Episode 201 of the Letters Page: Return of the Shipping Episode

Love is in the air or possibly vomit depending on how you feel.

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Just under two hours? Actually shorter than I was anticipating! This opening theme though, holy crap, that’s amazing. :smiley: That whole intro, you can just hear Adam’s soul leaving his body in real time. “I’m Adam. Why must I be Adam?”

Sounds like Covid gave Adam the ability to gain energy from the cold by breathing it in.

No Princess Cool letter? Inconceivable! D: I have noticed a distinct lack of letters from her over the past couple years, though, I do hope she’s okay. :frowning:

I always wondered why Mocktriarch’s HP was like that. :open_mouth:

Oh boy, this is gonna be a great episode already. :smiley: After the week I’ve had, I’ve really needed this.

Somehow, I don’t think “I have a creepy uncle” is a great line to hook two people up.

Setback having to be the emotionally mature one is cute somehow.

Oh heck, Parse and Mordin would work, wouldn’t they? c.c

Questions about the state of GTG’s business plans are definitely the last thing I expected in this episode!

I protest, Museumsplosion does not sound like a dumb name!

“I’m your dad now!” omg XD

What era of comics were they thinking of, I wonder? (re: characters kissing and then it never coming up again)

…I’m sorry, Orbo? What? Literally how? God, did she just run through Endlings one after another? Was “Hey, wanna try restarting your species?” her pickup line? Come on.

Well, this episode was everything I ever could have wanted and more. :slight_smile:

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I feel honored to be carrying Princess Cool’s torch!

I morbidly appreciate that I have tried twice now to find out what AZ’s love interests were actually like as people and I am still no more informed than when I started. >_>

Haka and Unity trying to set up Wraith and Bunker is an episode idea I definitely actually need now.

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That sounds exactly right, and I would love to play this Paige Huntley/Enclave of the Endlings dating sim

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Oh my, I didn’t think I was going to be super into this one, but I suddenly find myself super invested in the Ryan Frost and Karen Gold relationship. (I wonder if one of the things they bond over is having names that suggest comic book puns; doubtless at least one supervillain plot involved threatening to dip her in a pot of molten gold unless AZ could rescue her in time.) I also got a kick out of contemplating the Legacy / Dawn thing - it’s obviously not happening in our timeline, but would make a great Disparation for versions of them which are only slightly different. And I absolutely love the idea of Expatriette trying to do cuckqueaning, since we all know she has no idea what a healthy relationship looks like, and very well might decide that making herself unhappy is the only form of satisfaction she’s somewhat comfortable with. Setback would probably be the one who thinks it’s a horrible idea, and my twisted little mind can come up with all SORTS of ways for his luck-curse to interfere with the scenario.

There is a… rather infamous-in-the-fandom real life very very naughty fanart pic that exists (or existed at least before Tumblr’s porn purge) of that pairing. (In fact my reaction in the LP server to that bit of the episode was “Oh no C&A actually know about that one?”)

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I feel like Adam has probably known for a long time. Might be more recent for Christopher.

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We had a letter from The Romantic Weasel and one from The Almighty Weasel. I wonder if they’re both the same actual mustelid.

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One of my favourite revelations from this episode: Paul is everyone’s father figure, of course, but now we know Haka is everyone’s meddling grandpa! I agree, I would love to see him and Unity team up to try and get Wraith and Bunker talking about their feelings :smiley:

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Almost every character got mentioned this episode, but I’m pretty sure one was missed; throughout the whole show, I don’t think I caught one reference to the Visionary. She’s certainly not the most romantic character; while Dark Mind is still part of the equation, neither Visionary can afford to distract herself from the other one, so I’d imagine she’s functionally asexual for her entire previous life. But post OblivAeon, when she’s finally Unleashed, I could see her deciding to make up for lost time in a big way (distinguishing her from Drake, who would probably stay ace even if he weren’t busy being the Sorcerer Supreme). I kinda like the idea of her and Aeon Girl bonding over their respective status as living weapons who now have a chance to figure out what being human is all about; Visi has purely detached, academic knowledge of the topic, and AG has none at all, so the two of them would be like a couple of teenagers ignorantly fumbling through the minefield of love, having no idea what they’re doing but blissfully content in their ignorance. And anyone else who learned that two of the most powerful women on the planet are playing with emotional dynamite would be rightly worried about the potential for catastrophe, but against all odds, these two blind-leading-the-blind partners would somehow manage to make it work.

I’d give Visionary’s Supporting Cast episode a listen (or the summary a read) on this call, as it goes into the matter.

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I can imagine Unity creating various bots and constructs to physically restrain them, in a lock-in-a-room way. And then Wraith quickly disabling them. Possibly she tries to animate a Bunker suit and even more shenanigans.

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I don’t think she’s the type to physically restrain them. But I bet she would orchestrate Wraith or Bunker walking in on Stealth Bot and Turret Bot. Constantly. All the time. Like, they walk into a room, and there are the bots. They go “ugh, Devra, stop it!” and go into the next room…and there are the bots again.

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Probably not. But I have this image of Haka lifting both of them up, and Devra going “ooooh, I can do that!”

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Quickly build a closet around the two of them, with a digital counter on the inside, counting down from 7 minutes.

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Could the real comics thing be Nighcrawler + Storm?

I have seen a Dawn x Legacy pic on a hentai site. also, Citizen Spring comforting Dawn inside a volcano cave after the mind spike

Happy they read my question about K.N.I.F.E.'s bisexuality. So, the only tension on the Starcrosser is Portia wanting something serious and not a fling and being too shy to ask

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I’ve seen a piece of fanart shipping Portia and Lillian (Harpy). Cute, but I don’t get the impression that they interact much,.