Nowadays Gillie dyes her white hair orange, shaves her body hair, and plucks her whiskers. Kid Gillie was much more visibly off-model.
Transcript
Idrisah: With my mom’s side arguing in Arabic… my dad’s side arguing in Urdu…
Panel background: On one side, Idrisah's mom argues with several of her middle-aged and elderly family members. On the other, Idrisah's dad argues with his own family members.
Idrisah: And me… who isn’t fluent in either…
Panel background: Idrisah stands awkwardly in the background while the silhouettes of her family members argue with each other.
Talita: Your parents never taught you?
Idrisah: We mostly spoke English at home, when I was a kid… It’s always been easier for us to use translation apps for family gatherings.
Talita: What’s there to be anxious about, then?
Idrisah: Well… I’m a linguist! I learned sign language as a kid to befriend Gillie…
Inset panel: Kid Idrisah offers help in ASL to a crying kid Gillie, who has fallen off her bike and scraped her knee bloody. Idrisah has long wild black hair, a t-shirt, and cargo shorts. Gillie is has long fluffy white hair in a high ponytail, mystacial and supraorbital whiskers, and sparse white body hair on her arms and legs. She is wearing a quailicorn graphic tank top, short shorts, and flip flops. Her dropped purse is shaped like a cute penguin and her bike has a design with Saturn on the seat.
