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Obviously he's asking about the book Abbey gave him.
>>153341553>Lucy "I never fucking wanted it" Whitecat actually caring about other people's livesWoah! Character development!!
>>153341553So this is definitely some pre-arranged bullshit to get Lucy doing something with Sue. Also who fucking gives a shit about whatever the two are talking about?
>>153341639Implying she didnt just want to change the subject to literally anything else
>>153341606abbey about to turn the question on them lmao>huh? since when were you back at the table?>awkward silence
>>153341606Obviously the topic of Michael Graycat will be brought up here, and David Wormtongue will yet again affirm that he has indeed "killed" Graycat.
>>153341553Sue obviously lookin to go down on Lucy in the theater, even though Lucy has made it perfectly clear that she's no carpet muncher.
>>153341553im bettin lucy is gonna turn down sue or if they do go together lucys gonna get sick of sues wet blanket treatment and sperg out
Lol dead thread, this page was fuckin nothing as usual.
Wake me when Abbey beats the shit out of Augustus or kisses Paulo, I do not give a shit.
>>153341639It's just showing how little attention she pays to anything that discrepancies to her set pieces actually surprise her. I wouldn't be surprised if Lucy blows up his cover with Daisy because fuck expecting shit from her
Lucy was surprised to see that they had left their conflict in the past; it is ironically funny.
>>153341553Can Paulo stop acting like a faggot for once
>>153341553please Abbey encounter and confront the fact that Augustus is friends with everyone, nothing else matters, I just want them to address an actual interesting conflict
>>153342420Augustus is Lucy's greatest warrior, as such he cannot be held accountable for his past actions. You're going to get more stupid theatre kid bullshit and Lucy pretending she doesn't hate all her friends and you're going to like it.
>>153341639Paulo is still desperate for her attention and she doesn't wanna talk to Sue, she only cares as long as it help her get out of a hole
>>153341695>Sue is such a drag that Lucy learns how to be more personable to dodge spending time with herLmao
>>153341606Seems a lot like Mike is going to come up, and that would be interesting, so I'm going to assume it's somebody slipping up about Paisy instead.
>>153342293>People can move on from conflict >Whatttttttttttt>NO THEY MUST BE PLANNING SOMETHING INSTEAD PAULO IS AGAINST ME
>>153342697if Abby somehow loses his shit towards Paulo while completely ignoring Augustus then Lucyspace has finally consumed him
>>153342420>At least your mother never did fucking heroin, Abraham>oh my god... at last I truly see... let's be best pals forever augustusAnd only then will Abbey have completed his character arc by learning not to hate the author's favorites.
>>153342697Just talking about the book the movie's based on.
>>153343024And what about the book makes everybody so uncomfortable?
>>153343098No, the subject matter is promptly switched,
>>153343098It's an allegory for why goldie is a stupid fucking cunt and my stupid fucking husband should've known he was always supposed to be mine even before we started dating.
>>153343118Oh so the preview is just them reacting to Paulo shushing AbbeyHorrendous if true, even my attempts to make the comic more boring are still aiming too high
Thread will die before 100 posts again. How did we fall so far?
>>153343854comic quality fell of a cliff in the spam of a few months
>>153343854Its weird how so days we get posts till the next update and some days the comic is so boring it dies within hours.
>>153343891>comic quality fellAnon, going even lower than the lowest of the low isn't possible....Or is it?
>>153343969tae always finds a way
>>153343854When people said the Lucy show wouldn't be able to keep people's attention because it would be about her being an unlikeable asshole to a group that only knows how to support her and it would never get called out they weren't lieing
>>153343854We need more tumblr ragebait from taeshi. She, ironically, keeps things interesting with her dogshit takes.
>>153344362lucy/mike/sandy bullshit is what keeps these threads afloat, I would also say mike gaybaiting + new character also kept the ongoing interest but that era is long over
>>153343967it's usually because it goes off the rails and/or bh gets an update kek
>>153344535I think it's just the lack of stakes, if Mike gets angry at anyone at the table you know shit is going to happen and they will resent that for a good while until it needs to be canned, so you know to expect things happening. When Lucy does the same everyone apologizes to her or triees to pass it as her retaliating for some reason, it's never taken seriously enough and there are no consequences. So Lucy can just get up on the table and call each of them a cunt and people would be like "eh" because you know nothings coming off from that. Taeshi really fucked Lucy as a character by going full "everything she does is bectthe others deserve it" so it's not fun to see her being a cunt
I wonder if we'll ever get that Amy fic from that collegefag
>>153344627deadman walking mike is more interesting to theorize too, cuz at least shit happens around him still, thre was more to think about in the first 3 pages that there has been in any lucy one
>>153344578>bh gets an update kekpff come on that gets like a few replies. Speaking of I wonder if we are do for an update today or friday. I wanna see what the slut is up to on the sofa.
>>153344703I mean, the most interesting development for Lucy in years has been "ooooh~ the phone is giving her the PTSD and not Mike, despite letting her lapdogs ruin his life" which doesn't exactly do a good job at getting people interested in her, it just makes her seem a bigger mess of a character
>>153343967Nah, that's natural. If a page is interesting in some way, we'll have something to discuss. If nothing interesting happens, there's not much to comment on, and now we're in transition/preparation pages between Mike's story at the beginning and Sue's story along with some other unfortunate soul going to the movies, so there's not much to discuss. At least on Friday we'll have the draw stream so we should have some things to discuss, depending on what Taeshi says in the live stream.
>>153343854I can't account for discord and I know it's been only a couple pages since, but it seems like engagement dropped pretty much across the board as soon as Lucy mentioning Augustus fizzled into nothing. The people yearn for conflict.>>153344811>ooooh~ the phone is giving her the PTSD and not MikeIt's not an either-or, they both trigger her. Her ex-friends are also a trigger. It's really everything, all the time that sets her off. This way Lucy gets to have a "struggle" even while she faces no adversity whatsoever.
>>153344628I've got a shit-ton of finals and some of the teachers won't even announce when they are. Once I'm unburdened by BS I can actually work on it.
>>153344628Also having something Amy-related Commed.
>>153345601>It's really everything, all the time that sets her off.You'd think the psych ward or therapist Lucy allegedly went to would have told the parents "don't put her back in the same school, she hates everyone there and seems to have multiple different traumas associated with them and the location". I know American psychiatric medicine is garbage, but Lucy's family is rich and supposedly worried about her. The idea that they'd take her out of school against her wishes only to then put her back in after she attempted suicide, rather than transferring her to a different school in town or something, is so fucking weird.
>>153345980taeshi doesnt believe in therapy
>>153344810seems like it updates mondays and fridays
>>153345980Lucy came back for Mike, even if she doesn't know it yet. From BCIs and what we know about the Demiurge its all but confirmed that Lucy will pine for Mike for eternity. This includes letting him impregnate her during a one-night stand and having his bastard just to maintain some connection to him
>>153346180Therapy or no, why would the parents back off from "you're clearly unhappy, we're taking you out of this school even if you claim to not want to leave" AFTER Lucy tried to kill herself? From their perspective the suicide attempt would have proven them right and put Lucy going back to Roseville High out of the question.Unless Lucy was even worse during her time away and attempted suicide a bunch more times while gone, but we know that's not the case because Lucy is still allowed to eat with metal cutlery and to keep her bow despite it being a ribbon she could use to hang herself. And also to wander off alone to that tree on the hill after dark on a snowy night near the anniversary of her suicide attempt during Eternal Flame.>>153346535That answer makes the most sense, but it begs the question of why Lucy is so fucking stupid.
>>153343854Outside of the big ragebait chapters, we've been like this for a long time.Just business as usual.
>>153341553>Paulo blushing furiously and making excuses while Abbey doesn't care one way or the otherWhat is it with this comic and unrequited gay crushes? There's been like 6+ ships between gay-or-bi characters and oblivious straight characters. I know it's a thing that happens IRL, but not THIS frequently.
Before the thread ends does anyone wanna post some links to old fan works that aren't easily available anymore? Personally I have a lot of old dark fics saved.
>>153347831>What is it with this comic and unrequited gay crushes?Most of these characters are gay now, so it's an easy set up.>>153342669>she doesn't wanna talk to SueWhat did Sue do to curry such wrath?
>>153347947>What did Sue do to curry such wrath?Her plan with the play alone would be enough, but Lucy isn't a fan of lesbians either.
>>153347875Why wait for someone else?
>>153347875Well, I only have the link to the second part of the MikeXDaisy fanfic that an anonymous person wrote a while ago. If anyone has the link to the first part, feel free to post it as well.https://rentry.co/b4xavht7
>>153348148Unless she's on the mood, and her kid's not around
>>153348302This? https://rentry.co/949pzveb
>>153348264I'm a nervous guy is all and don't like going first. I also wanted to see if other people are interested. This is "Love Hurts" an old torture fichttps://files.catbox.moe/80dh5b.txtHere's "True Colours" a Mucy rape fichttps://files.catbox.moe/ohntta.txtOh and "The Bird and The Baby" infamous Amaya cannibal fic archive https://web.archive.org/web/20151002121744/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8518947/1/The-Bird-and-The-BabyI also have this 14k page Second Confrontation spinoff fic someone wrote but never really publicized. But the file is in a weird format so it's being a bitch to export. Anyways my desire is to make a archive of these old fan works. So they aren't lost to time. Like the bcb library does. I'm not very good at files like that so I'm not sure where to start.
>>153348642Eh whatever here's the Second Confrontation spinoff fic in it's original rtf file formathttps://files.catbox.moe/sgwurq.rtfI wanted to do it as plain text so you could just read it in the link, oh well. Also fair warning but this fic is extreme it goes in heavy on the grittiness and disgusting nature of the situation. And plays the situation like a drama rather than smut. I don't know who read it but they did an amazing job..
>>153346741>why Lucy is so fucking stupid.She might have just been born wrong. She was like this even before she even met Alej. Unless the letters are the reason or trigger for her insanity and stupidity too.
>>153348792>Born wrongIt's called being a BPDemon
>>153348642Some kino shit right here
>>153348417>This?Yes, thanks.
I am proud of you guys
>>153348417That scene of him breaking up with Sandy actually hurt to read for some reason. It's stupid but I feel bad for them both.
>>153347831Everybody is gay or bi just so Taeshi can make a hamfisted attempt to appeal to that audience.Meanwhile the actual gay character (James) is an unredeemable vapid cunt.
>>153348792>She might have just been born wrongI suppose that's plausible, but Lucy's behavior doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm just lucky enough to lack experience with BPD people. I feel like it'd make more sense for someone like Lucy to just hunker down, let their social life wither. She's paranoid, depressive, cripplingly anxious over rejection/abandonment, enjoys video games, and traumatized over multiple near-death experiences and getting groped/cat-called as a kid. But Lucy doesn't act like someone with that psych profile: she goes out of her way to socialize and does so easily with friends, acquaintances, and strangers. She aggressively clings to people who've already rejected her, she actively seeks attention (including sexual) instead of trying to avoid it, she's physically active instead of cautious, and so on.
>>153349981He makes a cute snake though
>>153347947>>153349981Almost everyone in the comic is gay or bi, but they all crush on the handful of straight characters rather than getting together with each other. It's the worst form of queerbaiting.
Hunted, hurried, a fugitive seeking to outpace the past.
>thread already deadBetter luck next thread!
>>153349981>he doesn't remember carsonactually the gayest cat alive is Pauloanyway taeshi has always been very homophobic
>>153353065>anyway taeshi has always been very homophobicNo matter how much she tries to soften her own image and history, deep down she's still edgy and homophobic.
>>153348768Formatting's ass but it's pretty good, Licy behaves more realistically compared to SC
>How Mike and Sandy's date will go
>>153354365fucking love this artist
>>153352889Even the superautists like fannelguy are bored and dropping the comic nowadays. How is BCB supposed to support discussion or shitposting when it doesn't really have continuity?
>>153351337The fags gotta go. Tell James to get plapped by Matt's retard ass and boom all problems solved. Lesbians don't actually exist.
>>153354451Honestly, the awful pacing of the comic is killing interest. Maybe if you release the comic as a finished book, it's fine, but as a webcomic format it doesn't work having to wait a week for a character to take 2 steps.
>>153353065No I remember him well, but Carson was unironically better than James, despite being stereotypical.At least he was upfront, unlike James who was supposed to be madly in love with Mike, but forgets about him for the stupidest reason I've ever seen in any comic.>>153354451>>153354801I agree. out of the many problems this comic has, the glacially slow pacing is one of the major problems.It just never gets anywhere, it keeps looping over and over.
How do we fix MikeXLucy? Aside from lobotomizing Lucy.
>>153355954Lobotomizing Lucy sounds pretty appealing right now.
>>153355954Only sensible way is a big time skip after they acknowledge that there is too much bad shit between them right now and to sort their own stuff out first. They meet again maybe after college or something by chance and start fresh (ideally no longer being retarded and/or psychotic). If you want to go the hack route. Both get amnesia. Could play an angle of a scenario where Lucy doesn't have pre established hyperfixation on Mike and see how they'd interact under that lens.
>>153355954At this point you would need to give both of them their own arc, one of Lucy getting over her obsession with him as an object and see him as a person, see anyone as a person, and to actually have an internal dialogue that goes beyond how people have wronged her for existing, only then is she allowed to look for a relationship. Mike would need a healing arc, to get away from the bullshit and get a new status quo and an actual support network, and eliminate his need for a close relationship, let him learn to be ok with disappointing people so he can let go of his chronic guilt.The problem with both is that it would take a skilled writer ages to make each of these, and Taeshi is no skilled writer
>>153357114That's the easy way out, anon. We need some real substance!
>>153357368Look, it's not like she's using her prefrontal cortex for anything useful right now, might as well help her calm her down a little.
>>153357467What will happen to the Lucyspace if she gets lobotomized?
>>153357883Everyone trapped in there gets a chance to escape, but the ones who chose not to also get lobotomized
>>153355954>fixA decade too late for that
>>153355954Brainwashing Lucy into a Stepford housewife. You don't want anyone like Lucy in an office.
>>153359031Turn Lucy into her mother.
>>153359125>Turn Lucy into her mother.A girl will be living in hell, and a boy will consider suicide.
>>153359031Also do Sue while you're at it so Amaya can find someone better to date>>153359174Lucy will find happiness once someone knocks her up. But if she misbehaves, she'll need to have a husband that will set her straight.
>>153359239>Lucy will find happiness once someone knocks her up. But if she misbehaves, she'll need to have a husband that will set her straight.She just needs the classic '40s style.
>>153355954I don't think there's a viable path towards any kind of reconciliation until Mike is relieved of some of his responsibility for Lucy's suicide attempt and the majority of the table group explicitly affirm that. I think this is true whether or not you believe this is actually justified or deserved on Mike's part. So long as the narrative is that Mike pushed Lucy to suicide, Lucy has no reason to forgive him, and the group as a whole is obviously obligated respect Lucy's justified wish that he be cut off. As long as their shared social circle all accept that Mike is mostly responsible for Lucy's attempt, then Mike reentering the group will only result in his so-called "hero complex" being reinforced, that being his feeling that he needs to hide and deprioritize his own issues (inevitably continuing the cycle of building resentment). No amount of additional suffering for either character, or wrongdoing on Lucy's part (to "even the scales"), will undo the fact that absolution is a precondition to Mike having a future with Lucy and the table group as a whole.
>>153360535He apologized and offered to be her friend again after the play, so he did do what he could to make things right.
>>153360718Does that shift the responsibility for Lucy jumping onto Lucy then? I am genuine here. Mike did genuinely apologize and did nothing to her after the December speech. This isn't bullying, where Mike was constantly going after Lucy.>ntil Mike is relieved of some of his responsibility for Lucy's suicide attempt and the majority of the table group explicitly affirm that.By that same logic, Lucy rejecting everyone's help and hitting Mike makes her completely responsible. We have characters in-universe who attempted to reach toward Lucy, and she rejected their outstretched hands, and this is before she really started to spiral down.I feel even with Mike being an ass you really have to ignore everyone who did attempt to talk to Lucy, who she just pushed away.
>>153360872He genuinely did apologize afterwards, and was mostly just cold and wanted to get away from her besides the December outburst.While I don't feel like pinning responsibility to someone who tried to commit suicide, and I believe the answer is more like a mulligan (closer to nobody at fault) , I'd just like to say that Mike shouldn't really be held responsible since he apologized, tried to make amends, and offered to be her friend again.In short, Mike shouldn't really be given flak since he apologized after the play and multiple times after Lucy jumped. So IDK what to say that would be a satisfying answer, given Mike's spiral into anorexia and depression.
>>153360872Blame goes in a lot of different directions. Lucy is ultimately responsible for her own actions and constantly ignoring her friends as possible sources of support. Her family bears some blame for being generally inept and deciding to send her to a different school, seemingly as a first resort. The friend group have a long history of intervening for the worst in matters concerning Mike and Lucy. Nobody is really to blame for whatever mental illness Lucy has obviously had since she was a toddler. And Mike obviously has some responsibility of his own.It doesn't really need to be a question of blaming others more so much as blaming Mike less, bringing things back into proportion. Somebody needs to get the chance to respond to Augustus' "Mike is like an abusive husband, he was pure evil" and tell him that's ridiculous.
>>153360872Lucy jumping was always her fault/responsibility. She did it for such a nothing reason. Oh boohoo Mike said some admittedly harsh stuff in a fermenting rage ONE time after constant abuse and even then quickly proceeded to acknowledge he went too far and wanted to start over. She has it super easy with everything else and already had an olive branch extended to at least attempt to patch things up between them. The excuse of her doing it because she was already leaving is also bunk considering she was still allowed to come back after trying to splat herself. Bitch was just a psycho
>>153361025>you think this is sufficient as an apology after DecemberIt's a good thing people as autistic and retarded as you have zero influence on this, or any story.
>>153361068>>153361026I'm just trying to find a solution that can't be turned against Mike when anorexia and depression screws him over. In Mike's defense, Lucy and her minions actively try to screw him over and his old friend group favor Lucy over him.
>>153355954You can't, that shit is pure poison.
>>153361026Fair enough>Somebody needs to get the chance to respond to Augustus' "Mike is like an abusive husband, he was pure evil" and tell him that's ridiculous.That should have gotten him socked in the face. Literally, Mike and Lucy's whole relationship before her jumping was Lucy randomly beating his ass and a fallout. Even counting the occasional pissed Mike and December, the analogy doesn't work since Luy was the abusive husband, but physically and a bit psychologically, but that part is mostly everyone else not giving a shit.>>153361068>Oh boohoo Mike said some admittedly harsh stuff in a fermenting rage ONE time after constant abuse and even then quickly proceeded to acknowledge he went too far and wanted to start over.Seriously, this is always an issue with this comic. Lucy was exceptionally cruel for no reason, no shit, it would have gone south eventually even if someone like Sandy didn't come along. With the way Lucy acted, Mike was gonna join Abbey's mom.>>153361104Yes, cause Im not gonna kill myself over some shit like that, I just wouldn't talk to them anymore. Literally talking later could have solved something there, even if they aren't friends anymore; the apology is fine.
>>153361104He apologized, admitted guilt, and offered to start things over. Also, please drink some more coffee or something if you've got a headache or something- that was honestly pretty disproportionate on your end.
>>153361104What do you want him to do? Fall on his knees and kiss her feet saying he's sorry and he meant none of it? His rant, while harsh, was true. He admits here that what he said wasn't the right way to go about it while also acknowledging "that doesn't mean shit between us is all good and we seriously need to have a talk about it". He is offering that talk and chance to mend things between them.
>>153361124You could offer the best solution in the world and that still wouldn't be a safeguard over a crazy woman going full fanfic mode in her own head and making up a reason to blame him.
>>153341553Lame plot. Show me the whore of Babylon trying to make a second baby with the deer boy while her husband is one room away.
god damn this is my fault I cursed the thread, I should have let someone else make it. 100 posts in 30 hours is just fucking insane.BCB is going to die, clearly when they move to aussieland its going to go on long hiatus with random small updates. I bet she is going to have culture shock, plus the prices of everything is insane. They're both going to get depressed and considering how huge/cheap the drug culture is. Tae is going to be fucking bikies raw for drugs as the sick cunt fucking legend is going to force cuckcase to watch&film everything. Because the bikie is /ourguy/ and randomly will post the webm's on /b/&/gif/ without even knowing what a wonderful gift he has created for /co/
>>153361243Just wait until the next Lucy spergout or Mike focus
>>153361243People have simply given up on all these character. Every single one is nothing but an empty shell animated by the will of Lucyspace.Right now Mike is the only one who has yet to be assimilated by the Demiurge. Other than him, it literally doesn't matter what these people do.
>>153361268>SpergoutI hope for once its something different. Both Lucy&Mike are in a hardcore state of dissociation. No one really notices other than Lucy is being really weird and Mike is clearly just fishing for attention because he is jelious of all the attention Lucy is still getting. Paulo will be the one to notice how fucked up they are. Plus how its strange as fuck they are both "suffering" from the same thing/illness/state of mind. Thus he'll try and get them to realize this is all stupid. They need to make up and become proper friends again. Only for this to hilariously blow up in Paulos face by not only both sides but also the friend group and FFkot going for the stealth critical hit going on and on how he's such a lying manipulative POS. So everyone gets mad like really mad at Paulo. Mike tells him to keep fucking off raging&crying how he has made things worse. Causing Mike to further sink into a dissociative state, that even his sister starts taking pot shots at him at home(because mommy cares more about Mike than me reeeee) But this would never happen because this is fun&good well more like ok/basic writing that dives deeper into the characters opening up new plot points/threads
>>153361175>What do you want him to do? Fall on his knees and kiss her feet saying he's sorry and he meant none of it?Step one of apologizing is actually saying sorry which Mike didn't do, and you know, actually apologizing for telling Lucy she's an unlovable parasite that people only like for her looks would be a good start.Mike's "apology" was just asking for a reset on their friendship without taking any accountability, it's like someone punching you in the face and saying "Hey let's just pretend it didn't happen.">His rant, while harsh, was true. Mike doesn't even believe the rant was true he was just saying it to hurt Lucy, he says so in the following chapters, you have zero narrative literacy if you think this hence my claim of you guys being autistic and retarded.I haven't posted here for months because nothing's interesting me since the art changed, but man checking in to see the same easily disproven shitty assertions just completely stunlocked me for a moment, my bad for interrupting.
>>153361243>BCB is going to die>going toIt died a long time ago. The fanbase just became so apathetic after EF and LitS that they just stopped giving a fuck.
>>153361144This is the kind of thing I mean when I say it feels like the characters are mind controlled to “love” each other. “The heart wants what it wants” is such a nonsense cop out.
>>153361491True true but this is more ego death, now were stuck in a state of emotionless limbo and confusion. Stuck in a circle for eternity, walking round'n'round'n'round not even realizing why we are here or what we are doing. Just that we need to read this comic and keep walking in circles while talking about said comic.Truly a fate worse than death, not even homestuck was/is this bad. Why the fuck does BCB get threads for every update. But a really really good western manga webcomic live devils candy is never posted/spoken about on /co/. Even tho the art is amazing and the story/plot is fun&cute.
>>153361464>hoping for something differentkek
>>153361762I know I know anon we all know, we say this to hurt ourselves. Lets be honest tho bleating heart has made this not-general better. Plus the latest chapter has been funny, its too bad that we're going back to the past soon. Also the art is far far better even with the latest chapter using basically no colours. ALSO cute lolis and a brat built to be conditions with threats of RIP&TEAR'ing her fugly plushie. I wanna see this murder shit soon. No more slice of life elementary school shit, unless it somehow Goes the kodomo no jikan route.
>>153360872It was Lucy's fault yes. Nobody forced her to do anything
>>153361485Serious question: Why does Mike have to apologize for his rant but Lucy doesn't have apologize for any of the things she did to drive him over the edge? Punching him in the face and then asking him to pretend it didn't happen was exactly what she did.Also Mike can't believe all of his rant (some of it literally contradicts itself), but he clearly believed parts of it because they echo his mini-rant to Zachary about Lucy "needing" him. Unless you want to argue he was trying to hurt Lucy through Zach somehow all the way back then.
>>153361752Then make the thread yourself, not trying to be harsh.
>>153361124It's not too difficult on paper>Mike: I am sorry (again) for saying the harsh things I said that night and for being a sperg gremlin for awhile when you came back.>Lucy: And I am sorry for abusing you for years, taking you for granted, weaponizing your guilt, reinforcing your negative thoughts about me, and not just being honest about my feelings (like genuinely, not like what I did at the tree that night).>Mike: Man we are both kinda shit for each other actually huh?>Lucy: I mean...I guess?>Mike: How about we just let agree to bury the hatchet, leave each other alone while still accepting each others' presence, and just sort ourselves out first>Lucy: I mean...I gu- what's that?>Mike: Tape recorder. Just want us on record here ya know?>Lucy: Oh-uh okay yeah sure>Mike: Swell. See ya around the neighborhood I guess. Take it easy>Lucy: Y-you too...
>>153362077Lucy would probably jump again though, or hit Mike over the tape recorder. Also, the author treating Lucy being away from Augustus during lunch while she lives with him as some noble sacrifice is hilarious.
>>153362077>>153362105Tweak so he's hiding the tape recorder so she doesn't know so next time he can just pull it out for everyone if she tries to start shit again.I mean sure she'll probably pull some BPD reasoning like "well you should have KNOWN I didn't actually mean that" but at that point she just looks more blatantly crazy and not worth the effort.
>>153362077>what's that?>Tape recorder.kek
>>153361708I find it unsatisfying too. But I do find it funny that the two examples Taeshi gave are a dream sequence and noncanon, respectively.
>>153352889>>153354451 :D
>>153362282Do you have the full available? My apologies for asking.
>>153362077>Tape recorderMike would never do something so autistic and kinda creepy as fuck desu. Paulo would legit kick his ass, when Lucy randomly says. And yeah Mike was recording our apology to each other, the weirdo wonder why he did that.
>>153362212It's okay, she just hasn't written them yet, trust, eventually, maybe
>>153362077Mike has accepted his role and will not even try to prove Lucy being a bad person any more>>153362282Full pic where
>>153362212I'm tempted to take a pull of copium and claim that's deliberate.
>>153362513Mike should transfer schools so that it goes full circle bonus points if his social life in a new school gets ruined by something retarded
>>153362212>>153362471I understand where you're coming from, but it's somewhat dishonest to dismiss the examples just because they're dream sequences and noncanon. Both scenes are designed to give the reader information about how Mike and Lucy feel without them directly saying it, due to their difficulty communicating their feelings.
>>153361708A couple posts recently have given me the impression that Mucy is coming up fast, probably in around four chapters when Mike's torture arc is supposed to wrap itself up, and she's starting to grapple with the fact that significant portions of the audience are not nearly as enthused about that as she is.
Re-reading the comic just finished Bonding where poor FFkot got shafted by Daisy. Poor guy he really did/does love Daisy and its not like shes some 10/10 goddess. The only reason why he put the moves on her so hard. Was because he knew he was being followed.I really hated this about the comic, mr FFkot really does love daisy and honesty what did he do wrong. He got her to dress up and make herself all pretty. He pushed he to try kisisng mike because she loved him so much. But he didnt give a fuck about her. Then he showed himself and once again told her he really does care/love her. Noticed some psycho who was beaten and molested as a child was stalking them. Rage baited said psycho got hit a few times to show Daisy this dude will beat you if you date him and make him angry.But no FFkot gets shafted and called a creep. When he was just trying to make Dasiy feel better about herself for her to not be afraid and do whatever she wants to do.Poof he gets the worst fate possible being the harold of Lucyspace. Daisy and Augustus would have made a wonderful couple. She would have made him a tad less autistic and awkward. They would absolutely get married and be happy together. BUT NOOOO TAE HATES LOVING RELATIONSHIPS AND HAPPINESS. AND WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS NOW CAN WE
>>153362909>to show Daisy this dude will beat you if you date himLittle did he know he was warning the wrong person
>>153362394>>153362513Knock yourselves outhttps://files.catbox.moe/uexq96.jpegPlus something extrahttps://files.catbox.moe/0zi2m3.jpeghttps://files.catbox.moe/f9e8a3.jpeg
>>153354365You Just Know.
>>153362954totally OOC especially because he told her everything. This would legit cause him to have a mini meltdown if not full on breakdown. All the abuse he put up with as a child. For the woman he loves to hit him. Dude would legit start shaking freaking out having a flash back. Go prone right away screaming Im sorry im sorry please stop hitting me im sorry i wont do it again. Maybe even slip up and legit say im sorry daddy.Only for Daisy to realize how badly she just fucked up. Her pupils would turn overtake her eyes into all blackness, uttering oh god what did I just do. Bursting out into tears screaming how sorry she is, its ok im sorry im sorry.But like you know that would mean Tae is a good writer and understands honest to god abuse,suffering,regret and etc you know real emotions something a BPD monster could never understand
>>153362998>https://files.catbox.moe/f9e8a3.jpegWow thats scary as fug imagine how painful that would be. Getting blasted with like 2L of cum in your vaginal canal within like 30-60 seconds. That shit isn't a balloon man, I mean fuck technically that would cause the cervix to dilate&open up and all the coom to shoot inside which god that would be insane painful. She would be screaming in pain, like legit need to go to the hospital. That would be funny as fuck to tell the doctors. MY WOMB IS FILLED WITH LITERS OF SEMEN IT FUCKING HURTS MY CERVIX SWELLED SHUT RIGHT AFTER IT HURTS IT HURTS IT BURNNNNNNSs Uhhh who are these people anyways or is it just randoms because autistic and in hear ??????
>>153362410>the weirdo wonder why he did that.Mike is self aware enough(in this version) to know one or both might forget this so he is keeping a living memory. Plus it's the last and only time he'll ever get an apology out of Lucy.
>>153362077David would be the one to suggest the tape recorder. Or at least plant the idea of "get lucy baby saying she's okay with you, but I'd have to see something like THAT on tape because I'm not letting you near her around me!! xd lol haha I am funny dog man."
This meme has potential
>>153363135>on GOD we gon destroy your social life bro
>>153363083It’s not that deep man
>>153362874Mucy will either be generic true love BS or a broken Mike being handed over as a trophy to Lucy (after his family divorces and he has nobody left to support him).>>153363027All characters are malleable to the authors' whims.
>>153363226It's say it's pretty deep, organ rearranging deep, I'd say.
>>153363300The real question is how does Sandy get out of the picture
>>153363716dies of AIDS
>>153363135>Listen bud, Lucy needs this so uhh fuck off for a while will ya?
>>153363716>>153363735forgot image
>>153363751Great referencehttps://youtu.be/smgA8I6RDeo
>>153363300>Mucy will either be generic true love BS or a broken Mike being handed over as a trophy to LucyThird option: a broken Lucy being handed over as punishment to Mike
>>153364371Disaster Dominos was the true end all along
>>153364371Oh yeah it's gonna be super rough like...>have a minor physical soreness that is completely irrelevant, barely gets mentioned, and may as well not exist as the plot demands>Being surrounded by sycophants (that she hates!) who will kiss her ass at a moment's notice>Having everyone take her side and attack people she doesn't like but she never fucking wanted it.>Mike looking like a depressed zombie in her presence. No even being in her presence at all. Selfish evil grey cat!>More nonsense nightmares
>>153364371chapter 144 is like 4 year from now.
>>153364371>Mike finally gets to have an actual suffering arc where he isn't just being villainized>wrapped up by 133>even the author gets tired of sad sack victim Lucy after volumes 2-3>completely unlearns this the microsecond Mike starts having his own arc>ptsd and chronic pain suddenly appear>11 fucking chapters of poor wittle wucy after Mike is ushered off stageHopefully this will teach everyone a lesson for focusing purely on the suffering and not its content and presentation. 16 more chapters at least of Lucy nobly sacrificing herself for Augustus, can't wait.God fucking please let that scene from Falling Back be one of those cases where Taeshi tests an idea out outside of canon before writing it in. If it's 11 chapters of Lucy spiraling because she permanently cut off her Mike supply, it might barely be tolerable.
>>153364629Mike's suffering arc has been going for a fucking decade, anon.
>>153364990I'd argue that Lucy's suffering arc only started in Acapulco, despite that fact that prior to that, she had>sob story about not wanting to play dolls>Mike picking Sandy over her>almost drowning and getting a water phobia>ConfrontationSimilarly, I don't really count Mike intermittently freaking out and getting clowned on for five years as part of his suffering arc proper. A lot of readers walked away from that either hating Mike or hating that the writing seemed to want you to hate Mike, not pitying him. James kinda complicates things in that Mike dips his toes into a suffering arc after Eternal Flame and then promptly backs out of it when he finds James, only really starting in earnest when David fucks that up. You could argue for up to five years of suffering arc, I'd put it closer to like three. In any case it's still annoying that Lucy gets to double dip, especially since Mike isn't even done dipping himself.As a side note it's kinda crazy that the comic manages to get from the beginning all the way to Lucy's suicide attempt in just seven years. Things are so drawn out now.
>>153364990i do not like that hand
>>153365478That's fair enough, but personally I'd place Lucy's suffering arc as starting when Mike runs over to Maraschino to find Sandy. That's when the comic starts pushing the idea that Lucy is uniquely fucked up and it isn't going to end well for her. Confrontation was even earlier, but it was more of an adventure chapter where everyone got roughed up, and would only be used as a "unique Lucy trauma" way later. Lucy's depression arc started with her slowly getting more obsessive and angsty, then Acapulco and getting rejected accelerated her rate of collapse, then December sent her into free fall.>Things are so drawn out now.That's my issue. Mike was dead-eyed and disassociating out of guilt in 2016, and he hasn't gotten any visibly worse since. His CIRCUMSTANCES have gotten worse, with Lucy conspiring to guilttrip gaslight girlboss him into oblivion, but the only thing he's doing now that he didn't start doing immediately is going hungry. I'm tired of watching Mike be sad/mad, and want Taeshi to get on with it already.And yes, for a long while Mike's suffering was framed as self-inflicted comeuppance, but that doesn't make it any less tiresome. Lucy's depression arc wasn't as damning, she got given sympathetic excuses in ways Mike didn't, but it was framed as her fault when she isolated herself from her friends, tried cuddling up to creepy manipulator Augustus, and put ALL her eggs in the Mike basket. And a lot of readers did fucking hate Lucy back then, even on the "official" forums and such.
>>153362729>it's somewhat dishonest to dismiss the examples just because they're dream sequences and noncanonIs it? In both cases, we're not seeing the characters as they are in canon, but as hypotheticals. In canon, Mike and Lucy have stated they hate each other multiple times, and they've never taken it back, even in the privacy of their own thoughts.
>>153366630Using AF in particular is fucking hilarious because Lucy reacted in the complete opposite way in the actual comic>If you returned to Sandy i would've been fineKek
>>153366630>In both cases, we're not seeing the characters as they are in canon, but as hypotheticals.While these scenes are hypothetical and the events within them do not directly affect the story because they are not real events, the story still shows these events to the reader, making these scenes part of the narrative. Therefore, they are important for understanding the story, even if they are not real, so using them when discussing the story is still valid.
>>153361485You can apologize without saying sorry ie: I was wrong 0.0And it's funny how some people would go on about "sorry doesnt mean anything without actions". There is no win win is there uwuAnd sure lets go with the characters being gaslight about phisical abuse not being a bad thing and totally ignore he wasnt believing about idk the whole hating her and people abandoning her? Since further pages confirms he still believes people are nice to him only when he plays nice with Lucy chan! Lol :3c you are cute
Wow, surprising that the option that's winning is in favor of Mike.
>>153367545You have to be a complete schizo to even entertain that question, im more concerned about all the people who do consider that cheating
>>153367545>>153367856>despite making up only 13.5% of the population
>>153367152Yeah, but there's also a reason the story only shows these things to the reader in contexts where they're not "real". It wouldn't be hard to show Mike or Lucy saying (or even just thinking) "damn it, I still care, I shouldn't have said I hate them all those times", but the closest we've gotten to that has immediately been followed by them walking it back and going "never mind, still hate the fucker".Even in the examples Taeshi gave, she had to aggressively crop out context. Mike's psychic dream sequence included dream-Lucy accusing dream-Mike of hating her and wanting her dead, and he doesn't refute or deny it. Instead, dream-Mike gets sad that dream-Lucy's done something drastic, then mad she's blaming him for her own actions. Another Flame included noncanon-Mike going "I don't think we should get together, it wouldn't be fair to you. Can we just be friends?" and noncanon-Lucy responding with "[Lie] Y-Yeah! that's what I was gonna say, don't you get any funny ideas!". So even in the idealized hypothetical versions of Mike&Lucy that exist only in their hopes and dreams, they STILL don't want to get together.
>>153367545I don't think Mike is a cheater, but I DO think he's retarded.
>>153367545Penis
>>153367545>not a cheater>but lucy will still cure his depression-induced erectile dysfunction and fuck him before sandy has any chance to see his dick
>>153368059Oh no, its fie to think he is a bit socially retarded when it comes to romance and friendship.>Got tricked by Daisy into a date>Literally didn't know he was dating Sandy till it was explained to him.>Accidently made what he said to Stacy very romantic>Didn't know James wanted his cock till James told himI don't think the new year's thing with Paulo counts but Mike is very dense.
>Today really sucked, didn't it>Like srsly>It fucking blew >But today>It sucked>I don't see why your upset>If only you knew what happened with me an->SHUT THE FUCK UP PAULO >Everyone knows what we did last night because you were so loud with the banging in the room and all noises coming out of your mouth>*points at crotch*>Start sucking, or I'm gonna start hitting>Well alright >You did kinda have it worseThis page is bretty gay like not yaoi ghey, but I go to the bath house daily to be fucked raw by at least a dozen strangers full blown faggot AIDS gay. What other pages just need like an added line or two, changing something slightly or even removing something. To completely change the context turning it full on sexual.You think it's just Tae baiting people with shipping/sexual nonsense. Or is it just her built up sexual frustration and she doesn't even realize till after someone points it out? I mean srsly just look at this page, and for added context for those that don't know/remember. The night before Mike&paulo are making a shitload of noise hitting each other with pillows being extra totally not gay. In the morning people bring up the noises, Mike comes in the picture going oh my gawd my back hurts bro. Causing Paulo to blush because everyone knows he's a closeted faggot(Mike just brings out reality, because just look at that twink basedboy living furry onihole). All his sexual frustration built up massively ready to blow, being rejected by every girl. >BOOM ENOUGH IS ENOUGH MUH DICK MICHELLE ITS SODOMIZING TIME. Thus took it all out on Mikes ass, by semi force(mostly to show some dominance/defence/fighting back so its not gay, it was just a prank bro) . Also Mike being the fucking perverted freak he is, had a wet dream about Paulo awhile before. Woke up and thought to himself god damn I need to stop having wet dreams about Paulo kissing me, or Paulo getting violent and having his way with me or Paulo forcing me to wear girls clothing
>>153369482God Paulo was such an insufferable cockbite back in the day... actually it's only recently that he became way more bearable
If Amy was canon, Mike would've been hanging out with her and Cookie while skipping out on track and avoiding the others.Would they be a circle of losers? Pariahs? Nobodies? Whatever the case, they were all deeply hurt in some way and that pain brings them together.
>>153370365I kinda like the idea that Amy's bubbly personality is offputting to others around Roseville. It'd be a funny parallel to Lucy's situation
