Out-of-Placers
A story of inconvenient changes
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OOPs now has a Russian translation which updates shortly after the English pages are posted!
Now also in French:
And Ukranian:
XD oh my god lopin will suffer for fashion, dammit!
and yes, yannit! <3 i've missed her.
That’s not suffering, Lopin loves being pretty!
poor baby can hardly walk ;w;
He just needs a tail wig to complete the ensemble.
Yannit know friend hurt, gonna go attack attack
I have a feeling those two might be in need of a wardrobe change after that.
Even if I am really tired, I’m glad to stay up to read an update. Zhanks Val!
Not gonna lie, I bet if Yannit hadn’t drawn our attention, we’d see another “ghehehe~” or “am I pretty” from Lopin. I bet being called “little yinglet girl” makes his heart flutter… Well, more than a yinglet’s already does, I suppose.
Lupin is a darlin’ but he just dont pull the little shepherdess look off
Oookay.
That’s very interesting phrasing there. “Hurt friend is ~~~. Time to kill. Meat for us.”
I’m having definite flashbacks to
http://www.valsalia.com/comic/prologue/07/.Yannit’s expression of anger implies eating the assaulter is the more probable meaning of hers…
Yyyes, the eeeyyeesss!
I hope they get the chance to question Brakka before Yannit gets to him. And I love her reaction.
Now is time to crush head very.
Head inside good isss verrry…
I’m not really understanding the last panel. 🙁
Yannit just learned her friend was hurt. She wants to protect her friend by killing the people who hurt him, and she’s also looking forward to eating them after she does.
aaahhh, that makes sense.
That and Yannit has always been teetering dangerously close to going full homicidal rampage simply due to the nature of her(his?) kind. Was explained in depth much earlier that her(his?) race are a hive mind and that when isolated from thier kind, they lose it and go berzerk without provocation, becoming an almost unstoppable killing machine.
It’s been mentioned that SHE may have adopted her roommates as her hive members, which explains the depth of her feelings over Elim’s injury.
It’s probably a question of being deprived of the pheromones of others of her kind. I think Val even did a comic to this effect. If she cannot _smell_ someone “properly” – they do not “exist properly” to her species and she perceives them as sort of ghosts, wraiths or other scary things. But I think she’s learning to process _human_ smells as _her hive_…which is probably a first in the history of her species.
That’s a really really good point. And it is such a point I am sure Ran would LOVE to learn about and witness.
There was a comic not long ago where it was show that Yannit is able to sooth her feelings of growing isolation (and perhaps even reverse the feeling) but fondling human hair. A trend which, thank you Mr. Kassen Akoll and Elim Dorelga, discovered! Kass sacrificed his dignity to bring about this discovery and potential peaceful relations between the bug peoples and humans.
Seriously though, if Kass had not taken Yannit in, she would have eventually gone mad, killed a bunch of people, and possibly died. I mean, I respect Yannit’s sense of adventure because it takes balls to travel completely away from your own kind, especially when your kind as are extremely isolated and insular Indrel. But she very nearly got herself into trouble by very naively leaving everything she had before and moving to a totally foreign place. It’s very probably her people may not even know what happens to an Indrel that is separated very long from the hive.
Still… I love Yannit’s obsession with hair tousling. I look forward to seeing it again between her, Kass, Isher, Lopin, and Elim.
There was a book I read years, er, decades ago that had an alien race that very closely resembled ants. If a soldier became too greatly separated from its Hive, it would become unMinded — spelled just that way — quickly go insane and then die of starvation. Yannit’s situation is similar, except she is finding a way to stay sane, but that way isn’t apparent to the others. They may never find out if Yannit doesn’t say something. Maybe Ran’s nosiness will save the day, but Yannit seems to be stalking in places where Ran doesn’t usually go.
CJ Cherryh – Serpent’s Reach
Looks like Trademaster’s gonna need to gather more people than he thought.
Hard to walk proper in a dress like that with yinglet legs. Lopin does make the perfect poster for civilized cultured yinglets. There will be a feeding if Yannit has her way……which you best stay out of if you know anything about Indrils.
Has she even eaten in the week she’s been there?
Man, I should know better than to read webcomics when I’m trying to lose weight.
Ouch.
It’s CRUSHY-CRUSHY VERY-VERY TIMEZ
I just really hope that means Yannit wants to kill and eat whoever hurt Elim, not that she wants to put Elim himself down.
Kill & eat the attackers of Elim seems to be the more common reading. Still… best not put her on hospital duty, at least when she has missed lunch.
Yannit: KILL PROTOCOL ENGAGED
Am I the only one who first read this as yannit was gonna eat Elim because he was wounded.
I saw it like that too. I’m really hoping I’m wrong.
First time I saw it, I thought of Yoda and the way he displaced the verbs.
yes yes crush head very. am wanting the eyes.
Yannit’s has got it all figured out life is full of friends and food the only distinction being who’s currently pissed you off
Here comes some complications for the Trademaster.
I don’t think so as banished individuals are of no interest to the patriarch. Getting rid of them could even improve the relations as their behaviour is putting the enclave in a bad light.
I think he/she referring to Yannit going on a rampage.
Indeed, but a rampage targeted at the banished yinglets would not cause problems. A highly social species such as Yannit’s can be expected to be extra careful not to cause significant collateral damage. I can only think of some scared citizens. However, they should be used to strange things such as violently loud screaming (thinking of the Baxxid).
Wait is Yannit going to end the wound friend or she going to go after the one who hurt her friend?
She’s a bit confused, but she’s got spirit.
Lopin and Yannit are Precious, and must be cherished and protected. I hope nobody mistakes her protective instincts for the expected madness her species is known for when exiled.
I’m waiting for when the realization hits our favorite group of misfits that they are Yannit’s hive now. With all the hive protective instincts that goes with it. I think Kassem would make quite the splash as a new Matriarch with Yannit as a body guard.
I highly doubt Kass wants to be a matriarch. While he certainly wants to go up the ranks, he seems like someone who knows they arent really leadership material.
I would argue that Kass is just as much leadership Material as Sam Vimes was when he became head of The Night Watch. Leadership is something you grow into as you gain experience, provided you have the right base to grow from. Kass has the right beginning. From there, it’s just a matter of practice at all the skills needed, and it’s entirely possible that the situation will force that practice one way or another.
Sir Samuel had Lady Sybil to be his ambition, with Captain Carrot holding up his expectations. Kass doesn’t have that.
Kass has Elim for her Captain Carrot, Vilacroix as Vetinari, and Vizlet for Lady Sybil.
The relationship dynamics are similar enough. BUT not identical. We are now adding Yannit’s unique personality traits to the mix, which actually… Yannit may be Sgt. Detritus.
So really we are only missing Corporal Nobby Nobbs and Sgt Colon.
>I’m waiting for when the realization hits our favorite group of misfits that they are Yannit’s hive now.
Oh God, I didn’t even know I wanted this. Val, don’t disappoint us on this one! It’s too good of a shocker for Kass, Elim, and Isher to pass up!
Honestly, if you think about it, Kass has the chance to also open up discovery into Indrel culture and society, especially since he more or less has an adopted Hive-mate via Yannit.
Yeah! Yannit’s back! I’ve kind of missed her.
Fucking yes, Yannit! I love you girl! You’re so underused in this series. (Well, honestly I like all the characters so I’m not sure anyone is underused…. and I love Isher also. But Yannit we’ve missed you!)
I need to go find the comic where Yannit says she will crush anyone who hurts little Kass….
Well now, this presents several challenges. First and foremost, Yannit’s rage needs a direction. Yannit COULD try picking up the pheromones of Elim’s assailants from his uniform, at which point she’d need to track them down. Not necessarily a problem, depending on the acuity of Yannit’s sense of smell, and the strength of the scent of the attacking Yinglets. And then, of course, there are city guards with whom to contend, who may or may not notice and/or raise objection to The Great Yannit Yinglet Gang Hunt, which may or may not be perceived as Yannit going off the deep end. Finally, of course, you have the Trademaster’s political agenda, which might benefit from the death of enclave outcasts, but probably not if they came at the crushing hands of Yannit in a murderous rage.
That is one angry Yannit. She was a worker drone, not a sentinel, right? So that means she can probably crush rocks into dust with her bare… hands? Ya, some rogue yinglets are about to die. Painfully. Crush Head Very.
Here’s an idea: Use Yannit to track Brakka and the other attackers. Persuade her to let Brakka be taken into custody and questioned. Depending on the mood of whoever’s in charge, let Yannit choose whether to eat/headcrush or spare the other yinglets.
It seems like a great idea on paper.
I think Brakka and the one stabbing that caterpillar were the only two to make it out alive.
best girl is back!
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Quick! Get her a person with glorious hair! Only luscious locks can save us now!
“Plap, plap, plap, plap”
Hey Val, how Much do You make from This webcomic?
his patron makes “$1,168 per normal sized (6-8 PANEL) comic page (2 TO 4 PER MONTH)”
If you think about it, this should not be a suprise to anyone. Yannit has from the start been very closely tied to the group. To find that someone hurt someone she cares about, of course she is going to want to make the one that hurt her friend suffer. Also, I should point out, in most social group incects, most of the warrior class is female, if not all. Do not be suprised by Yannit having a bit of warrior in her.
Why is he walking like he soiled himself?
Because his clothes are REALLY tight. He says he can’t move in panel 4 of comic #101.