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2019-08-12

by shaenon on August 12, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Salty
    August 12, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    The fire…of love.

    • Person5
      August 12, 2019, 9:18 am | # | Reply

      Let’s strike a match, my dear!
      Set your damper to be open wide
      Let the passion warm you up inside
      It’s the flames of love

    • wizard4169
      September 1, 2021, 3:15 pm | # | Reply

      We didn’t start the fire!

      (Okay, maybe we did…)

  2. Alphaghoul
    August 12, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Okay, so they aren’t from an alternate universe, but why does Trinity want to avoid bloodshed if she’s loyal to Anasigma? And why is Unity calling her B?

    • Robert Nowall
      August 12, 2019, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      As the prototype, she’s A.

    • Frank
      August 12, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      It’s short for… you know what? Let’s stick to Robert’s interpretation

      • Robert Nowall
        August 12, 2019, 12:47 am | # | Reply

        Effin’ A, dude.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 12, 2019, 12:59 am | # | Reply

        Despite a certain logic to Robert’s interpretation, I think you are probably closer to the correct answer… “B”, short for “Beeyatch”.

        • thedoctor55
          August 12, 2019, 2:35 am | # | Reply

          I like awgiedawgie’s interpretation best of all.

        • warpzone32
          August 12, 2019, 6:09 am | # | Reply

          O!

          I C, I C…

        • wykstrad
          August 12, 2019, 2:07 pm | # | Reply

          Really? Based on how it’s used in hip-hop as a term of endearment, I thought “B” was short for “brother,” or possibly “blood.”

          • OneUniverse
            August 12, 2019, 2:54 pm | #

            So “B” is an abbreviation for “bae”? Why use language at all?

    • greenknight32
      August 12, 2019, 9:34 pm | # | Reply

      As for why she seeks to avoid bloodshed – after their experience with the prototype, A-sig probably revised the programming for the nanobots so they no longer seek to kill as their default behavior. Unity taught them that if you’re going to build an unstoppable killing machine it’s best not to give it a hair trigger.

  3. Robert Nowall
    August 12, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    How prototypical.

  4. Robert Nowall
    August 12, 2019, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Lord almighty,
    I feel the threat level rising.
    Hotter, hotter,
    It’s burning through my shoe soles.
    B, B, B, B,
    It’s gonna set us on fire.
    The background is flaming,
    But I know which way it blows.

    Assistance I require,
    Like the sweet smell of a pyre,
    I’m just a prototype
    Of girl, kind of.

    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
    I feel the threat level rising.
    Fighting, I’m claiming
    I’ll pull your head from your spine.
    Burning, burning, burning,
    Your arrogance cools me.
    I just might burn you up,
    And that is fine.

    Your assistance I require,
    Like the sweet smell of a pyre.
    I’m just a prototype
    Of girl, kind of.

    Better act quickly,
    We’re dames who’ve been re-embodied.
    Won’t you fight me?
    I see the flames spread around.
    You make me seethe,
    Now the rest are a-leaving.
    Lord have mercy,
    I’ll take you out where you lay.

    Your assistance I require,
    Like the sweet smell of a pyre.
    I’m just a prototype
    Of girl, kind of.
    Of girl, kind of.
    Ah, ah, girl kind of.
    I’m just a hunk, a hunk of girl, kind of.
    I’m just a hunk, a hunk of girl, kind of.
    I’m just a hunk, a hunk of girl, kind of…

    —from “Burning Love,” Dennis Linde. Sung by Elvis Presley.

    • Daibhid C
      August 12, 2019, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

      Applause!

  5. awgiedawgie
    August 12, 2019, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Oh, goody… Unity’s using Gentle Persuasion again!

  6. palenoue
    August 12, 2019, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me of a scene in an anime I saw a long time ago:
    “Sir, your entrance, while awe-inspiring in it’s drama, has set the castle on fire. We should leave.”

    • Andy4Hire
      August 12, 2019, 6:25 pm | # | Reply

      I have no idea what anime you’re talking about, but in my head it’s now an adaptation of Jeeves and Wooster.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 12, 2019, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t know what anime it is either, but it strikes me as something that could have been said in The Amazing Screw-on Head.

  7. chh01
    August 12, 2019, 1:17 am | # | Reply

    If Unity is the prototype, there should be a Binity in there somewhere.

    • Barbara K
      August 12, 2019, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      That may have been a pre- Beta version that accidentally ate herself.

  8. BMunro
    August 12, 2019, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    Well, if the whole place burns down that at least solves the problem of what to do with the employees.

    • warpzone32
      August 12, 2019, 6:11 am | # | Reply

      I’ll tell you who I feel sorry for.

      All those other disembodied brains out there who won’t be getting their prototype vehicle-bodies back.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 12, 2019, 9:14 am | # | Reply

        They’re all picking walnuts in the rain. They don’t even know they’ve been disembodied. All you’d have to do to make them content is to change the simulation to something pleasant, like the beach.

        • Daibhid C
          August 12, 2019, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

          Sometimes, it just takes one simple phrase, and I’ll suddenly write a filk…

          Woke up one morning, halfway dead,
          Feel like I’ve been extirpated.
          With yellow walnuts scattered in a mix.
          I think I’ve been here years or more,
          I couldn’t stand it any more,
          Saw that I’m in a really dull Matrix.

          I’m just tripping, picking walnuts in the rain,
          Knowing it’s all just in my brain, wanting to change the show.
          I’m just tripping, picking walnuts in the rain,
          Getting the walnuts on the brain, this isn’t gooood!

  9. SVGeezer
    August 12, 2019, 8:17 am | # | Reply

    Starting to remember why I like Skin Horse…

  10. Guesticus
    August 12, 2019, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    Remember, only Commander Badass can control fire (he has it trained) 😀

  11. sweetuncleLESLIE
    August 12, 2019, 10:51 am | # | Reply

    “Train your fires”….I believe I’ve heard that phrase somewhere.

  12. Barking Monkey
    August 12, 2019, 5:32 pm | # | Reply

    So when they BOTH go for the leg sweep as their opening move, do they kick each other in the face?

    • warpzone32
      August 12, 2019, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

      Assuming they both have the exact same moveset, and assuming they both press the button at the same time, neither will have frame advantage, so they should trade hits.

      Of course, that’s a ridiculous set of assumptions. Trinity is a highly-trained, freshly-brainfed professional assassin, whereas Unity is a dangerous amateur on a sugar high!

      • awgiedawgie
        August 12, 2019, 6:11 pm | # | Reply

        Freshly brainfed? She ate a truck. Not a lot there to feed the ol’ grey matter.

        • Bathymetheus
          August 13, 2019, 10:10 am | # | Reply

          What makes you think the truck was empty?

  13. warpzone32
    August 12, 2019, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

    Wait her… Trinity’s parts are literally changing color as we watch. Look at the first panel VS the fourth.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 12, 2019, 6:13 pm | # | Reply

      Going back over the past strips, it’s clear the first panel today was a mistake.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 12, 2019, 6:51 pm | # | Reply

        I haven’t seen what Trinity is wearing in the way of pants. The only below-the-waist glimpse was Trinity’s first appearance, and then Trinity was wearing a trenchcoat.

        (I think I’ll say “Trinity” and not “him” or “her.” I’m not at all sure of that…might even be one of those newfangled pronouns that keep cropping up and confusing us.)

        • awgiedawgie
          August 12, 2019, 8:17 pm | # | Reply

          …and still is wearing a trenchcoat, so it’s not at all hinted what Trinity’s packing upstairs either. I guess I just assumed that Trinity was female, since Unity is the prototype, and she’s female.

          (Not that pants would be any indication at all as to gender, since most of the females wear pants, and Tip wears a dress, and has at least once referred to himself as a man)

          • Robert Nowall
            August 12, 2019, 11:24 pm | #

            Just realized that warpzone32 said “parts,” not “pants.” My squint isn’t what it used to be, and my mind isn’t picking up on every comment like it should.

  14. Shadowmehr
    August 12, 2019, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

    Once again, we see the unfortunate tendency of reality to intrude upon and completely ruin dramatic effect. On the bright side, as BMunro pointed out, this will solve the issue of the employees in short order (one way or another), and the dramatic clash between U.N.I.T.Y. and Trinity will be awesome to behold – until Tip starts yelling for his teammate to get on the Osprey already.

  15. Jon
    December 23, 2019, 5:29 am | # | Reply

    I love how they’re both immediately on the same page.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 23, 2019, 5:37 am | # | Reply

      Well, they are both cut from the same cloth… so to speak.

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