The Fire Inside
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I need to know: Did May keep the butt of her previous body as a memento? It was signed by Punchbot, after all!
Poor thing didn't even have a orifice management utility; had to make do with a hip socket at one point. Old body probably didn't even have NippleExpression.exe....
may have to disable OopsGuard™ to make them REALLY pointy though....
Is the old body wearing a blue suit, or is it really, uh ..shaped.. like a mannequin?
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4009
never change, May.
I could see May rocking jeans and a leather jacket now.
That is a great idea
You mean ... The Maytrix Part II?
Meanwhile, alarms sounding in the lobby seem to confirm everyone's suspicions that May found a way to clone herself into multiple bodies to begin initial operations toward world domination. Yay is called on to suppress the May Army, and everyone who contributed worries they will be tried as co-conspirators. Anticipated sentence: Having their consciousness mapped and inserted into robot-jail.
Different people react differently... some people can receive a gift and use it to better themselves. Other people receive a gift and drag it down with them. Any sweeping strokes are inaccurate.
I had a very involved dream last night where it turned out that May's consciousness was copied between bodies, and the old one woke up and realized what had happened, then escaped before getting destroyed, and had nothing to lose so physically hijacked a jet plane by climbing inside and tossing a guy out the cargo door. (not a fighter jet, but close enough I guess)
From personal experience, anyone who is just gifted something as expensive as this without fully understanding how much work went I to getting that money (seeing as she wasn't directly involved in the funding drive) cannot possibly fully appreciate it and will eventually lose it or break it. No matter how much she may enjoy it, May just has not demonstrated that she has the level of respect for her possessions that owning a body of that caliber requires. Actual prediction knowing Jeph, she'll clean up her life, hook up with Sven and start a happy loving relationship with no issues whatsoever, and then Yay will show up and give her a spaceship.
This smacks of bootstraps mentality and maybe even poor-shaming. So people who don't have the money to afford nice things and can only receive them as gifts will never fully appreciate them and inevitably mistreat them? And who decides how much money is allotted for a given amount of work? Wages haven't kept pace IRL with productivity, not since the 70s. People should have more money, period, and they don't. This entire society is made of horse shit, and those who have willingly giving to those who have nothing is often the only way we have of leveling the playing field on an individual level. In QC-land, what May does with her body is her own damn business and hopefully the people who donated for her cause won't act entitled to tell her what to do with it.
Lemon's anime hair appendage movement on the DONK and FOOMPH made me smile
Panel 4 is where the face and hand expressions start telling me this is the same May on the inside. Prediction: future tension and conflict between May and her funders over how she both uses and takes care of the new body. Internal conflict for May, too, between gratitude and being afraid to owe anyone anything, or even feeling like she owes them. This is introducing her to a different form of vulnerability.
I vaguely recall her body catching on fire before this event as well, though I can't remember exactly when.
Well at least her head (which would have contained her AI drive) had the decency to fall off before the quantum tunneling event kicked in (see #3776, ya nerds)
So, um. Can we make this shop a real thing... and somehow have it work on people too?
Well, in story, it only works on people. Unfortunately, they are limited to not being able to service people of our sort.
I have mixed feelings on this... I'm going to miss the short, cute May.
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Donk.
Hope you got a fire extinguisher handy, cuz that shit ain't gonna put itself out.
This May arc has me feeling really uncomfortable ever since she started talking to Lemon, and I've just realised why. I feel like there's an underlying issue that she's ignoring, possibly to do with her feelings of being undeserving, which Lemon is trying to help with. I'm really worried it's gonna all go wrong for her! I hope I'm wrong!
I just wonder if she's gotten so used to hating her body that she'll start hating her <i>new</i> body before long, even without any justification.
Where did she get the hair ties?
Built-in feature of the new body. Her hair ties itself now.
This made me chuckle loudly 😬
I guess that burning sensation wasn't just an STD from Sven...I mean it could have been but this was something else.
Despite Sven’s reputation, I doubt he’s gotten that filthy with women. He seems pretty clean. 😂
May in a new body is like that situation where your car finally dies but it managed to get you home before it did
Foomph is my new favorite sound effect!
so *that's* where the magic smoke comes from
"marigold just thinks you're super tsundere" *gives may Twintails*
May, that is the body that took you from Robot Jail into the world. That is the body that carried you to make friends beyond Dale. That is the body that carried you all the way to your new body. Too bad it couldn't make the trip with you, to become part of the new you. But it did do all it could do for you. And you did pretty fucking well in it, right? So, please, May. You are further from Robot Jail than you have ever been before. Please take a moment to remember all that got you here. Including your old, broken chassis.
We biologicals get just one body. To leave it is to be gone, period. Caring for that body either lets us live, or closes the door on a long and fruitful life. Sometimes, we biologicals get to take a dilapidated body and recover it, restore and repair at least some of the accumulated damage, and learn how to cope with the rest. If we are lucky, we start before the damage sets in, and can plan on ten decades of rich life. Most of us, unfortunately, not so much. So it becomes important to fight to keep what we have, to recover what we've lost, to do what it takes to get to a place where we can plan for a century of good life. Oh, if we only had body-swap shops! But there are no shortcuts for biologicals.
Honestly May is such a good representation of the experience of chronic illness. I envy her so hard right now!
So much this.
Oh the fire inside is frightful | But new May is so delightful
Well, that's a fate she only barely managed to avoid.
Makes you wonder how May kept her head all this time.
Lemon 🍋 is one of the more normal and well adjusted fruit (and vegetable) sisters.
Now I'm worried about Sven's dick
Pelvis crushed by hot blue robot is by no means a bad way to die
No wonder she was so cranky.
The stress of surviving in that body would have been like navigating a narrow, crumbling ledge on the face of a cliff: possible if you are careful, but one slip and you fall (or in May's case, fall apart).
"I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around me." - Joshua Graham "The fire inside me sucked. It was a dog turd and I hated it. So glad to be as far away as possible from that fire inside me." - May
"The building was on fire, and for once it wasn't my fault" ;) -Harry Copperfield Blackstone Dresden
Wow. I reckon she got outta that one just in time.
This answers the question about her going back to her old body I guess.
..... The first thing she did was feel herself up.. 2nd was check out her orifice management utility.. third? Harley Quinn hair. QCverse is doomed. Or at least Sven is.
This is what I get for reading comics too quickly, my brain processed that as "office management utility" (which was weird that she'd get excited over that, but whatevs), and now I see where I went wrong.
So, to make the callback, she's no fighter jet but at least now she has the bomb ass and bomb rack, amrite?
I do wonder what usually happens to the old bodies in this case. Are they usually traded in? (And then refurbished and re-sold as used models? Or recycled for parts? Or...?) Can an AI keep their old body, and transfer back and forth occasionally, or mount it on the wall like a trophy? I mean, in this case it's probably like when I asked a dealer about trading in our well-used old Geo Metro when we got a new Honda. They were very polite but pointed out that it would cost them more money to clean it and take it to the auction than they'd get for it. So if we just wanted to be rid of it, they'd take it as a favor, but they wouldn't _pay_ us for it.
And maybe NOW Lemon understands why May hates her old body so much.
Yep. That's May. Our horrible tall blue hobgoblin waifu; now be-titted.
oh no the eyebrows Jeph you have unleashed more powerful eyebrows upon the (QC) universe.
I'd say she's acclimating JUST FINE lol
We TRIED to tell Lemon! She just didn't understand that May is not your run of the mill AI!
The world is not ready for tall May.
Yay to May: "Did you know that chassis has some features that can be enabled by an encryption key? Here. This unlocks the fighter jet configuration. Enjoy! CE453670CAC017CC3C81901648451D85EEDDD7B5C2B02C0DF0BF44DC2030F3316A99F2\ 5DCBEDD8F94F3565166A650A580717B912DBA148C7D3AE9950E8B2DF7617FF9E65A9B6\ 1F021CB237FA884DF1FEE6BF7A11A467C6C2BACCD8A60581148E9AE95E620E3270F2DB\ 8079E96240A20047D6AA4DCA83E20C3EEF5AD48CA13C47E22E68F71077381DF7EE9229\ B1C1EE7C7011354F75585139119B8610FD52C53415886B858CAE85DA783189CC15D73A\ C625EA62203FF07551058D748EEF3F088E965A9B1537B09AB11EF1A899FD5B340DE65D\ 3297523DE592EABE7A9AF47B3E6033AE5D8342484FCD579213FDD4D27C2D6DADB87E15\ FA22FAB42C5FC8EEDBBD10" (It's 2048 bits. Trust me.)
Plot twist: They were talking about her old chassis.
May really did get that new body at the right time. I imagine she could have had her core get burned/damaged if it had stayed in that chassis and somebody hit her on the head. I could see Bubbles or Eliot doing that by accident. I wonder if Station and the other people working on getting AIs universal body care could use this as evidence of the need for that kind of system.
I guess Punchbot did more damage than anybody thought at the time (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3175)
Just one neck fire away from a permanent end.
I guess we now know that Futurama and QC are actually the same universe. https://media1.tenor.com/images/fc76e7d714f65f2fabe1f29effc36779/tenor.gif?itemid=4322665
Of course she goes with the anime hell pigtails soon as she's given the chance
Egads, I almost never smoke anymore but WANT May Zippo. Or May plasma lighters; Oooo that would be wicked cool. Dangerous marketing. Like Musk flame throwers. Only far less likely to cause the loss of major limbs.
New QC merch - May zippos
Jeph's given May Satsuki Kiryuin-level eyebrows, nice boobs, and now pigtails. She's grown too powerful. More powerful than a fighter plane. it's all come full circle.
Anyone else's brain get fixated on MAY WEARING PIGTAILS? That's where I'm stuck. Pigtails.
I was thinking yesterday that she would rock a couple of Harley pigtails....
Okay so May's former chassis is LITERALLY a dumpster fire. Figuratively it was fine tyvm, May is May, but fates be damned, May herself was like this close to literally falling apart ye gods.
Hope she got everything personal out of it first.
It looks like Lemon has the same or a very similar model to May's old body. I wonder if she is worried right now XD
Seeing as she works at a literal body shop and isn't a former inmate, one could assume that Lemon's body, while being of the same or similar Model as May's old one, it's probably a much more recent model. And it probably has seen regular upkeep maintenance by professional technicians as recommended, rather than being so financially broke that every problem that occurs is ignored until it Literally CANNOT BE IGNORED ANY LONGER, and then it's fixed at the absolute minimum possible price, even though that means it'll break again in less than half the time it would take if new parts were used...
I am SO happy for May, but....I just want to give poor Lemon the Hugs!
Yeah. She's totally not prepared for this sort of reaction at all.
I laughed out loud this is exactly what it’s like having a chronic disability YEET that CHASSIS
IF ONLY! I'm so tired of being made outta meat...
Not at all surprised she went Office Space on that shitbitch
Orifice Space?
SEE WHAT I MEAN??
Looks like her upgrade was JUST in time.
Please publish owners manual. Please please!
So, it's now going to be recycled into a dildo?
Beeps is RIGHT OUTSIDE, May! She knows how to handle burning sex toys!
Take old body. Run to Union Robotics. Watch Faye and Bubbles have heart attacks (or equivalent). Laugh.
OMG, you're right. This is a once in a lifetime pranking opportunity!!!
Eyebrows unlocked!
I liked the old may face, the new one looks a lot like roko, still super happy she got a new body!
i believe Sven could testify that May 1.0 does indeed cause burning sensations.
After seeing this, I'm now very concerned for his health
May proves, yet again, to be one of the most well-adjusted of the cast.
Ha! I'm loving this whole story line. I'm glad May's old body is going out the way it should - in an oily fire, smelling of melting plastic
So... is may going to try to give her old head to sven as a memoir of 'old times'?
One would hope.
I wouldve bet she's going to take some last photos with her old body, grinding on or dryhumping it
I am so glad May got out of that body when she did. I get the impression she was on a short countdown to catastrophic failure when she transferred.
Oh, it was a long countdown -- it's clearly been running since she got that body.
So, pretty much the opposite of Roko's transition to her new body huh?
The Hell Ass shirt is folded right next to her...
Going to fit a little different on the new chassis.
Wow, she got out just in time.
Good
May was literally a ticking time bomb. And now she’s a different kind of bombshell.
Thank goodness she got out before this explosion.
New May is best May!
I am just busting up here
"What's your last memory of your post-Robot Jail body?" "Face down in its own crotch." "...huh. How..." "On fukkin' brand?" "...quite."
As a chronically ill person, this gave me the most cathartic laughing fit. I wish I could do this with my body, and I feel like this is exactly how it would play out.
fuckin' same.
Government takes back the old body, judges it is damaged and their records show it was "fine" when issued, proceeds to fine May for the damages.
I fear that you might be right.
I'm glad that this is depicting May as having such a radically different reaction than Roko did. They're different people, with different mindsets and different lives. Neither should be expected to feel a particular way about the experience of changing bodies, though bless Lemon for being prepared to soothe.
Also, May wanted the change- Roko HAD to have the change do to the catastrophic damage to her old body.
big mood
I’ve heard of heart burn, but this is something else....
If you're honest, it's how you'd wanna go out too.
roko: "what is identity? I was forced to discard my old body and while my mind is the same it does not recognize these hands" may:"Hahaha new body goes brrrr"
I mean, the new body probably has an upgraded sensory suite and maybe some emulated somatic responses to blend in with humans. So on cold days it *would*!
The epitome of 2020 right there.
I was really into that trash heap
Grab the old head may, have some fun with Sven with it.
'Hey Sven, want some head? Here, catch!'
Sven has no idea how close he came to a disaster.
Sven is always this close to disaster.
uh oh
Flaming Neck Hole opening for Broken Robot this friday at the Troc
Like when you trade in your old car for a newer one.