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WCDT strips 4021-4025 (10th to 14th June 2019)

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Czarzhan:
I Have A Theory about how this is going to play out. I'm going to insert spoiler tags for what's really going on (in my version) and how it'll play out in the open. So, please, read the open parts first. I can see this going two ways, based on if I'm right on the first hidden bit.
First bit: (click to show/hide)Sven actually had some cash saved up that he wasn't doing anything with, and decided to buy a new robot body for May, not thinking about how creepy that might seem (considering some of the stuff he might want to do with/to her in it).
Sven will try to get another "date" with May and either:

* When May says yes, Sven takes her back to his place and explains that he got curious and went to a new store that rented loaner robot bodies for AIs getting their main body serviced/whatever and they just got in a shipment that day, so he rented one for her. They could go out, have fun, have a "proper" date, while her old body stays here and charges up. May thinks this might be a good plan because even if she runs into Momo, she won't be recognised. So they go out, have a great time, go back to Sven's and bang for a while. May is really impressed with the new body's performance, and asks, "So who do I got to fuck to keep this baby?" (click to show/hide)...And Sven says, "Me. You're welcome." OR
* May will feel guilty about the whole Momo thing and refuse. Then you'll see Sven going back to his place (click to show/hide)and saying to the inert robot body, "So what am I supposed to do with you?"

Gyrre:
Apart from the 'geez, May', I have to say that I want a blue version of Roko's shirt.

EDIT: blue and black. See icon for color scheme.

OldGoat:
This is pretty much what I called the morning after. 

Sven has plenty of income from writing terrible Country & Western songs (and probably other cry-in-your-beer genres) but doesn't visibly throw his money around, so he's likely one of the financially better off cast members (the Ellicott-Chatham family are outliers). 

Most of Jeph's characters are grown-ups most of the time.  Sven and May are the two most emotionally immature, and that would give Jeph as a writer room to make them grow.  Sven gets to question his own motives for upgrading May's chassis, growing up some in the process.  May jumps at the chance for a new body then starts questioning the deeper issues, including Sven's actual motives, and even she will develop some personal insight.

(click to show/hide)Hmmm...Bartholomew Punchbot, CPA informs Sven that, if he runs it through the non-profit Roko's working for, he can claim May's new chassis as a tax deduction.  When May become aware of this, romantic comedy chaos ensues.

--- Quote from: Czarzhan on 10 Jun 2019, 06:34 ---I Have A Theory about how this is going to play out. I'm going to insert spoiler tags for what's really going on (in my version) and how it'll play out in the open. So, please, read the open parts first. I can see this going two ways, based on if I'm right on the first hidden bit.
First bit: (click to show/hide)Sven actually had some cash saved up that he wasn't doing anything with, and decided to buy a new robot body for May, not thinking about how creepy that might seem (considering some of the stuff he might want to do with/to her in it).
Sven will try to get another "date" with May and either:

* When May says yes, Sven takes her back to his place and explains that he got curious and went to a new store that rented loaner robot bodies for AIs getting their main body serviced/whatever and they just got in a shipment that day, so he rented one for her. They could go out, have fun, have a "proper" date, while her old body stays here and charges up. May thinks this might be a good plan because even if she runs into Momo, she won't be recognised. So they go out, have a great time, go back to Sven's and bang for a while. May is really impressed with the new body's performance, and asks, "So who do I got to fuck to keep this baby?" (click to show/hide)...And Sven says, "Me. You're welcome." OR
* May will feel guilty about the whole Momo thing and refuse. Then you'll see Sven going back to his place (click to show/hide)and saying to the inert robot body, "So what am I supposed to do with you?"
--- End quote ---

BenRG:
FWIW, I agree with those who said that May would reject a gift chassis on the grounds of pride and fear of being under obligation to anyone. However, if someone could find some path for her to somehow earn at least or obtain one by her own efforts, I think that she would be overjoyed. Whether ParoleBot will be as happy remains to be seen.

One option that comes to mind is May getting a job running the ticket booth at the Robot Fighting Arena and Jeremy letting her rifle through the spare parts pile as a 'bonus'. Bubbles and Faye can do the installation work and May can start wearing a tee-shirt with a 'Body By Me' slogan on the front.

Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, new people!

Yes, it's hyperbole.

That was interesting speculation about the future of Sven and May.

One thing that scares me here is that May's tendency to lash out and assume the worst may hurt her in ways that are hard to fix. On prisontalk.com, the fraction of posters who have re-established themselves in society after parole say the only way to succeed is to let go of victim mentality. Nothing easy about that, of course, when someone has been treated as unfairly as the criminal justice system treats people, but if May needs to do that work in order to succeed I want her to succeed.

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