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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:
Lookin’ even finer now…yeah so what, I think she’s pretty, and?
and we all agree (or wanna be her ^w^)
Gentlemen! We are witnessing an Event!
This is the first time a yinglet used “de” instead of “ze”.
Not Quite! http://www.valsalia.com/comic/prologue/20/
I forgot just how funny that freaking page is.
That dude just happily walks off screen.
That means he’s almost certainly from out of town, or at least not part of the local enclave.
On the subject of the yinglet accent:
People who speak English often don’t realize how rare the ‘TH’ sounds are, globally. (The technical term is ‘dental fricatives’, and there’s two — the sound in ‘there’ and the sound in ‘math’.) One or both of the TH sounds are present in English, Greek, and a few dialects of Spanish, and that’s just about it. Most languages substitute a Z, D, or T, and non-native English speakers often have a lot of trouble learning to use TH. I expect all three of those are pretty common ways for yinglets to deal with their particular problem of pronunciation.
So what you’re saying is that the the three cultural types of Yinglets are Germans, Hippies, and Pacific Islanders?
Flattery will get you EVERYWHERE, Lopin. Keep it up ^/^,
Poor Loppin. So easily swayed by a hansom face…
Lopin,FFS, being distracted by handsome men is a very common and wide spread weakness, but get a hold of yourself,damnit!!! >:V
…and Kass…STOP FANTASIZING ABOUT YOURSELF, that’s narcisist as all fuck.
Wait, has Lopin not figured out that this Yinglet Female was the Handsome Human?
I thought he/she already said that…
all he knows is Kass is the name of the female. He might not remember a single persons name through the day especially after being chased down beaten and whatnot. Plus Kass told him his name was Kassen which is distinctly not Kass because of an en end or is it an end en?
Even the artist was distracted; the yinglet loses the bandage around his left leg. 😉
Or that’s what appears from this perspective.
Lol, so much tension in panel four, followed by the worst threat I think I’ve ever read in panel five.
*shudders*
i dont liek eye screeem D:
Haha, you fixed it! Cool.
Delicious eye scream.
After the last few days he’s finally got something to be narcissistic about, man! LET HIM HAVE IT
Do you think Kass still stands a chance with Ginny?
I mean … let’s not loose hope just yet.
Kass is a yinglet-in-power and now has-decent-wages and we know things in power and or with money = romance soooooooo…
But that might make Isher jealous.
Additional plot information revealed. Previous thoughts that Lopin were in on the secret, even if only lower level are debunked. Introducing Eye Eating Yinglet. So now that means that Lopin just happened to be an outsider at the right place at the right time.
Eye Eating Yinglet: A thief, and a good one at that. On the bad side of the Patriarch of Scouting and Intel. A half a head to a full head taller than Lopin (depending on if Lopin was hunching or not) who we all know is taller than Kassen, which makes him one tall yinglet. Arms and legs are also longer than Lopins. A very masculine Yinglet. Does have that pink tipped nose like Vizlet. Possible rougish son of Vizlet? In my headcanon he is XD
Is it just me, or does any one else get the feeling we’ll never see Eye Eating Yinglet again? Also that we may never find out about from where “Zat Zhing” came. At this point, I’m okay with that.
Revised my headcanon: Eye Eating Yinglet is the son of Vizlet, as can be confirmed by his pink snout. Vizlet never trusted anyone like she trusted EEY. So much so that she had him work for Biezel as a scout, but really he was a double agent working for her. EEY was smart, but his real talent was his ability to manipulate others. EEY could play almost anyone like a fiddle.
After gaining the trust of Biezel by giving up one of Vizlet’s contacts (which Vizlet herself had told EEY to give up), EEY was promoted in the ranks. To the point where he was put on a highly confidential mission, one where he had to work with Narklet. At a hidden location where they were harvesting shiny glowing green and orange orbs. There were 6 to 10 yinglets there that Narklet trusted to keep his secret safe, EEY being one of them. However when a lesser yinglet appeared, one of the yinglets there, not the sharpest tool in the box, tried to hit it with the first thing he could grab, an orange glowing orb. Upon contact, the lesser yinglet had transformed into a male greater yinglet. Narklet, normally calm and thinking before speaking, became uncharacteristically quick to anger and shouting obscenities at the transgression. Saying things like “If you had used the green one, you’d already be dead” and “you will be made into an example”. He had EEY rough up the poor fool, and after had EEY escort the newly created male greater yinglet taken to Biezel. Upon delivery, Biezel thanked EEY and took the newly created greater yinglet to his interrogation room, which was actually a comfortably decent sized room burrowed into a hill. EEY snuck around while doing his best to avoid detection when he heard the distinct”EEEEEE” which was quickly stiffled. EEY didn’t stick around to find out what happened next.
At this point, EEY knew he had to get the word out, but he didn’t want to risk his mothers life. Vizlet was already constantly refuting the constant checks and balances of her power by the patriarchs. If she knew this secret, then her life could be at risk too. No, EEY had to get this to the trademaster Viracroix. A human that was beyond reproach from the patriarchs. So he went to trademaster Viracroix on his own accord. It took everything in his repertoire to convince the guards to let him speak with the Trademaster, and when he did, he told all about how there are things that are turning up at yinglet-run dig sites and beach-combings when the Traveling Moon brings the tides down. The trademaster was very interested in hearing this information, and thanked EEY for his report. The trademaster was already planning a visit to the yinglets enclave, and was going to bring a very nice rug to strengthen the bonds between them. When at the enclave, the trademaster tactfully managed to bring up the subject of reports of creatures being transformed into yinglets, which was flat out denied by all of the patriarchs. After the meeting, EEY went to meet with the Trademaster one more time, but this time he was being followed by Biezel’s scouts. EEY managed to give them the slip before going to meet the trademaster. The trademaster, he flat out said he needs proof. something tangible that he can use as irrefutable proof that the patriarchs new something about what was causing these changes. EEY said he can get the trademaster that proof, but he would need something in return. Security for his mother, Vizlet. That she would be the liaison between the yinglet enclave and house Ivanmoth, so that she would be indispensable. Trademaster agreed to these conditions.
So the next time that Narklet went out on a mission, EEY dismayed to find out he was not invited. Nevertheless, EEY went and trailed Narklet’s team from a distance. Biezel’s scouts had gone along with the team this time. Narklet seemed to have grown suspicious since the last time. EEY dauntlessly proceeded with his mission. He knew Narklet was too paranoid to let Biezel’s scouts at the dig site, and that would be where his opportunity would be. Sure enough, Biezel’s scouts stayed back while Narklet and his workers proceeded. EEY doubled back, gave a wide birth to the location of the scouts, and circled around to the opposite side of where Narklet and his team were working. EEY crept closer and closer while still remaining hidden. He was staling one yinglet who was working further from the group. When Narklet called them back to take a lunch break, EEY saw his opportunity and went to the dig site. EEY started digging discretely to find a glowing orb, and found it was harder than he expected. after going about for a good 10 to 15 minutes, he heard the yinglets start to go back to their respective dig spots. Frantic, EEY started digging furiously. Finally, payday! EEY found a green glowing orb. Right at that time, Narklet’s worker came upon the spot where EEY was. Without a second thought, the worker shouted “NARKLET, SOMEONE IS HERE!” Knowing his life was on the line, EEY tail whipped the yinglet next to him, and ran high speed away with the green glowing orb in his hands. it was still half buried in dirt.
EEY had managed to get a decent head start, but had to circle back to avoid Biezel’s scouts, and lost valuable time that way. EEY still maintained his lead, headed for the beach and toward Val Salia. He sprinted to the best of his ability until he got into the city, doubled back on his footprints, and hid inside an abandoned house, Biezel’s scouts ran past the house following the footprints, while EEY caught his breath. EEY went the opposite direction until he came across a slightly shorter yinglet in a fancy blue hat carrying a cloth containing various wares. EEY came up to the yinglet, and using a combination of charm and intimidate, slipped the green glowing orb into the unsuspecting yinglets cloth. By then, Biezel’s guards had caught up. EEY knew he had to lead them away from the yinglet with the fancy hat, so he went back into town to give them the slip.
And the rest is history.
So… all balding men are direct relatives?
Your waffles minge of marmite… Shenanigans?
Creative!
Found the comments about Isher’s horn…
http://comments.deviantart.com/1/497665063/3880947334
Another funny comment, dead-linked to avoid spam-filter:
[http://comments.deviantart.com/1/497665063/3675384821]
Both from the comment section of OOPs #3:
[http://valsalia.deviantart.com/art/Out-Of-Placers-3-497665063]
Ah Ha! You found me! And the topic we discussed! It appears I may need to dive around DA more often (but I won’t because its javasctipt is so oppressive to my data plan, and to turn it off renders the experience less palatable). Your evidence is irrefutable! Thank you for going to the trouble of finding it!
It is too bad though; My thought made her seem more “girly-girly” and only added to her sweet and shy nature. But alas, all worlds are harsh, and it does seem more fitting that she would receive such a mark based in labor, rather than leisure. :\
Thank you again Tvt!
No kidding about the obnoxious java script. I constantly turn off my connection so it cannot sync or whatever every few seconds. Tv Tropes is bad too, but at least it works without JS.
I love your wall of exposition! Awesome possible chronology of events. I don’t usually read fan-fiction, but quality stuff like yours has made me reconsider.
Thanks, I dipped heavily into the sauce on that one. I had been kicking the idea around, and decided to use the theme of Itachi Uchiha (from Naruto) for the back story of the Eye Eating Yinglet. But just wait and see next update when Val Salia introduces some new content that throws the entire theory out the window, i.e. if the meek Lippie were actually EEY’s mother! But that’s part of the thrill of the whole story, is being able to revise theories as additional information slowly gets released.
Holy crap that is a lot of detailed thought!
You have to explain why Vizlet’s son is using the country hick “d” instead of “z” substitution, then…unless it’s deliberate! Wheels within wheels…
Also in the fourth panel, ya gotta wonder what Lopin first thought he was being asked to “hold onto”.
So I just found this comic and I’m really impressed. not just with the art design and the writing, which is excellent, but also the xenofictional constructions of, for example, the yinglet society which seems to be based on what would happen if a tournament system species got turned sapient. And the masculine/effminite male thing does happen in certain reptile and fish species. Then there’s Yannit’s Day page which is its own (adorable) self-consistent grammar and logic. I’ve always been a sucker for fish-out-of-water type stories anyway, so I’m enjoying the hell out of this. Keep it up!
Yep, the whole “nature has lots of unusual ways of making sure genes get passed on, which sometimes involves 3+ ‘genders’ in a species” bit was a major inspiration for yinglet development and culture!
Glad you found and/or are enjoying the story.
I kind of hope these two hit it off
The plot thickens…
Classic evidence dropping routine. Dump incriminating evidence on unsuspecting patsy for pickup later after guards have, caught, searched, found noting, and released. Course, risky as unforeseen complications can occur with that method of ditching evidence as evident by the current situation.
His only mistake was TRUSTING A YINGLET
Neh neh neh… His mistake was trusting anyone that got auto-on by “Hey, there, cutie!” 😛 Don’t trust a human that’s that easy to distract, either.
Does Lopin know about Kass and thus trying to butter him up or is he a xenophile?
How common is xenophilia in Yinglets? First (judging by her possibly non canon dream) Vizlet now Lopin.
Let’s not forget the Yinglet bard from the side art ( http://www.valsalia.com/art-extras/interspecies-relations/ ), and possibly Pekkit and Vesaria from ( http://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-019/ ) They seemed rather impressed.
Total known female population of the local Yinglet population: 6, inclusive of the newly turned Kass. Versus a 9% Yinglet population density of a major city. Likely, it’s semicommon, though the question becomes… HOW likely is a human to admit a Yinglet preference 😛 It can likely be safely assumed that at least SOME of the humans that have ‘kept’ Yinglets also likely have relations with one or more of them.
Been reading for a while and need to give major props for the world building as well as making the rat-birds adorable, pitiful and amusing at the same time.
Seeing fancy Sir “Eat Your Eyeballs”, his fancy cape and Lopin’s swoony response, not only to him, but to any stronger males, has gotten me thinking. What would an enclave’s feelings be towards a martially inclined yinglet. Not just talking about an aggressive one, like Patriarch Kattajak, but one more like a PnP knight or a city guard with discipline and courage, at least by yinglet standards. Would they be gaga for him as Patriarch of Defense, or something like that? Or would they consider him to be delusional, insane and a danger to himself and others?
“You know ze fighty zing? YOU HEAD GUARD!” Give or take. They’d ALSO likely consider him insane, but hey… crazy or not, who screws a mad prince?
Lopin is very cute, despite technically being a male. Awesome story, artwork and characters, well done!
The big question is why does Eye Eating Yinglet want to keep the artifact so much that he would risk his life for it?! I am contemplating several scenarios…
1. He wants to convert a human (or some other species… 🤔) into a yinglet. Perhaps he wants to start a tribe of his own and rule as king; his queen containing several decades of human intellectual growth. He would rule with an iron
fistpaw.2. The artifacts are worth a lot to a certain trademaster. A shiny green gem in exchange for protection, food, shelter; who knows what a yinglet would do in exchange for living the high life.
3. He used to be human, was ‘zat zhinged’ into a yinglet, and is desperately searching for a way to change back. He feels he can trust no one, and he’s probably right.
4. Only wants the thing because he knows Patriarch Beizel doesn’t want the lower class yinglets to have it. (I have a theory about Beizel, but now isn’t the time.)
There is some serious subtext going on with Mr. Threatens To Eat Eyes, I hope we get to see more of him!
A couple of these theories beg the question of whether or not the stone specifically had the ability to transform others into female yinglets or if it did so to Kass for some other reason.
I appreciate how analytical your theories are, as the use of critical thinking is not common place. Would love to hear your Beizel theory sometime
Yinglet biology making her frel good about a cute guy thinking she is attractive or male ego happy to be considered good looking?
Ambiguity FTW! Though I’m leaning towards ego trip.
Poor Lopin. And Ran being Ran. *Snrk*
Oh I just remembered to ask what Baxxid eat…
Well, the diet CAN include humans…
Meat. They’re only built for meat. One would assume that what that meat came from is somewhat… fluid.
Ohhh I wish there were more TF TG comics and stories like this one, I love nothing better than such a combination but this is about the only one I can find. Ah well, that just makes it shine all the brighter.
Sorry, Kass, I don’t think you’ll ever see “that handsome human” ever again. Realize it now before you have a glorious emotional breakdown over it. No, wait, I really want to see that. On second thought, Kass, deny, deny, deny.
What? Why his eyes? That’s so specific and I love it.
Lopin has special eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fRuoMIfpw
“Jeepers creepers, where’d you get them peepers?
Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those eyes?
Gosh, oh, get up; how’d they get so lit up?
Gosh, oh, gee, oh, how’d they get that size?”
Gonna have nightmares tonight, yes I sure am.
Exactly, my friend.
They are strawberry flavored.
A yinglet’s hooked tongue can rip a clam out of it’s shell. Think about it.
Eye…don’t think I want to.
Maybe we end up with a one-eyed Lopin, like the Governor from the Walking Dead.
Or suppose yinglet eyes can grow back…like how a lizards tail does.
I don’t want to visualize the method of removal though. I feel sick…
Poor Lopin gets to worry about the weirdest of things.
For a second there as the image was still loading I thought that the E-EY (Eye-Eating Yinglet) in panel 4 was Kass. That was a confusing moment
Beizel Boys! YES! MOAR BEIZEL RELATED CONTENT PLOX
I think Mr. Eye Eater lost his eyelashes in the close up shot.
Speech bubble occluded the shot of EEY’s gigantic lashes.
they are attached to the inside of the exaggerated eye brows that are hovering in the air.
Lucky Kassen though, handsome while human but pretty when yinglet.
I really want to know what is going to happen when Lopin finds out Kass is actually Kassen and za zing is what turned him into “Sopretty, Scary, Lady Kass”.
I can see him laughing at the impossibility but then again he is a yinglet and may just believe it right off the bat. If that is the case and or after they convince him he may also just laugh at the unfortunate but funny situation it put kass into, but he seems more like the gray one than the brown one from oop011.
Ultimately I predict it will shake him possibly to the point where he will break down. The power of Lopin being Lopin, and unable to help being Lopin, he may get Kass to say, in some strange way, that it’s ok, or not his fault.
I am pretty certain Lopin will eventually figure out Kass is in fact Kassen even if he is not directly told. I mean Lopin is pretty sharp, he can clearly see that having his eyes eaten is at a minimum a not-so-good-thing.
Did Lopin break his shell tooth? In the flashback he has a totally different style of shell tooth than the rest of the panels.
Yeah I just noticed that a few days ago.
Aww man, comment went into moderation…
Lopin got his face smashed-in (including his shell-tooth) somewhere between selling Kass ‘the thing’
http://www[DOT]valsalia[DOTCOM]/comic/prologue/11/
and oops-30: http://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-30/
His broken tooth does look slightly different since then, probably fractures a little bit every time he attempts to crack open a shell.
At least he got his hat back, the tooth will have to wait.
Lopin got his face smashed-in (including his shell-tooth) somewhere between selling Kass ‘the thing’
http://www.valsalia.com/comic/prologue/11/
and oops-30: http://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-30/
His broken tooth does look slightly different since then, probably fractures a little bit every time he attempts to crack open a shell.
At least he got his hat back, the tooth will have to wait.
Aww man, comment went into moderation…again…
Please feel free to delete duplicates, or any of my comments actually. 😛
Lopin got his face smashed-in (including his shell-tooth) somewhere between selling Kass ‘the thing’
/comic/prologue/11/
and oops-30: http://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-30/
His broken tooth does look slightly different since then, probably fractures a little bit every time he attempts to crack open a shell.
At least he got his hat back, the tooth will have to wait.
YOU MIGHT BE A YINGLET IF…
you prefer the taste of mercury over lead.
you’re a dude & you take it as a compliment when someone says “You’ve got no balls”
the only time you get lucky is at a family reunion.
you think “firefighting” is a form of martial arts that includes flammable liquids.
you get intimidated by a dog in heat.
I found this comic yesterday
I started reading today
I finished reading today
I looked at all the Art & Extras today
I need more o_o This comic is brilliantly hilarious and Yinglets are so friggen cute D:
Need MOAR?
http://valsalia.deviantart.com/art/Another-Most-Wonderful-Dream-653210813
Though it isn’t really considered canon probably, [Valsalia] has a lot of bonus art, most of it hilarious and/or slightly dirty on the DA and FA sites. I recommend reading the comments if you want some more background info, a lot of thought appears went into the construction of this world. Also, the replies are occasionally extremely snarky or come-off as if [Valsalia] is watching the story with us.
P.S.: Hahaha, Vizlet is great; bite that pillow.
Beautiful, thank you \ o / Vizlet is one of my faves.
The great irony being that she has never looked prettier.
I just realized… between the time that Lopin was arrested by the other Yinglets and now, his clothing was in tatters. Not merely his hat, but his shirt as well. Now we see that even his shirt has been mended. (And of course he received his all important new hat!)
I wonder if Lopin is beginning to realize how kind the humans can be if you are “on their side” or “one of them”. He’s casually been given rich clothing whereas it is reasonable to assume most non-patriarch and non-matriarch none of the Yinglets have any.