#691: "Thanks, Fighter."

[Kurosen]

Ain't seen that in a while.

[Sam_Drugbringer]

No Debora outfit upgrade? Aww.

[Aragrine]

And this time theres no VGCats comic on top of it!

[Darkmoon]

That's great. =P

Reminds me of another old comic I saw - clipped out of a newspaper I think -

Two soldiers, one in a dress, jewelry and all - "Oh, ELEPHANTS, I thought you said we'd cross the alps with ELEGANCE!"

[Burkion]

Holy hells yes! Debra LIVES! ...and is gay.

[MetalPsycho]

...Ouch. This hurt my fragile little mind.

Damnit Red Mage!

[Nucleus]

Holy hells yes! Debra LIVES! ...and is gay. What, now?

[Burkion]

"Reporting for duty!"

Anyone else wondering what any guy in a dress would do for a job? On a regular basis?

Face it, Thief hides his poney in RM every night.

[Nucleus]

'Kay.

[Sam_Drugbringer]

You riled up the board once, it's not happening again.

[POS Industries]

GODDAMMIT BURKION!!!

*cough*

Anyway, there were enough choice lines in that make me giggle for somewhere between 10 minutes and a couple days. I haven't decided yet.

[greed]

Yay!
That VG Cats comic appearing had me thinking you weren't going to do a strip today.
CROSS CHECKING!

[Skit]

"Reporting for duty!"

Anyone else wondering what any guy in a dress would do for a job? On a regular basis?

Face it, Thief hides his poney in RM every night.


... Okay, I. You. They.

... Let's all agree that what Thief and Red Mage do in the tent is their own business.

[Attila]

Eaaagh! RM must die NOW.

[Kroze Gamegod]

I.... I....I....
I just can't HANDLE it!!
Ahhhrrrggg!!!

No more, dear god...
I thought she was gone forever...
I even figured me mentioning it a few episodes back would make sure she stayed gone....
I feel a lot like BM right now....
Why Brian, just why?

[FlyingCow371]

cross checking...cross dressing...it's a common mistake, especially when the airsub you're currently occupying is starting up and being loud. ...RM was remarkably swift with that, though

[Lord Kibble]

Whoa, what is Princess Sara doing there?

Wait a sec, that's not...

YHGLARGBLE!

[Fifthfiend]

Ain't seen that in a while.

Oh man. It was sorely missed.

No Debora outfit upgrade? Aww.

This I also agree with.

cross checking...cross dressing...it's a common mistake, especially when the airsub you're currently occupying is starting up and being loud.

Oh man, if I had a dollar for every time I was on a submarine and accidentally ended up wearing a dress!

... I'd have four dollars and fifty cents.

[Kroze Gamegod]

Tonight was going good,
I ordered a couple of DVD's, Ana-Lucia is finally dead, I took out the trash with no pants...
And then Debora appears and it all falls apart...
And Cross Dressing sounds NOTHING like Cross Checking even when there is a ton of noise...
RM was just waiting for his perfect chance to make people suffer...
And so he has....

R.I.P. Happyness and Butterflies...

[Thetri222]

I'm now taking bets in regards to how long RM stays in the dress. I say four comics. Just long enough to scar the 8 bit audience for life.

[rodent347]

What's with Fighter's feet in panel 4?

[catlover20410]

Dammit, Theif, tell him you made it all up.

:thief: But I don't wanna!

...WHY DO THESE GUYS KEEP WANDERING INTO MY POSTS!? OUT OUT OUT OUT!

[Rocketlex]

As for how long he'll keep it on, I don't see RM wearing the outfit longer than one more comic. Long enough for Thief/BM to say "RM, would you take that damn dress off and help me with (inevitable, life-threatening situation)?"

[ElfLad]

But.. how would RM interpret that question?

:redmage: I'll take off the dress if you take off that confining armor, Fighter!

[blackmind]

Debora Returns!!!!!!!

[Invisible Queen]

When RM said "On it" I thought he'd tackle something. . . cross-checking as in ice hockey you know. But for him to have such selective hearing, and be so ready to jump into a dress, well that's funnier. :)

ATOMIC BATTERIES TO POWER!
TURBINES TO SPEED!

[zealshadow]

I think RM just will take any excuse to cross-dress.

[The Wandering God]

You guys do realize you can wear a dress and still be straight, right? It just means that RM occasionally delves into transvestite territory.

I point towards Eddie Izzard. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard)

And I think that's Fighter bending at the knees. With what he says, I get the image of a tv kid's host.

Anyone else notice that he didn't immediately try to smack Fighter for being annoying? Probably nothing, but I felt it was worth mentioning.

The Wandering God

[dark butterfree]

Has Theif ever hurt Fighter?
He probably just assumed that Black Mage would do it, or that Fighter simply wasn't worth smacking.

[greed]

Or Thief's smart enough to realise that smacking Fighter leads to one of several things

-Breaking his hand on the plate armour or Fighters head

-Fighter's block ability is an auto reflex now, and Thief's hand gets cut off by lightning fast blades before Fighter realises what he's doing, resulting in Thief stealing BM's newly reattatched hand, and RM as Debora dabbling in surgery again, and not even Thief or BM are evil enough to want that to happen to anyone or anything, let alone themselves.

[Trixbeat]

I gotta admit, I'm impressed the death trap is working as an airship right now. Although that probably means its definitely not going to work as an airsub.

[Seran]

-Hysterical laughter!-

Oh by ye gods, I can't stop...that was...too funny...Debora's back! Whoo!

Looks like this episode also teaches that you can't use metaphors around Fighter...

[Sky Warrior Bob]

No Debora outfit upgrade? Aww.

I'll get right on that, just after I gouge out my eyes.

Although, I'm not certain, but I think Debora's eyebrow may be different. I'm just too lazy to get back & check for certain.

SWB

[Sam_Drugbringer]

Thanks for the afirmative SWB! Oh wait, don't you need eyes? or have you evolved some new sort os Spriteing apendage to further your work that can double as eyes.

BTW, the sprites are the same, unless Brian did one of his "retroactivly change the entire archives" but that would make no sence.

[Satan's Onion]

Fellas...it's a simple, curve-hugging red dress. Does it really need an "upgrade"? Don't try to fix what isn't broken.

[greed]

In what way could RM in a dress not be broken?

[Satan's Onion]

Well, the dress *itself* isn't broken, innit? And Red Mage is just...um...in touch with certain aspects of his personality. Like his perceived issues with his father.

[Art of Hilt]

Debora...

Oh dear...

MY EYES ARE BLEEDING NOW!
...
Now they stopped. No proble-MY RETINAS!

[Jared Todd]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e40/jaremiah_todd/redmageupgrade.png
Started one already... just didn't finish it.

Really, the title of this thread should have been called "Cross Checking". That was the best part! Besides the "SHROOOOMSH!"

[Quickman X]

But.. how would RM interpret that question?

:redmage: I'll take off the dress if you take off that confining armor, Fighter!
Oh.
My.
God. *nosebleed*
...actually, I wouldn't be surprised. Nonetheless... I suppose Fighter wears clothes under his armor...
That comic was just pure, evil sadism. My eyes burned out and fell to the library floor when I saw it.
At school.

[Dark Assassin]

Damn it, Red Mage...

I bet it is times like these that Thief regrets messing with Red Mage's head. If Black Mage was in the cockpit, he probably woulda stabbed Red Mage for the dress, then Thief for messing with him in the first place...

...Or at least if I was BM I woulda...

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Thanks for the afirmative SWB! Oh wait, don't you need eyes? or have you evolved some new sort os Spriteing apendage to further your work that can double as eyes.

You're really not from Guildford, are you?

SWB

[MFD]

I find it funny that everyone is so distressed at Debora. It's not the first time, even.

[Vidihawk]

I'm reminded of 3rd graders, hearing that two people kissed. One decides it's an "EEEEWWWW!" moment, and it goes down the line.

Soon, the poor teacher is surrounded by a mass of prepubescent children screaming "EWWW!!!" and rolling on the ground to show just how much more disgusted each one is than their neighbor.

*sigh* I find it remarkable that BlackBelt spewing gallons of blood from his half-head gets giggles from half of the people here. But a guy in a dress? OOOH No! Let's gouge out our eyes!

... asses.

[Lucis]

Well, I was wondering when Red Mage's transvestite urges would strike again. I wonder if he has some feat or somesuch that makes getting into different clothes a partial or free action - I think this is the fastest crossdressing he's ever done.

Anyway, we have learned something about Fighter's psyche - in his mind, a "thank you" is not only appreciation, but encouragement to continue as well. He also seems to have a grasp of mnemonic devices, though, knowing him, he probably would give you a blank stare if you referred to them as such.

We also see that Black Mage doesn't have the strongest grasp of technology around. Not surprising there, seeing as he's devoted his life to the proactive annihilation of whatever and thus would have little time for things such as mechanical theory and airsub operation - as far as I can tell, he believes (quite possibly correctly) that any problem that confronts him that cannot be solved by excessive magical violence and/or stabbitification exists solely to make him miserable.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Let's gouge out our eyes!

I only suggested that I'd gouge out my eyes , if I were forced to sprite RM into a fancy ball gown. RM can wear all the dresses he wants, but spriting that sort of thing I find disturbing & wrong.

So I don't do it & you can't make me, so N'yah!

SWB

[Vidihawk]

I only suggested that I'd gouge out my eyes , if I were forced to sprite RM into a fancy ball gown. RM can wear all the dresses he wants, but spriting that sort of thing I find disturbing & wrong.

So I don't do it & you can't make me, so N'yah!

SWB

Yeah, I figured you weren't being amazingly childish about it, but your line fit so well into my rant, I just couldn't pass it up. :o

[Burkion]

I'm telling yall; what OTHER duty would 'Debra' have OTHER then pleasing Thief? On a nightly basis?

Face it: RM is about as straight as the Gay Pride Parade.

And Thief is an Elf, thusly naturally bi.

[Telephalsion]

Oh man, if I had a dollar for every time I was on a submarine and accidentally ended up wearing a dress!

... I'd have four dollars and fifty cents.


So one time you only got into half a dress, or did you go for a bikini?

[Seran]

I'm not disgusted at the idea that Red Mage thought he had gender problems in the past. I'm not disgusted at the fact he's wearing a dress as he did three-hundred-something comics ago or less. In fact, I think it's a unique part of his ever-growing personality.

Why do I say ever-growing? Well, he did show absolute cruelty toward Chocobos by creating a crime against nature with them and fiddling with their genes.

Maybe he'll develop more of a cruelty toward other things while still being Debora.

[Burkion]

S&M! So THAT'S why Thief has been hitting RM alot more here lately, he hasn't said the safe word yet!

[Vidihawk]

S&M! So THAT'S why Thief has been hitting RM alot more here lately, he hasn't said the safe word yet!

If you're so turned on by the idea, why don't you write some slash fiction and be done with it? Don't these forums have a fiction section?

[Paladin Leon]

Wathcing UN-Class changed Debora Mage prance around asking for duty really makes me cry. Alot. Like, releasing dam water. Like niagra falls. Debora Mage needed an upgrade too. Like an EPS costume.

[Black Sword]

Even Black Mage has limits to his evil. Debora makes it clear Brian does not. When does Black Mage get his next hadoken? My bleeding retinas and traumatized brain demand excessive bloodshed.

[happy_turtle]

Now that I think about it...it has been a while since BM has used a hadoken. Or at least tell Theif's secret to RM just to get him out of the dress. Either that or there will be lots of stabbings to ensue in the next comic.

[Number 81]

I thought it was Evil Princess Sara there for a minute. In one second my hopes were lifted to the skies and shot down. *sigh*

[bass_virus]

Well we have confermation, RM is still a Cross Dresser even though he's found out they were ideas put into his head by Theif.

[Mauve Mage]

...Did he ever figure that out? I thought Thief just told Black Mage, not Red Mage. Or am I forgetting an episode?

[PCD]

Amusing lines all around. I can't help but love that little interaction between Thief and Fighter. And, of course, it makes me so happy to see the dress back. I particularily enjoy the fact that RM pushed Fighter out of the way to obey the command. He's just so eager!

Though, the rest of you are being pretty ridiculous about this. Cross dressing and homosexuality are NOT the same thing, remember? Red Mage has never shown any obvious interest in men. Or at least as far as I can remember. Prove me wrong if I am. But if you want to interpret things, sure, have fun. But remember, as far as we know, RM's straight as a slightly warped board.

I'm still drawing ThiefxRM slash, though.

[Kila_angel]

uh-huh.....the part where RM appeared as Deborah was preeeetttty funny to me. "Dat b'the outrageous cross-dresser who took my special attack!!!" *WDF?!* It was weird how RM just heard 'cross-checking' incorrectly. Weird but hilarious. =D

[Takari]

I think this whole shock over RM crossdressing is absurd. Especially all the gay comments.

Homosexuality has nothing to do with crossdressing. In fact, most crossdressers are heterosexual men, a good portion of what's left are transsexuals (which could be debated aren't really crossdressing at all since they are really girls), and almost none are homosexuals.

You're most likely thinking of the loudest group of crossdressers, commonly known as drag queens. These aren't standard crossdressers, and are in reality, an extremely small portion of them. Drag queens are entertainers, usually homosexual, who crossdress as part of an act.

Drag Queens are about as accurate a representation of the standard crossdressing population as Hollywood is of the rest of America.

Simply put, Deborah is obviously not a drag queen, as she is not for anyone's entertainment. And she appears to not be something sexual. The only thing Deborah is, is something of comfort to RM, and possibly something just plain fun to do.

...

Now on the aspect of homosexuality. Being gay requires two things, and two things alone...

1. The subject is male.
2. The subject is sexually attracted to other males.

That's it. No matter how effeminate a man is, no matter how unmanly, no matter if he likes crossdressing, he isn't gay. He is gay if, and ONLY IF, he is sexually attracted to other men.

We have never seen Red Mage show any sexual interest in other men, so we cannot assume he is gay.

...

Now, deeper into RM's sexuality, I've yet to see him show any androphilia, much less gynephilia. Nor bisexuality, or even autophilia.

The sole basis on which we can guess at RM's sexuality is based on his crossdressing then. This is a very rough spreadout, as statistics vary widely on this subject. So rather than offer inaccurate percentages, I'll offer fractions.

3/5 hetrosexual male (straight)
9/25 transsexual female (MtF)
1/25 homosexual male (gay)

Fractions rule your world (not!). *yawn* Like I said, those are estimates only, but that means approximately 60% of crossdressers are straight males, around 35% are transsexuals, and 5% are gay.

...

So in conclusion: QUIT STERIOTYPING! (-_-*)

Okay, I've said my piece.

[Jared Todd]

1. The subject is male.
2. The subject is sexually attracted to other males.

That's it. No matter how effeminate a man is, no matter how unmanly, no matter if he likes crossdressing, he isn't gay. He is gay if, and ONLY IF, he is sexually attracted to other men.

Dammit! I really thought I was going to get away with it that time, but then you said "if he is sexually attracted to other men.".

But, really, if all the discussion is going to be about how RM is gay, and it takes up more posts than a normal topic when there isn't actually anything to talk about anyway, you guys are ridiculously sad (shut up, I know I'm an elitist prick, but I'm not an elitist prick that talks about stoopidyti!). Besides, all this talk about RM could easily go into a different topic. If all the posts solely about "Oh Em Gee Whut-ff!! Errdmige is teh ghay!!!111eleven" were shipped into an individual topic, then we'd probably have a little less than 3 pages. Probably. So shut up-a yo mouf and talk about somefin' good far a change, ah!

[Seran]

Go Takari, whoot! I'm sorry Jared.

But for being on topic, well, that's always a major thing in these threads. Everyone should know that. If not, then they'd better learn quick...

Something seems off. Normally I don't think Fighter would say anything if in Thief's presence, and Thief saying that they should 'get this bird in the air'. Fighter'd probably stand there and think to himself instead, attempting to sort out what Thief meant by bird. Now it seems he's formed an individual opinion on the spot and made an argument, even if he still maintained his slight stupidity. Does anyone find this odd, or is it just me?

[BlackMageFF1]

When RM said "Reporting for duty!" it was probably just because, Thief asked him to cross-dress (or so he thought) and now he's asking what Thief wants him to do in the dress. (Shut up, I know what yu're thinking you pervs)

When you said Deborah was something fun for RM to do, it reminded me of a little 5-year-old that walks around in a dress for fun.

[Invisible Queen]

Statistically, someone in the recurring cast should be homosexual. I don't think it's a big deal. The only one who seems to have a sex drive is BM. . .

Hey, wouldn't it be fun if BM turned out to be gay?

[BlackMageFF1]

BM will kill all gay people... and straight people for that matter

Go Takari, whoot! I'm sorry Jared.

But for being on topic, well, that's always a major thing in these threads. Everyone should know that. If not, then they'd better learn quick...

Something seems off. Normally I don't think Fighter would say anything if in Thief's presence, and Thief saying that they should 'get this bird in the air'. Fighter'd probably stand there and think to himself instead, attempting to sort out what Thief meant by bird. Now it seems he's formed an individual opinion on the spot and made an argument, even if he still maintained his slight stupidity. Does anyone find this odd, or is it just me?

I believe Fighter has the intelligence of a normal person, he just likes acting stupid to annoy BM and Thief. He's also a little naive.

[greed]

BM and Fighter are straight, they like girls(EPS for Fighter, WM and to a lesser extent Kary (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=041023) for BM) then again there is this (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=041002) and this (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=051029) (but the formers just Fighter's naivty and the latter classifies as a cross between masturbation and necrophilia).

RM is not gay, he is something completely perverted that has nothing to do with his crossdressing (which isn't sexual, just wierd and caused by his fictional child abuse thanks to Thief),what he is, is something to do with Chocobo voyeurism (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=060321) ("I never said I had to")and experience (http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=041221).

So yeah, guess who that leaves to be the statistically probable homosexual.

[Black Sword]

Thief? Gay? Sheesh, if Thief were real, I think he'd sue you for perpetuating unfair elf stereotypes.

[Halo2994]

I think if would be fitting if at some point RM and his alter ego have it out Death Match style.

All this talk about RM’s sexuality is cool.

But am I the only one who is wondering what the rhyme fighter was talking about is?

-halo (I’m such a noob)

[Seran]

I like to think it's something along the lines of, "By the by, birds can fly, can fly so high straight into the sky." Other than that, not really.

[greed]

Thief? Gay? Sheesh, if Thief were real, I think he'd sue you for perpetuating unfair elf stereotypes.

Just stating the statistically probable because the others have been eliminated, and besides why else would he want RM in a dress?

[Burkion]

*To himself* BWAHAHAH! Soon, Thief/RM will be on the board again, in full circle I will come to power again...muwahahahahaha...just like 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'.

[Jared Todd]

That's been over and done with...