Tomodachi Age 4 Anno
So apparently the characters you create in this game can just… ship themselves, get married and have babies, who grow into school-age kids before your eyes? I guess they don’t really need us to create any more virtual characters at this point, do they? Maybe they’ve already taken over social media. When I worry about mechanical self-replication, I tend to think grey goo, not avatars having avatar babies.
Frigg and Best. They’re the series’ most sexually fluid stars and they’ve demonstrated their sexual compatibility more than once. But in the early days of the strip, neither of them were the settling-down kind, and the more sensitive and vulnerable Best of later days was not a good match for the still-crass Frigg.
Still, I guess it’s not the most unlikely ship between major characters I could imagine (if we’re limiting ourselves to ships that could produce biological offspring, that’d probably be Carol and Gravedust).
That toothy grin of Frigg’s and the way Grace here replicates it is probably the visual highlight of Tomodachi Age.
How comes Grace isn’t tagged? :p
I guess there’s precedent… okay, done.
Carol and Gravedust? How would they be able to produce biological offspring? Wouldn’t that have to be Gravedust’s player? As I understood it all, that person is no longer able to do anything except host Gravedust’s mind.
Also: Iwatani and Syr’Nj seems still a little less likely (although maybe Iwatani doesn’t count as “major”). In Sepia world, the least likely couple is certainly Shanna and JJ.
Although wildly unlikely for several reasons, the prospect of other characters besides HR crossing between the universes– in either direction– strikes me as not impossible.
That is taking a rather Douglas Adams-ian (successfully developing an infinite improbability generator was deemed virtually impossible, but /virtually/ impossible things was just what the the finite improbability generator had been developed for), but I guess I’d have to agree. You and Flo are the only people entitled to any canonical knowledge whether crossing from Arkerra to Sepia World is possible at all, but in the other direction, this has been demonstrated.
Although, wouldn’t Shannah be the less likely Sepia World participant? The anti-fantasy journalist dating an MMORPG character? Although I’m not sure who would be the least likely counterpart. Ardaic, because he’s not even a player character? Sundar maybe, but he’s not on an A-lister.
> In Sepia world, the least likely couple is certainly Shanna and JJ.
Eh, I dunno. It’s certainly not a good ship, because JJ’s crazy and violent, but there’s a level of passionate dislike in their interactions that suggests that if they’d met under different circumstances, there might be a spark there.
At this point in the story, though, I think it is absolutely too late for them to consider if they maybe started off on the wrong foot or something. At least I cannot imagine JJ saying anything in that vein without it being a horribly badly veiled threat.
What’s really bizarre that I hadn’t noticed before is how they are all Miis, which basically have that little nub for hand. Yet for panel 5…
I can explain this, actually! You see, the premise of Tomodachi Life is that you, the player, are interacting directly with the Miis. Sometimes that’s represented as a hyper-realistic hand coming into frame to do something for the Miis, like here, where parent Miis will ask you to hold the baby and calm it down – which you accomplish by gently rocking the Nintendo 3DS
Yeah, Tomodachi Life was weird.
Oh that’s crazy haha, thank you for the insight!
Just out of curiosity, was the name Grace chosen or randomly generated?
Random.
Grace’s maniacal potty training face makes this all worth it.
> if we’re limiting ourselves to ships that could produce biological offspring
Did you and Flo come up with a full set of canonical in-universe rules on which races were and weren’t compatible, or were you just playing it by ear whenever it came up? Not important, just curious – I could see it going either way with regard to something like dwarves and gnomes, for example.
We were definitely playing it by ear, with one exception: we established half-elves were a thing before we even scripted the first page. Honestly, though, I expect a lot of races are physically capable of interbreeding but just haven’t for cultural or historical reasons, and the few exceptions are often kept out of sight thanks to the same taboos. Not all races, though: the land sharks probably just spawn.