He is a special boy
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OOPs now has a Russian translation which updates shortly after the English pages are posted!
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He is a special boy
Shading: Oniontrain
OOPs now has a Russian translation which updates shortly after the English pages are posted!
Now also in French:
And Ukranian:
> Having crossed the threshold of murder, even unintended, certainly was needed that you not be swayed by pressuring words.
I don’t understand this sentence. 🙁
You wrote “certainLy” instead of “certainTy”, perhaps that is part of the confusion. The traduction to human speech, by my interpretation, is that once Kalgkur had already killed someone, even if not meaning to, the elders needed to be sure that he could not be influenced to do so again by the words of others (namely, the chained one).
Oh, yeah I misread that letter. Oops.
This is quite an exceptionally terrifying test of will, considering that so many have failed it. It’s like a test for D&D paladins, where oath-breaking the belief of peace and bonding with others in order to appease the elders results in them snuffing out their soul.
Kalgkur’s resolve is apparently so strong, that his utter rejection forced him to break character. His distaste of the very thought of breaking the peace with the humans would lead him to kill the elders if they were to command it. to reject being a monster for evil, he turned into a monster for good…
There’s no freaking way this ISN’T a purposeful reflection of what’s actually happening all the time in the world. I don’t want to get political, but there are a lot of cases that soldiers do the most horrible things to innocent people under the command of their higher-ups, and it’s possible they believe there are good intentions behind these horrible things… it takes a strong will and a lot of courage for someone in their place to utterly reject becoming their monster for evil…
oh wait, I misread the part of the “very few” context of the comic… it’s just for the ones that have passed, only Kalgkur and one other have shown such violent rejection… what I say still stands though.
No problemo! Kind of glad Kalgkur didn’t ask what happens to dose who failed de test.
That’s the next page. 😸
Nooo, no seeing mounted Baxxid skulls on de wall!
I’m pretty sure those black-flag baxxid with no light in their eyes and barely any capability to communicate are the result of baxxid failing this test. They’re likely hallow beings that have the most minimum function in order to even survive, completely pacified and unable to do what Kalgkur just did. Their “soul” is the part of them that controls most of their baxxid instincts, and without it, they can’t do anything except eat, drink and sleep… and barely communicate.
A pity. If they’d worked together with the chained one to release him, perhaps they could have followed their instincts and at least died in a somewhat-equal battle. Three on one is hardly fair.
Zhat is de weakness for de test. Zhat zhree on one is not an accurate way to judge someone who may only go along wizh de flow out of fear of zheir elders. Zhis does not make de person evil for doing so, just respectful/fearful of de strong. It was brave for Kalgkur to decide to fight 3 on 1, but was also foolish too. Be wiser to agree to whatever, zhen rat zhem out, and maybe run for de damm hills to get away from zhe bogus leaders.
But if Kalgkur had done so, he’d have “failed” de test, Yes? Anyzhing but immediate rejection would have, most likely. Zo in doing de Baxxid weed out zhose who are politically cunning, evil or not. Seems more of a test to eliminate potential rivals zhan a actual character zhing. But alas, I am not a Baxxid and so cannot judge wizh certainty.
It wasn’t just an absolute rejection of breaking the peace, but also of the treachery that the elders had just confessed to. It was absolute rejection of the idea that his moral compass was an enormous lie designed to hide a profound betrayal of what he knew was the founding treaty of civilization.
Zo, Kalgkur can’t take a compliment. He also is razher Bipolar. And coming from a YINGLET zhat is saying somezhing! Going from killing rage, to getting his ass kamahameha’d, to “Oh My” levels of embarrassment in like 3 minutes flat. Razher surprised zhat he isn’t having some sort of Adrenalin crash (or de Baxxid equivalent) from getting so, so worked up.
He probably is still gathering his wits after the emotional roller coaster and the effects of “power word stun.” His embarrassment probably comes from hearing that his reaction was more violent than most. He’s probably also not in a state of mind to accept compliments, with the burden of manslaughter still on his conscience. I’m not sure I’d say he’s bipolar so much as just dramatic, and it’s not like he hasn’t just been through some enormous drama.
Bashful Baxxid
It’s good to see Kalgkur regaining his wits after being knocked out. And he certainly wasn’t prepared for that deluge of praise he got. (:
Now I’m wondering who was the first, if Kal is only the second to ever pass the test like that.
Just read most of zhis whole sing in a few days. I would like to say, zhe fact zhat Kass’ friends still refer to him as male despite his predicament warms zhe heart, and zhat so many ozhers consider him female and don’t even ask sometimes breaks it. I do hope he experiments wizh his gender and sexuality to discover what he feels he is and what he wants to do wizh himself, but until he decides he wants to be treated differently I hope he will start standing up for his self-identification and put it a little more out zhere. There don’t seem to be many ontologically evil characters in zhis story, at least not zhat get much air time, but disrespecting his preferences disendears me even toward zhe ones who are not necessarily bad people. Zhat’s fine; could make a great plot point. Stories need conflict, after all. I just hope he starts paying closer attention to zhat in zhe near future, for zhe sake of development, whatever track zhat may take. Zhe elevator guard who immediately switched when asked and did so wizhout even prying at it is one of my favorite segments so far.
I know zhis is not a Kass panel, but it’s zhe one I caught up to. It really does look like sings are headed zhat way, so I just hope I’m not wrong.
(I also have zhe same reaction to breeding as he does, but zhat is neizher here nor zhere)
Zhis story is highly bingeable, and I did.
Yay! Grats on catching up! Maybe toss de boss a dime if you appreciate de comic? We usually get two postings a month (one early, one mid monzh) but is sometimes interrupted when de boss publishes one of his other comic, about de dragonborn getting cursed/corrupted and is now a lusty argonian maid.
If you want more Yinglets, look at https://www.deviantart.com/umbrascythe/art/Learn-To-Live-1-670169839 Zhis comic takes place in a alternate world zhan Valsalia’s, so zhere is more magic, and de world is “bigger” zhan de one in OOP. Not better, or worse, just different and worzh a read.
If I had a dime to toss, I would. Maybe I’ll mention it on my Youtube channel zhough. I’m very small-time, but such as I can I don’t mind doing. I’ll also check out zhe link.
Are you sure “Learn to Live” set in a different world? I thought it was just another place and time in the same world. Also I’m pretty sure the pace of this comic has averaged 3 pages a month pretty consistently over the past couple of years. There are times when it *feels* like only 2 pages a month, because it’s sometimes 2-3 weeks between pages, but there are also times when we get a couple of pages within the same week.
It’s a highly bingeable comic, no doubt. I think most of the people who assume Kass is female simply aren’t in on the secret that Kass was a human male who got transmogrified into a female yinglet, and have no reason to believe that something “only heard of in myth and folklore” is even possible. So until Kass decides to “come out” and reveal the truth to the general public, which is probably going to be a while, the best you can hope for is people like the elevator guard who are happy to do whatever an officer requests. This is so new and strange to everyone in the setting that I don’t think many of them even know what’s best for Kass.
For Learn to Live being in a different world, I am not its creator, Umbrascythe, so I can only describe what I see. which is a Matriarch wizh magic powers zhat can level a small city if aroused is not somezhing zhat Laaady Kass has at her disposal, even if Kass wanted to.
For more postings, yes? If one includes de Boss posting zheir side projects on Deviantart it does count for somezhing more zhan twice a monzh on average.
For zhere being a comic set in Kass’s world, zhere is, I don’t zhink it is de same quality as Learn to Live, but is entertaining until it got wierd, like someone who has painted zhenselves in a corner zhen quit, so it is a abandoned project.https://www.deviantart.com/starstruckechoid/art/Scav-s-Glory-Page-1-764808447
~oh my~
Was intended as a reply to Wilson responding to Raven Shadowe…
I distinctly remember there being a post-apocalyptic comic on DA where yinglets were larger than they were here, the average being closer to Poak’s size. The first few pages involved a yinglet and a human carrying guns patrolling outside a pocket of civilization, and stumbling across a yinglet that had managed to survive relatively unscathed in the wasteland and took them in.
Do you know anything about this?
That rings a bell, but I don’t know where I saw it. It may or may not be going.
I have the impression that a lot of artists *start* webcomics but don’t get very far with them. Then there are artists who publish webcomics for a year or two, and I get really into them, but something or other happens and they stop publishing — I call those the heart-breakers. What I really appreciate about OOPs is that the artist has promised that he’s not gonna give this up, not gonna let us down, not gonna run around nor desert us, not gonna make us cry, nor gonna say goodbye, nor gonna tell a lie and hurt us. 😀
This reassures me that it does exist, at least, and that I’m not completely crazy.
Yeah, I do remember zhat one, I thought zhe art was sopretty! But as de Wilson said, so many decent projects start well, but once dey don’t instantly turn into cash making ventures zhat allows zhe artist to buy a Lamborghini, dey fizzle out. Here’s anozher, zhat had promise if you like your scavs rendered in 3-D!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28022064/
I just realized that, although he has passed the “Judgment,” he still has guard duty to pay for disturbing the peace with his scream. Since it’s probably not the best idea to send him back to the scene of the homicide, maybe this is how he’ll get introduced to someone else who needs guarding? I’m sure Isher would love a replacement for intimidation duty, but let’s face it: Kalkgur is the least intimidating person in the whole comic, despite being a living weapon.
Is so, Kalgkur has a LOT of work to do. And since Elim cannot resume his bodyguard duty, and Kalgkur’s newfound reputation for being deadly, perhaps **Finally** we will have zhe two meet. Kalgkur needs guidance/supervision in regards to Human/Baxxid interaction and Kass needs someone wizh eyes at de back of zheir heads (To avoid more kidnapping/groping in de future).