GTS – Page 158 – Kidd Commander!

GTS – Page 158

by Aria on October 7, 2022 at 6:45 PM

Chapter: Green Thousand Sing

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i don’t date people i like

Transcript:

Ulrich:
You expect me to believe –
What, exactly? Time travel??
(wait, no?)

Toulouse:
No, but that’s what it is. I think.

Ulrich:
(nO)
(NO)
(ABSOLUTELY NOT)

Toulouse:
Is that really where your capacity for weirdness ends? After everything?

Ulrich:
N. . . No, no, don’t –

Toulouse:
I still haven’t figured out how to avoid this. I’m annoyed.
You never believe me. You r-react-react like this no matter what I say.
I can see other ways the branches could – have – split, from the time y’all got here.
Glimpses of futures I can’t figure out how to reach.
I feel like I’ve spent years with all of you.
I feel like you and I have been doing this for years.

Bel:
Oh he likes you.

Ulrich:
I don’t do that!!

Bel:
This is useful.

Ulrich:
I would not have. With you.

Toulouse:
Well you did, once. It only takes once in an echochamber.
And you talked.
I know everything.

Ulrich:
(WHAT NO YOU DON’T YOU DO NOT)
No you don’t.
This isn’t what I came here to –
Why would I have told you – anything?

Toulouse:
I know you’re ace.

Ulrich:
(i wish i were dead)
Oh wow, what kind of torture did you have to resort to for

Toulouse:
You said it while we were making out and you got nervous when I put my hands on your waist.
You thought I was going to be angry with you.
You apologized.

Nathael

Lmao, low blow Toulouse.
D

Oh goodness. It’s– it’s like you reached into the heart of a couple years ago me, and you’ve plucked this story from it.

It hits all the sorts of similar buttons to those a dream I had back then did. The dream inspired the sparks of a comic out of me, but by the time I got to a start, it was kind of buried by life (current events, work, etc), so this… provides a level of happiness.

Also, it is just extremely well written and drawn, and I’m buzzing in anticipation for more <3
- Aria
  
  I’ve always been OBSESSED with melancholy time travelers, or like, cosmic displacement I guess? There’s so much potential for intensity there I’m not surprised other folks are into it too. I’m happy to hear this story is helping to scratch an itch! Maybe you can get back to it someday, it’s never too late to get started!
  - D
    
    Absolutely the same!
    
    Glad to find that I’m not the only one from my end though, because I’m used to absolutely tearing into the topic of time/space/version/etc travel and all the things around it when I’m pretty sure those around me would’ve been happy with two second synopsis ^^;
    
    And I hope so too! I think what I’ve got is something fairly unique. There’s just only so much time in the universe, and whooo do I need more of it ^^
Apple Barrel

This page is very real and hurts a little, but my brain was just like “oh he’s the ACE sharpshooter!” 😅
- Aria
  
  ayyylmao
Beach Fox

Oh these poor boys.
My deepest fears are weirdly convoluted. One of the biggest ones is that I somehow get thrown back into my past self and can’t figure out how to make my husband fall in love with me a second time.
So I feel this.
- Aria
  
  ugh I feel you, that kind of stuff can drive you crazy. Being stuck on the more invested side of any relationship is such a lonesome problem to have, it happens all the time irl but I always feel like it needs a boost from science fiction fuckery to accurately convey how painful it is. Which is probably also applicable to everything else in this comic now that I’m saying it haha
marithness

Oh my. I just want to facepalm, first, because this honest blorting out of everything seems like a good way to terrify Ulrich and result in even more defensiveness. Which presumably Toulouse knows? so does that mean all the other approaches go even worse?

…huh. If they once got to the point of making out and opening up, then does that mean Toulouse knows how to get there? And deliberately never went that route again once he learned that Ulrich doesn’t want it? Kind, respectful and ethical. (psst Ulrich he’s a keeper)

I wonder if he perceives this as the real “now” and the rest is visions, or if for him this is just one go-around in a million (and who’s to say he is wrong). That would be an exhausting way to live and you could never feel happy and safe, surely, because you wouldn’t get to stay in even a good “now”.

But ANYWAY this is all beside the point because if he’s got such a broad ability then he must KNOW what’s happening to Agatha. What happened to Jonesy. Not to mention in the church. What’s going to happen to the entire community. Does he feel helpless to change anything? Is this the least awful sequence of events he could figure out how to get? What a terrible feeling to know people you care about, kids, are going to suffer and die and you can’t stop it and have to act like you don’t know.

(does he know he will be free of the mothgod soon, is that what keeps him from imploding from stress)

So much AUGH, so much ground for speculation!
- Aria
  
  This is EXACTLY the kind of fucked up shit I like to see in time travel stories so it’s very gratifying that y’all in the audience also appreciate it hehe. Here’s hoping the end is as fun as the speculation
Halogen360

I know we’ve known for a while that Ulrich is Ace but as someone who identifies as ace, I still really enjoy whenever an author can work in an actual explicit reference to it. Idk it just feels nice.

Also on another note, oh my goodness!! Time loops!!!!! I’ll admit, I guessed time shenanigans but I wasn’t expecting a loop. Ooh this is so fascinating!!
- Aria
  
  I’m glad to hear it! Ambiguity isn’t a sin and I DEFINITELY weaponize it with Ulrich a lot but I agree this kind of thing is nice to confirm explicitly when it’s possible (which, admittedly, is harder than it seems, especially since Ulrich would rather eat glass than talk honestly about himself lol). It’s always nice to see canon genderqueer or pan folks in other media so I’m delighted to spread some of that around with my own work hee
Chromoid

Anyone watched “The Edge of Tomorrow”? That’s essentially what’s happening here, only it’s being shown from the perspective of the people who DON’T get to keep retrying the same span of time over and over again.
- Aria
  
  my time travel obsession/toulouse’s story way way predates the game itself but are y’all gonna be mad if i say i’ve thought a lot about sans undertale writing this arc
  - Chromoid
    
    Nahhhh. Sans’s story is another excellent example of this sort of plot device and people are really only mad at the rampant meme and extraordinary annoyance that the character is when you fight him.
    
    Toby Fox did a bang-up job writing the story of Undertale and it rightfully deserves to be inspirational to others.
Demon

A lot of experience and POV is beyond me. I am just swishy enough to understand I am straight, but I can fathom having hormones that respond nontraditionally. Wrapping my head around someone who identifies as asexual having sex is possible too. You don’t have the fervent NEED most people have, but making someone else happy or sated is not off the table. Enough stimulation and body parts respond, but it isn’t the same. OR so I’d guess..

Because that is all I have to go on. Anecdotes and guesses. I don’t LIVE it. Plus, from my understanding, ACE is pretty subjective and personal. Everyone’s sexuality is different. A lack of one is likely the same.

I am LOVING the inner panic and sudden realization of Emperor’s clothing brand! “Oh.. he knows that..” “Oh… he knows THAAAAAAAAAT!!”
- Aria
  
  So I personally am firmly on the polar opposite end of the spectrum from being ace, but for some reason I end up hanging around a LOT of ace spectrum folks and what you’re saying tracks from what I’ve been told! Like other orientations it’s a gradient, not distinct little boxes. Or maybe like a build your own sundae bar lmao.
  
  Since if we get into details it might be a long time before then, I’ll go ahead and say as a baseline Ulrich isn’t so repulsed he won’t use sexuality as a tool if he can (as we’ve seen previously), but he and Toulouse haven’t slept together. Ulrich did instigate the kissing Toulouse is talking about tho, so make of that what y’all will
  - Demon
    
    Back in the day I hung around club kids and artists. I’ve seen every flavor of the rainbow AND their clone! Artistic types just LOOOOOVE to explore!!