Going Out For Cigarettes
bye pintsize
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It would be amazing payback, but I'm not sure how they would pull it off anyways – Claire negotiated for both her and Marten to visit Cubetown, and unless they're planning to already pack up and bring all their things just in case, that means Pintsize would wake up to an apartment without Claire and Marten but which they clearly didn't move out of.
It feels almost like this is set up for a way-too-serious juke a la CtrlAltDel 'loss'.
Hannelore enters the room with a telegram. "Claire and Marten's plane was shot down over the sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors.""
Come to think of it, Pintsize and Marten have some kind of contractual companionship relationship, don't they? How are situations like this supposed to be handled, by the book? (I'm sure Momo would know.)
More and more, the companion AI system doesn't quite mesh with what the comic has become in the years since. Like, it would be super weird if human teenagers were sold for a one-time payment to strangers that a personality test said they would become friends with and they just lived together in perpetuity from then on.
Waking up and finding them gone would be one thing, but rationality would dictate that they'd just left. For a full-scale prank, Marten would need to find another couple to take over his share of rent on the apartment, have them silently move in during the night, and persuade Faye & Bubbles to insist that they've been living there for years, and that she has no idea who this "Marten" or "Claire" could be that Pintsize is asking about.
Yay and Roko have _always_ lived here. With their cat.
Wait, Faye would be on board with Pintsize being left with her and Bubbles?
Only for the initial shock value. Once Pintsize calms down she would probably shut him down and mail him to Martin.
Ouch xDDD
If he does not do this Μῶμος, (Momus) God of Mockery and Γελως (Gelos) God of Laughter will smite him hip and thigh. Please, Jeph, don't let them smite Marten. Besides, Pintsize has found his Tribe, and Marten and Claire simply aren't part of it.
Even better, Marten and Claire could ask their friendly neighborhood Spookybot to (temporarily) wipe all traces of them ever existing. That would be truly a God-tier prank, which Pintsize would greatly appreciate.
Marten, go home and have difficult conversations with your friends!
Half the reasons I read QC and GWS are for the realistic difficult conversations with (better-off-)divorced moms (Aurelia/Claire/Clinton, Veronica/Marten, Carol/Hazel).
Not to try to guess where all this is going, but... there's a need in Cubetown for coffee, right? And someone to fix and mod robots? You see where I'm going with this.
I had assumed this whole arc was to finally write Marten out of the comic, but I wondered about Claire. If the actual outcome is "the cast all moves to sci-fiville" that'd be pretty rad
I can't say I agree with not telling him, but they definitely should *not* take Pintsize with them. Letting him loose in Cubetown is a recipe for global disaster.
Maybe he would fit right in.
God, I so sympathize on the small town thing.
Pintsize's secret is that his heart is gallon-sized. Don't break it, Marten.
I was gonna say,...... thank you for beating me to it.
tbf Pintsize would probably respect it he'd be very hurt, but still
Claire is too good for this webcomic sometimes 🥲
I think we'd all like to see it
I have a feeling Pintsize already knows. He doesn’t have the easedropping ability that Yay does, but he knows. Maybe it’s a weird sense of intuition. I just wonder what will Faye and Bubbles do with basically a whole apartment to themselves?
Fuck on every conceivable surface?
Claire arguably has a closer connection to Pintsize. Or, at least, she’s one of the few people who can get him to open up, and tries to understand him.
Considering what Claire and Clinton's sperm donor did I'm not surprised by Claire's insistence.
Good point.
… Marten.
I cannot deny wanting Marten to do that. Those early day shenanigans Pintsized did.
There was the laser thing, lots of non consensual humping, sexual harassment, the roomba incident...
Supposing Marten and Claire just leave without telling him. Won't Pintsize stay in the apartment? I don't know if that's fair to Faye and Bubbles. Plus, the more people around, the more diffused the effects of Pintsize's shenanigans are.
Bubbles and Faye alone would be less patient than Marten
Pintsize would probably like Cubetown.
And that would be a problem, wouldn't it?
Hopefully Claire can get a signing bonus that would tide Fay and Bubbles for a few months, or help them find a new roomate or a new apartment.
Pintsize as the new roommate?
It'll just be nice to see Faye. I know she's settled down (although still financially insecure) but it's very different from when she and Martin were the principle characters. We haven't seen her for 85 strips and I miss her.
Wow you keep count?!
I fully support ghosting Pintsize. With a side order of getting everybody else in town to deny that Marten and Claire ever existed
I mean hey, half that job's already done.
so many shenanigans for one small town
Didn't ANYONE mention the possibility of remote work? It's like the QCverse never had a pandemic!
We know they've accumulated an <i>intense</i> volume of junk data. Somehow, with no information infrastructure, I doubt it's accessible to Claire remotely.
I am extremely impressed by Claire here. Pintsize has acted horribly to everyone around him, even make Claire the recipient. She has acted with calmness and restraint and succeeded in reining in his worse impulses. And she recognizes that abandoning Pintsize would be a inhumanity cruel thing to do. Good for her. And shame on you, Marten.
Look, he has a point...
Look, we all know Pintsize would respect the hell out of a move like that, and might actually get mad if he found out Marten came up with it and didn't pull the trigger.
Leave a note: “you’re living with Faye now, ps. I gave her your root password”.
Oh, wow, first comment. 0.o Anyway, it doesn't show often, but Marten has an EVIL side. And it's always hilarious to see.
It makes sense, his mom was a professional dominatrix. He's got to have inherited some sadism genes!
byentsize
While Marten has a valid point here, it’s still an uncharacteristically dick move for him to do that.
Even if Pintisze is a bit of a shitlord, he is still Marten's shitlord... For reference: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1899
Come on Claire, let Marten get Pintsize back for all the shit he put up with over the last few years.
Or months. (but I guess it's probably been at least a year since the comic started)
Jeph, you made me sad-laugh!
It really would be AMAZING payback