i don’t think lottie’s guess as to what will happen is actually right, but sorry, gotta agree with her if that IS the case (as this reply is kind of implying?). a group of grown-ass women threatening a child does not look good lmao. not defending the little shit at all though
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rustyhearts
God forbid women do anything 😔
(Everyone’s just gonna have to wait and see 😊🤐)
anyway we still don’t know what happened but it’s interesting how multiple commenters expect it to be a 100% guarantee that the parents of a little white boy will punish him for allegedly hurting a little black girl even though the only adult that was around when that happened claims to have seen nothing.
im sure the parents of the little blond sweetie will just take the girl’s mom’s word for it that it happened and do something about it, right?
Hey now! That sounds suspiciously like you’re noticing real world patterns about how white privilege works! Better be careful or you might start saying something like male privilege exists and we don’t want that! Best just to ignore any and all patterns of violence or inequality between those who have power and those who don’t!
You gotta love that this is a fictional no name white boy and mfers STILL immediately going “hey now listen lets not jump to conclusions and be too serious here maybe he didn’t do anything that bad!”
I’m excited to see where this will go!!! I feel like whatever Violet has in mind isn’t so outrageous, but I don’t really care what happens to him. REVENGE FOR FAITH🗣❗️ anyway thanks for referencing my fan art in the last page… im so happy… i love ari… stares at you with big wet eyes
Gosh, these comments are a bit wild lmao. Maybe my theory as to what happened keeps me from understanding why so many comments are up in arms for this boy. Personally I get a very sick feeling from the fact that Faith has become withdrawn since the incident with that boy. To me, that speaks to sexual harassment. If not that then I fully believe he harassed her in a very specific way such as attacking her on basis of her race.
Faith becoming withdrawn speaks to a whole lot of shame. This boy did something that makes her not want to disclose it because it’s embarrassing for her to have to admit what happened to her. The incident with this boy gives me a really sinister feeling. All that being said, I don’t understand the people going to bat for this kid. Faith is a child, too. Go to bat for her.
P.S. Is the driver practicing male solidarity? That’s the vibe I get.
Sis ON GOD. They’re really acting like the Yonique staff goes around beating disrespectful boys vigilant style. Also, I’m sorry, but it’s very obvious to the strategy Violet is pointing at if you’ve ever been in that situation. This whole comment section is just full of people who always assume the worse and jump into dooming conclusions out of a social media reflex. It is what it is.
I had the same thought. i half wonder if he was ‘trying to find out if she is actually a girl or not,’ which is a kind of bullying and harassment plenty of young GNC girls get— not to mention even grown GNC women.
Also lol not loving but not shocked at the the weird homophobia mixed with racism from the other comments, why are yall assuming they’re going to be big mean lesbians beating up this ‘poor widdle boy’ and not just like. 1) based on my theory show that plenty of grown women look like faith and 2) be kind of intimidating like ‘don’t fuck with her, she’s got a family behind her.’
y’all’s families never did that shit when someone in your family got bullied lol? yall are weird as hell 😭
Seeing that there are a lot of comments already: Intrigue. Seeing that some are jumping to defend Lil Shithead because they think these women will actually full-on threaten a kid and not just, y’know, intimidate him by just being there, as a group, practicing the female solidarity we all wish we had more of in this world: Sorrow. (And even if they do actually threaten him with violence… should we really care? The boy isn’t even real. 😅)
Bro imagine next page is just these three jumping the fuckin’ kid jejejejeje
Guys relax, it’s fucking Rusty, chance has it they just gonna walk Faith to school and make presence to let her know they got her back and indicate to other kids she ain’t alone with her mama only.
Ya’ll really made it look like they planning a drive through on the kid’s block; CAMAN….
I get the impulse to give some benefit of the doubt to a no-name boy we’ve never seen before who only acted offscreen. But I also want to save that same benefit of the doubt to Violet, Ruth, and Best Bouncers Crew. If I’m not willing to assume the worst about what that random boy did, it makes no sense for me to assume the worst about what Violet is planning either. After all, I’ve seen how Violet looks out for Faith!
She didn’t get into an argument with Blaire, even though it would’ve been very easy to blow up and tell her off, because her daughter needed her to rest and not get dragged into a fight. Violet puts Faith first, and that means choosing her battles and fighting them wisely. So whatever she’s planning, I bet it’ll be calculating, proportionate, and satisfying.
(Also, depending on what he did, I may or may not care if the ladies take Drastic Action like some commenters fear. Boys who do vile things and get sheltered from consequences by family and authorities… grow up to be men who do vile things and expect no consequences.)
Yeah, I agree with Lottie honestly, even if he has done something bad to Faith (which obviously I don’t condone), the solution shouldn’t be a bunch of adults honing in on a 10 year old , that’s just messed up. The best way to address this would be to talk to the boy’s parents and maybe to the boy himself if they think he’s mature enough to have this conversation.
LMAO, why is this the thing that sets people off? I guess I can’t be too surprised, considering how much interest there was in Nicholas back when he showed up, too, but this one is more baffling because we’ve only seen this shithead do something to provoke Faith. Fuck ‘im, he needs to learn a lesson, and sometimes scaring the shit out of a kid (not even with violence, necessarily!) works wonders.
Yesss more Violet! She’s one of my favourites 🥰 hope that kid learns his lesson but more importantly I hope Faith feels better and can move on from whatever nasty business! 💜
By one hand, I hope that lil’ shit and his parents aren’t “he beats her because he loves her”, because I’ll go find them and taught them a lesson to not make your kid a next Chris.
By other, I want to smoosh Faith and tell her this is not her fault and she’s a wonderful kiddo. I’m glad she has a strong bond of adults willing to stand up for her rather than telling her “boys will be boys, am I right?”.
ffs A 10 yr old boy is not going to be traumatized for life by a group of women threatening him, if that’s even what’s going to happen (we don’t know). He’ll be scared off from bothering Faith. That’s it. There’s absolutely no guarantee the parents will do anything–parents of bullies usually don’t–and giving that kid a scare is probably in his best interest since if he keeps up this kind of behaviour, someone else might do a lot worse than scare him.
Anyway, when I was 8 a boy close in age punched me in the stomach. I went home crying and my mom went back to the park with me and marched right up to that little shit and put the fear of an angry mother into him. He never touched me again.
Honestly what I see is Faith gets off the bus and a) lights up at the fact that she has a solid support system waiting for her and b) her little
bully is gonna know that anything he does won’t go unnoticed. They don’t have to do anything to make their point besides be there
Heyo no worries!
Can only give info about my own experiences from when I was in school, so it’ll probably vary depending on the aussie you ask and which state/territory + city/town she attended in.
School 1:
Dedicated school bus for students only.
We got on just outside our primary school (ages 6-12) paid a fare of $2 every day, dropped kids off at various rural stops. Got into town, picked up highschoolers (13-17) and moved tf out of their way because they were not kind to smaller children. Made self as small as possible until stop. Walk 10 minutes home.
Had a grumpy old boot with a soft heart bus driver, reminds me a lot of Ruth. Her name was Erika. She knew us all by name and sometimes said funny things when in a good mood.
Once, when we were stuck in road works a kid asked her “Erika don’t you wish you had the magic school bus, so we could fly over the other cars?”
Without missing a beat she said “no I wish I had a magic bulldozer so I could plough through these fucking morons.”
Blessed woman.
She did try to catch highschoolers bullying when she could, couldn’t always while focusing on the road.
School 2:
Dedicated school bus for primary schoolers. Multiple schools. Got on outside of school. Had a bus-pass system that you pay $30 for a bus card one time and you get bus rides all the way through primary and high school.
We were the first school to get on. Already absolute chaos. Kids would take off the foam covers from the top of the seats and bash eachother with them. Throw stuff out of windows. Hang off the hand railing to kick other kids. The works.
Back seats were the cool (aka oldest) kids’ turf. Learned this the hard way. Sat down in a seat that belonged to a boy a year older (and a head taller) than me. He spat in my face, ripped up my school books and threw me over the seat when I refused to budge from ‘his’ seat.
We became somewhat friendly however, when kids from other schools piled on, especially the local Christian school. They were the true ferals so we had to put our differences aside and defend the long back seat bench from their unworthiness. Lmfao.
We had 2 rotating bus drivers, neither of which cared about kid on kid violence as long as you didnt disrupt them driving (some kids were indeed stupid enough to throw things in their direction). Therr was Dazza, the chiller of the two who was chummy with all the boys who liked football. And Bazza, reedy old conspiracy nut who thought 9/11 was fake and would tell us to be careful of “cyber waves” put out by computers.
Bus stopped at a high school which is where lots of us had to make a switch to another bus that was actually open to the public. And high schoolers.
Very strict but friendly bus driver we called Tiger. Dressed up like Santa at Christmas time, hung pictures he got from kids above the front window, would go fast over speed bumps (with warning) so we got bounced around on the back seat.
Only if there weren’t non-students on board, though. And everyone was on their best behaviour because if you weren’t he’d just kick you off. Witnessed it first hand when a highschooler was cussing all over the place. Just kicked him right off and told him to wash out his mouth before coming back.
Did spend 3 of my years on that bus thinking I was a boy, which my siblings and I thought was very funny. Road that bus thru most of highschool.
School 3:
Just straight up public transport. No dedicated school buses, or drop off points. You ride trains and buses like everyone else, and better hope no one else in your uniform fucked around on there, because other passengers typically called into the school about it and everyone who rode would get a big lecture if not punishment.
Seeing as Faith lives in Adelaide (capital city of South Australia), I’ve envisioned the third option for her. So the boy who she retaliated against goes to a different school (why he’s wearing a completely different uniform to her) and they were both on a public bus when it happened. Her suspension would have been enforced by her school tho. Reputation/appearances and all that.
Thanks for the question. Hope everyone enjoyed some extra context I had some fun revisiting memories 😅
rusty i meant to say this a few pages back with poppy but… what green eyed girlie hurt you 👀 (this is completely me being silly, i just noticed that the only green eyed girls are Poppy, Blaire, and Alexis… and there’s a trend here…..)
the real LB agenda: anti-green eyes…..
I really understand people not wanting the grown adults to go vigilante on a child, but from my experience when women confront a child, the child is rarely in actual danger. This is why the “man or bear” and “woman or bear” questions have doff responces.
Idt anyone, including rusty, would be okay with women cntrl-alt-deleting a male child. But scaring a child off? Yeah do it. Women stuck up for my gay ass many times, and their protection is v. Effective
Everyone’s fussing about the hypothetical nameless boy being “threatened by grown women”, it’s embarrassing. First of all, we don’t know what Violet has planned. And second, as an older sibling, sometimes a bit of a scare for the bully is what the situation needs. Stuff like “touch my lil bro/sis and you’ll have to deal with me” is normal, after all. This would show that Faith is not alone and has others backing her up.
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Lottie
Jesus, that’s a little much, isn’t it? Go to the parents, don’t threaten a child.
rustyhearts
Where is your sense of whimsy 🙁
marci
i don’t think lottie’s guess as to what will happen is actually right, but sorry, gotta agree with her if that IS the case (as this reply is kind of implying?). a group of grown-ass women threatening a child does not look good lmao. not defending the little shit at all though
rustyhearts
God forbid women do anything 😔
(Everyone’s just gonna have to wait and see 😊🤐)
wool
kick that little shit into space like a football
Misa misa misa amane
aahh the suspense is killing me
Misa misa misa amane
I hope this doesn’t involve a bunch of grown women threatening a small child with violence or action against him. That’s for the parents to do.
bweh
you know parents sometimes don’t do shit because they little sweetheart can do no wrong, right?
rustyhearts
bweh
anyway we still don’t know what happened but it’s interesting how multiple commenters expect it to be a 100% guarantee that the parents of a little white boy will punish him for allegedly hurting a little black girl even though the only adult that was around when that happened claims to have seen nothing.
im sure the parents of the little blond sweetie will just take the girl’s mom’s word for it that it happened and do something about it, right?
Crypty
Hey now! That sounds suspiciously like you’re noticing real world patterns about how white privilege works! Better be careful or you might start saying something like male privilege exists and we don’t want that! Best just to ignore any and all patterns of violence or inequality between those who have power and those who don’t!
Crypty
You gotta love that this is a fictional no name white boy and mfers STILL immediately going “hey now listen lets not jump to conclusions and be too serious here maybe he didn’t do anything that bad!”
Parniya’s biggest fan
Yeah!! Bouncer spy mission 😎😎😎
(Featuring my favorite bouncer 👀❤️)
rustyhearts
More parniya to come I promise 🥰🥰
TDOTNDOT21
I’m excited to see where this will go!!! I feel like whatever Violet has in mind isn’t so outrageous, but I don’t really care what happens to him. REVENGE FOR FAITH🗣❗️ anyway thanks for referencing my fan art in the last page… im so happy… i love ari… stares at you with big wet eyes
rustyhearts
Very much looking forward to revealing it! 🥰🥰 I think you ladies will get a kick out of it!
And thank *you* for the wonderful inspiration for honing Ari’s character. I am so, so pumped for the her-centric pages to come this chapter. 😎😎
Antiyourwokehomophobia2
Gosh, these comments are a bit wild lmao. Maybe my theory as to what happened keeps me from understanding why so many comments are up in arms for this boy. Personally I get a very sick feeling from the fact that Faith has become withdrawn since the incident with that boy. To me, that speaks to sexual harassment. If not that then I fully believe he harassed her in a very specific way such as attacking her on basis of her race.
Faith becoming withdrawn speaks to a whole lot of shame. This boy did something that makes her not want to disclose it because it’s embarrassing for her to have to admit what happened to her. The incident with this boy gives me a really sinister feeling. All that being said, I don’t understand the people going to bat for this kid. Faith is a child, too. Go to bat for her.
P.S. Is the driver practicing male solidarity? That’s the vibe I get.
Ms. Clicker
Sis ON GOD. They’re really acting like the Yonique staff goes around beating disrespectful boys vigilant style. Also, I’m sorry, but it’s very obvious to the strategy Violet is pointing at if you’ve ever been in that situation. This whole comment section is just full of people who always assume the worse and jump into dooming conclusions out of a social media reflex. It is what it is.
Norm L. Esbian
I had the same thought. i half wonder if he was ‘trying to find out if she is actually a girl or not,’ which is a kind of bullying and harassment plenty of young GNC girls get— not to mention even grown GNC women.
Also lol not loving but not shocked at the the weird homophobia mixed with racism from the other comments, why are yall assuming they’re going to be big mean lesbians beating up this ‘poor widdle boy’ and not just like. 1) based on my theory show that plenty of grown women look like faith and 2) be kind of intimidating like ‘don’t fuck with her, she’s got a family behind her.’
y’all’s families never did that shit when someone in your family got bullied lol? yall are weird as hell 😭
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Seeing that there are a lot of comments already: Intrigue. Seeing that some are jumping to defend Lil Shithead because they think these women will actually full-on threaten a kid and not just, y’know, intimidate him by just being there, as a group, practicing the female solidarity we all wish we had more of in this world: Sorrow. (And even if they do actually threaten him with violence… should we really care? The boy isn’t even real. 😅)
Shez is a warrior
It seems that all the women more worried about the little boy than Faith are all women who have an inner boy mom 👀 not a good look
Ms. Clicker
Bro imagine next page is just these three jumping the fuckin’ kid jejejejeje
Guys relax, it’s fucking Rusty, chance has it they just gonna walk Faith to school and make presence to let her know they got her back and indicate to other kids she ain’t alone with her mama only.
Ya’ll really made it look like they planning a drive through on the kid’s block; CAMAN….
Blais
I get the impulse to give some benefit of the doubt to a no-name boy we’ve never seen before who only acted offscreen. But I also want to save that same benefit of the doubt to Violet, Ruth, and Best Bouncers Crew. If I’m not willing to assume the worst about what that random boy did, it makes no sense for me to assume the worst about what Violet is planning either. After all, I’ve seen how Violet looks out for Faith!
She didn’t get into an argument with Blaire, even though it would’ve been very easy to blow up and tell her off, because her daughter needed her to rest and not get dragged into a fight. Violet puts Faith first, and that means choosing her battles and fighting them wisely. So whatever she’s planning, I bet it’ll be calculating, proportionate, and satisfying.
(Also, depending on what he did, I may or may not care if the ladies take Drastic Action like some commenters fear. Boys who do vile things and get sheltered from consequences by family and authorities… grow up to be men who do vile things and expect no consequences.)
Naomi
Yeah, I agree with Lottie honestly, even if he has done something bad to Faith (which obviously I don’t condone), the solution shouldn’t be a bunch of adults honing in on a 10 year old , that’s just messed up. The best way to address this would be to talk to the boy’s parents and maybe to the boy himself if they think he’s mature enough to have this conversation.
Didi
LMAO, why is this the thing that sets people off? I guess I can’t be too surprised, considering how much interest there was in Nicholas back when he showed up, too, but this one is more baffling because we’ve only seen this shithead do something to provoke Faith. Fuck ‘im, he needs to learn a lesson, and sometimes scaring the shit out of a kid (not even with violence, necessarily!) works wonders.
Shez Appreciator
Yesss more Violet! She’s one of my favourites 🥰 hope that kid learns his lesson but more importantly I hope Faith feels better and can move on from whatever nasty business! 💜
Nonnie
By one hand, I hope that lil’ shit and his parents aren’t “he beats her because he loves her”, because I’ll go find them and taught them a lesson to not make your kid a next Chris.
By other, I want to smoosh Faith and tell her this is not her fault and she’s a wonderful kiddo. I’m glad she has a strong bond of adults willing to stand up for her rather than telling her “boys will be boys, am I right?”.
BlackSwallowtail
ffs A 10 yr old boy is not going to be traumatized for life by a group of women threatening him, if that’s even what’s going to happen (we don’t know). He’ll be scared off from bothering Faith. That’s it. There’s absolutely no guarantee the parents will do anything–parents of bullies usually don’t–and giving that kid a scare is probably in his best interest since if he keeps up this kind of behaviour, someone else might do a lot worse than scare him.
Anyway, when I was 8 a boy close in age punched me in the stomach. I went home crying and my mom went back to the park with me and marched right up to that little shit and put the fear of an angry mother into him. He never touched me again.
rustyhearts
Glad your mum had your back. Hope that little boy left every girl alone for good :/
Anona
Honestly what I see is Faith gets off the bus and a) lights up at the fact that she has a solid support system waiting for her and b) her little
bully is gonna know that anything he does won’t go unnoticed. They don’t have to do anything to make their point besides be there
rustyhearts
Very solid guesses!
werewol
violet in that last panel! be still, my heart <3
curious usamerican
Don’t want to fish for spoilers but just curious could you explain how school buses work in Australia
rustyhearts
Heyo no worries!
Can only give info about my own experiences from when I was in school, so it’ll probably vary depending on the aussie you ask and which state/territory + city/town she attended in.
School 1:
Dedicated school bus for students only.
We got on just outside our primary school (ages 6-12) paid a fare of $2 every day, dropped kids off at various rural stops. Got into town, picked up highschoolers (13-17) and moved tf out of their way because they were not kind to smaller children. Made self as small as possible until stop. Walk 10 minutes home.
Had a grumpy old boot with a soft heart bus driver, reminds me a lot of Ruth. Her name was Erika. She knew us all by name and sometimes said funny things when in a good mood.
Once, when we were stuck in road works a kid asked her “Erika don’t you wish you had the magic school bus, so we could fly over the other cars?”
Without missing a beat she said “no I wish I had a magic bulldozer so I could plough through these fucking morons.”
Blessed woman.
She did try to catch highschoolers bullying when she could, couldn’t always while focusing on the road.
School 2:
Dedicated school bus for primary schoolers. Multiple schools. Got on outside of school. Had a bus-pass system that you pay $30 for a bus card one time and you get bus rides all the way through primary and high school.
We were the first school to get on. Already absolute chaos. Kids would take off the foam covers from the top of the seats and bash eachother with them. Throw stuff out of windows. Hang off the hand railing to kick other kids. The works.
Back seats were the cool (aka oldest) kids’ turf. Learned this the hard way. Sat down in a seat that belonged to a boy a year older (and a head taller) than me. He spat in my face, ripped up my school books and threw me over the seat when I refused to budge from ‘his’ seat.
We became somewhat friendly however, when kids from other schools piled on, especially the local Christian school. They were the true ferals so we had to put our differences aside and defend the long back seat bench from their unworthiness. Lmfao.
We had 2 rotating bus drivers, neither of which cared about kid on kid violence as long as you didnt disrupt them driving (some kids were indeed stupid enough to throw things in their direction). Therr was Dazza, the chiller of the two who was chummy with all the boys who liked football. And Bazza, reedy old conspiracy nut who thought 9/11 was fake and would tell us to be careful of “cyber waves” put out by computers.
Bus stopped at a high school which is where lots of us had to make a switch to another bus that was actually open to the public. And high schoolers.
Very strict but friendly bus driver we called Tiger. Dressed up like Santa at Christmas time, hung pictures he got from kids above the front window, would go fast over speed bumps (with warning) so we got bounced around on the back seat.
Only if there weren’t non-students on board, though. And everyone was on their best behaviour because if you weren’t he’d just kick you off. Witnessed it first hand when a highschooler was cussing all over the place. Just kicked him right off and told him to wash out his mouth before coming back.
Did spend 3 of my years on that bus thinking I was a boy, which my siblings and I thought was very funny. Road that bus thru most of highschool.
School 3:
Just straight up public transport. No dedicated school buses, or drop off points. You ride trains and buses like everyone else, and better hope no one else in your uniform fucked around on there, because other passengers typically called into the school about it and everyone who rode would get a big lecture if not punishment.
Seeing as Faith lives in Adelaide (capital city of South Australia), I’ve envisioned the third option for her. So the boy who she retaliated against goes to a different school (why he’s wearing a completely different uniform to her) and they were both on a public bus when it happened. Her suspension would have been enforced by her school tho. Reputation/appearances and all that.
Thanks for the question. Hope everyone enjoyed some extra context I had some fun revisiting memories 😅
Norm L. Esbian
rusty i meant to say this a few pages back with poppy but… what green eyed girlie hurt you 👀 (this is completely me being silly, i just noticed that the only green eyed girls are Poppy, Blaire, and Alexis… and there’s a trend here…..)
the real LB agenda: anti-green eyes…..
rustyhearts
This hit me like a bus WTF YOURE RIGHT?!?!?!
Funniest part tho breastie: I have green eyes 😭😭😭
Coming to lay down in your psyche office about this one. Lemme have it Dr. Norm
Norm L. Esbian
*shows you a rorschach test but it’s green* and what does this one make you think of, Rusty.
rustyhearts
A sense of foreboding.
Consequences.
Danger.
Heartbreak.
A catalyst to a deep fundamental shift within.
Kiwi fruit.
Give it to me straight doc… What diagnosis should I add to my bio u-u?
RCS
Just gonna wade in as le token gay man here.
I really understand people not wanting the grown adults to go vigilante on a child, but from my experience when women confront a child, the child is rarely in actual danger. This is why the “man or bear” and “woman or bear” questions have doff responces.
Idt anyone, including rusty, would be okay with women cntrl-alt-deleting a male child. But scaring a child off? Yeah do it. Women stuck up for my gay ass many times, and their protection is v. Effective
what is important
Everyone sleeping on Jaden calling Violet ‘Vi’. This is what we need to be focusing on and discussing.
kev
you are so based fellow commenter
NocturneOp55N1
Some of the comments here are wild… anyway I vote shallow grave.
rustyhearts
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kawaiidesu
Everyone’s fussing about the hypothetical nameless boy being “threatened by grown women”, it’s embarrassing. First of all, we don’t know what Violet has planned. And second, as an older sibling, sometimes a bit of a scare for the bully is what the situation needs. Stuff like “touch my lil bro/sis and you’ll have to deal with me” is normal, after all. This would show that Faith is not alone and has others backing her up.
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