The DIA-BETTIES
(My personal commentary is at the bottom of the page.)
MEDEA SIN DOSSIER
Description: An elite femme fighting force trained in the secret art of femininjutsu (a.k.a. Yuh Juh Doe, "way of woman") with an affinity for counter-culture fashion (goth, rave, S&M, and Betty Page).
Pathological Enhancement: Members of the Dia-Betties all possess a pathologically-enhanced type of diabetes. They are immune to all forms of insulin and rely on pure muscle metabolism to control glucose levels. They frequently require sugar binges (to increase blood sugar) and near constant strenuous activity (to decrease it), the latter often resulting in marked muscular hypertrophy over time.
Aliases: Sugar Freaks, Betties, Swi-T's (sweeties)
Affiliations:
Frequent enforcers of The P.A.T.H. (The People's Army of the Terminally Healed, led by Dis Yze)
Strengths:
1.) Almost always work in packs
2.) Femininja training
3.) Immunity to pain - due to diabetic neuropathy (each Betty is partnered with another Betty to watch for unnoticed injuries)
4.) Sugar lust - Keenly attuned to glucose in the environment, whether in candy or in blood. Some Betties prefer getting their sugar highs from the blood of their foes. Others only resort to such means as a last resort.
Weakness:
1.) Glucose monitoring - While a carbo-loaded "Betty" is a nearly undefeatable opponent, a Betty also requires an exorbitant amount of sugar before such strenuous activity can be performed.
2.) Retinopathy - Only retinal rods are functional. See in black, white, and greys only.
3.) Renal failure - The most powerful Betties can only survive with the aid of hemodialysis on a regular basis. During these treatments, they are very weak and most vulnerable.
4.) Severely shortened lifespan for most - even shorter than the poor diabetics Dis Yze originally recruits before the transformation.
Idiosyncracies: Constantly in motion (dancing, fighting, exercising, etc.). Fixated on goth, rave, S&M, and Betty Page fashions. Insatiable sweet tooths. Like to play the "vampire" role. (Even to the point of underdoing dialysis in coffins.)
Known Members (code names): Dargi ("Strawberry" in picture above), Banilla ("Vanilla"), Buhchi ("Cherry"), Ghoul ("Honey"), Butterscotch, and others.
Myrrh Mar's Progress Notes: I hate fighting these ****ers. Michusuh ("crazy"). They have to work off their sugar-high kill-or-die frenzies or else drop into a coma. And that pain tolerance. They'll cut themselves twice just to nick you once.
The Dia-Betties are trained femininjas, but none have reached femininja fatale status, like myself. Their previous leader, Pak Ha (Peppermint), was close and would have earned the title with my death.
When we fought, I opened with a posterior jugular approach, sacrificing the use of my left arm to complete it. Pak Ha spent the rest of the battle alternately applying pressure to her bleeding neck and swinging that double-bladed axe too close to my head.
Two-handed weapons work on the unsafe assumption that you will always have two free hands in fatale combat. That was what I taught her. Lesson learned. Death earned. Took a god**** fifteen minutes of fighting for that ***** to finally bleed out but it's a nice axe. You'd like it Medea, Goguryo period. Sharp ****.
Oh, and tell Sir Jury thanks for the arm reconstruction. Now it only tingles when I'm angry. That blind mother****er needs to go back to sewing school. ****ing *******. Ow.
Medea Sin's Addendum: Please watch the profanity in your reports, Myrrh.
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SUPER SECRET ORIGINS
My Notes: A lot of imaginary back story goes into my drawings. I like to plot out the imaginary graphic novel in my head with them. Someday it will all make sense and I'll put it together, and die completed.
As far as details, the guardian demon face on the upraised boot is from a 7th Century Paekche temple tile. The background pattern is from those large drums used in the Penitent Monk's Dance in traditional Corean dance. Those peculiarly cut bangs are modelled after Betty Page. Legs inspired by Chun Li.
This drawing although new, is the most nostalgic for me. Back in medical school I used to draw a weekly strip, where the main character was "Ace," an ace medical student and "femininja". She looked awfully similar to the illustration above, and she was largely inspired by Amy, or my lack of Amy that year. The unexpected side effect was that most of the female Asian medstudents thought I was secretly crushing on one of them and kept asking who "Ace" really was.
In my strip, the other character was "secretly" myself of course, but I figured if I named him "Gunnar" (as in "gunner," an intense student), gave him opaque eyeglasses and made his hair blonde, no one would be able to see my secret identity. The secret being that I was sad and incredibly lonely and wishing Amy was back with me so much that I had to draw it just to alleviate a little pain.
Note: I did sort of draw myself once. I was an "invisible" man, shown only by dotted lines, since I always sat in back and hardly went to class. I called myself "Scotoma" which is a "blind spot" on the retina. Get it? Scott - Scotoma?
I fantasized about being able to hug her so tightly again. Playing in the Michigan snow together. I even made a cartoon dreaming about Amy (as "Ace") while "studying." Amy has never really looked at those cartoons for what they were. I'm not even sure she's seen them yet. Everything worked out in the end though (although I took down most of the actual comic strip a long time ago). The superheroes finally got to reveal their secret identities and lived happily ever after.
But another thing I've noticed looking back into my old drawings, with great embarrassment I might add, is that NONE of the male characters were Asian. The Gunner character couldn't be Asian because that would reveal me, of course. But any of the other male characters could have been. I think nearly 30% of my medical school class was, in fact, Asian, along with my two best friends then. I drew little portraits of my class mates each week, kind of like what I've been doing in my journal lately, and that was a fairer representation but still. I didn't even realize what was missing.
I've realized it since and have been slowly trying to rectify that absence. The blind spot is blind no more.
Until then, please excuse the occasional pseudo-porn high-kicking crotch shot.
I'd also like to officially add that, as far as I know, the very first use of the word "femininja" or "femininjutsu" in print was by me in 1993 (third panel) (I have been unable to find any earlier references on the net at least). I'm not saying anyone stole it from me, just that I'd never heard of it before I "invented" it.
So, all your femininja belong to me. Even the diabetic ones.
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