This was the first Boat Girl comic, done sometime late 2010 early 2011 — I have literally no idea exactly when. It came out of a conversation with Anton Solomonik that generated most of the character’s horrible body language: the stare, the enigmatic hand motions. Anton was totally disgusted with my live rendition of the character so I KNEW I HAD A WINNER!!!
She is kind of off model here since this was done in like ten minutes in a sketchbook with a roller ball pen. Admittedly all the early proto-MWHF strips before the ones in the archive featured the same character with black hair and no cowlick, which seems impossible to me now. The CLOUD STRIFE RULE OF CHARACTER DESIGN is that you should give your main characters some kind of non-black hair so that you can put them in front of pretty much any background and not get into too much trouble.