So this is Nävis (“NAY-vee”) from my favorite long-form sci-fi series Sillage (“Wake”). It’s about a human girl who was the only survivor of an interstellar ship crash, who grew to adulthood with the help of one surviving robot and a sort of orphaned tiger-cub who grew up alongside her.

Eventually, she’s discovered by the travelling collective “Sillage,” which immediately turns her life upside down, but unexpectedly she proves uniquely valuable to the collective-- her human mind simply can’t be read by the best telepaths in the galaxy, making her primo material as an espionage agent, particularly since she grew up in fairly savage circumstances. It’s all a bit of a super-creative riff on the classic Tarzan formula, I find.

More on the wonderful Sillage / Wake albums:
https://sillage.fandom.com/wiki/Sillage_(comic_series)

Side note: I get the feeling that her bird friend here doubles as a little homage to John diFool’s Deepo!

NOTE ALSO:
I’ve been having some pretty weird problems posting here since I publicly critiqued Lemmy.ML the other day. Let’s assume it’s just a total coincidence for now, but at the moment, it looks like I’m not allowed to share extra images in the body of my posts.