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Again, how did she find out Mike had any involvement in her attempt at suicide?
It could've only been due to Lucy herself talking or Augustus.

>>154146151 (OP)
>the boy at that school
wait wtf, is she just dropping a new arch that happened in the past!?

>>154146151 (OP)
>>154146163
>Lucy latched onto *another* boy while away at the other school
That would be both very in-character and make the family triple-retarded for taking in Augustus on Lucy's word alone.

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>>154146151 (OP)
So, let's digest this slowly
>Augustus actually informed everyone at home of Mike's exile, they're all ok with it
Bravo Taeshi, even the adults are incompetently written as needed
>"Check again" implies Mike's family is also in on it and both are ok with it
I guess that's to be expected, can leave Mike with any kind of support network, Lucy needs them more
>You're not still upset about that boy at that school are you?
And here is the so called backstory, I'm going to take a guess and she got yet another teddy bear at the other school and the story has been rewritten so that Lucy didn't come here on her own volition but was either running away from something that happened or her parents pulled her from it
>I can handle it, is all
LOL. LMAO

>>154146151 (OP)
Hey Lucy's mom, the longer you go without treating your daughter like the crazy whore she is the worse she's gonna get.
Imagine her in a childless, co-dependent relationship with the only guy lame enough to tolerate her crazy ass at 40 with dozens of imaginary pet cats to fill the void. Does that sound nice?

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>>154146329
Paid only comic where her Lucy menitoned Mike was her problem or something and the only way she found to keep Lucy from continuing her tantrum was to promise to share embarrassing Mike stories her mom had confided to her as best friends with Lucy. So she's not outside of the Mike hate train as long as it keeps her moody teenager from scratching the furniture

>>154146151 (OP)
>about the boy at that school
lmao holy shit did she go parasite mode on some other random guy during the time she was away?

>>154146458
I'm gonna headcanon he's a total chad who knew the bitch was crazy so pumped and dumped her after making sure everyone knew she was crazy so no one would take her side.

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>>154146151 (OP)
>The "Lucy suffering" is going to be retroactive
I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT, I SO FUCKING KNEW IT

>>154146151 (OP)
>>154146163
>Lucy pulled the teddy bear routine at the other school
Say it with me now:
Mike was right.

Oh no, the abuser suffered so much! Don't you feel bad for the violent crybully? She needs more asspats and rimjobs stat!

>>154146488
Nah, Lucy seems angry (more than usual) at her mom, I'm going more for her family being wary of her obsessive streak (now of all times and until Augustus is back) and sabotaging her attempts at it because SHE JUST TRIED TO KILL HERSELF ABOUT THE LAST ONE HOLY FUCK

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>>154146492
Everybody fucking knew it but was hoping Taeshi would show some fucking balance for once. This bitch is such a hack holy shit.

>>154146458
But in a very sympathetic way that makes you feel sorry for Lucy. It wasn't her fault--the other boy manipulated her into it by being too nice!

>>154146628
>he is a different shade of grey cat
Would be hilarious

>>154146151 (OP)
We going the One Piece route ladies and gentlemen. THAT MAN from THAT PLACE caused THAT INCIDENT

Someone fucking smash my toes with a hammer

>>154146151 (OP)
I called it. They're all gonna celebrate and pop the champagne when Mike bites the dust and Ellen divorces her worthless ass husband. At least Sam will, grown ass man hatin on Mike since he was a middle-schooler btw

>>154146151 (OP)
Why did Lucy's mom have to separate her daughter from her new boyfriend Alejandro? They were so happy together.

>>154146701
He was distracting Lucy too much from earning her keep. She's the breadwinner after all, what with her being the only daughter of the family.

>>154146151 (OP)
>what's up with this bitch
It's like a fucking quantum superposition, it's indeterminate until you collapse the waveform.
>Is she sad cause Mike called her a parasite
>Is she twaumatized from a years ago mugging
>Is she suicidal?
No she's REALLY assblasted because her mom seperated her from Liam Reboundcock!

>>154146874
You don't get it anon, all Lucy does all day and all her life is suffer, so you should be more gentle and look the other way whenever she acts like a cunt because the need for balance says she's earned it

Lucy's life is hard everyone wants to fuck her.

Shit sucks man. Taeshi always, and I mean ALWAYS finds a way to make the worst stuff possible.
>haha dw guys, it's lucy's turn to suffer next!!
It matters nothing if it's just a fucking past event. Unless it somehow comes to haunt her NOW, it has zero consequences, she has already moved past it.

God I swear, this story will do anything in its power to make Lucy completely immune to consequence and harm and only focus on Mike, it's disgusting.

>>154146943
She always finds new ways to disappoint me. It's a lesson on how you should stay with your abuser, after all.

>>154146943
This is going to be another flashback chapter that makes things worse for the titular character rather than give a satisfying explanation, just like how Sandy's phonecall didn't address the fear Mike had of another suicide on his hands or how the chapter made to give Paulo a reason to be angry at Daisy only made him look like a bitchy resentful drama queen

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>>154146329
>>154146440
She's definitely soured on Mike since the book-only chapter, where she verbally hoped Lucy and Mike could make up. Which was very stupid if she knew that Mike had been involved in Lucy trying to off herself. Regardless, what's now happening only makes sense if Augustus and/or Lucy told the mom about Mike's promise to stay away and, by extension, his motive for doing so. I'm sure that neither of them would have painted a very sympathetic picture of scarf cat's involvement. What really gets me is the implication that Mike's mom has somehow been roped into keeping tabs on the designated problem cat, something we have seen absolutely no evidence of happening. Far from it--the mom openly fawns over Mike and calls him her golden boy. So you'd think Lucy's mom asking/telling her to keep said golden boy on a tight leash would spark one hell of a catfight between the two. Of course the opposite will happen as the Lucyspace bubble continues to expand. Either it will be justified in the dumbest, least convincing way possible or else just happen and then get an offhand bullshit explanation in a blog post.

>>154147025
Honestly. I would've been satisfied if we had an honest to God Mucy chapter. I don't know how at this point, but give us SOMETHING to make us root for Mucy for fuck's sakes.

>>154146151 (OP)
I thought we were told that Lucy's surly attitude was just a mask hiding her inner sunny laid back disposition. But her pissy anger looks pretty earnest to me. Less so her concern over the brother and pet rapist.

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>>154146985
>It's a lesson on how you should stay with your abuser, after all
Worse, it's that your abusive bully actually had good reason to act like a complete asshole and so deserves your sympathy and unconditional forgiveness while you grow up enough to enjoy their antics.

>>154147098
I wouldnt be surprised is Grey Mom knows Lucy is a turbo cunt and doesnt care to bother Mike further about the whole thing outside of him being the one managing the house when she is gone

>>154147025
>just like how Sandy's phonecall didn't address the fear Mike had of another suicide on his hands
To my knowledge, Taeshi has never pushed this idea. It was a logical headcanon that filled the void left by her own unsatisfying and vague explanations.

>>154147109
I just cant see a satisfying Mucy chapter happening even if an attempt was made. That well has been poisoned thrice over and it looks like its only going to get worse.

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>>154146917
No, Lucy's problem is that NOT everyone wants to fuck her. Lucy's fondness for others is directly proportional to how much they want to fuck her:
>likes Paulo a lot (he wants to fuck her and she can use that to manipulate him)
>likes David a lot (groped her several times and calls her "Lucy-baby")
>is ostensibly besties with Augustus but also trying super hard to push him away (claims to not love her "that way" but Taeshi is apparently waffling on that)
>has a weird obsessive love/hate with Mike (who both does and doesn't want to fuck her)
>disdainful of Abbey (doesn't want to fuck her)
>disdainful of all girls (Lucy is straight and cannot conceive of same-sex friendships that aren't rivalries)

I can't wait to see how Lucy treated this mystery boy like she loved him in a way she's never done with Mike, just like with Augustus and Paulo

But it won't mean anything because muh true love

>>154147098
I believe the reason she was so eager for Lucy and Mike to patch things up in that chapter is because he was the designated handler, and now that it's Augustus they can push him aside

>>154147190
I mean that's what Mike told Augustus when he came asking for an explanation and to keep away from Lucy, the fact he never brought it up with her tells you how little it mattered to Taeshi anyway

>>154147224
I just hope he no way fags her with (Not) Sandy lookalike

>>154147109
We got that, it was called Another Flame and it sucked. People who just want the two back together in some capacity loved it while everyone who remembers exactly why their friendship fell apart in the first place pointed out that none of those problems had been solved. Alternate Mike and Lucy were just sweeping problems under the rug with lip service.

No, an actual Mucy chapter could not happen until the dynamic Taeshi established upon Lucy's return was altered. At the very least, Mike would need enough spinal surgery to push Lucy away when she gets too needy or self-destructive because responsibility and accountability are permanently outsourced to everyone else around her. So, ironically, now is the best time in a good long while for a "Mucy chapter" to happen, even if it's just a deadened Mike listening while Lucy peddles her usual bullshit and then turns her down. Because while that's a far cry from any actual foundation for a renewed friendship, it's at least a napkin with a rough approximation of the proper measurements doodled on it.

>>154147169
inb4 dogisaga but instead of shitposting the comics are meant to be taken as literal advice thats what BCB has become

>>154147224
Oh man yeah, Taeshi just loves showing how anyone would be better than Mike to shit on him and then getting angry when people ask "why doesn't she move on then" because they JUST DONT GET IT

>>154147169
It's genuinely a lesson on how you should take your beatings for the sake of your abuser and group (eastern morality) and how you should stay with and love your abuser (Abraham would be considered a great person by the author)

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>>154146405
I know this comic is trash, and we shouldn't spend any time looking deeply into anything. But I'm bored.

>Augustus actually informed everyone at home of Mike's exile, they're all ok with it
Yeah, that's kinda fucked.

>"Check again" implies Mike's family is also in on it and both are ok with it
Either that or Lucy's mom is gathering intel on Mike's condition and confirming whether what Lucy is saying about him staying away is true. But hasn't disclosed to Ellen (Mike's mom) that Lucy blames Mike for her suicide attempt.

Given how the last interaction between Mike and his mom went and thinking back to the conversation between the moms after Mike/Lucy's karate class...I get the impression that his family knows something went down between them but doesn't have the full story. Which means that whenever Lucy's mom is checking in on things, she's putting on an act and continuing to lead Ellen on in thinking their friends which is also fucked.

>You're not still upset about that boy at that school are you?
When I first read the page, I thought she was talking about Mike. But I think you're right and something ELSE went down with a DIFFERENT boy at the other school. This alludes to a possibly reason as to why Lucy returned when she clearly shouldn't have.

Which is still one of the most fucked up things about all of this. Lucy is the one with the dependency issues and inability to regulate or control her emotions to the point that her solution to Mike apologizing for Decembering her and wanting to try to make things right again was to kill herself - because he still wouldn't breakup with Sandy to be with her. Yet Mike's the one that needs to suffer and stay away when it was her parents who made the idiotic decision to send her back to the same school despite everything. I guess Roseville is a small enough town to only have one high school, but homeschooling is a thing even in the early-2000s.

>I can handle it, is all
I second the LOL

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Also this needs a Lucy edit or better yet shooping in Tae's face instead kek

>>154147180
That would be too logical and refreshing for BCB. Imagine a parent feeling skeptical toward hearsay demonization of their child and not holding him accountable for the mental state of their friend's spoiled unstable daughter.

>>154147293
From what I recall, what Mike went on about wasn't the possibility of Sandy offing herself but rather sunk cost fallacy. Plus he admitted to not actually believing Sandy so any excuses don't really matter.

>>154147255
Lucy had to get her use-and-discard tendencies and the associated favoritism from one of the parents, I suppose.

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>>154147120
Like I said last thread, I think Taeshi has somehow inverted the definition of "masking" in her head. She seems to think the persona one has in public is one's "true self", while "masking" is the persona one has in private or when one's self-control slips.

So Taeshi thinks Lucy's "true self" is a fun and playfully sarcastic girl who everyone likes, while her yelling about how she hates everyone and talking in private about how much they suck is just her "masking". Similarly, she seems to think Mike's "true self" is a hair-trigger moron who will jump to violence if people say the wrong word, while being quietly depressed and nice is his "mask".

>>154147340
>something ELSE went down with a DIFFERENT boy at the other school. This alludes to a possibly reason as to why Lucy returned when she clearly shouldn't have.
And then her parents immediately let her latch onto another boy who they knew nothing about outside of Lucy's highly biased words, became a legal adult within the next two months, and was offered free room and board with no questions asked. Lucy's parents are actually too stupid to live and my headcanon is that her father is a collateral damage inflicting maniac out on the racetrack.

>>154147422
Maybe Taeshi just believes whatever she wants at any given moment, damn the evidence or even basic continuity of events. A completely subjective reality catering to the whims of an all-powerful yet incredibly stupid and lazy deity.

>>154147471
I hate to play defense for the whitecats but this is just a case of Taeshi making shit up that doesn't align with the rest of the comic and she said as much about how she had just come up with a story for the 9 months she was away because "she had no idea", so it's more a case of Taeshi's incompetence and you can expect a blog post about it within the week when someone else brings up the inconsistency

>>154147471
Lucy has literally nothing going on in her life except sniffing around for guys. Taeshi's seriously going to expect us to take it seriously that Lucy's heart broken over Literally Who when she's been acting like an absolute skank ever since she came back
>plays with Paulo's feelings (multiple times)
>has Augustus move in and babysit her so she can creep on him despite him categorically saying he's not into her
>shoving her tongue down Mike's throat just because he said a thing about a scarf that he hasn't worn in years (which she blew her nose with) and then kicks him in the gut and dumps all her emotional instability on him because him not dating her is her primal wound I guess???

>>154147422
Someone ask her what Lucy's mom would think if she found out Augustus tried to manipulate and rape Daisy.

>>154147523
No, I'm sorry, but there is zero reason to give any of these characters the benefit of the doubt anymore. Not after they have devolved into Taeshi's interchangable little puppets that will say or do whatever she pleases. I will absolutely judge them by the logical implications that Taeshi was too stupid and/or lazy to account for in her clumsy power fantasy.

>>154147531
Lucy's problems are all self-inflicted and I'm tired of all the pity begging Taeshi does on her behalf. Of course the parents are ultimately to blame for raising her to be this way and never getting her any actual effective help.

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>>154147573
But it was so sympathetic and understandable! That young teenage girl was just asking for it, and she definitely would have enjoyed the not-rape escalating yet further! How much praise must be heaped upon his head before you realize that Augustus good?!

>>154147573
It doesn't matter anon. Everything ALWAYS works in favor of Taeshi's favorites, no matter how absurd.
She'd just say something along the lines of 'oh you poor baby, you were just a kid that didn't know any better' or some such.

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>>154147471
inb4 her mom overreacted and forced this guy to cut contact with Lucy and stopped a perfectly nice boy Lucy's age from getting close to her lonely daughter.
now she is le evil bitch for being too protective of Lucy who lost her chance at having a normal, healthy friendship/relationship.

>>154147646
>"You've grown up so much since then and shouldn't be so hard on yourself! Daisy would be so lucky to have someone like you!"

>>154147604
If Taeshi would be self aware about it Lucy's parents would actually be incredibly realistic:
>Dad is career focused and absent.
>Mom doesn't want to face her fuck-ups and so blames Lucy's insanity on everyone else
>Doesn't chastise or try to control her because Lucy's tantrums are difficult to deal with.
>This is why Lucy thought it was ok to just hit people for years, because to her mom "it's just a shot in the thigh! Who cares, she's only little she can't hurt anyone!"

>>154147646
I know but some part of her has to always be going "fuck I wish I didn't write my precious emo cat doing such a thing" while scrambling to pretend he didn't in the face of people who clearly won't overlook her rape apologia.