>>149056941 (OP)
Yes Mike, that is it
This is the last BCB General thread we’ll ever make

>>149056941 (OP)
Pretty much looks like it, though the Track Team seems to notice him (for now) in the thumbnail.

>>149056981
Even if they don't notice me, certainly you guys will. Right?

>>149056941 (OP)
Holy fuck what is this comic. At this point, someone put Mike out of his misery and burn everyone else alive

>>149056941 (OP)
>everybody betray me!

>>149056992
None of that, thank you.

>>149056992
Dont do that man. Don't RP. That's cringey as fuck. Get a discord server.

>>149056993
>Holy fuck what is this comic
For a good long while, it was the Paulo Show. Now we're reading the spinoff, Everybody Hates Mike.

>>149056984
Felix and the other track team fuck buddies who aren’t getting dogged are Mike’s final chance to cling to someone before he suicides
[/spoiler]They will fuck it up because this comic is Mike suffering torture porn[/spoiler]

They seem unimpressed

>>149056992
STOP

>>149056984 #
Felix and the other track team fuck buddies who aren’t getting dogged are Mike’s final chance to cling to someone before he suicides
They will fuck it up because this comic is Mike suffering torture porn

>>149057033
The page spoilers imply that Mike does not vibe with the larger track team.

>>149057036
>Dude you're being too faggy even for us, you're off the team

>>149057036
>bro is so fucking dramatic lmao
Fuck them

>>149056992
You're welcome here Mike, you will learn how to be a gamer. The best thing to do is go use the gamer word at that ugly siamese cat. What's a good slur for it? A chink?

>>149056941 (OP)
David and I, we're gonna get some Sun, hope Mike's going to be okay.

>>149056993
Well I suppose he could stand in the path of Chicxulub 2.0 to go out quickly.

>>149057036
They are essentially glorified background characters, with personalities based off tropes rather than Taeshi's own brand of insanity. Thus they are the closest thing in this comic to normal people reacting to a thoroughly Taeshi-fied character.

>>149057013
It's all good fun :)

>>149056941 (OP)
Come on Mike, the Sperg Gremlin formula is calling.
Take a bigger dose this time. Much bigger.

>>149057013
Oh hey, don't mind me man, just scrollin through.

>>149057109
Hell no, that whole stretch of the comic was nonstop garbage. Mike's anger, justified though it may be, will never be allowed to accomplish anything good.

>>149057051
Half look concerned and the other half confused

Back to wasting huge chunks of space I see.

>>149057026
Which is probably going to be a prequel to Everybody Hates Chris, when he gets to high school of course.

>>149057138
Nothing in this comic will do any good because the writing is trash, but several characters need to lose a few teeth.

>>149057055
How can you be "too faggy" for the resident gay/bi representation characters? Is that even scientifically possible?

>>149057051
More like Mike just refuses to get closer with any of them and Taeshi never bothers to explain why. Just like with Daisy.

>>149057064
I don't know, I wouldn't want to upset him even more.

>>149057172
They're not crying like a bitch because the school bicycle moved on to the next fuck are they?

>>149057167
>several characters need to lose a few teeth
Sure, but we both know Taeshi will never let that happen. Consequences only ever apply to Mike. Everyone else gets their turn as the loveable blameless asshole.

>>149057051
Next chapter will probably just be Mike getting Love Me'd.

>>149057180
Ironically, Mike gets kicked off the team once they learn he's somehow a full blown heterosexual.

>>149057213
This is Bittersweet Candy Bowl. NOBODY is heterosexual.

>>149057173
By the time of the previews, the chapter after next, he can't sit with them because Lucy is back in the cafeteria. I don't know what will happen with the track team, but if anything, it will be immediately rendered moot by him swapping places with Lucy.

>>149057213
If anybody I think James gets kicked off, since I can't think of a reason he wouldn't just sit with David at the track table otherwise.

Whatever happens next is going to be really weird and stupid, I'm actually kind of into it.

>>149057223
More like BIttersweet Candy Bowl

>>149057263
I wouldn't say James gets kicked, he may just move. The Track Team would sooner kick Mike than their resident flamboyant gay icon, especially since Mikie suffering is the Universe's demand.

>>149040902
Do you take any request? (I assume you dont draw mike, just asking)

>David leaves track time for made out of air shit reason Takeshi always does with Mike
>James leaves because he’s dicksucking dog cock now
>Mike is cemented as in the track team with the rest of them while James and David move tot he table, and the fallouts of this
Admit would be kino but we know it won’t happen as it’s too much potential

>gets pushback from fans on the excessive Mike abuse
>immediately doubles down
this bitch is on Lifetime Original Movie levels of being a psychotic cunt

>>149057187
Well... duh if you're talking about what Taeshi would actually write, in which case there's no point in saying ANYTHING should happen because she's a monkey's paw so it would only lead to more Mike suffering anyways.

>>149057263
>I think James gets kicked off
My guess is that James is just following David who wants to sit with "Lucy baby," plus he wants to avoid Mike who has every reason to sit with the track team. Plus James doesn't seem terribly troubled for someone who just got exiled from a whole friend group/favorite activity. But your idea is more interesting.

>>149057173
>>149057051
>More like Mike just refuses to get closer with any of them
It's literally this. The bullshit reason is probably something along the lines of Mike wanting only James' attention because he was the one crushing on him. It's why he hates the idea of Daisy and Paulo. He can't stand the idea of people moving on from him. I have pointed out in the past that Mike's never had a real close friend that didn't crush on him, so maybe that's what why he finds the rest of the track team lacking.

>>149057363
>gets pushback from fans on the excessive Mike abuse
How I wish that were true.

>>149057263
James getting kicked off would actually make sense given he's added people to the team and interrupted practice solely over his boy lust... but Taeshi, so you never know what actions will have consequences unless they're Mike's meaning all of them.

So this is just Mike having a fucking dream right? I mean Tae is not this retarded corrected, granted she is a BPD monster. But this is just beyond mentally retarded if Mike is not having a very lucid nightmare ATM. Realistically no one would treat him this badly, even someone with autism would notice. Something is very wrong with Mike just by his body language, let alone his voice. Someone ANYONE who even knew Mike just a bit would ask him. Are you ok dude.... like for realizies do you need to speak with a doctor/etc. Are you/do you want to an hero or worse do you want to/are you going to shoot up the school after having one final mental breakdown. Its Lucy and her pet faggpt isnt it, what did they threaten you with or how did they hurt/blackmail you. Its ok to tell us Mike no one likes that psychopathic rapist gang banger faggot and people only pretend to like Luc because they're scared of what she will do during another one of her breakdowns before pretending to commit suicide again for attention. As her parents threaten everyone that even looked at her with lolsuits blaming everyone else other than themselves for their shitty daughter

Srsly this better be a dream. If its not this Le Mike must suffer beyond suffrage because of Lucy she did nothing wrong MIKE RUINED HER LIFE. Its just fucking man its just too much, this only proves how mentally ill,unstable,illogical and over all how fucked in the head Tae is. For writing this shit thinking its completely normal and this is how people talk/act. For real man this better be just some horrid lucid dream and shes taking the piss.
Because if its not god damn shes using Mike clearly as some guy in her past she wishes she could have made him suffer for some reason.

>>149057394
That interpretation doesn't make much sense, given how Mike complained that everyone just wanted his cock. It seems more rational that Mike is looking for a best friend candidate--remember that he had no idea James wanted to clash poles until speedsexual's parkwalk confession. Before then, he took James' lovebombing as platonic.

>>149057445
This perfectly explains why I hope Taeshi never has a kid. She genuinely thinks that how she writes is a good thing to be proud of and that gives clues to how she is irl

>>149057445
Even tho the guy was an unironic low test beta as fuck basedboy he clearly angered her beyond all logic and reason, in order to write out her sexual violent fantasizes for so long.
OR OPTION B which is less retarded and kinda based shes doing this to manipulate her paypiggy fans writing all this Mike abuse. Waiting till some other pro-Mike paypiggies throw even more money so she can write more drama .Even more sociopathic defending Mike from Lucy.

Collectiting money and fooling us all. Rubbing one out daily licking her screen while reading all the salt,rage&tears on her discord chat. Only to scream DID I SAY STOP *punches suitcase as hard as possible in the back of the head* DID I TELL YOU TO STOP NO WHY DID YOU STOP WHEN I COOMED YOU ALWAYS DO THIS TO ME YOU ALWAYS HALF ASSED EVERYTHING YOU DONT LOVE ME YOU ONLY WANT TO HURT ME. Here I am trying to enjoy earning money manipulating my fans causing so much emotional drama and mental illness and you have to ruin it all by stopping for no reason! This why I never have sex with you this is why I always cheat on you! YOU RUINED MY ORGANISM I HATE YOU SUITCASE YOURE JUST LIKE THEM! FUCK IT MIKE ABUSE IS BACK ON THE COMIC IM TELLING EVERYONE ITS YOUR FAULT LIKE ALWAYS DONT YOU DARE TRY AND SHOW YOUR BRUISES OR BLACK EYE SO HELP ME GOD ILL MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE A RACCOON YOU FUCKING SNAKE

>>149057394
>Mike keeps crying breakdowns because people want to fuck him and not have a close platonic friendship
>Track team wants to be this, Mike is entirely indifferent to them
Taeshi is right, what does this faggot want?

>>149056941 (OP)
Thankfully once high school is over none of these people will ever see each other ever again. One day they will look back and laugh at how dramatic they were as kids.

>>149057542
At this point, if Taeshi's not just being batshit again, Mike's probably just seeing himself as a reject, so is starting to avoid everyone else because he's assuming they're just going to do it too.
And of course he hurt the goddess Lucy so deserves it. In fact he deserves worse.

>>149057542
Anon, Taeshi is the one writing the character, you're falling for her discord cult tricks

>>149057457
>That interpretation doesn't make much sense, given how Mike complained that everyone just wanted his cock.
You mean like when Lucy said she didn't want any of the boys attention, especially Paulo's, only for her to be disappointed when Paulo said she wasn't interested in her anymore and then throw it in his face the moment they start arguing? Or how about the time she started kissing Augustus because she thought he would fold?

>>149057542
IDK you ask taeshi, she is writing this fucking idiot

The funny thing is this behavior is thanks to the og friends. Mike is so used to have friends who love him unconditionally (daisy Lucy) and knows not to trust fake friends (paulo) who later become real friends only to reveal they have a crush (still paulo)... he doesnt know what a friend with no hidden intent is. The only one could've been Abbey, but we all know where he is now

>>149057542
>Taeshi is right, what does this faggot want?


Taeshi is doing this so Mike can continue to suffer. It's inorganic as hell just like when he started sperging at everyone for half a decade.

>>149057363
>gets pushback from fans on the excessive Mike abuse


They weren't pushing back on the abuse. They were hating mike way more than she wanted and it bothered her. Despite her being the reason they hate him so much.

>>149057646
I feel like Mike and Abbey SHOULD be close friends, especially after his Sperg Gremlin saga and Abbey being in therapy over anger management, and they do that role playing thing together... they just aren't for some reason.
Oh wait right it's because Mike's not allowed to have nice things.

>>149057445
Honestly I wonder if this Mike hatred abuse is because of a guy that made her mad for some reason. Even tho the guy was an unironic basedboy lowtest beta faggot. He made her insanely enraged that to this day she still has to write all this compulsive sexual violence against this poor dude. Creating Mike to be her blow up doll because this guy just did something to make her so petty&mentally ill.

BPD women make no fucking sense. Their compulsive hatred towards a man is legit terrifying. Even two decades later they still think of X daily wanting to hurt the person so badly. Even tho it wasnt their fault was something so tiny/petty or in reality they caused the problem in the first place but refuse to take responsibility.This behavior is not only being normalized .But enabled&celebrated as heros, taught to young kids. this is how you act/live/treat men/lovers/friends/family

People have become so selfish apathetic entitled immoral etc
Once again this shit is enabled celebrated taught blasted to young people daily on social media on their dumbphones with subliminal ads CCP/zoinist propaganda on tiktok/youtube/etc apps
never ending two minutes of hate(god the new 1984 movie is enraging watch it be about trump&co as the pigs&capitalism.how jews&socialism are the heros freeing&changing society for the best. Eric Blair is rolling in his grave for allow this to be made. Jews must ruin all non-jewish writers so people only remember/talk about the remakes poisoning the subject forever)
Turning westerns into immoral insane monsters like Le highest caste jeets&average chinese mainlanders. The perfect goyim little sociopaths monsters that only care about money and status that will gladly murder children for a few pennies&higher status

I FUCKING HATE WOMEN LIKE TAE GOD DAMN IT BRING ON WWIII
FUCKING WENCH THIS BETTER BE BAIT GOD DAMN IT WHAT THE FUCK IS THE LOGIC HERE FOR MAKING MIKE SUFFER GOD DAMN IT YOU ARE FUCKED IN THE

>>149057694
It's bizarre how he can't fucking escape them. The track team looked like his out but then David suddenly becomes relevant and here we are.

>>149057629
>You mean like when Lucy said she didn't want any of the boys attention
Considering that Mike and Lucy are two separate characters, no. Remember that Mike was desperate enough to call Paulo of all people his best friend, but still took romance off the table. And before that he turned James down with a pretty flimsy excuse.

>>149057805
You forgot your meds today :(

>>149057694
Do Mike and Abbey share any interests? I never got the feeling they were particularly close, and now Abbey hangs out at Haley's table so Mike "can't" sit with him during lunch.

>>149057831
>but then David suddenly becomes relevant
Taeshi was running out of ways to torment Mike and started scraping the bottom of the barrel.

>>149057831
and that only happened because Paulo stalked Mike and wanted to show him up on his night out like an asshole

>>149057138
>>149057109
The Mike Chimpout Arc was painful to read. It was just him being an arse to everyone, with no brakes or filters, whilst still simping out for Sandy for no good reason.
This one we are at is painful AND disgusting to read, though.
>>149057326
Ah, this one wasn't made by me, I just saved it from a thread from last year or so. Don't know who the artist is, unfortunately.
>>149057694
>>149057646
I never got why him and Abbey aren't closer, specially considering the current circumstances. Only possible explanation I guess is if Mike is just avoiding literally everyone now, out of shame and fear.

>>149057945
>The Mike Chimpout Arc was painful to read. It was just him being an arse to everyone, with no brakes or filters, whilst still simping out for Sandy for no good reason.


It was Taeshi's attempt at making mike's friends get fed up with him so he'd do a "Self fulfilling Prophecy" and push his friends away.

But she couldn't make it happen in a way that wasn't pants on head retarded, so Mike had to become that gremlin for some years.

>>149057945
If Mike does grow hostile again, it needs to be a more focused cutting anger rather than annoying little snaps of flash paper going off in peoples' faces. If he's going to alienate everyone again anyway, let him burn them in the process so there are two-way consequences.

>>149058013
Yeah I kind of want to see Mike go villain for awhile. At least it'd be more entertaining to watch

>>149057993
>But she couldn't make it happen in a way that wasn't pants on head retarded
More like she didn't want Mike to have a scrap of dignity. In December, Mike didn't need to scream at Lucy, he just verbally tore her apart by stabbing at her insecurities. Imagine if that had been the version of Mike who got sick of all the hypocritical bullshit rather than Sperg Mike.

>>149057906
god no I did not thats the problem. Seeing all the retarded shit in the media,hearing people talk about this in public just being unable to get the fuck away from it no matter what. Has me so fucking enraged. I clicked on /co/ to hopefully turn my brain off.

And see Tae writing the most inane and retarded fucking bullshit she has done period. Once again I hope this is either A a dream or B only done for money&her sexual pleasure causing the fandom to fight and throw her more money. Because it gives her power over stupid people. However if shes writing this as her power fantasy.

Holy shit I wish I could press a button to skin and burn all women like this alive prolonging their deaths as slow as possible. This is beyond enraging even for comic story why would people treat someone like this. BUT BUT BUT IT HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE, someones honest friends including a faggot who wants to get barb'd in the ass by the person no matter how much of a slut they are. Would absolutely notice a friend is in distress/pain/etc . Instead of pushing them further into depression.

I fucking hate emotion vampiric monsters like Tae. Its like we all know shes a BPD monsters but every once a blue moon her masks completely falls off. Showing how much of an immoral degenerate hate filled petty monsters she truly is. I truly hope Mike is not based off someone she knew/dated in her passed. And she still wont move on/get over this/accept responsibility this was all her fault. Instead after years decades even writes further insane petty power fantasy violence against some guy who was a basedboy cuck yet caused so much hatred&rage to form in her little demented psychotic mind

Fuck me man I hate modern society so fucking much can WWIII start already so we can remove these people from the fucking genepool for good.

>>149058036
That's why we need Sperg Mike to evolve into Sigma Mike.
Imagine if he just walked up to Aug while him and Lucy are sitting out at recess and told Lucy that Aug asked him to stay inside because he didn't think she could handle seeing him.
Lucy would play cool until Mike left but you just know she'd flip shit on Aug for thinking she's that weak or going behind her back.

With David... idk just say "the game" every time he sees him, he'll go insane. Fight the meme character with memes.

Block Sandy. Don't say shit just block her number.

Date Felix just to fuck with James.

>>149057899
>Considering that Mike and Lucy are two separate characters, no.
Normally I would agree, but we are clearly leading up to a something akin to a Mike suicide attempt. The parallelism is already there. Also pretending Taeshi didn't just joke about Mike trying to cockblock James and David from it happening. Not saying Mike is interested in any of those people that isn't Lucy but there's clearly some sort of attachment to them.

>>149056941 (OP)
I have been following this comic for a very long time now and I genuinely do not know what is happening. Why is everyone ignoring Mike and why is he having a neurotic breakdown over the gay guy. Just hang out with Paulo if you want to be around a gay guy so much, or is he not friends with Mike now too for some reason. Honestly it's been hard to follow the plot after Eternal Flame cause there's been so many unnecessary drama moments and panels like this that do not convey any meaningful information are used way too much

>>149058036
>villain Mike
I do wonder how that would play out. It's hard to imagine Mike becoming outright cruel and malicious, at least with the whole Lucy suicide fiasco as a mental retraining bolt. Plus Mike is convinced that everything is his fault and the tree of vengeance does not grow in the soil of humility.

>>149057542
Mike wants someone who will obsessively pine over him, and only him, but will be okay with not receiving anything in return because they need to understand he MUST stay loyal to his cheating girlfriend
Understandably someone would have to be very desperate to accept this kind of relationship so Mike's struggling to fill Lucy's shoes

where's my track group mike gang rape?

I keep hurting myself and read the patreon mentals. I dont know if they are the same schizo but someone keeps saying Mike is in the same position he put Lucy in. The fucking bullshit? How and where do I sell my brain like them?

>>149058195
Well yeah, James was a shot of adrenaline in Mike's arm because it showed him what an actual healthy positive friendship could be like. As opposed to the tsundere bullshit Mike usually puts up for the sake of a few crumbs. Of course he doesn't want to let David steal James away, or to accept that maybe that wonderful friendship was always just an illusion.

>>149058286
Lucystans live in their own reality, anon. Best to just accept that rather than gawk. Otherwise you will find yourself forever captivated by endless wells of stupidity.

>>149058195
>Not saying Mike is interested in any of those people that isn't Lucy but there's clearly some sort of attachment to them.
To be fair, part of this could be Taeshi constantly conflating affection with romantic affection. While Mike clearly wants affection it's more like a friend vs whatever rhe fuck Lucy wants(a caretaker, teddy bear, lover, etc).
I think the major issue is that again, Taeshi is very bad at writing that, since nothing about what Mike was trying to do had anything to do with cockblocking David and had everything to do with Lucy and Augustus bullshit.
>>149058268
What? He just wants a friend, he has said this before even before sandy was cheating or ghosting or before her persoalnality got retconned into this model stereotype.

>check the latest page
>still nothing happening
>check the discord
>":sob: My boy Mike is GOING THROUGH IT, he's acting stupid but I SO get it because high school DO BE LIKE THAT. I can't fault Auggy either because while he was kinda mean he's trying to do what's best for Lucy which is just. SO. UGGGH he's VALID for that but respect her AUTONOMY bro"
>check /bcb/
>"personally I think Taeshi created Mike to sate her desire to torture men due to her BPD tendencies and mommy issues about which I have comprehensive knowledge from fifteen years following this webcomic I despise, inshallah she will miscarry, may hellfire fall like rain upon all women"

>>149057993
She should've followed through on that plan. It's so weird to have just cancelled all of that momentum only to have the payoff come now, in a completely separate arc. Between the sperg arc and Lucy telling Paulo she tried to commit suicide, we should have reached this point ages ago. Well, the two good opportunities came and went, now awkwardly taking up space in the archive, and some new nonsense is going to have to happen to get us to an arc we saw coming years ago.

>>149058268
>Mike wants someone who will obsessively pine over him, and only him, but will be okay with not receiving anything in return because they need to understand he MUST stay loyal to his cheating girlfriend


He really just wants someone to treat him like a friend with no strings attached. He thought James would be that but James wants fuck all to do with him since he couldn't date him and latched on to David.

>>149058305
>nothing about what Mike was trying to do had anything to do with cockblocking David and had everything to do with Lucy and Augustus bullshit
To be way more fucking fair than Taeshi will ever deserve, two things can be true at the same time. And at this point I cannot blame Mike for stepping in David's way. The stupid dog has done little but antagonize him since becoming plot-relevant.

>>149058310
If only everyone were all as cool as you, anon.

>>149058310
>check webtoons
>Taeshi hasn't updated it since december
Lmao

>>149058310
Accurate desu

Don't forget you're here forever

>>149058329
>The stupid dog has done little but antagonize him
And everyone loves him for it, it sucks so bad.

>>149058286
>Mike is in the same position he put Lucy in.
The position he always believed himself to be in? At best this is just the full confirmation of the fear and it it is sinking in.
>>149058329
>The stupid dog has done little but antagonize him since becoming plot-relevant.
Yeah and I wish Mike could Table slam his head for David being a cunt for literally zero reason, especially since it was between Mike and Paulo. Wasn't even a fucking fight it was jjst a race between friends and David acted like a cunt.

>>149058366
Is there any coherent reason for that, outside of sheer laziness? Like, so what if the webtoons catches up to the website, anyone could have just made the jump and caught up at any point.

>>149058163
>and told Lucy that Aug asked him to stay inside because he didn't think she could handle seeing him.


Thats not Sigma thats still beta as fuck. Sigma male would show absolute dominance, turning this against the two of them so badly. That everyone would absolutely hate them.

Getting Mike To Blast on the PA how Aug has been threatening him with violence and a gun. To obey all of Lucy'd petty BS trying to control his life and who he can be friends with. Telling everyone at the school it was Aug's idea for Lucy to jump, for pity points and to manipulate people. Claiming he's been stealing shit from every ones lockers as Lucy berates the items he stole breaking them and etc.

How he is sick and tired of being a bitch but is absolutely fucking scared what Aug and his old gang friends will do to him. How this is how he is going to grow a spine and stop putting up with this shit.

He would challenge Aug to a fight winner leaves the school for good. fake a punch poke him in the eye and knee his chin so hard tripping him with his free leg so Mike falls on top and starts slaming on his fake. Saying all sort of shit against Him&lucy throwing in a few lies and how people need to view the two of them without their fake faces. They are not victims they are monsters that create victims and everyone needs to stop fucking giving them the day of light or else they will continue sucking people dry.


For true Sigma alpha male points after smashing his face in knocking him unconsisous Mike would flip him over rip his pants off. Pull his own pants slightly down and pronebone Aug's ass in front of everyone screaming WHOS THE BITCH NOW WHOS THE BIG BAD GANGSTERS NOW
WHOS
YOUR
DADDY
GUESS WHAT LUCY YOUR NEXT BITCH AND YES I WILL BE FUCKING YOU IN THE ASS AS WELL BUT UNLIKE AUG HERE ILL STICK SOME ROCKS UP YOUR ASS FIRST AS ANAL BEADS TO GIVE ME MAXIMUM PLEASURE AND RED LUBRICATION.

>>149058315
She could never follow through on it becuase the fallout would mean that the others wouldn't want to hang around mike again in universe. Even if it's not actually Mike's fault, everyone would lay it at his feet anyway for cutting her off in the first place. And The narrative would treat blaming mike as the correct choice and not that it was wrong for everyone to make him her caretaker and then get mad he got fed up.

>>149058382
David's chronic excuse is that he's a stupid careless joke character so therefore he cannot truly be malicious. He's the personification of I'm Not Touching You.

>>149058366
>Taeshi hasn't updated it since december
Why, negative feedback? Couldn't suit just do it?

>>149058327
>He really just wants someone to treat him like a friend with no strings attached
You mean like Abbey?
Or Stacy?
Or Daisy now that she turned him down and started dating Paulo?
>Mike's face when he realizes Paulo/Daisy is taken and won't be pathetically pining after him one-sidedly anymore
Damn I wonder why Daisy and Paulo dating has suddenly taken them off of Mike's list of potential friends

>>149058388
>>149058422
Turns out Webtoons doesn't support reordering chapters after publication so I guess Taeshi's decided that it'll be less annoying if she wipes and republishes after she's finished volume 8 and omnibus 2. Pretty sure she changed her mind and decided to do the Sue chapter afterall.

>>149058419
I get that Taeshi needed time to emergency glaze Mike to counter the half-decade she spent vilifying him. But it seems like that just is not enough for her audience, nor will it ever be. No wonder she got pissed at them; all her efforts were proving for naught.

>>149058268
You get it.

>>149058433
>Damn I wonder why Daisy and Paulo dating has suddenly taken them off of Mike's list of potential friends
Probably because they will be spending 90% their time with each other. You might as well ask why Daisy never looked for male attention outside of her immediate friend group.

>>149058219
Been reading it for years, it's easy to get confused since the story is a mess no matter what.
I don't remember that much myself, but I'll try to say what I remember:

>On prevous episodes, Mike had started to reconnect with Lucy, but decided to fold and crawl back to his cheating girfriend, Sandy, for no good reason.
>This made him and Lucy to break ties again, and made Lucy shut herself more towards basically everyone.
>Mike is feeling guilty over it, specially since Augustus, who is now basically Lucy's pet, told him that what Mike did to her has messed her up.
>Mike has been reminiscing about the whole situation, and is having trouble connecting with other people, too, since he feels like shit.
>He also sperged out against his old friends before, which increased his distance towards them even more.
>He had recently entered the track team, which was an activity he liked, and that could potentially give him some direction and new interactions. He did well and was liked by the track team.
>On the track team, there was a dude (James), who fancied him. They both went on a non-romantic date together. Mike said to him he had a GF, and both of them parted ways peacefully.
>David suddenly entered the track team, and immediately stole James' heart.
>Augustus told mike to stop going to the outside area of the school during recess, since 'it was the only place Lucy could hangout'
>Mike tried to convince people not to go outside, since he couldn't go out. James and David ignored his request, and went together, leaving Mike alone.

In short, Mike is feeling guilty and lonely, with an increasing number of people leaving him behind.

>>149058419
>Even if it's not actually Mike's fault, everyone would lay it at his feet anyway for cutting her off in the first place.
So a convenient scapegoat to lay all the blame on? Is Lucy an 7 year old? Is Mike her father? Less of an issue for the speech since I would get cutting him off even though he literally apologized for that and attempted to make a restart but the part about.
>would lay it at his feet anyway for cutting her off in the first place.
Would be fucking disgusting narrative wise to imply is correct. I really fucking hate strong independent Damsel in constant distress.
>>149058421
>stupid careless joke character so therefore he cannot truly be malicious.
Wasnt he literally mocking Mike after the race? Like purposefully.

>>149058488
>but decided to fold and crawl back to his cheating girfriend, Sandy, for no good reason
It's been poorly explained, repeatedly, but the reason is that Sandy crawled back to Mike and guilt tripped him into giving her a second chance.

>Mike's dad who is very suddenly absent from his family and not coming home until late in the night is named FRANK
>The mystery man whose been piping Sandy for the last half a year is named FRANCIS
Man Mike can't catch a break, his dad's fucking his girlfriend?

>>149058488
>He also sperged out against his old friends before, which increased his distance towards them even more
But that was fixed and apologized for around the same time the track/James stuff started picking up and he had apologized to sue and made amends. Plus the people he had upset or yelled at (Paulo, Daisy and Sue) at the time were still hanging out with him like Daisy & Sue in the game group (And Paulo in the closest) and he was speaking with Paulo fine too. In fact, sue was the only one who seemed to have held a grudge for that as both Daisy and Paulo didn't bring it up every time they were interacting with Mike like sue did on occasion.

>>149058492
>Wasnt he literally mocking Mike after the race? Like purposefully
Yeah but it's always treated as "haha funny joke" which is why a character like David does not work as an actual plot element. Remember that only James was criticized for his own joke at Mike's expense.

>>149058492
>So a convenient scapegoat to lay all the blame on? Is Lucy an 7 year old? Is Mike her father? Less of an issue for the speech since I would get cutting him off even though he literally apologized for that and attempted to make a restart but the part about.


He did apologize and apparently him not hating her anymore is what made he jump, which is fucking weird in itself. But yes everyone would use Mike as a scapegoat because that's easier than admitting that they weren't paying attention, or blaming Lucy herself for her own issues. Remeber, Mike was "Supposed to" date Lucy instead of Sandy. Them saying its her fault she jumped is basically the final form of that line of thought.

>Would be fucking disgusting narrative wise to imply is correct. I really fucking hate strong independent Damsel in constant distress.

Which is why it can only work if the narrative shows that it's bad. But with how Taeshi has treated Mike for years, she'd either think that this is the correct choice narratively or intend to show that it's wrong but botch it so hard that it comes off as her saying Mike deserves to pay.

>>149058422
because webtoons is fucking dog eater trash that western artists should not support.

One of the few rare logical moments of reason and clarity as well as based'ness she has had.

>>149058488
>Guys the school rapist told me not to go outside during lunch because it makes the psycho bitch have bad dreams
>Also I'm not telling you any of this, I'm just going to try to trick you so that I can cockblock David
That sounds more like a Mike problem

>>149058544
Sue will hold onto a grudge forever so there is probably no fixing her relationship with Mike. Daisy is a known backbiter. It's probably no accident that only Paulo ends up caring when Mike leaves the table.

>>149058581
>Sue will hold onto a grudge forever so there is probably no fixing her relationship with Mike.


I thought she accepted his apology when the track team thing started? When he was apologizing to all of them for his lashing out.

>>149058327
Felix is right there you know. A current option that Taeshi said is interested in getting to know Mike, yet Mike is trying so hard to third wheel James and David instead.

>>149058580
>guilt-ridden Mike in a rush to explain the whole Lucy suicide disaster to his would-be best friend

>>149058512
Yeah but I mean, one thing is to forgive her and just not hold any grudge, and the other is to be with a girl who cheated and had nothing in common with him, specially since he and Lucy had just shared some romantic moments together.
I dunno man, I suppose Mike could do it, but it's annoying anyway.
>>149058544
Indeed, Paulo was the one who got most of the fire from Mike sperging out, and they are both in good terms, but I guess that, in a realistic situation, people that saw him acting like that would be a bit reluctant to interact with him again.

>>149058589
All Sue did was look sympathetic in the moment, but let's face it: This is Sue. The same girl who sabotaged her chance to start over with Paulo just so she could dunk on him.

>>149058621
>but it's annoying anyway
Oh no argument here, anon. I don't even agree with the logic, just stating what we've been told.

>>149057036
Felix please protect Mike for the love of God I know you see him in pain BREAK THROUGH THE RESTRAINTS OF YOUR CREATOR AND HOLD HIM AND TELL HIM EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY

>>149058556
>He did apologize and apparently him not hating her anymore is what made he jump, which is fucking weird in itself.
No I can get the idea but it's completely emotional.
>Lucy thought it was all over and she had completely lost Mike.
>Mike wants a refresh now with nudging from sandy and the fact that he does care about Lucy
> Lucy is moving away now so now she can't take the chance to fix things
She could not handle it so she jumped.
>>149058596
Have to wait till next page to see if she is being accurate their with the felix thing. I do not trust shit from taeshi comments, honestly.
>>149058580
They would believe the known manipulator and would be rapist who tried to do it to one of their closest friends ove Mike, anon.

>>149058531
I choose to believe this despite there being no chance it's true. It would explain why she went back to him.

>you need to keep dating my son, you make him so happy *keeps piping her*

>>149058596
I think the joke is that Mike would shy away from Felix, knowing he is homosexual thus yet another romantically inclined non-option.

>>149058651
>the last thing Lucy thinks about before jumping is that no one likes her so even if she moved she would be alone at her new school, which is something Mike convinced her was true
>but nope according to /bcb/ she killed herself only because Mike made a half assed apology and she couldn't stand to be away from him
Talk about seeing what you want to see

>>149058655
It would be a better reason for Mike sticking with sandy too.
>reveal the truth and your entire family will be destroyed and you will sentence your little brother to the fate of being raised by a single mom and giving your sister daddy issues.
Would be a better reason to slide into suicide thoughts since it would be no where is safe for you now since you cannot tell anyone.
>>149058763
Mike didn't convince shit, that was something Lucy already believed and he actively making an effort to fix shit is what cause the negative reaction. She had a new lifeline but couldn't take it so she wanted to end it i, an easy motive here. Not a rational one but clearl motive.
>>149058676
To be fair to Mike, I think the only homsexual/ bisexual who hadn't shown romantic/sexual interest in him was the fat gay cat.

>>149058655
Maybe Taeshi just thought it'd be funny if both the men who fucked over Mike's life were named FRANK
>Frank trying to fuck Sandy into being a good future wife
>Now remember young lady, don't do any of the dirty sex acts we just committed with my son, he's a good boy and I don't want you corrupting him

>>149058763
https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p33

Speaking of selective memories....

>>149058814
She was planning on killing herself after the play regardless of whether Mike made his half hearted apology or not, so I don't know what you could possibly mean.
>Lucy being afraid people only like her for her looks is the same thing as her best friend confirming it to be true
Thinking someone inherently believes all of their worst fears are actual fact is a wild take

>>149058836
I said the last thing she thought of, and you post the second to last thing
Imagine being so stupid you can't understand English

>>149058853
>She was planning on killing herself after the play
Not really, no.

>>149058867
Is that like being too stupid to employ basic logic? It's the lost chance at reconciliation that began her suicidal thought cascade. So obviously that is the more relevant factor here.

>>149058676
Yet he wants James, the guy who told him he was always dtf (until David appeared

>>149058894
Felix hasn't lovebombed Mike.

>>149058531
>his dad's fucking his girlfriend?
Ok if she did this as the final fuck you Mike must suffer gatcha moment. This would be an unironic giga chad based as fuck move, and everything else would be forgiven. If she had the honest to god ovaries to pull this off no fucks given.

Yeah no just based beyond based. Mike has been literally cucked by his own father for ages. This is the tipping point in Mike suffrage and she writes some violent as fuck attempted murder suicide. All would be forgiven her overies would drop from her cunt turn into brass once the air hits them.
>Yeah I went there I did that Mike has been cucked by his father, yeah he tried to kill them both and his self failing horribly. Yeah this is now the court/juvy/jail/insane asylum prison arc . I'm writing Mike out for good also as a final fuck you Lucy is going to show him a video of all three of them fucking while visting him in prison. Both girls cant stop calling his dad "Daddy Mike senior" as he berates his son for being just like his mother weak and stupid as fuck with a dick the size of his mothers clit.


All would be forgiven if she honestly did something so giga based. Honestly how do you think discord would react to this? You think it would cause the trannies to have legit mental breakdowns realizing she has been fleecing them all for money for years. Toying with her fans for money and sexual pleasure for ages.

>>149058888
She was already planning on killing herself after the play, are you retarded?

>>149058676
If he's scared of homosexuals yet stays in the track team of his own free will why would he not feel comfortable around the very friends of the guy he feels safe around?
I'm going to be honest here and say I do think Felix could be the platonic friend Mike desperately needs to take care of his mental health, but I don't think it'll happen for another year or so. It will probably be a buildup to the whole James distancing and then Felix finds Mike all alone and offers him a friendship.

>>149058960
Are you sourceless?

>>149058853
>>Lucy being afraid people only like her for her looks is the same thing as her best friend confirming it to be true
To be fair,, she had that thrown into her face several times and it does not work when 2 out of 3 people who showed interesting in her could be argued to only care about her looks.
>Jess, She ended up dating a brown Lucy
>Paulo, his behavior didn't help bt he did care about Lcy as a person to the point he half assed his relationship with Jasmine cause of it.
>Mike(before shit went south), at the time, it would have been like trying to have sex with a golden retriever. Mike was not with Lcy for her tits, she didn't have any in grade school.
>>149058973
>but I don't think it'll happen for another year or so. It will probably be a buildup to the whole James distancing and then Felix finds Mike all alone and offers him a friendship.
So, how long would it take Felix to ditch Mike after that friendship?

>>149058973
Anon, I don't mean that Mike is homophobic. It's that he worries Felix would be like Daisy or Paulo or James, showing Mike little interest unless he's cool with banging. Just another bitter disappointment in the making.

>>149058998
About as long as it'll take Lucy to die, that old hag

>>149058979
Not that anon but she did scout out that roof before the play. Remember when Gus followed her up there? I think there's an argument to be made that she was on the fence until Mike's apology though.

>>149058998
>it would have been like trying to have sex with a golden retriever
Feeling great and realizing the true meaning of mans best friend?

How dare you insult such qt3.14 doggos comparing them to some BPD daemonic butter face gross as fuck skin/fur bitch that only has big titties and an ass like a space shuttle as her redeeming qualities

Having sex with Lucy would be like having sex with a downie or worse chrischan-post trooning out odds are she smells worse tho

>>149059072
>How dare you insult such qt3.14 doggos comparing them to some BPD daemonic butter face gross as fuck skin/fur bitch that only has big titties and an ass like a space shuttle as her redeeming qualities
Nono, I meant it would have been Like Lucy having sex with her golden retirever before shit went south. Mike was her teddy bear/caregiver, so Golden Retriever. You're right that Lucy sucks ass.

>>149059017
>I think there's an argument to be made that she was on the fence until Mike's apology though
I think that is a much more logical conclusion, yes.

>>149059101
I really wish Lucy's mom hadn't backed down when her daughter threw a fit.

>>149059146
Meh, knowing Lucy, she would have threatened to kill herself again. Is Lucy still going to therapy?

>>149059101
desu id be mad too if lucy fucked my husband

>>149059182
Based

>>149059182
Nah, Lucy's dad is a racer. He can get tail near the track, plus from the bits we see, he s an alright dude who wouldn't do that. Raises questions of why Lucy is crazy.

>>149059212
I love the second part where her dad impregnates her

>>149059178
>Is Lucy still going to therapy?
The way she behaves, I wonder if she ever went in the first place. Whoever gave her a clean bill of health must have been a real quack. Or maybe they just got sick of trying to address her real problems and hoped the coping techniques would be enough.

>>149059101
this really should not have been book exclusive. this should have been on the site for free.


>>149059178
i dont think she's gone to therapy since she returned. They're just letting Augustus be the Mike replacement because it keeps her stable as far as they know

>>149059251
Even back then, the comic blamed Mike for daring to not appreciate the clingy girl who wasn't particularly nice to him. As if she was owed his friendship.

Can the poor fuck ever catch a break? It's not even engaging, it feels like some order of torture porn.

>>149059251
Pretty sure in this he's insanely drunk and mistakes her for his wife

>>149059282
What's this from?

>>149059282
>Muh Parallels
Lucy strung Paulo along and used his emotional attraction to her several times. Mike was completely straight with James, unlike how James was with him.
>>149059278
Which is funny because I do remember Mike coming onto Lucy, and she rejected him at the time.

>>149059282
>I'm not gay!
>But I love him!
>Sandy is *depending* on me to be her loyal cuck!
>Will she ever even tell me she loves me...?
I feel like a schizo reading this comic

>>149059282
Discord
>>149059351
Yeah it's pretty blatant how Lucy just whores up whenever she needs something from paulo— often affection or validation — but I guess the Mike spiting is strong today.
>>149059369
Don't we all

>>149059282
Yeah... I get that in-universe it has been just some months and all, but for us readers it's been years of just the same constant showing of Mike getting shat on.

Everyone gets it already, no need to keep doing this, the story needs to get to the point, Geez.

>>149059258
>I wonder if she ever went in the first place
They sent her to a psychologist with a BA in psychology or worse a social worker. Because a psychiatrist is at least 250$/hr-meeting for a shitty one. Also her parents are retarded and thought someone with a BA is totally the same as a psychiatrist one just shoves evil pills down your throat claiming to be a doctor. The other uses therapy and words to heal people the proper way.

Also Lucy wouldnt take meds even if forced to infront of someone bitch would puke them up later EVEN IF shit was liquid she would still puke it up. Taking 1/5th a dose every couple of days or week so it shows up on a drug test. Claiming the drugs dont work and are making her worse.

Because this is what BPD monsters do blame everyone else and hurt everyone else to feel better

>>149058310
>Auggy
fuck I hate that

>>149058488
I don't understand why she dumped Francis (who she obviously loves by the sounds of it) just to get back with Mike. It's weird

>>149059745
Either
>Francis didnt mean shit to her either
>Francis dumped her or was gay(he is a hairdresser)
Cant be her mum cause if she was monitoring sandy then she woulda known about francis way sooner.

>>149059745
honestly nobody is sure. Anons here toss out the "Mike is the last link to a normal life for her" theory which, while nice, doesnt make much sense because she wouldnt have cheated in the first place if that was the case.

unless she wanted to have her cake and eat it too.

It's also possible francis just wanted a fling.

>>149059745
Because Taeshi wrote herself into a corner, not only did she break with the guy she was fellating on the phone hours ago but did so so early in the morning (for her) she was still asleep, fired him, moved all her work appointments and changed her lifestyle to make more time for him, etc. We know she didn't have some kind of change of heart because she still makes jokes about fucking Francis to Mike ("if mom knew" and so on). Taeshi needed to get back to status quo instantly because she has no idea how to make Mike and Lucy not hate each other anymore without ending the comic

>>149059813
>Taeshi needed to get back to status quo instantly because she has no idea how to make Mike and Lucy not hate each other anymore without ending the comic
Meh,, could always just up lucys ptsd and bring back Alej. Plus we can always detour into the paulo show if shit gets bad or maybe have the Mike show for once where it doesnt end with his dick getting kicked. Seriously.

>>149059745
Same. She and Mike have nothing in common, she made no effort to talk with him, they don't share the same hobbies, they live far away from each other, they have different lifestyles, etc.
I think she is only talking to him because part of her might feel guilty about it, or she might feel anxious about leaving her past life completely behind, with Mike being her only connection left.

Honestly, mike should've just manned up and broke up with her right there and then; It'd be much better for both of them. I mean yeah they might've cried and felt like shit for a time, but they'd soon move on, and be in a much better spot.

Also, I think there's a high chance that she's still having a thing going on with Francis or someone else.

>>149059745
Nobody understands it and I doubt that Taeshi even came up with a plausible excuse to begin with. She's probably going to avoid thinking about it for as long as possible.

>>149059745
He probably just wanted to bang her with no emotional attachments but she wanted a commitment

>>149059785
A possible solution is that Sandy's mom happened to be up early or was also awakened because Sandy forgot to turn off her ringer, then eavesdropped. Once the call ended, Sandy got chewed out and forced to dump Francis.

>>149059789
Mike's probably the only other guy that Sandy knows will lend her emotional support. Plus he's familiar.

>>149059921
That works for why she wouldn't be with Francis, but that does not work with why she called Mike back.

>>149059960
Easiest explanation is a lack of better options. Let's face it, if Sandy fell for her hairdresser and thought he was so adult and sophisticated-like, she wasn't looking too far or casting much of a net. It's either get Mike to take her back or end up all alone, with her mom on the lookout to make sure she stays single.

>>149056941 (OP)
Do guys really act like this?

>>149060085
Most of the guys in this comic are written as if they were girls. Their hometown is in New Jersey, so I assume there are massive levels of estrogen in the industrial runoff entering the water supply.

>>149060085
Kinda crazy you've gone your whole life without having a best friend ripped away from you
Were you homeschooled?

>>149059987
But even so, why would any man with a hint of self-respect crawl back to her after all of that? Specially after reconnecting with an old love.
I'm telling you, it's infuriating because no sane person would do that shit man.

Picture any dude IRL, who is both pissed and depressed over the fact they got cheated on. Immediately after this, he manages to bond once again with an old crush. Ain't no way in hell anyone would go accepting a cheater back again like that.

If Taeshi somehow has a kid, I hope that Kiwifarms make themselves useful for once and get the authorities to take her kid away to spare em from untold suffering

>>149056941 (OP)
Mike is gay now?

>>149059257
So does Lucy

>>149060197
He is just desperate because he feels like people are leaving him and he is losing everything, so he is clinging to whatever he can get.

>>149060197
No, he's just emotionally touch starved so much he's starting to not care who it comes from. Imagine you're trapped in this pitch black void and James is the only voice echoing in there keeping you from going insane. That's Mike right now, he's scared lonely and desperate for some kind of validation that he doesn't deserve any of this. All he wanted was to stay with his girlfriend and be happy but now doubt is creeping in his mind that she will give up on him so he's one foot on staying with her and one foot in finding something stable with someone else

>>149060174
>But even so, why would any man with a hint of self-respect crawl back to her after all of that?
Easy
>Writer is a woman who has a form of mental illness.
>Mike is not allowed to act like an actual guy or assertive.

>>149060156
>Were you homeschooled?
Yes, actually.

>>149060197
always was

I just want these cats to be happy why are they so set on making each other hurt

>>149060174
I will maintain Taeshi's only logical way out is to claim Sandy is blackmailing him. Not emotional blackmail, serious blackmail.

>>149060282
Also this.

>>149060265
Mike doesn't seem threatened by Sandy these days. If anything, he puts less stock in her than vice versa.

>>149060174
Literally it's just because Sandy said she gave up a bunch of professional opportunities to focus on Mike, so now he feels like he owes her a second chance.

>>149060556
Yeah I assumed so, but then they are both just staying with each other out of guilt? That's a miserable way to keep a relationship.
>>149060532
But it doesn't make sense based on what we've seen and what we know of the characters, there is no indication of that. It literally is just Mike doing dumb decisions for no realistic reason
>>149060282
The sad thing is that he was kind of assertive before, and I don't mean during the sperg Mike times

>>149060622
>are both just staying with each other out of guilt?
Guilt definitely does not factor into Sandy's reason, aside from how she weaponizes it. Another Flame proves she wants Mike back for her own reasons.

>>149056941 (OP)
>>149057036
I predict that Mike will still be depressed and weird, and respond to the track team asking if anything's wrong by going "N-no, I'm fine haha". Felix and the rest of the track team will comfort Mike by going "Yeah, James does this a lot", referring to his habit of lovebombing a new crush then dropping them hard. Mike will then join them at their table, but still feel lonely since he's "the new guy".

If I'm right, I will say I called it.

>>149057646
>The only one could've been Abbey, but we all know where he is now
Inside Sue in an empty classroom, obviously.

>>149061127
I can't help but notice how James was way way more hung up over Felix than Mike, who he had supposedly been pining after for months beforehand.

I'd appreciate it if BCB suddenly transitioned into a sci-fi war story where it's revealed BCBworld was a lost dumping ground for ancient human science experiments that was rediscovered and put to the torch by the current galactic government to cover up the existence of their old illegal research projects. This will replace the gay relationship drama with "Lucy got her legs blown off" drama and "We're all homunculi born of the dark thoughts of alien tyrants" drama, an immediate improvement to be sure. There will also be a return to watercolor

Is this just Mike torture porn now?

>>149061279
"Now?"

>>149061214
Well d'uh, he actually dated Felix and seemingly things were good until he ruined it, unlike "sorry bro I'm straight and have a gf" Mike

>>149061127
Can't wait for Felix-James romantic drama to turn out being close to early Mike-Lucy dramas minus tsundere parts

>>149061279
"Now"?

>>149061127
>James is pissed off because Finn really would trade him for Mike and he got kicked off the team

>>149061279
>now

>>149059017
>>149059130
I see it as Lucy was already planning to jump, but wanted a "good last day", hence her trying to be extra nice to her friends, doing her best in the play, and giving Paulo a quick pity-fuck. Mike apologizing and offering to start over was the cherry on top - it didn't influence her decision so much, but it did give her something to fondly think of. Sort of a super depressed, low-bar version of dying with no regrets.

>>149061324
>underneath the blanket of yaoi shota energy James is a manipulative sociopath who weaponizes his good looks and boyish charm to get into social circles for [purpose here]

>>149059745
Because Taeshi shoved in "Sandy cheated" as a way to dynamite the plot forward, with no setup or context. Sandy isn't a character anymore, she's a plot device, and Francis is a plot device's plot device.

>>149061324
>brown
Paulo is minority coded? It all makes sense now, he's more Mexican than refried beans
>single parent household
>dad works construction
>thinks he's hot shit
>will do literally anything for white pussy

>>149061417
Remember when James was first introduced, and these threads speculated he was secretly a nazi? Maybe we were right, and he's playing the long game to try and recruit. Felix broke up with him because James started doing "Cat-hitler was right" speeches when they were alone together.

>>149057036
>AAAAAGH LUCY IS INSIDE MY MIND HELP ME FELIX

>>149061324
One thing about this page: didn't Augustus say they were going to hang out on the outside area? What are they doing on the cafeteria?

>>149061470
Paulo is latino, David is black, has always been this way

>>149061503
Stupidest conspiracy theory that turned out to be true?
>>149061279
>now
Oh anon you just made me laugh like a psychopathic clown

>>149061382
>fondly
Doesn't really look that way at all, from any angle. Anyway if Lucy was going to jump anyway then what's with all the big breakdown hullabaloo? She's got to have thought this through a billion times.

>>149061716
Planning it out doesn't mean she isn't going to break down when she's actually going through with it. And getting the "good last day" she wanted doesn't mean she was actually happy, just that she could tell herself she was going out on a high note - and that if she's this miserable even on a "perfect day", then it's worth skipping the rest.

>>149061831
Lucy was just trying to be a little less selfish than usual, going through with the play and giving Paulo what she thought he wanted. But there really is no solid indication that Lucy was planning to suicide. Thinking about it, sure, but she never solidly committed until after everything.

>>149061714
Like all american nazis James fell in love with a swarthoid...

>>149061503
>>149061714
I can't wait for Felix to tell Mike about why he and James broke up.
>Yeah, after a couple dates, he started calling me "mein liebe" and talking about how nice my bone structure was.

>>149061322
Again, James obsessed over Mike for months and hit things off with him really well. The contrast in behavior is pretty stark, telling us that James just will not care about a person unless he can or does date them.

>>149061956
Like >>149059017 said, she'd been scouting the roof and engaging in suicidal ideation for a while at that point. My point is that successfully having a good day where her friends were all happy to see and talk to her may have ironically pushed her over the edge: from her severely-depressed point of view, she'd managed to gain a sense of closure, and everything was downhill from there. Nothing to look forward to, but a few extra bittersweet memories to cling to as she worked up the courage to jump.

>>149061591
We don't know yet. David takes credit it for it, but that's worth less than nothing. Augustus also isn't visible in either page, but he could either just not be shown or avoiding Daisy. Mike does something that pisses James off and makes him so unlikely to return to the cafeteria that Lucy feels comfortable returning. Lucy, Sue, and David seem to bristle at Mike's mention but that doesn't definitively prove they know anything.

>>149062123
>she'd managed to gain a sense of closure
But she hadn't. It was exactly the opposite because Mike's apology denied Lucy whatever closure she'd been going for. Suddenly there was this ~possibility~ she couldn't take advantage of because her parents were sending her away.

>>149062126
Imagine if the reason why Lucy is there while Augustus is nowhere to be seen is because he did something to royally piss her off, or vice versa.

I just wanna see Felix and Mike date man that's literally the only thing I want

>>149062285
~0% chance of it happening for real, at most a non-romantic date will occur, I reckon.
But I wonder why bother doing this, if the exact same things was done with James before.

>>149057268
Hell yeah!

>>149057570
That's a good thing, maybe they'll be friends again.

>>149062308
Challenge accepted
>Felix reaches out to Mike who gets nervous and evasive
>after some prodding gray cat admits he wants to avoid another James situation
>Felix is annoyed at Mike's assumption but swears up and down he's not after his dick
>they try hanging out and do hit things off
>it's not a whirlwind friendship like with James but pleasant and fulfilling enough
>Felix develops feelings for Mike despite himself
>tries to keep it on the downlow because he doesn't want to break his promise and ruin things
>the truth comes out and Felix tells Mike he wishes he could change his feelings
>they try to keep things platonic but the awkward tension keeps getting worse until one of them calls the whole thing off

>>149059745
She wanted Francis as a companion in person but loved Mike more and was guilty over throwing him away.

this garbage is still going on?

>>149062535
no it ended

>>149062521
>was guilty over throwing him away
Naw, Sandy never gave a shit about Mike's feelings.

https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c116.1/p11

>>149062049
Well James' obsession did seem to be a factor. Might've gotten clingy.

>>149062560
Mike is very weak to emotional blackmail, huh?

>>149062494
Could work, and would potentially have some great pages, but I meant more like, why is this situation being presented again, since it is somewhat similar to what she did to James, as in, a relationship you know will not develop into something more.

If Mike and Lucy will end up together in the end remains a mystery, but at the very least things need to be settled between them before any of them have any sort of relationship with anyone.

>>149062643
Looking back, I appreciate Another Flame more now because it provides some decent insight into how each character ticks. On some of the page comments, Taeshi even throws shade on Lucy's alleged honesty.

Which way?

>>149062649
Paisy is the definition of a forced relationship and showed me that Taeshi can and will ram square pegs through star-shaped holes, damage be damned.

>>149062705
It was miles and miles more satisfying to read than what we got in the canon, which in turn makes it all the more frustrating, because it creates a contrast on how much better things could've been.

>>149062649
Maybe I'm retarded but I can't name a single male character in the entire comic Mike has a good relationship with. His dad hates him, his brother hates him, Augustus hates him, Paulo and Mike don't get along in a neverending cycle of "I hate you/I'm sorry". Don't even need to mention the brown incarnation of Satan.

He doesn't interact much with anyone else besides the Track Team right?

>>149062757
>His dad hates him
What?

>his brother hates him
Objectively untrue.

>>149062787
If his dad liked him he would care enough to be around
I'd argue Mr. Francis Cuckstein is more involved in Mike's life than Frank

>>149062560
Additionally Taeshi laid down a word of God post that Sandy wasn't even really sorry about cheating she just dumped Francis because her Mom didn't like him getting in the way of her career and Mike is low maintenance

>>149062757
There's Abbey, but I legit think that's it. Lucy's brother also doesn't like Mike, of course. David is a cunt that exists only to be an ass and to orbit Paulo.

There was also McCain way back in the day, and I think that one older dude, but they have both been erased out of existence.

>>149059212
>>149062726
We need a trash thread, but then again we have no artists.

>>149062797
>Frank
>Francis
>Mike's dad is never around
Wait...

>>149062803
That just raises further questions.

>>149062814
They have wisely moved to greener pastures... It's a shame though, I really liked the ones we had back in 2023/2024. Some good content, like the alt stories with Stacy and all.

hope we get to see some more official lewds (softcore or not) in future, like how we got some art of Lani in the Golden Bikini on Taeshi's Bluesky.

>>149062877
that would have been way better than lucy magically popping up

>>149062877
Yea that really was a golden era, especially with Kizuna anon and Family anon. All that Amaya and Mike art was a blessing.
Also I just wanna talk abour lewd BCB scenarios but only the /trash/ threads are a good place for that.

>>149063117
Yeah, he made a bunch of pages for it. Really admire the dedication, those provided some relief from all the painful chapters back then.

>>149062803
I don't know why Taeshi would remove any ambiguity from the Mike and Sandy thing but there it is

>>149056941 (OP)
Hey Mike, you good?

>>149063189
So it is all just pointless torture and drama after all...

>>149057646
Abbey realized being off-panel is way better for his sanity

>>149063189
This doesn't even fit what she wrote in Another Flame. I think it's pretty clear Taeshi just did not think any of this through.

>>149063189
>my mother likes Mike more
Huh? Did she hate Francis' guts or prefer how Mike isn't physically present to distract Sandy

>>149058649
I'll try.

>>149063373
I think she probably prefers it as a lesser evil since he isn't present and can't do something as serious as, like, getting her pregnant or something, thus harming Sandy's career.

>>149063373
Sandy was spending too much time fucking Francis and it was pissing off her mom, Mike is just a phone call once a day
>She woulda killed us if she knew what we were up to haha!
Slutty slutty cat

>>149059745
Difficulty sticking with the long-distance relationship after all this time maybe. Could be she still loves Mike (or at least thinks she does) so she doesn’t want to cut it off despite being a cheating whore

I got jumpscared by a James pic while I was skimming an old thread for Another Flame on desuarchive. He feels like a new character to me but he's been around for 3 years.

>>149063476
>She woulda killed us if she knew what we were up to haha!
Jesus Christ, Imagine hearing that and fucking smiling awkwardly instead of immediately telling her to fuck off, hanging up and blocking the number.
For real, no man would accept this arrangement, Mike gets nothing from this, it's humiliating

>>149059257
Guessing if all the boys get sick on her she only has her dad to turn to.

>>149062814
I try. To the best of my ability.

>>149063189
Her mother likes Mike more, makes sense. But she's still disapproving of Mike.

>>149063554
Sorry guys I just gotta get this out of my system

>>149063752
>2016

>>149058482
This desu, two of my friends in my friend group started dating each other, hardly ever see either of them 1 on 1 anymore, and when I do they just ask me for advice about the relationship. It’s tiring and I kinda hate that they started dating

There was a point where I felt like Carribean Blue ended too soon, but seeing how this comic is still going with seemingly no end in sight I’m thinking Nekonny actually knew what he was doing doing, at least more than Taeshi with this and Chalo with Las Lindas.

>>149063154
I could start one, or well anybody could. I just need to know what to title it. Hope we have stuff to fill it with.

>>149063476
I think the real reason is that Sabrina (Sandy's mom) has been fucking Francis the whole time.

>>149063565
Well she is speaking on behalf of her mother's sentiment, not her's.

>>149063154
I freaking love their art by the way. Ah, Familyanon. Mike being a loving father and family man. A totally normal one.

>>149056941 (OP)
Mike is pathetic

>>149063752
There are other ways.

Disregarding art, would you say this is better or worse than Rent a Girlfriend?

>>149064092
It's becoming increasingly uncomfortable just how pathetic he is, something bad happens and I don't even feel bad anymore I just think he's such a passive idiot he probably deserves it.

>>149064132
>Rent a Girlfriend
I've never heard of this. What draws the comparison?

>>149064132
At least Kazuya enjoys being a cuckold, Mike's just miserable and boring all the time

>>149064070
It is at the very least quite a strange thing to say to one's boyfriend, and it is very strange that the boyfriend in question has no reaction to it

>>149064219
Mainly the vibes they both give off where the it feels like the stories are long running purely because the writer like having the beta male main characters suffer rather than just end it like they should. I know that sounds pretty generic but its honestly mainly just cause they give off a very similar feel when I think of them. Also it on my mind since the main character of that has spent like 250,000 on a girl who doesn’t likes him but doesn’t want to date him.

>>149064292
They probably both love each other enough that they're willing to overlook it, or just don't consider it unusual.

>>149064291
Kizuna should give him cuckholding lessons.

>>149064356
Oh I see, Kazuya is a character from Rent A Girlfriend, thought you mispelled Kizuna, my bad.

>>149064295
Ha, reminds me of David and Lana from 90 Day Fiance. Dude spent 100,000 on a scammer he simped for.

>>149064202
Is Mike’s character not just being passive and letting people walk all over him? Like its been a while since I read the comic from the start but most of what I remember of Mike then is that he just puts up with stuff until it reaches a boiling point. It one of the main reason why I don’t really felt bad for his character.

>>149064343
What the hell do you mean, what does loving each other have to do with Sandy blabbing about all the sex she had with Francis behind Mike's back, or why Mike would be okay with hearing that?
Any normal guy bristles at the mention of exes, let alone your girlfriend talking about how she was sneaking around with a guy she cheated on you with, it's fucking weird and no actual dude would be okay with it.

>>149064381
>Like its been a while since I read the comic from the start but most of what I remember of Mike then is that he just puts up with stuff until it reaches a boiling point.
Nah, it's cause the last time he showed any spine someone decided to do a flip and the writer won't let him actually act like a person. In fact a good chunk of the fucking story was shutting in any legit issues for no real reason but writer mental illness.

>>149061324
Its incredibile how James was predicted to be something that would ultimately bite Mikes ass on Link Play. Taeshi you gotta do better

>>149064383
I mean that even if Mike isn't fully satisfied with the reason for why she traded Francis for him (and why her mother was alright with it), he loves her enough to overlook it as well as her other mistakes. So far it seems to be paying off, but we're sorely deprived of scenes where Sandy calls Mike. It could be happening but we need to see it.

>>149064438
How close do you think we are that Mike will show up in school only for everyone to throw eggs at him for no reason? It's likely at this point. Everybody hates Mike, The Universe finds a way to make that happen.

>>149064409
I honestly wonder how long this comic would have gone for if anyone acted like real people and not in a way meant to maximize drama.

>>149064453
Everyone has subjective interpretations and reactions to events, there isn't necessarily a universal normal which is what makes drama possible. The only way you're going to get your wish is if you were sucked into the comic, in which case the characters will freak the fuck out cause sapiens aren't real.

>>149064441
>he loves her enough to overlook it as well as her other mistakes.
No he fucking doesn't. He was literally fucking guilted into this shit due to Sandy's "sacrifices". The writing is ass but is made clear Mike isn't enjoying shit with Sandy, the trust was hurt by ghosting a long while ago and got fucked by the betray. The only thing in this relationship Is obligation.

>>149064464
I think he does love her but just not as much, he's very clearly "love fatigued" at being with Sandy but probably doesn't have the guts to, and would feel guilty about breaking it off. He likely feels it's an obligation. Either he'll try to make this work or trade Sandy for Lucy, or stay single. Or Mike will get with Lucy cause Sandy meets something sharp and pointy.

>>149064441
Paying off…?
Dude mike is fucking miserable
He’s doing what men do , suffering in silence

>>149064453
Don't have to act like real people entirely, just not turning characters into caricatures or universally beaten characters. Then again, it would be modern bcb if characters were actually allowed to be characters.

>>149064438
The sad thing is he didn't even get a chance to do that physically...

>>149064539
I forget that Daisy's meant to be kind of fat sometimes.

>>149064481
He is yeah, but not caused intentionally by Sandy, as far as we know she's talking to him more often, just that Mike isn't comfortable disclosing that he's being villified or alienated by people, or that he's unhappy with being with Sandy.

At this rate, a Mucy OTP would end up pretty damn ironic.
>Lucy as usual sits around doing nothing
>Mike's mental state nosedives after he's kicked from the table and probably despised by everyone
>moar torture
>MOAR
>he and Sandy break up for realsies this time Taeshi pinky promises
>Lucy swoops back in to claim her prize uncontested
>whatever she just won sure as hell won't be the Mike she expected or wanted

>>149064624
>Sandy, it seems like the universe itself is trying to fuck me. At first it wanted to do it sweetly, but now it's getting real aggressive and seems about ready to slam me down over a table and hit me with everything its got. So I'd just getting a move on with that visit if you wanna be the one to punch my v-card.

What would the lesson be by the end of comic, god willing it comes before the heat death of the universe? What ‘s even the message?

>>149064539
Damn, Sue is the hottest in this pic and I don't know why.

>>149062803
>>149063189
I reject Taeshi's writing and substitute my own.

>>149064480
It's interesting that Sandy no longer serves as a source of validation for Mike. I agree he still cares about her, but he's looking for other sources of affection he can actually trust. I wonder if Mike thinks Sandy will eventually get bored, leave him again, and that will be that. He didn't seem overly excited about her Valentine's Day date plans.

>>149064539
Ah, Apsel's art. I love this one, Rachel's packing some sweet jugs.

>>149064721
Whatever Taeshi clumsily insists upon in the final chapter or two, though half the comic will actively contradict that notion.

>>149064610
I think Rachel and Mina are supposed to be too, not fully sure though. Daisy also has more fluff, as does Paulo though his fur is more rough. Maybe they appear skinnier without the fur. I do wonder if we'll ever see them furless, but they did get drenched in the rain recently.

>>149064683
Now we need a B.C.I about this, where Sandy has to compete with the universe to fuck Mike first.
This leaves to wonder, how big is the universe's cock? I mean, it is The Universe, pretty big, if it's going to fuck him we got to know, these are important.

>>149064736
Based take, and we could learn all this if we had a Sandy spin-off, which Veronica can and should dedicate chapters to. It would make her more Patreon dough too.

>>149061241
That is just fuga

>>149062803
Um, you got a pick of this?
And well in that case, I'll be crying in the corner since Sandy broke my faith in her. She wouldn't want to know what I wrote about her anyway.

>>149062823
At Frank's house door:
"Sir, this is the F.B.I, can we talk?"

>>149064536
James would be lucky if Mike was into as freaky shit as him.

Hey, remember how two chapters before EF, Sandy was apparently sending Mike loads of photos and in fairly consistent communication with him?

'Cause Taeshi apparently didn't.

>>149064667
Lucy is clingy and obsessive, as much if not more than James. If she ends up with Mike, she'll likely be controlling if she doesn't get a major reality check. Cue toxic marriage and domestic abuse cause Mike doesn't look at her long enough.

>>149064721
In all seriousness, that friendship ultimately pays off regardless of individual flaws, and to see the best in everyone with the hope to improve or resolve said flaws.
Sarcastically, that The Universe is trying to fuck over Mike. Maybe the comic will end with blissful heavenly happiness where everything goes right for Mike to balance it out.

>>149064908
She is very inconsistent. During Double Down, Mike couldn't figure out why he was no longer happy with Sandy despite establishing in Burnt Bridges that he knew she had suckered him back in.

>>149064747
Yep, he does care about her, and I'm sure Sandy does too but it's not clear if their romantic sentiment for each other is at 100. Considering the path the comic seems to be going down, Sandy might get tired of him just for Mike to suffer. But a potential resolution for everyone's envy is an open-relationship polycule, Mike could be happy fucking Lucy, Paulo, and the Track Team while Sandy does Francis so they can be happy apart and happy fucking each other when they meet. Seriously.

>>149064765
Alejandro: "What I'm about to do to your high school, I will enjoy very much."
Mike: "Roseville, Assemble!"

>>149056941 (OP)
By the way guys, give me a list of the characters ranked based on who would be the best to worst parents. I'm curious.

>>149061241
Give this idea to Glencoe47. Or maybe Veronica will make a B.C.I.

>>149061279
Love Me, it's not porn but there is genital mutilation. And it's torture for Mike.

>>149064908
I imagine this would take place weeks to months earlier. Do we get a time or date drop?

>>149064935
That can happen, depending on what you write it can be hard to keep track of every ounce of information including character's subjective experience and tiny events and circumstances. I'd probably explain this specifically away as Mike pondering more reasons or rethinking the first one.

>>149056941 (OP)
OH NO! WHAT AN UNEXPECTED TURN OF EVENTS!

>>149064721
If you're mean and conventionally attractive shit works out for you, if you're nice you're a chump that's made to be taken advantage of.

>>149064908
I don't think it was ever that Sandy was literally never talking to Mike, she was just frequently unavailable and gradually becoming more distant. Sending stuff like this to pacify him and smooth over the times when she ghosts him for days/weeks at a time seems consistent enough. This wouldn't be long after the Halloween chapter where Paulo chewed her out on the phone too.
We really should have seen more of Mike and Sandy's actual phone relationship and what it was like, but Taeshi hates writing or drawing Sandy so that's never going to happen.

>>149064722
Sue's as stacked as Lucy, but taller, smarter, and 70% less bitchy. The only thing preventing her from getting all the boys attention is that she's a huge nerd.

>>149061193
Aww, these two are cute together!

>>149061470
In my headcanon which takes some inspiration from other's, Paulo is of partial Mexican descent. David is American though. But I heard people claim he could be of Jewish ethnicity.

Beep beep
Main character coming through
No Joke characters (Mike) allowed

>>149065071
Or that if you're a pretty girl you can be abusive, not if you're a man.

>>149065172
Yeah, she occassionally and non-frequently talked to him.
Also, Veronica with Sandyphobia? Would be interesting. She could ask Darkmaverick to adapt that little Sandy spin-off.

>>149065190
I think the boys are into nerds, even if Paulo wouldn't admit it. Daisy, Mike, James, all nerds for sure.

>>149065190
I was like "Mike if you don't getyo bitch ass ovah heah!"

>>149065346
Little did Paulo know that Mike would be abducted by a trafficking ring that day, all cause he didn't give him a ride. And cause Candyverse Hates Mike.

>>149065346
>Paulo slowing down just to humiliate Mike in front of his fuckbuddy
>They probably banged right after this
Mike's best friend by the way

So what is this comic about?
I remember finding out about it from a review in the Bad Webcomics Wiki (that hasn't been updated since 2016 so it's completely outdated)

>>149065406
It's about the romantic entanglements and other social conflicts of a group of anthropomorphic animal high school students. It's beautifully written, I recommend it.

>>149065400
Then months later Paulo would want to bang Mike.

>>149056941 (OP)
Don't know if this is the conventional thread naming but well enjoy this one while it lasts.
>>>/trash/75815400

>>149065172
Sure, but yet again the comic leaves filling in the appropriate context as an exercise to the viewer. And the fact that it swings wildly between {Mike loves Sandy, she sends him photos and texts, they plan entire days around each other} and {Mike is miserable, Sandy is ghosting him, he can't keep this up} makes it look less like a relationship that's falling apart due to distance and disinterest, and more like Mike might be clingy, bipolar, and possibly insane.

Especially since those few times we've actually seen Sandy talk to Mike, she's straight-up told him to pursue his hobbies and be nice to his friends, yet he keeps doubling down on hinging all his happiness solely on talking to her. He apparently doesn't even play videogames much anymore, and the only thing we see him use his phone or computer for is to look up pictures of Sandy.

>>149065572
>Making the thread while the entire US is sleeping
Bold choice

>>149065628
Lol, well I'm not in U.S.A at the moment. But they'll wake up eventually.

>>149065640
Do 4chan users even sleep?

>>149065446
If Paulo was a tall girl alot of the behavior would make sense.

>>149066105
I imagine he's very feminine.

>>149066021
Yeah but I wish not. We spend 33% of our lives sleeping, imagine all the stuff we could accomplish if we didn't need it?

>>149065346
>why is there only a pug in the wolf exhibit?

>>149066116
Because you’re getting so much done with the other 66%.

>>149066021
Yes. Some of us even have jobs.

>>149066495
And they are doing this most likely on company time.

>>149065446
was that before or after he was ready to completely dump Mike wholesale for Lucy points?

>>149066765
>after he was ready to completely dump Mike wholesale for Lucy points?
It was after.

>>149066765

>>149066909
What a fucking shithead.

>>149066492
Ouch. But yeah it's a W.I.P of improvement.

>>149066852
I'd say both, it's not like he was nice to Mike for a while before December, the time he resented Mike most.

>>149066765
>>149066909
>>149066922
Mike's best friend btw

>>149066922
He's a simp. Simpy boy. There's a cute Candybooru comic by Kennoli (that Augbey and Jike dude) of Lucy sending his faith in her to hell, and then he runs into Mike. It's so cute.

>>149066974
You know how Mike is, seeing the best in everyone. Paulo also lost trust in Lucy after that. It seems that he traded her for Mike.

>>149066974
>Mike's best friend btw
I mean, Mike did feel alone for a reason, Anon.

>>149066765
Since the Paulo Show, back when Taeshi decided that Paulo should suddenly become bisexual.

>>149066974
Which just goes to show how low Mike's expectations are these days. Oh well, Paulo will get a chance to redeem himself once Mike is exiled from the table. Let's see if he fucks up again.

>>149063355
Abbey giving Paulo another gut punch in the form of "here, for your trauma" was the better development

>>149067083
He'll either shyly agree with his peers or defy them by being concerned for and going after Mike.

>>149067238
>Daisy caves to pressure from the table like she did in the Soggy Bitch flashback chapter
>"oh y-yeah Mikie is just...the worst...."
>Paulo doesn't want to leave her to sit with Mike so goes along with it
I'll take that over his Lucy simpery kicking back in. Unless the latter helps sabotage Paisy, which is a more than acceptable exchange.

>>149056941 (OP)
Bleating Heart is still on haitus but Thea did draw this cute art.

>>149067304
Right, Daisy does cave into pressure. If Paulo stays he may feel bad for Mike still. At this point Paulo is a bigger simp for Daisy than Lucy I imagine, but he's the kind of guy who would trade Mike for a girl.

>>149065190
I like to think Sue has a more interesting life off screen but no one cares about it, like how no one knew she was dating McCain

>>149067371
But what is the endgame is here? If the pattern keeps holding, Mike will be rejected by everyone he cares about. What the fuck is that supposed to do?

What is even happening

>>149067371
Ehh, we have yet to see Paulo having to choose between Daisy and just doing what he really wants, this is the same guy that kept blowing her off whenever it came to make peace with Abbey, dude has a bad track of keeping love interests when Lucy is available, we have yet to see what simp boy will do if he has to choose between the girl he "accepted" as his girlfriend and the one he'd dump Mike for

>>149067652
If Taeshi spent so much time building up Paulo x Daisy in the absolute worst ways possible, then let it collapse like the house of cards it is, that might actually be kind of based.

>>149061417
It'd make more sense if this school was actually as homophobic as a mid-2000s high school should be especially with James being an open whore, but closeted gays get used to hiding large sides of themselves, him just acting like a pure little muffin to get attention but really being a jaded horny drama queen underneath would be interesting and make some sense.
But that's Taeshi, this close to writing interesting characters but fucks it up by being a BPD psycho that's milking her property so just does whatever she thinks is a good idea at the moment to keep the story going with little foresight.

>>149067455
Jump off a bridge, which I believe is highly likely. Either that or in front of a train.

>>149067652
Perhaps his feelings for Lucy and Daisy are equal, he has shown repeatedly that he would pursue Lucy despite how she treats him. He' probably loves Mike too but would throw him under the bus for everyone else, Mike has been taken advantage of many times.

>>149067431
That’d be fun, what antics would Sue, her boyfriend and her nerd squad get into?

>>149068431
>His feelings for Daisy and Lucy are equal
We both know that's not true, c'mon

>>149068473
They tried to make her a robotic crutch to walk with a cast but she ended up worse

>>149067431
Sue inserts herself into drama nonetheless. Probably finds it interesting. David does too but just observes instead of getting involved often.

>>149068488
Okay, so I guess some love can be more equal than others.

>>149067652
>>149067712
Paisy really feels set up to fail, given how the chapters preceding it were all about Paulo and Daisy burning through crushes and getting rejected until they were the only ones left, the fact Abbey keeps getting proven more and more right about them, and they way that the two most shameless and horny characters in the comic are uncomfortable with anything more than hold hands. The obvious and satisfying arc would be Paisy trying to get more intimate, failing, and then going through the stages of grief as reality sets in. They'd have to reckon with the fact that their closest childhood friend wasn't who they thought they were, and that they weren't who their childhood friend thought they were, and try to find a way to break up without breaking their hearts.

But Taeshi is ever a master at creating interesting and obvious setups and then fumbling by not following through.

>>149068586
Paisy as a ship reminds me of The Last Jedi: Making statements one moment then promptly undermining them the next.

>>149068473
I imagine various slice-of-life kinds of things, for which the main cast serve as the comedy side characters with ridiculously dramatic lives.

Sue and Co. are preparing to a convention together, and then Mike comes in cheeks still wet with tears and blubbers about how his supermodel girlfriend's cheating on him and his childhood friend who loves him hates him, and everyone rolls their eyes and ask him if his costume is ready.

>>149068776
That sounds incredibly fucking boring and something that Sue herself would write, but I repeat myself.

>>149068776
That specifically sounds too comedic but as an event, something similar could happen. A few spin-off chapters about other characters would be nice but Sue gets quite a lot of attention, unlike Jasmine's friends, Haley, Sandy, and the Track Team.

>>149068808
I imagine Sue writing some kind of romantic or erotic story about the boys in her friend group lusting over her, all cause she wants to fantasize about being sexually wanted.

>>149066909
>>149066922
Bruh, she almost killed herself because she had no one to confide in. Just let Paulo get desperate once in a while. I mean, she's almost told him what's wrong. even we don't know what is actually wrong with her.

>>149069438
>because she had no one to confide in
Lucy had Augustus and wouldn't let anyone else in. Any lack of confidants was entirely her own fault.
>even we don't know what is actually wrong with her
She wants gray cat dick real fucking bad and hates that Second Worst White Cat keeps getting dibs. Lucy won't feel secure until he's all hers.

>>149069438
I get the desperation to get Lucy to open up for once in her life, but "I'll stop being his friend if you want" is a shitty thing to say regardless. Lucy herself was visibly shocked and repelled by the offer. And besides, "I will do this bad thing on your behalf" is only going to make someone clam up further.

>>149069620
I doubt Lucy was repulsed by the offer itself, because she's going to end up at the table once Mike's been kicked to the curb. What's more likely, especially given her dream bullshit, is that Lucy doesn't trust Paulo.

>>149069620
> Lucy herself was visibly shocked and repelled by the offer
I think it's just her PTSD firing up because he grabbed her by the shoulders. It's really that simple.

>>149069672
>Lucy doesn't trust Paulo.
Well she'd be right not to, especially considering he's telling her "I will drop my friend like a hot rock if you like". If I were told that by someone, my immediate thought would be "I cannot trust this person with ANYTHING, or they'll do something fucked up and blame me".

>>149069886
Yeah but that's only because Lucy's not aware of the irrational need to please and support her that everyone, including Paulo, seems to feel.

>>149069438
That's her own fault and she already had someone. Though no matter how you slice it, Paulo being so ready to kick Mike to the curb with zero hesitation was just a douchebag move and reinforces just what a shit friend he really is.

>>149070122
I hope that by the time Paulo finally betrays Mike again, gray cat will have recognized the pattern and seen it coming. Orange cat deserves to feel more guilt.

>>149067431
McCain still exists, he just never leaves the Sueniverse.

>>149070238
I wouldn't be surprised if he does. Dude's a flake. Unfortunately I doubt we'll ever get Mike going full December on everyone else at the table and verbally tearing them all apart before fucking off.

You still have Sue, Stacy and Abby.

>the comic in it's early days
>uwu cute cats and dogs and they go to highschool and stuff happens!
>the comic now
MIKE BAD LUCY GOOD, also lets keep beating the same drum over and over until we decide to finally end it!
I can't wait for Taeshi to make a BCB set in college, because you just KNOW that shit is going to happen. She HAS to milk her cash cow.

>>149070708
I wonder how many body parts Mike will have lost by then.

>>149070708
>MIKE BAD LUCY GOOD
It was never not this. I'm not saying it wasn't better, but this theme has remained consistent.

>>149071338
Naw, from the start of volume 2 through the end of volume 3, the comic hammered home that Lucy done fucked up good and Mike had been her victim. Now once she came back, most all nuance went right out the window.

>>149071437
Idk. Whenever Mike is in conflict with her he gets scolded by the rest of the cast. You're obviously supposed to feel bad for Lucy, she's so pitiful while Mike is constantly pissed at her despite her not doing anything (recently).

The writing was more nuanced for sure. There's nods to Mike having reasons for his behavior, Paulo tells Lucy to apologize once between simping sessions, but mostly Mike was still the bad guy.

>>149071633
Sure, Mike got scolded, but he was also shown to be objectively correct in moments like when Abbey decried bullying and Mike glared over at Lucy while she shrank back, or when he outlined her physical abuse during December. Back then it was just the friend group who were unfair, not the narrative itself.

>>149071633
>Whenever Mike is in conflict with her he gets scolded by the rest of the cast.
The same action which was then reinforced his view of being aline and during drunk episode was said to be bad? ( not that anything fucking came if that)
>but mostly Mike was still the bad guy.
Nah decenber was Mike hitting to far but the comic gave both sides alot of points and actually made Lucy hit Mike to the point of bleeding which helps lead into alot if his latter behavior of cutting her off. Half the reason Mie in that era worked better for being angry is alot if the issues he had were still treated legitimately. He did nkt do ANYTHING to Lucy prior to december, he was harsh but never went out of his way to do it, he was avoiding her. He'll even when he was insulting Lucy it was actually true( mean but he was right). Ironically, the thing that should been retconned was the suicide. Why? Cause it's pointless.
>Only used to guilt trip Mike
> Narrative poison since it gives everyone else the blame on the teddybear. (Funnily Jordan did blame Mike but Mike just blocked the punch).
>Lucy Suffers no consequences for her actions
> Augustus saving Lucy from potentially "wandering" into traffic would have the same impact to get him into the house.
> It does not matter to the story cept as a guilt trip so no conflict resolution.
> Any nuance to the conflict is lost cause lucy can just say suicide and biych can get away with shit.
I could go on but the suicide was a narrative mistake. Fucking Boy's abyss used suicide attempts better and its adult cast was just as messed up as the youth.

>>149071338
This anon is right, the entire first half of volume 1 is Mike apologizing to Lucy because he did something bad, or he remembered doing something bad while Lucy graciously forgives him

>>149070076
That's kind of my point. In one move, Paulo demonstrated to Lucy that he is both generally unreliable, and incredibly over-eager to please her. That's a bad combination even from Lucy's perspective: she has to watch what she says to him, lest he get some fucked up idea of what she wants and acts on it before she can clarify or stop him. So of course she's not going to open up to him after that, I mean imagine:
>"I'm sad because Mike said a bunch of really mean stuff to me last year, and I know I was mean too, but I wish he'd stop trying to apologize and just let us be estranged, especially since the one time I did let him apologize he got super flirty only to drop me by the next morning"
>"Imma go physically assault him in your name"
At which point Lucy has to deal with the mortifying experience of her #1 simp and still-lingering-crush fighting over her "honor".

>>149062814
>>149062877
I wonder if the artists we've had around here still lurk. I know that HamletofTroy still shows up every now and then.

>>149059016
where do these even get posted?

>>149062814
Mostly I just do edits now, I did draw Mike taking some dick today for the /trash/ thread but that was all I felt like doing.

>>149071437
>>149071338
the comic has gone through 3 themes. original saccharine, angst starting on the chapter where mike falls off the bridge, and "mike bad" starting when lucy returned

>>149072593
Everything I've seen of Lucy indicates her problem is the polar opposite: She -doesn't- think Paulo is that devoted and that's why she does not trust him. Lucy is just not a thoughtful person by nature.

>>149072593
>Why do you even bother?
>I dunno, thrill of the chase?
I think when Lucy's off her meds she goes completely paranoid and psychotic and thinks that all Paulo wants to do is fuck her. So she went kookoo bananas and flipped out
>So you're even willing to sell out Mike to have sex with me?

>>149073300
Getting some Slay the Princess vibes from Lucy in the third panel
>why are you always taunting me?
The other two make sense for Daisy and Paulo, but what the hell does this mean? I get that Sue bringing up the past is annoying for Lucy as she's trying to forget it, but does she really think Sue is secretly mocking her?

>>149073414
I guess Lucy is insane and when Sue makes bitchy comments she assumes it's about her.

>>149073489
Of course, this will all get blamed on Mike. Clearly Lucy would not be so fucked in the head if Mike hadn't inceptioned insane trust issues into a girl who definitely never had them before, no sir.

>>149064908
>>149065172
It's been established Sandy is awfully selfish, so it's pretty in character imo for her to talk to Mike specifically to send her photos of herself, as it gets her validation.

>>149073414
Sue believes herself close to Lucy to the point of having a special nickname for her while Lucy can barely stand her, she might think Sue is making fun of her disdain by ignoring it

>>149073626
Maybe that's why Lucy wore her dress from the play during Halloween. She thinks Sue is fucking with her, so it's fair game that Lucy mocks her back. What Sue thinks is a budding friendship, Lucy considers to be social combat with fake smiles.

I doubt Taeshi has even considered the idea, but it retroactively improves the Lucy asskissing festival that was Witch Hunt.

>>149073626
Adding to this, Sue believes herself above the drama of the other characters, but this also puts her in a situation where her sincerity is not believable because she might have some ulterior motive. Paulo is a simp that wants her carnally, Daisy hangs with Paulo and Mike and is jealous of her, and Mike has so many weak points he's not worth discussing. But Sue? Her thing if believing herself smarter than she actually is and being the straightcat, Lucy has nothing that could "control" her aside from outright demanding she fucks off, which she won't do because she needs to be a victim first else it paints her in a bad light

>>149073626
>Mike didn't even mention Sue because he assumed it ways obvious she wouldn't side with him
>Lucy didn't even think of her because she thinks Sue's a phony bitch and fake friend
lmao

>>149073794
Lucy is such a shitty friend genuinely. I don't even like Paulo but the fucker had demonstrated repeatedly that he gave a fuck about Lucy. Daisy is fair since her and Lucy are barely fucking friends. Also I said it before but the earlier discord edit is really stupid when you actually consider the context.

>>149067304
>Unless the latter helps sabotage Paisy, which is a more than acceptable exchange.
>Abbey and her break up because she cares about Mike too much
>Paulo and her break up because she doesn't care about Mike enough
Is Taeshi truly capable of such pottery?

>>149066974
He does almost immediately regret saying it when Mike finds him mid-mental breakdown and is nothing but kind and supportive.

>>149073626
>>149073699
That would make Lucy look incredibly psychotic. The idea that Sue, the possibly-autistic-girl who has repeatedly opened up to Lucy about her vulnerabilities, is playing some kind of long-term social combat is insane. At least Jessica had a REASON to come up with insane convoluted plots to gain the upper hand against her grudge, Lucy is fighting ghosts and losing.

>>149072593
> she has to watch what she says to him, lest he get some fucked up idea of what she wants and acts on it before she can clarify or stop him.
WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TROUBLESOME KORAT?!
>I wish he'd stop trying to apologize and just let us be estranged, especially since the one time I did let him apologize he got super flirty only to drop me by the next morning"
All she had to do was simply talk to him when he wasn't experiencing a complete and utter mental breakdown. He reached out an olive branch multiple times, if she had said "You weren't wrong for being angry at me, I acknowledge that, but the things you said to me were awful. You knew how much I relied on you, which to be fair is MY issue that you never asked for, so I don't blame you for my date with gravity. I think it's better if you and I agree to stay away from each other" than he probably would have been completely fine with that.

>>149074202
She IS psychotic, but the curious thing is that Tae doesn't seem to be aware she's written her as such.

>>149074317
She is aware, and she thinks it's a good thing.

>>149074202
That's why Taeshi has avoided having Lucy explode at her, she can have a justification to get hostile at Paulo's insistence to open up, and at Daisy's jealousy, but the moment she does it to Sue is when it will be too far. Paulo can't stand her but aside from her superiority complex at him she's harmless

>>149074258
>All she had to do was simply talk to him when he wasn't experiencing a complete and utter mental breakdown.
Yes, but that's asking a lot from Lucy Whitecat, who is both insanely paranoid and incredibly stubborn. Even with Mike crying and freaking out, she tried to just leave him to it until he managed to hold her still long enough to exposit on his misery and begged for reconciliation.

Basically, I think that post-shippuden Lucy IS still mad at Mike, and there's a big distance between her thinking "I wish Mike would stop trying to apologize and just let us be estranged", and being willing to go have that conversation with him. But there's also a difference between Lucy being too stubborn and prideful to tell Mike she's still mad at him and just wants to be given space, vs her wanting Paulo or Augustus to go pick fights on her behalf. That would just be embarrassing.

>>149074202
"Look" incredibly psychotic? She's mixed her insecurities toward her friends with her alleyway near-rape experience. Lucy is a nutbag.

>>149073794
This page is so fucking funny in retrospect because it just shows how everyone is in the friend group for Daisy except for Mike, and nobody really likes Mike all that much. Daisy just had an obsessive crush on him, and now she's over it, so what good is Mike to any of them anymore? Mike is a pretty bad friend and is always yelling at everyone over a girl who keeps blowing him off. There comes a point where you need to prioritize what's in front of you, it doesn't matter how bad Lucy treated him in middle school when it's been literal years. At a certain point you just need to move on. Lucy is moving on, Paulo is moving on, Daisy is moving on, Abbey is moving on, David is moving on... Mike is stuck, and for literally what reason? Someone from third grade? It's so obvious this was written by a terminally online little girl stuck in a grown woman's body.

>>149074640
>Mike is a pretty bad friend and is always yelling at everyone over a girl who keeps blowing him off
I think it's pretty funny that you talk about moving on but think this is still happening.

>>149074671
Kek, what? He literally reversed Lucy's emotional progress because he couldn't stop himself from keeping the status quo, and is now actively guilt tripping everyone who attempts to call him out
>I'm so bad...
>I'm such a bad person...
>How was I supposed to turn her down?
Like wtf are people even supposed to say to that? This guy becomes insanely abusive to everyone around him for a while and then starts self berating around people who he did wrong, as if that makes it any better. Yeah, it's a trauma response, but it's nobody's job but your own to make sure you don't bleed on people who didn't hurt you. Imagine a friend yells at you to shut up, says your opinions are worthless and then slams your friend's head into a table for trying to defend you, would you take that friend back after 2 or 3 months under the guise of them being reaaaaaalllyyyyyy sorry and that they were just going through a lot back then?

>>149074723
It's been over five years, anon. And the status quo you speak of has been dead for more than a decade. No, Mike didn't guilt trip anyone, that's an insane read. The rest of your post is no better.

Better to let the thread die so someone can create a new one tomorrow

>>149074640
>Mike is a pretty bad friend
Aren't they all, though? Daisy's entire social circle is fucked: Lucy is cold, paranoid, and manipulative. Paulo is an immature impulsive asshole. Daisy herself is a double-standard-holding hypocrite who will talk behind your back. Abbey leaps to conclusions and holds them forever. David is a lolrandum weirdo who encourages the worst in people. Augustus is a 'reformed' gang-minion who likes being mean for fun. Rachel is a self-described slut. Jessica is two-faced and incredibly vindictive. Katie is the resident Mean Girl(tm).

By those standards, Mike's wild moodswings and judgmental streak look almost well-adjusted.

>>149071232
Lucy would have to put them back together and expose them to lightning screaming "It's alive!"

>>149073605
Mike is happy as long as she talks to him, and hopefully we'll learn that validation isn't the only reason.

>>149073794
Whoa, that's cool. First signs of Mike's resentment for Sue.

>>149075178
>>149075167
>>149075147
>>149075068
Let the thread die or at least sage it, we're reaching the bump limit, it won't endure until tomorrow page.

>>149074883
Are you just willfully retarded or are you not able to think about anything beyond what you're experiencing in your actual life? I'm talking about in the timeframe of the comic.

Eternal Flame happened for US in 2021, but in the frame of the comic, it was two months ago. Lucy's birthday is in November, which was 4 chapters before that. We still have yet to hit Valentines Day in the comic, which there's no way there wouldn't be a chapter for that considering Paisy is canon now.
>Mike didn't guilt trip anyone
What do you call it when he starts shaking when Augustus confronts him, and then says he's a bad person and then asks if that's what Augustus wants to hear? He's berating himself because he thinks that'll get other people off his back. It's likely also a misguided attempt at self reflection, but ultimately still falls under the "guilt trip" label because it's learned helplessness. If he's just far too bad to help it when he acts like a little bitch, then who can REALLY hold him responsible? They should expect it! They shouldn't expect anything more! Same ol' Mike!
>>149075068
Yeah they're all fucking retarded, everyone in this comic is a basket case due to the fact the author is only capable of thinking in extremes. This comic isn't about who's the most virtuous, it's about who's your favorite toxic brat. I like Augustus and think he should steal Lucy's underwear and jerk off to in secret, and I also think Daisy should do more toxic shit like in volume one. That was way more interesting than Taeshi constantly trying to emotionally jerk herself off to what a perfect little ascended and self aware borderline she is through Lucy.

>>149072710
Lol, do I count? Bad artists are still artists.

>>149075326
>I'm talking about in the timeframe of the comic
That's even dumber. You treated it like an ongoing plotpoint when even the comic, at its snails pace, has moved on from the sperg shit.

>What do you call it when
I call it Mike admitting he fucked up and accepting blame, anon. And overexplaining his motives, which frankly neither of them should care to discuss with each other, but go blame Taeshi for that one, she wrote the chapter because no one understood why the flying fuck he'd take back Sandy.

>He's berating himself because he thinks that'll get other people off his back.
Don't call anyone else retarded, you have absolutely no right after writing something this demonstrably stupid. Mike has only ever accepted blame for his spergery and EF, not tried to mitigate it. Congrats, you demonize worse that Taeshi does.

>>149075434
You don't even know how to sage, do you?

Ah fuck it, might as well reach the bump limit and hope the thread dies then.
>>149075434
Sure man no prob, post if you want, it's always nice to see content

>>149075230
Nah.

>>149075326
I don't think Mike is trying to get people off his back, I think he's just getting more depressed. There's a pattern of phases in chronic depression: first someone loses their capacity for joy or satisfaction, so they become super irritable and frustrated, and then eventually they lose that too and just get sad and numb.

>>149075467
>That's even dumber. You treated it like an ongoing plotpoint when even the comic, at its snails pace, has moved on from the sperg shit.
What the fuck? I specifically added this part to cover that. What is with your selective reading?

>would you take that friend back after 2 or 3 months under the guise of them being reaaaaaalllyyyyyy sorry and that they were just going through a lot back then?
Yeah, after Sandy pulled that shit, he became remorseful, but not before then. That's not good friend behavior. Why the fuck is anyone obligated to continue to want to spend time with him? The fact that they didn't ditch his ass already is incredibly unrealistic, as Mike was making things quite unpeaceful for the group. At least everyone else actually liked Lucy, even if it was for the fact she was female. From their perspective, Mike was sperging out on them for someone who might as well not have even existed, and being incredibly passive aggressive towards Lucy who was trying to make things up to him.

>I call it Mike admitting he fucked up and accepting blame, anon.
Fucking up and accepting blame isn't the same as berating yourself in the face of the person confronting you. Accepting blame is apologizing and promising to do better WITHOUT berating yourself, because then it puts this HUGE pressure onto the other party to comfort you instead. Are we forgetting this is a BORDERLINE who wrote this? It's an extremely classic deflection tactic, if you start berating yourself before they can do it for you, maybe they'll realize how GOOD you actually are and they'll comfort you and you can make up and everything will be magically good again!

>Mike has only ever accepted blame for his spergery and EF, not tried to mitigate it. Congrats, you demonize worse that Taeshi does.
Honestly, I think you're just socially retarded yourself, anon. This is something that anyone older than college age should be able to spot.

>>149075582
>There's a pattern of phases in chronic depression: first someone loses their capacity for joy or satisfaction, so they become super irritable and frustrated, and then eventually they lose that too and just get sad and numb.
Yeah, this has happened to me first hand, and I had basically all my friends ditch me for it. They were correct to do that. Nobody is obligated to put up with you when you're violently losing your shit. Take the L, realize you're toxic and develop better coping skills next time. When I was like that, I never intended to hurt anyone or guilt trip, but looking back, I can completely see how that was the case and it's NEVER about your intent, it's about how it affects people.

>>149075230
There'll just be a new one tomorrow anyway.

>>149074723
As much as I hate seeing this Mike torturefest we have going on, he was a scrote and a sperg for a good while.
Matter of fact, all of them have been scrotes with each other. I don't think an actual group of friends like that would endure much IRL.
Why do they even stick together?

>>149075326
Lol, it's been going on so long it might as well be Eternal Frame, am I right? Ha!
I do think the characters are psychologically complex, it would be nice to analyze them. They all have their ups and downs.

>>149075486
Nope.

>>149075504
Thanks. I don't think they'll look good but I still want to do more Pride Month art, and yeah reaching the bump limit sounds nice.

>>149075640
You type 'Sage' in the options field

>>149074723
> would you take that friend back after 2 or 3 months under the guise of them being reaaaaaalllyyyyyy sorry and that they were just going through a lot back then?
Yea probably. I’ve blown up on friends, I’ve had friends blow up on me, but we’re willing to let bygones be bygones when apologies are made.

>>149075590
>Honestly, I think you're just socially retarded yourself, anon. This is something that anyone older than college age should be able to spot
Nta but you are the one who comes off as socially retarded. Mike having some weirdly low self worth and berating himself and feeling guilt and trying to change has been a thing for a bit. People even without bad and is clear that even he thinks taking sandy back was a bad idea but " he had to since she made sacrifices". Being a jackass won't fix shit and Lucy made no emotional progress if ef is what reset her. She needs actual fucking help.

>>149075657
Ohhhh, okay. Still I kind of want to let folks talk, see how it goes. Anybody can sage though I'm sure.

>>149075679
That's genuinely good but always been my fear, I'm on longer social out of fear for how friendsihps can go wrong, like they did with the characters. It hurts, being unable to socialize, but there's nothing I can do about it.

>>149075721
Four post to bump limit? Nah, this will be dead by tomorrow

>>149075655
Don't worry man, getting your art out there is good, It's nice to get some feedback. Best of luck

>>149075736
Then speed it up so it archives before the next page, we are trapped here till it does. Also, I know suitcase might be friends with a janitor but are furry comics just sometimes allowed to skirt the rules at random?

>>149075746
That's true. Always better to try than not try. Thanks.

>>149075753
Are we like not allowed to just post a new page on a new thread or something?

>>149075844
He wants to post the new page in a new thread so we have a whole thread to discuss it.

>>149075844
Shit I hadn't considered that, sorry for being retarded today.

>>149074723
Mike is a pitybaiting faggot
>I am! le garbage!
>*holds for applause*
>gets mopey when you don't pat him on the ass for the mere mention of his bad behavior

>>149075873
Lol, you're cool. Don't worry.

>>149075844
No. If a thread for the old page exists at the time of the new page, janitors will delete any attempts at making a new thread. This has happened multiple times.

>>149075924
Actually yeah, Mike does mope hoping for sympathy cause he badly needs it.

>>149075965
Considering that many characters most likely see Mike as a romantic trophy, getting fucked by him will probably be the least of what would convince them to value him, which is sad.
"Wow Mike, you're so good in bed, now I'll look after you!"
"Oh sure, it only took that much to earn basic respect."

>>149075965
>Mike does mope hoping for sympathy cause he badly needs it.
I mean Mike does get it but it usually is followed up with:
>Said persons than doing something that walks it back
>Nothing and isn't actually followed up
James is an actual perfect example of ths... and technically Daisy but I cant blame the altter too much. Daisy has just started her relationship with Paulo so I can give her some slack if she can't help her friend. Though that does help feed into Mike's growing loneliness feeling.

Speaking of, how long in the universe has it been since the December incident? Cause it seems this feeling has been fermenting.

>>149075924
It's hard to pick a character to sheer for in this comic, unfortunately. I mean, I want those mofos to get it together and make peace and all, but there's not one of the main ones that you can honestly say has been right or even consistent from start to finish.

>>149076021
New years happened a few chapters back, but valentines hasn't happened yet, so a year and a month or so.

>>149075994
>"Wow Mike, you're so good in bed, now I'll look after you!"
You mean the thing he didn't want in the first place? Why is Mike getting Lucy's supposed fear? Is that meant to be intentional writing or a complete coincidence?
>>149076029
Meh, I read that more as Mike believes James is too good for him. Also, the zoom in on the chest and pose makes Mike look like a woman or a bit gay. Carson targeting him made sense.I know the kid has had some self-loathing for a while, but when exactly did this start?
>>149076032
Hmm, so in the Universe, the loneliness was brought up, but Korat has been stewing in it for a year. I guess it makes sense that it took a while to reach this point.

>>149076032
Didn't happen yet, I wonder how bad things will go, and what manner of bullshittery will be pulled off then

>>149075590
This whole post is some flat earther-tier shit but
>passive aggressive towards Lucy who was trying to make things up to him
Really takes the cake. Fucking lol

>>149075924
That's a funny way to spell "hopes they don't agree that he's garbage."

>>149076189
>>passive aggressive towards Lucy who was trying to make things up to him
To be fair to both of them. Lucy did try to change and get better, but by that point Mike had made up his mind, in part due to her earlier regression while she was sick, showing she understood why he was upset. Mike did take a few jabs at Lucy, but not many, and instead just trying to cut contact.

>>149076218
Yeah, before she kermitted ketchup-icide. Anon up there is talking about sperg era Lucy.

>>149075609
So basically this was all one big exercise in projection.

>>149075924
My memory's failing me but I think he did something a lot like this back when he and Paulo went shopping for a birthday gift for Haley. Mighta been a BCI? Paulo brought up how gracious Mike is and Mike was like "what if I wasn't so perfect?"

I honestly think on some level he wants to be punished, he wants the catharsis of the sword of damocles finally falling, but he's too much of a pussy to pull the trigger. Like he's tired of the "perfect boy" image, he's tired of the expectations that come with people thinking he's perfect or the best at something, but he thinks without that, he has nothing. So he kinda tests the waters on letting people know how fucked up he thinks he is, but he doesn't go balls out.

It kinda doesn't work as well after the sperg era and Paulo having no reaction to Lucy's suicide attempt, but I think that's the idea. Frankly I think there's a slim chance he'll actually feel better after the initial shock of getting kicked out of the table wears off. Like the sick sense of relief of a chronically ill relative or pet dying.

>>149076239
>. Anon up there is talking about sperg era Lucy.
Oh, right, the skinwalker that replaced her.
>passive aggressive towards Lucy who was trying to make things up to him
I assumed it wasn't that era cause this makes no fucking sense otherwise.
Oh and it always is about Sandy.

>>149075963
Aww fuck. Welp, somebody sage, or I could.

>>149076270
No you fucking retard, I'm saying this is something you learn with experience and it's why so many mentally ill teenagers love the comic, because they still believe they can do this shit and get coddled and it's just sooooo cute and the friendship is just soooo beautiful and deep, when in reality it's just characters going back and forth between enabling shitty behavior one day and then treating them like they're devilspawn the next and we're supposed to believe it's consistent character writing.
>>149076189
What else do you call it when you let someone obsess and cry over you and you just go "ugh" every time you see them instead of just straight up telling them to fuck off?

>>149076310
All's we can do about it now is either reach the bump limit, which will make the page be archived soon after, or just sage the posts and hope that nobody bumps the thread any further.

>>149076021
Let's hope Mike gets help in the last minute. It's also January 2009, so a little over a year.

>>149076332
There’s less than 20 posts to the bump limit, it should happen easily enough

>>149076067
Oh, you mean that Mike would get Lucy's fear of being sexually objectified. Makes sense. I imagined this is what Mike would consider the potential true reaosn for his peers valuing him.

>>149076189
Kind of sort of hard to sympathize with someone who hit you since you were 3-4.

>>149076371
That's a good sign.

>>149076077
I wonder how close we are to valentines. Does the big table shakeup happen before or after?

>>149076403
Pretty soon, cause it's likely mid to late January. We already got Sue's birthday, we just need some confirmation with a calender date.
Interestingly Sandy and Rachel will turn 18 soon, which will make a lot of fans happy for... reasons.

>>149076412
Oh, I may be wrong but we're likely pre January 17th cause Jordan is listed as 17 on the site and is supposed to turn 18 this year.

>>149076067
>Why is Mike getting Lucy's supposed fear?
Taeshi's really into Mike and Lucy being the same lately. It's the reason Lucy was at the arcade Mike went to, as per page comment. It's almost the perfect double edged sword, really. It makes Mike look stupid for judging Lucy when he has many of the same problems and works as an ironic punishment for Mike hurting Lucy, but it can also justify an MxL endgame.

Mike sincerely beats himself up whenever he feels guilty. Taeshi established this forever ago. What some anons haven't figured out is that Taeshi the writer uses pity-begging because its all she herself knows how to do. What, you think she'd ever try to actually change her ways? No no no, this way demands far less effort in the long run. More and more often, when any character in this comic wrongs another and wants forgiveness, or just basic sympathy, they pity-beg. Paulo does it, Lucy does it, and to some degree or another both Abbey and Stacy have done it. Even Sue has gone a round with Lucy. Mike's specific flavor involves more self-loathing than the others. This is to say that none of the characters should be taken as manipulative little sociopaths. They are quite clearly written to be sincere. The problem is their creator is writing what she knows, which is not much.

>>149076330
Yeah, like I said, projection.

>What else do you call it when you let someone obsess and cry over you and you just go "ugh" every time you see them instead of just straight up telling them to fuck off?
Look, buddy, pick an era and stick with it instead of trying to conflate the two.

>>149076344
>Let's hope Mike gets help in the last minute.
He has about 3 chances for it
>Paulo notices something is off
>Haley decides she is worried again
>Daisy follows up on what she said
James is out for being a flake, and I didn't include Mike's mum since she has no reason to worry from her pov.
>>149076372
>I imagined this is what Mike would consider the potential true reaosn for his peers valuing him.
I might be off base, but it would not be too incorrect.
>Most of female friends cept the dyke, Jasmine and Tess expressed interest at one point.
>Of the 3 male friends he is friends with, 2 want his cock/ass. Abbey is the straight one.
Weirdly, if Lucy didn't exist,t you could likely just split Mike in two and it would be a story of twins getting harassed throughout their school life with incest undertones.
>>149076435
>Mike look stupid for judging Lucy when he has many of the same problems
Mike didn't beat Lucy till she bled. Does anyone have the r63 page of pic, I didn't save it.

>>149056941 (OP)
What the fuck happened? I thought James is in love with Mike? Did he magically got over it?

>>149076403
Valentine's Day is going to be the prom/carnival all over again.

>>149076442
This tbdesu, this comic is boring because nobody actually tries to take revenge or ruin the relationships of anybody they hate. This comic was in it's prime during the era of deviantart where having characters who were anything other than extremely boring and unproblematic was looked down on because nobody wanted to have a mary sue, and it still has a severe effect on this comic. She's scared to do anything besides have characters who do her fucked up version of "self-reflection"

>>149076460
>Daisy follows up on what she said
I really do wish this would happen. It won't, because her entire personality is going to be Paisy-centric from now on.

>>149076451
>Look, buddy, pick an era and stick with it instead of trying to conflate the two.
God forbid someone try to analyze the entirety of a character. Your experiences as a person do not amount to nothing the second you change a bit, your previous experiences are the reason you change, and they will always be a part of you.

>>149076463
Have you not checked the comic for two years?

>>149076491
I think Taeshi's problem is she's spent so much time noodling around that she can no longer write character proactivity without moving the plot along.

>>149076502
God forbid you ever argue in good faith, more like it.

>>149076460
Haley needs more development, hope it's a mix of all of those though.

>>149076563
Haley laying into everyone at the table, who for the most part she's always disliked, would be pretty satisfying to watch.

>>149076542
The fuck are you even saying? Now you're the one projecting, shoving intentions into my mouth. I can acknowledge a character has faults, acknowledge there's trauma behind these faults, but that they're still faults and he needs to get better. Why is it that whenever you discuss the characters in this comic, you always need to wrap around and do "but omg i totally understand why he is that way!!!!!" or else you get retards who think you want to see that character burned at the stake, as opposed to having actual character development?

>>149076460

You mean this one? >>149037470
There are a lot of r63 around about Lucy "being toxic" towards Mike

>>149076624
Thanks, that's it. Has a nice change too since Alex is pissed vs Sandy being Sad. Oh shit we hit limit too.

>>149076621
>The fuck are you even saying?
That you just write whatever tripe you think will win an argument. For example:
>Mike was acting passive aggressive towards Lucy who was trying to make things up to him
Lucy did jack shit to make up anything to Mike, except toward the very very end of December. All she had done was mope around and hope that Mike would magically change his mind about her. But according to you, it's "oooh that evil Mike, taking her efforts for granted like that!" It's naked horseshit.

>>149075609
To be clear, I don't think you're totally wrong. Pity-begging is kind of annoying, and the consequence of following this comic as it comes out is that Mike has been sad and pity-begging for years, after even more years of lashing out with a hair-trigger temper. But the idea that someone who's depressed should just suck it up and deal with it themselves, and no-one owes them anything, is pretty fucked up.

And if you ARE going to argue that fucked up point, you can't then turn around and say that Mike cold-shouldering Lucy when she was depressed was wrong; he's not obligated to put up with her, right?

>>149076463
quick rundown here: >>149058488

>>149076734
>That you just write whatever tripe you think will win an argument.
More projection. I literally don't care about winning anything, I just have shit to say and if you contest it, then I'm going to say something back that has to do with my opinion as opposed to kissing your ass because that's how conversation works.
>"oooh that evil Mike, taking her efforts for granted like that!" It's naked horseshit.
I never said that. Lucy is a bitch whore and I hate her too. This circles back to what I was saying about how you can never say anything about any character in this comic without putting a million disclaimers or else people think you're worshipping the ground another character walks on. I just think it would've been cool if Mike had actually told Lucy to fuck off before he blew up at her in December instead of just letting her cry and sob and bitch and moan the entire time they were in forced proximity due to the play.
>>149076757
>you can't then turn around and say that Mike cold-shouldering Lucy when she was depressed was wrong; he's not obligated to put up with her, right?
He's not. Just tell her to fuck off. Tell her you're fucking done before it builds up to the point where you wish death upon her because you're so angry that she won't leave you alone.

>>149076808
>I never said that
I literally just showed you where you said that.

>>149076808
>Just tell her to fuck off. Tell her you're fucking done before it builds up
By distancing himself anon, Mike was very clear there and Lucy attempted to restart things a few times before December.
>builds up to the point where you wish death upon her because you're so angry that she won't leave you alone.
Yeha nah, there was a lot of pent-up frustration there. Something was gonna happen since they are teens. Dont forget there were friends since they were tiny and Lucy ahs been a violent shit since then.

>>149076808
Didnt he tell he was fucking done... On december? Im Just a passerby, just asking

>>149076843
He said tell her to fuck off BEFORE December, how are you people so fucking stupid holy shit
LEARN TO READ NIGGER

>>149076854
>NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MIKE HAD TO SPELL IT OUT BECAUSE LUCY'S TOO FUCKING STUPID TO REALIZE HE WANTS HER TO FUCK OFF EVEN THOUGH SHE CLEARLY REALIZED HE DID INDEED WANT HER TO FUCK OFF AND IT TROUBLED HER DEEPLY!!!!!

>>149076854
NTA but it just occured to me that completely fucking off would not have been possible before Lucy jumped since they have the same friend group. At best, what Mike was doing by giving her the old shoulder and not engaging was the best unless you want to split the friend group, and Mike was not dumb since he knew who they would pick.

>>149076839
I can acknowledge Lucy was trying to be better while also acknowledging that Mike wasn't obligated to respond the way she wanted. What part of this is so difficult for you to wrap your head around? Do you just lack the ability to empathize? You can't understand character intentions that aren't within your own range of reactions?
>>149076842
Yeah, when they were in grade school. A switch flipped in Mike around the vacation arc and he became incredibly hot and cold, not sure what he wanted from Lucy, and then when he decided, he just did the 2008 equivalent of ghosting her, leaving her wondering. He WAS quite warm to her for a while, seemed to at least intend to respect her feelings even though he was starting to want space, until he fell off the bridge. He seemed to just want to be able to disappear from her life with no consequences after that.
>>149076843
He did, but Lucy is peak bpdchan and was gonna keep trying. He knew how she was and did all that shit anyway, expecting it to all just blow over proper.

>>149076881
>He did, but Lucy is peak bpdchan and was gonna keep trying. He knew how she was and did all that shit anyway, expecting it to all just blow over proper.
Wait, but what you said is contradictory. You can't both say he said he was done with her and then blame him for her ignoring it.

>>149076881
>Lucy was trying to be better
She fucking wasn't though, you're still hallucinating up something that didn't happen until December at the earliest.

>>149076905
For all his protests, anon just wants to find any excuse he can to shit on Mike. Empathy, my ass.

>>149076881
>Lucy was trying to be better

>Mike wasn't obligated to respond the way Lucy wanted
>anyway here's why Mike was bad and wrong and stupid for not responding the way Lucy wanted

>>149076808
>He's not. Just tell her to fuck off.
That's technically fair, but it strikes me as unreasonably harsh to expect people (or fictional cats) who are depressed to just deal with it themselves, with their friends not owing them anything.

I don't think Mike or Lucy specifically owed each other anything during their respective depressive periods, since Lucy abused Mike for years and Mike returned the favor by deliberately hurting Lucy emotionally as much as he could. Those aren't the kinds of things you shrug off and forgive just because they're sad and regretful later. But they still have other friends, and I think are within their rights to lean on them for support. If anything, I think both Mike and Lucy lean on their other friends too little.

>>149076994
>I think both Mike and Lucy lean on their other friends too little
The problems are that Lucy doesn't trust her friends because she's insane and Mike knows better than to trust them because he has the gift of prophesy.

There is literally no reason for Lucy to not seek help from Sue. Up until that point she was doing everything to suck Whitecat's feet.

>>149077036
Hold on a spell, what exactly could Sue even do for Lucy? They don't seem to have any mutual interests. Sue will bend over backwards for Lucy despite Worst Cat needing the exact opposite. But at the same time, Sue would take it very poorly the first time Lucy gets pissy with her. If it happened to Augustus, favored boy toy and savior, it'll happen to Sue.

>>149076905
Let me spell this out for you like you're 5, because you clearly have a mental deficiency.

>Mike loved Lucy and Lucy thought they were starting to get something really nice going
>Sandy comes into picture
>Mike gives her more emotional effort
>Starts to resent Lucy because he realizes nice women exist
>Lucy is too used to having Mike as a supply and struggles to cope
>Mike starts wanting to be smothered less but starts trying to wean her off nicely
>Falls off bridge in Acapulco
>Probably hits his head or something because a switch gets flipped and he starts being REALLY detached
>Lucy realizes then and there she truly does love him but it's too late
>Lucy's feelings are valid but so are Mike's
>Lucy confesses and gets rejected
>Continues to be in forced proximity both due to school and the play
>Mike just tolerates it until he explodes
>Lucy chooses to kill herself
>Mike continues to let frustration build yet again as he tries to convince himself he didn't make the wrong choice.

And what is it I am saying with all of this in mind?

>Mike should have set that firm "I don't want to talk to you anymore than I have to, Lucy" boundary sooner.

If someone isn't taking the hint, yes, you need to spell it out for both their sanity and yours.

>>149077036
>Up until that point she was doing everything to suck Whitecat's feet.
Lucy is fairly homophobic or something.I would say out of all of her female friends that Sue has gone the most of the way for her.

>>149076994
>who are depressed to just deal with it themselves, with their friends not owing them anything.
That's just how the world works. If you're inconvenient, people are going to ditch you. I wouldn't do that to my friends, but most people would.

>>149077077
>>Lucy confesses and gets rejected
Mike had confessed prior, and Lucy had rejected him.
>>Mike just tolerates it until he explodes
Nah, there were efforts to disengage, and you even but the second mike let up Lucy showed she was no different then before.
It was a sliding scale fo shit even before the bridge incident bt you could assume that Mike started thinking that shit wasn't getting better plus Lucy was actively finding a new teddy bear in Paulo. Its thee reasons eh rebound line was used.
>If someone isn't taking the hint, yes, you need to spell it out for both their sanity and yours.
If someone isn't taking the hint after multiple attempts at distance, they are not going to take your words seriously. Lucy herself has shown she doesnt take that shit at face value unless you scream it at her.
>ke you're 5, because you clearly have a mental deficiency.
Dont decide to be a fuckign cunt cause people disagree.
>>Mike continues to let frustration build yet again as he tries to convince himself he didn't make the wrong choice.
Nah, he has expressed frustrations with his friends before with the sandy thing, and that was before the cheating and was at the start of the relationship. They were priotizeing lucy feelings over his and Paulo dumb little cheater mob did not help shit. Plus his friends dont care about anything invvliing sandy even before sperg Mike or the ghosting. Daisy was just upset her old friend forgot her.

>>149076868
>this is the last time before December they interacted and it was initiated by Mike otherwise they avoided each other unless physically forced
>their December study group was also initiated by Mike being a sperg
>Mike had a meltie because Lucy was being too nice in a meetup he forced them into
you poor baby, you didn't learn how to read and now you're getting filtered by a furry comic :^(

>>149077077
>Mike should have set that firm "I don't want to talk to you anymore than I have to, Lucy" boundary sooner
For someone who's so uppity, how do you not get that Lucy DID take the hint? And thought if she just did Y instead of X, she'd get a preferable result.

You're also wrong about the build-up to the bridge fall. Mike had very clearly been growing more and more frustrated with Lucy leading up to that point, telling her to quit the bullshit like throwing his stuff across the plane and not letting Yashi they had "split up." But Lucy kept ignoring him or guilting Mike into playing along. The reason Mike's switch "got flipped" is because he had just almost fucking died trying to save Lucy and all she did was yell at him for almost dying and leaving her. So far as he could tell, Lucy was still thinking about how this affected her, not him.

>>149077164
>well you see Mike offered Lucy a tylenol and so everything that happened is actually his fault after all

>>149077165
I'm still saying he should've just straight up told her what he was feeling, complete with the "leave me alone" or "I need space". I was just like Lucy as a kid, I would get really fucking clingy to anyone who gave me too much attention, and VERY quickly they would either yell at me to leave them alone or form an alliance with another kid to run away from me. Not straight up screaming at her to fuck off then and there after almost dying because of her is just simply NOT something a 14-15-however the fuck old year old boy would do.

>>149077191
>I'm still saying he should've just straight up told her what he was feeling, complete with the "leave me alone" or "I need space".
She FUCKING KNEW what Mike wanted! That is why Lucy was so unhappy for months on end. It's not as if Lucy was confused at any point, or thought there was some degree of ambiguity. Mike verbalizing his feelings would have changed NOTHING, why is this so difficult for you to accept or understand?

>>149077213
>Mike verbalizing his feelings would have changed NOTHING
It would have brought her closure. It's a lot harder to move on from someone you love if they never just outright fucking say you're annoying, because you hold onto that hope you can make things better. It's why she acted the way she did in December, she wanted to make up with him, she wanted to make things better. Everyone around her kept saying "we can do this Lucy, you two are just SO iconic, there's no way the gang won't get back together!", meanwhile Mike had internally given up on ever making it better while everyone else fed Lucy false hopes.

>>149077189
>keep initiating contact with person you don't like but haven't officially cut off contact with
>AIIEEEEEEE SHE WONT LEAVE ME ALONE I MUST SPERG OUT

>>149077006
Both of those end up as self-fulfilling prophecies, though, and could easily be solved if they just hung out with the right friends. Paulo is kind of an abrasive asshole, but other characters exist.

Sue may be kind of mopey herself, and Lucy's not THAT close to the senior squad, but they're still friends of Lucy's who she could hang out with and open up to without getting paranoid about "ulterior motives" or whatever. But instead she's super cagey and only ever opens up with boys who she's attracted to for some reason, who she then physically assaults Lucy is sexist.

Meanwhile Mike has Daisy, Abbey, Stacy, the members of the track team who aren't neonazis. He could easily have a good, stress-free time with them, or tell them about his problems and receive sympathy without judgement, but instead he apparently only hangs out with people who want him carnally.

Both Mike and Lucy at least somewhat crazy and probably need psychiatry, so I can't fully blame them for not making ideal social choices, but it is frustrating to read.

>>149077089
I don't think most people would abandon close friends for convenience's sake, it's just a matter of different personal lines and definitions for "close friends", "friends", "acquaintances", etc..
But regardless of semantics, it being common doesn't mean it isn't unreasonably harsh.

>>149077241
>It would have brought her closure.
No, it would not have, this is still Lucy. Paulo through both words and actions had displayed he gave a shit and look how she treated him. Sue had done more as a friend for Lucy than her blood brothers had done. Lucy seems to have issues sometimes reconciling a person with their actions unless they are very negative. It's like Paulo and getting beaten.

>>149077241
>It would have brought her closure.
Right, because words are more powerful than actions and would have magically banished all those false hopes.

>>149077251
>members of the track team who aren't neonazis.
What?
>but instead he apparently only hangs out with people who want him carnally.
To be fair to Mike, he did not know James wanted his penis till later. Only issue is we have seen him hang out with James (and david) but it's hard to tell if that is simply Taeshi writing or a character issue. WOG is very useless in this series.

Oh, and to be fair to Lucy, it would mostly be not hanging out with Jess to avoid brown Lucy.

>>149077262
>No, it would not have, this is still Lucy.
No, it WOULD have. She was getting close with Augustus and I'm sure he would've done some "told you so, you stupid mentally ill bitch" shtick, and we'd get the current status quo without the suicide attempt. It'd be a lot more interesting than the way things are now, too. Just imagine.

>Mike finally tells her to fuck off once and for all in no uncertain terms
>Lucy cries and sobs and is sad and comes to school the next day only to hear Mike telling Daisy about it and she affirms it was the right choice
>Goes to whine to Paulo but it's a similar story where she hears something out of context that sounds awful
>Her mentally ill brain makes her think everyone must feel the same
>Turns to her only friend, Augustus
>He begrudgingly allows her to seek asylum, only this time when what he did to Daisy is far more raw
>Causes an extreme rift in the group where everyone is FORCED to choose between Mike and Lucy, only this time the rapist is also a barrier
>Everyone is miserable, but at least shit is happening.

This is like the 4chan equivalent of a TF2 pub push, ya'll kicked it into high gear once we hit overtime

>>149077244
I'm just going to direct you back to my previous post since yours is just that dogshit.

>>149077294
>No, it WOULD have.
There is literally no reason why it would have worked. You just want that to be the case.

>>149077251
I think the upcoming spoiled pages prove that the friend group will find reasons to hate Mike no matter what.

>>149077317
If you don't HEAR the reality, you can still come up with fantasies. Come up with reasons why they're busy or reasons to justify their behavior. Reasons why they could possibly still love you. It's what lonely people DO. Yes, I know Lucy had a lot of people around her, but she still has the reactions of a deathly lonely person because Taeshi's only writing style is projection, no matter how someone's upbringing wouldn't make them act the way they do.

But I digress, if you are forced to bite the curb and get hit with a face full of reality, that fantasizing becomes harder. The justifications become a bitter reality. Your idealization becomes shattered.

>>149077320
It's likely a dream sequence, cause what the fuck could Mike had done for them to be upset? Could be wrong, of course, EF was a fever dream, but real.

>>149077303
You're going to direct back to the other post, which also didn't address anything I said, because you're a fat pussy who isn't smart enough to even articulate his own thoughts let alone understand anyone else's.
Be sure to cry extra hard about this in your hugbox mikefag discord

>>149077337
Then you can just as easily hallucinate that the other person didn't actually mean what they said. Wow, look at that, it solved nothing!

>>149077241
>It's a lot harder to move on from someone you love if they never just outright fucking say you're annoying
Mike did tell her that, Zach went further. Lucy actively refuses to do closure and just went back into denial because she's insane.

>>149077358
You didn't address anything I said, and yet here you whine.

>>149077076
>Hold on a spell, what exactly could Sue even do for Lucy?
Sue has repeatedly offered Lucy a sympathetic shoulder to cry on, and even opened up about her own fears and insecurities in order to try and signal to Lucy that she's safe to do the same. Lucy's got tons of problems, and Sue probably can't single-handedly solve her clingyness, her various phobias, her PTSD, her cruel and manipulative tendencies, her sexist worldview, or her rampant paranoia. But it's clear that one of the things Lucy needs (alongside a competent trio of psychiatrist, therapist, and pharmacist) is to learn to open up to people without being so guarded and toxic.

Once Lucy realizes that her friends AREN'T immediately going to use anything she says against her, and she shouldn't either, maybe next she can learn how to have a good time with them without sulking or malding over boys. Baby steps.

>>149077362
You can, but it's unlikely for a bpdchan like Lucy who can only think in extremes. Have you never been on the receiving end of a person with BPD?

>>149077373
That is by definition an extreme.

>>149077387
Yes, they go back and forth.

>>149077392
So the words would accomplish nothing, yes.

>>149077371
Lucy wouldn't do that even if Sue had a penis. It also wouldn't solve any of the outlined issues.

>>149077288
>What?
See >>149061714
James obsession with speed is an artifact of his desire for a genetically superior master race to exterminate and enslave all, beginning a thousand-year reich built of blood and bones and death and suffering.

>>149077415
>Lucy wouldn't do that even if Sue had a penis
True, but that goes back around to Lucy being fucking insane.
>It also wouldn't solve any of the outlined issues
Not immediately or completely, but actually opening up for once would help Lucy become a bit less paranoid, which would help her become less caustic, which could lead into her learning to be less reflexively mean-spirited.

Like I said, baby steps. She is fucking insane, after all.

>>149076583
Haley chewing out Mike's friends for being shitty to him? That would be great, showing how greatly she cares despite teasing him often.