Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, May 12, 2023.
This is me when people say “hi” on the street when I don’t remember them. I reply with, “if I decided to adopt someone, you’ll be first on my list.”
Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, May 12, 2023.
This is me when people say “hi” on the street when I don’t remember them. I reply with, “if I decided to adopt someone, you’ll be first on my list.”
Seriously, her parents are… ok, I can’t call them “the worst” when we have a genuine example of what “the worst parents in the galaxy” might look like in this storyline, but…. goddamn. I don’t care if you don’t remember her, have a single solitary ounce of compassion here.
Yeah, the lack of any compassion doesn’t fit with what the Stribs were looking for in parents does it? Maybe they do remember her and just don’t want her back because she was a headache?
Ummm. Gettin’ a little darker! I’m sad for Aitana!
why on earth wouldn’t they remember their own kid?
Drugs.
The Stribs erased their memory of her.
I remember that, but also Aitana asked for their memories of her to be erased because she thought she would never see them again. So their memories have more or less been burned out twice.
You have a reference for that? I can’t find it anywhere in the archives.
@Fnordius, I’m with @Pete. I mean, I’ve forgotten things I’ve written, but can’t seem to find this. But if it’s there I want to fix the incongruity!
Your memory may have been erased, Chris.
I recall something about Aitana stating that she didn’t want them to remember her because it would be painful for them. Something like that. It seems I am misremembering.
Human brains are simply confusing at the best of times. Mine included.
Back on Earth they probably have a bunch of social media posts with her tagged in photos.
Or just a pile of normal photos with Aitana in them. Plus there will be some legal adoption paperwork somewhere.
Indeed. And school records.
Regradless of what they remember or don’t, if they don’t pull a 180 soon, they’re going to be arrested for child abandonment.
Now this is just cruel
You’re in freaking space, having been abducted by aliens and saved by another group of aliens. I honestly find it hard to believe that they’re assuming she’s lying over “aliens messed with my mind”.
My head canon is that when the Stribs messed up with their memories they also made it so that the “messing up” is permanent, and that they would make it so that the first reaction to hearing that Aitana is her daughter triggers an automatic response of “that is a lie”.
C’mon, Choan! Try again! You’re supposed to be a genius! Washu would’ve figured this out in three seconds!
See if Krep wants to adopt, he’ll provide a more realistic worldview.
Wow, being around those Stribs really rubbed off on them!
Hm, was it their house the stribs destroyed? If not, the kids room might give them a serious headache.
DNA sequencing? Even if their memory can’t be given back, at least the truth of her being their child would be in evidence. After that they’d either have to realize they lost all their memory of her, never to be retrieved, but make the best of it and build life as a family anew… or be “extremely rude” and go the way of denying her existence in one way or another (eg: conspiracy – aliens took their DNA and fast-cloned a smart kid to destroy their lives, or just be the way they are in this strip: self-centered).
Mmh. no – she is indeed adopted, so no genetic relative
D’Oh! My bad.
—-Oh!
I see now.
But since it’s the next logical step, I’ll not step on Christopher’s toes again. He probably has a different take than mine in mind anyway, and I’d like to see it.
But for now, I’m off to have a warmer-than-usual weekend, with a hearty lemonade with a whole lemon quartered and squeezed into it. Yellow like the sun, and just as mellow, too. Cheers to everyone until Monday.
Whoa. This is a heck of a way to roll into Mother’s Day weekend.
We are in the “tearjerker trope” right now.
The Stribs really are sophisticated to be able to do that.
They may have just depressed and hidden the memories away.
She remains the biological daughter of Mr. Zorilla, and therefore half sister to Mauricio; so there is some family — even if they probably don’t know about Aitana either.
Haha wow Chris, that author’s note below the comic speaks to me. (I’m real bad at recognizing people.)
Poor Aitana.
Wow, for a comic from which we regularly see conflicts large and small, in some ways this is one of the darker things I’ve seen here…poor Aitana indeed.
One assumes that some of their associates (did not want to use term “friends”) might have met the girl. Government records. Bank records. School records.
The Stribs are not godlike, and would not have gone to much trouble.
They will shake all evidence off as unimportant.