It is important to introduce them to the concepts of hunting (smaller, injured) prey from an early age.
The species’ main source of nourishment in the wild, i.e. picking up interesting things off the ground and putting them in their mouth, is a skill they are already born with.
Thanks as usual to 
Caedere for coloring/shading the characters on this page!
Deep breaths. In, out, in, out.
No, stop breathing SHUT IT ALL OUT
b-but den, Khas will smell BLOOD.
This is just… Perfect.
Great work as always!
: D : D
I must say… these little ones are unexpectedly ferocious….
That green one appears to be particularly special.
Kassie is definitely not a Younglet Yinglet, at least not yet. I’m sure she would lose her mind at this point if she had to stay there for long or whatever god they have there forbid lay there. But have to say I think the Younglets look cuter a little older, and much happier after they have eaten.
Kids are terrible unless they’re your own, then they’re the most amazing precious bundles of joy in the entire universe (or so I am told)
Nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I’m an uncle and my great-niece is precious (she is under 3). The moment she cries out of fear or pain, I rushed to her side.
“No no no it’s okay. I love you.”
That younglet will go far.
That’s the silver one, the silver one is the only yinglet so far who can pronounce esses. S instead of z.
iirc they do the “z” to supplement the “th” that they are simply physically incapable of enunciating
maybe
The question is, far- in which direction!
Up, maybe
There is a den bursting into flames in the background of panel five… I have questions, but I am also pretty sure this is a common occurrence for them…
YUP
I officially want these kids to be frequently featured in the series. Kass needs to teach them some sort of sport played with a big ball and the green one needs to get hit in the face with said ball. A lot.
He’d probably like it a little too much.
I would hope so. Everytime he gets hit in the head with the ball he runs away with it because he thinks he’s won a prize.
Awww, Their just like human children!
*they’re
ha, there.
As a teacher, I can attest that this is fairly accurate. Except for the amount of coordination and the live feeding. I have had human children attempt to eat my fingers. I wear boots for a reason.
You wear boots on your hands to protect your fingers?
Boot hand is my new favorite mental image. Ha!
It helps that I recently met a gaggle of my new very-young nieces and nephews for a refresher on that subject : D
I think the long necked (cobalt-ish) one is the cutest. Also probably the most attentive.
He is probably full of organs
But does he know that?
Poor Kass xD
That said, the dark grey pink-eyed kid closest to the window strongly resembles a certain Patriarch…
Come to think of it.. they all do, as well as females that have been introduced. One up front is definatly Poak’s kid.
Incidentally he also look the smartest seeming to be calculating the situation
Then silver eyes who ask the good questions
Then blue eyes who listen
Chaty in the front who think a bit after opening his mouth
Then turquoise who don’t seem to be present like at all
Yup, that kid’s got a lotta Beizel-genes in ‘im
BRB going to eat a hyoomin… for science.
But you as a human can get red in so many other ways!!
I wish to be a red laaa-dy
First off. YES! New page. Also I love albino dude. He is adorable. Second. Do they praise them praise them allot telling them they are precious all the time? It would be cruel to tell someone (especially a child) they are precious all the time then a month later, GET OUT Your on your own.
I’m probably wrong.
Love the comic as always.
Well they are shoo’d out into the enclave, sure, but they’re among (a huge, sometimes inattentive) family, and will no doubt find a group of older ones to learn from, as tends to be the course!
Wow
That last panel. Someone teach the youglets to eat with their mouths closed.
Unfortunately, thanks to their shell tooth, they can’t! (Well, not entirely)
That expression on the last panel….it is GOLD. She looks like she’s torn between. Run, Strangle, and Why?
Me thinks Kassie will leave with a new and deep respect for Vizlet.
Mostly WHY
Are these kids the offspring of the patriarchs?
Are these yinglets just the offspring of the patriarchs? They all bear a striking resemblance. For instance the one talking about eating Humans looks amazingly similar to Poak.
Given how many rounded ears we’ve seen on this page and the last, I’d say that Poak has been busy. Don’t know offhand how many other adults have rounded ears.
Of course, I could be wrong, because that silver one looks like Figgins.
Not all of them, but and enclave’s Patriarchs do tend to get first dibs on breeding rights! They’re the most successful males in the enclave after all, so they probably have some useful traits to pass on.
So, is Kass about to scream, cry, or throw up? Or all three?
If the Poaklet grows up to try to eat humans, it will be Kass’s fault!
Yeah, Kass really shouldn’t have said something like that lightly : |
So the whole “nature vs nurture” might be a bit hard to figure here since yinglet females already don’t give much of a damn. Still Kass might want to mention that he’s not good with kids.
Inquisitive does not mean stupid. But it can.
Good to know that the yinglet’s selective breeding process program® parameters pretty much involves the sole requirements of “being alive and breathing” and “having most of their body parts more or less located in the ussual places”…it makes the system flexible and adaptable, leaving a lot of room for further development.
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Well that is a rather disturbing method of feeding the little ones. And thay totaly miss out on the education and such that more organized meal times can provide. This lot seems to be around the age to at lest be in preschool.
I must also ask, if anyone noticed the fire in the back ground. Looks like some yinglet just burned there home down.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST (kinda, in some ways, sometimes)
A thought, did anyone notice that the ‘not quite there’ yinglet in the middle got pushed aside when it came to food? Starvation could explain why hes not very attentive or thinking clearly.
Or it could be the constant state of genefuck that Yinglet society seems to live in.
hahahah, omg this is so hilarious. also this scene is exactly why I don’t like (or have) kids. XD well, aside from the ferocious pouncing upon and dismembering prey thing… if human kids did that I think I’d have had one by now after all. and I feel bad for green-floppy-head… the floppy-head thing isn’t necessarily a bar to survival (trust me, I do wildlife rehab, you’d be surprised), but it didn’t look like he got anything to eat from that snack–he probably lacks the coordination to grab something quickly enough and get it in his mouth–so if any of them is likely to not survive to adulthood, I’d put money on him, unless his floppy-head thing clears up soon.
Oh probably find some nice dirt to munch on, he’ll be fine
This is why humans developed the nuclear family; small children are best handled in small lots, as in large quantities they become unbearable.
One or two of these at a time, you’d be able to handle. A whole heap at once? Well, Kas is learning yet another reason yinglets focus on the R in R/k selection.
Maaaaajor R-type emphasis, yup
This is pretty spot on to what it feels like to be an aunt/uncle.
Can confirm.
I like the red eyed black one.
One of those little Yinglets is a regular ol’ war monger.
HE KNOWS WHAT IT’S GOOD FOR
Absolutely NUTHIN’!
SAY IT AGAIN!
Children are a blessing. OTHER peoples’ children. The look on Kass’ face pretty much spells her resolve to be spared that unique and special experience of having children of their own. I imagine watching these cute little waifs tear a still-living creature apart and devour it between their innocent banter reveals how humanity on this world was spared a horrible fate had Yinglets been much larger than them.
Also that green one. Is he uhh… is he ready? I think he failed the agoge.
Well, on the bright side if Kass gets sick he can return the favor from earlier. I like the little pink/beige one with blue eyes and no ‘hair’.
I worry about the poor little green ‘Buh buhbuh’ younglet
To quote DBZ Abridgeds’ Super Kami Guru:
“See? This is why we need TVVVVVVVVVVV!!”
That is some easy-clean vomit. Hopefully the blood is just as easy to get out.