I can't wait for the chapter to end edition

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Mike century of humiliation

>>148994795 (OP)
Taeshi still needs to fix those stick wrists, but at least the hands look suitably cartoony instead of the usual horrid noodle abominations.

>>148994795 (OP)

>>148994836
huh?

>>148994836
THAT'S what we're supposed to take from this? Not that Mike just wants some company that he can't have if they go outside? Fucking hell, the woman really cannot stop demonizing him.

>>148994836
>'I need to cockblock this'
YOU MEAN LIKE HOW DAVID EXPLICITLY SHOWED UP TO THEIR MOVIE NIGHT WITH THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF COCKBLOCKING MIKE!?!

from the trash 75236305 has been complete. You know where you can find it.

>>148994836
She really can't help herself, can she?
>It's supposed to be a joke
No one's laughing right now

>>148994899
Speaking of, it's stream day, are we doing a trash thread

>>148994836
>Actually, MIKE is to blame for this
I can't even get mad at how utterly insane this is

>>148994836
>There are anons that think this is how authors treat characters they like
>Just villainizing even their most insignificant actions to their entire audience

>>148994836
Taeshi Is truly insane. Not everyone fucking hanging out means they wanna fuck. Seriously, taeshi herself only a few chapters ago had Mike, David and James running together and hanging out. How the fuck would Mike think it would suddenly be any different?

>>148995120
They're teenage guys and they're sexually attracted to each other. They 100% want to fuck. Mike wants to fuck but can't bring himself to get over Sandy. The entire track team would be having an orgy right now if they could get away with it.

>>148994918
How could anyone even tell when she's joking at this point? It would be a toss at the dart board.

>>148994991
I don't know, up to you. I really don't care that much.

>>148995141
You high, they ain't fucking and especially ain't gonna fuck outta on the field. Everyone keeps forgetting this is like 2008 btw. Oh and I have to reiterate, Mike had been hanging with them literally as usual before. Suddenly fucking would not be a thing they are gonna do here, on track vs running.

>>148995101
To be fair Taeshi is extremely self-depreciating, and it extends to her characters. If she's gotta suffer, so do we.

They weren't even gonna wait for Mike this time. They were gonna leave him in the dirt.

>>148995120
I guess we're supposed to take that last hangout to be likewise nefarious. That Mike was only out there to try and shove a control rod into their Chenobyl-ish reactor of a romance, but for his own selfish reasons. And thus that is why he was so torn up over losing the chance to run at lunch. You thought this was about how Mike is selfless to a fault and suffers for it? Haha, no no no, see, the moral is that Mike is a horrible selfish person only held in check by righteous guilt-tripping from his betters!

Fucking hell, this comic sucks absolute ass.

>>148994836
Cockblock what? Is David x James a thing now?

>>148995256
Sure, why not? Even the throwaway joke romance is kept close on-hand to torture and villainize Mike yet further.

>>148994899
Damn I fucking forgot the whiskers again.

>>148994795 (OP)
Told you that bitch was psycho.

>>148995160
Taeshi will NEVER allow a male gay couple to be together. She never has.

There is no signs David wants to fuck James and he will likely be shoved off with Sue as leftovers like always.

>>148994795 (OP)
This is so retarded, why is he obeying Augustus?
How about they go outside and beat Lucy and him to a pulp and piss on their corpses?
Would be a more interesting story.

>>148994836
Remember everyone: MIKE BAD. No matter what he says or does or thinks it's ALWAYS wrong.

>>148995540
The only way to save this is for Mike to have recognized that David will break James' heart because the only one he ever gives a shit about is Paulo. Therefore it makes sense to sabotage it before this goes too far and James gets hurt. But James took Mike turning him down just fine and moved on quickly so that makes no sense.

>>148994836
Fix it Felix will rescue this situation SURELY??????

>>148994795 (OP)
Knowing poor Mikie, he probably thinks telling them the truth about what Augustus said would make them side with him and turn on Mike. Good job at hiding it Mikie.

>>148995483
>This is so retarded, why is he obeying Augustus?
Guilt or something, who cares, Mike is Hitler.

>>148995141
Lol, they 100% are. The only reason Mike isn't joining is cause he hasn't come out as bi yet.

>>148995120
Probably insecurity, according to Mikie vision, everybody must absolutely be happy without him.

>>148995483
Mike is self-loathing and thinks he only has a life purpose if he's cucked, subservient, and overruled by Lucy and Augustus.

>>148995540
I know this is bullshit but folks got to understand that this is how Mike sees himself.

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>>148995790
This u?

>>148995685
Unfortunately, Veronica is likely allergic to developing side characters. Jordan and Matt barely got them, Haley, Mina, and Cassidy are badly in need of it, as are The Track Team. So let's hope and pray that gay Felix has something to say, yay. You get the idea.

>>148995807
That conversation was about me referring to platonic attachment towards fictional characters, and generally advocating for writing fictional scenarios of story relevant teen sex, and drawing erotic art of aged-up characters, none of which make me what that blatantly offensive file title accuses me of being. Kindly understand and drop this.

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>>148995827
Mate you need help.

>>148995827
This is not better

>>148995790
Taeshi's word of god suggests that is how he's meant to be seen. It feels like she wrote this chapter while feeling sympathetic toward Mike, but as it's being published she flipped back to hate mode, siding with Augustus and assigning the worst motives to whatever Mike does or feels.

>>148995807
so what
fuck off with your tumblr shit.

>>148994795 (OP)
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>>148995066
One of the many many problems with Taeshi's writing is that it's so insanely, predictably annoying, that you sort of start going in denial, as if she is gonna pull a card of her sleeve and make it so the things she puts in her stories make sense, as if she'll show us something that will justify all the misery the puts her characters and her readers through.

It never happens, all that happens is the same annoying things over and over again, in this case, Mike getting humiliated yet again.

>>148995875
I'd say she generally is building sympathy towards Mike, just that the poor guy's doomed by the narrative to be shat on till it damages him to breaking point. Whether or not Veronica derives some pleasure in Mike's suffering is something she should verbally confirm, until then... I do generally think it's unnecessarily petty of an author to hate their own characters though. Characters are meant to be developed to their full potential, not hated.

>>148995910
She is actively villainizing Mike by declaring he's trying to fuck with Javid.

>>148995935
It could also be interpreted as sarcasm, or that Mike thinks that he's a villain by supposedly interfering with Javid, which would make sense.
Mike's self esteem has been shot to hell. Poor guy needs a hug. Felix, James, Paulo? Those three creepy stalker girls? Haley? Anybody?

>>148994822
This was supposed to be the summer of Mike!

>>148994836
I get it but I don't get it. He doesn't wanna get "left behind" by James the way he feels like everyone else did after he rejected them. Seems to me that by the time cockblocking is an available strategy, the thing he's worried about has already come to pass, but I guess he's just supposed to be that desperate. Not sure why David and James can't hang out alone at literally any other time or if I should assume Mike would try to prevent that too.

Deeply strange framing. Like we're supposed to think Augustus was making a reasonable demand of Mike, but him asking his buddies to stay inside with him is this underhanded move.

>>148995968
Nothing about her statement suggests either of those things.

>>148995977
Ah but anon, this is a clear indication that Mike is morally inferior to Lucy. After all, she never tried to get between him and Sandy in the time before volume one. Such a stupid, evil gray cat.

>>148994795 (OP)
Why does the grey cat have to desperately sidetrack other people instead of just telling them what's going on.

And why does the larger dog not simply fuck the twink cat?

>>148996032
Because he'd have to explain his reason for staying off the field and thus the whole Lucy fiasco.

>>148996047

I don't know what you're talking about, I don't read the comic I only read the threads.

Explain the entire plot to me.

>>148996014
I'm already pretty sure that the moral here is that Mike deserves to experience this with almost his entire social circle because he made Lucy feel the same way.

>>148996078
How redundant. Mike already felt that way and expressed it differently by trying to fight the tide.

>>148995977
>Like we're supposed to think Augustus was making a reasonable demand of Mike
Apparently the answer is "yes, and it's weird if you think otherwise" unless she meant something else or expected more Gus fans to still be on his side. Is anyone watching livestream? Bet at least a few people would be asking Tae for the current plot details

>>148995483
>This is so retarded, why is he obeying Augustus?
Guilt and Augustus is well aware that is the best way to control Mike here.

>Not sure why David and James can't hang out alone at literally any other time or if I should assume Mike would try to prevent that too.
Mike has literally never attempted to stop that, and David along with Paulo and Daisy have followed Mike. Nothing stopping David and James from doing solo shit.

>>148996078
Without exaggeration, he has (or really, still does. Not much has changed to show otherwise) expressed he felt fucking alone.

>>148996280
Has Taeshi ever considered having Lucy eat away from a place she could see Mike or test if its him triggering it before being a retard?

>>148996360
>Has Taeshi ever considered having Lucy eat away from a place she could see Mike
What, and place some sort of expectation upon Lucy? Imply that Mike does not owe her the world? That he should not give in to whatever demand is made in person or by proxy?

>>148996672
Yeah, I am always impressed that Taeshi actually proved Mike rant on December right. Lucy actually acts like a parasite.
>Always needing a host (boy)
>Never doing anything of her own violation unless she is killing herself.
>Listless in all ways.
Bet the actual reason she came back at this point is she made no friends at the other school since no one would tolerate her attitude and she had SOMETHING here in Roseville.

>>148996078
>I'm already pretty sure that the moral here is that Mike deserves to experience this with almost his entire social circle because he made Lucy feel the same way.


Then in usual Taeshit fashion, it's executed horribly. Lucy did it all to herself with little to no proof because back then, and still to this day, people are ready to toss mike off a bridge to hang out with her. It wasn't that long about Paulo offered to do it if it meant Lucy would be happy. But she'd rather be in her own little world.


Meanwhile Mike actually has more proof of his issues of people only wanting him for one thing. He's not fully correct, but there's way more evidence of it.

Like, it's actually irritating that instead of having Lucy learn to be a better person because of her falling out with Mike, she just doesn't and mike suffers over a decade of punishment for that one little blowup.
>>148996280
>Mike has tables!

It doesnt matter. It's still fucking insane to ask that and anyone not feeling like a sad sack would have told augustus to fuck off for it. Taeshi is a damn wack job to present this as Augustus not being in the wrong at all.

>>148996762
>Meanwhile Mike actually has more proof of his issues of people only wanting him for one thing. He's not fully correct, but there's way more evidence of it.
He might be at this point, though that mainly ne due to the writing. Plus didn't Taeshi due this isolate Mike thing on Halloween already?
>But she'd rather be in her own little world.
To be honest, I think that is an issue Lucy has always had. She goes off stuff in her own head when it comes to her other relationships and when the one she felt she had spiraled out from her she spiraled out into misery. However, the real issue is we have seen time and time again that Literally all her friends she does not give a shit about have tried to be there for her and like you said would ditch Mike in a heart beat.

In turn it makes Lucy look mentally ill and Mike look right(both true). Taeshi having Lucy comeback and do what she do just confirms Lucy didn't learn anything like you said and she is still off in her own little world. Now both in her own head with the insane dreams and physically. I think if Taeshi wrote Lucy to have mental issues it would probably salvage a quarter of the writing.

>>148995222
Poor guy, everyone leaves him.

>>148996280
I don't know how to say this without sounding disrespectful towards Jilloftrades, but like, their sentiment about Mike not deserving support, it's just... Not okay. And it looks like Veronica may not inherently like Augustus shitting on Mike but still think it's good for story and pleasing to the Mike hating side of her audience.

>>148997014
>pleasing to the Mike hating side of her audience.


shes gonna keep this up and then get upset again that her fanbase hates him more than she wants.

>>148996748
100%, Lucy does act like one. She also likely came back just for Augustus and family, and cause her female friends would suck up to her whenever convenient. She does use and lose people on a whim and at the drop of a hat respectively. Ironically, Mike is the opposite of Lucy, we get to see him hurt himself constantly hoping others will have something to gain from it. It's like, not even mutualism. Whatever this self inflicted pain to boost others is.

>>148997043
Oh great, now we need a quantifiable measurement unit for Mike Hatred.

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>>148996280
The problem is Taeshi refuses to admit EF's conclusion was a massive mistake her part, and keeps torturing Mike for a decision he never would've made if Taeshi didn't have an agenda.
Mike needs to get hit by an Isekai truck already, someone save him from this hell.

>>148997068
I guarantee you that she has one in her head that nobody else, not even her husband, knows about.

>>148997055
I would love if the reason Lucy came back was actually because she tried her usual stunt at her new school and nobody put up with it.

They either barely talked to her, told her to piss off when she did her tsundere gimmick, or just ignored her completely because she wouldn't talk to anyone. To this day, Taeshi hasn't given an actual reason for lucy coming back because she doesn't have one. And by "She" i mean both the character and author.

She didnt know Augustus would be there so she risked being around people she "hated" for one guy who might have fucked off. And Taeshi felt ashamed of how depressed Lucy was in december so she just bought her back just because and then we had the lucy that didn't learn a thing.

>>148997055
>Whatever this self inflicted pain to boost others is.
Destructive altruism, Fucking yourself over for the benefit of others.
>>148997014
>I don't know how to say this without sounding disrespectful towards Jilloftrade
I can, by that same fucking Metric: Lucy, Paulo, Augustus and Jessica should never had been offered any chances after they have fucked up. They ahd fucked up in ways worse than Mike unrioically, the entire comic only exists cause of Lucy's fuck ups. The pic is very relevant since that is why Lucy doesnt get berated.Genuinely, the only reason the orignal is "fine" is due to double standards ofc.
>>148997104
His opinion matters little since the didn't do shit to stop his sister from jumping off a building.

Man I just dont give a fuck about this comic anymore.

>>148994795 (OP)
I'm calling it now. Mike is going to convince David and James to have lunch with him inside. They'll agree, all sit at a new table together, and Mike will begin enjoying things again. And then one of the following will happen:

A) Mike will catch a glimpse of Lucy sitting alone at another table looking horrified at the fact that Mike is inside and having fun. All because she made the decision to eat lunch indoors to give him space with the track team, but didn't tell Augustus. So Mike is going to feel extra guilty for hurting her by existing in the same space despite trying to do what he thought was right for her.

B) The above happens and Mike tries to apologize to her in the hallway or whatever the next class is they share. He'll mention he only wanted to do what's best based on what Augustus said - which will then infuriate Lucy and lead to her having her girlboss moment on Augustus for trying to make "her decisions for her".

C) The scene shifts to Lucy and Augustus outside eating. Lucy will make some passive-aggressive comment about how Mike isn't practicing with the track team. Augustus will let it slip that he spoke with Mike about him staying inside to give her space instead. And this will led to her having her girlboss moment on Augustus for trying to make "her decisions for her".

But let's be real. None of that will happen. David and James are just going to say "nope gotta practice!" and leave Mike hanging because Mike has to suffer alone.

>>148997185
Fuck me, I didn't attach the pic. Everyone here woulda have called Lucas an actual homosexual with the way he was written. Male tsundered only works if the female is an annoying retard like in Aho girl or a potential rapist like in Nyaruko.

>>148995234
> That Mike was only out there to try and shove a control rod into their Chenobyl-ish reactor of a romance
Did you know that Chernobyl only blew up because they shoved all the control rods back at once, which has caused a short, but devastating increase in temperature?

>she's drawing a tranny Abbey
LMAO

>>148997769
Yanno my proctologist is always telling me not to stick all the rods in at once, now I know why

>>148998050
>>she's drawing a tranny Abbey
What the fuck did Abbey do?! Also, he is like the second-tallest guy in the comic.

>>148998181
He committed the crime of being a nice guy, and women like Taeshi despise men trying to be good people

>>148997238
Nah women’s romance is basically full of male tsunderes. The reason Lucas wouldn’t work is because he’d be a manlet. If he was tall he could pull off the brooding asshole type, but a short man acting that way just looks like a pissy little baby

>>148998576
>If he was tall he could pull off the brooding asshole type, but a short man acting that way just looks like a pissy little baby
Fair enough, but how would you try and write him sympathetically after beating Michelle till she tells him off to do a flip of a building? Plus wouldn't it be hard to write a tall guy beating the shit outa a short tomboy for seemingly no reason? Doesnt even work for BCB regular imo.

>>148998720
That's some kick

>>148997142
The funniest thing about EF is that Mike's actual sin, in Lucy's eyes, was getting back together with Sandy instead of her. She didn't give a fuck that he marched on in the next morning as if nothing had happened between them last night. Taeshi was surprised at the backlash which means she also failed to notice the implications.

>>148997055
>She also likely came back just for Augustus and family, and cause her female friends would suck up to her whenever convenient.
Lucy didn't know Augustus was still there, she treats her family like crap for daring to worry about her, and Lucy only humored Sue's concerns while lambasting Daisy from atop her bully pulpit. Lucy still has no good reason for coming back.

>>148997235
>But let's be real. None of that will happen. David and James are just going to say "nope gotta practice!" and leave Mike hanging because Mike has to suffer alone.
I think the two were already going to ditch Mike and he recognized that but stopped them anyway for his own sanity. This assumes that Taeshi's page comment was just her saying as much in the dumbest way possible. James, being a careless idiot but not a malicious retard like David, tries to coax Mike off their backs with some awkward apologies. And of course, Mike feels guilty about putting his needs above their own and lets them go. Then I don't know, goes back to the regular table or something all mopey.

>>148997769
Did you know that one control rod is fewer than all?

>>148998855
>>148997142


EF was an amazing shitshow. You have to try on purpose to fuck up the ending and explanation for mike and sandy that badly.

had a free layup with mike's reasoning but instead of dunking it in, she tries to toss the ball into the hoop on the other side of the court.

>>148997174
>the reason Lucy came back
I think she wanted to prove to herself that what she'd been through had made her more mature. It's why she goes around "fixing" things right after coming back and why she's so steely with Mike. She overcorrects and thinks she's the most mature person, immune to her old pitfalls. It's a reaction to her worries that she doesn't have anything to offer but her body, an alternative source of self worth. Eternal Flame fucks her up so bad because it proves her wrong, leaving her to default to feeling worthless.

Trouble is, I'm not sure to what degree Taeshi intended it as a cope. It's really easy to assume Lucy was legit intended to be a girlboss until Mike destroyed her progress. I guess in a way there isn't too much difference, though. She came back to girlboss, whether in-universe or in a meta sense, and then she got swatted down.

You need a psychology degree to understand these characters shieeeeeeeeeet

>>148999128
I get the justification that Lucy wouldn't hear Mike out by that point, thus the need for another ear to listen (not that Augustus made any more sense) but frankly the way Taeshi presents the whole thing tells me she's a willful idiot. She keeps pretending that most of her audience doesn't hate Mike's guts--as if putting her head in the sand would change anything. Taeshi wrote the last page of EF as if there were some equal and opposite contingent of Mike sympathizers who would jeer at Lucy for being so stubborn or Mucy stans who would lament the "misunderstanding." And she just keeps going like that.

>>148998966
Did you know that you're no fun?

>>148998877
>Lucy still has no good reason for coming back.
She doesnot, but it's the real reason..

>>148999311
Did you know your first question wasn't fun to begin with?

>>148999203
I probably coulda got one with all the time I've spent typing about these stupid cats

>>148997174
That would be poetic, Lucy actually facing consequences cause nobody puts up with her temper, so she's forced to go to a place where that side of her was tolerated.

>>148997185
Should've guessed that would be what it's called.
To Jordan's credit he did become protective of Lucy even before and after she jumped, he was just to biased to bother understanding what set Mike over the edge, or didn't care since he wasn't on the end of Lucy's fists.

>>148997235
Since Mike suffering seems to be the trend, it'll likely be C, pushing him further into depression with David and James leaving him, thinking there's no serious harm done.
I see this leading to suicide Mike, and he has a fakeout where he almost gets killed but his friends somehow revive him with the power of love, and maybe chest compressions?

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>>148995120
I think something important needs to be explained about females to understand this comment:
Taeshi is female. Females cannot understand actual human, platonic connective. To females and their genes, if not family everything has to be romantic or exploitative. So a friend? Either they are trying to fuck you or backstab you, true platonic friends don't exist.
Taeshi can't imagine Mike having platonic friends, because they don't exist to females

>>148998720
We need a B.C.I where Mike is the male tsundere beating up Lucy since she's eight, leaving her bruised and scarred. Then the characters who have a double standard will shit on him for years till one day he goes too far and leaves Lucy so injured that his friends outcast him. He attempts suicide out of guilt, distances himself after surviving out of fear that he'll hurt Lucy, then Lucy realizes that he's a good man in serious need of psychiatric help cause she reminisces of all his non-asshole moments, and takes him back. At least that's how I think it'll go.

>>148998576
Took me a second to realize you were talking about genderswapped Lucy and not yellow furred Track Team Lucas.

>>148999277
>Taeshi wrote the last page of EF as if there were some equal and opposite contingent of Mike sympathizers who would jeer at Lucy for being so stubborn or Mucy stans who would lament the "misunderstanding." And she just keeps going like that.


And the blowback from it led to the creation of the track team that came to basically worship Mike. It was a sloppy bandaid to try and fix his rep by going "Look, see? Mike isnt that bad, guys!"

If BCB had better writing then I would give her the benefit of the doubt that James was always set up to lose interest in Mike and go for David like this because he's just that shallow and was made with that in mind. But because it's Taeshi, I can only lean towards Mike's two outings with them being ruined and James being this oblivious dumbass happening because Taeshi can't resist the "Shit on mike" button for the sake of drama

>>148998877
She probably hoped that Augustus was there, we did learn in a B.C.I that if she knew he was safe she would've left for good, theoretically. Maybe she just came back hoping people would put up with her again, and thought Sue would be the only one.

>>148999128
My interpretation always has been that Mike gave Sandy a second chance and wanted to keep Lucy as a friend. The alternative is him wanting to give Lucy a chance and keeping Sandy as his friend, and worst case, wanting to cut off Sandy.

>>148999335
Kathryn "Itskathy2" would love this, they write those trans Mike fanfics.

>>149000149
It would be interesting as one of those moments that would show Lucy she has to straighten up. But taeshi seems dead set on not showing or really going in depth on anything Lucy did while she was gone. Which is weird in itself but I guess she can't come up with a real reason for coming back.

Even if it was for Augustus, we could have had a small chapter reavealing that among the other stuff. But she just...don't do it so everyone has to guess.

>>148998966
Whoa whoa come on guys, all this talk about shoving a bunch of rods somewhere. Let's try to keep this PG-13 :)

>>148999203
I hope we get one of those WIRED interviews where a certified psychologist actually reacts to B.C.B and tries to give analytical profiles about the character's behaviors.

>>149000358
>they write those trans Mike fanfics.
Oh come on, this was from a couple of months back where a bunch of peeps posted R63 BCB stuff. Just cause Mike is sub 5 feet doesnt mean he wants to be a girl. Even if Teashi technically dressed him up as one that one time.

>>149000305
I'm pretty sure the purpose of Mike is to suffer, just to show that one randomly can just for being nice and completely undeservingly, while the only strings keeping him sane are the handful of moments of appreciation he gets from a handful of people who value him outside of some personal gain. It's an interesting theme, we're left to wonder how soon the characters will have more empathy for him.

>>149000371
She still has time, I'd be disappointed if she buried this for eternity.

>>149000424
Imagine if Veronica randomly blamed sexuality or gender dysphoria as the root conflict of the comic. We're all thinking that Mike and Lucy are insecure due to their fuckups but it's not that deep. They're secretly gay, lesbian, bi, or want to transition and don't know how to express it, so they act pissed off till they do. Honestly that would be flat, I hope it doesn't go there. But I did speculatie that we could get some future homophobic or transphobic bully villain to unite the characters against him.

>>149000457
I wouldn't count on it based on how she handled the fallout of Lucy's suicide attempt.

>>148996078
That wouldn't make any sense, though. The whole reason Mike started hating Lucy was because he felt like he was being ganged up on by his entire social circle for the "sins" of not accepting Lucy's confession, and trying to get away from being her emotional support crutch. That's WHY he went on the December rant, and both before and after that there were tons and tons of examples of Lucy's friends trying to reach out and be nice to her - which Lucy consistently rejected or ignored, because the only thing that mattered to her is that she couldn't have Mike.

I'd also point out that post-return this is STILL the case, with Lucy seeming to begrudge and resent her friend's attempts to be nice to her. They throw her surprise parties, invite her to hang out and talk, and help her with whatever, and Lucy just glares, rolls her eyes, and talks shit behind their backs (and to their faces, sometimes). The closest thing to reciprocation is Lucy setting up Paisy, and even then she was super salty the whole time.

>>149000582
Based. Plus, even though it's not deserved I'm pretty sure Mike is circumstantially suffering for being nice while Lucy is getting rewarded for being an asshole. The only good conclusion I can see is that Mike goes so far down the depression hole that Lucy has to put her ego aside and help him out of it, actually learning to be grateful for something and convincing Mike that he's worth more than he thinks. Maybe the bad ending is that Mike kills himself and only then Lucy realizes too late that she could've done something to pull him out. Lives the rest of her life crying to her friends cause the guilt of treating Mike like shit (again) destroyed him. In a reversal of December, Lucy ends up becoming the reason Mike is gone.

>>148997142
EF in general was a massive mistake. It's like 5 deus ex machina in a row. The only good thing to come of it was the meems.

>>149000582
Nobody has proven Mike's rant wrong in universe yet. Lucy got another security blanket so she came back acting like a shitlord and we've seen Mike's friends get ready to torpedo him for her sake. No narrative attempt to prove Mike wrong. Just suffering like he's being punished for daring to be justifably mad at lucy.

Honestly, I still think it's dumb that she apparently tried to jump because Mike apologized. It actually makes things more retarded than if she tried to kill herself because he hadn't.

>>149000501
>future homophobic or transphobic bully villain to unite the characters against him.
We have a dangerous criminal/ attempted rapist walking around who kicked the shit out of the cast a while back. We don't need anyone new.

>>148998720
>how would you try and write him sympathetically after beating Michelle
I dunno that you have to, just reframe the story as dark smut; there's tons of stories about physically/sexually abusing innocent characters, and the genre is rather popular. Though r63-BCB would have an uphill battle, since it's not explicit enough to work as straight-up porn, nor tonally dark enough to hack it as an erotic horror story.

>>149000791
Oh yeah, I just meant someone in the school who could like, build up to him. Unless Alejandro wants to haul ass and become a school shooter soon.

>>148994795 (OP)
By the way this randomly came up in conversation in Discord. I'm curious. If Mike and Paulo get married, who'd ya'll think becomes the breadwinner and housekeeper? Then again both would be cute in a maid outfit.

>>149000582
Mike should really just leave the cafeteria like Lucy, let her have it. Augustus seems to think she's making a sacrifice letting Mike be there, but I don't think she'd be so eager to go back given the chance. Or maybe she'd love it, idk, depends on if Tae wants Lucy to be inexplicably fine again just to show how much happier she is than Mike.

>>149000796
>nor tonally dark enough to hack it as an erotic horror story.
Nah remember how Lucy used to get sexaully harassed by Paulo and David which made her issue with others wanting her for her body make more sense? Just have it happen to Michelle with everyone. In fact, dont change Jess' or Rachel's sex so this is especially obvious. Like, make Michelle afraid to go in the shower room tier rapebait.
>Unless Alejandro wants to haul ass and become a school shooter soon.
That would be one way to get rid of him for the story if you have Mike save Lucy from getting shot. It would immediately make everything forgiven. Issuue is, knowing taeshi,, she might cripple him and make it so mike can never run again. Like a shitty persona 5 rip off without the harem.

>>149000858
No, that would imply Lucy is being unreasonable. Tae's BPD is swinging again so now Mike needs to be hated again, until it reaches the arbitrary point where it's too much and she'll get pissed at her fanbase again.

>>149000868
I want to write an erotic horror fanfic of B.C.B if I can, hope it goes well. As for Alejandro, um, I'm doing a spoilery variation of that. But yeah, I'm hoping one saves the other from death, if it's Mike it would be the ultimate sacrificial blow and Lucy would not be able to deny how much he cares about her.
The Alejandro school shooter idea is something I actually wanted to write in my latest fanfic but couldn't find a grounded place for, plus it would take long. I changed it to Mike hunting Alejandro instead of vice-versa.

>>149000868
>she might cripple him and make it so mike can never run again
Degrassi?

>>148998720
>but how would you try and write him sympathetically after beating Michelle till she tells him off to do a flip of a building? Plus wouldn't it be hard to write a tall guy beating the shit outa a short tomboy for seemingly no reason? Doesnt even work for BCB regular imo.


The only way a male lucy could ever have a chance of being sympathetic before or after something like that is if he's only verbally abusive and even then that would take a lot of work depending on how bad it gets.

The moment he starts putting hands on her, he's damned to hell by the fandom. The story would have to be about Michelle getting out of a super toxic friendship with them and it would have to end with Luke getting a taste of his own medicine and/or never being seen again.

>>149000940
This variation would be interesting to see. I also would love to see a universe where Liam takes mike's Place. Since Liam is a suckup simp who only sees the good in Lucy and never acknowledges her violence, he winds up in a toxic marriage with a domestic abuser.
Something I can relate to seeing growing up.

>>148999157
That makes some sense, but still doesn't explain why she was (and is) such a massive asshole. Sure, being standoffish and even mean to Mike makes some sense, in an overcompensating, chip-on-her-shoulder kind of way. But she was also being casually mean to people who'd never done anything to her, like Daisy and Sue. Even before she left, she was always snide and dismissive of her female friends, but she was even worse on her return.

Personally, I think Lucy's character makes the most sense if you assume that she is incredibly sexist: she doesn't see anything wrong with hitting boys, being cruel to boys, or manipulating boys sexually, because she thinks of boys as "tough stoic easily-led meatheads". She also doesn't see anything wrong with treating her female friends as rivals, backbiting them, or insinuating that they're dumb sluts, because she thinks of girls as "bitches who are in constant seething competition for attention and status". So in Lucy's worldview, all her bad behavior is just her acting out her role as a tradgirl.

>>149000693
> It's like 5 deus ex machina in a row.
The way some people talk about it, you'd think Mike intentionally sought Lucy out. He didn't, he just randomly ran into her while he was having a full on mental breakdown and would have glomped onto anyone for support. Not like Lucy intentionally seeking out Paulo and taking advantage of his simphood for her to make him her emotional caretaker.

>>149001247
Lucy cannot be fully divorced from her creator, who at the time angrily regretted having put Lucy through so much. It's not a stretch to suspect that Taeshi let Lucy run wild as a recompense of sorts (and of course to live vicariously). Maybe there were some hints that Lucy wasn't really all better, but I don't trust Taeshi to stay on-message thanks to her shifting whims.

But if I was being charitable, perhaps Lucy thought everything would work out one way but then reality set in. This can be observed in how fucking pissed she got at Paulo for not obeying her back on the ferris wheel. Lucy came back, got comfortable with Augustus, then fell back into her ways with interest, because she never actually resolved her issues, just improved her mask a little.

>>149001351
Don't forget that Lucy was outside, alone, near the anniversary of her suicide attempt. And none of her family had noticed or was concerned. Mike running into Lucy then is an absurd coincidence.

I just get frustrated when people talk about how the ending of EF was a "wasted slam-dunk", because that ignores that the entire chapter was a clusterfuck of stupid nonsense

>>149001553
>Lucy came back, got comfortable with Augustus, then fell back into her ways with interest, because she never actually resolved her issues, just improved her mask a little.


This is the only part of her return that I can see making sense. She found a super quick replacement for Mike and Paulo, so in her mind she didn't have to adjust and better herself.

The only thing here is she's setting herself up for a fall when/if Augustus leaves to a place she can't easily get to

>>149001606
I found it very hard to believe that either Lucy or Mike were being honest with each other under that tree. We know for sure that Mike did come to despise Lucy for a time, so he clearly lied about at least one thing right to her face. And "I never wanted you to suffer" was such a big steaming load of bullshit from Lucy that she could have fertilized half of the American bread basket all on her own. Any kind of romance or friendship that came from this would suffer from the same old unresolved problems. Lucy even made a big deal about how they needed to be honest with each other in Another Flame, right after telling another major whopper.

Of course, Taeshi might not have even remembered what she wrote back around December and meant everything they said as canon, because fucking hell her standards as a writer are at rock bottom.

>>149001636
>so in her mind she didn't have to adjust and better herself
Worse, Lucy believes she's done both.

>>149000940
There was another AU variation that I liked a lot as an idea, which was Female Mike, but everything else stays the same, and instead of romance bullshit it's about Michelle being the anchor friend of BPD Lucy, the one that has to constantly walk on eggshells, receive most of the abuse and also apologize on her behalf to everyone else. It'd be interesting to see a story in which Michelle might be allowed searching for some relationship but having to live without it because the friend that's constantly saying she'll kill herself if you leave her alone won't allow it, and a Lucy that can't just play the attraction excuse to keep a friend

>>149001796
Wait would Paulo still be bullying her in this version? Plus it is an intresting version but issues, Lucy's behavior changes since she would not be seeking a relationship in that manner with Michelle but clings to her regardless, easy way to have the latching on is the tomboy stuff.

A posdible benefit to this, It would mean one of the few consistent male friends to both would be Paulo which would color Lucy's relationship with boys more negatively when compounded with alej. Issue now become that there is a chance alej would target drunken Michelle here too. Would be funny if he lost a fight to 2 little girls though.

Actually, would this Lucy tolerate Michelle getting groped or would Michelle? Paulo gets hands with Mike so it's hard to tell how he would treat a female. Oh and that would also mean Michelle and Paulo can never have sleepovers. Also Daisy woulda been able to force herself onto Michelle & Kessica would now understand why everyone wants the korat( this comic becomes a dyke fest fast, it might be needed to cut some older cast, hot damn).

>she'll kill herself if you leave her alone won't allow it
Nah, Lucy before the December screamers woukd bait her friend in by acting vulnerable and make herself appear small before repeating her behavior, post December would mean either Augustus or she constantly uses the suicide to make Michelle her (platonic) bitch.

Actually, Augustus cornering a distraught girl alone(assuming a similar bad relationship like sandy) is not a good idea since he has set a Precedent with daisy.

Anyway, this was a weird tangent but fun.

25% of this thread is one autistic Indian, and that's not counting him clearly talking to himself half the time

>>149002454
Do not fucking bully him out of namefagging. Without the name we wouldn't even know this. There is no IP counter and my filters are my last line of defense.

>taeshi drew the idw sonic characters

>>149001735
In begrudging fairness to Lucy, she never said "I never wanted to see you suffer". The line was "You think seeing you like this makes me HAPPY?", which is still dubious, but at least isn't a *blatant* lie.

No, for me the biggest problem with EF is the implication that Mike can only repair his friendship with Lucy if Sandy is out of the picture. That makes Lucy look really bad, in that it implies she's ONLY capable of being happy and forgiving if Mike is romantically available to her.

>>149003237
You're right about that last bit, Lucy is jealous of Sandy and doesn't value Mike outside of being a romantic trophy. She is pissed right now cause Mike is with Sandy.

>>149000840
Paulo breadwinner, Mike housekeeper. Realistically both of them would work but that one comic where adult Mike fucks adult Lucy gave me the impression that Sandy was the breadwinner while Mike became the full time dad.

>>149003605
Fair, and Paulo is passionate and hard-working at workplaces. With Sandy and Mike it makes sense since Sandy would make a remarkably high salary.

>>149001955
In my autistic idea Paulo is the same, but instead of giving Michelle shit as a rival he does as a cock blocker. Also you can have Michelle slam his face into a table the first moment he tries to get touchy with her, activating the part of his brain that learns, and keep his hands to himself when close to her, and also gives Michelle enough guilt to still hang with Paulo

Sigh... I thought that by 2009 we would be past this.

>>148997043
>then get upset again that her fanbase hates him more than she wants.
This of course being the same woman who made a BCI wherein everyone's life was immeasurably improved by Mike never being born. I get that it was a joke, but when you keep doing that stuff to a character, you can't be surprised that your fans follow you.

>>149003874
Fans: "Hey, here's a fanfic where Mike is happy and everything goes right for him!"

Taeshi: "Ahhhhh, I'm melting!"

>>149003892
As if Taeshi gives a shit about your retarded fanfics

>>149002957
Not a huge surprise, she's been a sonicfag since forever. Was still a bit startled to see Surge looking back at me when I went to read the comments, though. Good taste Gabe, whoever you are. lol SCD had her draw Loona

>>149003758
I'm so fucking stupid, I forgot what the latest page even looked like and assumed this was either a leak or a stream request. Was thinking this might actually be a decent excuse for them not to stay inside.

>>149000975
Best ship

>>149003237
EF got a rewrite, and Im 80% sure the originale line was "I never wanted to see you suffer" or something like that. Too bad EF needs AT LEAST a Page where Lucy is seen as the one going for the kiss, webtoon comments still think Mike RAPED her, but Veronica is too lazy for that

>>149001247
>in Lucy's worldview, all her bad behavior is just her acting out her role as a tradgirl
So basically, Lucy's soulmate is Alejandro.

>>148994795 (OP)
Mr. Sad Crying Cat is probably the gayest comic I've ever read

>>149004110
Oh yeah, and then Liam spends years being domestically abused, has like three kids and watches Lucy beat them too, nobody tells anybody out of fear of shame and ridicule for being abused by a woman despite female domestic abusers statistically being more prominent than males, nobody tells Lucy no until it's decades late, when the kids are teens Liam has enough, calls police, there's a messy divorce and custody battle, if the kids are old enough they cut their mom off, and maybe Liam either retains custody or nobody believes him and gives the kids to Lucy, but at least he's out of the marriage. Worse, he may have to pay child support or alimony as a price for freedom. Now that's a bittersweet ending. Mostly bitter though.

>>148994836
>>148994795 (OP)
do women become so vapid at 40 that it seeps into their work? Or is that just taeshi being herself?

>>149001606
I bet they put a GPS tracker on her or something. She's too unstable and groomable to go out alone

>>149003605
>>149003672
Think Mike ever did some modeling with Sandy before Porsche was born? It's stated multiple times in the comic that Mike is extremely handsome and desirable, and Sandy or whoever she models for would want to capitalize on her relationship status and have them together for a few photos. There's also that when Mike is first seen Fork in the Road his hair and clothing is much more stylish.

>>149006037
Makes sense, even though it's not Mike's job she'd likely call him for a few photoshoots to appease the press and make some extra dough, and making your daughter the budding celebrity on the cover of a magazine wouldn't hurt. It would make her popular at school, probably backfire if jealous girls decide to bully her though. Lucy might also see it with envy.

>>149006058
Lucy would definitely be seething with envy if she saw Sandy and Mike in magazines and on TV. She'd definitely feel extremely inadequate since she's just a waitress at college. The boy she always pined for and her greatest rival are now celebrities, while she's nothing.
Now wonder Lucy let Mike have his way with her when he wanted some action. It was probably one of the greatest affirmations that she was worth something she ever experienced, at least until morning came.

Someone should spank Lucy

>>149006218
The saddest aspect is the fact that her child doesn't have a father, and yeah that alone would fill her with envy since Sandy's child has just that.

>>149006475
Well now we know what Mike gifts Lucy for her birthday ever year.

>>149006475
Wtf

>>149006475
>>149006670
I suppose I should post this here before the tards start cooking up weird theories about this even though this is /co/ so you'd think they'd get a comic reference

>>149006508
Yea FITR Lucy's life is a bit of a nightmare. Envying and just wanting a bit of the attention and love that Mike gives Sandy and Porsche, while she and her bastard daughter languish.

On a lighter note though Fork In The Road is just Mike being a horny jackass, he just doesn't care about the consequences. Mike and Sandy are clearly doing the dirty a lot as beautiful couples do, but when Sandy starts needing time to herself and leaves Mike unattended he gets upset. He doesn't even stop to think that Sandy could be pregnant or something. He then decides to visit Lucy out the blue and have a talk with her, then as soon as she shows a hint of reciprocating and vulnerability Mike bangs her. He then never checks up on her as this was clearly just a one night stand for him.
Did Mike do this to anyone else? Did he visit his other highschool sweethearts like Amaya, Sue, or Stacy when he was having "trouble" with Sandy? I mean probably not but it's funny to imagine that Roseville just has a bunch of Mike's illegitimate children living in it.

>>149006700
I thought Mike looked like Tom in this.

>>149006702
>He doesn't even stop to think that Sandy could be pregnant or something
I don't think they were trying for a kid. And how often they did the dirty. For all we know, their yearly sex session was Sandy's lazy birthday gift to him that year.

>Did he visit his other highschool sweethearts like Amaya, Sue, or Stacy when he was having "trouble" with Sandy?
God I would love that but I kinda doubt he'd go to anyone but Lucy. After all, they're meant to be.

>>149006702
I'd imagine this universe's Mike going that far. Horny enough to give his female friends kitties. I'd like to try writing a continuation of F.I.T.R based off one of Veronica's art of Mike literally trying to abduct Luna (the Mucy daughter). I'll see how that goes, it'll be peak Mike assholery.

>>149006702
>but when Sandy starts needing time to herself and leaves Mike unattended
FITR Mike is a jackass, but I think you need to reread the BCI: Sandy broke up with Mike completely and "chose work instead", and guy was single for long enough to travel around and get in contact with Lucy's family. Only for her to later go "nevermind, I'm pregnant, let's get back together honey". And later Mike checks on Lucy via the phone, only to tell the bad news and for Lucy to not reveal anything to not create telenovela level of mess. Two horny idiots and one regular one

>>149006833
I also heard that this was written before Lucy's return so it's likely that in this universe, Mike banged Lucy after their last personal interaction was Mike's rant in December, which would make things awkward. Now he gave the woman he apparently hated a child she's stuck with taking care of for life, and her kid is a living reminder of who threw her away.

>>149006475
Isn't this more Alejandro's alley?

>>149006844
It's a recurring theme that the characters in B.C.Is have to be comically stupid and reckless but of all of them, Fork in the Road felt believable. A bit rushed but Mike is the type of person who would drop or get with girls on a whim even if it's not the right decision. And Sandy baby trapping, yeah, something she'd do. Hell she could be having Francis' kid right now.

>>149006872
FitR was the origin of that version of Mike and only made sense because he'd been worn down by living with Sandy for years. Taeshi later tried to force it in-comic, along with all the other poorly executed character changes.

>>149006833
>God I would love that but I kinda doubt he'd go to anyone but Lucy. After all, they're meant to be.
It's fun to imagine Mike being an asshole and turning out a bit like Paulo. Especially since he's so meek and broken in the comic proper. Like what if in FITR after Sandy broke up with him he decided to have a good time with all the girls he should've given a chance to in High School, and Lucy was last on the list.
But you have to admit though Mike knew what he was doing when it came to seducing Lucy, starting on the couch with the talking then kissing and ending up in the bedroom. Even if that wasn't supposed to be the Taeshi's intent that's what it looks like
>>149006844
I probably do need to reread the BCI it's been awhile but I remember the broad strokes at least.
Unrelated but do you think Mike knows that Lucy got pregnant in fitr? Lucy did tell her mother to not tell anyone who the father is, but Mike is also in contact with Lucy's family. It'd be funny and sad if Mike was sending money to Lucy through her family, but Lucy never accepts it because she doesn't want to rely on her family.

>>149003605
>but that one comic where adult Mike fucks adult Lucy
You can just look at Grave Concern to see that Mike does end up a stay at home dad.

>>149006871
One day Mike might snap and take what is rightfully his. Plus, Alejandro would go a bit further than 17 spanks and a kiss.

In the original comic, Tom tries to seduce Toots by offering himself up as her slave. Toots and another gray cat called Bob then laugh at him and work him until he snaps.
Mike is treating Lucy with a satin glove because of his guilt doing everything she wants him to, but he too may snap.

>>149007242
Given what happened when Mike dropped the scarf line back in EF and went all Casanova out of nowhere, Lucy would probably be into that. "Never wanted it," indeed.

>>149006872
>Mike is the type of person who would drop or get with girls on a whim
What comic have you been reading? Mike is a character whose primary issue is fanatical loyalty. He was unshakable in devotion to Lucy until her taking it for granted let Sandy slip in through the cracks, and then he was fanatically loyal to Sandy until she made a mockery of that loyalty.

I wonder how the AI anon is doing now that the NSFW booru is dead

>>149007440
>He was unshakable in devotion to Lucy
He was flip flopping between her and Sandy the entire time, he says himself everytime he gets a letter he switches back to Sandy mode and the last time before this chapter that he got a letter was months ago, Mike turning down girls he wasn't interested in anyway like Daisy and Katie doesn't make him fanatically devoted.

>>149007440
>>149008524
I think it's more accurate to say that Mike TRIED to be fanatically devoted to Sandy, hence why he overshot the mark when pushing Lucy away. The whole Cheater Cheater Cheater fiasco started it, of course. But it didn't kick into high gear until Mike realized his best friend who he'd been crushing on for years was an abusive user...and yet he still wanted her on some fundamental level. That was despite having a girl who seemed to be at least ten times better than Lucy in every way.

As to the letters example, I don't think that should count. None of the three cats were in a relationship at that point. Mike didn't officially focus on Sandy until after he okayed it with Lucy.

>>149008592
>Mike was fanatically loyal to Lucy until she fumbled the ball to Sandy!
>no wait he wasn't in a relationship so it didn't count for some reason and he wasn't loyal to either of them
zzz

>>149007946
Don't worry about me. I'm having ChatGPT zerk off to bcb for you all while the site is down.

>>149008785
>Mike was fanatically loyal to Lucy until she fumbled the ball to Sandy!
Alas, if anon were less sleepy, perhaps he would not have dreamed up this line.

>>149008912
>Mike was fanatically loyal to Lucy until she fumbled the ball to Sandy!
>He was unshakable in devotion to Lucy until her taking it for granted let Sandy slip in through the cracks
Explain how these are different

>>149008928
Better idea: How about you point out where I argued either of those things?

>>149008900
Well I don't think the NSFW booru is ever coming back so if you ever have ai generate more lewds just post them on rule 34

>>149007946
I'm alright, just working on Felix and porting them to illustrious
I don't think anyone but me and SST himself were actually looking at the booru anyway, so while it sucks not having a place to put the sloppa it's not such a huge loss

>>149009246
I liked looking at the booru sometimes and it was a good archive of art from these threads over the years. The stuff you generated was pretty good as well, especially all the office stuff. Maybe you can post all the slop somewhere else?

>>149009246
Although the non-AI booru hasn't had new content in ages, there were a surprising amount of occasional visits coming in regularly. I never checked the AI booru, but I don't it was as popular.
Looks like Cloud At Cost has finally shit the bed completely. Unfortunately, I'm quite busy these days, so I don't know when I'll restore a backup to a new server.

>>149006700
No, we got the reference, it's still weird Taeshi drew her characters in this position

>>149006475
Kind of unhinged for modern BCB. Did anyone request this or did Taeshi whip it up out of the blue?

>>149010655
She probably just wanted to draw Lucy getting spanked with an "out" that it's a joke.

>>149010867
She's not based enough for that

>>149008524
>Mike turning down girls he wasn't interested in anyway like Daisy and Katie doesn't make him fanatically devoted.
It certainly indicates that he's not the type to "drop or get with girls on a whim". Him taking the constant physical and verbal abuse with barely a complaint and always prioritizing Lucy's happiness over his own is him being devoted past the point of reason.

>>149011274
Plus there was the whole "I should have listened to Paulo" bit about letting all the girls "have their way with him."

>>149006475
Between this and all the porn Taeshi made of Lucy getting bound by her own ribbon it seems canon that Lucy is a mega sub

So how many of Mike's problems do you think would be resolved if he had a singular good friend to vent to that was not tied up in all the bullshit baggage of his current friend group? "You were right to crash out on Lucy, her attempt at suicide isn't your doing, you should really dump Sandy, yes you were a jackass but that's just part and parcel of being a teen but otherwise you're a great dude, I'm here if there's anything you want to talk about but if it's just company you need then let's play some vidya, etc." The track team seemed to be going down this path, but obviously Mike can't have good things.

>>149011940
>Raging bitch in the streets
>Mewling kitten in the sheets
Many such cases.

>>149011940
Reminder:
Every character in BCB is a mega sub unless proven otherwise

>>149012053
BCB cats crave correction. Except Rachel and Amaya.

>>149006475
It could just be me but it feels like she's been on an MxL kick lately. Like she's getting antsy about not being able to write it in the comic proper so she vents with stuff like that drawing of Lucy wanting to baby trap Mike. I almost feel bad for her cause she fucked the ship up so hard in canon, it's going to be a nightmare getting there. The relationship itself aside, I cannot imagine Mike managing to win Lucy's family and Augustus over enough to have a chance.

>>149011213
This and one of the other drawings say Lucy has a "relieved smile." Not sure what she has to be relieved about. I'm gonna guess she makes up with Paulo and he thanks her for getting him and Daisy together.

>>148994795 (OP)
Ya'll, it ain't much but this author who's also a B.C.B fan is in the process of making an anthro webcomic and it's pretty decent, I recommend it. It's small but could fill the void we're missing without B.C.B or Bleating Heart.

https://www.deviantart.com/duplexium/gallery/all

>>149012303
>feels like she's been on an MxL kick lately
I think she's just finished two MxL BCIs (that won't be posted for a while). Lucy also probably gets knocked up in at least one of those.

But this was probably a request from someone else and MikexLucy is the most basic of BCB ships.

> Not sure what she has to be relieved about
During the stream she showed an unfinished page from a folder called "127 - Mike Dies". I guess Lucy is happy Mike hung himself.

>>149012328
>unfinished page
Ooh, any more details?

>Mike Dies
His suffering is finally Maishover, Alhamdulillah

>>149007032
It also kind of reminds me of This Shade Of Blue by Boondock Jake, where after years of being seperated by their jobs and almost never seeing each other, Sandy and Mike go from happily married to exhausted of the relationship, well mostly Sandy who gives him divorce papers. Made Mike depressed enough that he started to re-love Lucy. They also predicted the Eternal Flame scarf color reason before it came out.

>>149012395
Nothing about Mike dying

>>149012429
But it looks like Mike managed to convince James to join his table and Lucy is there too now I guess

Also spoilers I guess if you didn't watch the stream

>>149007133
Well in that case it's mostly cause Sandy would make so much money and be so busy anyway, might as well have Mike at home to cook and clean. I also imagined that Porsche would resent Sandy for not being around, becoming a "daddy's girl" and also being mad at her mother for abandoning her dad for work. Mike tries to explain that she's just a busy woman but Porsche doesn't by it, says that mommy isn't a good mommy if she makes her and dad sad all the time. Would be interesting to see their home lives more often. To add further insult, her elementary and middle school classmates could be like "Wow, your mom is so rich and famous, must be so cool to have her!" not knowing how lonely Porsche is, or how much she prefers Mike.

>>149012439
Holy shit kek, what does Mike do to make literally everyone hate him in one chapter

>>149012429
>>149012439
wth evil james arc??? Kinda juicy ngl, can't wait to read in 3 years

Looks like it was actually David that convinced him? I think I got my wish and Mike left the cafeteria, letting Lucy in.

>>149012469
Bang his sister in the living room.

>>149011961
I thing the major issue with that is how Mike's been told something similar by multiple characters but he does not seem to believe them. Probably because, in his mind, those characters are only saying those things because they lack the full picture. None of them are privy to what happened between him and Lucy. The unresolved guilt will keep preventing anyone from getting through to Mike.

>>149008524
I don't blame him, he had a choice between the abuser who was there and made him feel miserable with little redeeming qualities, VS the non-abuser who was sweet but inattentive and wasn't there. Also who later cheated on him. It was interesting of Mike to consider he had more options in the library, the girls around him treated him like shit at one point, he might as well go full harem king and have the option of many. Maybe those three Mike-stan girls may have been good partners, who knows?

>>149012328
>MikexLucy is the most basic of BCB ships
Yeah, one of the most basically despised across the fandom, maybe.

>>149012490
Paulo and Abbey are just jealous their sister won't let them do it.

>>149012493
Mike tried to open up about his feelings to Paulo but that didn't really work out. Especially because Paulo got jealous when Mike nearly took his work husband from him (who is now chasing after David it seems).

>>149012510
They've been will they/won't they since the start of the comic. They were also the last kiss depicted in this comic up to this point. It's a matter of time. Lucy WILL baby trap Mike.

>>149012303
I fully expect all those insurmountable obstacles to be sidelined out of laziness or used as more Mike torture fodder.

>>149011292
Reminds me of this idea I had, when Chris gets to middle and high school, Paulo coaches him on how to be a good playboy cause just like for Mike, the girls have the hots for him. Paulo encourages it, not wanting Chris to end up a poor lonely miserable loser like his brother. Mike isn't amused. Either it can go smoothly or most likely crash and burn with all the girls in his grade fighting over him or calling him a cheater.

>>149011961
Good friend to vent? I'd say, Rachel, Felix, or even Haley and her friends. Literally anybody caus eit would give them development too.

>>149012053
Well that's challenging, if every single one of them was the sub, what would they do in their alone time without a dom?
It would probably go like "Okay Mike, I'm going to gently bind you with this ribbon. Now I'm not trying to hurt you sweetie, even though I kind of hit you since we were kids. You'll understand, right?"
"Don't worry, I understand completely."
Endless cycle of anxious fear of hurting the other. I see Rachel being most likely to be dom though.

>>149012520
>Paulo and Abbey are just jealous their sister won't let them do it.

Man, you know that meme of the lady yelling at a guy and knifes stabbing him? (symbolizing how her words hurt him.)

Can we have an edit where it's their sister yelling "No, I'm not going to femdom you!"

>>149012328
I haven't been able to write it but I had this idea of Mike attempting suicide following Lucy's death from her suicide, specifically by hanging himself with his own scarf, as unbelievable as that sounds. Veronica also drew Lucy, Daisy, and Paulo crying at Mike's gravestone, maybe if he becomes suicidal and succeeds that would happen.

>>149012576
This is why no one in this series stays together and fucks, two subs can't fuck

>>149012429
Future page? Is James pissed at Paulo? Now I'm curious.

>>149012429
>>149012439
Wuh ho ho, looks like something real bad went down between Mike and James. I figure David's just taking undue credit because lol joke character. Lucy rejoining the table and James coming along is quite the shake up. I wonder if the suicide drama nuke finally re-armed and went off or if Mike finally cracked and fell on his sword. The fact that only Paulo seems to give a fuck about Mike at that is pretty neat. Dare I say it may even make up for his earlier turbosimping.

At the end of the day, I'm just fucking shocked that something will Actually Happen in this mobius strip of a plot.

>>149012487
Well we tend to have nice and sweet characters like Daisy and Sandy having their own negative arcs, might as well have one here. I do think James' obsessive tendencies (crushing on all the boys) might be his social downfall perhaps.

>>149012624
Lol. The real reason relationships don't work out in B.C.B. Sandy probably got with Francis cause he's a dom and Mike isn't.

>>149012634
Whatever concievable turn of events would lead Lucy of all people to join the table, as well as James. We have got to find out soon.

>>149012429
>>149012439
>James tries to fix things between Mike and Lucy
>He and Mike get into a big fight
>James quits the track team because ???

>>149012634
The way I think it's going to go down:
>David and James still go outside
>David or James see Lucy, James says "Oh yeah she was a bitch to Mike"
>David says that Mike tried to make her kill herself
>James and David go up and talk to her and convince her to come eat lunch inside.
>They go in first and walk right past Mike, blowing off him calling out to them
>Then Lucy comes in and sits down with them
It's clearly Mike's fault for trusting the gays not to give into their treacherous natures.

>>149013046
Does James still even care about Mike? So far he's shown more regret over losing Felix.

>>149013156
He cares enough to be pissed and bitter and is judging Mike for not giving af about the track team. Who knows maybe Mike blew up at him for stalking him for at least a year before he ever said a word to Mike.

>>149013180
I mean care about Mike as a person, not someone who did something to piss him off.

>>149012429
>>149012439
So James, Lucy, Paulo, and David are at one table, with Mike seemingly having been chased off (possibly by David) to make space for Lucy.

But while James assumes Mike can just hang out with the rest of the running team, he appears absent from their table too, and Paulo seems to be the only one worried about Mike.

>>149012634
Paulo's often "worried about Mike", but unfortunately he's also reflexively a snarky asshole, so that worry only manifests in "tough love" wherein he tells Mike to suck it up and calls Sandy a bitch.

>>149013156
Felix and James were actually dating
Mike was someone he knew for a few weeks, asked out, and then was told he's rather be with someone he doesn't see irl
And then they both kind of broke things off

>>149012634
If it was the suicide getting leaked I don't see why Lucy would be at the table given how much she resents people treating her differently for it, whatever it is it's going to need to piss off everyone at the table but Paulo, and also piss off Lucy.
At the very least something has to happen in addition to it, like Mike beating up Augustus for exposing the suicide attempt

>>149013305
Mike was also someone who James was apparently stalking and pining after for months.

>>149013180
James doesn't seem super pissy while discussing Mike here, so I assume the play has to come up before whatever goes down between the two.

>>149013323
It doesn't seem like Paulo knows what exactly went down. Maybe after James and Mike's falling out and Lucy coming back to the table are treated as two separate events, though I seriously doubt they're unrelated.

>>149012439
The dialogue makes me wonder if James and David got kicked off the track team. Not sure what they could have done to warrant that, though.

>>149012429
>Mike finally leaves the cancer table
Y-
>Isn't with the track team either
>Now everyone hates Mike
Wow.
I mean genuinely.
Wow.
You think things can't get any worse.
But they do.
Wow.
Why did I ever bother writing fanfiction for this shit when it was pointless and hopeless all along...
I gave these people. 5 whole american dollars to leak a page of this.
And it was for something that only crashed and burned, it left behind radiation poisoning.

>>149015323
Not only did he leave the table and is apparently all off on his own now, Lucy along with James have both joined the table. This happens one chapter from now. What the absolute fuck happened?

On the upside, Mike Alone arc. We get to see what happens when Mike is no longer desperately trying to maintain dying connections with his so-called friends.

Spoiler and important update: Mike WILL die at the end of this chapter

>>149015486
>Mike dies
>All of his friends finally unite into one table to collectively hate him

>>149015390
>James and David ask why Mike is so jittery
>Mike explains what Augustus told him
>"H-Haha we're still friends though right guys?"
>James angry mode
>"You're a fucking dickhead for making a girl try to kill herself, Mike. We're done being friends."
>James and David quit track team together to mentally support Lucy and invite her to the table
>Mike alone arc
>constantly messaging Sandy every chance he gets to stop the mental breakdowns and voices in his head
>at some point Paulo reaches out for the double date chapter thing
>"Pull yourself together, Mike. You deserve a second chance. Get rid of that bitch Sandy and delete her number. Start over. Come join Daisy and I on a double date. I know just who you should come with"
>Felix walks through the door
>The rest is history
Okay probably not Felix but man I wish

I genuinely gained suicidal feelings knowing what happens to Mike now. FUCK WHY DO I KEEP READING THIS SHIT

>>149015323
It doesn't show the full track team table, are we sure he's not there? I can't figure out why else Paulo would be looking forlornly that way.

>>149015511
More like Taeshi loses all interest in the comic now that it's all just Paisy and glazing Lucy with no more chances to hurt Mike.

>>148994836
Taeshi must never be allowed to have kids. She will abuse, manipulate and gaslight them beyond help.

>>149015597
I figured he was just looking for Mike and didn't see him there.

>>149015534
Why would James and David devolve into Lucystans out of nowhere? Why would Mike cling to Sandy at this point?

>>149015684
>Why would James and David devolve into Lucystans out of nowhere?
For the same reason everyone does despite Lucy being both nothing but a cunt and generally dismissive.
>Why would Mike cling to Sandy at this point?
Desperation, nta. Seems it's a weak lifeline anon made to stop Mike from.spiraling.

I am starting to very much hate Mike's friends.

>>149015684
Mike doesn't really have any other friends at this point he hasn't tossed aside for Sandy
Paulo and Daisy have each other
Abbey is rehabbing his mental illness
Sue is Sue
Who is he even supposed to rely on at this point? His track team friends were his last social circle and now that's poisoned too.

>>149015918
>he hasn't tossed aside for Sandy
He screwed at sue once and already apologized.
Who has he actually tossed aside as a friend for Sandy? The only ones he should still have actual issues with are the white cats( including the emo here).

>>149015918
Tossed aside? He got pissy for a while and then apologized. Maybe his friends might look at it that way, if their egos are made of glass.

>>149015918
I don't really feel bad about it either, strictly because he did all that for a phone girlfriend who cheated on him for a whole year

>>149015646
The BCI where everyone's lives are better off with Mike dead ends with him killing himself and going to hell
Death is not the end of Mike's suffering

>>149016016
Eh, Mike ego isn't the strongest either but you can argue its due to bad friendships. Though You can argue some of the cast has reason for fragile Egos:
>Daisy: being a fucking teenager girl
>Sue:???
>Paulo: Single Dad, mum dithlched them when he was young and is living her best life. A true bitchy women.
>Abbey: Dad bear and murdered mum and he is adopted
>David: An excellent argument to why digs should exist in this story.
>Amaya: Nothing wrong with the mute. :D

He didn't really actually toss angry of them.aside. Even after he screamed at Sue she still hungoutwith him. We have actually seen him/ interact amd talk with these guys. So while he may feel alone or bit distant woth them, he never has actually thrown any of them away. I am not factoring the whiter cats here ofc.

>>149016140
>BCI where Lucy is dead
>everyone is sad and mopey even ten years later
>BCI where Mike is dead
>everyone's lives are comically better and the author Word of God's all the reasons why he's a piece of shit before sending him to hell
I don't know bros, I don't think Taeshi really likes Mike..

>>149016176
Sue is just another insecure teenager who deals with it by fostering an illusion of superiority. Alternatively, she has a narcissistic tendency to demonize anyone who challenges her self-image.

>>149016246
This is why a small part of me believes Mike really does just straight up die. It seems more likely than Taeshi writing anybody as worse off without him. And it's easier to swallow than Mike needing to grovel his way back into an eternal probationary friendship.

>>149015511
If Veronica ever verbally affirms that the moral of the entire comic is that Mike sucks and deserves to suffer to make the world peaceful, I'll be pissed. But apparently she's implying that.

>>149016590
I wouldn't worry about that, given Paulo's concern over Mike's absence. Had I more faith in Taeshi, the contrast between his attitude and the nastiness of everyone else would be a clear warning sign that he's right to worry. But Taeshi does love assholes.

>>149016696
Mike's absence where? Me no remember.

>>149016908
The preview pics. He's not at either table.

>>149015662
I hope Taeshi miscarries if all else fails. Unironically better than living

>>149016998
>Taeshi being mean to a cartoon cat /bcb/ self inserts as
Pure evil, insane BPD bitch
>/bcb/ wanting to kill themselves, and or wishing for the death of a child over Taeshi torturing a cartoon
Rational, healthy response

>>149013925
But then he turned him down and introduced him to David who James seems to like even more.

>>149014278
If Lucy or Augustus explains what Mike supposedly did, he might turn on Mike. Plus, mike doesn't seem to be able to explain his side of the story at all, or doesn't even seem to try anymore because the cursed universe he lives in favors Lucy above all else.

>>149016441
Her illusion of superiority makes her such an excellent bullying victim. She didn't even know she was a loser until Stacy had to point it out. Then when Stacy visited her hospital she basically accepted her place as the least popular girl to be avoided by anyone with status, and still she thinks she's better than Paulo.

>>149015662
>>149016998
What the fuck is wrong with you. Get help.

>>149016927
Oh dear, yeah that's concerning.

>>149016998
Hey could you say that again but like link your full name and social media? Thanks.

>>149012634
>Mike asks James out on a date, egged on by Paulo
>Lucyspace happens and Lucy and Sue teleport to where Mike and James are
>explosive double date
>Mike wigs out because Lucy and offends James
>Mike cries.

>>149017615
It's a bloody miracle James didn't see Mike slam Paulo, which would've turned him off immediately. Or maybe he's like Paulo and a masochist who thinks partners hitting you is hot.
Also, pretty sure every teenager has illusions of superiority.

>>149017853
Give me your family’s social media in return

>>149012439
Is James seriously going to turn into a Lucy stan too now? What the actual fuck? Their only interaction so far was THIS

>>149018184
He'll find a way, if Veronica's determined to make Mike suffer. Maybe Lucy shit talks Mike to James, sways him to the Lucy cult.

>>149012429
>>149012439
>James legitimately hating Mike despite to this day scooping up any cool info about him from David
>They don't even call Mike by name
>David forgot their new year promise
>Lucy not only chill at the table with others but with zero supervision from Augustus who would literally forcefully drag her out of there due to agreement with Mike
>Neutral/supportive people like Daisy and Amaya missing
>Paulo the only one trying to find Mike and asking wtf is even going on
>Chapter name
>It's happening in the second next chapter

This is totally Paulo's dream - maybe self-reflective if Sue joins David and start talking that he was one of the biggest Mike-haters and "rival" until recently - to motivate him to stop sitting on sidelines and actually do something about MIke's mental health, and maybe to openly cause chaos during Sandy's visit. Or Taeshi is tired of fans who think that his table pals are "totes his besties offscreen and totally nice to him and love him and cherish him" and decided to be as blunt as possible

>>149012634
> The fact that only Paulo seems to give a fuck about Mike at that is pretty neat
Paulo has been always attentive to Mike ever since cosmic gay rays accidentaly hit him. The problem is that nothing ever happens in this comic, therefore Paulo cannot grow or go through character arcs. This, combined with Lucyspace warping his behaviour, has assasinated Paulo's reputation in this threads.

>>149018695
> has always been
> these threads
It seems I'm especially degenerate today.

>>149018184
More likely just a Mike hater, with Lucy along for the ride. I'm sure Lucy returning to the table and gaining a new "friend" thanks to his absence will do wonders for Mike's self-image.

>when i'm gone everything gets better for everyone else

>>148994795 (OP)
>this retarded OP fucked up the OP so hard that it accidentally bypassed my filter
>decide to glance into the current state of the comic
>It's unbelievably dogshit as per usual since when I first filtered this retarded garbage.
This shit belongs on /trash/, fuck the mod/janny who thinks otherwise.

>>149019486
> this post compels me to feel strong emotions
> it should be banned then
Welcome to the age of mediocrity.

>>149018695
A real shame that Paulo only treated Mike any better because of gay boy lust. As opposed to gray cat not throwing up his arms and giving up on Paulo years ago like all sane people would.

>>149019486
to be fair this chapter is particularly more dogshit than usual, I swear.