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WCDT Strips 3521 to 3525 (10th to 14th July 2017)
Is it cold in here?:
Faye talked to Bubbles about the location of charging stations when she had to start her new life. Maybe she's like an electric car, able to get useful partial charging from a normal home outlet but in general requiring something more industrial.
Put another way, as long as she's asleep anyway, might as well do something useful with the time. It would really be weird if that's the only charging she does.
Zebediah:
For some reason I thought that Bubbles plugged into a 220V outlet at the fight club. I'll have to do an archive crawl and see if I can find the strip I'm thinking of.
emeraldphantom:
--- Quote from: anahata on 12 Jul 2017, 03:58 ---
--- Quote from: Milayna on 11 Jul 2017, 23:11 ---I always thought Faye was straight and identified as straight, and I didn't take Bubbles for the 'affectionate sort" and...that's the pigeonhole I put them in.
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A dog can be very affectionate, and that affection is enjoyed and returned, but... "straight" or otherwise has nothing to do with it.
The friendship between Bubbles and Faye doesn't need to be a particularly physical relationship to be very valuable to both of them. It might turn out that way, but it doesn't have to.
As for Bubbles, her true personality has been buried for years behind psychological and physical armour and she is still feeling her way though a loosening up process.
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I don't totally understand why everyone keeps talking about this possibly being a gay thing....... Bubs is an AI......... there is no real gender. If bubbles got a different body SHE could suddenly be a HE.
Literally Bubbles is nothing more than a consciousness in a replaceable robot body.
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: emeraldphantom on 12 Jul 2017, 14:24 ---
I don't totally understand why everyone keeps talking about this possibly being a gay thing....... Bubs is an AI......... there is no real gender. If bubbles got a different body SHE could suddenly be a HE.
Literally Bubbles is nothing more than a consciousness in a replaceable robot body.
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Jeph has long established that AI's have definite gender identities. And I would assume that a female AI in a male chassis would have the same body dysphoria as a trans person.
TheBiscuit:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 11 Jul 2017, 21:05 ---I imagine Bubbles probably meant it in a platonic sense - but only realized how it sounded after she said it...
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I would imagine that if that were the case, the two of them would find it easy to laugh off. Not without making Bubbles a little embarrassed, but still. It could be that this is exactly what will happen in the next comic. That said, the fact that they both reacted in that same way to me seems to indicate that it's something they both already had been thinking about. Or maybe trying not to think about.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 11 Jul 2017, 23:41 ---It really doesn't seem to be likely, as much as Jeph is teasing us about it. Faye's entire history is opposite-sex relationships with carbon-based people despite having a synthetic interested and available for years. Bubbles hasn't shown any sexuality that I can remember. I'm open to getting surprised. It would be the most interesting relationship to explore in the history of the comic.
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Who is the willing synthetic in question? I suspect you mean Pintsize, but I don't think he has any serious interest in Faye. I think his sexuality is a lot more complex than could be satisfied with any traditional relationship anyway. He seems to get off on things that humans don't even recognise as... things. Which is very much to be expected from at least some AI, in my view.
As for Bubbles, you're right that she's not displayed much signs of sexual interest, but it could be that she's just very, very private about such things and wouldn't let anyone know. It could also be that she's not used to that kind of feelings and doesn't know how to process them.
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