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>>156264494So basically nothing happened. There was zero point in having Sue grovel beforehand
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>>156264519always bet on nothing
Bittershit Toilet Bowl
>patron comments are now like 80/20 against lucyso how many more pages until comments get permanently disabled?
>>1562644949 pages left. Hopefully half of them are not gonna be about Lucy having a mental breakdown.
>>156264494Lucy being a bitch and throwing a passive one-liner out after she's been btfo? Par for the course with this comic.
>>156264494Lucy retreats, so Sue won.
>>156264514>>156264701Preview suggest they will be. Watch her try going for Mike again
>>156264718there's a small possibility that's just like two panels about it before it cuts to another setting or better yet, another character. We started with Haley maybe we can end it with Haley too.
>>156264715There are no winners in BCB, only losers and bigger losers
>>156264718>Oh Look! Zombie Mike is on his way home from school! Time to recharge!Sue witnesses this and sees now why Mike called her a parasite.
>>156264701Augustus is supposed to appear in the last few pages of this chapter, so we should get something more than just Lucy crying for nine pages straight.>>156264718>Watch her try going for Mike againNo, first she's going to try to rape Augustus again. After failing, she'll go after Mike in the next chapter she appears in.
>Lucy STILL got the final word"Expect nothing and still be disappointed" should be this shitshow's tagline.
>>156264514Sue is now going to stand there and cry about how wrong she was to be mean to Lucy
>>156264607Imagine if "I don't CARE what you've been through" was a response to this.
>>156264806Did she? Does talking to yourself count as that? At least that's the impression I got
>>156264718>Ego gets damaged>first chance she gets she runs off to the guy she socially and mentally fucked up... AGAIN.Worse than a fucking parasite if true. Mike shoulda called her a bunch white cat slurs too.
>>156264718Kek that would be comically more insane than her doing that last time.
>>156264494Is it over? Has Sue truly defeated Lucyspace?
>>156264806She ran away after being called out with no real answer to Sue's accusations, if you think that's 'winning' the argument then I don't know what to tell you.
>>156264494Who said 'what a nasty thing to say'? Lucy? Or was that Sue's thoughts?
>>156264866Repelled for the moment maybe. Would have to see if we get a glimpse on Sue later. Lucy is still surrounding herself in it to avoid having to actually fucking explain anything though and warp the comic layout to give herself some semblance of a last word there
Damn it, I was expecting Lucy to get violent as usual. Where my violence?! Nothing happened.
>>156264935She only gets violent with boys because she knows they can't hit her back.
>>156264906Augustus will punish Sue so Lucy can remain "innocent."
>>156264718I hope this happens. Let the insanity continue.
>>156264494>What a nasty thing to sayThat sounds way more like Taeshi page commentary than something Lucy would say
>>156265112>you're so unpleasant now, Sue
>>156265175How the turn tables.... bravo Kojima...
>>156264514>I think a lot of things made here this way...You know what, Taeshi isn't entirely wrong here. Hear me out.The constant love and support from her friends and family have absolutely stunted Lucy's maturity and emotional growth. She's been allowed to abrasive, abusive, and has gone unchecked basically her entire life. No one has ever told her no, always excused her behavior, and to an extend, enabled it by never forcing her to face the consequences of her own actions. She's received nothing but love and praise for simply existing with an army of yes-men at her disposal. Even when Mike rejected her, her friends' responses was to gang up on him and ask "what the hell?!" instead of telling Lucy she has to accept his decision and move on.I know Taeshi is referring to Lucy's trauma, but I'm referring to her uptick in bitchiness.Even though her friends have still been supportive and respective of her, she came back to realize the that world moved on without her. She's no longer the center of everyone's lives even though her friends are still tripping over themselves to please her. And now she's finally getting some pushback on her behavior and it got to the point that her own mother is snapping her at and putting a leash on her because of her actions. She flat out doesn't know how to deal with it because she's never had to.So instead, she's holding onto the one legitimate bad thing that has happened in her life and weaponize it against the very people who still love and support her. All because they're not worshiping her enough or in the way she demands.
>>156264806Keep saying it or it won't come true.
>>156264702Lucy Evervictim acts like Sue was in the wrong, as per usual. Throwing a remark back over her shoulder, meant to make ego cat feel bad for asking a very pertinent question that Lucy cannot answer. Not unless she'd dare risk Sue picking apart her postage ptsd as an excuse.
Sue should've pimp slapped Lucy. >>156264652Yeah true dat
>>156264494Total Sue Victory, doubters left wondering how they got it so wrong.Sue isn't even sad that Lucy's walking away in defeat, the only way this could go better is if Sue yells something out to Lucy just to deny her having the last word.
>>156265677It's a good thing Sue isn't visibly second guessing herself or taking Lucy's words seriously in the last panel of today's page. Strange there is a blank empty space where it would otherwise exist, though. Also, why do I smell burnt toast?
>>156265706I see you've moved back to the bargaining stage, don't worry I'm sure Sue's going to run after Lucy next page you just have to close your eyes and keep wishing.
>>156264718Lucy would be much happier if she just stopped putting on a facade and embraced her true inner self. It doesn't even matter if she's 'wrong,' who even is right among us, anyway? Stop caring for how others will see you. Just bee yourself, Lucy. Let them call you a monster if they must, as long as that monster reflects your true feelings you should rejoice in that freedom. Break from your cocoon and become the real you that you've kept suppressed all these years. Do it now.
>>156264775>We started with Haley maybe we can end it with Haley too.There's zero chance we'll switch to Haley's POV. Taeshi mentioned in the last live stream that originally it was supposed to jump to Abbey, but she liked some aspect of that scene with Abbey so much that she started expanding on it, and she ended up expanding it so much that it's going to become the main plot of the next chapter. Furthermore, she also said that Augustus should appear in the last pages of this chapter, so it's most likely that we'll have one or two pages of Lucy walking sadly before jumping to her house and having some scene with her family and Augustus.
>>156264782Sue witness this and accuses Mike of taking advantage of Lucy's mental state
>>156265736Shut the fuck up Carmen
>>156264866Only if she does not feel bad about or it, or not enough to change her mind after she calms down.
Next page Sue lets out a huge fart she's been holding in since the start of this interaction
>>156265731Woah, that's way harder a cave than I'd expected. Figured Sue would just pull a Rachel and a halfhearted apology would get her chuckling at that charming rapscallion Lucy. Your way is somehow lamer so given this is BCB you're probably right.
>>156265736>embraced her true inner selfWhat, a pissy little crybaby with subaverage IQ?
>>156265746>Lucy tries to rape him again
>>156265822Yes. Who also suffers from signs of inbreeding(deaf ear and look at her family).
>>156265846>look at her familyspeaking of which is it weird that I have the feeling her older brother is an even bigger douchebag? I hate that guy and he has like 6 lines in the whole comic
>>156264718MIKE RUUUUUUUUUUUN
>>156264718That'd be some fuckin Olympics level mental gymnastics if she did. Like hasn't it only been just a day since she tried pulling that shit only to get logically pushed away by him?
Nothing ever happens. She's going to walk home and sulk, spot Mike, make a face. Gus is going to try to talk to her and she will brush him off. There's your next 9 pages. This is probably the most boring webcomic I actively read. Every time there's something interesting that happens, it's the most vanilla route they can take. What is Alejandro's deal that he's even portrayed as a real threat? Just some guy who's seething over an underaged girl?
>>156265706>anon has a stroke and wonders why no one else is smelling the colors he is
>>156265895She also just got chewed out over that, so it would be hilariously pathetic if Lucy ran to Mike anyway.
>>156265922Silly anon, you taste color. Don't you know about Skittles?
>>156265303Yeah I agree. Lucy's behavior does seem to indicate that people have been enabling her. It made her take things for granted, as if her friends will always agree with her no matter what, will always like her no matter what, she can do whatever and it'll always be justified, etc.Even if she tried suicide and survived, that's no excuse for nodding at everything she does. That's not healthy, that's not caring.Proof of this is that the only reason she even likes Mike to begin with is that because he is the only one who pushed back against her bullshit. Appearance-wise she may prefer Paulo, but he is a simp, and that killed most interest she'd have on him.
>>156265908It's kinda silly that there's even the slightest possibility of a teenage stalker, rapist, and petty gang member actually being a character in what's probably the most aggressively suburban webcomic imaginable.
>>156265926>Lucy tries to run back to Mike but remembers she got called out for that>Paulos in a relationship >Augustus is with the seniors>But then she remembers the phone in Gus room, and the guy who always wants her>Calls Alej
>>156265908To add to this, I can already tell that this webcomic will end with Alejandro assaulting Mike and Lucy defending Mike as a callback. It will be a Mucy ending and David will be in the final groupshot like nothing happened.
>>156265966He's the final bcb boss Anon. That's why Taeshi is blueballing you with the phone calls and Augustus leaving.
>>156264866Sue's won, and we should celebrate her bravery and virtue. But Lucyspace put up a surprisingly hard fight; it used to shatter when pressed, but it's either gotten stronger or learned to dodge a bit, because it took SEVERAL irrefutable accusations to put it down this time. And there is the risk that like other tragic heroes, Sue won, but not before the monster injected it's poison. We will have to see if Sue appears weakened later.
>>156265746So what, is Lucy going to try and rape Abbey now too? Is AgentChimendez a prophet?
>>156266035yea, it's silly. Taeshi is silly.
>>156264494Someone edit it so she says the line. You know the one>>156264514SHE'S CRYING! FEEL BAD FOR HER!
>>156265865Its because most appearances he's threatening kids (Mostly Mike). Not helped by the fact he looks like he's 25 instead of 19.
is this about the boy from the other school
Who's worse? Lucy or Stella?
So what do we think was the nasty comment on this page that Taeshi referred to on the tumblr? All the comments look pretty reasonable
>>156266266But enough elaborating on Lucy's boy psychosis and the basis for all her behavior since returning, let's talk about Abbey! But for real it's just going to be the stupid ringing phone thing.
>>156266299Lucy's problems are all of her own making and/or made up in her head. Stella, as much of a bitch she can be, does have legitimate grievances.
I don't like taeshi signing all her tumblr posts with sad anime lolis. Like you're almost 40Did like her comparing interacting with Lucy to being yelled at by a homeless schizophrenic though
>>156261316You aren't the only Abbeyfag, and it bothers me too. Particularly because of how nasty Taeshi gets about any suggestion that Abbey deserves better, in contrast with her constant special pleading about Lucy.
>>156266231I wonder if Lucy noticed Mike's boner
>>156266336Both are inconsistently written, the only argument that one can make in favor of Stella is that the scenes in S2 that portrayed her as a turbo cunt with zero redeeming features were solely from Stolas's perspective as an unreliable narrator with S3 showing her more honestly. It still feels like panic-driven course correction to me but whatever.
>>156266575I don't watch Hazbin, what's the lore here?
>>156266231>Sam is a violent reactionary recluse>Sam was in charge of picking up Lucy for years>Needs to get talked down from putting 6 year olds in their place>Is the golden child of the whitecat household>He'd call his overbearing aggressiveness over his sister necessaryThere's a real slam dunk lined up to explain where Lucy gets it from in hindsight that will not be taken>>156266299Actual polar opposites. Stella is an overbearing white bird that the creator doesn't like but keeps validating by accident.>Called out for being a bitch>Disliked by the narrative>Partner is a fag that cheats on her>Horrible family>Actual victim of misogyny>Kept caring for her daughterAnd then there's Lucy>Gets called out for her bitch behavior irl years apart>God's favorite>Partner tried getting with her for years>Loving family>Makes up scenarios to be traumatized by>Stopped caring for the pets (kids) cold turkey
>>156266624So goddamn much, just ask the threads there for a wall of text to fully explain it.I'll keep it as TL;DR as I can.>Pilot/S1: Very little said about her, through vagueness people assume she might've tried to love her gay husband in the past but his lack of interest in their arranged marriage turned her bitter and resentful. Understandably pissed she's been cheated on with one of the lowest classes in hell.>S2: Evil cunt that strangled puppies as a child, delights in Stolas's pain, total airhead, appears to not care for her daughter at all but is just using her as a tool against Stolas.>S3: She wanted to make their marriage work at first but Stolas's lack of interest poisoned things, her brother is/was using her, she does actually love their daughter.I don't think what S3 is doing is a bad idea but the whiplash is fucking insane.
>>156266231Mike's face when Sam puts his hand on him is actually pretty good, but this is balanced by Sam looking like a retard
>>156266231Taeshi's inconsistency about these cats wearing clothes will always be weird.
>>156266400I figured thats why he was written off to the side. Taeshi didn't know what else to do with him, but she also can't make him worse because it becomes too obvious of a Bias. Plus his trauma with his parents would just overshadow lucy's any day and she can't have that happening.
>>156265746Augustus is going to do something stupid and think Mike had something to do with this, isn't he? I feel like she's not gonna tell him about Sue even if he does pry. So he's going to jump to the only possible scenario he can think of.>>156266266I think the trauma with Lucy and this new boy is going to end up just like Sue vs Lucy reaction wise. Lucy is gonna have a sperg moment and become an outcast at her new school and taeshi will wonder why people aren't pittying her
>>156266575The edge I would give Stella is the fact Stolas actually cheated on her while they were married and her being bound by the bullshit rules of demon nobility. She has actual things to be pissed about that are at least understandable. All of Lucy's problems are entirely of her own making if not outright imaginary
>>156267049>how many times do i have to keep teaching you this lesson, gray cat?
>>156266299Lucy. With Stella all you need to do is gush her up and make her feel appreciated then she becomes a fucking puppy from what we've seen of her. Unfortunately she had a turbo fag for an arranged marriage who hardly even tried. She can also at least function with other people.Lucy is pretty much always unpleasant to everyone over nothing all the time.
>>156266231Do grown men just love to mess with Mike?
>>156264494It's crazy that Lucy gets to be as mean as she wants and it's fine but everyone else just has to be nice and grovel or they're horrible.
Which BCB girl would you mating press? Hard Mode: No Rachael
>>156267538Jasmine. She's cute and she would never get an abortion
>>156267538Sue. She's cute, hungry for praise and affection, and really quite sweet. Plus she's got a great figure.
>>156267405Yeah. If you ever dare to push back against her, you're heartless monster, both according to the story and Taeshi.
>>156267896Lucy could be an interesting character if it wasn't for the weird way the universe bends to make sure you know she's supposed to always be right.
>>156267538>:D>>156267573WTF, anon, why would you want to make Jasmine a single mother?
>>156267732Adult Sue looks like one of those naggy teachers though>>156268005I never said she'd be single necessarily, that's more of a Lucy thing anyway
>>156267538hatefuck sue and lucy
>>156264519>So basically nothing happenedIt's been that way for +10 years
>>156268253I like girls in glasses, it's fine. Plus she's good with kids, and she deserves to have one or two of her own rather than just babysitting for her friends!
>>156268361That face kek
>>156268361>she deserves to have one or two of her own rather than just babysitting for her friends!Wasn't that the plot of that once comic where she's married to david, and she swaps husbands with rachael who was married to paulo, so they can have kids?
>>156268536>she's married to david, and she swaps husbands with rachael who was married to paulo, so they can have kids?A turkey baster is less cucky. the fuck?!
>>156268461I miss the /trash/ threads
>>156268361I like those Mike x Amaya :D arts. it feels like any art of Mike and Lucy being happy together is much rarer than any other ship.>>156268658I miss some of the anons that used to post here. I almost miss even that one weird guy.
>>156268749>it feels like any art of Mike and Lucy being happy together is much rarer than any other ship.well duh. Very hard to draw happy art when you seethe at the ale for being sympathized with more than the girl and tank him for no reason vs. making the girl nothing but pitybait to the point you could retcon her as a stacked, smart 12-year-old to explain away all her insane behavior and everyone's treatment. Suuitcase is still a lolicon, right? Seems like that retcon would be right up his alley/
>>156268749Art of Lucy being happy in any ship is pretty rare, she's almost always being a sourpuss. The only pics of adult Lucy where she seems happy are the ones where she's with her kid.
>>156267538Lucy, over and over until she gives me a large family fit for her spiritually latina womb.
>>156268914>The only pics of adult Lucy where she seems happy are the ones where she's with her kid.Which is funny cause we know for a fact that Lucy would be irl a terrible mother.
>>156268749>It feels like any art of Mike and Lucy being happy together is much rarerHaving three proverbial nukes dropped on the ship might have something to do with it. Last time they were somewhat ""happy"" in each others' presence was the absolute shit show that was Eternal Flame and even in that they weren't in the right headspace. Every other time was animosity, disgust, or one or both looking like they wanted to die.
>>156268644yeah since cats cant have kids with dogs the usual way, Sue and David swapped with Rachael and Paulo.Paulo felt guilty about it and even cried before sue convinced him that it was fine.They swapped back after of course. But while Paulo was hugging rachael and saying that Sue couldn't compare to her, Rachael says the same about david not being able to compare to him, but then looks away blushing with Paulo isn't looking
>>156268975There's something darkly humorous about the fact that FitR2 reveals that even as an adult with a daughter, Lucy is STILL utterly incapable of functioning without a male in her life. Even with her mom and Sue both devoting tons of effort to help support Lucy and take care of the kid, Lucy is still a depressed unstable alcoholic who traumadumps on Chloe constantly. Until Lucy meets a man at work and suddenly she's happy (and also instantly pregnant) again.
>>156268809>>156269215Yeah but you barely see it, be it in fanarts or in Taeshi's own art. When people ship they tend to ignore logic and just do it because they think it's cute and all, but you don't see it frequently at all for them, even though they are supposed to be the 'endgame'.I guess that's an indication that not many people like or find it cute enough to even consider doing art.
>>156268749>I almost miss even that one weird guy.Which one?
>>156269323>I guess that's an indication that not many people like or find it cute enough to even consider doing art.Her fanbase hated Mike for years, still do but lightened up a little since Lits I think, just slightly. Taeshi only seems to consider it for the sake of a gag but knowing her, she's rather draw Lucy with Paulo or Augustus. This is mixed in with her own feelings on Mike.
IT IS MIKES FAULTNOT LUCYNOT SUEMIKESFAULTDO YOU GET IT YOU DISGUSTING PLEBIAN!?YOU WILL BE CORRECTEDYOU WILL ACCEPT THE CANONICALLY GUILT EXPLANATION
>>156269215Personally, I don't think the bad history matters nearly so much as how fucking awful the two are for each other. Negative experiences can be forgiven. Malignant codependency, along with other unsolved dysfunctions, will keep the two miserable forever and so must be avoided.
>>156269370I forgot his name. He was active up until around July or so I think. He was a namefag, his opinions were terrible, and he seemed quite suspicious, but nevertheless I was used to seeing him here.
The only Mike x Lucy angle I see is a star-crossed lovers suicide. Is Taeshi too much of a hack to write that?
>>156267538Madison, but only if she had extremely severe but slow onset lipedema.
>>156269901I don't see the star-crossed lovers angle as in the cards. Murder-suicide though, yeah, I could see that.
>>156269901The problem is Mike legitimately doesn't love Lucy, or even care about her, so that would just come off as Mike wanting to kill himself and using a suicide pact as an excuse
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>>156269437The bad history is because they are so terrible for each other however.
>>156269901I see a 'we burned all our bridges and isolated ourselves, we may as well die together' suicide. No Children type shit.But yes, Taeshi is too much of a hack for that, she genuinely thinks she can somehow write them reconciling... or has no intention of doing so and will just milk it until she dies.
>>156270171I think this fits better than the last page but we can't keep making this edit every time, it's gonna start feeling overused.
>>156269901Doesn't she still regret December as a thing? I doubt she'll go for the intentional suicide attempt thing. The best she can do is loosely hash it out and agree to just stay away from each other amicably with no passive aggressive horseshit. Then maybe do a time skip where they can potentially try to rebuild if they really really want to.
>>156270134Neither Lucy or Mike love each other. It's some toxic shit.Remember, of all the alternate futures Taeshi has written as BCIs and such, there are only two where neither Mike nor Lucy are miserable/lonely: the one where they're in a cuck relationship with Paulo, and the one where Lucy's dead and Mike's family line is forever haunted by the ghost of a 15-year old shortstack.
>>156270291> is forever haunted by the ghost of a 15-year old shortstack.Adult Mike should convince Lucy to blow him.
>>156264514>If only Sue was willing to be accommodating and patient with me for 5 more minutes I might've finally opened up to her!
>>156264866Nothing can defeat Lucyspace, but Sue didn't leave the same simp she was at the start, so that's a fracture to its core, she was the only one trying to be her friend out of her own heart so Lucy will feel that in the long run
>>156270276I think Taeshi jumped the gun with the initial suicide attempt. There might've been room for more potential if it had been significant self-harm that had landed Lucy in the ward, suicide being plausible rather than explicitly stated by her. The event would be more meaningful as a scarred reminder the group avoids speaking of, most of the time. Instead of whatever new kid at the table not being clued in to Mike and Lucy's not immediately apparent history with each other.In any case, I feel like it would be a more tangible source of guilt for Mike to consider rather than the vague 'I tried to kill myself (somehow)' that Lucy has going on for her. Not that a suicide attempt is a weak source of guilt, but the way Taeshi went about it... doesn't really inspire much sympathy after the shock is said and done with.
>>156270668>she was the only one trying to be her friend out of her own heartThis is true.Paulo only likes her because he is attracted to her, David is there only because of Paulo, Amaya is there because of Sue, Daisy tolerates but is envious of her, Abbey barely interacts with her, James is there just out of spite (and because of David). Sue was legit the only one who tried to be her friend, but she was too much of an ass kisser, so her efforts were in vain.There's not much she could've done, though. Even if she did confront Lucy's actions, Lucy would've probably just get pissed at her, and manipulate the universe to punish Sue, turning her into the villain.
>>156270815Lucy already nearly ripped space-time to get Sue's parents divorced, hasn't she done enough...?
>>156268749>I miss some of the anons that used to post here.True...we've lost many of our regular faces in the last year or so. Who's even left at this point?>>156269370Aimultiavenger.
>>156270815you forget sue is also word-of-god attracted to lucy, so her motivation is then equivalent to paulo, even though nothing in the main/canon comic implies this currently
>>156270992>Aimultiavenger.Yes, that one, thanks.As for the good anons, there was this guy who was also a namefig but he had a fancier name. Like a greek legend name. Hamlet of Troy I think. I liked his stuff. Also the leak anon, the drawfriends, etc.I feel like most evacuated after>the excessive amount of bullshittery in the comic>characters being ruined (like James)>the glacially slow paceOnly the truly masochistic are left. It's some hellraiser shit.>>156271008>sue is also word-of-god attracted to lucyYeah that's some bullshit I never bought. It was an asspull if I ever saw one. I guess Taeshi wanted an excuse for Sue to take Lucy's side or something. But you don't need the character be romantically attracted to another for them to take their side.It could've easily have been because Sue was trying to be responsible and trying to deescalate the situation, keeping Lucy under control, instead.
>>156271353>the glacially slow paceI feel that coming back to read the comic after 7~ years and seeing what little character progression (or regression) has been achieved in that time.
>>156270171Maybe "I feel sorry for your mother"
>>156270291I still find it funny how it took Lucy until Mike had a toddler to actually regret suicide, like pettiness was enough fuel for years to not even give her family and friends and self a second thought. If that's not Lucy at her core nothing is
>>156271008I still think that's a retarded last minute change for FitR2, Lucy has no actual reason to think she has no real friends if Sue is legitimately trying to, so better put a layer of romance over it to grease the eternal victim engine
>>156271353>Only the truly masochistic are left. It's some hellraiser shit.Some good Anons have fallen in the face of chaos, but there are still those masochists who haven't. Not today.
>>156271761Even funnier when you realize she likely watched from ghost cuck chair as Mike was plowing Sandy right in front of her.
>>156271942That's literally part of it! Although it was Sandy who was plowing Mike.
>>156271353Its another one of Taeshi's degradations over time. FitR2 may be the earliest example, not interested enough to double check, but she's been pushing hard that Daisy has feelings for Sandy. I think largely because Taeshi may have grown to be even more ignorant of female friendships. She's a complete fujo for two boys kissing to the point where she's made Mike bi just so she can toy with the concept after getting bored with bi Paulo. I think the smoking fun for me has to be every girl x girl couple Tae portrays is a very one sided relationship Not abnormal for this comic I know
>>156272261Has Taeshi ever written a couple where both parties involved genuinely love, care for and prioritize each other equally? Parents with 10 seconds of screen time don't count
>>156270291>>156271761>>156271942Speaking of that Lucy/Grave Concern ghost story, the next one to be released will be part two. We're quite curious about what the plot will be, especially thanks to some comments Taeshi made about it in the last live stream. Not only will it be a long story, but the story apparently goes in a crazy direction, as Taeshi commented that it was a shame the story couldn't be released around Halloween because it has a terrifying or disturbing scene or something like that. Now I don't remember exactly how he said it, but it seems things are going south in the second chapter.
>>156272304Me and Amaya.
>>156272315>but it seems things are going south in the second chapter.Ghost sex has terrible consequences for Mike and Lucy.
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>>156272391Lucy haunts Mike's dick and impregnates Sandy with it, making her give birth to Lucy's reincarnation with all her memories intact.
>>156272315Mike gets shat on and his daughter runs off with ghost Lucy after learning to hate him. Or he does and instead of turning into a ghost is dragged to hell.
>>156272391I can't believe Taeshi's ripping off Danny Phantom.
>>156271722>>156272413Realized it might look better with Sue saying it. Also taking edit requests rn if anyone has any.
>>156272315Too horrible to be revealed
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>>156272643Didn't have one Anon made a parody of this image with Mike, ghost Lucy, and Porsche in one of the previous threads.
>>156272435>his daughter runs off with ghost Lucy after learning to hate himI have to agree with the mikefag. Mike doesn't get to be the good guy when he's with Sandy. I think Porsche may try to kill herself to keep Lucy company or something.
>>156272851No Mikefagging needed, it's just pattern recognition at this point. Mike could be "saved" by choosing his daughter over Sandy but Taeshi's narrative is he can never say no to model cat. So he's definitely doomed.
>>156272435>>156272851My pessimistic bet is that Sandy, upon indirectly overhearing Mike and Porsche gleefully talking about/with Lucy, assumes Mike is cheating on her and decides to divorce him. Mike, in a fit of rage, accuses Lucy of this being a plan, and she, in a fit of rage, ends up going on a haunted house-movie-style attack with Mike, and they only stop fighting when Porsche gets hurt or something similar.
>>156272997Imagine if it's all about baby crazed Lucy trying to kill Sandy and take her kid.
Female pain isn't real
>>156268361Sue is either for dying childless or having a kid before finishing high school>>156273121Female pain is real and I want Lucy to experience more of it
>>156272315Mike is going to kill his daughter because Sandy asked him to, she tells him being a mother is hurting her modeling career.It's going to be a callback to Fork in the road 2 where Mike tells Chloe to fuck off because Sandy wouldn't take it well if she knew about her.
>>156273245Sue is responsible! She can be patient, and would of course wait to have a kid until she felt ready!But even if there was a mistake and she got pregnant young, she'd still be a great mother and I would of course take responsibility.
Next page: Lucy bullies herself thinking about stuff from her last school, seems like Lucy "ruined" that other boy's year somehow and everyone held a grudge against her for it.I've never heard "ruined his year" before in relation to anything but sports, so I'm guessing some football jock tried to rape Lucy and her mom reported it.
>>156273537That's retarded but sure, why not. It'd at least explain why Lucy came back worse.
>>156273537I'm sure Lucy will be portrayed as the victim, but how can we be sure he was in the wrong? Was it not just Lucy overreacting because she thinks every guy who wears a beanie is out to rape her?
>>156273537>Next page: Lucy bullies herself thinking about stuff from her last school, seems like Lucy "ruined" that other boy's year somehow and everyone held a grudge against her for it.>I've never heard "ruined his year" before in relation to anything but sports, so I'm guessing some football jock tried to rape Lucy and her mom reported it.If this is true then I have no idea why Taeshi didn't go with this affecting her over confrontation. But then that makes Lucy even dumber because you'd think that, even if she was mad at Mike, she'd gladly appriciate the rest of her friends after having such a horrible experience.But no, she doesn't. She stats blaming them for confrontation. Leading to Lucy getting blown the fuck out by Sue.On the other hand, I can totally see it being that the other guy didn't go along with Lucy's bullshit and she legit messed things up for him out of spite, and taeshi expecting people to feel bad for her.
>>156270171This comic would be improved by a significant margin if every conversation ended with "at least your mother fucking loved you"
>>156273537"Ruin that boy's year" kinda implies he'll be better next one, so I'm going to go with Lucy forcing her who-gives-a-shit attitude on someone and that costing them the grade, or sending them to the hospital for a while. Kinda funny the "feel sad for me" moment is followed by "I feel bad because I ruined someone else, boo hoo" like yeah we're seeing the trend here
>>156266299Unironically both of them would be fixed with consistent dicking
>>156264661If she fumbles the flashback to Lucy's previous school and the mystery boy then those comments are going off
>>156273537Knowing Lucy, it's more likely she broke his leg in a fit of petty anger.
>>156273641All that practice with Amaya :D for naught...
>>156274001>>156274103Oh wow, it's going to be>"th-the reason I dodged everyone and kept chasing off Mike (*sniff*) is because i didn't want to screw up their lives like that one boy (*sob*)">because she's just>So>SELFLESSEven though absolutely nothing she's done since coming back makes sense within that context. If anything, she'd come back broken having confirmed the parasite accusations. It'll be one of those blatantly wrong retcon blog posts inserted into the comic itself.
>>156268809>Amaya with the 1000 yard stare of trying to keep a family together despite MASSIVE cracks showing
>Lucy leaves>everyone actually starts to get along, mend broken bridges, and grow up>Lucy comes back>everything IMMEDIATELY regresses and in many cases gets worse
>>156268361I just assume from this image that Sue and Amaya got together and convinced Mike to father a kid for both of them like the doormat he is, now he's in a throuple because he doesn't know that Sue's on the pill and he's gotten used to the threesomes.
>>156275206Sue watches from the chair, or on a good day she can get Amaya and Mike ready with her mouth.
>>156275065>the cracks are the white cats trying to fuck their dad.
This chapter went from Haleycoin crashing on release to Abbey reaffirming his irrelevance to Sue speedrunning her own Mike Arc.
>>156275514And Paisy! was there too I guess.
>>156276036>And Paisy! was there too I guess.Shit, you're right. I actually forgot Paulo and Daisy were in this chapter.
>>156275001Shouldn't be a surprise, it's the first time Sue has kissed a girl
>>156275514>HaleycoinShit was mad annoying because on top of being another "Mike is the worst and here's another person to hate him" situation, her problem with her brother could be solved by just talking to him.Their mom might think he doesnt need to be tied to babysitting, but Mike himself clearly doesn't think he's above it. An actual teenager wouldn't bottle something like that up. Yelling or not, they'd bring it to his or the parent's attention.
>>156275514and nothing will come of it for sue
>>156273537>She tried her slapstick routine on him and broke all of his bones>Turns out Mike is literally the only one who can handle her
>>156276163I think the reason Taeshi characters refuse to talk about their problems is because those problems are retarded and cannot stand up to basic scrutiny from an outside perspective.
>>156276739Sue can't believe Mike did this to Lucy and if he would only [error: cope not found] then bow cat would be more open and friendly. Because why write a fundamentally different conflict when you can just copy-paste from Paulo?
Rape Mike
>>156276943At this point someone might as well.
>>156276943Lucy... he has a girlfriend... and it ain't you.
>>156276808>is because those problems are retarded and cannot stand up to basic scrutiny from an outside perspective.Isn't this sorta pattern in bcb? Not even just shitty problems but dumbshit happening: just cause?Same reason Augustus doesn't alert lucy's mom that she might start spiraling again, or Augustus letting the rape phone vibrate so loudly or them letting lucy walk around alone at night after she tried to end herself. >>156276943It might help.Since it tells him, someone didn't think he was monstrous enough to fight back. I wanna see a mindbroken and smiling Mike, it would be the happiest we have seen him In a bit. As long as the rapist isn't Lucy, Alej, David, Paulo or James.
>>156276960Let it be Amaya!
>>156277236>Roasts Chris>Rapes Mike >??? HaleyDoes Amaya just have a thing with greycats?
>>156277308She's got her eyes on the prize and won't let anyone stand in her way.
>>156277308Amaya is smaller than Haley. She can wear her skin and pretend to be Mike's sister.
>>156277583How will that work when Haley runs her mouth all the time?
>>156277591Amaya gets a vocal cord transplant and starts to talk for the first time in her life
>>156277610Amaya could always talk, she just knows all her friends are shit so she pretends to be mute both because she has nothing to say to them and it helps her avoid the gaze of Lucyspace.
>>156277308I'm sure if Amaya is one of those silent super perverts she'd get the Korat siblings to bang. Bind and bound Haley in pitch black darkness and invite Mike in thinking it's someone. Drug Mike and guide Haley to get all her feelings out. Etc.
>>156276163Haley and Lucy suffered from the same thing this chapter where their problems have a smidge of reason in them, haley's more than lucy's, but they're both going about it so retardedly that it makes them both unlikable
>Mike marries Amaya :D>Time to say the I do's>Look of panic suddenly shows up on Amaya's :D face>Marriage is illegitimate and Sue steals Mike off the altar in front of her
>>156277838>Bind and bound Haley in pitch black darkness and invite Mike in thinking it's someone. Drug Mike and guide Haley to get all her feelings out. Etc.Why does half the stuff involving Amaya devolve into cute things or her being a perverted sociopath?
>>156278115What do you mean "or"?
>>156277864I don't know how current Mike would react if his harem protagonist aura kicked back in at random.
I got fuckall to say about this page, but I made one anyway.
I plan to finish this sketch Amaya would check on Psycho Mike and keep him company during the lunch hours, hopefully to bring him back to his old kind self that he once was.
>>156278829Cute art
>>156278829I fear post-snap Mike could be erratic with any potential significant other, but here's hoping the gratitude would override his twitchy limbic system.
>>156278829Wow Mike and <CHARACTER WITH NO INTERACTIONS WITH MIKE> are perfect together
Shame Mike X Stacey never even got considered. On one hand it could have been cute. On the other hand I have no doubt Taeshi would have decided to just divebomb it no matter how cute they were together.
>>156279318Many such cases.
>>156279318It has to be this way. If they interact with Mike they are competition for Lucy, thus Taeshi must poison the character or relationship to ensure Mike stays available for his arranged marriage.
>>156278115>Why does half the stuff involving Amaya devolve into cute things or her being a perverted sociopath?There's a couple reasons. First is that imagining the silent Amaya as psycho pervert is a really funny foil to her best friend Sue. The loud annoying Sue is only concerned with what's doing best for the world and gets no male (or even female) attention what so ever. So Amaya being the exact opposite scratches a mental itch. Second there are a ton of fanfics and creations where Amaya is written as a demon. That fic where Amaya eats Chris. The SST fic where Amaya is a BDSM slave master. This >>156268809 . All that Amaya smut. That one discussion on the threads years ago about Mike and Amaya becoming serial killers.
>>156265982>open thread>ctrl f alej>chuckle>/thread>>156278829Cute!!!
>>156280398Its pretty fucked up that this isnt even a joke.
>>156272315Alejandro finally goes and looks for people himself, and the old dude rapes Mike and Sandy’s kid. Lucy reincarnates as the baby.
Y'know what really pisses me off about the whole "Lucy has trauma, she needs sympathy" line? The fact that Lucy as a character is so consistently utterly unsympathetic to any other character and THEIR trauma. Lucy has told Augustus she "liked you better when you were a creep", she's made Mike's near-death experiences all about her, she's even mocked Daisy for getting creeped on and cornered (which is the same trauma Lucy has!). Lucy started this argument with Sue by accusing her of "not doing anything", and started flailing for excuses when Sue (correctly!) noted that she had, while Lucy did nothing to help until Mike got hurt!So to see Taeshi going "oh it's so cruel and unfair for readers/Sue to judge Lucy instead of being sympathetic of Lucy's trauma!" just makes me hate Lucy all the more, because of the blatant hypocrisy of it. If not being super nice to someone over their trauma is "cruel", then Lucy is a complete and utter monster.
>>156281482Pretty much. Maybe if Lucy wasn't a perpetual cunt all the time then maybe people might be willing to throw sympathy her way.
My problem believing Taeshi "Erm both sides" meme is she'll answer like that, and then immediately someone will send an ask that's just "Sue is being a cunt to Lucy and she's being so nice :(((("And Taeshi always answers it like YES, SUE IS A SELFISH FUCKING BITCH SHE SHOULD DIE THANK YOU FOR GETTING IT!! LOL!!like, pick a lane
>>156281921The both sides bullshit is pretty clearly just a thin cover for blatant favoritism. Taeshi's favorite characters are assholes, but she wants the validation of everyone else liking and sympathizing with them too. Over the last 20 years she's come up with a variety of mental gymnastics and plot contrivances to try and frame her favorites as being cool and likable, with varying degrees of success.I think this fact is related to how BCB plotlines tend to fade away without ever being resolved. Taeshi plans plotlines that hinge on asshole characters doing awful things (she's mentioned "original plans" like Augustus selling the cast out to Alejandro, or Paulo pressuring Jasmine into sex before dumping her), but then chickens out and doesn't go through with it because she doesn't want everybody hating on her faves.
>>156281482Yeah, it's hard to care about a stupid asshole who creates all their own problems, inflicts them on everyone else, and still sees themselves as the superior yet put-up on evervictim. Where is the upside? How are they even supposed to improve?
>>156282899The upside is allegedly that she's hot. Taeshi cannot into consistent proportions, but Lucy's canonically a shortstack, and white fur seems to count for a lot in the beauty standards of BCB.As to how Lucy's supposed to improve, the answer seems to be "find a man who will 'fix'(take care of everything for) her", judging from how her history of reliance on Mike, Paulo, and Augustus isn't framed as a bad thing, and the fact that FitR2 showed adult Lucy still being miserable and toxic no matter how much support she gets and only being happy once she finds a man (and gets pregnant again).I wish I was kidding, but that really is how Taeshi's written Lucy. It's one of the reasons I keep saying that Taeshi's writing is incredibly sexist.
>>156281921yeah I saw that too lmao. >"Sue crossed a line, but I can understand where she's coming from, Lucy can be very nasty too.">"Haha I'm trying to refrain from always adding my input. Thanks for sharing your thoughts though :) ">"What a shitty friend Sue is. It's funny how Lucy can easily make her friends mad">"HAHA YES! Lucy's so good a making at making everyone lose it. She's such an excellent ragebaiter."
>>156279931Amaya, Jasmine, Rachel, Kizuna
So given that Lucy's major traumas are:>Feeling unpopular and judged (due to her rampant hostility and "girls are stupid" attitude but shhhh)>Being creeped on by randos>Being cornered and sexually assaulted>Being rejected by boysIs Daisy just built different? Because Daisy's had all those experiences too, and had them worse than Lucy did in some cases (Augustus, unlike Alejandro, goes to her school and was someone she trusted before the assault), and SHE'S not a raging asshole who has panic attacks whenever she goes a day without asspats.
>>156284195>RachelIf only, at least then we could get some drama out of it with Polo
>>156284195Mike x Jasmine might work if it weren't for the passionate hatred taeshi feels for the ship because of that one threesome fanfic
>>156284959I thought it was because Jasmine was religious? I like the idea of the ship but I absolutely do not trust Taeshi with handling religion well with any nuance. Especially not at this point in her career
>>156284959>threesomeFoursome
>>156284959What was so special about that fic that caused such a bitchfit?
>>156285601In that fic Mike fucked Lucy, Jasmine, and Sandy. But stayed in a relationship with Sandy and Jasmine ended up joining it.
>>156285601Lucy lied to Sandy about him cheating while Jasmine watches, used that to seduce Sandy into lesbian sex, then the pair seduce-pressured Jasmine into joining, before Mike walked in and they all fucked.Taeshi also used to detest anything related to cheating though I think her hanging out with cheating fetishist flak0ps has relaxed her a little on that front
>>156284800Because Lucy, at her core, is an asshole while Daisy isn't. Even if you take away the trauma of Confrontation, she still ends up being a shit.>>156286127>Taeshi also used to detest anything related to cheating though I think her hanging out with cheating fetishist flak0ps has relaxed her a little on that frontFlak0ps likes sandy quite a bit it seems so I wouldn't be surprised if Taeshi trying to "Both sides" thing between Sandy and Mike was her trying to keep those graces good with her.
>>156286127why'd lucy wanna seduce Sandy?
>>156286929Lucy wanted Mike and Sandy to break up
>>156266266Just a few more minutes for the pity bait session.
>>156278471>Wait a minute, how can my fly be down if I'm not even wearing pants?
Nothing ever happens.
>>156288089Kek she really did get hit with the fact Lucyspace didn't work or at least was diluted in the other school. People there just had the logical reaction to her bullshit
>>156288089I wonder what likely crazy bullshit Lucy did at that school that got her labeled.
>>156288089>You really messed up his whole year y'knowBitch really is walking poison huh?
>>156288089Wait did she actually try her usual gimmicks and they had the logical conclusion?On top of "You should let your abuser just abuse you forever and suck it up" are we also going for the unintended message of "You should just let someone with mental problems do whatever they want, it's not their fault"?
>>156288138>Upgraded from parasite to walking poisonI told you, Mike was being nice in December.>"You should just let someone with mental problems do whatever they want, it's not their fault"?Anon, Taeshi herself is how we knew she got slapped for threatening self-harm, but makes people cower and let themselves get manipulated/abused when it's brought up in the comic. TLDR: YES.
>>156288151Seems like it. The NPCs at the other school weren't playing her games which is probably why she came back.
>>156288089Alright where on the scale of “some guy made a flirty comment” to “Lucy got drugged and raped” are we landing. It’s got to be at least up to Augustus going after Daisy, surely.>>156288124
>>156288089I am so glad it's confirmed that Lucy crashed and burned at her old school. It seems that cause and effect do exist in this world and Roseville is just an exception. Also Lucy is definitely about to go make this Gus' problem one way or another.
>>156288221Unless shown otherwise, I'm going with the flirty comment tier. She probably got along with the guy for a bit until she crashed out like a motherfucker.
>>156288221I'm guessing flirty and maybe more of an assertive attempt at a push to start a relationship. Lucy reacts with her usual bullshit and it cascades from there
>>156288089No comment, but this is the preview for the next page.Sweaty Lucy. Probably went home running. Will probably either talk to Augustus, Mike, or do some stupid shit regarding Augustus' phone
>Other school turns out to be like some bizarro version of this school where the friend group is similar in structure but otherwise each member being different in some manner>In this school the friend group sides with the Alt Mike rather than the other way around.
>>156288344>Augustus fends off another rape attempt
>More pity shitBooooooooring. Can we go back to romance drama? Hell, even the very first Paulo show was more interesting than this
>>156288367I dunno man, I can't fucking stand Paulo, I legit stopped reading the comic during the Paulo show, and only got back much later. This one sucks too but at least it isn't Paulo.
>>156288348>Bizarro Mike is tall and wears a blue beanie>Bizarro Daisy is anorexic>Bizarro Paulo is a fat nerd>Bizarro Sue disliked Lucy from the start>Bizarro Amaya can't stop talkingIn a better comic this would be a fun dynamic to watch
>>156288248>Also Lucy is definitely about to go make this Gus' problem one way or another.Good, fuck him.
>>156288418>Bizarro Paulo>Along with the fat nerd bit he is also actually quite loving and loyal, hooking up with a tall dog girl
>>156266299Lucy has more in common with Stolas than she does with Stella
>>156288418You're forgetting the best part>Friendship isn't based on the group wanting to fuck 1-2 people at the table and they all seen to enjoy each other's company.Lucy coming into a place like that would be like feeding black chocolate to a cocker spaniel. Lucy is the chocolate btw.
>>156288151>are we also going for the unintended message of "You should just let someone with mental problems do whatever they want, it's not their fault"?>unintendedThat's been Lucy's excuse for a decade now. Did you miss one of the asks from the last few pages where Taeshi straight up said Sue should get over Lucy's attacks because Lucy was the one suffering?
>>156288151If those are the intended messages then Taeshi is accomplishing the opposite in her writing. Right now, any reader who couldn't see the comments would conclude Lucy is in the wrong, as evidenced by her apparently doing the same fucking thing at her old school.
>>156288451Cute doggo, who's she?
>>156288418Believe it or not, Mike isn't at homePlease leave a messaaage at the beepHe must be out, or he'd pick up his phone,Where could he beeeee?Believe it or not Mike's not home!
New page from slightly better comic. I know "Doll" is being used as a cute nickname here, but it's an apt description of the characters here. Both Fauna and her mother.
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>>156288089Playing the devil's advocate, what if Lucy actually didn't start shit at her new school? What if she kept getting solicited by the boys (girls too probably since we all know Lucy is so beautiful and perfect, just look at Sue simping and being jealous of Mike) and then she crashed the fuck out cuz they grabbed her aggressively by her shoulders or something. It all then led to her mom getting involved and a whole scandal breaks out.
>>156289145Lucy doesn't need a devil's advocate, she already has the demiurge as her advocate.
>>156289145There is AT LEAST a 50% chance this is indeed poor little misunderstood Lucy Evervictim fodder. Nobody understands her struggle! But it's only a cointoss because Taeshi has proven quite happy to put Lucy's worst foot forward and still declare her in the right.
>>156289128Would Meursault be able to tame Lucy?
>>156289145Depends what happened and what she did because even if a shoulder touch happened, Lucy is the one who generally elevates things to violence for little reason
>>156289283His relationship with her would be comical. Like he is both the best and worst thing from her view. He does what she wants without complaint but at the same time wouldn't push back which would piss her off. So then it'd come down if Lucy was smart enough to tell him to push back and he would. He would drive Lucy even more insane but by giving her precisely what she wants.
>>156288089Lucy fucked the highschool quarterback because she saw him bullying someone weak and kind and it reminded her of Paulo, but then she felt guilty because she never fucking wanted it and accused him of rape
>>156289338>if Lucy was smart enough to tell him to push back and he wouldLucy is the same bitch who didn't realize opening up a little bit to her punching bag would keep shit good. No, she would not be able to figure someone else out.
>>156288089The idea of an AU where Lucy is dropped in a normal highschool outside of the influence of Lucyspace is really good, inversely proportional to how bad it is that Taeshi is dropping a brand new trauma 10 years after bringing Lucy back
>>156289145unless we are talking real (and I mean real, not tumblr millenial shit) abuse, Lucy is wrong.
>>156289595Your also forgetting the part where she made confrontation the "primary" source of friend trauma so this new one just comes off as tacked on. Which it was cause taeshi literally pulled this out her ass, as why lucy was back vs idk, going to a new school in the moved area. Unless Lucy somehow fucked her reputation over there that badly, it makes zero sense to move her back to the place she tried to kill herself at.
>>156288089KNEW ITNo one would put up with Lucy is they weren't childhood friends
>>156289710The result of Lucy coming back with zero planning. Nobody questioned it before because on top of being glad she was back, they figured Taeshi would just reveal it in time. >>156288248>Roseville is just an exception.I wouldn't even say its Roseville as a whole. It's just her friend group and maybe her brother's group too. I can't se anyone else in the school putting up with her for long either.>>156289145I would believe it if it was anyone else writing. Unfortunately it's Taeshi, and as we've seen most recently with the Sue argument, she'll have lucy do something wrong and tell you you're still supposed to side with her
>>156289145Well, don't worry, Taeshi will play devil's advocate on her Tumblr when we get a flashback of this situation, but I don't think you're completely wrong. Putting together the dialogue on this page and that conversation between Lucy and her mother, where the boy's issue was first mentioned, it becomes relatively understandable that regardless of what Lucy or the boy did wrong or not, Lucy's mother intervened, and this ended with the boy being severely punished and Lucy being ostracized by the other students because of the punishment the boy received.
>>156289963I'll put something up Lucy alright
>>156288197>Anon, Taeshi herself is how we knew she got slapped for threatening self-harmWhat's the whole tale of that anyway? I only started reading two or three years ago, so I'm out of the loop on older lore like that.
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You'd think that after having something go wrong at her last school, when Lucy came back that she'd start appreciating her friends and count herself lucky that nothing like that would happen with them. That she'd actually learn something. But I guess that's too much to ask for her.
>>156290315I will give Lucy the least charitable reading possible: She tells herself this is the reason she doesn't want her mom involved in her life when it's really about preserving her own sense of independence and illusion of sanity. In addition, Lucy believes that whatever happened back at the last school was her mom's fault and not the natural result of Lucy herself being terrible. Which the fallout with Sue has just directly challenged.
>>156290417Me too, I've been here a lot longer but the mention only popped up within the last few threads.
>>156290425please be patient, she has bpd
>>156288138The term I use is "living problem". Lucy is completely defined by her issues and hostility, and she insists on making things worse, including for herself if no-one else is immediately available. Being a problem is Lucy's whole character and narrative role.
>>156290556>Being a problem is Lucy's whole character and narrative role.Which is more fitting for an antagonist. Lucy isn't even allowed to be a "villain protagonist", so following her is shit. Literally everyone else has another narrative role, but Lucy doesn't, because of how she is written. Even solving her problems requires someone else, which would be fine if it didn't mean that person had to submit to her whims.
>>156289145It's possible, but it would be weird for her to get mad at her mom for involving herself in that.
>>156290641I can see it if she stopped Lucy from making another retarded mistake against bow cat's will and accidentally popped her mask off.
>>156289145Logically, going by the dialogue, it would be something like Lucy getting close to a group of friends who at first welcome her, one of the guys starts trying to get close to her in an increasingly aggressive fashion, something happens that causes her to blow up at them, her mother finds out and leads to a scandal where her supposed new friends abandon her. Since the new guys are meant to be discarded, it would be reasonable that they are to be assholes who genuinely defend something close to assault against her.However, it's hard to know if the most obvious and reasonable plot will be used.
>>156289077Nice save, Faith. Good job not passing on your trauma and issues to your kids.My pity still exceeds my disgust, but this woman really shouldn't have had kids until after she got herself a therapist and medications.
>>156290810She probably thought kids would fix her issues. Knowing her, she was mixed on getting a son but delighted when she had a daughter
>>156290602Preach, anon.Like, I loathe Paulo, I think he's a bully, a sexist, and an insecure asshole. But it's POSSIBLE to talk about who Paulo is as a character without bringing up the problems he's involved in. He has SOME other stuff going on, a sliver of personality and role aside from his problems: he's brave, stubborn, high-energy, relatively self-aware. And he (at least theoretically) has a character arc of solving his internal and external problems, although Taeshi keeps getting bored with it midway through and abandoning/resetting it.What does Lucy have? Other than her physical traits of being a short white girl with a bow, what possible description of Lucy can be made that isn't just a list of the problems she's had and caused? I'm genuinely asking, if anyone can come up with one I'd love to hear it.
>>156288089>Guys Lucy got date raped so when you judge her you're judging a trauma victimWell that sounds like Taeshi but it makes Lucy seem insane that she's got all these other problems in her life but she'd prefer to seethe at Mike and co because they're familiar.
>>156290982>if anyone can come up with one I'd love to hear itApparently she has an nice voice but I don't think we have ever seen her sing in years. Also she could be nurturing if the pets were anything to go by but also a shit mom.
I miss GIANT heads, at least then we still had proper color saturation.
>>156290861I imagine Faith being delighted with both her kids, although she does seem to prefer Fauna due to identifying with her more. She does seem to sincerely love them, she just has zero idea how to be a mom without fucking it up.My read of Faith's character is that she was raised by someone who was even worse than she is, some deeply unaffectionate manipulator who she swore she wouldn't be like. Hence why she puts tons of energy into affection for her kids and praising how they're brilliant and special and will never be worthless like she is. But because she never had a healthy relationship with any parental figures in her own life, her idea of "how to be a good parent" is entirely informed by pop culture and such, and is thus very shallow: She knows to encourage her kids and compliment them, but she doesn't know how to reassure them or to not frame her compliments as comparisons. She knows to cook for the family and tell them she loves them, but she doesn't know how to teach them to take care of and love themselves.
Actually dont Mike's desire for someone in his corner and Lucy's desire for a handler conflict heavily? If Mike wants a true friend in his corner, it can't be Lucy due to who she is, and Lucy can't have Mike as a handler unless that desire is fulfilled. Mike can't view Lucy as that friend because of how she is and continues to be.Taeshi doing what she did with David and tanking Mike and James' relationship pretty much (currently) nuked James ' likability and Mike having said friend off the map. So she pretty much created another reason for No Mucy, especially with Lucy's direct involvement in lits. >Why not Paulo or DaisyLOL.It explicitly has to be someone who won't suck lucy's toes on command and won't run cover for a cheating girlfriend.Taehsi fuucking sucks at writing good friends.
>>156291069The nice voice is still a physical quality, not really a character trait. And I'd legitimately forgotten that "nurturing" was supposed to be a thing that Lucy was, because so much of the comic shows exactly the opposite: Lucy being unnecessarily harsh, reacting to pain or helplessness with mockery, and actively discouraging any kind of growth or improvement. And also both the pets and FitR2 clearly show that Lucy is anything but nurturing, being a negligent mother who's instability forces her charges to step into a pseudo-parental role with their own mother, handling Lucy's emotions, advocating for her, and putting up a front of maturity, all in order to help avoid Lucy self-destructing and dragging them down with her. Like, it's implied that Chloe is basically being raised by her grandparents and Sue, because for large parts of Chloes childhood Lucy is a dysfunctional alcoholic who keeps her kid up at night with ranting. The whole main plot of FitR2 is Chloe running away from home in order to meet Mike, being disappointed to find there's no room for her in his life, then going home and keeping what she did a secret because she KNOWS that Lucy would break down if she knew.But even if we grant that Lucy is "nurturing", is it possible to mention that without talking about the problems that were involved? I don't think it is, because the idea of Lucy being "nurturing" was introduced as an elaboration of her insecurity and paranoia. It was never a thing in it's own right, just a way of emphasizing how lonely and hostile Lucy was.
>>156291342>spoilerI actually agree, anon. Yashy's calling everyone whores and bitches; Yashy's treatment of her "dad" and shit already says a lot about Lucy's parenting.>It was never a thing in it's own right, just a way of emphasizing how lonely and hostile Lucy was.Yeah, I genuinely think Taeshi should have retconned in Lucy having something wrong with her because Lucy has been like this since kindergarten or some shit. It is insane how the narrative makes Mike end up being some weird male caretaker despite being Lucy's age. This isn't a zombie apocalypse or edgy magical shoujo story; this level of paranoia, dependence, and hostility doesn't seem to come from anywhere we have seen. She was like this way before confrontation. Then again, I'm the same guy who would never have given Lucy siblings/retconned them into visiting cousins, so Lucy does feel isolated. Though you could literally have written out Lucy's brothers and replaced half their roles with her dad being in her life. Those boys do nothing.
>>156291412Yeah the brothers suck. One's a retard and the other's only contribution is being an asshole
>>156288089So what we know>There was an "incident" at the other school>Lucy's mom was involved>There was another boy who Lucy's mom didn't approve of>Lucy was ostracized after this incident>Lucy views her mom getting involved as the thing that ruined her reputation at school ("you've done enough")>Lucy was touchy about something>Lucy messed up The Boy's "whole year" according to the other kids at schoolThe whole thing with Lucy's mom is a constant wrench in the gears. This all could be "Lucy got molested again and the other kids all took his side," except why would she be mad at her mom for getting involved? And clearly she had to be the one to screw up That Boy's whole year and her relationship with her new peers, since they said she was the psycho, not her mom.My best guess is "That Boy had a fairly harmless interaction with Lucy that thanks to The Issues she blew out of proportion. Her mom didn't take her side, nor did any of the kids. Everyone else is evil for not realizing that Lucy Has Issues and when you Have Issues you can do whatever you want." I'd love for it to be what everyone's suggesting where she tried her usual routine at the new school and nobody bought it, but I just don't buy that this is gonna be something straightforwardly Lucy's fault.
>>156291342I don't think Chloe was disappointed by not having a place in Mike's life. She seemed to use the notion as a shit test to reaffirm that her chronically drunk borderline useless mom was the better parent. Like she got Lucyspaced during the bus ride.
>>156291436>One's a retard and the other's only contribution is being an assholeIs Jordan the asshole, or is Sam(that is his name, right?)?
>>156291471Jordan's the retard cause he let fucking Paulo tell him what his sexuality is.
>>156291328Before James, everyone here basically agreed that the only friend Mike could have that would be in his corner would be someone that had absolutely NO relation to the table gang or anyone there. They'd have to be arms length at minimum.People thought James was this but then David fucked that all up. That whole thing meant that no matter what, Mike cannot escape the table tards because one of them will find him and drag the new person into that vortex of drama
>>156291441Knowing Taeshi, the mom did something fairly understandable given the circumstances and Lucy is per usual being a blame throwing piss baby nursing a wounded ego with some self serving delusion. But the mom will still be depicted as somehow in the wrong. But regardless, Lucy's excuses for being a bitch keep evolving in dumb directions. She used to be mad at her mom for putting her in a psyche ward and not having enough trust in her once suicidal daughter who she just brought back to ground zero. Now the excuse is some previously undisclosed school trauma, just in time for Sue to tell Lucy her alleyway hangup is insane and stupid. And don't forget the letters shit. Just excuse after excuse after excuse and all of them are retarded.
>>156291563That's the other reason I don't see Paulo as a friend to Mike either. He had no clue what was going on between Mike and Sandy or James, yet stalked them with David and Daisy with the express purpose of ruining what he thought was their date and trying to steal James from him.
Next page: Lucy stares longingly at the phone as it vibrates and then Augustus shows up
>>156291646I can't remember clearly but was Paulo actually trying to ruin it or was he just along for the ride? Because David was the most vocal about following and getting in the way.Taeshi really just needs to admit that David hates Mike because Paulo finds him more mature or something. He lost the "Just a silly guy" shield already.
>>156291708I think he said no they weren't going to ruin the date but got talked into spying anyway because jelly of Golden Boy.
>>156291703Here's hoping Lucy launches into some schizo rant about how his is all Gus' fault and/or tries to rape him again. Give him his own turn on the ol' Mike Arc speedrun.
>>156291774It's sorta funny thing bout Mike's golden boy status. He doesnt really brag about his grades, athleticism or lord it over Paulo. Abbey said it himself: Mike lets Paulo get away with messing with him too much. This just means that Paulo hates Mike for academically applying himself. Mike isn't as academic as Daisy or as long-legged as David, but he got bullied compared to those two.
>>156291441I'd like to place a bet.>That Boy was friendly with with Lucy but got pushy or molested her or fought back when she got hostile or something>Lucy's mom freaked out and dragged it into a whole thing, getting other adults involved>All the drama turned Lucy into a social pariah and all the other kids took That Boy's side and blamed Lucy for "ruining his whole year" This means Lucy is a victim of That Boy, AND keeps her hands clean of the retaliation. Remember, Lucy telling her mom "you've done enough" is in response to her floating the idea of talking to Mike's parents.I would like to place a side bet on Taeshi being confused as to the reaction, where readers EITHER think That Boy went too far and it wasn't Lucy's fault, OR That Boy didn't deserve what he got and Lucy & her mom overreacted, but nobody thinks both simultaneously.
>>156288089Lucy's such a victim that anything she does is excusable
>>156291861>Raped by the whole schoolDegrees of Lewdity?
>>156291861And NO I WILL NOT WEAR CLOTHES!!
>>156291861Poor Lucy is living out the plot of a hentai while everyone else is living out a slice-of-life melodrama.
>>156291890>>156291882>>156291872
>>156291774Yeah, that was it. Paulo was moping, Daisy was rolling her eyes and listening to him mope, and then David was like "let's spy on them!". Both Paulo and Daisy objected to the idea on the grounds that it was creepy and mean, but David talked them into it because a movie was showing that they wanted to see anyways.Then David forced a confrontation, instigated a rigged contest, got mad at Mike for not throwing, and ruined the night for everyone. Mike, Paulo, and ESPECIALLY Daisy all got humiliated and cucked, because David is a font of misery, a plague of suffering in anthropomorphic form.
>>156291927Amazing
>>156292021I cannot imagine the level of mind break necessary for this to happen.
>>156292041Well, he's kinda at that point now isn't he?
Every time Taeshi downplays other character's problems by going "Oh they wouldn't care, they don't think about it!" it just makes Lucy look more and more bitch-made by comparison.
>>156292041Mike's halfway there, and starving himself helps; all it takes is his mom losing some morals and a little bit of gaslighting.
>>156291929That whole race was so fucking stupid.>Mike isn't gay so he has no reason to race over James.>James got rejected and has no reason not to agree to date Paulo on the rebound.>Paulo doesn't need to prove shit to get what he wants.>James is so fucking stupid he actually goes along with this bullshit, even the alternative ending BCIs have him not fucking notice that Mike obviously threw the race for Paulo.>James is such a speedwhore he wants David's cock just because he's fast.I hate the meme dog so much.
>>156292114I think if you removed David right after December or the drunk party, then the comic would be way better, even if it's not good.
>>156292126>It's really sad that David got eaten by that wheat thresher just off screen>Those suburban farms are dangerous>And right after Lucy either left or killed herself depending on what we know at this time! The hits keep coming for this lunch table
>>156292114James is okay with all this but turns snake later
>>156291328Facing oblivion, these folk have kept their honor. Have you?>Taeshi fuucking sucks at writing good friendsThe fact that she wrote the track team being pretty good friends to Mike shows that she clearly knows how to do it, she just chooses not to. While they're not close enough to reach out to Mike when he pulls away, James implied that they're leaning on him a bit about the Mike suddenly not showing up, so they clearly do care about him still.
>>156292242They've also implied they are aware James is a bit of a fuckwad which is why they told Mike not to take his shit too seriously
>>156292021Still one of my best BCB doodles I've drawn
>>156292293you're a very good artistI do wonder though... what's the most deranged but still sfw bcb thing you could draw?
>>156292813Mike putting David down for good. Hate that dumbass dog with every fiber
I never followed along with David very well. Did his ADHD personality get superseded by being spontaneously malicious on a whim?
>>156292858He was always an asshole. It was just masked under the veneer of being "le silly funny little guy!" when all his antics lead to bad shit or make him come across as a shithead
>>156292858Yeah, pretty much. Taeshi decided she liked him, so instead of being a dumb asshole who causes problems and suffers for it, now he's a secret genius asshole who causes problems and everyone ELSE suffers for it.>>156292909He was always an asshole, but until Taeshi decided he was some kind of savant he was universally stupid and half the time hurt himself with his dumb bullshit. Once Taeshi decided she liked him (sometime in volume 3 if I had to guesss), she started with the whole "actually they're super smart and mature and immune to all consequences" thing she always does with her favorites, and he started acting noticeably more malicious within the comic.
>>156288089She's not here, she's not even present in the current moment, she transported herself to a completely different situation were people were meaner to her for what seems to be the same reasons. There really is no fixing Lucy as a person. This is like Paulo being called mean and deciding do double down to teach others a lesson, blaming it on people reaction to his assholery and not on him being an asshole
>>156292829Most of us have drawn David eating it at some point or another, one I liked that another artfag drew was Mike whacking him in the knees with a bat.
>>156289145It would still be stupid for her to use that situation to drive herself right now to a completely different one
>>156291412>This isn't a zombie apocalypse or edgy magical shoujo storyTaeshi was inspired by that kind of stuff, but she doesn't have the guts to do anything other than milquetoast melodrama. So now BCB is littered with the remains of more interesting and higher-stakes ideas, orphaned from context and never to be paid off.Also I just wanna say that the idea to have Lucy's brothers be visiting cousins is brilliant. It'd help a lot to explain why Lucy's supposedly so lonely and isolated.
>>156292242If the track team also hasn't bothered to go check on Mike, I think this entire exile situation is artificial.
>>156294051They haven't and it is. S'why I don't even blame Paulo or Daisy for not checking up on him, they clearly WOULD if not for Taeshi writing them all OOC to make some bullshit point about Mike being an attention whore.
>>156288089>Internally self aware of how shitty you're being>Continue to choose to be hostile to any open hand offered to you and unwilling to improve your life in any meaningful wayVery Alex Yiik coded
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>>156294320Daisy especially. At least Paulo has an excuse, dumb as it is.
>>156294444Quad quads of truth.
