‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 332

The Dude is referencing his own brilliant reasoning on this page.

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Wonderful Drawing!

I also liked Dude showing up.

Wow, so he is actually afraid of her, but yet he does not mind sending the Dude to push her buttons, that is bit of an unfriendly and manipulative treatment of the Dude.

The best thing that he can say to Kleya is something along the lines of `Good, you are back; we were afraid that you would be trapped in your Kido and have no one to rescue you. How did you escape? And are you alright? You left pretty upset.’

That would ease the tension (provided he can say it with enough sincerity, not an easy task for everything is a joke type guy) and it would prompt her to reveal some information. This is under the assumption that Kleya does not know that he knows that Kleya is the she. Also if he changes the `we’ to an `I’ and treads very carefully by really meaning what he says, then he might just earn brownie points with her.

But knowing Jake, he will probably just make the Dude push her buttons even more, something along the lines of `So Kat, I had no idea that you were a pacifist, don’t you know that you can be a pacifist in real life and not one in the game, you are a pacifist in real life right?’ That would really push her buttons.

Ramble, Ramble, … stop Jon STOP … Ramble, Ramble

Agreed. I really hope and really doubt that he approaches her nicely about this.

I dunno, I’m kind of looking forward to him turning the big reveal into some kind of joke. Like a surprise birthday party! Wherein Kleya blacks out and disconnects from the shock and horror. Okay, so maybe that wouldn’t accomplish anything beyond prompting her to reset her account, but it would be stupendously funny, in a hardcore trolling sort of way.

I’m glad this story doesn’t run on suggestions!

I am guessing that Kleya liked him in the past, so maybe there is a side to her that likes the comedian attitude, maybe we have not seen it yet. But what I have seen so far, I would have to agree with you; if Jake did something like that, she would reset.

If he’s aware that she apparently was masking using a keyboard/mouse interface for the game, and if he’s aware of her territorial approach to being the best (Dude: “He’s the best hacker around!” Kat *In thoughts*: “That’s *my* line!” dialogue from when the temporary game server area was uploaded, not to mention her use of Specials that do ridiculous exploitation of the system), then I’m pretty sure he’s aware trying to pull a “nice” or “worried about what happened to you during the shutdown” is going to make things worse; at best, it’ll trigger her paranoia of “I can handle myself; I don’t need you guys to try and hover over me.”, and at worst (Well, for a relative value of ‘worst’), it’ll cause her to fully realize who he is and panic and attempt to find a way to take him out of the Game.

Considering that the *whole reason* for the D shutdown was Kleya trying to avoid revealing who she is/was…he’s not going to get a clear answer.

Well, at least until it’s too late.

Hmm, I guess anything that puts her on the spot will probably backfire (and would not be very friendly).

His best option for answers, any answers even if they are not the answers, is to help her to become nice; but to do that, he needs to know that she wants to become nice; which in turn depends on his friendship with her; which requires her to trust him; and to gain her trust, he needs to be nice to her… Okay that is a simplification, but there is still a circular problem here.

It is a pity, I think Sandra would like to see the Bandit and Kleya becoming enemies; so that Kleya will be against Tenka and be willing to help Sandra’s city (this is from the perspective of Sandra).

I think she knows who he is.

When they first met each other, she thought to herself at his speedy initiation of his special “only one person can do that”. And in the very discussion you quoted, coupled with she presumably knowing that Jake should be with TENka, The Dude more or less tells her that Bandit is indeed Jake. Additionally, if she ever met Brandon in real life he is fairly easily recognised even for someone with as bad social skills as her.

*giggle* Imaginary Kleya is sooo cute! So are the chibi versions of Bandit and Dude. Miniature chibi’s of everyone might be a good idea if you are looking for stuff to fill out a store. (You know, to go with the t-shirts, posters and eventual figurine)

I doubt Bandit is going to get the time of day from Kleya. He’d do better with his L.i.F.e. official persona… Or better yet, a L.i.F.e. avatar that looks as much like him in Reality as possible. He’d be best off not trying to hide that he’s playing Bandit, but if he can distance himself from the character, she may accept that.

I happen to think he’s also Sasuke’s user, but she’s got some emotional baggage there, too, so he probably couldn’t easily use that persona to approach her (apart from the extra challenges of trying to have a sensible conversation within the Game).

Then there is the problem that all his activities in both the Game and L.i.F.e. are probably closely monitored….

His best approach, if he can get her to accept his Reality identity, is probably to lead with the fact that people in TENka seem to be blaming him for causing the Virus flare-up, and he’s ok with that, but he’d like to know what happened, and if they can keep D from shutting everything down again in the Cities, that would be best, because people will die otherwise.

I doubt he can try to get either Danni or Mina to help him approach Kleya on this. Danni has good reason to hate his Bandit persona, and while Mina loves Bandit, she’s likely to either go all fan-girl airhead, or get very protective and controlling of Kleya.

But I suspect the next person to take this up with Kleya might be Sandra. Paddy will likely have full logs of the interaction that preceded the outage. Sandra needs Kleya’s programming skills, and won’t want her to get caught.

It would be hysterical if the chat comes from Jane, though. I think Kleya might actually respect her somewhat, apart from the leaky code she’s using.

I think she already suspects his identity, and she will confirm it in an instant by checking some old secret they share.

And I don’t suspect Paddy has good enough logs to make the connection and ask Kleya about the shutdown. I think nobody other than Kleya and Jake has anything but wild and inaccurate speculations.

Wait, could he contact her legitimately? Would they have their contact information (plausible since they are now in a group together)? A simple message “I’m worried. Are you okay?” would be a good place to start.

Seems like a pretty accurate representation of what would happen in each case.

The bit with the Dude made me laugh out loud.

I haven’t commented in awhile.

*sigh*

Until now I could always say that Bandit was knowingly working for the evil empire that helped framed Kleya. I suppose I suspected that this wasn’t the case but I never liked the man from the moment I found out those two nasty AI’s belonged to him.

However, I suppose I have to admit that he honestly seems to know nothing about how the robot uprising happened after all.

Just because you turned out not to be irredeemably evil though Bandit, don’t think I’ll suddenly think you are a good guy! >.<

On another note, Aneeka, have you heard about Patreon?
https://www.patreon.com/
I've noticed a lot of web content providers are using it of late. Sounded the same as how you were asking for monthly donations earlier, only it seems more streamlined and easier to access for the donators.

If you haven't, check it out.

“On another note, Aneeka, have you heard about Patreon?”
I have and I think it would be great to merge my AneekaChannel with them, but they need to develop an API for it first. I’m waiting on them for that.

It certainly feels like you got exactly what you were going for. Only you can say for sure, but it feels like we’re getting a glimpse into his thoughts from the first of the chibi panels.

Also, the site has not been liking me this week. First it wouldn’t let me comment on this page, followed by not letting me see it anymore, and then it refuses to re-load to it when it was supposed to go up. Somedays computers really hate me.

Remember you’re not crazy until you start answering yourself without meaning to— Oh … wait >_>;

Sanity is over-rated.

Im loving the vibe from this one! 🙂
Im so hoping for them to get along in some sort of villain thing and then he pushes for her to be good. Would be both romantic and shocking!

I don’t think this comment is elaborate enough to be accepted by Aneeka, but since she’s going to read it anyway: VERY funny. Loved this page!

I’m pretty sure none of possible approaches Jake can take could possibly work. It’s Kleya who’s distanced, on her own initiative, and she’s the one who needs to do the legwork to come closer to the edge of her bubble, so to speak. Jake trying to break in will only do damage. He’s as close as he can be, now he can only wait.

Which. Makes sense, given that /Kleya/ is the main character, you know.

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 332