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Bloodless

🕑 Added 2020-09-10 01:09:18 +0000 UTC

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Matt Grayson

And, to my knowledge, we don't know if they are coworkers, friends, or a couple (that's OR, not XOR). All we know on that score is that the AI doesn't like men.

Jeff Gedney

except she may have voided the warranty by having Union Robotics turn off the "no punch wall" warnings

Michael Boettger

We've seen them in a number of places, CoD, Clinton's and Elliot's lunch, and on the street.

Richard

WAITAMINUTE, look who I found going through the archives?? Our large-eyebrowed friends! https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4124

AlexKorobeiniki

I mean, she's IN a body store right now. It's been less than 30 days in universe probably, i'm sure they can switch it out. Hell, maybe they have one of her old model in the back somewhere

Solomon Garland

Aw, don't worry, Roko! After five or ten years of feeling like your body isn't you and the world isn't real, you hardly even notice it any more!

SheepFace2000

You can tell cause there's a cliffhanger

Mark

*Sigh* the now all too familiar feeling of "Yesterday was Thursday, wasn't it?"

David Howe

Logical enough though. Roko had strong body integration, while May hadn't been previously embodied, and hated the body she got.

I feel like Roko is struggling that May has transitioned so easily. I'm so looking forward to know what's up

Danya Michael

You dumb babies!

Quantum Cat

I know that Roko's incipient melt-down is the focus here, but I feel the intense need to see if this is just me... Does May in Panel 2 somehow make anyone else think of Angelica from the Rugrats?

Lessthan

Roku got a new body. Was kind of traumatic. Probably just got triggered.

Some Ed

I feel like a bread board and rolling pin could be very therapeutic for her right now, at least if the rest of the ingredients were included, too. Maybe she could use a mixing bowl as well, to let her start from the beginning, but absolutely no mixers, hand held or otherwise. Apart from those exceptions, though, I totally agree 100%.

Some Ed

May probably has more body integration now than she's ever had, since she came from a server farm and the piece of trash was thus her first body.

Bill Hall

I have a - why is she so - what is - wait, what, - I have a why??!?!

Some Ed

I pay attention to how people get treated, and I feel if everybody got treated like many small people, redheads, and people of color get treated, just about everybody would be more prickly. I mean, different people are different, and there are some people who can take abuse and turn out sunshine, but how people get treated matters.

Mari San

Same, she's probably dissociating from the fact that May handles her change of body so well

Clarence the Liar

Having spent a good portion of my life going through varying degrees of dissociation, yep, that layering effect is pretty much what it feels like. From the inside, it's kind of like looking out from inside of a fishbowl, complete with sloshy, dizzy feeling and distorted sound. Low blood sugar episodes can feel somewhat similar, in my own experience. They tend to pass a lot more quickly though!

Samuel Fout

I was wondering about the weird effect on roko :(

dragonkittyrawr

I'm so worried about Roko :(

Tina Pegar

Oh cliffhanger

Matthew Graf

Oh no roko don't fall for the trash goblin

Tim

Lemon will not ask about steak; not knowing much about Roko she will probably ask her opinion of something more innocuous - like bread. Which will kick Roko into overtime.

Joseph Bonnar

This is an unexpected cliff hanger, to say the least. Thank you for continuing to shock me, Jeph. Gets my heart going in the AM.

Rebecca

Ooh! What an interesting idea!

Kurious

Any bets Roko's body dismorphia (or however it's spelled) has just clambered out from whatever she has used to suppress it?

Matt Grayson

Now THAT is a disturbing image!

OldGoat

There's probably an element of "WTF have I unleashed upon the Earth?" in there, too.

I slightly wonder if Roko isn't dissociating.. but instead horrified that she is suddenly /super/ into May.. picturing what she could have May to do her with a loaf of bread...

Celine Chamberlin

Tell us more about this blood of which you speak (the blood in your life, not Roko's). I'm concerned and intrigued.

Dan Curtis

I thought she looked out of focus in the last strip and now I know it was on purpose.

Matt Grayson

I see a black reboot screen in Roko’s immediate future. When Lemon appears, she will obliquely approach Roko’s state by asking her opinion of charbroiled steak.

Evgeniy Semyonov

Wait three days you mean - it's the last one for this week.

Why must we have to wait until tomorrow to see the next comic? :(

Lightsabr2

I'm totally reading all her lines a la Baymax "Low Battery" scene.

Stephen Wells

It's Keep Roko Away From Kitchen Implements o'clock. Again :(

Eric Burns-White

Roko's episode's hardly a surprise -- Roko's been returned to the sight of her trauma (right down to Lemon being there to help counsel). She had something to focus on for the last several days -- getting May a new body -- only now that it's done the tension's released and she's got nothing to distract her reaction now. What's more, in a really clever inversion, we're seeing the opposite side of the coin of May's reaction to Roko's new body -- May wanted a new body, got it, it's radically different from her last body and she has no issues with it at all (I suspect her integration is generally low -- she's embraced the body-change concept after all.) Now here's Roko seeing May dump her old body and be thrilled with her new one, and that breaks her substrate.

Green

There's so much here that I love. I love that May properly expresses her sincerest gratitude! I love that she's absolutely willing to help those who helped her! I love the "Whose blood" punchline bc it's a question I get asked on a fairly regular basis! I especially love how May immediately switches gears when she realizes Something Is Up With Roko. (I also love how far these two have developed in that unlikely duo sort of way) However, I definitely don't love that Something Is Up With Roko in the first place :( Maybe Melon is still around and can help out?

Leona

Ah, it was the strange butt, and everything loosely attached.

Bagge

Something I love with the robot storylines is how we can explore tropes about personality and body-type in fiction. May has in both her earlier incarnations been small, which is a common fit with the prickly personality. The cuteness of the anime hologram contrasted greatly with the crassness of her behaviour, and the more generic robot body worked well with the "horrible trash goblin persona". Now she is in a body type more commonly associated in fiction with other personality types. More reserved. More stoic. again, a great contrast to her actual personality. I also like how the color carries between all her incarnation, giving a visual shorthand that it is still the same person. Contrast Momo, who went to tiny and cute to small and cute, and winslow who went from tiny and adorable to small and adorable, and Roko who went to a very similar body type (which is a great vehicle to explore her body disassociation), and we haven't really seen a huge shift in body type vs personality until now. I really look forward to see how and if people will react differectly to tall and big titted than small and barely functional, and how and if that in turn will impact May's personality

Pejo

This but not in a funny way

awgiedawgie

Yes, given that her hair without the tails is almost to her waist, the pony tails should be more like the length they were in the 3rd panel of yesterday's strip. Unless she mysteriously got them chopped between then and now.

Poor Roko. I hope she's okay.

Andrew Mitchell

IKR. Poor, poor Roko. 😥😥😥

dylan

I’m a little distracted by how the length of May’s pigtails keeps changing.

awgiedawgie

I don't think they put her original CPU into her new body (although they may have, since it was probably a higher quality unit than what would be standard, even in the souped up Model G). I think Roko's biggest problem is that she was forced to get a new body, whereas the others <i>chose</i> to.

Thisguy

You know, now that I think of it, May, Momo, Winston, they all uploaded directly into their bodies, software transfer, not hardware. I recall Lemon saying that Roko’s cpu ‘brain’ survived (due to reinforcement), so I think Roko’s brain hardware was put directly into the new body. I don’t know if this would cause the issues she’s been having, after all, humans have this issue, and they still have the same brain the whole time...

Thisguy

Numerous things can trigger an episode, just like in real life. Probably a combination of being in the body hub, seeing May in her new body, remembering about waking up in her new body etc...

Alex Borders

I mean, otherwise, what's the point?

Alex Borders

I could actually see that being a recurring nightmare for May.

Alex Borders

Roku gets a fighter jet body!!!!

Brian English

....Oh, Lemon? You might be needed... AS OF THIRTY SECONDS AGO!

Lisa

She was doing so well. :(

OldGoat

I think you're right. Roko was so focused on her baked goods fetish that she didn't realize that this iteration of the Philomena opens the - ahem - back door to all sorts of other things she'd never imagined.

Fart Captor

Oh no, was she not aware of her butthole before and May mentioning it has sent her into some kinda Way-Too-Aware-Of-Your-Butthole Coma??

John

What did she say, I don't remember.

FeyOne

Oh... Poor Roko! I was hoping in the last one that she was just embarrassed, but this looks bad!

Czarzhan

I'm pretty sure May *can't* return to her old body. That whole head-falling-off-and-torso-catching-fire thing probably falls under the banner of "irretrievable catastrophic failure."

Ian Wolfe

Oh poop, I think Roko is having another dismorphia episode.

Ralph Cornwell

Why is she dissociating now??

Josh Moberly

As to why she's pink, we know she can change colors. But she's vibrating because she's dissociating. And she could be changing color subconsciously as part of said dissociative episode.

Ralph Cornwell

why is roko vibrating... and pink?

runrin

maybe roko can continue that sexy dream where dream roko was just about to make out with with other dream roko

Shawn K. Younkin

LOL- Is May just looking for any reason to show her boobs? Not that I blame her- If I got new boobs I would want to show them of.

Dylan T

Oh she's doin a big dissociate

Shawn K. Younkin

I have a new body, it takes up a lot room in my freezer.... wait... did I type that out loud?

Michael Boettger

Or she recalls the words her ghost new body told her in the dream.

Oh no... the dissociation... Hope Roko's dream-selves can help settle this.

Thomas Halpin

Yeah, she started to look a little "not okay" at the end of the previous strip, and this kind of confirms it. Her body-related trauma is still a big deal.

Clifton Royston

Roko, desperately clinging to consciousness: when people look like this this is what they say so i should say it too and maybe nobody will notice anything is wrong why is everything turning gray and black

Captain Button

In my experience, Patreon is quirky about that. Sometimes it just won't.

Emmu Lah

Desperately lmao

allanfranta

no, she's a slouch...

Diptych

Did May get smaller? She's only had her new boobs for five minutes and she's already lost them somehow?

Darren Stalder

any ideas as to why I can no longer expand the comments?

A sheep

Oh no, roko's gonna break down and May's gonna return her body to fix Roko's

lilibat

This whole story line is making me kind of angry because I can't get a new body.

Dunno how it works with AIs, but uh, as far as meatbrains go, that sure is a thing that happens :-/

Jeremy C

Is Roko vibrating?

Sleepy John

Bring Lemon out!

Sleepy John

Not good.

Brooks Moses

Also -- is this where Roko first "woke up" in her new body after the accident? I could see that triggering dissociation too.

Kate Cole

Buy yourself a new ass you deserve it.

Everett Bradshaw

Oh no. No no no, Roko come back, sweetheart.

Luzahn

Oh right, Roko's deep personal traumas

#TRIGGERED

Matt Grayson

Nightmare scenario: Roko wakes up in May’s old body. ....

Grace Kieser

Yay didn't lock anything away. She has a strict non-interference policy when it comes to brains!

Grace Kieser

May isn't a total goblin! She does have empathy!

Qixotic

Hoping for an Elliot intervention...

Qixotic

Roko needs bread!

Summer Sudbrink

Hoping for a Yay intervention. :(

Anthony Gaglianese

Roko needs Cosmo.

Shawn K. Younkin

Rokooooo!!! :(

Dean Reilly

When someone tells Lemon that a customer is having a dissociative episode, what are the odds that she'll assume that it's May?

Jeremy Tighe

Lemon was my first thought too. Very curious to see what AI first responder social workers do

Mister Cletus

BUT I DESERVE TO BUY MYSELF A NEW ASS.

Adam Abbott

I think the butthole thing broke her. XD

Mason Griffith

Thanks May, now poor Roko is hyper aware of her butthole.

Alacrity Fitzhugh

Free cactus with a new body?

Jennifer Doyle

TBH, having tits does sometimes mean you really want to show them to people. Especially when you're excited.

Alacrity Fitzhugh

What I really want to know, and likely the crux of the entire issue, why does Bodyhub have shelves of cacti on the wall? :p

Roko’s coloring makes me anxious. I can’t imagine what it feels like for her.

ShanaraCinderfall

Anyone else hope we get a pinup of mays new bod flashin off her new bod?

Stuart Telfer

Roko =(

Tim Eldred

Patreon-exclusive "big titty club represent" pinup? I'm okay with that.

Verteiron

I wonder if it's just *that* body that doesn't agree with her. Maybe a big change would be easier than the small one she had.

Katrina Urmson

Rokooooo. We need Yay.

Brent

That's gonna be a no from me, dawg

Thisguy

Also, Jeph, I love how you create the visuals for these episodes, how the colouring is shifted outside the lines, the eyes, the slanted text. It really does give a sense that something is wrong, that Roko does not really... mesh with her body.

Roko is going to blow!!!

Waffliesinyoface

oh noko, roko ;-;

Am Queue

Roko looks like I've felt, the two times I had a severe low blood sugar episode. Totally a good call. Inaccurate ("Whose blood?!") but good call.

Thisguy

Uh oh. Body disassociation episode. Quick, get Lemon! On the other hand, we may get to see the more caring side of May. Though this is the bast place for Roko to have a breakdown. I imagine the staff would be somewhat familiar.

Yonatan Zunger

I'm wondering if Roko is having a dissociative episode, or if she saw May knock the head off her old body (remembering Roko's deep body squick), or both...

Jim Feldman

On one hand, poor Roko, on the other I don't think it's going to take much to get May to flash the new "bomb" rack.

A.A. aka Double

Well at least May isn't totally unaware, and she's showing gratitude! Poor Roko, tho

Azrux

Definitely Dissociating

David Jackson

Rokoooooooo 🙁 Is she dissociating again?

I was worried about this

Nikki

Yes. Yes it does.

Emma Humphries

Welcome to Dissociation City, population: Roko.

Michael Boettger

And May has calmed down, is actually acting appropriately. Dunno about the tits though.

William Davy

Seeing may adapt so quickly is probably knocking on the door of what Yay locked away. This could go VERY BAD

As I was afraid of Roko is having an episode. May is gonna feel awful thinking it's her fault (it's not, she just accidentally triggered Roko), and Roko herself is going to be upset because she feels pressure to be in charge and in control all of the time. I just want to give hugs all around.