![[0166] Shipwreck](/comics/2010-05-20-[0166]-shipwreck.png "[0166] Shipwreck")
The current story arc started with this strip: The Quesion of All Questions.
I was searching for “Cloud x Tifa” or “Cloud x Aeris” fanfiction to come up with authentic source material for my parody that somewhat fits the situation. I prepared myself for a longer investigation… There were 29,746 Final Fantasy VII fanfics on Fanfiction.net. Twenty-nine thousand seven hundred fourty-six! The VERY FIRST fanfic I clicked on had Ye Thuza’s lines in it! Just exchange “Sandra” with “Tifa”.
Yuna sings the same song as Hobbes in a Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strip in which Calvin got a valentine’s day card from Susie (which is really for Hobbes).
I had several ideas for what Cloud could say in the last panel, my second most favorite line was: “I wish they hadn’t maxed out their ‘Greater Humiliation’ skill…”
If you are not familiar with the term “shipper” here is the definition of it at Urban Dictionary:
Shipper
The term “shipper” comes from supporting a ship. To ship something means a person wants two characters to get together and/or shows support for two characters already together. The term “ship” came from the X-Files fandom, when fanfics were written about Mulder and Scully. The fans then called themselves shippers. It quickly spread and is now the title a person gives themself if they believe two charcters should or will be together (The characters can be from anything: Books, Movies, Television, Video Games, and even Actors/Actresses). It is not limited to the couple actually happening, a person can ship something just because they enjoy the possibility of them getting together or even just because they think they would look good together.
I am a Harry/Hermione shipper in the Harry Potter fandom.
- Cloud: Bye!
- Yuna: Cloud and Sandra,
Watching a moo-viee!
Kay-Eye-Ess-Ess-
Eye-En-Gee!
First comes lo-ove,
Then comes marriage,
Then comes a baby
In a baby carriage!- Cloud: YUNA!
- Ye Thuza: “A warm hand pressed itself against Cloud’s cheek, and those soft, pink lips got ever closer to his own. ‘Sandra,’ Cloud breathed. Only millimeters separated them now…”
- Cloud: MOM!!
- Cloud: These Cloud x Sandra shippers can get really annoying…
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Random, but saw this and thought you might enjoy it.
http://imgur.com/Um30L
With all the shipping that’s going on here, you might have to open a Customs brokerage…
(Actually, SandraxCloud is even mentioned in the Toy Ship section of TV Tropes.)
I’m sensing a stab at some of us readers here… Or maybe it’s just anime fans. Have you seen some of the shippers out there? It’s the yaoi shippers that really scare me, many of whom define Rule 34.
As for why Ye Thuza is acting so immature… Well Ye Thuza is Ye Thuza. I get the feeling that there are few if any who are like her. She’s fast catching up with Larisa as “Queen of Quirky”.
Love the Mom in panel 3. Great stuff that!
I happened to come here via comichovel.
your girls are so lovely 🙂
*snerk* 😀
cutting a nice large window in the 4th wall for fun and possibly profit!
i used to sing that song to my brother when i was little XD only the kids in my neighborhood said “sitting in a tree” rather than “watching a movie”
Ye Thuza is hilarious XD i wonder where she got her wonderful sense of humor
If you’re a Sandra X Cloud shipper, clap your hands! 😀
Let’s not forget Cargo Shippers.
Them’s some silly people.
If you don’t know what a cargo shipper is, think “Weighted Companion Cube X Chell Fanfic”
or just look it up on Tvtropes.
Either way, Fun!
Well she probably said “Watching a movie” because that’s…what they were doing at the time. XD And I guarantee there are forthcoming shenanigans from Ye Thuza and Yuna, Taunters in Chief.
*CLAP!* A pair that I’ve supported since I first read the comic!
Oh, man, they’re starting to use names for the shippings in this comic… Run for your lives!!! XD
And Novil… The kid breaks the fourth wall. I would call that pretty geeky myself. I’m a geek and I have yet to do that XD
Some material I’ve run across since this comic was posted seems to indicate “shippers” is short for “worshippers”…
It’s all cute and adorable now, but the second they’re teens, you know Ye Thuza will be watching over Cloud and Sandra like a hawk…or a ninja…or a ninja hawk…or a hawk with the eyes of a ninja. Yeah.
they’re just teasing him. they’re not trying to break them up or anything.
And to think i thought Fanfic got no real admiration, just a bunch of fans. now if only the original works on their other sight could get some attention :'(. great comic, i just got into it about……45 minutes ago, still laughing like crazy
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Hahehahehheh…
…shipping is evil. Just look at Naruto and guess which ones many people choose. Let’s just say, it doesn’t involve Sakura.
Guess Cloud hasn’t seen the Rule 34 cultists.
Don’t go there, its not safe.
Actually, that’s a classic shoolyard rhyme, it didn’t start in Calvin and Hobbes.
4th Wall CRACK. 4th wall SHATTER. 4th wall TUMBLE
LEAVE THE DAMN BOY ALONE, YUNA!
YOU TOO, CLOUD’S MOM!
I would protest, but…. the song is quite good
Uh-oh… Cloud went Limit Break! His power level is over 9,000!!! This comic is fantastic! Keep going! You’ll get to kiss her soon Cloud!
I thought the rhyme was,
Then comes a baby, in a golden carriage
“I wish they hadn’t maxed out their ‘Greater Humiliation’ skill…”
Although since Cloud can put up with Larisa and everything, I’m pretty sure he must have at least two Feats along the “Improved Thick Skin” line… ^^
Lol, what Cloud’s mom said sounds like something I’d write up if I were a tad better at story writing.
I’m I a bad person if I’m rooting for WooXSandra?
I know that they’re different species but… you know. Love will find a way n stuff…
Nothing, but NOTHING is more embarrassing than your mother writing slash fiction about you.
Heh.
My eyes roll at the shippers who somehow missed the comic’s direct shot at them.
Something tells me Ye Thuza has written fanfics in her past. Likely based on FF7. XP
At least it’s not the Cloud x Woo shippers. *shudder*
I ship Sandra X Larisa and Cloud x Woo
are they shippers if the ones they are pairing is actually steering the ship?
i know man i know, shippers can be annoying, just wait till fanfics come at you like lightning.
Okay. I’ve got a question that is bugging the H out of me. Why does Yuna have Asian eyes and Cloud doesn’t? I mean, they DO have the same father, don’t they?
I love this. The ship has sailed!
Cloud understands X3