Fifteen
Math is delicious
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this is strangely relatable as I'm super going through this rn and I don't really recognize my own face from day to day =( oddly enough, not from anything in particular (though I did have a bout with some kind of infection that swelled up my face, that might have skewed things)
bouncer, baker, AND trained intervention counselor??
Probably a superhero too. Backup for Pizza Girl and Chinese Delivery Man.
Dysmorphia sucks! :(
I like Roko's hair in this, even if she's a hot mess atm.
very good, Melon! we knew you could do it!
Gods that last panel is just perfect.
Melon is the friendly puppy who sees the people walking, and runs over to stand directly in front of them so she can have fun too!
Melon... Stahp...
I wonder if Claire could help or relate to Roko, as it stands, Roko seems to be suffering a type of bodily dysphoria, she feels as though her body is not her own, though the way it's come about has sort of appeared in reverse to how gender dysphoria would manifest,
I was wondering if she had said anything related when Winslow got his new body, but I'm not finding anything. I do remember she chewed out Pintsize for saying something about how technology will fix it someday. Too lazy to look and see if she commented on Momo's body switch.
Melon is Roko's sanity check ... if whatever Melon says or does sounds sane, then Roko isn't.
If Elliot doesn't volunteer for a phone crisis center he really should holy s*** Man I have totally had the same feeling as roko there and this really captured it well
... now with more integers!
My new head canon is that Elliot volunteers for a phone crisis center.
The speech bubble when Roko and Elliot are counting together. Square on the left side; round on the right side. Tiny little detail, but evocative of the moment. Wouldn't even need the pair of "who's talking" arrows to make it clear they were completely synced. Just beautiful.
I LOVE ELLIOT SO MUCH, HE MUST BE CHERISHED AND PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS
One Math please, extra ketchup.
Please don't ruin math with ketchup.
I’ve really enjoyed the last few comics, and especially this arc. For all it’s comedy and butt jokes, QC does touch on some interesting issues. And while Elliot has the right idea, Melon’s random actions seem to have a similar effect on Roko. Roko is lucky to have these two.
god i love him. such a sweet heart
The fact that Roko is still playing the big sister to Melon is super adorable!!
That it's helping Roko as well is even better!
Really happy that Elliot and Melon just happened to be around when poor Roko was breaking down, so she Didn't just go ahead and use that peeler on her face ..
This happens at semi-regular intervals at Eliot's job, right?
I was wondering where he would have learned that. You make a good point.
Did Elliot have to "open" the door (as in losing the deposit) or did Roko open it? It almost feels like there's a spectrum here with Melon at one end and Elliot at the other and poor Roko in the the middle trying to understand what happened.
Or possibly it wasn't locked.
Is this the end of Loco Roko's problems? Or is this merely a brief interlude of relative sanity? Will she enter infinite recursion again? Stay tuned for the Next Four Panels!
This is likely just the beginning of her journey. Anxiety, dysmorphia and the like are more about managing attacks. With people you can medicate the symptoms, to an extent. I have no idea how this will work for an AI.
Aaaaand ship.
I love Elliott so much here. And Melon, really. And Roko's tired face and waggly reassuring fingers in the last panel are perfect.
Genuine question: do you draw her slightly differently to make the changes she perceives potentially noticeable by us, or do you still draw her the same way? (Note that I'm not dismissing her feelings as a character, I'm just curious about your process!)
I haven't noticed any difference, which doesn't mean that there isn't - and, as someone whose wife has suffered from body dysmorphia for her entire life (we called it fun-house eyes), it doesn't matter. It could be a micrometer-precise duplicate of her old face, and still cause her to not see it as hers. It's in the brain, not the eyes. She knows she's in a new body, so she knows it's not the old body - so to her, it won't look like the old body.
Oh god that face Roko is making in the first panel is a face I understand so much and its a feeling I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies.
I love them all 😢
I am falling for Elliott so hard right now
Same.
She tries
I'm starting to ship Roko and Elliott. The man knows how to handle her anxiety like a pro. And he'd constantly smell like bread! Win-win.
Now all I can picture is the scene from Ghost but with dough.
This is adorable, yet sad. Adorably sad? Hm.
sadorable
Rokooooooooo :-(
I am so glad Elliott is handling this in a good way. He's god a good brain, him do.
Holy crap but this is an amazingly well-written comic.
Melon's trying... and it's adorable
And in her own way, she's succeeding. She's still helping to distract Roko from her crisis.
Oh, Melon, sweet Melon, just... just no.