Elastic waists
on December 3, 2020 at 1:01 amOne thing I do regret is not giving Joyce and Walky some twins instead of just lil’ Machete, if only so that when I got around to drawing from Maggie and I’s experiences to do It’s Pregnancy!, I could’ve leaned harder on some specifics.
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I was wondering if there wasn’t an Anna somewhere offscreen during the wedding and we only saw Bobby at the time
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(sneak it in!)
oh yeah Walky did want Bobby and Anna in that one page.
Problem is there’s now an Anna in DoA.
There are also two Rachels. And?
Does Mrs. Brown really think it’s gonna be 9 months between now and Joyce and Walky’s wedding? Or does she somehow think Joyce is already pregnant?
She’ll start to show well before nine months…
Is the fact that Machete is their kid a spoiler at this point? I forget
Head Alien kinda went over that with all the EVERYONE’S KIDS
Plus Machete laid out his entire backstory to HAII in their first meeting.
No matter what universe she’s in Carol has trouble seeing Joyce as anything but an extension of herself and a means to achieve her own desires.
Anyone can ask for a premarital grandchild-in-the-making from their daughter. It takes a visionary to ask for twins.
or an awareness of family history
To be honest this version of Carol isn’t as bad as her DoA counterpart. The other one was just infuriating to an outrageous degree but this one’s just cringy.
Who do you think will die first?
Her mother, from being mauled to death by a wild joyce?
Or joyce? From suicide/embarrassment
Complications from attack on Soggies
It is kind of weird that you wrote stories about fictional fraternal twins for 20+ years, then happened to have a real set of fraternal twins.
ARE they? I figured it was more likely they’re identical and I didn’t see Willis specifying either
Walky and Sal? I mean, they could be–certainly they resemble each other closely enough to be identicals–but given their respective phenotypes… you’d expect them to be fraternal, not identical.
In which case twins running on Walky’s side of the family is irrelevant, because those run on the gestating side of the genetics–they’re the result of multiple eggs being released during ovulation to allow for multiple conceptions to happen. Whereas identical twins can run on either side because they are the result of an embryo splitting down the middle early enough of for that to still work out okay; they’re a function of cell division, not ovulation.
On the other hand, I’m over here speculating that maybe Walky and Sal were originally conceived as fraternal twins, of which one twin then went on to split into identicals and of which one of those identicals merged back with the fraternal twin, making a chimera of two different genotype who could then develop normally enough phenotypically that it was never obvious enough to anyone to get clocked and talked about in canon? (Probably Sal’s the chimera, in that case.)
I mean, there ARE a lot of things that can cause the same genetics (ie identical twins) to present differently in phenotype but most of them are environmental and some of them happen in the recombination (which precedes conception and therefore identical twinning), and a lot of environmental differentiation happens after they’re born and would be unlikely to cause an alteration in un-altered sexual development?
…that said, actually, identical twins and Sal being XY and having complete androgen insensitive syndrome where Walky did not would… fit pretty well? (Except for how the hell she ended up with it and Walky didn’t.) Most people with AIS get diagnosed, in the modern era, when they seek medical care regarding having failed to start menarche. Would Sal have bothered? Plausible enough she just didn’t, it’s not a concern if she’s not trying to have a kid. …except, hrm, on the other hand we do have the alternate universe kids? Didn’t Sal have a kid with Jason in one of them? Which suggests she’s fertile in that dimension, at least. Ah well, it was a thought.
I mean, they’re both fucking super soldiers and it’s not like Mom’s genetics aren’t kind of fucky already; who the fuck even knows what all knock-on effects that and HA’s fuckery had on their development!
…anyway, please pardon the excessive geekery, biology is my nerdery of choice, lol.
no, Chase and Zack ↓
*facepalm* I mean, I figured that out…after I’d already posted.
OH WELL, speculating on the weirdness that is how identical Walky and Sal are given they’re fraternals was still fun for me, if not for anyone else. XD
Sometimes I end up talking to myself publicly, too, haha
Writing stuff down is great, tho, in case of question (forgetfulness, gaslighting, etc.)
I could’ve sworn there was a post somewhere (probably Tumblr) that said the boys are fraternal twins, but that post is probably almost as old as they are and Tumblr search sucks so I can’t find it.
Shouldn’t the next strip be up by now?
Yeah I’m very confused
I hope everything’s alright…
he tweeted 13 minutes ago 🤔
of course it double-updates while I’m checking something and forget the time