They knew all along edition.

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>>149520269 (OP)

>>149520269 (OP)
Either Taeshi refuses to double-check her own writing or now thinks it should not be constrained by established plotpoints or basic logic. The silver lining here is that Mike's feelings of guilt are wholly selfless; he can't worry about everyone finding out his deep dark secret if there is no secret because everyone already knows.

0/10 not enough incest

>>149520269 (OP)
Oh shit Taeshi, what are you doing?

Last thread I said those anons who thought that the suicide bomb would fizzle again were dumb. I said that surely this was too simple a cause-and-effect, too easy a layup to fumble; that it would be like failing to get a basketball into a hula hoop 4 feet off the ground. I would like to sincerely apologize to those anons, for it is ME who am the fool.

Who tryna play?

>>149520269 (OP)
Well at least she's acknowledging the purpose of Sue's play.
>>149520340
Yep, that's what fanfictions are for. Stay tuned. :)
>>149520320
It's not really clear who knows the incident or how greatly, only that Madison knows Lucy tried to kill herself presumably cause of something involving Mike.

>>149520632
Sue randomly knows. Look at her reaction on today's page.

>>149520269 (OP)
>Jordan told his friend group, Paulo knew, Sue knew, Amaya knew
so the whole thing is an open secret? well, okay?

>>149520269 (OP)
So the suicide is just an open secret now? How has it been so known for so long without Lucy or Jordan saying Mike was the reason she jumped?!

>>149520632
>Yep, that's what fanfictions are for. Stay tuned. :)

elaborate

>>149520632
>Yep, that's what fanfictions are for. Stay tuned. :)

dont elaborate

>>149520917
>friends somehow all know Lucy jumped
>are too fucking stupid to connect the dots with December
>the comic treats Mike's "fault" as some big revelation that leaves him exiled from the table
This is the dumbest plot I could come up with so at this point there's a good chance it's correct.

>>149520286
And the rest of the chapter is just going to be about Sue's bruised ego and the plays, ok

>>149520917
>People were going out of their way to be nice to Lucy because they thought she might do it again, not because they like her
lmao

>>149520981
yeah it's very hard to believe that none of the conected the dots to this, that lucy didn't let it slip, or that jordan in one of his pissed of moments didnt tell one of his group "My sister jumped because of Mike"


Taeshi wont address the elephant in the room, and I think it's because she doesnt know how to get Mike back in any good graces with the table group after that bomb drop.

They'd all hate him for the rest of the comic. Paulo would probably even attack him.

There's no believable way to smooth things over with them after that even if Mike tried suicide himself.

>>149521108
Mike already told the whole group how he gaslit Lucy to make her feel isolated. Regardless of how they all magically found out about the ketchup slam, the group should have zero problem figuring out that was a major factor in her depression. Paulo certainly blamed Mike for Lucy avoiding them.

>There's no believable way to smooth things over with them after that even if Mike tried suicide himself.
Oh there is, but Taeshi could never bring herself to write it. It would require Lucy putting her foot down, claiming full agency, and telling them she didn't blame Mike for finally snapping at her so they shouldn't either. Lucy can cow the whole table into anything.

Can one of you mfs that lurk the bcb discord tell me if anyone there is talking about how weird this is? Because as far as I can tell we're the only ones reacting at all.

>>149521217
>Lucy can cow the whole table into anything
Would be pretty interesting to see how Mike responds to this situation. Like maybe he resists going back because he knows he's only tolerated due to Lucy's orders.

I'd like to think that, offscreen, Mike fessed up about Lucy's suicide at some point, took the group's shit, then things cooled off before Lucy came back unaware of the fact. I don’t know why Taeshi hasn't shown why everyone already knows unless there's supposed to be some dramatic revelation.

>>149521257
The patrons didn't notice but their collective IQ remains in the double digits range so that's no big surprise.

>>149521289
>I'd like to think that, offscreen, Mike fessed up about Lucy's suicide at some point, took the group's shit, then things cooled off before Lucy came back unaware of the fact. I don’t know why Taeshi hasn't shown why everyone already knows unless there's supposed to be some dramatic revelation.


>offscreen

Only way it'd work is if there was a time skip of sorts and everyone was treating mike like the worst person ever without him sperging.

>Dramatic revelation

It's that or she just wants to sidestep the actual consequences of the whole thing.

>>149520269 (OP)
So yeah, either a page for a quick laugh or Sue already knew it from the Rachael party. Either way, I was gonna say the Table would ban Mike thinking Lucy's last interaction with him was him being a piece of shit, and everyone not knowing he actually tried to apologize and sew things back. I would believe (now) that he felt so guilty, he didint tell that part of the story because "it doestn matter anymore".

It would change my prespective about the comic if Lucy then calls the table out for their double standards and reveals that Mike should not be held accountable for her own actions. But then that would call out 75% of the patreons and we cant risk losing money, do we,,,

>>149521501
>time skip of sorts
The comic did skip the summer months leading up to Lucy's return, so there's room for it to come and go.

>>149520479
I forgive you, anon.

>it is ME who am the fool
We are all fools for continuing to follow this accursed comic.

>>149521501
>It's that or she just wants to sidestep the actual consequences of the whole thing
I feel like it's this lol

>>149520509
>awful graphics
>bad characters
>dogshit story
>draw distance is abysmal
>endless wooden cutscenes
>maybe five minutes of actual gameplay

>>149521257
>he resists going back because he knows he's only tolerated due to Lucy's orders
It would fit with the supposed distrust he harbors toward the table, but that plotpoint is an older one so Taeshi is probably in the middle of replacing it with something far dumber.

>>149520924
There are already incest ones and I'd like to try one.

I finally saved up enough cereal tabs to get the Red Ryder decoder ring, which I have immediately taken and used upon the most unmedicated of schizoposts in /r9k/. At great cost to my sanity, I have gained knowledge of Friday’s page.

Madison states that she just realized something else, that the day immediately following Sue’s play was when news broke of Lucy’s attempt at suicide, and so of course nobody talked about Sue’s play, they were preoccupied with dealing with their classmate nearly dying. Madison tells Sue to keep that in mind and go easier on herself. Sue then looks a bit crestfallen before bashfully saying now she feels a bit guilty for acting like her problems were more important than Lucy’s (picrel). Madison then teasingly remarks about being well familiar with a playwright’s self-loathing, to which Jess tells her to knock it off.

I’m gonna be honest guys, I damn near kept this page to myself, as this might be the most unintentionally hilarious page that Taeshi has ever written, and to spoil it for you felt a little wrong.

>>149521814
Seriously, which of you fuckers paid Taeshi to have Sue unironically say “How dare I have problems, Lucy’s feelings are so much more important than me.” Fucking top kek.

>>149521814
I wonder if Lucy realizes everyone's being super nice to her because she's Little Miss Kills-Herself

>>149521814
>the day immediately following Sue’s play was when news broke of Lucy’s attempt at suicide
What fucking news? All the school said was that Lucy would no longer be coming to class. The table went to her house to find out what was going on, came away with no answers, and didn't get any until Rachel's party. Taeshi really does not remember what she wrote!

>>149521887
>Sue chapter
>all logic goes out the window
>enough about Sue let's talk about Lucy!
Whenever Lucy's not on the screen, the audience should ask, "Where's Lucy?"

>>149521723
I just don't understand why. Why was it ok to make it a plot point that Mike is at fault for Lucy's suicide attempt, but too far for everybody to find out and react accordingly?

>>149521814
If news was supposed to have broken all the way back then, then why did Sue act like she wasn't sure during All in the Mind? This is actually mindbreaking me, are we just supposed to assume everybody knew for sure right away what happened and just literally never mentioned it even when Lucy wasn't around? Are we actually the single digit IQ people for not taking this for granted all along?

>she feels a bit guilty for acting like her problems were more important than Lucy’s
When did she do this? Is Lucy's schizophrenic delusion about Sue overriding reality? Was she supposed to have been mad at David for not talking about Lucy instead earlier? Does everything have to be about Lucy all the time? What the fuck is happening?

>>149521257
>Can one of you mfs that lurk the bcb discord tell me if anyone there is talking about how weird this is?
Yes, there's a lot of discussion about it, particularly about how the reactions back in Happy Hour when Mike (inaudibly to the reader) explains what happened in December are very hard to make sense of now.

>>149521973
Nothing about this makes any fucking sense if you subscribe to standard narrative conventions. It's like Taeshi has decided she can retcon the comic as desired, without actually going back and "fixing" the problem pages. As if she were some grand exception to the rules.

>When did she do this?
It sounds like Sue is unironically blaming herself for not thinking about Lucy 24/7.

>>149522021
I am morbidly curious to hear how they take Friday's page. The patrons might self-select against intelligence, but it sounds like the discord peasants can still tell when something doesn't square quite right.

So when did she find out?

>>149520981
That doesn't work because he already explained what happened in Happy Hour.

>>149522149
To be way Way WAY more generous than this comic deserves, it COULD be argued that Sue knows full well what happened and is giving Lucy the chance to fess up. But if the whole school already knows, that also makes Lucy look retarded for not catching on.

Is there a special reason we're immediately assuming the random post about Friday's page isn't a shitpost? Not necessarily doubting, just curious.

>>149522171
All Mike explained in Happy Hour was how he broke Lucy down during December. He didn't tell his friends about the suicide attempt.

>>149521680
Am I the only one here who actually likes this comic?

>>149522198
Welcome to /bcb/. Here is your nametag. Hang around and you'll catch on pretty quick. But if you can still escape this dogshit comic then I would highly recommend doing that and never look back.

>>149522209
How could they have not figured it out? Paulo knows she tried to kill herself now too, so it can't come as a shock.

>>149522217
Probably.

>>149522249
Wondering what'll happen if the comic ends. I sincerely pray it never does. I guess we could still make /trash/ threads.

>>149522198
So far we haven't had a fake Odysseus anon. We've been getting accurate next page summaries for quite some time, so trust has built up. Also the current page is so stupid that anything could plausibly come after it.

>>149522240
Try explaining why their only reaction was a briefly angry Paulo, mild guilt over taking Mike for granted, and offering a toast to Lucy's wellbeing. Taeshi's the one who writes this crap, go pester her for answers on Bluesky or whatever.

>>149522198
very weird to see people lying in these threads when it comes to the patreon pages, even in the chapters that attracts the most discussion

>>149522232
>>149522272
I've been here on and off for years but somehow never caught one of these posts I guess

>>149522307
Unless she blocks you, then you'll have to ask her on other socials like Greengrass. :)
I'm wondering if any of the characters can write better than Veronica. Maybe Sue or Jessica since they actually already write.
I'm also 100% sure Sue wrote a gangbang smut involving her and the boys at one point, probably buried in her room somewhere.

>>149522240
It's just that they're back to being cool with Mike so soon after Happy Hour that it seems like they couldn't have had the full picture. Letting that shit be water under the bridge would be beyond most adults, let alone these kids.

Side note, this does make Sue's clapback at Mike in Behind Closed Doors look even worse
>guys you're being really mean
>stfu you made Lucy off herself

>>149522376
I assume this is another example of Taeshi's Leeroy Jenkins approach to storytelling. Just writing whatever she wants in the moment the mood strikes her, i.e. when she decided that Mike should slam Paulo's head into the table, damn the narrative consequences.

>>149522376
Since drunk Daisy empathized with him they all probably ended up becoming cool with him. Maybe what'll happen now is that they'll suck of to Lucy and have such a wildly new appreciation for Sue trying to see the best in her that it tempts them to welcome Lucy back and thus kick Mikie to the curb.

>>149522427
Daisy empathizing with Mike never stopped them before so that makes no sense.

>>149522408
Funny, cause Paulo got that fitting karma for abusing Mike. Now we just need Mike to smack the shit outta Lucy for some reason. I speculate Lucy will assault Sandy at a point which causes her and Mike to physically fight, maybe. Really Lucy could smack anybody. Daisy, Paulo, James, David, and it could piss Mike off.

>>149522454
>Now we just need Mike to smack the shit outta Lucy for some reason
Boy I sure wish that would happen. There's no point in trying to redeem Mike since Taeshi will always find some way to re-damn him. Might as well write him going full villain because at least that could be fun to watch.

>>149522480
True Colors and Talk It Out Like Adults=Villain Mike.

No doubt that Mike hitting Lucy even once would permenantly paint him as an irrideemable monster. Even just a brief, light slap. And this isn't even a female on male double standard cause nobody gave a shit about Mike when Paulo beat him with a bat. Not that Paulo crushing on Mike later wasn't cute but wow, the sheer audacity he had.
In addition to Jessica getting hurt for Paulo, Paulo, Lucy, Daisy, and Sue need to get hurt for Mike at some point. Sandy too honestly.

>>149520917
Lucy HAS said that, or at least heavily implied it. That's why everyone in these threads was fucking baffled the FIRST time it fizzled, when Paulo was like "Yeah, and?!"

>>149521108
>>149521217
The only thing I can think of that makes ANY sense is the meta explanation, where by Vol. 6 to now, Taeshi decided she wanted to center Mike and Lucy again, but didn't want Lucy to be too pathetic, so Mike was pathetic and shitty instead. But she apparently didn't want Mike to be the villain everyone hates, either, that role is reserved for Sandy so now she has to make him sympathetic. But him being explicitly blamed for Lucy's suicide would spoil that, so that's just been... dropped? But he's still becoming super depressed and avoidant, even though no-one's actually mad at him? I don't fucking know.

>>149522521
Honestly, I'd just like to see Mike accept he's irredeemable, both inherently and by reputation. Let him dip his toe into being the sort of asshole Taeshi loves so much and find that he enjoys it. Have him spread misery and absolve Lucy to her face because no wonder she kept hurting him. This shit feels great!

>>149522628
So once again it boils down to Taeshi writing checks she cannot cash. Same old story: She faffs around too long, building up a backlog of inconvenient little plot details, then tries to rush the actual story and trips over herself. Kind of like how Paulo x Daisy could have worked quite nicely at one point but is now a tepid little wreck held together by Because Taeshi Says So.

>What Taeshi said
Nobody else knows!
>What Taeshi meant
Literally the entire school found out the next day!

>>149522694
For me, it's slut Mike.

Asshole Mike could also work as the result of his complex around being "nice" but I think that kinda shit is too protagonist coded, he wouldn't get away with it like the others do.

>>149521680
Thank you, anon. I feel legitimately bad for giving Taeshi the benefit of the doubt and assuming this would make sense. This is a SPECTACULAR fumble. The last THREE VOLUMES now make no sense.

>>149522376
To me the issue isn't that it makes Sue or anyone look worse for being pissy at Mike, so much as it is that it makes them JUST being pissy make no sense. Like, who the fuck goes:
>"You contributed to our friend trying to kill herself, but we're still coming over to your house to talk about videogames."

>>149522863
Reality is dying.

On the other hand, it's good to have confirmation that we should never, ever take Taeshi seriously when she word of gods it up.

>>149522865
>he wouldn't get away with it like the others do
They key would have to be Mike no longer giving a fuck what anyone thinks about him. If he does not care about social pressure, there cannot be any consequences because this is BCB.

>>149521108
>Taeshi hated Mike and didn't give a shit about the consequences of having him push Lucy into suicide because she put all her chips in PxL
>Years later grows tired of that ship and now has to deal with the impossible challenge of somehow brushing a suicide attempt under the rug to rehab Mike
>her best attempt is just having the entire cast lampshade it
If karma is real I hope this blows up in her face and she has to live with her comic being destroyed by the short-sighted betrayal of her original leading man Mike.

>>149523079
Don't forget how she kept making her own job harder by turning Mike into a sperg goblin and then making EF's ending way worse than she'd intended. I cannot believe how hard she got blindsided on that one. It just goes to show she really is a careless asshole at heart.

>>149522198
Careful anon, lacking faith in the words of prophets is how one gets burnt at the stake.
>>149522272
I am somewhat surprised that no one has decided to pretend to be me yet. Not enough readers I guess.
>>149522217
I like it enough to give Taeshi money to keep making it.

>>149522863
To be honest, it was never really believable that no one else knew. You would not be able to keep that shit under wraps, some kid's parent is gonna be a cop, paramedic, doctor, secretary at the school, or something and let the secret slip.

>>149522904
You know, it's almost impressive. I've never before seen a truly fractal example of artistic incompetence. But through sheer laziness and dumbfuckery, Taeshi fumbled her way into creating something that, with just a bit more pressure, could collapse into a black hole of narrative stupidity.

>>149522628
I'm hoping that if Mike winds up being hated by everyone, Sandy will end up being his only source of validation and he'll be hanging by a thread probably waiting for Sandy to find an excuse to be upset with him. He'll probably blow something small out of proportion, some misunderstanding like Sandy hating him cause she didn't text enough heart emojis. She'll be burdened with the impossible task of lifting him out of crippling depression.
>>149522747
Is it a bad thing that Veronica's one of my biggest writing inspirations? Considering her reception though, I guess it's not all bad since she has a fanbase.
>>149522865
I badly want Mike to just suck it up and embrace polyamory, it's not like he's cheating on anyone since all the girls clearly want a piece of him, he just has to ask for they're okay with sharing him. Lucy, Sandy, Daisy, Amaya, Sue, Jessica, Rachel, Haley, Kizuna who totally exists. Throw in all the boys too.
>>149522863
When was this? Also Madison was at the party where Mike got drunk, can't think of anywhere else she'd hear about the suicide. Maybe she means nobody else than whoever was at the party.
>>149522904
It's beyond sad cause other than drunk Daisy and Sandy I don't think anybody else profoundly empathized with him for the abuse he took, and even then Daisy barely acknowledged it later and Sandy wanted them to make up anyway. Mike also hasn't disclosed anything to James so he truly is alone and misunderstood. He really just can't have happiness.
>>149523142
I'm hoping she'll make it till the day she dies, about the character's kids, grandkids. All the way up till they're senior citizens. Hopefully.

>>149520479
So how do you feel in the wake of Friday's spoilers?

>>149523242
>Is it a bad thing that Veronica's one of my biggest writing inspirations?
Yes. I've noticed that you shoot pretty low in your creative endeavors and should aspire to something better.

>Considering her reception though, I guess it's not all bad since she has a fanbase
People liking something should never be taken as an automatic endorsement of quality.

>>149523242
>I guess it's not all bad since she has a fanbase
She's been doing this comic since forever, back when there was less competition so growing a fanbase was much easier than nowadays. If she started today, her comic would be just one more in a sea of webcomics.

>>149523296
It's a bit spoilery but I'm dedicating my forseeable life to one that I'm hoping will pay off.
>>149523438
I see. Still it takes a lot of passion and effort to make one anyway.

>>149523467
>It's a bit spoilery but I'm dedicating my forseeable life to one that I'm hoping will pay off
I don't get it. You keep posting your stuff here, your pictures get rightly torn apart for being really really bad, but you keep on posting more anyway. Nothing about those pictures ever gets better. Are you expecting their reception to magically change or what?

>>149523242
>Is it a bad thing that Veronica's one of my biggest writing inspirations?
She's certainly outfoxed me. I always add the preamble when I tell you guys the next page because the idea of someone undergoing multiple life-threatening quests to gain nuggets of info on a webcomic is amusing to me. But it would have been a billion times funnier if I had been able to come in here and tell you guys Friday's page without having already proven myself a credible source of info.

>>149523556
I've never seen Multidude drawings. Am I blessed or does my brain remove the atrocities

>>149523649
Sounds more like you just overestimated her. Which somehow never gets any more difficult no matter how low she sinks as a writer.

>>149523747
It's odd cause unlike many I like her newer chapters more than older ones.

>>149521814
>they were preoccupied with dealing with their classmate nearly dying.


Wait so does that mean more than the two groups knew?!


If it was such a known thing in the school that she tried to kill herself, Mike should have been on the outs with the entire student body by now! There's no way nobody, absolutely nobody involved with either of the two cats could put two and two together.

>>149522863
I feel like Taeshi meant no one knew why Lucy decided to kill herself or how Mike was involved.

>>149521814
>>149522149
>>149522863
MY BRAIN IS COLLAPSING IN ON ITSELF.

>>149524286
Well this just brings us back to >>149520981

Did we really wait all this time for them to realize that Mike making Lucy le sad and her spilling her ketchup are causally linked somehow?

>>149524286
I feel like that's pretty ridiculous to assume and borderline cope

>>149524370
They could've thought Lucy was pregnant and the father wasn't Mike so she tried to kill herself then moved away to have an abortion in a state that's legal.

>>149524262
I assume nobody said anything about it, outside of the party guests.

>>149524286
>no one knew why Lucy decided to kill herself or how Mike was involved
Why, because of high levels of lead in the water?
>durrrrr i wonder if this had anything to do with what Mike told us at Rachel's party?
>you know the shit Paulo blamed him for?
>nawwwww couldn't be!

>>149524482
Would an embryo even survive that fall's impact?

>>149524286
>So the maincast all know what Mike did to Luce in 'December', but do they also know that she attempted suicide or do they only know about her transferring to another school? Did Mike tell them in his drunken state about the suicide attempt as well?
>Veronica: Only Mike knows about the attempted suicide, and that was only fully realised because he has masterful hearing that allowed him to listen to her passive aggression in Unspoken Rule!
>Lily never outright told him about it in Breaking Up so Mike wouldn’t have been able to talk about it in Happy Hour.
No she was just being pedantic. At that time she meant '100% knows for certain' so guessing with good reason that Lucy tried to kill herself doesn't count. Maybe she's retconning it for Omnibus 2?

>>149520269 (OP)
>>149521814
>>149521106
Oh top of the whole "so, tons of shit just got retconned and everyone got dumber"... Why I have a bad feeling that not only this is leading towards "Those cats will assume that Mike directly caused her to jump and act accordingly" after remembering that Mike went to talk with Lucy right after play, but delivered in a manner that will make Paulo assume that it's HE who caused and fucked up everything by fucking Lucy and thus souring Mike-Lucy attempt to make up? And that in previews of 127 Paulo is being a nervous mess not because he gives a fuck about Mike and his wellbeing but because he's guilty and afraid that when people learn this everything will crumble, especially his current relationship with Daisy...

>>149524577
> everything will crumble, especially his current relationship with Daisy...
Yes! Yes!! This would be perfect! Paulo's character development woulb be a cherry on top.

>>149524577
That sounds pretty interesting idk why it gives you a bad feeling. Paulo giving a fuck about Mike is a coin toss anyway, not really losing a prized possession there. That said if he was only afraid for his own ass idk why'd scan the track team's table looking for Mike.

I am actually suprised by how little incest was brought up because of this page. good job /bcb/.

>>149524555
That's retarded. He knew Lucy was in the hospital, he knew she was turbo depressed, he even dreamed about her bleeding out and that it was all his fault. How the fuck are we supposed to believe he didn't put two and two together?

>>149521887
>>149521946
As a Sue enjoyer, I think I have to have a blood feud with Taeshi now. This shit is ridiculous. Oh well, I'm still better off than the Daisy enjoyers.

>>149521973
The only thing that could possibly salvage some sense from this [Which, for the record, I am sure that Taeshi will not do. Fool me once.] is if it's revealed that Mike and Lucy are both legitimately insane, and everyone knows it and is constantly trying to tiptoe around them. So they keep desperately trying to get Lucy to open up without putting her on the spot, since they know she'll screech and hit them if she feels cornered. And they try to never tell Mike that they blame him for Lucy's suicide, since they know Lucy abused him and are afraid he'd hang himself or stab them or something if they slip up. Sue forgets sometimes because she has autism.

>>149524577
>Okay no one cared about Lucy's suicide attempt this time but NEXT time it's gonna blow up everything!
Bruh, just let it die

>>149521895
It doesn't help that those chapters were written OVER 12 YEARS AGO!!! No wonder Taeshi forget what she wrote.

>>149524755
Ah, this is my fear. I forget shit I wrote mere months ago.

>>149520509
>try building my own party
>game inexplicably forces you to play as David for most of the plot
What where they thinking!?!?

>>149524755
Oh heaven forbid that Taeshi ever review her own work! Besides, isn't she working on the second omnibus? The woman has zero excuse for this.

>>149524722
>Mike and Lucy are both legitimately insane
Remember that time Mike straight up blacked out at school and woke up at home? Like he was startled to find himself there?

>>149524846
>try to build social links with party members
>relationship points based entirely on most recent interaction instead of being cumulative
>sometimes the game bugs and they just reset to the default disposition
I'd rather brush my teeth with day old dog dookie than play this shitload of fuck!

>>149524967
>Remember that time Mike straight up blacked out at school and woke up at home? Like he was startled to find himself there?
The only explanation I can think of is untreated schizophrenia or unexplained psychic phenomena

>>149524967
>lucy path
>she's constantly being hit on and crushing on guys who straight up don't exist in other character paths
Is she schizo?

>>149524846
>There's rendering bugs out the fuck, too.
>Watch: When I stand here, Lucy's not there. One step closer, and she pops in! Step back, and she blips out again. There, gone, there, gone.
>The same thing happens to Paulo in this scene; there's no walking animation or anything, he just fucking spawns out of thin air!
What, did they program this game by pissing on their keyboards!?

>>149525020
>sour Mike on Lucy
>ship her with an I Can't Believe He's Not Mike fancharacter
>Paulo loses Lucy's trust
>write au comic series where he fixes all of Lucy's problems by fucking her
Taeshi always loved to have her cake and eat it too.

revisiting old chapters, "why didn't you stay gone" is crazy, this whole outburst and especially that last line doesn't look good when you take into account that he supposedly knew this whole time

>>149524785
Imagine working on the same story for over 20 years
>>149524948
Omnibus 2: Electric Boogaloo is going to be a cluster fuck especially with Taeshi aging, she's in her 40s now, and she definitely wants to change her story.

>>149524967
>>149525014
>>149525020
I was semi-joking with the "Mike and Lucy are severe schizophrenics and all their friends are quietly afraid of them but trying to be supportive" theory, but it really is the only way any of this could make sense.

Either that or Psi-BCB. Take your pick, I guess.

>>149525101
The worst part is that her current writing is noticeably inferior to what she put out one or two decades ago. The comic got worse when Taeshi decided to "grow up." Sandy is clearly not meant to be Taeshi but she's sure looking like a bad case of projection right now.

>>149525090
Honestly Paulo should've just screamed
>Why didn't you die!!
Lucy would've still forgave him anyways

>>149525159
>Sandy and Lucy are going to be the self-insert for their author whose a 40 old Latina whose ovaries are drying up
It'll either be hilariously bad or just sad

>>149525090
And David constantly joking about Lucy being dead when he knows she tried to commit suicide

>>149525261
Maybe we're all wrong. Maybe everyone in Roseville is in a cult and Lucy was supposed to be some sort of sacrifice.

>>149525261
Fucking hell, even the shit that replaced her watercolor work looks better than what Taeshi's putting out these days.

>>149525261
David really is just a sociopath isn't he? It's all fun and games until they find somebody's head buried in his backyard because they "got in the way of his OTP".

>We're here! We're real!
Yup! Another tally on the schizo Mike board!

>>149525090
Taeshi really did just load up a round of buckshot, aimed it at her foot, and blew off her own leg, huh?

>>149525322
Maybe the reason Daisy is super into Mike, very interested in Augustus, and willing to settle for Abbey (until he had enough of her bullshit) is because her "type" is psychologically damaged boys. Who she likes to tease, hoping they'll lash out and rape her.

Paulo better start building up that mommy complex.

>>149525101
Well it depends on what they are. I want to make two conceptually long stories that have one continuity. Depends on how much passion and effort you put into the idea, whether 20 years is worth it. I think Veronica could release faster but obviously sets the schedule for Patreon money for the next page.
>>149525090
He's probably wondering why she'd bother coming back to the source of her troubles (Roseville) if she wasn't going to bother reciprocating Paulo's feelings.
>>149525496
At first she was a simp but she's very likely attracted to boys with tragedy or misfortune out of desire to comfort them. Paulo is poor, Abbey having an abusive father, Augustus having negligent parents and being poor, Mike, um, being on the other end of Lucy's abuse which Daisy rarely acknowledges. But she did mention him seeing the good in everyone who mistreats him like Lucy and Paulo did. Daisy also likely felt guilty for expecting him to reciprocate her feelings.
I don't think this applies to any of the characters yet but it is an existing phenomenon for S.A victims to rationalize or cope with their trauma through sexual fantasies. I doubt Veronica will every write them though like some fanfic writers have.

>>149525322
>Yup! Another tally on the schizo Mike board!
Having near-prophetic dreami info about Lucy suicide attempt already made him a bit of a schizo, correct?

>>149525632
>He's probably wondering why she'd bother coming back to the source of her troubles (Roseville) if she wasn't going to bother reciprocating Paulo's feelings.


We never got a concrete answer for why she came back or an actual look at what she even did while gone. I think Taeshi never thought about it and just decided to bring Lucy back on a whim.

>>149525662
The resident demiurge inceptioned the crippling guilt right into his head. Mike's never been the same since.

>>149525725
It makes the most sense to return for her family and Augustus, she didn't give a shit about any of her friends, or at least pretended not to since she had no issue with Sue or Daisy.

>>149525725
You got concrete answers you just think Lucy hates her family for some reason so it doesn't count.

>>149525662
I TOLD you about Psi-BCB. I warned ou dog.

>>149525791
When, motherfucker?

>>149525785
The problem is that Lucy treats her family like a nuisance and didn't know Augustus would still be around.

>A future panel from the webcomic Bittersweet Candy Bowl. Mike is staring at James as he sticks his tongue out to someone off-panel, with sad possessive eyes. The character in the background says “I will NOT be rushed!”

>>149526099
So, almost certainly next chapter before James starts hating him. And probably David being a retard offscreen.

>sad possessive eyes
Maybe if Taeshi practiced different expressions, her comments would actually match her art.

>>149525632
>He's probably wondering why she'd bother coming back to the source of her troubles (Roseville) if she wasn't going to bother reciprocating Paulo's feelings.

No shit, but you don't exactly tell your friend that tried to kill themselves that they should have stayed gone, or paint them as cruel because they want to be left alone. This just seems more written as if Paulo didn't knew than something he said at the heat of the moment.

>>149526099
Probably Mike envying David and James again.
>>149526277
Fair but Paulo did wonder why considering he was just told Lucy didn't need any of his friends.

>>149525662
>>149525736
>>149525833
Maybe Mike received a psychic flash of Lucy because there minds got linked at some point. Lucy geassed poor ole Mike when they were toddlers or something.

>>149526099
Context: Bramblepaws prodded Taeshi that if Mike's not one of the straights then what's his sexuality? Taeshi responded with that image and
>Let's be real (kissing face)
So Mike's not straight and he's in love with James. The explosive double date thing will be Paulo lecturing Mike to date James instead of Sandy.

>>149526470
Jordan is so lucky here

>>149526350
Lucy's return to Roseville set off his sixth sense. An alarm for incoming abuse.

>>149526470
Given the whole "nobody knows about Lucy's suicide but x" shit, Taeshi's statements are worthless because she can change her mind in a snap.

>>149525135
>>149525322
Come to think of it, did anyone other than Mike and Lucy ever INTERACT with the sub-person talking birds or awful yoshi thing?

>>149526099
>Mike pushing someone away and being a possessive freak when they find someone else
I can't wait for him to finally learn to be a decent person in the last chapter!

>>149526543
>what if i took one of Lucy's myriad hangups and forced it on my other main character?
>delightfully devilish Veronica!

>>149526477
Matt, not so much. But that means David or any of the Track Team boys.

>>149526543
More like he rejected his abuser and can't believe she's rather hang out with Daisy's molester.

>>149526470
and they called me crazy for saying that mike was only pursuing james because he was the only left that could fill his lucy spot, all while he ignores everyone that wants to be his friend.

>>149526706
I think Mike's best cure right now is to find all the boys and girls who simped for him in eighth grade, they'd probably treat him nicer than his friends.

Or probably be just like them and expect some kind of romantic satisfaction offering nothing in return. I did have this idea for the three weird girls being yanderes and kidnapping Mike, sounds like a good B.C.I plot.

>>149526706
I thought that was pretty obvious and said so repeatedly. Mike just wants a best friend, though this particular conflict came out of the blue because Taeshi never bothered to actually set up any pottery between Mike and Lucy. Or at least none she's smart enough to recognize.

>>149526706
Yes well, this thread has a problem with accepting very explicit plot developments because it conflicts with their pre-established headcanons, like the people who didn't think Daisy and Paulo were going to date and for some reason still think they're going to break up, or the guy who still bagholds for Daisy loving Mike and lying about not liking him anymore despite zero evidence.
Hopefully this matter will be a lesson to everyone to take the comic as it is instead of as they wish it to be, but I seriously doubt it.

>>149526767
Learn to read

>>149526978
>or the guy who still bagholds for Daisy loving Mike and lying about not liking him anymore despite zero evidence
oh don't remind me, maisy fans were deluded

>>149526988
Testy today, I see.

Serious question here lads, do you think Taeshi genuinely believes her writing is good, or is she by and large just tossing the first idea she thinks of on the page to keep the gravy train rolling?

>>149526706
Amazing idea to take the most hated character and have him crash out because he wants to cheat on his girlfriend but can't. Even better that he's already cheated with Daisy (and Lucy, according to some). Personally I can't think of any other ways to write this scenario. I'm sure any future attempts to redeem him will be unhindered by this.

>>149527495
>do you think Taeshi genuinely believes her writing is good, or is she by and large just tossing the first idea she thinks of on the page to keep the gravy train rolling?
Lattter, since apparently the Mike slamming Paulo head into the table was spur of the moment. If a development makes zero sense, always assume it's a spur-of-the-moment change or retcon that happens just cause.
>>149526543
s a perfect example of it since it ignores all context and history into order to jam in pottery. Which that image is funnier cause Lucy did end up making Augustus her Mike and did the same with paulo for a bit.

>looked to see if the new popularity contest results finally got posted
>see this
haha

>>149527495
It's hard, often creators are very critical of their own creations but the good ones try their very damn best.

>>149527718
>>149527754
damn dude what's your response?

>>149527718
Good to know Almultimavenger is as much a plague on the wider BCB community as he is here. God that's hilarious though.

>>149527754
I hope you're proud of yourself. You drove the last Daisy x Abbey shipper in the world to wits end. So much so she had to call (You), yes (You) specifically out for it.

>>149527754
Well done, from all the outcast discord servers, to the main server and now agent, consistently, everyone has kicked you out, some achivement.
Everyone hates you because you're a genuinely unlikable retard with no social skills, get a job

>>149527495
Everything I've seen of her indicates that Taeshi really takes herself seriously as a writer. The problem is she has no external sources of critique who aren't yes-people and no longer questions herself.

>>149527782
Well I've only ever complimented her and promoted her art so I don't know what she's getting so worked up about, it strikes me as petty. Her name and her friend's names are also public on their pages by the way, if they don't want anybody to know them, they shouldn't display them. But I did gain an appreciation for internet anonymity which is why I started abbreviating indie creator's names.

>>149527938
They were all unwarrented.

>>149527718
Fukkin' yikes

>>149527970
Have you ever tried to just like...listen to other people instead of making up excuses to stay the course?

>>149527718
At some point, I'm gonna need someone to type up a synopsis of all the conflicts and the personae dramatis of BCB. I've only started reading it in the last six months or so, so I never got to experience fan characters like Liam or Kizuna, and I certainly don't get to witness the development of such great fandom moments like this.

>>149528092
I pride myself with open-mindedness. Honesty and open-communication resolve issues after all.
>>149528103
They are prominently featured in the early omnibus which is available on the website, but I wouldn't recommend them. In terms of writing quality they're vastly inferior to Veronica's reboot.

>>149528040
How do you get this many people to hate you and still not develop the self-awareness to stop? Pattern recognition is humanity's greatest asset and you refuse to use it.

>>149528040
Genuine question. Are you an actual low functioning Autist/Retard. Or is all your behavior, everything some sort of long con troll to make BCB as a whole worse. Be honest.

>>149527970
I'm guessing you have a some high level of autism by your lack of social etiquette but if someone blocks you, that usually means "leave me the fuck alone"

>>149528158
Well, she has honestly and openly communicated that she wants you to leave her the fuck alone.

>>149528171
Well the sad universal truth is that the internet is a hostile and toxic place, there also isn't a lot of objectivity on here. I'm not saying every single person is, just, a lot.

>>149528193
I lack confirmation for the first, and well since I love Veronica's story and hope to pay tribute to it, I'd say no for the second.

>>149527718
Anybody else feel somehow responsible for this guy? As if we spawned him and unleashed him on the world. I just feel bad looking at this shit.

>>149528250
Don't feel bad anon. It was inevitable a super autist would one day attach themselves to BCB. And they just tend to post here because there's no community oversight to ban them like on discord. Unless they start doxing people by accident or something.

>>149528250
Not really. Did he found bcb through /bcb/?