This sort of situation usually plays out as follows:
Kass has a problem that he can’t handle by himself.
Elim offers help in a way that allows Kass to maintain his dignity.
Kass acts all aloof, but usually accepts in a way that doesn’t make him seem weak or needy.
…Things are different now.
Not expecting you to get into too much pervy detail, but is there any way we could learn a little more about yinglet anatomy? Are they more like mammals, marsupials, birds, or what? What is it that makes males especially “compatible” with one another?
They appear to be monotremes, like the platypus and echidna, mammalian but lay eggs. Which explains Kass’s new… Well they are too small for muffins so sweater… cotton balls? And to hazard a guess as to the compatibility, they probably have enough room in their genital slit to allow for… um… “Interaction.” Now to see if I am right.
I’m probably gonna have to just draw up a little sketch of it eventually, seeing as there’s a whole bunch of people that want to know what’s up with ying bits.
I’m super curious. I’d say probably…. 70% scientific interest, 30% shameful perversion.
Furries gonna furry.
Monotremes have mammary glands, but no nipples. They “sweat” milk instead.
I know, but we have neither seen nipples on a yinglet in a canon image, at least to my knowledge, as well they could be a sort of in between monotreme and placental mammal, hell as far as we know the lesser yinglet was related to dinosaurs and the greater yinglet was created by someone experimenting on them and thus their mixture of traits between mammals and birds. In the end they may just be yinglets as there are several other ween them and monotremes, yinglets have a higher metabolic rate almost certainly, and I believe there was an image of one of their jaws showing more than one bone in the lower one. Finally scientists are still debating over the classification of monotremes anyway… Wow, scientific debate starting in a grounded in reality fantasy webcomic forums…
Sorry for the wall of text.
I love this kind of chat. we get this quite a lot on the Crossed time cafe forum when talking about freefall and all it’s scientific head nods and little themes in current science fiction and current science facts always a good fun read that forum is
Also I must say thanks for reminding me about that, I had forgotten that, though am not sure why I kicked myself for forgetting it.
Ahahahahahahaha! (Inhales) Ahahahahahaha! Oh god this is perfect, the expressions are perfect including Elim’s in the last panel. Oh man, hahah! I can’t get over it!
I love in the last panel how Lopin has his arms wrapped around Elim’s neck, and from the looks of it, if he were more flexible, would have wrapped his tail around Elims neck as well.
On another note, it appears our esteemed artist & author has spent plenty of time around toddlers as well!
I’m afraid we all have to get over it, eventually… if we are to live the rest of our lives.
I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.
I like how we’re slowly learning more and more about Kass and Elim’s history together as the story progresses. The “piece by piece” nature of it is nice and subtle. I really hate bad exposition and though I can’t say OOPs handles exposition the best, it’s a hell of a lot better than it could be. I especially like the pages that are purely devoted to exposition but present it in a way that keeps it rooted in the world. As for the story I’m really excited to see where it’s going to go now that we’re effectively out of the enclave.
They go back into the enclave.
That’s some Shyamalan shit.
I just love the last panel, do you think Elm is going to carry Kass bridal style too!
And it looks like Lopin doesn’t want to leave the strong arms of Elm. I’m going to guess he’s been on the run all day, and if I’m right Lopin might have missed his daily naps as well. Hell he might just have gotten just as little if not less sleep then Kass. And it would have been worse for him being scared, stressed, and on the run. Being carried is probably the only break he’s gotten all day.
Good point! Kass has built up a few days’ worth of sleeplessness before this point, though, which is definitely taking its toll here.
Though Elim’s expression in the last panel is hilarious, i love Kass’ expression in the second to last of that look of jealousy and contempt.
Man Fancy Lad is coming onto Elim pretty strongly there.
Sadly, friends as loyal and patient as Elim are hard to come by. If I got turned into a sleepy yinglet I’m pretty sure I’d still have to walk everywhere.
Well, they are friends through war, which tends to create some pretty strong bonds.
By the time he gets back he’ll have one Yinglet of Ivenmoth on each shoulder slung like sacks with one giving the other a death glare, while a few tagalongs have grabbed onto his waist and legs for a ride.
http://i.imgur.com/XX6HVrn.jpg
First off, baby björn, that guy is doing it wrong. Second, while babies and yinglets both make for terrible ablative armour, you would loose the psychological advantage of having hostages people would actually care about #yingletlivesmatter,like. Third, I have absolutely no idea how you could strap a dozen yinglets to Elim and have them actually being okay with that and NOT fighting/biting/clawing Elim or each other, or themselves for that matter.
Here’s me just noticing the comics title spells out “oops” XD
Yes! It’s DEEP like that, man~
Elim seems confused more often than anything else, but he also seems to be even-temptered enough to handle the strange, STRANGE things than have one down.. At least for now.
I get the feeling he’s going to spend a lot of time confused.
… i wonder what would have happened if Elim had been the one to turn into a ratbird?
Honestly that would probably be less upsetting to their friendship, given that Kass generally likes to be the one in charge.
Where is YOUR pride now,Elim?…
WHERE IS IT?!!!
…the broh-ness is off the charts,btw
Seriously!
SO bro.
hey, it’s a greath comic. The next page?
There is no next page, this the end, forever
(A week or so)
I just noticed Kass seems to be missing the hole the forced earring made. do Yingets heal that quickly or just a mistake?
Ear fur could just be covering up the hole.
Yay, cuteness!
Oh don’t cheer them on, you’ll just encourage them~
Recent reader here, just wanted to tell you that after reading from the beginning I find the story, the bits of xenofiction, and the characters enjoyable.
Well thanks! Glad you’re enjoying this thing, especially the xenofiction parts. I wasn’t sure how well they’d be received at first, but people seem to be enjoying them!
Yinglets really epitomize “ugly cute”. Conventionally speaking they are bizarrely proportioned, asymmetrical, give off a look of being filthy, and have many sharp edges but somehow I find them vastly more appealing than a Pikachu or some insipid anime mascot that looks like a marshmallow with eyes and stubby feet.
That’s a great way of putting it. Awkward and strange to look at, like pugs or featherless baby birds, but for some reason that makes them cuter somehow.
Well that’s awesome. I started reading yesterday. This page made no sense at the time, but now it’s hilarious.
Ha! Yeah, I can only imagine what seems to be happening here without context.
More aimless theorizing:
So ya have to wonder if Vizlet will start grooming Kass to take over as Matriarch. She’s certainly strong-willed enough, and can learn about yinglet culture. We currently know nothing about how the succession works, though…certainly nothing like the casual way Patriarchs are added. Maybe a furious smek tournament?
Vizlet must have wondered who’d take over if she died; death is just one big dog away from any lone yinglet walking though town. She surely wouldn’t want the Elders to send up a replacement from the south, but we haven’t seen enough of the other females to know if any of them are candidates either, though we know none of them can match wills with her.
UPPY NOW
This page brings a question to mind. I know a lot of people in the comments section have been referring to Kass as a lady for a while now, which I can understand given that they’ve been turned female.
However, as someone with a lot of transgender friends, I know that one’s sexual biology personal sense of gender and one’s are not always a perfect fit.
I’ve been assuming that Kass still sees them self as a man, even if they don’t have the body of one. However, that’s not really my call to make. Since I’m not the author, and all. 😛
Still, the fact that Kass cringes at how they’re addressed in the first panel has me thinking I’m on the right track. Am I right about that? Or is Kass more or less becoming a a lady in their head, along with the physical changes?
Could be either. I know that if I were female, that’d be pretty much my response to being called “Sopretty lady” all the time, because it sounds undignified (if not uncivilized)… but then again, these are yinglets. Except for the matriarch, the girls, and some of the patriarchs, “dignified” is not a word I’d use to describe most yinglets.
On the other hand, he only became female a little over a day ago. There are some hormonal changes that are already influencing his thought processes (like how he suddenly likes clams and oysters), but it’s possible his physical gender and mental gender haven’t quite meshed yet.
I don’t know, I think Poak and the patriarch of hunting (I forgot his name, the one talking about how females should gut prey and get bloody with the males) know how to show a female a good time.
Perhaps choosing males that prefer females with male traits would be good for Kassen’s sanity?
In the art and errata section, I’ve seen depictions of yinglets described as rat-birds. It’s a good thing I like both rats and birds, huh? I do not find the yinglet form distasteful at all.
While Kassen himself may not see it as such, I consider his transformation an improvement.
I love Kass’ expression in panel five at being told his best friend has very strong arms. I’m just glad Kass is going with the flow and accepting his feminine instincts. It’s the scav ones he wont accept, the female ones he seems to have less problems with.
Though this tends to imply Kass has ALWAYS found his best friend somewhat close to him in certain ways, since both of them are trying to maintain the way it was for Kass’ sake.
I suppose Yinglets were vaguely inspired by rats, pidgins and extremely poor, uneducated chinese laborers of the type that built the transcontinental railroad? If so, that only makes me like Yinglets more, since I like rats, pidgins and Chinese immigrants. My ancestors were destitute Irish immigrants brought over by Viking vessels long, long ago, to survive a purge. Mix that up, and I can only cheer for the yinglets to advance and become capable traders with plenty of coin, education and territory. Go on, Kassen. You wanted to help sweet Lopin before, now you have a much direct method to do so. Become powerful traders!
jealousy rears it’s pretty little head