is this is a legal loophole. It means McBell isn’t gonna be put in the Computer System, as she’ll technically never become a sophomore. It also gets rid of her being legally forced to be a clown, it would be her choice if she stuck around.
Ah, so he knows about Livewire. Of course he does – dude basically made and wears Mimir on his head at all times.
I knew Bout would be “laying low” for a while, but somehow I didn’t register that he quit the College before McBell brought it up just now. I guess it would be a bit too silly for Burke to be super-literal about his “if you walk out that door…” ultimatum.
Me as well stumbled over “Bout quitting”, but I think that he left school already in order to take the job als Burkes bodyguard. Since it all happened in ONE DAY, he might be allowed to come back, now that he is (probably) unemployed.
If your an institutions best weapon, they better be paying you.
What exactly were the terms of her sentence again…?
“Completion of the Clown College curriculum” according to chapter 1, page 37. Ordinarily this would mean four years, Mcbell aimed to do it in two. So Squeaky here just cut her best estimate down by one and a half years with a pen-stroke.
“Look, that’s why there’s rules, understand? So that you think before you break ’em.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
I feel like that’s a way to give her a choice. The whole problem here is that McBell never learned to choose for herself what she wants to do or who she wants to be. By cutting her sentence, Squeaky just forced her to choose whether she wants to remain a clown or get out before the ship sinks.
If being a clown meant she could help people, she wanted to be a clown.
Now she has to ask herself: Does it still mean that? Does her best self wear the makeup?