Guardian
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Tags: jennifer, ruth
Discussion (178) - “Guardian”
Tioras
Aww, poor Billie.
nalem
🙁
Billie might be my favorite character right now.
xain
at least until dina does something then all bets are off
swk3000
Billie has been my favorite character almost since I first saw her. I don’t know exactly why. Of course, I saw the DoA version before I saw the Walkyverse version. That probably makes it even weirder.
Izzy
Deep man. I’m gonna shed a tear. Or my exoskeleton. I haven’t decided which yet.
Yotomoe
Be careful. If you shed your exoskeleton you’ll be more susceptible to predators.
xain
but after that the new one will be harder than ever
Blob Marley
That which is shed can never die, but rises again harder and stronger!
Paul
It is known.
Plasma Mongoose
But if you shed it right, predators might mistake it for Izzy, thus allowing hir to get away.
Kelly
hir? eh, it works, but I always prefer singular they/them
TheBenenator
BEGONE, HERETIC!
I use xer, personall. *shrug*
Dragon_Nataku
I just say him/her/it/cheesecake
Animal
Eh?
nothri
Dude, just do both. Multitasking. Its the way of things now.
Kernanator
But I can’t! It’s literally opposite to the way my brain works!
BD
Shed that exoskeleton.
CAST OFF! CHANGE – Izzy!
Golbez the Awesome
FEELZ
Yotomoe
Jeez, why are my eyes so sweaty?
Sock
OK…makeup sex. Aaaaaand go!
SplashBoogie
I don’t want to say I endorse this plan but…I endorse this plan.
Platinakettu
This will backfire badly, …but do it anyway.
davidbreslin101
Mouthwash first. No, really.
Heavensrun
This. People seem to have forgotten that vomiting recently occured.
Doctor_Who
This whole story is really developing these characters well.
Now let’s cut to a couple strips of Danny and Joe being goofs.
Yotomoe
Danny runs by Billie “Have you seen Amazi-girl!?”
Aras Pabedinskas
“Hey, are you okay, Ruth? Did you eat too much or something?”
ArkhamTexan
“I figured she’d be here to stop the underage drinking!”
ShadowMaskPrime
“Hey, what brand soda is that, I haven’t seen it before? Is it Canadian?”
Heavensrun
No lie, when the fire alarm got pulled, I honestly thought Danny was gonna run back to the dorm, see Billie jogging out with Ruth in a fireman’s carry, and come to the inescapable conclusion that the hot asian chick who tried to jump his bones once is actually Amazi-girl.
Luzahn
I would like to know why Danny has been randomly interjecting into this whole episode.
Hopefully he doesn’t end up bursting in on these two and inadvertently causing trouble.
xain
no joe will and he will proceed to try to fix both of them … with his penis
vlademir1
I may be wrong, but I’m fairly sure Billie would want that for herself….
Miamistax
Noooooo! Makeup sex first.
begbert2
Start with makeup sex, and then have person after person walking in and joining them, until you have a full-blown makeup orgy. That’s really the best of all worlds.
ArkhamTexan
“Ugh, you’re the last person I want to give that much credit to.”
That’s probably not what that look in the last panel means, but hey.
xain
and honestly ruth if your dead how are the two of you going to bang. Billie dose not seem like the necrophilia type to me
Yotomoe
It’s never the ones you expect.
Wack'd
It’s never the ones you hope–er, expect.
gangler
It would be easy. Ruth dies, sees the underverse, and experiences a brief moment of torment during which she learns how the addition of new pain can be used to purge you of previous pains. She comes back with a glorious new doctrine to spread around the world.
xain
because a little bit of soul rape always puts things into perspective
nothri
Actually, according to some occultists a ghost with a particularly strong will can manifest physically, duplicating all the outward signs of life, especially if that ghost has unfinished business. So in theory….
Tomaj
Well that explains Jesus at least.
Drunken Nordmann
Your gravatar is fairly creepy.
xain
should have gone for historical jesus
Tomaj
To be fair, it’s only coincidental with this particular comment. Though, the intent behind the gravatar was for it to be creepy, so all according to plan.
Heavensrun
According to some occultists, a bunch of unsubstantiated crap based on speculation and lack of physical evidence can occur at the corner of your eye when your camera isn’t working.
John
I’m just waiting for Billie to put the booze in her own belly to protect Ruth from it.
Plasma Mongoose
Ruth would have needed to do more than drink herself into a stupor to kill herself you know Billie, she would have needed some kind of drug cocktail to go with the booze to really finish yourself off.
Yotomoe
What you don’t realize is that’s a bottle of Drain-O.
Plasma Mongoose
There was? I didn’t remember seeing that.
Yotomoe
nah It’s not. Just your everyday generic bottle of whatever. Could be anything in there.
Totz the Plaid
Alcohol poisoning can and does kill people. More than a few people have died on their 21st Birthday trying to do 21 shots consecutively.
davidbreslin101
…thank God I was too much of a lightweight to even consider trying that.
Oneiroi
I’m going to make a silly assumption and say that it’s Hennessy.
Given that it’s the title of the chapter.
Kernanator
Research indicates that Hennessy is a type of cognac. I’m not exactly a booze expert, but given the number of bottles she seemed to have, wouldn’t that be really expensive?
Aras Pabedinskas
People can die from drinking too much. Alcohol poisoning. Granted I don’t know what it entails, but I know it can kill you. Plus if she vomited while drunk and lying on her back, she could have choked on her own vomit.
vanjealous
Just like Jimi Hendrix and Keith Moon 🙁
Totz the Plaid
More like John Bonham (though he technically asphyxiated on his own vomit).
Hendrix also choked to death on his vomit, but that was due to barbituates, not booze.
Keith Moon… well, he OD’d on clomethiazole, but I prefer the legend which claims that he drank too much and did too many drugs at a party, then crashed his car through a wall while OD’ing and sank into a pool. OD, car crash, AND drowning. A much more fitting death for Mad Moonie!
Vabolo
And then we have Keith Richards, the undying.
Kernanator
Pretty sure there’s gotta be some ritual sacrifice going on there.
Makkabee
I like the irony of Moon ODing on the medication he was using to control his addictions. I think he would, too — he had that kind of warped sense of humor.
Plasma Mongoose
I don’t deny she could have died but if her goal was to kill herself, she would have had some other drugs to make sure.
AgentKeen
I think the alt-text suggests that it wasn’t a matter of trying, just a matter of not caring if it happens, because who cares what happens to her anyhow?
Now, it’s a slippery slope from “I don’t care if I die” to ” I don’t want to live”, but Ruth’s not quite there, and hopefully won’t be now, assuming Billie can actually help rather than just make things worse.
I really need a different avatar for talking about things like this…
f.p.
There’s also an additional step from “I don’t want to live” to “I want to die.” Sometimes neither option really seems acceptable.
gangler
Only if she was in a rush. Like if she had some specific goal to be dead by the end of the night. Otherwise she can try again tomorrow. She knows it’ll work eventually.
Groove
Just to add in that yeah, it’s totally realistic to die from alcohol poisoning (I mean obviously it’s a HUGE amount of alcohol required, but still).
Yotomoe
There was a girl I met online once that was really depressed and talked about suicide a lot. During the summer I went to camp but when I came back she stopped getting on line. I spent years worrying that she commited suicide and I wasn’t there to console her. Then I found out she’s still on facebook and has a boyfriend now so I guess all is good.
AgentKeen
B-but…. where’s the funny? ;-;
Yotomoe
It’s there. You just need a sick sense of humor.
Aras Pabedinskas