Thread 150396844

Lucy doesn't want to be treated like a baby edition

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>>150396844 (OP)
So why was this page supposed to trigger the thread again?

Don't get me wrong, Lucy's magical appearance out of nowhere, somehow unnoticed until now, is pretty stupid. But it's also increasingly common--almost like a followup to the constant blushing and the plague of eyelessness. All examples of dramatic visual shorthand, and all overused because Taeshi can't add a new storytelling tool to her very limited set without spamming into irrelevance. And in any case, I for one am glad we didn't get a fourth page of nothing but Augustus shittalking Mike. At least with Lucy suddenly loaded into the server, stuff threatens to actually happen now.

>150396844
Coming up: more of the same

>>150396966
The most shocking thing about this page is the way Lucy's feet are drawn

>>150396844 (OP)
have to gaslight myself into thinking augustus is doing this for selfish reason because he's that fed up with lucy's pissy attitude

>>150396844 (OP)
She didn't want this.
You might even say she never fucking wanted it.

>Literally minding how own fucking business
>Didn't even know she was around and how could he when she teleports constantly
>A literal open space
>Mike isn't even attempting to look for her
>"Until he leaves you alone"
What do you MEAN?!

>>150397001
Like flat elephant feet. It would be awkward for a biped to walk around on those.

>>150397002
Gaslight? That's exactly what's happening, taeshi may have her faults and the comic has had some big fails lately, but she did write the entire comic, the majority of which is good. This is certainly how its being portrayed, I think she can handle this.

>>150396985
Challenge mode: Tell Augustus to fuck off without defending Mike.

Oh wait, that's not a challenge at all. Lucy just needs to hop up onto her soapbox and screech at Augustus that she is fine and doesn't need his help. As usual. This predictable drama quencher could be logically sidestepped if Augustus simply does not cave, so I assume real the outcome will be unnecessarily stupid.

>>150397083
I see what you're trying to do there.

>>150397051
Augustus has lost his mind because the plot demands it. Then again, he's been at Lucyspace ground zero for months now, so perhaps it would be stranger if his grip on reality was less tenuous.

So I'm going to guess what will happen here is that Augustus will spill the beans on the Lucy story, Mike will lose his shit and sperg before being successfully put back down and reminded he's not supposed to have a backbone. Being told the Lucy story and seeing Mike act like an angry sperg.wil turn James against Mike (likely with the help of David chiming in), which will sink Mike's compromised self esteem even lower. They will somehow broker a deal that Mike is allowed to go outside at recess in exchange for "letting" Lucy sit at the lunch table instead, but of course. This works for Lucy because she's pissed at Augustus and does not want to sit with him anymore (Augustus still can't be at the table because Daisy is there). Of course without James Mike no longer has a reason to go outside at lunch anymore so he just sits with the track team. Lucy will do nothing but act sullen and bitchy towards everyone involved through this whole thing.

>>150396844 (OP)
>until he leaves you the fuck alone
hasn't Mike been actively avoiding Lucy for weeks at this point? The status quo holding pattern of this comic and the tectonic pace of the story has me forgetting how much time passes between events in this god forsaken town

>>150397190
He went outside and Lucy might see him in the distance, and that's basically the same as harassing her.

Aren't we getting close to 2,500 pages? Will BCB have a special event/page to celebrate?

>>150397155
>Augustus will spill the beans on the Lucy story, Mike will lose his shit and sperg
What's more likely is that Mike would feel even worse after being reminded of his so-called great sin, now spelled out with new details. Especially if James is upset with him because everyone is obligated to side with Lucy.

>They will somehow broker a deal that Mike is allowed to go outside
The only reason that Mike wants to go outside is because of James. If he's at the table, Mike would rather stay at the table. The fact that Mike ends up away from the table and ostracized from James suggests this is an exile situation. The spoiler dialogue could also imply that Mike is the one to reject James, nigh impossible as that sounds without a major spergout.

>Augustus still can't be at the table because Daisy is there
Lucy was fine with him sitting with her and Daisy at the Burgertron

>Mike no longer has a reason to go outside at lunch anymore so he just sits with the track team
He's not at the track team table in the preview pages

>Lucy will do nothing but act sullen and bitchy towards everyone involved through this whole thing
Lucy did not look sullen in the preview pages, just her usual annoying self.

Which is all to say that your outline has at least a 7/10 chance of happening anyway.

>>150396844 (OP)
oh fuck Tae surprised me wow, honestly did not even imagen Lucy showing up this page telling him to chill out.

>>150397190
>>150397216
Lucy's rightful safe space is an ever expanding bubble with no theoretical limit.

Why doesn't Taeshi just fucking say it out loud already?
>If Mike was sorry and cared about Lucy he'd kill himself already

>>150396844 (OP)
please don't girlboss
please don't girlboss
I beg you not to girlboss

BCB from the start now takes place in Noo Joisey, how do events change? must include:
>December, whatever that was
>How much more betrayal can Lucy take?
>At least your mother wasn't a fucking hooa
>James was... blowing.. the track team..
>*Amaya refusing to talk to the feds*
>MY SISTA'S CUNT
>What, was he barkin?

>>150397287
>What's more likely is that Mike would feel even worse after being reminded of his so-called great sin, now spelled out with new details.
There's a preview panel of Mike getting really angry so it's gonna happen for some reason or another during this scene.
>The fact that Mike ends up away from the table and ostracized from James suggests this is an exile situation

Well yeah that's why the full thing I said was about Mike not being allowed to go to the table. I'm not imagining this as a deal that's fair to Mike, more like Augustus bullying him into agreeing to "If you want to be outside where Lucy eats so bad then fine, fuck off from the friend table forever so she feels comfortable to sit there." Despite as you said, Mike no longer even having a real reason to be outside. It's just meant to rub Mike's face in the dirt.

>Lucy was fine with him sitting with her and Daisy at the Burgertron
Lucy has always been a hypocrite what's new. She'll enforce her rules on Augustus proportional to how much of a good boy he's being.

>He's not at the track team table in the preview pages
You are right I hallucinated him there. He's probably just found a corner to die in much like a real cat then.

>Lucy did not look sullen in the preview pages, just her usual annoying self.
I also said bitchy, this page probably falls into the latter. She looks pretty sullen at the table in the previews.

>Which is all to say that your outline has at least a 7/10 chance of happening anyway.
I'm sure whatever happens will be even stupider.

>>150396844 (OP)
If Mike got super angry and pummeled the starer, that would change something in Lucy. After witnessing him do violence like that, she'd be attracted to him. It's the only way!

>>150396844 (OP)
what is this comic? I keep seeing it posted and the expressions of the characters are as if they are always in some kind of mental turmoil. What exactly is the hook here?

>>150397457
the comic is literally linked in the post you're responding to. go read it. it's not a bad way to spend an afternoon

>>150397457
Why do you post this every thread,

>>150397413
This entire situation is nigh perfectly set up for her to girlboss. She can tell Augustus to go pound sand while announcing she does not give a fuck about Mike. Lucy WILL come out of this smelling like roses while everyone else suffers, because Taeshi thinks she has been suffering too much lately. As wonderful as it would be for Lucy's high horse to buck her off, in public, it's just not going to happen. Because it NEVER happens.

>>150396844 (OP)
What makes this extra stupid is that Mike attends the same classes as her and walks the same road back home, if Mike backs down (he will) he's giving him permission to bother him until he moves because his idea of "bothering Lucy" seems just to be on her visual range
Also look at Lucy not clearing up the dreams are/aren't about him, because "NUANCE" IS GOOD

>>150397445
Augustus with a Jersey accent chewing Lucy off after attempting suicide just seems super cursed

>>150397457
>What exactly is the hook here?
These days there isn't one unless you are a mentally ill womanchild or an insecure teenage girl who desires a vicarious power fantasy.

>>150397520
those night terrors feel so forced
wtf happened, her mother stopped paying for therapy?

>>150397522
For all we know, Lucy's dreams are about Mike but of course we haven't been shown how the fuck that is because ambiguity = good writing somehow.

>>150397457
RUN ANON RUN LEAVE NOW NEVER COME BACK DONT TURN AROUND

>>150397573
Bold of you to assume therapy could ever help Lucy. She's such a chore to deal with that I would not be surprised if the therapist gave up on her and warned the rest of their colleagues against trying.

>>150396844 (OP)
>>150396985
Auggie you ain't Captain America. If Lucy's telling you to stop you better stop. Also holy shit, she's caring about Mike, or at least not wanting Augustus to escalate their already boiling division.
>>150396966
She teleport.
>>150397001
>>150397078
Sauropod feet. Cool feet. Fleshy padding, vibration sensors.
>>150397260
I pray so.
>>150397413
She will, she's Lucy.
>>150397457
Yes, there is serious mental turmoil and heartbreak, worth the read.

I can't believe Mike is FORCING Augustus to be a weird asshole

>>150397542
It still gets me how nonchalant he was about all this. Lucy's really desperate for male companionship if this is what got her so attached to him.

>>150396844 (OP)
Not perfect but I tried the art meme.

>>150397624
Lucy cannot be held accountable for her actions, you see. There must always be someone else to blame, preferably Mike.

>>150397457
Just so you are aware, it is a discord raid thread that serves an an advertisement for the comic and associated early access patreon (this is seen how they never participate in anything else on /co/ like the recent ms /co/ despite having a constant thread up with hundreds of posts) because the author is known to try self promoting everywhere like her or Reddit
There is no real hook or reason to read

so does this comic have an actual plot or is it just deviantart melodrama

>>150397640
Earnest question, here: Do you take anyone's critique on your art seriously, or do you ignore it as haters gonna hate?

>>150397664
Wow, Suitcase must be pretty fucking shit at advertising, then, if these threads are the result. "Please don't buy our product, it is absolute dogshit!"

>>150397624
kek

>>150397623
I'm sure Lucy will make it abundantly clear in the next pages that she still hates Mike and gives no fucks about his well being. She's just pissy or Augustus whiteknighting without being told

>>150397457
>what is this comic?
A mentally ill woman coping with her emotional problems by drawing thousands of pages of sad cats who hate everyone and themselves
>>150397475
Go away Suitcase

>>150397475
are you the one who makes the threads? stop linking the site

>>150397680
>Suitcase must be pretty fucking shit at everything
I mean yeah

>>150397665
The latter

I really do not see anything here that would goad Mike into flipping the fuck out. He's been cowering under Augustus' dweeby gaze and Lucy's presence sure as hell won't buoy his spirits any. Maybe if someone tore James down, but neither Wussy Edgelord nor Worst Cat have any reason to turn on him and Gay Twink ends up happy to sit with Lucy.

>>150397640
There is no way you are not a troll for the WHOLE BCB readers

>>150397051
>>150396844 (OP)
>>150397093
Dude, I don't fucking get, why didn't Mike just say somethin like 'look back the fuck off man, I ain't doing nothing, I'm just outside, minding my own business, so please, do the same'. If the mofo insisted, then threaten the bastard with Daisy stuff.

Shit's infuriating.

>>150397824
could be something like augustus and lucy ganging up on him that sets his flight or fight response, james playing mediator or just something that makes him seem like he's siding with lucy and augustus and making a sensible and frustrated mike lash out on him

>>150397457
Do not read this comic.

>>150397607
No therapist would do that to anyone short of a serial killer for sure.
>>150397624
Ugh, Lucystans. But valid, Mike did go back on his word, which was a pretty reckless and unnecessary promise of staying off a public space.

>>150397930
Because Mike has internalized his own alleged guilt so badly that going outside in the first place was a huge mental struggle. In the end he did so but had to keep justifying it to himself. Mike's resolve crumbled the moment Augustus insisted he was in the wrong. The stupid cat cannot get better until he feels absolved.

>>150397969
Mike is in turbo self-blame mode, so everyone siding against him would just intensify the self-loathing.

>>150397624
So basically Augustus got character assassinated but they can't deal with that and find a way to blame Mike instead.

>>150397824
>>150397969
Maybe the bottom panel is a flashback of sorts? Like they bringing back how he sperged out at a certain moment before or something, and the top panel is him at the present moment.

Or maybe it is him getting so cornered that he gets pissed, decides to fight back, but as always it results in nothing and it comes to bite him in the ass soon after, like >>150397155 suggested.

>>150397667
I'm open to and try to use constructive criticism as much as possible. Without doubt drawing is hard for me. Hatred is different which I ignore.
>>150397665
Yeah, there's a plot. Developed characters with complex, subjective moralities thrown into a pot of verbal turmoil and trying to find purpose and identity.
>>150397708
That's probable, I imagine she wants to stay away from and disassociate form Mike so Augustus isn't helping.

>>150398025
>>150398071
that's what I meant with the fight or flight response, something is gonna be said that he does a 180° and makes him snap and james and david are probably end up in the crossfire

>>150398071

I dunno, the source commentary https://bsky.app/profile/taeshi.bcb.cat/post/3lp6pl74d7s2d makes me think it's no flashback.

Anyway, Mike's two reactions are aimed at different subjects. It looks a lot more like he gets mad on someone else's behalf, or after someone convinces James to hate him.

>Augustus shits on Mike with the power of the narrative
>Lucy comes in to say "But i didn't tell you to do this" so she can keep her moral superiority
>But he's still right and mike deserves it of course
lol

>>150398005
What wil even make him feel absolved at this point?

For me, the only way he gets some peace out of this whole thing:
>he needs to grow a spine. don't sperg out, but don't take shit he doesn't deserve.
>apologize sincerely but not pathetically to the people he feels like he needs to
>cut ties with Lucy
>break up and cut ties with Sandy
>focus on his studies
>get on a uni
>forget about this whole shit. Find new friends, live a new life.

>>150397824
Mike is just going to say something tarded
he does not win nothing opening his mouth, in fact the best move he can make is stay quiet and ignore Augustus
but he has to say something idiotic to make Lucy look good

>>150398097
>I'm open to and try to use constructive criticism as much as possible
Okay, that's good. I notice that all works you have posted across the threads looks very similar and are either ignored or garner a negative reaction. Your commentary has implied that you are aware of their shortcomings. Is this correct?

>>150398199
>What wil even make him feel absolved at this point?
The only thing that makes sense to me is Lucy telling Mike point-blank that it's not his fault. Which is almost certainly something that Lucy does not actually believe. She certainly does not like to take personal responsibility outside of the most controlled circumstances.

>>150396844 (OP)
You know, I had been thinking that Augustus must be really confident he'd be able to make Mike give in within a single lunch period, because otherwise he'd be leaving Lucy completely alone at lunch for an unknown period of time. But no, lmao, the Lucy understander has decided that Ms. Abandonment Issues is going to be on her own whether she likes it or not until he can successfully bully Mike.

Also it's really weird to me, this last batch of patreon comments is the least sympathetic to Mike in a while, yet it's also the one where Augustus just drops the act and admits his plan is to harass Mike every single day. I guess that's just what Lucy being visible does to a mf.

>>150398227
I am yeah. I'm watching tutorials and using references but struggle with focus and efficient speed. I want to dedicate my life to making these look up to peak quality so we'll see.

>>150398275
It's like I've been saying, any intelligence shown by the patrons is incidental and will always vanish before too long.

>>150398159
>>150398176
Yeah, makes sense, specially considering the 'breaking point' comment.

He'll probably snap at some comment made by Augustus regarding either Sandy or Lucy. Those are the only two I can think of that would make him have that sort of response. Augustus will probably say it in the scrotest way possible, maybe in a passive agressive way, or some way to make it look like he has the moral high ground.

>>150398299
Why do you think focus and speed are your main problems?

Bring me your stupidest theories on how the fuck James ends up hating Mike by the end of this chapter

>>150398299
>efficient speed
Stop rushing things. Take an hour longer to fix your work instead of spamming this stuff out as fast as you can.

>>150398330
Lucy tells him "Mike made me sad" and that instantly makes him hate Mike

>>150396844 (OP)
That boy needs to get his ass kicked.

>>150398322
It feels like I shouldn't struggle with them as much as I do with the actual drawing's anatomy and texture, but I do. Likely a result of anxiety and potential autistic burnout. So I'm mostly aiming to draw as much as I can in a short span of time, figuring that if my quality won't elevate I might as well make more.
>>150398330
James hears suicide and has no other critical thought, and David ends up being so horny for James that they just collectively agree to hate him. But that is stupid and I don't want Taeshi to write stupid stuff, but I also don't think she would.

>>150398320
Why do people keep thinking that Mike is going to sperg out in defense of Sandy when it's been made pretty clear (for once) that he's over that shit? And why the fuck would Augustus gut Lucy of all people so hard that Mike goes nuts? Like the only way I see that happening is if Augustus somehow never noticed that he's just a Mike replacement and reacts VERY poorly to that little revelation.

>>150398343
I'll try.
>>150398349
Better, ass fucked. Till sissy Auggie learns to stop disrespecting dom master Mike.
Which is a stretch considering how depressed and why Mike is now.

>>150398330
>Mike will get more and more cornered by Augustus
>he reaches a braking point
>spergs out, punches or physically threatens Augustus
>Lucy panics, starts to shout a bunch of stuff against Mike
>other people (either David or Augustus) join in
>James' opinion shifts
>Mike runs away.

>>150398330
>Mike: "I hate you and Augustus so much, Lucy! You should've died!"
>James: "Mike... how can you say something like that?"

>>150398375
I can tell you, in all earnestness, that your focus on speed is misplaced. That is not an area you need to be worried about and should probably avoid altogether for now. Otherwise you will just worsen your burnout. I don't really understand your reasoning regarding quantity > quality because--and this is coming from a place of honesty, not hostility--no one and I mean ABSOLUTELY NO ONE will value artistic quantity over quality at your current level. Believing otherwise is a mistake and you must abandon it immediately to focus on actual important areas.

>>150398424
Okay this is actually great. Then Mike most likely goes unloved for weeks, jumps off a bridge.

>>150397624
>Shoots Mike in the chest
>How could Mike do this to him?!

>>150398389
I included Sandy to give it a broader range of possibilities, but it might happen, since he might believe at this point that Sandy is all that he has left.

Also regarding Lucy, I did not mean that Augustus would talk shit about Lucy, but rather that he would mention somthing involving Mike and Lucy's past (most likely hinting at the suicide or how he trated her before), and that could potentially make Mike have some reaction.

>>150398330
Mike calls him a stupid slutty faggot who deserves to get AIDS, in those exact words. It'd be incredibly ooc and the comic is too whitewashed to ever allow such language.

>>150397708
Of course, defending Mike would come as taking a side or deciding on her feelings, and Lucyspace can't work if we get even a glimpse of what she thinks about

>>150398450
Juicy. I can imagine Mike would blurt that out of impulse without meaning it but it would be too damaging to take back. He's too self-degredaing to mean that, like he has this image that Lucy and everyone else for that matter has to matter more than him.
>>150398452
I get ya. I do value quality, I've just been trying to increase that and quantity at once since I consider them equally important, but have been unsuccessful. I hope to increase both as much as humanely possible.

>>150396844 (OP)
Oh, forgot I did this too.

>>150397930
The only time he stood up for himself after years of mistreatment the other person tried to kill herself, and he's been beating himself up about it because said person kept using that as a low blow against him to shut him up (but it's ok because she never wanted it), the person he went through all of this for fucking cheated on him and every friendship he has is so fairweather that the moment they can't get access to his dick they drop him off, and also suddenly his home life is a mess with his parents fighting, his sister disappearing and taking care of his baby brother. Dude has no self preservation or steem anymore, he's not falling only because he keeps using the momentum to put one feet in front of the other

It's so funny to me that Mike and Lucy are literally in the same classes and shit. Like how does that just get glossed over in all of this? Him existing outside at the same time as her with absolutely no interaction whatsoever is giving her PTSD, but she somehow manages to tank being in the same room with him for hours every day? I can't wait for Gus to blow the lid on Mike "going back on his word" so that we get to see the characters try to take this situation seriously.

>>150398650
Teachers have a bet going that they're gonna fuck before one of them kills themselves

>>150398064
Sometimes you have to remember this is a fucking cult, like how everyone was singing praises to Paulo for caring about Lucy and telling her he'd get rid of Mike for once if she so desired, and then instantly started burning effigies of him, writting scatting arguments about him being shit for assuming things and condemning him the moment Lucy told him to mind his own business

>>150398593
Yeah, Mike now feels that there's no point in validating or prioritizing his own happiness cause it must not mean anything.
>>150398650
She likely has P.T.S.D more from the jump and Alejandro, it's probably not triggered by looking at Mike specifically.

>>150398587
You definitely need to focus on making the faces more appealing. I suggest you study the basic theory behind that and adjust accordingly.

>>150398771
Yeah, I struggle with them most.

>>150398482
I just don't see why this version of Mike would get up in arms over either possibility.

>>150398593
Poor bastard man. I feel bad for him, but at the same time I don't, because I know he sort of brought this upon himself.
He had A FREE PASS to resolve all this shit (the talk with Sandy in which she said, after MONTHS without even showing a hint of interest in him, that she had cheated), but for no fucking reason he refused it, in the most artificial, nonsensical, absurd and unrealistic way possible, ON THE SAME DAY, no less.

If he had broken up with her then and there, literally everything would've been fine now, even if he didn't have anything with Lucy. He'd have his inner peace, he'd be free from guilt, he'd be free to go after someone romantically or not, etc.

>>150398330
>Gus accuses Mike of only hanging around James and David so that he can creep on Lucy
>David points out that Mike has been weird about thirdwheeling with them
>Mike can't articulate why he insists on hanging around James because it's complicated
>James takes the bait and suddenly suspects the arcade incident was also a Lucy-stalking thing
>the fact that Mike tried to get James and David to stay inside gets conveniently forgotten
>James feels used and disgusted
Locking in my guess

>>150398810
You struggle in many areas but should focus on improving on just one for now since the everything at once approach has failed to produce noticable results.

>>150398389
I don't think he'll come in defense of Sandy but using her as a way to hurt Mike, like making fun of him being chained to her because he's making her want to kill herself too, and turning it into some crude ribbing about how much hed love two have to girls killing themselves over someone pathetic abuser with sucky parents

>>150398866
Okay.

>>150398825
Same desu, but it is the only thing I could think of. What do you think it could be the reason?

>>150398877
>sucky parents
Now that you mention it, I could maybe see Mike getting set off by Gus saying something about his family.

>>150398848
That would be a fucking riot, Lucy becoming a gas and occupying the whole volume of the arcade was Mike creeping on her, priceless

>>150398848
That's a plausible chain of events actually, well done.

>>150398924
It's possible seeing as Lucy's mom is open to blabbing about Mike's home life it it'll make Lucy not hate her

>>150396844 (OP)
David's head is even bigger than usual holy shit.

Also recess? I don't think I ever called my lunch break a recess in high school. It sounds so juvenile.

>>150399153
>David's head is even bigger than usual holy shit.
Oh damn, i didn't even notice, it's fucking massive.

>>150396844 (OP)
>"Until he leaves you alone"

but he hasnt messed with her at all. He didn't know she was out there and it's an open space by the track, and he's a member of the track team. Augustus is trying to force someone to stay inside when that's high bullshit in the first place.

Like, what is this nigga doing?


>>150397624
This one isn't even really on Lucy like that this time. As annoying as her problems are, this is literally all Augustus's doing. He's fucking it up himself. Mike went back on his word but the "Word" was incredibly fucking stupid in the first place. It only got as far as it did because Mike has had no spine for years in real time.

So will someone catch up to Mike before he jumps off the bridge, or will he manage to make an actual suicide attempt and wind up in a coma for 7 years realtime?

>>150398199
>What wil even make him feel absolved at this point?


Lucy "Forgiving" him for december and everything that came after. Which is really dumb because the whole reason December happened was because of how shitty a person she was. But this comic constantly decides that Lucy doesnt need to reflect on her bad actions and that everyone else should change for her.


>>150399326
Someone will stop him because if Mike attempts to kill himself then Taeshi can't have everyone in universe shit on him anymore. It would be too obvious that she's uneven on Mike and Lucy treatment even for her discord readers.

>>150397445
December
>"you're a fuckin' leech, always suckin' da blood from mah bawls"
At least your mother wasn't a fucking hooa
>"I swore I wasn' gonna be like my old man - but you're tempting me Paulo, you's tempting me!"
Amaya refusing to talk to the feds
>"One a ya's a snitch. It's either Amaya tightlips, or Daisy da squealer."

Lucy having a "wonderful singin' voice" would also be a lot funnier contrasted with her speaking in jersey-accented shrieking.

>>150397664
>this is seen how they never participate in anything else on /co/
Personally, I DO participate in other threads, I just don't bring up my "favorite" shitty furry melodrama webcomic up in them, because I'm not retarded.

>>150398885
I suppose it's not impossible that Mike could turn on Augustus once it's clear he's lost the Mandate of Heaven and has been bullshitting Mike to make him feel guilty as possible. Presumably after Lucy has girlbossed off with James and David in tow.

>>150398848
I dislike how plausible this sounds.

>>150399326
>wind up in a coma for 7 years realtime
Taeshi could not possibly restrain herself for that long. He'd be brought back out within a month's time so the torment could recommence.

>>150399790
>Lucy can go visit him in the hospital and say what a selfish asshole he is for running away from his problems by trying to kill himself
>he can't even try to explain himself or talk about what he's going through because he's in a coma
>Sandy can go visit him and yammer uninterrupted like she already does so nothing is different between them
>perfect unbreakable status quo

It would be based if the cast circled their wagons around Lucy and exile Mike because they think she is completely justified in blaming him for her suicide attempt. Then they find out she's only upset with him over the Sandy bullshit and realize Lucy is just fucking nuts.

>>150398199
Story wise? He would need to either be forgiven put loud by Lucy and not have her take it back next day like Eternal flame, or him deciding he can never make up for it and giving up, possibly just moving out of Roseville with one of his parents after the divorce
Meta wise? Nothing sort of dying will ever be enough, and then people will complain he was a coward and abuser for just killing himself and not talking things with Lucy instead

>>150399873
Augustus was the most critical of Lucy and her problems, so you know what you can expect about that

>>150399850
None of that would matter to Taeshi if Mike is not suffering. Besides, the nurses would keep having to pry Lucy off Mike every time she visits.

>>150399873
>It would be based if the cast circled their wagons around Lucy and exile Mike because they think she is completely justified in blaming him for her suicide attempt. Then they find out she's only upset with him over the Sandy bullshit and realize Lucy is just fucking nuts.


I think most people assumed a version of this would happen once she came back. Truth about the events leading up to her suicide attempt hit and the table exiles Mike. Left without a lightning rod for her bad traits, they all have to deal with Lucy like he did.

But for some reason or another Taeshi won't address this. Most likely because she can't think of a way where Mike would be let back into the friend group that isn't forced even for her.

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>>150398944
>>150399767
It is so plausible that it is unlikely to be the case, considering this comic usual modus operandi.

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>>150398424
Between these and all the girlbossing Lucy can be doing, I've got a specific addition for the scene with Mike snapping:
He doesn't even get to lay Aug out, Lucy blocks the punch.

>>150397520
It's kind of incredible how Taeshi's only method of gassing up a character/ship is to blow up other ones. Lucy shouldn't be hard to make sympathetic: she's clearly anxious, paranoid, and emotionally unstable. But Taeshi refuses to go the obvious route of acknowledging and showing Lucy being fucked up, trying to overcome her personal demons and not resent/fear her friends, etc., because that would make Lucy look "pathetic". So instead Lucy always gets the last word and everyone's forgiveness, which just makes her look like an asshole.

>>150398221
>pic
I appreciate the way the artist captured Lucy's random unprovoked hostility.

>>150399976
You misunderstand. In BCB, reasonable outcomes are unlikely. This anon's idea is plausible because of how fucking stupid and contradictory it is.

Tldr haven't read bcb since Lucy was dreaming about the alleyway and just saw this at the top of the catalog, but is Taeshi STILL only able to make a reader sympathetic to a character by having another character shit on them?

>>150397445
>BCB from the start now takes place in Noo Joisey, how do events change?
Always has been anon.

>>150399952
>Most likely because she can't think of a way where Mike would be let back into the friend group that isn't forced even for her.
We've seen her force some absolute horseshit multiple times, so they only way that could happen is if Taeshi is too stupid to come up with literally anything.

>>150399988
Ah geez... that'd very likely happen, yeah, though it'd be weird to see lucy blocking yet another punch directed towards augustus.

>>150400059
No, that fails too. But she usually resorts to the would-be sympathetic character crying a lot instead.

>>150400091
Yeah but it's like pottery or something. Definitely really lazy storytelling in which the same beats are recycled over and over again.

>>150400077
I think she could come up with something incredibly forced but just due to the situation her fanbase would go nuclear because Mike can't really be redeemed in their eyes.

December and the Sperg era have ruined him in the eyes of old and new readers even if the reasons slightly differ.

>>150398199
>What wil even make him feel absolved at this point?
Lucy telling him everything isn't his fault. In any sane, structured narrative that would be the obvious endpoint.

>>150400120
Since when has what he fanbase thinks ever stopped Taeshi from writing anything? She might put out some poorly conceived "added context" later but look at how she's refused to actually fix Eternal Flame.

>>150400146
>In any sane, structured narrative that would be the obvious endpoint.
That'd be a pretty shit ending. Both of them are clearly far from okay and there is no climax.

>>150400146
>All that shit that was definitely your fault uhhh it wasn't actually
That's absolutely going to happen because Taeshi's desperately retconning the first four volumes to save MxL

>>150400210
It looks more like she's just been ignoring them for the most part. Blatantly changing up the aftermath of Lucy's suicide attempt is the big exception.

>>150400210
>All that shit that was definitely your fault
Yeah man he basically shoved her off the rood

>>150400175
Not the literal end of the story but the turning point for his neverending guilt-powered self-destruction loop