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Mike thoughts

by David M Willis on December 28, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – It's The Love I Haven't Got
└ Tags: amber, walky

Discussion (139) ¬

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  1. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    December 28, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    Heh. Murder eyes?

    Venom venom something something…

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    December 28, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    Amber, determined to prove she’s in possession of sufficient murder eyes, heads upstairs to fetch the display case.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      December 28, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      Well, she has murder somethings. I’m doing an archive crawl and she just threw the “doorstop” down the stairwell after her mask.

  3. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    December 28, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    man, if looks could kill

    • Jo_Cubstar
      Jo_Cubstar
      December 28, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      *gasp* you’re 3rd today!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      December 28, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

      I’d stare deeply into her eyes.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        December 28, 2023 at 1:27 am | #

        Yeah, sure Yoto. Her “eyes”.
        😉

        • Kyrik Michalowski
          Kyrik Michalowski
          December 28, 2023 at 1:54 am | #

          Nice use of Oglaf.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          December 28, 2023 at 2:13 am | #

          God I’ve made SO many Gorgon characters just cuz I find them very hot.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 28, 2023 at 3:25 am | #

      He’d be lying on the floor?

  4. StClair
    StClair
    December 28, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    Willis continues to demonstrate their ability to anticipate the comment section.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      December 28, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      He sees and knows everything

      • StClair
        StClair
        December 28, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

        it’s the “months in advance” part that gets me.

        • Jamie
          Jamie
          December 28, 2023 at 12:27 am | #

          We’re honestly pretty predictable on the whole.

          And it helps that, as the author, he’s guiding us around.

      • Coatl
        Coatl
        December 28, 2023 at 12:24 am | #

        Yes…that’s scary

      • TrueVCU
        TrueVCU
        December 28, 2023 at 1:07 am | #

        I see a great eye, lidless, wreathed in flame

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          December 28, 2023 at 1:31 am | #

          Like a chocolate starfish, wreathed in fur.

          *

          • clif
            clif
            December 28, 2023 at 8:55 am | #

            Now I’ll never be able to look a chocolate starfish in the eye the same way again.

    • Rectilinear Propagation
      Rectilinear Propagation
      December 28, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

      It’s one of their most impressive skills.

  5. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    December 28, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Bad decision averted, or at least delayed

    Garbage scow continues to slowly crumble into scale

    • Archieve
      Archieve
      December 28, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

      Worst decision averted I’d say. From Walkys reaction it seems like he was low key taking his father’s advice on getting back with Amber.

      • Coatl
        Coatl
        December 28, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

        It seems that Linda assigns the duty to Charles when she is not available.

      • shellshockbp
        shellshockbp
        December 28, 2023 at 8:54 am | #

        Possible that he feels guilty for how things ended and wants a second chance. Even if the relationship fails again, he would have it end on better terms.

    • Mnemnosyne
      Mnemnosyne
      December 28, 2023 at 9:02 am | #

      I don’t know, their relationship seemed good to me, when they had it. It didn’t end for actual reasons, but because they were both grieving what was ultimately the same thing. Sure, Walky was trying to deny it through humor and obliviousness to reality, but they were both upset about the same thing.

      They had no clear fundamental incompatibilities, misunderstandings about each others’ level of interest, massively conflicting life goals, etc.

    • Warcodered
      Warcodered
      December 29, 2023 at 12:33 am | #

      I don’t know that seemed like a very charged argument parting of ways, feels like those two aren’t done. Or at least not done stumbling into some form of relationship.

  6. Suet
    Suet
    December 28, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    “or at least stabby hands”

    D’aww, the ship oofed itself. Carry on.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      December 28, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

      I knew it would but it won’t stop me. I’ll be on deck. Awaiting Captain’s orders.

      • Liara
        Liara
        December 28, 2023 at 12:50 am | #

        I’d suggest getting under deck, this is about to turn into a submarine

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          December 28, 2023 at 12:55 am | #

          It’s been a pleasure playing with you all.
          *Plays the violin*

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        December 28, 2023 at 1:31 am | #

        Captain Murderer?

  7. Wereg
    Wereg
    December 28, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Sanctum of Unspoken Grabass Feels is one of my favourite phrases of all time.

  8. CMasta1992
    CMasta1992
    December 28, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    Impressive ship destruction

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      December 28, 2023 at 1:32 am | #

      It’s a garbage scow. I doubt it’s destroyed. I think it just looks like that.

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        December 28, 2023 at 7:18 am | #

        I mean, yeah, it’s on fire with gobbets dripping off, but isn’t it always?

    • anon
      anon
      December 28, 2023 at 6:45 pm | #

      imagine it leading to an ethan/walky ship XD; tho i doubt it b/c they were barely acquaintainces even before all the mike drama

  9. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    December 28, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    ♫Ain’t no way to hide your murder eyes♫

  10. Mym
    Mym
    December 28, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    Yea, but Amber’s eyes undress you before the kill

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      December 28, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      “Alright Amber, there’s no need to be intimidated. Just picture him in his underwear. OH NO HE’S HOT.”

  11. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    December 28, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    See, I called it. I told ya. Didn’t I tell ya? And when did I tell ya? I few days ago? And what did I say would happen. Exactly what had happened!

    • clif
      clif
      December 28, 2023 at 1:40 am | #

      Good thing my damn-you-Willis’s were all prepared.

      DAMN YOU WILLIS!!! Shakes fist at sky.

    • Li
      Li
      December 28, 2023 at 2:48 am | #

      Like, definitely not saying it’s not gonna happen EVENTUALLY, but it’s better for the long-term future of the ‘ship that it not happen in this specific way. /sage nods

    • OBBWG
      OBBWG
      December 28, 2023 at 10:11 am | #

      Yes, you’re very smart. Shut up. 😉

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      December 28, 2023 at 5:24 pm | #

      *side-eyes Yotomoe*

      you’re not … on the Patreon are ya

  12. Rectilinear Propagation
    Rectilinear Propagation
    December 28, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    In fairness to Amber, Walky did ask if she sabotaged the thing with Lucy in order to get him back. Her assumption that this was also a relationship talk didn’t come completely out of nowhere.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      December 28, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

      I don’t even see her statement as that much “This conversation is because you want to get with me”– she talks about how it went down, in the past, when they were bordering on being a couple. And what happened pushed them away from that, which she thinks is best for them.

      I don’t necessarily think she’s shooting down Walky in the now the way he thinks she is (when he’s saying he wasn’t looking for that anyway).

      • Mark
        Mark
        December 28, 2023 at 8:51 am | #

        +1

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      December 28, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

      They just wanted to vent.
      But seriously, Walky, blaming Amber for a plan that you made and that you thought worked…seriously, Walkerton?

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      December 28, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

      2 strips ago he asked (in his can’t-tell-how-serious way) if she sabotaged him and Lucy. Today’s strip he interprets “its better we split up back then” as her imagining he’s trying to get together and turning him down.
      I wonder if he’s thinking about Dorothy but still hasn’t taken her off the pedestal so he’s projecting that onto Amber.

      • clif
        clif
        December 28, 2023 at 1:42 am | #

        He needs to go to Dorothy for advice on how. To proceed withwith Amber.

        • StClair
          StClair
          December 28, 2023 at 9:51 am | #

          Just keep poking until she finally cracks, is that it?

  13. Archieve
    Archieve
    December 28, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

    Not wanting to get back together with Amber would sound a whole lot more convincing without the angery defensiveness Walky.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      December 28, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

      Well, Amber tends to get too defensive and it’s clear that she doesn’t want to repeat certain cycles.

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        December 28, 2023 at 12:23 am | #

        True, though my point was that Walkys anger in panels 4 and 5 seems to stem from an unspoken attempt to get back with Amber which he is now denying in a ‘thou protest too much’ manner.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          December 28, 2023 at 12:27 am | #

          Eh, sometimes you do get that mad when someone assume you mean something you really didn’t or have some ulterior motive that you really don’t. (I would know, I had fell that a few times.)

        • Coatl
          Coatl
          December 28, 2023 at 12:27 am | #

          I just read them again, and I think that from here on, the boy will be alone.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          December 28, 2023 at 1:22 am | #

          I don’t want to assume that. This is a touchy subject and there’s a lot of things that could have set him off, especially since he just broke up with his girlfriend.

    • Tan
      Tan
      December 28, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

      For real, as someone who really does not want them getting together, all of their too-strong protests about not getting back together is worrying.

    • zee
      zee
      December 28, 2023 at 11:43 am | #

      I’d be pretty pissed too if i was trying to work out my complicated feelings of grief with a friend and it felt like they were suddenly accusing me of having ulterior motives. It’s pretty offensive

  14. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    December 28, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

    I’m somewhat disappointed that Amber×Walky is not returning, but it makes sense, and I’m hoping they can at least be friends again.

    That being said, I’m still taking bets on the next horizontal tango. Who will it be? Place your bets now.

    • AeromechanicalAce
      AeromechanicalAce
      December 28, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

      I mean, they Hung out, ate chips and played Video Games in Amber’s room. I think that qualifies as friends.

    • Comic.phile
      Comic.phile
      December 28, 2023 at 12:53 am | #

      I think they’re still friends

  15. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    December 28, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

    In the 5th panel, are Walky’s shoes untied? If they are, how does he go around without tripping?

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      December 28, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

      his shoes are always untied. he thinks its charming.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        December 28, 2023 at 12:33 am | #

        “It’s a choice”?

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        December 28, 2023 at 12:34 am | #

        correction, they were tied when he wore Danny’s shoes. https://www.dumbingofage.com/emasculated/

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/earreach/ https://www.dumbingofage.com/buttbuttbus Charles doesn’t tie his either

        • Liara
          Liara
          December 28, 2023 at 12:52 am | #

          Well those aren’t his shoes, they’re Danny’s, so your original point still stands

        • cbwroses
          cbwroses
          December 28, 2023 at 1:23 am | #

          Good catch.

      • Mark
        Mark
        December 28, 2023 at 8:55 am | #

        I think his shoes just automatically untie as soon as he’s not looking. Like the way Pig-Pen doesn’t try to get dirty, it just happens because the cosmos is out of balance when he’s all cleaned up.

  16. Bittersweet
    Bittersweet
    December 28, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

    Oh, Walky 😕.

    I don’t remember how old I was when I started reading DOA, but as the years go on I just wanna give half these characters hugs and adopt the other half, poor kids.

    I think he’s been needing this for a while. It sucks when you bottle everything up and have the bottle shaken by one more major event. He needs a good cry in his room and a good talk with somebody whom he can trust with his grief. Idk who he could seek out for that purpose though.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      December 28, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

      I think at the moment, he’s alone for now.

      • GholaHalleck
        GholaHalleck
        December 28, 2023 at 1:48 pm | #

        Sal basically. everyone else has basically been using him, barring Lucy who wanted to be used by him.

        • seeprybyrun
          seeprybyrun
          December 28, 2023 at 9:06 pm | #

          Sweet dreams are made of this…

    • Johan
      Johan
      December 28, 2023 at 12:34 am | #

      I started reading in 2010 when I was a college kid.

      I mean i still am because I took a gap 10 years.

  17. BBCC
    BBCC
    December 28, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

    Not with Walky you don’t, generally!

  18. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    December 28, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

    Listen there’s a lotta ships I love in this comic. Joe and Joyce are so cute. Sal and Danny are adorable. Becky and Dina….
    But like Walky and Amber are the one I REALLY REALLY want to work out. I daresay I would sacrifice ALL of those other couplings for them.

    • EpochFlame
      EpochFlame
      December 28, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

      amber and walky is always a welcome dynamic

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      December 28, 2023 at 12:24 am | #

      But not Dorothy and Arnold, right?

    • sakamism
      sakamism
      December 28, 2023 at 12:27 am | #

      Agree that they are my favorite, but I will not sacrifice Becky and Dina

    • Warcodered
      Warcodered
      December 29, 2023 at 12:38 am | #

      People are all seeing this completely negative, honestly both these characters just feel like they have this dynamic with each other. I mean they’re both basically joking as they’re yelling and parting ways. I’m not sure this doesn’t make me more sure these two are going to keep having something between them.

  19. Wendy
    Wendy
    December 28, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

    Feeling for Walky on this one. It really sucks to approach someone with vulnerability and have them interpret it as you having some ulterior motive.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      December 28, 2023 at 12:25 am | #

      Did she though?

      • Vanessa
        Vanessa
        December 28, 2023 at 1:22 am | #

        I don’t think she did. She didn’t accuse him of coming on to her. She just stated as a fact that it was good they broke up back then. I think he might be acting a bit defensive because he doesn’t like being shot down and he could have easily slid back into their comfortable coupled state.

      • Wendy
        Wendy
        December 28, 2023 at 2:15 am | #

        “We shouldn’t be a couple” has that implication.

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          December 28, 2023 at 1:01 pm | #

          He could infer that because his dad mentioned the possibility and then Dorothy implied it. But it’s on his mind, not necessarily Amber’s.

  20. Dara
    Dara
    December 28, 2023 at 12:23 am | #

    Lots of feelings spilling out of Walky now and he doesn’t want any of them to do it because feels bad, man

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      December 28, 2023 at 1:23 am | #

      Oh no not feelings! He’s been trying so hard to avoid them!

  21. Derek
    Derek
    December 28, 2023 at 12:25 am | #

    wrote a huge comment yesterday and it is still “awaiting moderation”, if it gets released from moderation jail at this point no one will see it anyway; might as well pull the trigger on it Mr Willis

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      December 28, 2023 at 12:35 am | #

      Yeah, Willis definitely has nothing better to do this time of year than moderate comments.

      • Derek
        Derek
        December 28, 2023 at 9:31 am | #

        I meant he can go ahead and delete it if he wants

    • Li
      Li
      December 28, 2023 at 2:50 am | #

      if you include more than one link in a comment, it gets moderated.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 28, 2023 at 3:20 am | #

        I thought it was more than two links, and it doesn’t matter whether they’re internal links to other DoA strips or external links to other sites.

      • Derek
        Derek
        December 28, 2023 at 9:31 am | #

        ooooooh yeah that would do it

  22. Taffy
    Taffy
    December 28, 2023 at 12:27 am | #

    Starting to think they’re not gonna fuck on the table.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      December 28, 2023 at 12:29 am | #

      There’s still time. Maybe Walky’s just getting a running start.

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        December 28, 2023 at 7:22 am | #

        woop, did not mean to flag that sorry

        was actually going to be a comment about the heads of the tiny Peds in background turning and !!! appearing above them

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          December 28, 2023 at 4:04 pm | #

          I flagged you seventeen times because it’s fun.

          • David DeLaney
            David DeLaney
            December 28, 2023 at 5:22 pm | #

            flagged you BAAaack!

            –Dave, exits stage up

  23. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    December 28, 2023 at 12:35 am | #

    did Walky have any thoughts about the fact that he was practically a side hustle to relieve stress for both of his ex-girlfriends?

    • Felian
      Felian
      December 29, 2023 at 8:43 am | #

      Stressballs

  24. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    December 28, 2023 at 12:54 am | #

    Dumbing of Age, Book 17: Sanctum of Unspoken Grabass Feelings

    • Felian
      Felian
      December 29, 2023 at 8:42 am | #

      i am so here for it!

  25. Dante
    Dante
    December 28, 2023 at 12:55 am | #

    He does want to get back con her, I think, BUT! He didn’t approach her with ulterior motives. Both Things Can Be True, y’all. Garbage Scow sails on.

    … Also come on Amber, Walky and Ethan were never friends. Maybe they should be, but I can’t remember them ever interacting solo. Can’t go knocking “HAVE YOU GOT A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT MIKE” uninvited.

    • Vanessa
      Vanessa
      December 28, 2023 at 1:24 am | #

      Maybe they could bang though. Ethan would probably agree with everyone else that Walky is hot.

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        December 28, 2023 at 1:29 am | #

        That would just give Danny one more reason to hate him, for dating another of his “exes”.

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      December 28, 2023 at 1:27 am | #

      Walky saw Ethan in the cafeteria a couple weeks ago and asked if he always had so much black in his wardrobe or if he needed to buy some.
      Relatively sure that’s the extent of their solo interactions.

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        December 28, 2023 at 1:41 am | #

        Doing a search for Walky and Ethan in the same strip, that is actually their only solo interaction.
        They do have a surprisingly larger number of interactions (or at least shared screen time) than I thought, though were always others involved aside from the one I mentioned.
        Noticeably, Walky did join in when Ethan introduced Joyce to the joy of Dexter and Monkey Master, so they were at least friendly.

        • Felian
          Felian
          December 30, 2023 at 8:31 pm | #

          wait is there a way to search for two tags at once??

  26. Esolo
    Esolo
    December 28, 2023 at 12:56 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 14: Sanctum of Unspoken Grabass Feelings

  27. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    December 28, 2023 at 1:31 am | #

    Oh goddammit. Now I’m seeing Walky as a Jehovah’s Witness-type going door-to-door to spread the word about the man who died for their sins.

  28. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    December 28, 2023 at 1:33 am | #

    Not buying it. I think Walky’s fighting himself here. He knows he likes Amber and they get along great and Lucy isn’t working and he’s trying not to listen to his dad.

    • Queezle
      Queezle
      December 28, 2023 at 3:14 am | #

      He does protest a little much. Amber did not say that anyone was trying to be a couple now.
      At the same time, I do not think he had ulterior motives for this talk.

      • DashWallkick
        DashWallkick
        December 28, 2023 at 3:28 am | #

        His eyes got a little too puppy dog there for me to think this isn’t him struggling with something.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          December 28, 2023 at 9:27 pm | #

          Yup. That’s his tell for when the feels are reals.

  29. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    December 28, 2023 at 2:58 am | #

    Walky, you’re talking to a shipper. Ship happens.

  30. Queezle
    Queezle
    December 28, 2023 at 3:09 am | #

    Again, I like these two together as friends, I like seeing them interact positively. I have no feelings about them as a couple, apart from now would be awful timing, a bad thing for their friendship and also not fair to Lucy. I like seeing them be supportive of each other.
    We will see where this goes. I really want them to be friends through.

    • Queezle
      Queezle
      December 28, 2023 at 3:18 am | #

      It is not how I interpreted, anyway. But I am bad at subtext, so what do I know.

  31. AGV
    AGV
    December 28, 2023 at 3:10 am | #

    A delicious amount of dumbing was done

  32. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    December 28, 2023 at 5:17 am | #

    Ah, Walky finally overloaded

    • morleuca
      morleuca
      December 28, 2023 at 5:43 am | #

      Which means he’s now primed to run into Dorothy, yell at her incoherently, and storm off. Leaving her bewildered and hurt. You know just to pile on more for both of them.

  33. Florens
    Florens
    December 28, 2023 at 5:42 am | #

    Look, Walky can only be lucid about one feeling at a time.

    Feelings, plural? Get outta here.

  34. David DeLaney
    David DeLaney
    December 28, 2023 at 7:24 am | #

    *plays _Bette Davis Eyes_ on the hacked Muzak*

    –Dave, we are never ever getting back to-gether

  35. Nicoleandmaggie
    Nicoleandmaggie
    December 28, 2023 at 7:40 am | #

    Three breakups is plenty for freshman year. There’s gotta be other things he can spend his time on. I guess he didn’t realize Lucy was crushing on him so that was sort of single Walky time. But still.

    And then a part of me is like… Ethan?

    • anon
      anon
      December 28, 2023 at 6:47 pm | #

      well, he could actually study but that wouldn’t make for good story telling unless he has a partner (platonic or otherwise) with him to banter with XD

  36. Carms
    Carms
    December 28, 2023 at 8:41 am | #

    My ace ass relates to this weird hetero thing.
    WHO’S TRYNA BE A COUPLE? JUST LET ME BE ATTACHED TO YOU IN WAYS THAT MAKE NO SENSE TO ANYONE ELSE OR, APPARENTLY, YOU
    Loljks, I’ve never taken this risk on anyone cos what if they think I’m tryna be a couple. I’m tryna make friends with a guy who has repeatedly referenced his homosexuality and idk if it’s a ‘hey lady back off’ but like, my guy, y’ain’t even TRIED to suss out my flavour of queer, can we just.

    • clif
      clif
      December 28, 2023 at 9:13 am | #

      Sounds to me like he likes you enough to want to make sure you won’t get hurt. This is a long distance diagnosis based on insufficient information and so it’s accuracy is a real crap shoot.

      Next time he mentions his homosexuality, tell him yeah, that’s one of many things I like about you and pause and see where the conversation goes from there.

    • keet
      keet
      December 28, 2023 at 10:03 am | #

      just figured out this year that im somewhere in the aroace spectrum and this is so relateable 😄😄

    • anon
      anon
      December 28, 2023 at 6:49 pm | #

      With ambers prolly to them spending time together before then rather than being like “we should give this another chance”, i’d imagine if he wasn’t a flippant jerk about it on halloween something would’ve happened the same way it did with him and lucy (tho idk if they considered it a ‘couple status’ versus like, friends with benefits during the halloween flashback)

  37. sdrainbow
    sdrainbow
    December 28, 2023 at 9:51 am | #

    Walky, I am very proud of you for actually saying your feelings out loud and letting yourself be angry.

  38. keet
    keet
    December 28, 2023 at 9:59 am | #

    please!! make this convo between walky and ethan real!!

    • anon
      anon
      December 28, 2023 at 6:50 pm | #

      at the very least he could prolly offer him and apology

      And do something to ‘make it up to him’ the same way sal helped vote in some kinda poll or whatever after sal apologized to ethan for holding him hostage XD

  39. zee
    zee
    December 28, 2023 at 11:36 am | #

    Oh hey, it’s the thing I was saying yesterday

  40. zee
    zee
    December 28, 2023 at 11:51 am | #

    Burning incense and praying they stay split up

  41. Furubatsu
    Furubatsu
    December 28, 2023 at 1:02 pm | #

    *HAS* Walky talked to Ethan? Like that would be one hell of a first impression otherwise.

  42. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    December 28, 2023 at 1:22 pm | #

    When you’re near her,
    You should fear her,
    You’re in trouble if you jeer her.
    She’s ferocious,
    And she knows just,
    How to harness her neurosis.
    She’s got Mike Warner in her head to chastise,
    She’s got plenty murder eyes.

    All the boys, they think they might die,
    She’s got plenty murder eyes.

  43. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    December 28, 2023 at 4:10 pm | #

    I’m happy to see that both of them are well aware that getting back together would be a HUGE mistake. I wonder if they will be able to keep their purpose.

  44. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    December 28, 2023 at 7:30 pm | #

    This reaction would be a little extreme, but Walky has already been dumped once today, so i feel like it’s understandable, haha

  45. Yakumo
    Yakumo
    December 29, 2023 at 12:45 am | #

    No no no, not murder eyes from some one who might actually murder somebody. Emo murder eyes. So much worse. The eyes of the puppy what is eternally kicked and resents it and will keep letting you know but not murder you because they are a puppy, metaphorically, and so will also just say its because they don’t want to let out of your suffering.

  46. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    December 29, 2023 at 1:02 am | #

    I just had a breakup I wanted to do friend things not romance things, damnit

  47. Bryy
    Bryy
    December 29, 2023 at 4:12 pm | #

    I really want to see Evolved Walky fight Raidah.

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