I kid, but yeah it looks like Walky might be applying that comment to their relationship or maybe feeling guilty about how it ended with Lucy. Also, maybe ominous foreshadowing? I hope not.
I’m kind of wondering if WALKY isn’t sure whether or not Lucy actually broke up with him.
Psychie
He wasn’t sure for awhile, but I believe that when they ran into each other at class or something the way she acted toward him confirmed it for him. If she later tries to reconcile or get mad at him for getting back with Dorothy and claim they never broke up due to the ambiguity of what she said, it’s pretty easy to point to their next interaction as fairly clear evidence of which side of the fence they were sitting on.
Adam Black
It doesnt matter.
if Dumbers are still pretaking Lucys side in a future nonfight , if shes wants to pretend she didnt toss walky to the curb,
they will still Freak out and attack walky at her Tears. its a lost cause.
I doubt a full divorce in court will satisfy some
Aelfwine
He could have just used his words to ask if they’re broken up, if he thought she broke up with him, but the words “we’re breaking up” were never spoken.
If you argue that Lucy acted badly and unfairly towards him, that may very well be correct, but it’s still not “breaking up”. Having a fight isn’t breaking up, and even having a fight while being on the wrong isn’t breaking up either.
So, yeah if Lucy doesn’t think they broke up, she’s on the right. Same way that Walky would have been on the right if he didn’t realize they’d “broken up” but Lucy started sleeping around without first notifying him of that state in status.
Needfuldoer
So you’re saying there’s a chance…?
Freemage
Sorry, this still doesn’t move me on this issue. It’s not, “They had a fight.” It’s specifically about how she conducted that fight, and then even more about how she acted after the fight. The cold shoulder treatment she gave him was indicative of being done with his shit. (And note, I actually am not saying she was wrong, there; it really was a huge test of their relationship, and Walky failed that worse than he did his first Calc test.)
I see no reason for Walky not to believe that they are done, nor for him to go back to her seeking clarification on this point. My personal hope is that Lucy is totally fine with this, and that, once she takes a little time for herself, she goes after Jacob like a politician chasing the last swing voter in their constituency.
If we want drama and dumbingness, we could always have Sarah take that as a personal challenge and ALSO try for Jacob.
Reltzik
I don’t know if you were addressing this to me, but no, I’m not pretaking Lucy’s side in a hypothetical fight. I’m just trying to anticipate the next massive problem that we’re going to run into, however irrational the characters in question might be.
Taffy
You made all of that up.
Psychie
You know, I’ve only noticed you in the comment section of a few pages now, but you’ve consistently been an incredibly rude person. If you disagree with me, then say that, but accusing me of making up an interaction that visibly happened on-panel in the comic we’re all reading is just absurd. No, I didn’t make up the way Lucy was treating Walky, and no, I’m not making up the way I interpreted both her treatment of him, nor the conclusions he seemed to have drawn from it. If Walky wasn’t certain she’d broken up with him, he wouldn’t have agreed to get back together with Dorothy, nor would he have slept with her. There WAS a point where he was uncertain, because he said as much on-panel, but it’s pretty clear he doesn’t think that now. If you have an alternative interpretation of these events, then by all means, share it, argue about it, but if all you have are baseless accusations that I made up events we all read in the comic, kindly set them on fire and shove them up your urethra.
Big Z
As both a fan of Lucy x Walky AND someone who was broken up with by being pointedly treated as an ordinary friend after making some relationship mistakes and having a fight, this is where I’ve landed, too.
They’re broken up.
Walky might not REALIZE they’re fully broken up, but if he makes noises at Lucy about their relationship I expect she’ll explain to him in no uncertain terms exactly how things are (and possibly reiterate why).
Also, if you happen to read this, Jess, I’m still sorry I was a dumbass about the whole thing but in my defense we were high school juniors. =P
God I have wanted these two back together for SO long and I KNEW it would be bad when they got back together so easily. This is JUICY and i’m LOVING it. Of COURSE Walky views Dorothy as “the most real thing i’ve had” and Dorothy views him as “fun goofy relaxingtime”. Of COURSE!!
Yeah, IMO they’re really good for each other, she’s a grounding influence on Walky, giving him a reason to care about his future and providing perspective he tends to either lack or ignore, meanwhile he evens her neurotic tendencies out and helps her to chill out and unwind. She encourages him to be more serious, and he gives her permission to be unserious, which brings them both to a more healthy place.
The primary issue is a difference in expectations, I’m hoping that this recent crisis will encourage Dorothy to re-evaluate the value of fun and whimsy in her life plan so she can view Walky as a serious partner and not a brief diversion like she did before, but I feel like that realization isn’t going to come without Walky panicing and them having a fight first
Honestly, yeah, sometimes. (After the requisite cuddles, of course.) My partner and I will just start showing each other goofy memes or pet pictures we’ve taken since last time we met up
Here’s the thing though. When she ended it (a mistake (or not, but let’s say)), she hooked up with him again anyway (didn’t matter). Even when she made him less available by getting him together with Lucy (a “mistake”), here she is back together with him not long after deciding she regretted it (didn’t matter)
DashWallkick
Right. The problem is that she can’t actually divy up her neurotic and carefree tendencies and her desire to do so means she’s still running the exact same social interaction system. Walky counterbalancing them still just underlines that he’s “for fun” and not really a part of her life because she doesn’t know how to integrate those things together. He’s wondering if this is what’s best for both of them and if we’re just repeating history and he’s going to end up dumped again, I think.
I see why Walky’s taking it this way, that he’s gone back to being her toy she comes back to and pushes away when convenient, but I wonder if that’s why she’s here with him right now, or if it’s because of the genuine succor he seems to provide her.
In any case, I get where he’d feel taken for granted on that front.
I think it might actually be the other way around? Walky is feeling guilty about how he handled things with Lucy, because he treated that like a lower stakes rebound and it ended up hurting her.
I don’t really know that that’s fully true. Like, I always got the feeling he liked her, but she was much quicker and more intense with her feelings, probably a lot of it being new, and even when he committed, he wasn’t going to match that energy.
If anything, I’d consider Amber much closer to the rebound, to the point where they never really outright dated. A number of things prevented it from getting to that point, between his inability to get past the Sal past, or Amber’s anger at how he handled the Mike stuff.
egon
amber was definitely the rebound, walky said “she’s thicc dorothy”
M!a
Meanwhile, Lucy still hasn’t gotten laid and is like SEETHING…
superglucose
that’s her own damn fault she coulda just been like “walky stick it to me” at basically any time but sat on her own (oddly belabored) morality instead.
M!a
Oh hey, I wasn’t assigning blame. Just kickin back with a hot cuppa schadenfreude. ?
thejeff
Maybe. She definitely hinted at it a lot and Walky deliberately avoided picking up her cues.
Probably a good thing she wasn’t more direct.
Walky absolutely did not treat Lucy like mistakes wouldn’t matter. In fact he spent so much energy on trying not to screw things up with her that he repeatedly wound up retreating to either the snow hill or to Amber’s Nintendo because of the stress.
thejeff
Arguably, he spent so much energy trying not to screw things up that he screwed things up.
Which is really a pretty easy mistake to make.
DailyBrad
Yeah, if he had been more laidback and transparent, they’d likely still be dating. Such is life.
That seems like a Walky thing to do. Maybe she is working with an PowerPoint presentation or using excel to create an organizational chart or table? Is horizontal orientation good for that? I only ever use my computer for that sort of thing.
Even outside of Walky taking that as how she views a relationship with him, the casual dismissal of something that actually matters a lot to him still hurts on its own.
Yeah, along with the fact that he knows Dorothy cares as much about the fandom as he does, so that’s probably not the energy he’d have about it.
It’s not like with Ultra Car, where he got pouty about Dorothy giving it credit after he was dismissive of it, and even then, he probably wasn’t being especially serious.
I think a lot of these “why walky is insulted/upset” comments are serious stretches of imagination.
Personally I think he’s just worried about her? Like she said something deeply sad just then and idk why everyone’s jumping to Walky taking offense somehow.
159 thoughts on “Schema”
NGPZ
*plays “Reconstruct” by Photay on hacked muzak*
Animedingo
Hoo boy a lot to read in there
True Survivor
Do you think it is that big of a wiki?
I kid, but yeah it looks like Walky might be applying that comment to their relationship or maybe feeling guilty about how it ended with Lucy. Also, maybe ominous foreshadowing? I hope not.
Also, is it just me or are they less clothed now.
Ryan
I can say with certainty that they will not be less clothed at any future point.
M!a
Unless one of them still has their socks on.
Needfuldoer
Dorothy’s still wearing her glasses, and her watch.
Reltzik
I’m kind of wondering if WALKY isn’t sure whether or not Lucy actually broke up with him.
Psychie
He wasn’t sure for awhile, but I believe that when they ran into each other at class or something the way she acted toward him confirmed it for him. If she later tries to reconcile or get mad at him for getting back with Dorothy and claim they never broke up due to the ambiguity of what she said, it’s pretty easy to point to their next interaction as fairly clear evidence of which side of the fence they were sitting on.
Adam Black
It doesnt matter.
if Dumbers are still pretaking Lucys side in a future nonfight , if shes wants to pretend she didnt toss walky to the curb,
they will still Freak out and attack walky at her Tears. its a lost cause.
I doubt a full divorce in court will satisfy some
Aelfwine
He could have just used his words to ask if they’re broken up, if he thought she broke up with him, but the words “we’re breaking up” were never spoken.
If you argue that Lucy acted badly and unfairly towards him, that may very well be correct, but it’s still not “breaking up”. Having a fight isn’t breaking up, and even having a fight while being on the wrong isn’t breaking up either.
So, yeah if Lucy doesn’t think they broke up, she’s on the right. Same way that Walky would have been on the right if he didn’t realize they’d “broken up” but Lucy started sleeping around without first notifying him of that state in status.
Needfuldoer
So you’re saying there’s a chance…?
Freemage
Sorry, this still doesn’t move me on this issue. It’s not, “They had a fight.” It’s specifically about how she conducted that fight, and then even more about how she acted after the fight. The cold shoulder treatment she gave him was indicative of being done with his shit. (And note, I actually am not saying she was wrong, there; it really was a huge test of their relationship, and Walky failed that worse than he did his first Calc test.)
I see no reason for Walky not to believe that they are done, nor for him to go back to her seeking clarification on this point. My personal hope is that Lucy is totally fine with this, and that, once she takes a little time for herself, she goes after Jacob like a politician chasing the last swing voter in their constituency.
If we want drama and dumbingness, we could always have Sarah take that as a personal challenge and ALSO try for Jacob.
Reltzik
I don’t know if you were addressing this to me, but no, I’m not pretaking Lucy’s side in a hypothetical fight. I’m just trying to anticipate the next massive problem that we’re going to run into, however irrational the characters in question might be.
Taffy
You made all of that up.
Psychie
You know, I’ve only noticed you in the comment section of a few pages now, but you’ve consistently been an incredibly rude person. If you disagree with me, then say that, but accusing me of making up an interaction that visibly happened on-panel in the comic we’re all reading is just absurd. No, I didn’t make up the way Lucy was treating Walky, and no, I’m not making up the way I interpreted both her treatment of him, nor the conclusions he seemed to have drawn from it. If Walky wasn’t certain she’d broken up with him, he wouldn’t have agreed to get back together with Dorothy, nor would he have slept with her. There WAS a point where he was uncertain, because he said as much on-panel, but it’s pretty clear he doesn’t think that now. If you have an alternative interpretation of these events, then by all means, share it, argue about it, but if all you have are baseless accusations that I made up events we all read in the comic, kindly set them on fire and shove them up your urethra.
Big Z
As both a fan of Lucy x Walky AND someone who was broken up with by being pointedly treated as an ordinary friend after making some relationship mistakes and having a fight, this is where I’ve landed, too.
They’re broken up.
Walky might not REALIZE they’re fully broken up, but if he makes noises at Lucy about their relationship I expect she’ll explain to him in no uncertain terms exactly how things are (and possibly reiterate why).
Also, if you happen to read this, Jess, I’m still sorry I was a dumbass about the whole thing but in my defense we were high school juniors. =P
Spacie
Maybe they are “On A Break”.
Sharaku
NO!
We are free of that now!
We are free of that now…
Michael Steamweed
Yeah, the quickie urge is temporarily resolved, so they had time to nudify themselves for round 2 (maybe round 3?).
Pergola
If only he had talked Lucy into joining him as NightGirl, they could still be fighting crime together.
Clif
If I make a mistake nothing happens. Just like with you.
Adept
That’s how I read Walky’s unhappy expression as well. “Am I such a mistake”?
Justnobodyfqwl
God I have wanted these two back together for SO long and I KNEW it would be bad when they got back together so easily. This is JUICY and i’m LOVING it. Of COURSE Walky views Dorothy as “the most real thing i’ve had” and Dorothy views him as “fun goofy relaxingtime”. Of COURSE!!
Psychie
Yeah, IMO they’re really good for each other, she’s a grounding influence on Walky, giving him a reason to care about his future and providing perspective he tends to either lack or ignore, meanwhile he evens her neurotic tendencies out and helps her to chill out and unwind. She encourages him to be more serious, and he gives her permission to be unserious, which brings them both to a more healthy place.
The primary issue is a difference in expectations, I’m hoping that this recent crisis will encourage Dorothy to re-evaluate the value of fun and whimsy in her life plan so she can view Walky as a serious partner and not a brief diversion like she did before, but I feel like that realization isn’t going to come without Walky panicing and them having a fight first
Coatl
I also hope this becomes clear soon. Because it’s true, this ship is the one that feels genuine support from both
tbf
Is phone scrolling what people do after sex these days?
NGPZ
Sometimes.
But frankly I would never put it near by chest as Dorothy is doing. Once it vibrates there it’s like aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah *-*
Opus the Poet
That’s just how she holds it when she’s laying on her back. And when DYW is using it as a censor bar.
Dday
Post-coital phubbing
DailyBrad
Sometimes. Smoking is less popular than it once was, especially smoking inside.
It’s this, eating, or TV/video games, for a lot of people. Decompression after funsies.
RassilonTDavros
A post-smash Smash, if you will.
ian livs
Honestly, yeah, sometimes. (After the requisite cuddles, of course.) My partner and I will just start showing each other goofy memes or pet pictures we’ve taken since last time we met up
LiamKav
I like a nap. But I’ve got a toddler and am always tired so I fancy a nap most of the time.
Red
*feelings were hurt*
Dday
IE the way she feels about this relationship
Illjwamh
I don’t think that’s true, given how much she regretted ending it last time, but it’s definitely what Walky’s thinking she thinks
Tan
Here’s the thing though. When she ended it (a mistake (or not, but let’s say)), she hooked up with him again anyway (didn’t matter). Even when she made him less available by getting him together with Lucy (a “mistake”), here she is back together with him not long after deciding she regretted it (didn’t matter)
DashWallkick
Right. The problem is that she can’t actually divy up her neurotic and carefree tendencies and her desire to do so means she’s still running the exact same social interaction system. Walky counterbalancing them still just underlines that he’s “for fun” and not really a part of her life because she doesn’t know how to integrate those things together. He’s wondering if this is what’s best for both of them and if we’re just repeating history and he’s going to end up dumped again, I think.
DailyBrad
Ahhh, there’s the rub.
I see why Walky’s taking it this way, that he’s gone back to being her toy she comes back to and pushes away when convenient, but I wonder if that’s why she’s here with him right now, or if it’s because of the genuine succor he seems to provide her.
In any case, I get where he’d feel taken for granted on that front.
AlexanderHammil
I think it might actually be the other way around? Walky is feeling guilty about how he handled things with Lucy, because he treated that like a lower stakes rebound and it ended up hurting her.
Coatl
Well, Lucy is not without mistakes, she was too immersed in her fantasy that she was already imagining a very concrete future with Walky.
DailyBrad
I don’t really know that that’s fully true. Like, I always got the feeling he liked her, but she was much quicker and more intense with her feelings, probably a lot of it being new, and even when he committed, he wasn’t going to match that energy.
If anything, I’d consider Amber much closer to the rebound, to the point where they never really outright dated. A number of things prevented it from getting to that point, between his inability to get past the Sal past, or Amber’s anger at how he handled the Mike stuff.
egon
amber was definitely the rebound, walky said “she’s thicc dorothy”
M!a
Meanwhile, Lucy still hasn’t gotten laid and is like SEETHING…
superglucose
that’s her own damn fault she coulda just been like “walky stick it to me” at basically any time but sat on her own (oddly belabored) morality instead.
M!a
Oh hey, I wasn’t assigning blame. Just kickin back with a hot cuppa schadenfreude. ?
thejeff
Maybe. She definitely hinted at it a lot and Walky deliberately avoided picking up her cues.
Probably a good thing she wasn’t more direct.
Tan
Walky absolutely did not treat Lucy like mistakes wouldn’t matter. In fact he spent so much energy on trying not to screw things up with her that he repeatedly wound up retreating to either the snow hill or to Amber’s Nintendo because of the stress.
thejeff
Arguably, he spent so much energy trying not to screw things up that he screwed things up.
Which is really a pretty easy mistake to make.
DailyBrad
Yeah, if he had been more laidback and transparent, they’d likely still be dating. Such is life.
TrueVCU
I don’t think Dorothy MEANT “performing a sexy with Walky” but I can see how he might be in a “reading too much into things” place atm
M!a
I never really regarded Walky as easily given to thinking, though, much less overthinking.
Bash
He always thought he wasn’t good enough for her, and she did originally frame their relationship as “just for fun”. It’s not so much of a stretch.
John Campbell
Walky’s thinkier than he generally lets on. A lot of the goofball shtick is a cover for deep-seated insecurities.
Nono
Kinda hoping Dorothy realized what she implied 2 seconds later and apologizes.
Tev
I imagine Walky is gaming, or watching youtube. I don’t know why Dorothy has her phone horizontal if she’s writing something?
True Survivor
That seems like a Walky thing to do. Maybe she is working with an PowerPoint presentation or using excel to create an organizational chart or table? Is horizontal orientation good for that? I only ever use my computer for that sort of thing.
Foolissa
Guessing her phone is horizontal because otherwise this strip might have to go on the Slipshine instead
TerribleTransit
They couldn’t find any L-shaped sheets on short notice so this is the next best thing
Animedingo
Now a healthy relationship would address these feelings and not immediately take offense to them or dismiss them
Amós Batista
I liked this strip, so hot. But I just don’t know why it makes me so annoyed…
Amós Batista
I mean: why this strip makes me so annoyed?
Clif
Yes, but who are you annoyed at?
Jeremiah
Even outside of Walky taking that as how she views a relationship with him, the casual dismissal of something that actually matters a lot to him still hurts on its own.
Taffy
I doubt he’s all that invested in the wiki. He’s not Ethan.
DailyBrad
Yeah, along with the fact that he knows Dorothy cares as much about the fandom as he does, so that’s probably not the energy he’d have about it.
It’s not like with Ultra Car, where he got pouty about Dorothy giving it credit after he was dismissive of it, and even then, he probably wasn’t being especially serious.
Nymph
I think a lot of these “why walky is insulted/upset” comments are serious stretches of imagination.
Personally I think he’s just worried about her? Like she said something deeply sad just then and idk why everyone’s jumping to Walky taking offense somehow.
Daibhid C
Oh, my word, I was all set to say this as a joke, with the subtext being “Haha, Daibhid is reading the strip weird again!”
shadowcell
“hey remember that one user who tried to overhaul the entire wiki into a more efficient organizational schema?”
“yeah didn’t she get elected president of the united states or something”
Meagan
Love it
Taffy
Okay, but she’s onto something with that wiki restructuring idea. Most wikis I visit (even the non-Fandom ones) fucking suck to use and navigate.
Grimey