catboy hours

im sorry for asking again i feel horrible but i have no other choice. full details in the screenshots but tldr mom needs 1000 usd by december 21 to pay her loans and i have no money and exhausted working 12 hours a day just to keep up with everything else i need to pay for. kofi sketches for at least 10 USD. please share.

Veronica: Oh man I wonder if BCB will still be alive in a decade.. that freaks me out to think about a little! I can imagine it still being alive, given the pace of webcomic updates..

she is sooo relatable and well written and im very normal about her and she brings me a normal amount of joy thangk u for writint this comic 🫡🫡🫡

Veronica: Awwww thank you so much!!! This is so sweet to hear!! ;__; Daisy always seems like the “lesser” of the main four, I guess because Mike/Lucy/Paulo are such incredibly dramatic presences. Daisy often shines when combined with Paulo.. but she should be able to shine on her own!! That’s something Souppy likes to stress to me about - Daisy is a character who hasn’t had as many arcs as the others, and I should really look into that!

It’s motivating when I hear about people who like Daisy for those reasons you gave, I don’t wanna let you guys down!

a happy thingy

✧✦✧ "Fragments" - episode 53 ✧✦✧

Mirage.

so. lets get the elephant in the room out the way.

this vivi face. we havent seen vivi make an expression like this before, ever. he looks locked in a state of terrified incredulity. he seems to be both pumping adrenline from the fight and being suddenly thrown to another world, but also terrified? traumatised?

however, if its anything, it both contrasts and also adds to his statement that it was "[his] wish come true". if we interpret this expression being the shock of zenos nearly killing him, then graha almost represents a safe haven in this case. a protective ward, his own paragon.

in that sense, it adds to the reading that vivi only craves death because he sees nothing in the source worth living for. of course hed fall for graha and trust him in the way he does, he gave him a whole 'nother world, completely free from the trauma thats attatched to the source. a place where he can live, as himself. of course it was his dream come true. he finally has a reason to keep going that isnt just duty! that isnt just a promise he made too long ago.

....but im not satsfied with just that answer. theres a particular emphasis placed on vivis expression of abject terror? total shock? that lends it a lot more importance than just this revelation. remember:

only the appearance of emet gives him an expression thats remotely similar, and even then, its not the same thing. and if we look back to 52,

we see almost the diametric opposite of his expression here. its serene grace, more akin to a dead man, instead of that of someone whos just been traumatised. and sure. maybe these panels happened in succession. vivi gets thrown to the first, then he realises what happend, and then he looks like this! if we just take the visual evidence, graha tearing vivi away to another world was definitely very tumultous and of course, he did just get slashed on the chest. but again... that doesnt quite do it for me. there was a strong intentionality behind placing a look of pure shock behind the line where vivi tells graha hes made his dream come true, that betrays the relatively simple answers ive given here.

✧✦✧ "Fragments" - episode 53 ✧✦✧

Mirage.

so. lets get the elephant in the room out the way.

this vivi face. we havent seen vivi make an expression like this before, ever. he looks locked in a state of terrified incredulity. he seems to be both pumping adrenline from the fight and being suddenly thrown to another world, but also terrified? traumatised?

however, if its anything, it both contrasts and also adds to his statement that it was "[his] wish come true". if we interpret this expression being the shock of zenos nearly killing him, then graha almost represents a safe haven in this case. a protective ward, his own paragon.

in that sense, it adds to the reading that vivi only craves death because he sees nothing in the source worth living for. of course hed fall for graha and trust him in the way he does, he gave him a whole 'nother world, completely free from the trauma thats attatched to the source. a place where he can live, as himself. of course it was his dream come true. he finally has a reason to keep going that isnt just duty! that isnt just a promise he made too long ago.

....but im not satsfied with just that answer. theres a particular emphasis placed on vivis expression of abject terror? total shock? that lends it a lot more importance than just this revelation. remember:

only the appearance of emet gives him an expression thats remotely similar, and even then, its not the same thing. and if we look back to 52,

we see almost the diametric opposite of his expression here. its serene grace, more akin to a dead man, instead of that of someone whos just been traumatised. and sure. maybe these panels happened in succession. vivi gets thrown to the first, then he realises what happend, and then he looks like this! if we just take the visual evidence, graha tearing vivi away to another world was definitely very tumultous and of course, he did just get slashed on the chest. but again... that doesnt quite do it for me. there was a strong intentionality behind placing a look of pure shock behind the line where vivi tells graha hes made his dream come true, that betrays the relatively simple answers ive given here.

Pursue, unwavering

Follow the Wind

and a cn player actually put this to the test (thankfully with homemade ballistic gel, NOT with their actual butthole) and they even [ documented it here ] and i can't stop laughing

✧✦✧ "Fragments" - episode 52 ✧✦✧

Mirage.

this set of vivi looks

my god. he really looks dead here. the light literally disappears from his eyes every time he goes away from his little escape in the first. like more than ever i can feel that immense sense of burnout weighing on him. the way that his expression, looking back on the source, mirrors his expression during an honest-to-god near death experience really puts things into perspective. he really fits the description of "dead inside"

i was originally going to write about how he was like the exarch; in the sense that he was a dead man walking. but now that i think about it, they really mirror each other in a lot of ways. the exarch is a figure trapped in death, who violently, undescribably, wants to experience life. vivi is a figure who absolutely cannot die lest the world goes with him, who romanticises the idea of death so much that his big crush is the guy who showed up before he almost died. they both tow the line between life and death, yet theyre on opposite sides; so close, yet so far. they both yearn, by nature, yet for completely different things.