Being Fiona 423 (Patreon)

So, a bunch of things going on with this update.

So first of all, this strip went through a last minute re-write this morning as it and the following strips felt a bit "clunky." I'm still working on the new storyboards for strips 425-429, but I think by streamlining the dialogue, I might have eliminated two strips and brought us two episodes closer to seeing Lisa again.

Part of that stream-lining was that originally Hugo's gift to Fiona was going to be a brand new phone complete with its own phone plan, which then led to an entire strip of Fiona complaining that such a thing was too expensive to be a reasonable gift.

But as I thought about it, I realized that despite having an implant, I don't think any of Jess' friends knew that she had one, which means that it would be logical for Jess to have her own phone (for pictures, contactless payments, web-browsing), meaning that why would Hugo give Fiona a phone, if Jess already had one that could be borrowed?

And I'll get more into this in the next strip, which addresses it more, but Hugo's whole plan for how Felix will use Fiona's new phone account doesn't sit right with me, so I decided that as part of this last-minute rewrite, that Felix, usually the master of making terrible choices, might actually start to get cold feet about this aspect of the scheme for once.

Also, I've updated strip 422 to have color and the proper formatting now, I still have to do the shading, but that will probably have to wait until next weekend.