But really, who wouldn’t turn species-traitor for a reasonably hot piece of ass (or non-buttocked species’ ass equivalent)
Out-of-Placers
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I too am a human chaser.
Doesn’t count if you’re human yourself 😛
You freaky pervert!
Human chaser, humm, yah that sounds like Lopin all right. Still, I expect that hes going to be even more upset when he finds out that zat zing, is no longer in Lopin’s posession, though he might be pleased to find that it worked somewhat.
Still, redcloak was an idiot not to realize that Lopin might not think to hold onto zat zing, if something came up, most of the pretty boy yinglets seem a little flighty, if you know what I mean. Not stupid, closer to having short attention spans, and being rather emotional. Trusting someone thats easily distracted to hold onto something is not a very smart idea, you know?
It seemed like a good idea at the time!
(It was not a good idea)
Don’t confuse femininity with stupidity. I’m still waiting to figure out the patriarch of farming.
Who said anything about femininity? I did not, nore did I see Val talking about it.
Redcloak is named Brakka, according to the conversation in #61.
This Romanesque villain scav is too smart. Does he listen to public radio?
I’m calling it now. He suffered a similar fate to Kass. O3o
If that’s the case, perhaps he was hunting Zat Zing to find a cure for the condition. That could make him a potential ally for Kass, IF he’s not such a revenge sucker or lone-wolf that he ignores teamwork ideas.
The way the caped one talks makes me think he was a former human. But the other two they strike me as always have been Yinglets, Yinglet bitches. Particularly some bigger stronger or richer Yinglet little bitches.
His disgusted denial of being even a little bit of a “human chaser” doesn’t sound characteristic of someone who used to be human. Neither did his threat to eat Lopin’s eyes.
(Kattajak pulling someone or something’s eye out – http://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-021/)
(Beizel’s scouts saying the matriarch will “eat someone’s head” in place of the usual human saying – http://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oop009/)
Plus the flirtatious approach to Lopin at first – he seems very yinglet to me, just a smart yinglet.
I was thinking the same thing, unless he was a former human that actively hated the human race so much be willingly became a Yinglet (which with the general opinion most races have of Yinglets I can’t see likely happening) I highly doubt he was a former human, that eating eyes comment also seems like something you would have to have been born as raised as a Yinglet to use as an threat.
Although it does seem likely that he may be a Yinglet that simply dislikes humans, especially his “You’re everything that’s wrong with our species” comment that seems to imply he sees Yinglets as superior.
I rather thought it was a good threat, I might use it myself if I feel the need.Minicing enough to get the point across, odd enough to stick in the memory and add confusion to the fear.
It’s a fine threat, but a very YINGLET threat. Remember when the patriarch of hunting reminisced about pulling out someone’s eye, and when the yinglets chasing Lopin said if they didn’t catch him the matriarch would “eat someone’s head”?
Eye related threats have been around a while actualy, very sensative and such after all, and is a very maiming injury. problem is, you take out someones eyes, and thay are basicly dead. Even as a begger, thay tend not to last long. A lot easyer to use a part that will not prevent them from being usefull after. Thus a lot of torture went to genitals in humans. Cut it off some fellow, he can still be used as a slave. Cut his eyes out, hes useless.
The eating part, Alyeska.
What, you don’t regularly tell people you’re going to eat their eyes? How odd.
That’s like saying that Vizlet must also be a former human, because she’s smarter than your average man-folk.
This is a really big conclusion jump here.
Vizlet IS great, but she has also apprenticed to humans. Not a former human but still heavily influenced by them. It is difficult to see what she would be like in a world with only yinglets. She certainly seems brilliant, it can’t be easy getting a human job as a yinglet, but it is really difficult to tell what she would be capable of with no humans to learn from.
I considered that, given what Ran taught us about male yinglets, that perhaps humans might not be as much fun as they appear. What with no special adaptations for skewed gender demographics…
Then I realised that humans are big and strong and rich. Sometimes they even have fancy clothes and sophisticated tools. Who you fancy rarely has anything in common with who would make you happy…
“What with no special adaptations for skewed gender demographics…”
I dunno, male humans manage just fine with each other…
He might be one of the more intelligent type natural yinglets, they do exist, if rare. Course, that could just make it even more annoying.
His “you are what’s wrong with the species” line leads us to assume his being in league with the traditional yinglet faction.
I would say less the ‘tradishionalists’ than with the ones that think Yinglets should stick with yinglets. To me he seems less concerned with tradition than with the group that thinks yinglets should stick togeather and not try and blend in with humans or anyone else.
Sorry difacult to explain.
I agree, no ‘traditionalist’ but speciesist. One who may not see Yinglets as superior, yet, but that they can get there on their own and be the best their own way. This would be a huge violation of traditionalist views since it involves giving up many of the ‘old ways’. But it also goes against the Unificationist views we see in Vizlet, where she wants to learn from and work with other species to improve yinglets.
So I suspect we have three major Yinglet factions at play with Vizlet representing Unificationist; Most of the Patriarchs represent Traditionalist; Red Cape represents Separatist. Then you also have that pirate yinglet who is just out for herself, I’m sure there are others like her as well, but they aren’t really a faction, just another bit of chaos in the works.
I disagree. He can be less traditional in his dress and mannerisms and still be with the traditional faction. He’s an infultrator and we haven’t seen what he’s like beyond when he’s been at a human market.
Dress has nothing to do with it. Also, are you so sure that he is an infiltrator/spy? He might just be a crook after all, thay often try and make themselves invisable, also, if he was an infiltrator, he sure as heck is doing it poorly. Hes dressed in a rather diferent style from the other yinglets, and his speach paterns and such make him stand out a heck of a lot. Hes too flamboyant for such a roll.
I’m not sure of anything, that’s my whole point. People are throwing out ideas based on what they see in thier minds. We need to see more of this yinglet and those that frequent the city before anything is clear.
He seems to be at odds with the traditionalists and outside of The Enclave’s control. I suspect that he stole dat ding from the traditionalists for his own reasons, as an independent revolutionary or perhaps yet another faction.
To be the smart(er) one when surrounded by morons, that is a special kind of torture.
How many pages until this guy is caught by guards?
“No”
Says the yinglet in the cute cape and skirt.
Closer to a kilt in effect I think. Don’t let western ideas cloud your mind, in many many many cultures men wore skirts, partly cause thay are a hell of a lot easyer to make than pants.
Also I really do not think Yinglets have learned to knit yet eather, so tights are right out the window.
( In support of what you say )
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-gird-up-your-loins-an-illustrated-guide/
I am pretty sure that kilts have very much more fabric than that. They are an actual garment rather than just a gender distinction. That looks like someone from a culture with barely any clothing conventions, very little in the way of manufacturing tools, who made a very sensible decision when procuring an outfit that conforms to both of the last two panels. I really don’t see a sane reason for yinglets in pants. I can barely imagine how such pants could even exist, far less look good.
Except… Corsets exist… I can imagine someone permanently forgoing holding their tail in front of their legs if it means looking fashionable…
Long story short: Skirts are masculine wear for yinglets. Kilts are made out of some of the heaviest fabric known to apparel, and have about three layers of it.
Oh I know it’s probably a kilt and yes man-skirts have existed through-out history but that doesn’t make the effect any less attractive on that yinglet. A skirt by any other namewould still be something you want to see flipped up. To paraphrase the old saying.
Sorry. Forgive me. Very little sleep, plus flu meds makes for weirdness in the thinkings.
Ahh, just bugs me that men in skirts is viewed by the masses as being less. Skirts where the in fasion for a lot longer than pants have been. *chuckles* If only because skirts where pretty easy to make.
Simple construction and very forgiving in warm climates. The difference between a sensibly designed short skirt and a pair of shorts is fairly low, really. Pants are more of an improvement over a long skirt or robe / toga / etc. because they allow almost unrestricted leg movement, which isn’t an issue for a skirt over the knee.
Is a man not entitled to finding zhat zhing? “No,” says the man in Washington, “it belongs to the poor.” “No,” says the man in the Vatican, “it belongs to God.” “No,” says the yinglet in the cute cape and skirt, “it belongs to me!”
Sorry, that just made me think of Bioshock.
Nicely done!
You.
I like you.
Turns out, everything belongs to the scav.
My new, best-ever slight… “nnnnngh You are everyt’ing dat’s wrong wit da species”
I’m practicing the “nnnnngh” to get the disgust just right 🙂
Well well well! If it isn’t our old friend Oculus Edere Maximus!
http://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-45/
Come to find our little squire Lopin and exact nefarious recompense!
Now what is the blue flag? Is this the back of the mountain?
I’d assume it’s the flag of one of the other trading houses. We’ve already seen three others in Ran’s class on Yinglet sex, and given what we’ve been told about how the city works there must be a lot of them with kontor-style office/warehouse buildings.
I was thinking it may be a munitions storage depot, or possibly a demolitions-ordinance lab. The symbol looks to me like the one for ‘mountain’ and ‘explosives’ combined. So translated as ‘Mountain/Rock Breaker?’
It would add a bit of a nefarious reason too, to the woman on the balcony checking-out/ogling the guard down :b
Human chaser? So there are cross species relationships in this world? Interesting…
Not sure about “relationships”. Many Yinglets seem to like humans, but the general opinion of Yinglets from not just humans but most other species is less than encouraging, especially since I recall there being some mentions of humans keeping Yinglets as pets. Viracroix seems to be a special case, and it’s not clear how much of his interest is not just simply out of science (though not all of it appears to be). It’s a pretty one-sided interest for the most part.
Okay, I LOVE these new characters! A yinglet with heterochromia is just striking with their big, round eyes! Every new character is a new reason to love! Also, I’d go for a hot, reptile-tailed butt…
Oh, thank HEAVENS, a new page.
I am liking the direction that this series is going. Keeps you on your toes, ya know? As always, I love the dialog in this. I’m now imagining a large group of Yinglets going all Spartacus, with all of them saying, “I’m a little bitch! No, I’m a little bitch!”
Found this comic and chewed through the archives yesterday. I love the way that the worldbuilding has left an imprint on everything but is also seamlessly covered (with the exception of the specific explanatory pages which you don’t actually need to read to understand everything).
And my favourite character is Vizlet.
Was wondering when he would show up, I wonder what he would think if he found out Lopin made his way into the safest place he could be… on the topish floors of a human stronghold crawling with human and other species who all know his description, not to mention the fact that he has Kass, the death noodle unless I guess if this is the yinglet equivalent of solid snake, in that case watch the crates they may move…
Hey, soooooo…..How does his tail DO THAT?! It looks like it originates straight from between his legs in that last panel!
Tail forward, legs back. When your body is as flexible as a yinglet’s and you’ve got a skirt to obscure the actual mechanics of it, these are the sorts of things you can do. The tail on a ying looks like a very thick tailbase in general, there’s a lot less distinction between ‘lower body’ and ‘start of tail’ than in “let’s bolt a tail onto a human frame’s butt” species. They’re Derpy Noodles with feet strapped to the sides.
Hehe “Derpy noodles” :’D
That is a hilariously accurate description and I love it XD
He’s arching his back like a very angry cat. The tail naturally goes the other way.
I can see the value of an entire species with a major part of the world population apparently finding them attractive, as humans seem to be in this world. Of the three confirmed different species we’ve seen, all have at least a fraction of their population falling for humans. We’re basically creating a human-based role-play community! What a difference. Also, love the author’s other art, only wish the tf subjects could join a support group to help each other out.
Just got introduced to this comic and love it. Can’t wait for more!
I have a theory: There have always been only lesser Yinglets.
And this world was once inhabited by a much more advanced civilisation, that experimented with ways to make the wildlife (or the Yings in particular) more intelligent. The “Atrifact” that turned Kass into a Yinglet was actually some sort of Viol containing a mutagenor gene therapy. Some lesser Yinglet found one hundreds of years ago and turned itself into what we know as the common Yinglet. It increased it’s mental capacity. However, if applied to a human, well…we know what happened.
If you look at the Artifact closely, it looks like a glass viol with a scale on the side of it.
Sorry, i had to put this in simple terms, as english is not my native language.
I had mentioned the idea before, also its less that its a scale, think barnicles and other such things that grow on anything that happens to be in the sea, never mind sand and mud and other crap that can attach to things over a hundred years or more.
I’ll see your theory and raise you: the Great Leader claimed to receive guidance from the stars above, and Kassen keeps dreaming of weird symbols. There’s some kind of guidance satellite or intelligence up there.
Yep, also something I am waiting to see expanded on in the comic as time goes on. Its at lest twice now that Kass has had that weird dream, so I expect there to be something important involved in it.
Honestly, I would not want to see a Xenoblade 2-style sci-fi twist in this comic. There’s so much more that can be done with the low-magic fantasy setting that Val has established that it doesn’t particularly need to swerve in that direction. There’s still so much more about the earth they live on that hasn’t been fleshed out yet! Why look to the sky when you don’t know anything about the ground you’re standing on?
Blue boy is so amazingly cute oh my god. Also the hand holding is adorable.
Hopefully more artwork of that yinglet gets made 🙂
You know I do have to wonder what with that Yinglet that’s hunting the Lopin. I wonder how surprised he would be that Lopin’s now working under a Female Yinglet that’s now an officer in the guard…I have to admit I’m surprised that the Yinglets around town haven’t spread the word more it’s going to be a shocker and it may cause some Yinglets to ask to join because of a female there…and an officer to.
I wonder if this could be the start of a new Yinglet faction where Kassen has unfortionally became the unwilling, reluctant leader of. I mean a Yinglet that has the big strong guys who will take orders from him would likely have alot of sway in Yinglet polotics of some matriarc’s. (once they hear that they may send some represenatives from different close by…Yinglet colonies to try to get his support over another one. It would be so funny if he got embroiled in Yinglet politics which is oddly simple but also really hard to navigate due to every Yinglet Matriach is smart but incharge of an army of mostly idiots. (Although I have to wonder what a Stupid Martiarch would be.)
I do wonder how far the story of the Yinglet that has a human brother will spread.
For a ‘stupid’ matriarch, look at the side-story “Of Ends and Beginnings” on the “Art and Extras” page. Matriarch Ickney suffers from the same ADHD-like state as most yinglets, but she’s matriarch by default (the only female around) and her enclave is suffering for it. In a healthy enclave, a matriarch would likely pick the most focused female of her group as her successor, but the enclave in that side story had a rocky start that left the old matriarch dead before she could produce a suitable heir. Without certain events in the story, that enclave would likely have died out as a result.
Lippie is… very nice… And talented! A real asset to have around. But…
Beizel is not someone I would wish to oppose in a contest of wits when death is on the line…
Matriarchs are only intelligent in that someone intelligent is likely to become a matriarch. Well, females probably get better nutrition and education… but there should be some very unimpressive matriarchs out there with some quite cunning underlings.
Vizlet sounds to be almost unique. Given how female yinglets typically live, and that Vizlet has apparently been apprenticed to human craftsmen, her story sounds almost impossible. One wonders if she was somehow separated from the yinglet population in her early life. She also seems quite widely travelled after attaining a yinglet following, so she was probably an independent matriarch prior to learning of Ivenmoth’s seemingly favourable policies and seeking a place there. Vizlet really isn’t a good standard to base matriarch intellect on. Maybe Feeena would be a better example of typical matriarchs?
So…now that we’ve seen a bit more of Brakka in action, a few thoughts come to mind:
He’s got a country yinglet accent, but if we look at what he’s actually [i]saying[/i], he’s got some very human speech patterns. This is somebody who has lived among humans long enough to pick up their swearwords. He also doesn’t seem to like humans very much and appears offended by other yinglets admiring them.
I suspect Brakka has seen enough of humanity to become thoroughly disillusioned about human nature. This is one bitter yinglet.
If I had to make a guess about his motivation in this whole mess, it’d be that he wants yinglets to stand on their own, without any dependence (material or emotional) on humans. Not exactly an isolationist like Narklet’s faction, but somebody who’s going to be a lot more confrontational towards humanity than Vizlet.
WHHAAaaat?! I burned though the entire comic in one night! I NEED MORE. MAKE WITH THE TALENT AND INDULGE ME. plz
I suggest looking up some fan comics on deviantart or furaffinity
So you’re saying just the ones on e621 aren’t enough? <w<
The expression though, of the blue one in the third panel, he looks a little high, that or brain dead…
The former is a possibility. The latter is a certainty.
Soooo, this guy doesn’t seem fond of humans, and comes from matriarchal society, but uses “bitch” like an insult.
Seems like a terminology that wouldn’t work across the borders here.
It seems that many of the males have very little interaction, even indirectly, with the females. “Bitch” seems to refer to a subclass of male yinglets, and is likely a loanword from human derogatory usage, but all yinglet language is derived from humans, and most humans are derogatory towards yinglets. So “bitch” is probably very objectionable, but so is everything else, so it is effectively neutral(except that you wouldn’t refer to a female that way…). So the yinglet is proud to be called a bitch because he is proud to identify with the male-yinglet archetype that humans frequently refer to as bitches…
If it weren’t a work of fiction I would say that this is an excellent example that, should you find a word objectionable, it is better to kill it with overuse than to sanctify it through underuse. It still makes for a useful thought-experiment, but humans are massively more inclined towards vengeance than resolution, so there is no point to such a thing.
Interesting to note is that Vizlet is also very much a “human chaser”, and for much the same reason as these two are. Just with much less innuendo(unless you are talking to a Vizlet X human/former-human/partially-human shipper, of which I am certain there are many. May I go so far as to suggest that Vizlet qualifies as one of the “out of placers”?). It is easy to see why he might be at odds with a matriarch who wants to adopt human civilisation. Don’t forget that there is a patriarch from the southern tribes who is almost openly subverting the matriarch. Everyone knows that the matriarchs are in charge, but there are plenty of yinglets willing to ignore or even oppose the matriarch’s wishes. Yinglet government only seems to extend as far as the boss’s line-of-sight.
I suspect he’s lived among humans long enough to pick up their speech patterns. And let’s face it, the more time one spends with humanity the less fond of the species they tend to become…
that’s a nice ‘s’ in the second panel :3
The blue is cute
But dumb
But cute still.
“YOU ARE EVERYT’ING DAT’S WRONG WITH DA SPECIES!!!”
I think I like this guy LOL
Little mean Yinglet is back. Aaaaaaand now Lopin is in trouble. I’m thinking things may start moving now, and I hope it starts with the “naturalist” who is directly opposed to Vizlet meeting with this as of yet unnamed yinglet.
Yinglets remind me of kobolds but cuter. Now I want to make a homebrew 5e race for yinglets. Give me a few days.
Actually on that same note how many people here would be interested in an rpg set in the OOP world? If not d&d then FATE or something.
I would sounds fun.
Thar not I
You know I could totally picture Kas may if he tries to form a Jinglit military group for the town come up with some new tactics that a human would probably think of but Yinglets not so much. Since Yinglet’s main tactics against big guys is the circle and they don’t actively try to go in an actual war against big people. They could apply a tactic that would be excellent against pikemen of ranks of people with shields but only light armor or no armor in ceratin areas.
Give certain squads of 3 to 5 yinglets sharp blades on both hands then have them charge an enemy rank as a probing action or a quick strike and withdrawl or to move just behind the vanguard of big people then once the front is engaged the Yinglets move. Basically this move has no up front fighting for them it for them to slip under then start slicing legs to open a hole in the ranks or to desrupt defences. Pikemen tend to be lightly armored and it’s often to expensive to give people heavy armor or chainmail to every warrior you have in your armor so this tactic of Yinglets using their speed an adgility to simply lash out and start slashing the first ranks of the enemy would be pretty useful in creating a disruption in the enemy ranks for a charge to break through. The only thing is the Yinglets would need to get the timing right to pull out before the charge starts.
Issues I have with this.
I don’t remember anything saying yinglets are either fast nor agile. The contrary actually.
A battlefield tactic involving yinglets might see them in more support roles or in light infantry. Their muscles don’t have the make up for slash or hacking. But as stated before they are adapt at thrusting. Like spring loaded spikes. But in a battlefront I can’t see yinglet legions as very useful. Most likely they would be more effectively deployed in guerilla or ambush tactics.
Also keep in mind throughout most of history (I know this is a fantasy world) most soldiers were to buy their own armor. If you have heavy well made armor it most likely means you come from wealth or are a very well paid and most likely high ranking soldier. Generally officers.
They’re not agile but they’re fast.
https://valsalia.deviantart.com/art/Yinglet-Run-475879294
Their small but they’re not necessarily, uhh, like B’aju said, they look like they can’t turn very well and would be terrible at going backwards. Any speed they have is probably offset by a lack of endurance. They could potentially be useful as an under-rank of spearmen in a formation, but they would get underfoot, and wouldn’t hold a formation well. More importantly, it would be difficult for even yinglets to just march through a tight spear formation, and a loose formation would be vulnerable to tighter formations, which… Well it is a speculative advantage… Another approach is skirmishers. They can probably keep their distance for, well, actually a pretty short while, and they would be prone to scattering. They could probably use, umm, bows require strength… Slings maybe? I’m not sure that I would trust a yinglet with a- There is something familiar about this…
http://www.valsalia.com/art-extras/waterloo-battle-report-re-yinglets/
I wouldn’t completely rule it out, but I fear there is too much chaos in the system for thought-experiments. It would require practical trial-and-error, and the tragic sacrifice of many yinglets and their handlers and poor innocent sanities all around, in order to know if something would actually work
I think the only way that you can effectively utilize Yinglets in a battle scenario is to load them up with remote-detonated explosives and have them charge into the enemy like Tickers from Gears of War. Remote detonated, of course, so if and when they charge the wrong way they don’t blow up your own troops.
Yinglets reproduce fast enough, just send in all the ones that have a couple less chromosomes.
Is the blue glow below the balcony girl, the entrance to the undergardens?
http://www.valsalia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/working_the_undergardens_by_valsalia-d9k09pq.jpg
Or is someone manipulating one of the weird glowy fruit things inside?
The undergardens are supposed to be below the same tooth that the trademaster guild is in, no? That just looks like some other building, so it’s probably storage.
So from my digging, this handsome scarface is named Brakka. And the one who originally tried to stop Lopin from selling it – the one who said “It rained yesterday, so it is FOUR now, fancy boy!” – is called Narklet. And apparently Brakka has been wearing this cape for a while now. Just thought it might be relevant.
http://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-61/ <– Brakka mention
http://www.valsalia.com/comic/prologue/10/ <– Narklet appearance