The Last Roomies! Story Ever, Promise: Page 6
on December 22, 2021 at 1:01 amHa! Danny could’ve said something else, and maybe Ruth might’ve lived that night! Sucks to be you, Danny! Chew on that until you die!
Anyway, I gotta go add a “Ruth’s grave” location to the previous 5 strips. This story’s new to an awful lot of you and so I didn’t want to spoil it right out of the gate, but that’s where we are. Surprise!
I purposefully didn’t care about Ruth’s Walkyverse birthday when I gave her one in the Dumbiverse, because that shouldn’t be beholden to trivial details like this if I want to tell a story in another universe, but her birthday here seems to definitely be July 13, not somewhere early in January. Maybe you can pretend it still says January but whoever carved the headstone is just really shitty at centering text.
dang all the dudes grew beards except Walky, huh
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Maybe it’s stylistically off-centered?
Also, if her Dumbiverse birthday’s confirmedly the 13th of January then I suppose we finally have a definitive “anchor point” for Dumbing of Age Season Two, I know there’s been a lot of speculation about that WRT the previously-known Season One timeline/calendar. 😛
Yes! Finally!
Well I hope it’s July 13 because January 13 is MY birthday and that would be weird.
Wait. Did it take the truck six days to kill her?
Time dilation?
*Smells crumpled sedan* “Chrome poisoning. I’d bet my life on it.”
…that…i…
…huh
More seriously, this could be fodder for the “Ruth’s Walkyverse birthdate is January, the headstone engraver was just incompetent” hypothesis of Willis’s.
Evidently, yeah.
I mean… maybe she was in the hospital for a few days and died in care?
Nope. In the storyline in question it’s said that Ruth’s neck snapped and there wasn’t much left of her. She was DOA.
Both this strip and the previous strip say March 19 now. Did it not say that earlier?
I swear yesterday’s date had the 13th.
It did. Willis’s commentary above in this strip even still refers to the 13th.
My copy of Roomies! Book 2 says the 13th.
I was gonna be like “maybe the 13th is when the storyline started and the 19th was the end and Willis was indecisive about what date the storyline canonically happened on”, but nope! No strip at all on the 13th! The 19th is immediately after “no regrets”, where we see the results of the crash.
What would the butterfly effect be from Ruth living?
Rrr…
**breathes heavily**
… must… resist… urge… to pontificate… about Its Walky… Mutants and Masterminds game… yet… again….
I would be very interested in these pontifications!
I am extremely interested!
Danny: She was a very important person to Daddy.
Billie: And to Mommy, right?
Danny:
Billie: And to Mommy, right?
Can Walky actually grow a beard?
dear lord, dj! what a callous kid
To be fair, maybe it’s just an honest appraisal of her father’s value. “Didn’t she save anyone worthwhile?”
1970s. Damn. She’d literally be old enough to be her Dumbiverse self’s mother. Y’know, if she didn’t get her neck snapped in a car accident.
Pretty much all the Walkyverse kids were born in the ’70s, to be fair (Joyce’s canonical Walkyverse birthdate is 5 March 1979, for example); ‘s how they were all able to be in college in the late ’90s, after all.
I don’t know why them being born in the 70s makes me feel old. I was born in the 90s – if anything, I should feel young
For some reason I thought they were born in the early 90s. My bad.
With the floating time scale, the DoA kids from the first strips will probably be old enough to be the parents of their own end-of-the-strip selves.
WAS BORN January 13, 197X
AND THEN DIED ON March 19, 19XX
damn it code didn’t actually center
I can see how it would center in your example, at least?
…okay, so I know the commentary on the previous strip said Ruth died on March 13, 1999, but I’m pretty sure that tombstone says she died on March 19.
Maybe they kept her body on life support until they were certain there was no hope of recovery.
That was my first thought, but that raises the questions of the “broken neck” and “nothing left” that were mentioned in Roomies!.
People often say “nothing left” when someone is braindead on life support. My theory is she was on life support for a bit and Danny was in a coma or something, explaining how she took six days to die while Joe also made the comment of Ruth’s body being “downstairs” when Danny woke up
…Danny being in a coma for a few days would make the timeline more plausible. And Ruth already having been dead for a few days would explain why Billie wasn’t any madder at Danny than she was.
Or maybe someone misinformed said something wrong? Why do people assume fictional characters are better informed than the real people they encounter every day? As for the dates, what relevance does that have in dramatic terms? You’ve missed the whole point If you’re more concerned about the dates on the tombstone than the characters grappling with the death of their friend.
It matters to some people because they notice the inconsistency and it yanks them out of the story. That doesn’t make it a big deal, but it happens.
And it’s kinda hard for them to be wrong about ‘Ruth died instantly’ when they’re in the hospital and know whether or not an alive Ruth is there or not.
That or the person putting the words on the tombstone was horribly incompetent and got the date of her death wrong.
Great!! On my next birthday I can add Ruth Leese to the “Famous people born this day” list!
Ruth Lesse, of course. Leese goes in the list with Harrison Foord and the others.