Bittersweet Candy Bowl

make it explode with my wizardness

OR

Probably I’ll just ended up doing some crappy jokes and CAD miscarriage.

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I’d change the title, add more Yashy and retcon clothes for all non-pets.

When I’m elected president.

All personal pref really, if I had any constructive criticism I’d bring it up.

i couldn’t change anything cuz u & Suit have made it perfect ^-^

I’d try to stay faithful to your plan seeing as I’d just be a surrogate parent to the series anyway, but I think if I were to do something crazy I’d hook up Lucy and Mike (not in any contrived way) and explore them having a relationship working its way toward stability and how it evolves as they reach graduation. I think it’s too easy to tease the readers with a possible relationship, so it’s more interesting when you explore the relationship that was denied like you’re doing now or a relationship that’s not stable but fighting to reach stability. I guess it’s kind of hard to describe any other way.

Lucy and Mike finally hook up. They go out on a date but then Rapecat shows up with reinforcements and corners them in an alley. THE END.

Setting changes to WWII Germany. Lucy is Hitler. For some reason, Sue is the first Jewcat killed.

I WOULD MAKE IT LIKE A VIDEOGAME COMIC LIKE THE 2137824 THAT ALREADY EXIST

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and with MOTORBOATS

@Taeshi well in that case…i’d make it all MikexYashy otp all the way!








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I’d keep it close to the way it is right now, but end the story with my fave pairings (PauloxDaisy, Mikexidk, CarsonxDavid o_O (JK), etc.)

It shows that Jerk is the only one who can interpret a thread correctly.

Okay, serious answer now:

I’d add Liam to the cast, but not as a main character. More Mike x Sandy. Lucy becomes more social. That’s it.

i gave a serious answer…

I swear to God I’d end an arc by a main character walking in on Larken and Amaya. That’s another thing I’d do.

Imagine the looks on their faces and that as the last page of the chapter. No words, just facial reactions from everyone. The only other reference to it would be someone bringing up how they agreed never to talk about it again.

I wouldn’t know what to do if I was given control over the comic. I’d really really want to piss everyone off by making things go the way no one would see coming, but then again I wouldn’t want to disgrace the comic or the original author. I can’t think of what I could do, seeing how I can’t run any new scenarios through my head cause I can’t imagine the characters easily, but maybe it’d have something to do with a fire being the end.

And Lily would nod in approval.

@Jerk YES! DO IT!

hmmmmmmmm id probably add a brief storyline about a mysterious character who has a short romance with one of the characters before disappearing. the character would be incredibly broken up about it, but then the news would show the temp as having stopped terrorists or something from launching nuclear explosives, died in the process, and was found clutching a picture of the permanent character.
maybe a turning to dust in the wind thing as he sits at a tree sort of imagination thing.
thats kind of been a fan thing ive developed in my head.

Third post and I will be serious, I hope.

I don’t really know what to do with a comic, since I’m so bad with ideas and stuff. Maybe I’ll just ended up deleting some characters because too many makes my head spin.

But there’s the story of the comic, I already stated that I’m terrible with ideas so you can think how awful the writing would be.

So long story short, I wouldn’t be a good choice to make a story, maybe I’ll make the art of the comic, but the story can be written by someone else.

TEAMWORK is good


man, it took me a while to make this post :1

@Kaxbe
That was what I said on the IRC you stole it you jerkface! (in case anyone didn’t realize, I’m not mad)

An arc to get sandy more involved into the plot would be a number 1 priority. I’m quite curious to see how she would interact with the rest of the main characters.

@ Mr. Pants: AGREED. I’m looking forward to a scenario like that too.

@J. Vincero (Jerk)

Darn skippy. And were not talking Trip by Mike to her hometown. I want full blown random apperance in the middle of another story arc. Complete takeover , shock and awe sort of thing.

This is long, and I’m not the greatest story teller, but this is what I would do.

Alright so Abbey becomes president (Don’t ask how, some new laws were enacted) and Daisy becomes his first lady. He is the next “Abraham Lincoln” as some call him, and is praised for the great change he has brought his country. Suddenly USA gets a message from Japan, which is coincidentally ruled by Sandy as head empress. In her message Sandy declares that the age of America is coming to a close and that the age of modern Japan draws near. The next world war is upon the world and Abbey must make important decisions with the help of his advisors, Mike who is the Vice President, Lucy who is the head of the Treasury department, David who is the head of the Department of State, and Paulo who is the head of the Department of Defense.

World War 3 begins and the death toll is rising. Abbey decides to take the war to the Japanese with the new super weapon that his top scientists, Sue and McCain, have developed. It is entitled “Nuclear Angst”. It is designed to wipe out entire countries and disarm all other bombs on the planet that aren’t in America. (McCain and Sue are geniuses so this is now possible). He has to make a tough decision on whether or not to utterly annihilate all of Japan. Mike ,as the vice president, still has feelings for Sandy and heavily advises against it. Daisy tells him that he will make the right choice no matter what he does and flashes him a cheerful smile despite the situation.

Abbey announces out loud that he has decided to use the new superweapon. Mike is furious and reveals a loaded handgun pointed at Abbey. He threatens Abbey with death if he goes through with his decision. Abbey claims that he is no coward and stands by his decisions. Just as Mike is about to pull the trigger Paulo jumps in out of no where and tackles him onto the floor, causing the pistol to fire and hit Abbey in the leg, and sliding the pistol under something.that cannot be moved. (Just roll with it) Abbey is down on the ground bearing the pain while Daisy comforts him. All the while Paulo and Mike are having a huge epic battle until Mike gets Paulo in a sleeper hold. All hope seems lost until *WHACK* Lucy bashes Mike on the head, knocking him unconscious. Abbey gets up and goes to the button on his desk to launch the weapon of mass destruction. Several minutes pass before the earth itself trembles beneath the explosion.

Before all of Japan is eradicated, Empress Sandy stares at a photo frame of Maishul one last time. Having ultimately ended World War 3, Abbey is hailed as a hero. Although others say he is a villain as he destroyed an entire civilization. Either way he continues to govern America with fairness and justness. Mike is taken to Guantanamo Bay and the rest of the cast live happily ever after. The End

wow jb…just…wow

*Daydream Answer*
I would kill off Mike and Abbey, then Molly and Lucy would end up comforting each other in the ultimate pairing experience. Paulo would be abducted by aliens and returned as Paula, and end up finding comfort in Amaya.
The final panels of BCB would be these pairings and Kevin the Pirate Orphan, dying alone in the snow as Liam looks at the frail child and simply walks away.

*Reality Answer*
In reality, I have no clue how I would take charge of the comic. I couldn’t do something that would give the respect BCB and Taeshi deserve. Perhaps I would try to build on the characters and work towards final pairings I believe Taeshi wanted, but in the end I could never really do what the comic deserves.

TBH I’d end this whole flashback arc, I WANNA KNOW THE PRESENT DAMN IT

Cool,bitch some more plz

nooooo don’t do dat taeshi!!!

Well,hard to explain but maybe a arc/chapter that Sandy comes to Roseville to visit Mike and the others and they like see if they still like each other even if they live far away from each other.

Or the Jerk’s idea of the revenge of the Rape cat but Mike and Lucy get a help from a friend.

It’s been foreshadowed that he’ll come back. Shouldn’t be a secret now. Mostly I was joking about that as a Bolivian Army Ending. I don’t care about Rape Cat or endings. I miss the whole group coming together around something, for something, for someone. That’s what I’d want.

@ Graham: Haven’t you ever seen “It’s a Wonderful Life?” Sometimes fantasy tells us more about the present than the present does. S’why I think this is all relevant.

I’d probably be hoping that Taeshi had some kind of script or notes of future chapters to build upon so I could stick close to her original plan.

If not, I’d probably keep going as it is now with the drama and all, but bring back some of the style of humor from the earlier chapters. I’d probably push out something with Abbey’s past and add upon Augustus (I feel like we’ll learn more about him eventually anyway). I’d also end up doing more filler chapters while I write the main story, probably using fan characters out of poor judgement, boredom, fan-service, and/or a lack of creativity with the main cast at the time. Relationships would probably go as most would suspect (although I am unsure what to do how to deal with the Mike/Sandy/Lucy conundrum).

And I am able to get that far, but have no way to end the story at the time, I’d probably start doing crazy stuff like bring back Kazuna. Yeah, like, she was at military school or something to explain her absence and now she’s fighting terrorists or aliens that have invaded the school. She would shortly die afterwards with David either finally knowing who she was or having not going to school that day and missed her entirely. Chapters would than rotate through a pathetic form of comedy and very depressing drama. The fans would kill me out of spite so someone new could take my place.

completely honest I’d have no idea what I’d do. There are certainly things I’d -love- to see happen in the comic, but I figure if I was in charge it’d be kind of hollow to have them happen.
Basically everything stems down to “Lucy is finally happy” though.

I’d explore Tessa. She, as far as I know, has a seriously colorful past. Seems interesting, no?

But to end it, I’d have Rapecat and his whole gang ruffle up Mike. He’d live and understand how quickly life can slip through his fingers, making him try and talk to Lucy. They become friends like old times. END.

Or just kill of the cast like Final Destination. >D

Hah, honestly, I’d have ‘this’ verion going on be canon and the other version not.

At least so far, I’m liking how it’s turned out better, even if it started off on a ‘bad’ note, sometimes good things can come from bad.

personally if I ran it I would have no clue what to do seeing as this is your storie so I would have to learn your intention and also learn your style so ultumently just try and figure out how you planned on ending it and just end it :/

First I’d contact SuitCase and Mav for your original plans, then get working to fill in them holes you never bothered to fill until a few chapters before.
I’d probably add a few extra filler chapters with the minor characters just to piss off a few readers. 8D
But it’ll be as true to the original as I can get it.
(except it’d probably take me much longer to make the comics, and with where I’m at now it’d definately go on hiatus at some point)


And if I decide to continue the same format after the main story end, I’d announce a lame spin-off series involving characters in a different city. x3
(assuming I did finish the story)

As for possible changes:
I’d probably drag Roger back in some point if only to give Tess a more interesting farewell chapter.
And the siblings of Mike and Lucy would be at least appear more often.

I would probably be unable to answer any oif the immediate questions and just make a time skip to the college years splitting up the charecters across several schools and hinting at past plot resolution through vague hints and flashbacks to show why they are all seperated and the finish off with an ending that shows them reuniting in a dramatic scene and putting the bad things behind them while remembering the good, the final scene would be then walking aways into the sunset as younger versions of themselves smiling

WARNING: ABSURDLY LONG READING

Seeing as Bittersweet Candy Bowl is indeed a comic about high school students, I’d make the comic shift toward a high school I can relate more to. Drama’s still gonna be in there, but seeing as I am completely inexperienced when it comes to drama stuff, I’m not going to mess with the element of the story. However if SuitCase is available, I’d contact him for more (MUCH MORE) information on the original vision, and play around that.

Some chapters will be about each character’s future paths and their thoughts about it while in high school (eg. Profession, attitude toward education and life, themes such as hard work/innate ability and what to do in life will be prevalent.) It might be too sudden of a change to suddenly say that, I dunno, Lucy secretly wants to become a composer or designer or whatever. So I may only use these in minor chapters.

As for the relationships (which is about, oh, say 100% of the comic), more discussion will be needed, though I’d prefer to close the gap between Mike and Lucy, continue the Daisy/Abbey relationship, and create a short arc for Paulo’s coming of age. Hell, everyone’s coming of age will come around this time (Soph, Junior, and Senior). This ties in pretty well with the idea I mentioned previously.

New conflicts will arise, especially as the characters decide on their profession or take their hobbies to a new level (provided I can fit that in). Say Mike decides to play in a ROCKBAND, and has to decide to choose time between his ROCKBAND and his old gang. Drama ensues. Cut in an Aesop of time management and true friends, etc.

All this prepares for the upcoming series (only called BCB collectively) that discuss each character’s life in depth. As the college years split the gang (except for one or two pair, Paolo/David will mostly be together), past links will intertwine with new links. Lucy will perhaps be the new Sandy, Abbey and Daisy will risk their long-distance relationships in parties and studying. I’d prefer to focus the first character on Paolo/David, as their actions will probably affect other characters in major ways.

Themes at this point will include further growth, time management, priority between profession/hobby/social life/studying, dealing with old and new friends. Tess will probably give tips and insights through the first two years of college. She may even meet one of the characters personally. Also, considering the friendship among the gang, reunions will be held often, say once or twice a year. This could also bring up new plot possibilities, but I shall not go on with them.

AND THEN I’MMA GONNA MAKE ANIMOOTED SERIES AND MOVIES AND VIDYA GAMES AND SELL MERCHANDISE AND MAKE MOONEYS.

Yeah…no. I still prefer the current BCB, and I only gave my idea because IT’S THE ONLY THING I KNOW HOW TO WRITE.

Oh right, haven’t written the ending yet.
Later Mike’s gonna go a-whaling and his captain gets all crazy and wants revenge on this stupid whale that ate his leg. Ship’s gonna die and Mike’s gonna come back on a flotsam and publish the most boring book in the world, complete with descriptions of every part of the white goddamn sperm whale.

Lucy decides to become queen of this place but then a Sphinx came and horrifies everyone. Guy comes over, boots sphinx outta the place, and marries Lucy. But he turns out to be HER LONG LOST CANON SON. She hangs herself afterward.

Paulo’s gonna go on this ship which goes deep into one of the river of Africa. He’s gonna meet this guy that exploits the local population and Paulo goes back to where he is and tells that guy’s wife that this guy died. And it’ll have themes of Conradian Ethics and meeting your inner darkness or something like that. He is diagnosed with depression later.

David’s decides that he wants to be with Sue, but his family cares about the bloodline of the clan, and so does Sue’s family. In the end, a feud between the families ensue while David and Sue try to escape the damn place. Later David drinks poison because he thinks Sue is dead and Sue goes OH HAPPY DAGGER and commits seppuku.

Daisy decides to go to this Puritan place. She decides to shout WITCH and the whole town goes BATSHIT INSANE over it. Trials and hangings are held and burnings are held of those people. Later she is cast out and becomes a hooker at another place.

Abbey becomes a lawyer, gets married, and has a daughter. Later, when a cat of a very different breed gets wrongly accused of rape, Abbey decides to protect him. But later that cat gets shot multiple times by the cops because of RACISM. A book is written about it, and jokes about pre-21st century Phoenix Wright are made in high school classes.

McCain decides to become a crime scene investigator. He always steps off the car and takes his second pair of sunglasses off. When informed of the situation, he replies a witty one liner and puts his second pair of sunglasses back on while a guy screams behind him.

Sandy becomes becomes a model and has a rather fulfilling life, with a family and two houses. She dies content and happy at the age of 87.

Tess will die soon because the creator of her decides the character is used for too long.

Augustus decides to join this company that controls basically everything, and is a small country itself. Working as its security and military force, before being thrust into an amnesia, which was used by a eco-terrorist group to convince Augustus to join them. He carries his hueg sword given to him by his superior before, and then crushes the organization. A game is made about this event, and has 3 discs on a specific console.

Goddamn I couldn’t fit in a reference for Scarlet Letter. But otherwise ALL WILL BE CANON IF I WERE IN CHARGE.

That’s why you wouldn’t want me in charge.

First I would give myself a gray/black textbox.

Sue would get far more attention, probably a larger role while still being a minor character.

Kizuna’s departure would form a small chapter (whether or not it would involve her home-planet I’m undecided)

FF Cat would not exist.

Sandy and Mike would actually meet in person every so often with an increasingly strained relationship brought on by distance. (I’d still probably end it MikexSandy)

Lucy would have a slightly smaller amount of angst, but would mostly remain unchanged.

Other things…the comic probably wouldn’t be as good.

@nameless

BUT KIZUNA (God rest her soul) IS DEAD!!!

D:

Hmmmmmm… Tough one…

Sandy would likely get more airtime, showing more focus on her attempting to get back to Mike, whilst ‘keeping up appearances’, linked in with Mike’s reactions to things she’s doing. Probably cut down on their ability to comunicate, causing strain on their relationship.

I’d explore Abbey’s past in depth, and how that relates to his relationship with Daisy. He’d eventually find himself in a situation where in a rage at her for not letting the past go, he’d strike her, but catch a glimpse of himself in the mirror. He would be horrified at himself, and things would resolve when Molly gives him a list of reasons he is not his father.

Paulo would continue to date Jasmine, but in a somewhat ScottxKnives fasion. Things would eventually ware on the girl, and she will grow distant, finding romance elsewhere. They break up on good terms, and Paulo grows a reniewed interest in Lucy.

Lucy eventually makes amends with Mike, and they become good friends again, though she manages not to cling to him this time. At some point, Paulo helps her confront her fear of water with a bathtub, and eventually, she manages to get into a pool without feinting. In her joy at overcomming her fear, she embraces Paulo and kisses him. After realising what she did, she begins to realise she is developing feelings for him, but is reluctant to start a relationship for fear of becomming dependant again.

We would ultimately follow the whole cast through to the end of high school, and the series would end with the pairings already mentioned, as they move on to college, and the next phase of their life.

Perhaps with an epilogue about where they went in life.

I duno… Probably pretty cliche and crap. But that’s the kind of stuff I’d do. As for change? I don’t think I’d really retcon anything. Nor would I really add any more fan characters. Jenny might become more prevelant due to a heavier focus on Sandy. But beyond that, not much really.

Retconning clothes was more of a poke at Taysh than an actual suggestion. The jokes about their apparent nudity will never ever ever grow old.

Here’s what I could do: throw out the story, draw fan service in virtually every page and change my name to “Fom Tishbaugh.” Mike would lose his memories and go on some kind of badly explained quest rooted in some kind of tacked-on moral about racism or something that is in absolutely no way poorly-conceived or cliche.

Probably just keep things going the way they are right now.
I’d do some stuff with MikexSandy and do some more stuff with Abbey and Daisy since they havn’t gotten much screen-time lately.
Maybe do some drama with Augustin too and let the pets have more effect on the story too.

The first thing that would happen if I took over the comic was that the art would degenerate. Horribly much so. ^_^

Also. I think I’d try to stay true to the comic itself. But there would probably be less angst and more happy couples. I’m boring that way. ^_^

A specific example, you say? I have none. Only I would probably keep Michael and Sandy as a pair until the very end.

I’d pathetically try to keep the plot going but would inevitably fail to find any interesting plot twists and would spend the end of the comic doing some lame ass story arc while watching the amount of readers go down and the amount of hatemail go up.

Then I’d get desperate and do a lame move like killing someone of the main cast or make someone have a miscarriage to go all “GUYS IT’S DRAMA” which would kill off the last of the fans and make Taeshi turn in her grave assuming she was dead. Because otherwise she would have stepped in to stop this stupidity ages ago.

Seriously though, knowing that that would most likely happen I’d just end the comic there and then. Maybe make a short “what happened to the cast in the future” arc followed by a cheesy ending and an artist note saying I was given the task to finish the comic but would never be able to keep true to what Taeshi was planning so I chose to end it while it was still good rather than drag it down to shit because I couldn’t keep up with the quality.

Were I in charge of the comic, I’d probably do little to change it on a fundamental level; the current cast is strong, and while I’d probably add a character or few gradually, the main cast would be mostly set (unless something happened). I’d probably mostly use your notes if you were to die Or at least base off them, unless they sucked, and ask Suitcase for advice on where you were going, because you were the one who made it successful.

Yeah, I’m boring like that, but honestly, with someone else’s work I think it is best to stay true to it.

@Jerk

Hey! And you could change the name to 5kinds or something.

Maybe you should tack on the morals about sexism instead of racism, because it just seems that everyone in the gang is of a different race, instead of just three (four, if you’re very picky).

I feel bad for not giving a serious answer earlier, in reality I would make an arc where Paulo goes on vacation back to the city for a while and the people he meets and old friends (And enemies) who find him. Other than that arc I would get the notes you kept about what to do and use them to complete the comic the right way.

@ Ryan: You know the irony in this? In BCB, there really are only two kinds of people: cats and dogs. In TwoKinds, there are at least three depending on your definition.

But I digress.

I use that whole joke to show what I appreciate, and would not change, about this comic.

I was thinking on getting rid of Sandy.

Like she gets hit by a car or something.