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Is it just me or does Basilisk have two expressions; Annoyed/angry and Surprise/bemused
Don't forget aroused / near a bakery!
When are we gonna get that week of Steve eating cereal you keep teasing us with?
Confused and angry are the only real emotions.
Wait. That's a Firday strip, right? That a cliffhanger, yes? ARGH.
Ugh now I wish you hadn't pointed it out
What number was that. When they saved Bubs.
I would start here: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3360 .
Also in the third panel Yay looks like Peridot from Steven Universe, and now I can't shake off this association.
If this ever becomes a series, Peridot’s VA should audition.
The yoga pants buddies are on the town.
2500 bells, so a Madagascan sunset moth... in Boston??? ;D
I just looked up the Madagascan sunset moth-- it should be NBC's new logo
Damn... all you shippers. I read "RoKay" in Lil Jon's voice. -_-
It was a very large moth
Jeph I’d just like to remind you we’re all very fragile right now and we don’t need more collective trauma
Like that's gonna stop him.
They revealed Bub's memory gap, though they did not create it (as far as we know).
Technically, they didn't reveal it either. Bubbles chose to have a memory gap, rather than dealing with the memories. Yay merely discovered that it was permanent (and removed the kill software in the process). Bubbles didn't know at the time that not having the memories at all just might be worse than the memories themselves.
Yay! (literally and figuratively) An omniscient AI is just what you need to find some hidden history.
Is that the first time we've seen Yay's neck joint?
No. But there is some lack of consistency. It was visible throughout the entire set of strips where they made the massive donation to charity, but then was not visible at all throughout the entire set of strips where they put Roko to sleep. Even in today's strip alone, it's visible in the third panel, but not in the last one.
So... This isn't my favorite ship, by ANY means. But the name is SO, SO perfect. RoKay?
"Rokay", like an agreement from Scooby Doo?
And the plot thickens...
Shirley you mean "thiccens"?
I can't help but think of the Them in Good Omens... Omnipotence and all...
Roko Yay! Yay Roko? I’m so confused ...
Rokay now...
This is an encouragingly screwball twist in what was a potentially bleak storyline.
I just KNEW Yay was going to get involved in this, somehow. They are the most likely ones to be able to recover Bubbles' memory.
it's not yet too late for Yay to sidestep any questions and be completely uninvolved with how this plays out?
Dammit Faye. This needs to not be a Faye-relapses-and/or-wrecks-everything arc, we’re all too invested.
I think the fact that she knows it's a stupid reaction and is already aware she's being irrational about it makes that vastly less likely. She's at the "immediately start climbing out of the pit" stage of recovery, if not the "walk around the huge pit" stage.
Yay is the very embodiment of THEM-dom.
Saved. Maybe. (...but maybe she didn't need saving. She seemed glum in panel one, rather than relapse-imminent distraught. Still. Surely Yay can answer some questions, if Basilisk stares at them hard enough...)
I'm sure Yay would have some answers. They would have access to all those secret reports of Bubbles' old team, for starters. But if Bubbles' previous relationships weren't documented (which would be very likely if it was one of Bubs' comrades) then I doubt Yay can help.
First one what???
Bubbles' first lover.
I thought Yay NEVER lied. She’s growing up!
Surely there’s a large moth *somewhere* that needs avoiding
And now we see what Faye will do with her life. Hunt down and exterminate every running instance of Yay, because Yay was responsible for her father's death.
Yay tried to help Bubbles recover her memories only to find they weren’t so much locked away as deleted. And Faye might have remembered that.
US!!
We?
And what were those two doing? Hmmmm?
Basilisk was minding her own business and Yay is stalking Basilisk?
yay youre basically omnipotent, why would you need to hide behind her
Hey, you didn't see how big that moth was!
Speak of the devil!
Quasi-literally.
And here comes the question from Faye to Yay?
WELP