BCB - Bittersweet Candy Bowl

Paulo just want who he can't have. I think he knows daisy is lusting toward him, but because daisy is open for a relationship, he doesn't want to have her. The moment daisy start ignoring him he will become Daisy 1 simp

It would make some semblense of sense if Paulo treathed Daisy like a little sister (like he did in the early comic). But that idea was forgotten by taeshit, so Paulo is just ignoring Daisy until his mental moronation dooms another relationship, so he can go back to Eaisy to advance his relationship at a snail pace, then he will go back to another relationship where half of the time he doesn't know if he loves his suppossed pairing, or a random hobo who screamed at him in the mall.

>Paulo learns how to talk to girls from Alejandro to impress Lucy
>Lucy hates this shit and hits him
>Alejandro and Toby mock him and beat him up
>Paulo keeps trying it on Lucy anyway because he's stupid/likes when girls hit him
Paulo has always been a mess

The chapter where Paulo talks about how he used Alej's flirting tactics (probably a stranger in the redraw) shows he was successful with other girls, it's just Lucy it doesn't work on.

Paulo knows what he wants

Based.

Don't fall for their propaganda. They were DOG bullies.

There’s no art of Mike’s scarf being used as a leash for him huh

It might aw well already be one, metaphorically.

There's a lot of leash, just no scarf leash

I think it's whatever his idiot creator wants based on the current level of spite.

There is no excuse. Taeshi tried three times to relate something plausible and failed. Not even she can come up with anything coherent.

Choosing Lucy would be insanity. Shitty as Sandy might be, she is still an upgrade.

Sure, but Mike is not allowed to be single or take any third option.

How dull of you.

I am falling asleep in my chair.

The fact that you are advocating Lucy as a serious alternative has already sunk your credibility. Away with you and waste our time no more.

>The voice on the phone won't physically hurt you
Hard to physically do anything when you're never within a thousand miles of each other, but Sandy does her best pic related
>the voice on the phone won't try to blame her suicide on you
Lucy never did this, but Sandy immediately brings up suicide when Mike picks up the phone and proceeds to spend the entire chapter saying she can't live without him, but I guess being emotionally blackmailed into a shitty relationship isn't as bad as a girl saying she'd rather be dead than be friends with you, truly...
>the voice on the phone won't try to get all your friends against you
That would require Sandy managing to remember who his friends are, but she does a good enough job of isolating Mike from his friends anyway, whose influence caused Mike to sperg and chase away his friends during halloween again?
Cause I remember it being Sandy, and again when he slammed Paulo's face into a table, and then told Sue to frick off, it was only by a complete miracle they all forgot about being mad at Mike and that halloween chapter ended up not mattering, I'd make a collage but it would be over a dozen pages of Sandy fricking over Mike's social life.
Meanwhile Lucy had the chance to have Paulo drop Mike and flatly refused it.
>the voice on her phone won't double down against any wrong that she committed, because you retaliated in a exagerated way
Damn it's like we're reading two separate comics, picrel again Sandy doing exactly what you just said she doesn't do because you gays don't read this shit
And once again, what is it that Mike thinks of when he needs comfort, the at least half dozen times we know of that Lucy's comforted him, or Sandy's disembodied voice over the phone?

>Hard to physically do anything when you're never within a thousand miles of each other, but Sandy does her best pic related
Nice deflection moron. I am refering Sandy phyiscally coming to mike and breaking his nose type of thing
>Lucy never did this, but Sandy immediately brings up suicide when Mike picks up the phone and proceeds to spend the entire chapter saying she can't live without him, but I guess being emotionally blackmailed into a shitty relationship isn't as bad as a girl saying she'd rather be dead than be friends with you, truly...
Black person what? The first thing lucy does when mike finally gets to talk with him, is insult him, and deflect everything he said as "well you drop me because you were a manprostitute". She later goes to the point of joking over her suicide, directly stating she know he was there
>That would require Sandy managing to remember who his friends are, but she does a good enough job of isolating Mike from his friends anyway, whose influence caused Mike to sperg and chase away his friends during halloween again?
Why doesn't she renember her friends who she spent when they were....5 year olds
>But lucy simp and fatso (female) renember!!!
Those are know for being obsesed with anyone who they think they can frick. And again, mike sperging because paul thinks that insulting someone will make them open is not her fault, paulo,daisy,mike and lucy spergry shouldn't be accounted for her (she has done enough BS anyway)
>Damn it's like we're reading two separate comics, picrel again Sandy doing exactly what you just said she doesn't do because you gays don't read this shit
That is sandy trying to deflect before sucumbing by guilt, just the fact she admitted she was in the wrong is leagues beyond lucy
>B-but is bad
No shit butthole. There is a difference betwen recognizing the lesser of two evils, and sidding with the lesser of two evils

>None of this happened what the frick are you talking about she didn't insult him a single time, you just created an entire scenario in your head because you're a triggered polcel, please show me where Lucy insulted him and called him a manprostitute, I'll wait.
Not so subetly calls him a manprostitute (saying that he leaved her, not because she was phyisically abusive, but because he prostituted against sandy). And literally pulling the middle finger
>I like how you're such a coward you have to pretend remembering the name of your boyfriend's best friend is unreasonable.
Not knowing the name of a person you barely know or hear is normal you know
>Best friend
Mike was starting to hate on paulo so...eh
>You might want to try typing this out again, ESLtard.
How about you jack off to the idea of fricking a girl, taeshi
>How admirable of her to tell the truth only after her attempt to gaslight Mike failed.
1. Zero reading comphretion there little gay, specially when i insulted sandy
2. Why would the person, that wants to get without any consequence, say something that is considered the number one way to ruin relationship

>So you just read into it what you wanted to, ebin, she didn't insult him a single time in that chapter but she gave him the finger so you made up all this other shit
>Says that he leaved him because sandy, and not because she was an irrational women who would break someone jaw before speaking of her feeling. Then literally pulls the middle finger
Yeah bro
>He's Mike's only friend at that point, they spent at least that entire summer together whereas Mike didn't spend any time with anyone else, but go off, pretend it's normal to not know your boyfriend's best friend by name after 4 years together.
This was during the time, mike started to feel pent up with paulo (renember the drunken mike part?)
>Sweet, more headcanon, picrel is the very next time that Mike or Paulo mention each other after the halloween chapter.
This is mike, he jumps between hating paulo and forgiving paulo in a second
>Brother you have English as a second language, you cannot try to attack a native English speaker on comprehension when you fail to understand the most blatant parts of the comic's dialogue.
And you try to say that the person who pulled the middle finger, can't be considered as agressive toward someone?

>None of this is an insult or even insinuating he's a manprostitute, Lucy flat out says it's not about Mike dating her (picrel), you absolutely read into it what you wanted to because you very likely can't read English as well as you think you can.
Everytime he tried to talk, lucy deflected it talking like (why would you want me to go back with you? You alredy have your girlfriend). The projection got so obvious that mike noticed, only to get a middle finger as a response
>Posts lucy saying that mike is obsesed with mentioning sandy, even if he tried to hide the fact that he was visiting sandy not to hurt her
Are you a moron. You are making my point that lucy is obsesed and can and will deflect any attempt of assuming responsability, as mike fault for being obsesed with sandy
>No? Drunk Mike was January 2008, the halloween chapter was obviously October 2008, and they spent all of the summer of 2008 together, they had multiple bonding chapter and most of all right in the middle of that very same Halloween chapter, Mike was making googoo eyes at Paulo for still being friends with him, you simply can't make this argument because it's completely unfounded, he never hates Paulo, he's mad at him semi-frequently but they've been friends the entire time and Mike's shown that, picrel B is the last time before the phone call proving further Mike wasn't "hating" Paulo.
Once again, that is a setup toward mike screaming at paulo
>And you try to say that the person who pulled the middle finger, can't be considered as agressive toward someone?
Who started to get agressive?
>B-But mike said that he didn't mean the whole parasite thing, so that means he mean it
Or maybe he was emotional, stating the truth in a exagerated manner?. Also he started to get mad after lucy deflected every single attempt of a respone with "muh sandy". No shit he would get mad if she was implying that the long life relationship ended because he was a prostitute, and not because she was abussive

>Asking questions Mike doesn't want to answer is deflecting now?
So...Mike leaved her because of his girlfriend, not because she was abussive bastard, even when he literally screams at her face on how she is a parasite who only sucks the emotions of people before going toward his next victing (yeah yeah bad and even if is exagerated is still bad)
>So months and months of hanging out is just a set up to two pages of Mike angry at Paulo, which they get over immediately?
This was when paulo started insulting anyone and anything with a pulse that wasn't a woman. He chocked mike, acted condicent at mike relationship, ditched him for lucy
>And you think they aren't friends
Never said that, friends still can be butthole
>Mike? He starts snarling like a rabid dog when Lucy brings Sandy up.
>Talk with lucy
>She deflects absolutly everything under the bain excuse of sandy
>Gets midly worked up, because she double downed on her doing wrong
>She basically calls you a homosexual
Also
>Mike, i've got better things to do that WORRY ABOUT THE GUY THAT MADE A AHABIT OUT OF DITCHING ME FOR HIS DREAMWORLD GIRLFRIEND
She is literally admitting that she thinks mike ditched her because sandy, not because she was bad or anything. No how could she do it, he didn't do it because i was like..Bad or anything, the bleading and hitting him until he falls to the floor was just a mere joke...Yes it was his girlfriend, he did it because he was a manprostitute who didn't care for his best friend

You are still going? Ask any person if pulling the middle finger is a sign of aggrettion
>You're going in circles because you don't understand what me or the comic are telling you, Lucy doesn't deny being abussive bastard, she just asks him why he'd want to be friends now in spite of that and he doesn't have an answer for her
Because he still likes her? Is not really complex, he likes her as a friend, why she likes it, not even taeshi knows, but we very well know that lucy was not trying to make mike question it ,specially after she started constantly bringing sandy, even if supposedly mike unability to let go. It doesn't make sense that lucy was doing all of this to make mike question his supposed friendship with her, even if she was willing to start again (only after he allowed her to kiss him btw), it doesn't make any sense, in fact is contradictory (why are we friends? Yeah for no reason, so now leave you pleb...Except if you kiss me)". And he only started "sperging" out after lucy pratically said that she did nothing wrong, and that he leaved her because sandy
>then Mike spergs out because she said his trigger word,
Getting midly angry after someone is blaming her personal flaws on your girlfriend is not sperging moron
>I said they were friends, you said no, and now you're saying they are friends, so please explain now why you think it's normal for your girlfriend to not remember your best friend's name?
moron kun. My point was that mike was getting tired of paulo unto that point, but he still acts nice to him...So eh?

>Mike? He starts snarling like a rabid dog when Lucy brings Sandy up.
I hope you are not referring to that page you just posted, because if so then you are both openly delusional and terminally moronic.

>Lucy
>Supportive
>Emotional supportive at that
I see maybe I was too hard on Taeshi, writing events that contradict the rest of your own comic pages later does work on some people

if he's fricking you he's not a cuck

Still replied, also
>autistic sonicgay
Lol
>there's an entire separate thread that gets to laugh at you for being mentally ill and borderline moronic
Lol
>reddit tourist only has one reaction image and it's a pepe
Lol

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>https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/134420344/#134428131
>you give off such schizo vibes even other sonicgays call you out

This is genuinely one of the most schizo things I've ever seen ITT. What did this frogposter do to you?

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>https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/134420344/#134428131
>you give off such schizo vibes even other sonicgays call you out

Why are bcb and sonic so popular among autismos

BCB is not popular with any group.

jesus christ anon

>samegay
>gets called a mentally ill moron literally everytime he posts
I hope you find somewhere you can exist without being a joke, good luck buddy.

That just sounds like he's good at pissing people off. Case in point.

he was pretending to defend Lucy for (you)s, you decide

I'm not interested in your autistic shipping war

If I had to choose between the two I'd unironically much rather deal with Lucy being a straightforward b***h then Sandy being an actual emotional parasite who strings you along for years and constantly keeps you guessing as to where you actually stand with her and manages to make you feel guilty for being frustrated about it. Frick Sandy, goddamn.
Mike's only actual good options are the gay ones, though.

>Sandy can be ignored as convenient
Not anymore, since she's currently doing performative daily check-ins to keep him on the hook. And the moment that stops she'll be wandering again. The whole way she guilted Mike into giving her another shot paints her as either knowing nothing about him or being a manipulative b***h; either way, frick her.

Paulo is abusive trash who tries to hurt Mike on reflex.

Mike can fix him, bro...

I said "if I had to choose between the two". Sandy has already demonstrated that if you're not communicating with her (irrespective of whether you're trying) then she's fricking somebody else. Ignoring Sandy's text is equivalent to choosing to be with nobody, which is definitely what's best for Mike currently, but that wasn't the question.

I understand your position, but respectfully disagree. Lucy is just as much of a parasite, only she combines her clingy manipulations with a perverse cruelty. Where Sandy will merely use and forget people at her own convenience, Lucy will endeavor to ensure she is the highest and only focus of those around her. Lucy will oscillate between browbeating and condescension, use whatever she knows of you to attack, then when you are weak she will play up her guilt and sympathy in order to trick you into relying on her support.

At least you can argue with Lucy about it. I'd rather have the shouting match and apologize after than just bottle shit up. Any time Sandy is confronted with her shitty behavior, she balls up and says "you're being mean :'(". I see red when I read that shit.
I'm sure everyone's opinion on this is informed by their own experiences; personally I very specifically cannot fricking stand people who use their own fragility as an excuse to avoid unpleasant conversations that desperately need to happen.

Unironically yes. It's better than just swallowing all of your unfulfilled needs in the relationship because the other person thinks that talking about them is an act of aggression. Mike is powerless against crybullying and Sandy uses that against him.

No, ignoring the texts means being in the relationship and not giving a damn about it. Even if what you said were true and Mike was obligated to play along, it is still absolutely better than dating that psycho Lucy. Mike himself doesn't seem to give a rat's ass about Sandy beyond some autistic sense of enforced monogamy. Better off having to fire off some texts and end up ignored than deal with Taeshi's horrid fursona in person every day.

>being in the relationship and not giving a damn about it
Baffled by your definition of a "relationship", then. We should agree to disagree.

>I very specifically cannot fricking stand people who use their own fragility as an excuse to avoid unpleasant conversations that desperately need to happen.
Well guess what, champ? Lucy already does that too. She's just louder and more obnoxious about it.

Shouting at each other sucks but it's at least more honest and productive than going "stop being mean, don't break up with me, I'm gonna cry". The former is an unhealthy way to have the conversation, but the latter is a refusal to have the conversation at all, which is way fricking worse.

If all you're after is filling the "girlfriend" checkbox with minimal effort, then yeah, I guess an LDR where you never talk and just resign yourself to your partner's infidelity is the most efficient choice. Call me insane I guess, but I can't say that'd do it for me.
Sandy's also definitely the right choice if you don't believe people can change or grow, since that'd mean having to talk about things in the first place.
Granted,
>BCB characters
>change or growth

>unless your idea of a relationship involves gaslighting her constantly because that is the only way her worst aspects can be managed
But even then...there's always the chance of Lucy going to ketchup in the end...

>I very specifically cannot fricking stand people who use their own fragility as an excuse to avoid unpleasant conversations that desperately need to happen.
Well guess what, champ? Lucy already does that too. She's just louder and more obnoxious about it.

This could be construed as Paulo recognizing what a good friend Mike normally tries to be, unlike turbo-b***h Lucy, and how Paulo's careless actions risk permanently alienating him. But considering he's had to re-learn this lesson once and may be verging on epiphany #3, it's hard not to read this as Paulo treating Mike as a backup teddy bear ala Lucy.

I understand your position, but respectfully disagree. Lucy is just as much of a parasite, only she combines her clingy manipulations with a perverse cruelty. Where Sandy will merely use and forget people at her own convenience, Lucy will endeavor to ensure she is the highest and only focus of those around her. Lucy will oscillate between browbeating and condescension, use whatever she knows of you to attack, then when you are weak she will play up her guilt and sympathy in order to trick you into relying on her support.

Let Augustus free, let's see what happens when Paulo is forced to act on his own volition because he fricked his chances with Daisy and Augustus is above his childish name-calling. Unlike Abbey i can see Augustus make Daisy stop defending Paulo constantly because she's feed up too, think December but instead of Sandy using the word of power "kill" Augustus is just like "it's so sad Paulo can't let you be happy for once, huh?"

>Daisy and Augustus have one last fling before he graduates and moves away
>Paulo and Lucy seethe on the sidelines
>Abbey's finally learned his lesson and won't join them

Eh, Abbey deserves better than a girl who gets a crush on every boy who speaks to her. Daisy and Paulo are both pathetic, it's just that Daisy is at least pitiable, whereas Paulo's such an butthole he deserves it.

There is a difference from
>Haha funny slapstick
>To chocking that actually have the character respond in a geniune way

Until Paulo can show he can follow something that's not dictated by his dick he can't have any good relationship, mostly because he ruins them himself

Good let it curl, gaycat was cute. Orangecat is cute. Grey cat kinda sucks but he can get better with the power of blatant homosexual.

For reference I dont read this comic, I only read what is posted here every once inawhile but it was cute when they went to the movies and arcade.

How can you cope that Mike, whose girlfriend cheated on him and dumped him, isn't a cuck, but Lucy who kissed Mike, a boy she has never dated, one time is a cuck lmao, the absolute depths of delusion Mikegays go to is hilarious

>Mikegays also can't read
Lol, ESL or moronic?

Good luck navigating the english language my moronic friend

>could have any boy she wanted
>chooses to wait for the boy who is himself a cuck
Not a Mikegay, his best prospect is a dick up the ass, but Lucy's a second-hand cuck, she's a cuck by proxy. It's even more embarrassing since Mike isn't even her boyfriend so she has no excuse.

I wouldn't think she's waiting for Mike just because she's not actively pursuing something else, but regardless how is it cuckolding to not go farther than a kiss with someone you like?
I'm genuinely curious how you would even define the term cuckold if that's worse than being cheated on and having both of the girls you like frick other men.

Okay, I can see why that makes Lucy pathetic or manipulative, can you explain why any of that makes her a cuck?
Lucy was never in a relationship with Mike, Mike never cheated on her

stop just spouting talking points that have nothing to do with what I'm asking you

NTA but it's not the actual definition of cuck. Just the relatively recent internet version which includes getting screwed out of / losing out on a relationship in some way.

Hence the Lucy fricking up her chances with Mike multiple times being called that

>Mike wanted to hook up. She threw a spergfit and said no which led to him hooking up with Sandy
>The December incident
>Eternal Flame Incident where she had him again, told him to ease back, and he proceeded to hook back up with Sandy again the next morning

In internet definition you can be a cuck for literally anything but I'll accept that definition just for the sake of argument.
If Lucy was always the one having to make Mike back off from being in a relationship why would that put more of the burden of cuckoldry on her than him, and why would that somehow be worse than Mike's actual girlfriend fricking someone behind his back?
Because even if we agree on the colloquial definition, which I definitely don't, Mike's guilty of exactly what Lucy's guilty of but twice over (and worse) because both his love interests fricked other guys and Mike hasn't fricked anyone.

NTA but it's not the actual definition of cuck. Just the relatively recent internet version which includes getting screwed out of / losing out on a relationship in some way.

Hence the Lucy fricking up her chances with Mike multiple times being called that

>Mike wanted to hook up. She threw a spergfit and said no which led to him hooking up with Sandy
>The December incident
>Eternal Flame Incident where she had him again, told him to ease back, and he proceeded to hook back up with Sandy again the next morning

It's actually insane to me that Paulo can talk shit about Abbey's dead mom and get no back up from Daisy but he talks shit about Paulo one time and gets assault, and we're supposed to think he's the bad guy, not only that he just unceremoniously gets booted from the comic before coming back just to apologize to fricking Paulo of all people.
FRICK I hate this comic's awful moral compass

"He's not that bad! All he does is bully you all the time while everyone around you tells you to suck it up. Sure, he's a massive man-bawd and I want to jump his bones first chance I get, but you should still totally tolerate him. Also stop scaring off the guy that tried to rape me I feel bad for him and I like the attention."

BCB runs on double-standards. Mike recognized they existed in-universe and in a better comic this would be treated as a personality flaw that instigated drama.

Seeing this post + comic, along with all the shit with Madison, REALLY makes me wonder about how BCB would have been had Taeshi chose to let her inner lesbian/bisexual out and commit to a relationship with Lily instead...

>potentially inherits Lucy's bpd and Mike's idiocy
>is raised by a half-psychotic lesbian couple
That poor kid is so fricked.

>potentially inherits Lucy's bpd and Mike's idiocy
>is raised by a half-psychotic lesbian couple
That poor kid is so fricked.

You just know this kid's going to make headlines one day. With how shitty her life is, and the suffering she'll experience.

I know what you're talking about, didn't gnukko draw that?

>This time I won't make the same mistakes
>Right, Mike 2?
I don't know why but that's oddly hilarious

It was hilarious when page 7 of this comic got posted.

And then failing because Lucy never actually learns.

What part of "never actually learns" did you fail to understand?

So her ovaries are functional yet the sex was so unmemorable that Mike never even thought about it again.

>Not posting full pic
Cmon

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Jannies kept banning me when I posted the full pic

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Lucy x Zachary OTP

>Jannies kept banning me when I posted the full pic
I bet it's because of the little line of cleavage that Sue has

I'd say the total pump and dump followed by zero contact for years and never imagining that he could have possibly impregnated Lucy is a pretty good indication otherwise.

There's just one more thing he needs to do

Would strap-ons in the bcb universe be spiked and knotted? It's been established that the guys have animal genitalia. Or would they just be slim with nothing like that, for the ladies pleasure of course.

It's so progressive, Mike throwing Paulo a bone like that. Maybe Daisy can be the one who pegs orange cat with it; they would both like that.

I like to think that Fork in the Road is the culmination of the Another Path timeline. Paulo got sick of Lucy and dumped her like a sack of potatoes so that she could go back to moping about her oneitis.

I bet that just for a moment as Lucy fell. She was like a diamond in the sky.

She had a wonderfull mother, a decently rich dad, was smart (atleast academically), was beatiful, had a nice voice and her friends were masivelly biased toward her. Yet she trows it all away, because someone won't stand anymore, toward her abuse?

BPD be like that though.
t. 2 suicide attempts

Lucy looking like law hero

The only regret she would be feeling is having met mike in the first place.

Its either blaming others for her problems or admitting she is the problem and spiraling into depression and another suicide attempt as she distances herself. BPD fricking sucks to have. But I have no sympathy for the ones that can't exhibit self-control.
Not that I'm one to talk honestly.

Just imagine if Lucy had met someone who had the backbone to put Worst Cat in her place. Some of her chronic problems might actually be solved. Most however would require medication.

She'd then be stuck in a codependent relationship with all the issues that implies. Wouldn't recommend, been there done that. Medication for BPD specifically is also basically nonexistent since the general treatment goes
>basic SSRIs for depression and maybe something for anxiety as well if the medication is not recommended to handle both
>for the most severe cases, antipsychotics and all their godawful side-effects

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Jannies kept banning me when I posted the full pic

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Lucy x Zachary OTP

Jannies in these threads are inconsistent morons. I still can't believe Cinemaphile has a fricking copyright filter.

>ywn take care of a brain damaged post-suicide attempt Lucy

Don't thank me, thank good friends and shitty firearms primers.

Is Lucy hallucinating that she's on the wrong side of the mirror? Or is the poster backwards?

I feel like we're all neglecting the "dual Lucy" theory. The real Lucy must still be in that hospital, just like the real Mike is dead/missing in Acapulco.

>Beneath the waves of Acapulco and in the Roseville hospital, Mike and Lucy lay dead and dreaming
>Strange projections haunt those who still live
>Fading in and out of reality, appearing and disappearing as memories and perception demand

Maybe Paulo was real, found out and sold out. They wouldn't let someone who wasn't in on the programming get a car.

BCB ending is Mike finally snapping and killing Lucy and then the walls falling down revealing the entire crew clapping and congratulating him a la evangelion