Hmm... personally I viewed them as significantly different, but maybe that was just me. The first time Eirru attacked Faw while he was talking it was because she got tired of listening - she even warned him before doing it. When Faw created the choir girls it was sheerly a distraction/confusion tactic.

I tried to make her actions in the last comic unique in that this is the first time Eirru has actually asked Faw to speak. Rather than a repeat of previous actions I was aiming for it to come across as a variation based off assessed weaknesses. By now Eirru has been able to pick up that Faw likes to talk - and not just talk, but talk in long, winding monologues. By now she has also noticed (but of course, is not vocalizing) that she likely isn't capable of facing him head-on. As such she is willing to get a bit more underhanded in her tactics - such as implying that she is finally awed by his power and now genuinely cares about his backstory, only to dash these dreams by quickly revealing it was a trick to get his guard down. His reaction is meant to reflect this (as opposed to being something more generic like "I wasn't ready!")

I probably could've made the instances differ more, but I personally felt that making the two instances differ too vastly wouldn't properly convey how she is having to adjust her tactics specifically to suit the fight. You're definitely right, though, I should probably have her take the stuff she learns and apply it in distinctly new ways.

Ack! Now I feel like I used the wrong word in the comic. His vocabulary in the previous strips struck me as predominantly American, but I don't know what word he would use for los pantalones.