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2013-06-01

by shaenon on June 1, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Stig
    June 1, 2013, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Paging Nick!

    • Phill
      June 1, 2013, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

      100% Nick and this is amazing. I know where this is going and it’s awesome.

  2. bigbearseviltwin
    June 1, 2013, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    I think they will go with Tip

    • Rob, Arbiter of Reality
      June 1, 2013, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      I agree. That gun’s been hanging over the mantle for a long, long time.

      • Robert The Addled
        June 1, 2013, 8:06 am | # | Reply

        That would also agree with the bugs bunny theory of cross-dressing.

    • Sparks
      June 1, 2013, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

      But Tip is not a princess, he is a queen. 😉

      • VaporWare
        June 1, 2013, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

        Tip isn’t a Queen yet, he still works for one.

      • Ryushikaze
        June 3, 2013, 11:57 am | # | Reply

        By rights, Tip should be princess, because Ozma. However, Nick has to try and be princess first because funny.

    • Codebracker
      June 2, 2013, 6:22 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe he’s a drag princess?

  3. mage_cat
    June 1, 2013, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Tip is pretty shameless. Nick would be funnier.

    • The Almighty 404
      June 1, 2013, 5:14 am | # | Reply

      I expect we’ll finally get to see Nick being forced to get in touch with his inner Whimsy princess and being forced to let Tip do his magic (no, not the “going to bed” one, the “rag to riches” one).

  4. John Campbell
    June 1, 2013, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Better watch it, piggie. Unity’s snot will kick your butt.

    • John Campbell
      June 1, 2013, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Oh, and don’t be silly, Unity. That snot a princess.

      • Kona
        June 1, 2013, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

        I have no words…

  5. Eddurd
    June 1, 2013, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I Am Woman”, Helen Reddy)

    I’m your princess, spurn me not!
    I drew a picture with my snot!
    And I’m hear to save your home and calm your fears!
    Though to differ you have begged,
    And as as sidekick I’ve been pegged,
    If you want to make your case, then I’m all ears!

    Oh, though I’m complex
    And have issues by the case,
    Still, I’ll save your necks!
    Just look upon my face!
    I love all things
    Pure, sweet and whimsical!
    I can lead …
    And I can notarize …
    I’m your princess!

  6. David McKenney-Barschall
    June 1, 2013, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Nick is probably immune to standard memetic assaults (i.e., cuteness based heart attacks). Tip is likely not.

    • drbrain
      June 1, 2013, 7:38 am | # | Reply

      but nick *hates* whimsy, in that special enthralled form of “hates” 🙂

  7. Dave Van Domelen
    June 1, 2013, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    I’m wondering if Collodi’s daughter is Tigerlily Jones…mad science IS inheritable….

    • Towering Barbarian
      June 1, 2013, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps Ginny Frog? o_O

    • drbrain
      June 1, 2013, 7:39 am | # | Reply

      dr jones grew up in the suburbs, right? and anyway she’s a grandmaster, not a princess.

      • Rex Vivat
        June 2, 2013, 4:08 am | # | Reply

        Oh dear, here we go again… The robots in the Star Chamber will only reveal the info about Collodi’s daughter to a princess. This does not mean that Collodi’s daughter is a princess, nor does it mean that the princess must be her.

  8. Diane Castle
    June 1, 2013, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    I’m seeing a Nick/Tip team-up. As in Nick yelling, “No FALCON way I’m wearing that frou-frou dress!” And Tip yelling, “But it’s a Gloria Vanderbilt! And you have to put on the makeup that goes with it!”

  9. zobot
    June 1, 2013, 5:18 am | # | Reply

    My money’s on Tip. These guys seem like they’re looking for something that LOOKS like a Princess. This is an opportunity for Tip to go full-on fashionable. He’s the only one who could pull it off.

  10. EmuSam
    June 1, 2013, 8:16 am | # | Reply

    There’s too many people expecting it to be either Tip or Nick. Would Shaenon and Jeffrey really do that? Or would they drag this out, red-herring style, until we’ve divided into two factions over the brink of war and falling onto each others spears, only to pull the reveal that it’s _neither_.

    • paranormalized
      June 1, 2013, 8:29 am | # | Reply

      Hmmm, Gavotte is/has a Queen, among other things, so would Pavane, her daughter, technically qualify? Or would Gavotte herself qualify, if she has a young Queen Bee in her?
      Jonathan Fisher

    • mickeyf
      June 1, 2013, 10:51 am | # | Reply

      But unless they’re going to drop a princess ex machina on us, it has to be someone already on the scene.

      • Frank
        June 1, 2013, 11:47 am | # | Reply

        They’re going to make a princess? With what parts, I wonder?

        • Theattch
          June 2, 2013, 7:26 pm | # | Reply

          Perhaps that’s where Tigerlilly Jones will come back in…

          Or maybe they send Virginia to make a body that qualifies as a princess.

          (Also – my vote’s on Virginia Lee as the princess. Or Collodi’s daughter)

        • Dewy
          June 3, 2013, 10:03 am | # | Reply

          I don’t know how long it takes to make you a princess, but I have it on good authority from another mad scientist that it takes just seven days to make you a man.

  11. eddddd the mad genius
    June 1, 2013, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    I vote for nick, just cause tip would WANT to do it. also it would be hilarious

  12. jdreyfuss
    June 1, 2013, 8:43 am | # | Reply

    Every single metafictional rule of comedy; the rule of funny, opportunities for Gilligan cuts, the rule of last resorts, the unspoken conspiracy rule, even Chekov’s gun; all say Nick will ultimately be the right choice.

    • Dewy
      June 3, 2013, 10:04 am | # | Reply

      Chekov’s rejected makeover?

  13. George Williams
    June 1, 2013, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    “Those data”

    • Jim Baerg
      June 1, 2013, 10:46 am | # | Reply

      “That datum.”

    • Frank
      June 1, 2013, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      “Data” is what is known as an uncountable plural, so either is correct

  14. Shadowmehr
    June 1, 2013, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    Pity about the ears rule. As the favored “daughter” of her creator, who ruled over a small tribe/pack/whatever of intelligent dogs, rabid werewolves, and other mad-science creations, Sweetheart could be considered a princess otherwise.

    I have to admit, I am a fan of the theory of Nick and Tip waging a war of words over who gets to play the princess (and Gavotte having to show up to actually do it).

    • Frank
      June 1, 2013, 11:46 am | # | Reply

      Hmm. I don’t know. “The Princess Bitch” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as “The Princess Bride”

    • Andy4Hire
      June 1, 2013, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

      I had the same thought about Sweetheart’s quasi-princess-like status in Captain Bram’s pack. But you’re right–if Sweetheart was the princess they sought, it seems likely Cunningham would have recognized her as such by now.

      I can see good arguments for Tip and for Nick being the princess, as many have suggested, but nothing that’s convinced me one way or another yet. Meanwhile, what about Dr. Lee? I notice she hasn’t come up much in this thread yet….

      • Rob, Arbiter of Reality
        June 2, 2013, 5:34 am | # | Reply

        Regarding Tip: this goes back to the very beginning of the comic, and the various Frank L. Baum character allusions that have a way of showing up in it. Look at the top Google hit for “Tip Oz”.

  15. Coral
    June 1, 2013, 11:34 am | # | Reply

    nick, Nick, NICK for the princess!!!!
    also, isn’t it amazing that they had a dog-shaped radiation suit? I think Sweetheart looks adogable.

  16. Nonie
    June 1, 2013, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

    Tip. ‘Cause of Ozma, the Patchwork Girl, and the rest.

    –Nonie, who grew up on those books and loved that’n best of all

  17. nemryn
    June 1, 2013, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

    Once again, I’d like to point out that one of the Fairy Tale Princess tropes is that they never swear any stronger than ‘Oh, fiddlesticks!’

    • mage_cat
      June 1, 2013, 4:41 pm | # | Reply

      Yep, they have on hand someone who appears to be a petite young woman as long blonde hair who is utterly incapable of swearing and has a deep knowledge of Whimsy culture. Nick is not getting out of this.

  18. bear
    June 1, 2013, 10:36 pm | # | Reply

    I’ve been sort of wondering about Collodi’s daughter, who has so far remained nameless. I have to admit I’m thinking of ‘Francine Descartes’ as a really awesome name, assuming the to-me-obvious thing about her is true. And hey, it’s in the public domain, so you could use it!

  19. jamesH
    June 1, 2013, 11:17 pm | # | Reply

    of all the people present it has to be Nick
    unity: already disqualified as an animal sidekick
    Swihart: for the exact same reasons
    Tip: although possibly qualified,
    if he goes into that room with anything short of full radiation gear
    he’s dead inside of a month, and I don’t think there going to be convinced
    by anything short of the full Princess get up ,and that is practically suicide
    fora normal human.
    Nick looks like a pretty blonde girl
    he can’t swear, he knows everything whimsy
    and as a robot, he can pull off the outfit, without, you know, dying.
    in addition since they’re all robots, they might expect a princess whose mostly plastic

    • Frank
      June 2, 2013, 10:14 am | # | Reply

      what about the radiation suit and a full princess getup over it?

      • Moor
        June 3, 2013, 2:02 am | # | Reply

        That would be an incredibly hard outfit to pull off, and I think out of all the characters we met, only Tip stands a chance of being able to pull it off.

        On the other hand, I think Tip might possibly stand a chance of being able to pull it off.

  20. Moor
    June 2, 2013, 3:40 am | # | Reply

    It’s totally gonna be Nick.
    It’s one of the rules of a narrativium universe — if you take someone new with you (new body counts!), especially reluctantly, that person will inevitably prove integral to whatever you’re planning.

    Also, Nick just at the end of last plotline got a female body — I don’t think he’s going to make it through this one without having to confront that fact.

    Finally, Nick is currently totally uncomfortable with the female-ness of his body (evidence: https://nickzerhakker.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/14/ ). But, this is a Shaenon Gerrity and Jeffrey Wells production, which means that they’ve totally thought of all things Nick could cosplay as (evidence: same as above), and probably in fact have a page or two each of doodles of that. There is no. possible. way. that they would only go this close to epic cosplaying and not go the whole way. So, Nick will be forced to act the princess here, find/admit that he actually enjoys it (provided he feels like he’s pretending; this is currently being foreshadowed by him admitting he likes the WhimsyCorp characters), and then after he gets back cosplaying the shirt out of everyone.

  21. Knuckles
    January 24, 2022, 11:19 am | # | Reply

    Well the ears are removable, but the Unity s’not.

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