![[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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Ah, the pewils of twue wuv!
Oh, my Gosh… I thought Ye Thuza was an interesting character, but now I think she is over the top.
I couldn’t stop laughing XD
Where’s our well-deserved kiss :(((( ?
Delayed.
Hahaha, a shout out to shippers!
THIS SHIPPER* APPROVES.
*thought not of FF, I don’t play videogames, actually…
All I can add here is: like mother, like daughter.
i prever sandra X cloud instead cloud x sandra XD
-toothpick drops from his open mouth- I’m just concerned about what would have happened afterwards if Ye Thuza had been allowed to continue…Especially seeing how her lines were taken from a fanfiction. Nice bit of breaking the fourth wall, however. This shipper approves as well, though I did like a bit of ClouRisa on the side.
You know, don’t you think a mother would respond a bit more mature? I mean, she’s married herself, why would she be all like that about her son falling in love?
Jeez, I do sound like a winer do I? Don’t mind me too much Novil, you’re awesome.
As a hopeless shipper (in many different series), awesome ^_^ Cloud is so cute.
I’m used to the shipper method of combining the two names together, so it would be something like “Cloudra shipper”, though sometimes you abbrivate the names to letters (Such as with x-files, I’m a m/s shipper). I’ve never seen an x used before.
In a simple definition: a shipper is a fan who favours a specific relationship between characters.
Also on the topic of shipping: this lily/woo shipper wants more!!!
Apparently you had different sorts of parents than I. I got teased a lot in the stages of early puppy love by my parents. 🙂
Yuna is cute. Please tell me she doesn’t have a boyfriend! D:
O-o-o-o-o-overkill-kill-kill
dam, thats just starting to piss meh off, NO MORE DELAYS!
Aha!
I get the feeling that Yuna is what Ye Thuza would have been if Civil War and Revolution had not interfered
So, what would this be called? Eccentric Shipping? 😛
Ye Thuza is easily my favorite character. She’s either completely out of her gourd, or an evil genius. Either way, it’s awesome.
I came, I saw, I lol’ed. 😀 Funny as hell.
That’s actually a fairly well-known American schoolyard taunt.
You’re forgetting this is the woman who named her son after a video game. 😉
Oh, Ye Thuza… What are you doing to your child? XD
And what’s this awfully cute dance Yuna does?
“Assasins Beat”?
But they should watch out.
It looks like Cloud is close to his Limit Break 😛
They really need to rethink this, those two teasers – if they keep Cloud from kissing Sandra, he’ll want to spent much less time with them and at the house and his frustration with them might grow more permanent if their responses to his kiss attempts with Sandra don’t got from ‘Loud and noisy’ to ‘Quiet and scarce”
Okay this is mean a bit, but still so cute. X3
Again Ye thuza with her fanfic like style, great work done again guys.
Keep up the good work. 😉
Oh boy. . . don’t even start! I have heard of arguments breaking out over that(well not with cloud and sandra being the characters, but you know what I mean)!
+1 I wasn’t really expecting that type of comment(and here I thought knowledge of such terminology[is that the right word to refer to this, or would jargon be better?] was obscure[reason being some of my anime/manga friends didn’t catch it when I posted a manga page where characters stated preferences and that was one example that came up, my friend[and the other characters in on the page] were so lost while I was laughing at their lostness!)
KERSHPONG… Cloud unlishes Omnislash for massave damage!
On a less retarded note, as a recovering fanficaholic I’m surprised there isn’t a Sandra and Woo archive hidden somewhere on the interwebs.
Might be worth looking for (or not, with the state of most fanfiction.)
couldn’t stop laughing and baawwwing xD it’s so fricking adorable
forgive them cloud, because if you don’t, you loose xD
I’m guessing this is
School Witch Breakup Method #13
Humiltiation
A nice joke, but it almost got away from me =P
This still could go on in a comical direction – with Sandra enlisting Larisa and plotting revenge – as well as a serious (but still rating-friendly) one. I’m not sure which of the two to hope for.
Why is Monday so far in the future?
Yes! Take that, me! 😛
I think there are 4 reasons that she is acting this way:
1) Bonding with her daughter,
2) Having to take responsibility at an early age means that she’s trying to make up for that time by being silly and girlish now,
3) Making Cloud realise where his heart is (if he’s willing to put up with the teasing then it is true love), and
4) Reminding Cloud that he should always be on his guard for a sneak attack.
Thanks, this comic is not only entertaining, its educational! Now I have a better understanding of shipping. Now I have to go and embarrass my teen-aged daughter. A parents work is never done…
I wonder what nicknames they use… “Cloudra”? “Sanoud”? Maybe “Clandra”, it makes more sense… 😛
This Song Yuna sings is another allusion to Calvin and Hobbes, is it?
The song Yuna sings was already explained by Brutannica:
I think I’ve seen it or something very similar in “My Girl”, which plays about 1972. Come to think of it, Vada and her next-door boyfriend were also 11.
I also think Mater sings it in “Cars”… well, he’s Mater…
There is just one way to describe the amount of approval I have for your 4 points:
Internet-language:
You just divided by zero and rolled a natural 20 at the same time 😉
+1
It’s fascinating to watch this dynamic, actually. Families are often so different in how they handle these sorts of things; teasing at this level never occurred when I was the child in love, nor when I was the parent.
In the former case, my mother always waited until the love interest of the moment was out of the house and then commented on how caring I was being with everyone’s feelings; her approval of how I handled things meant a lot to me. I think she was even weirder than Cloud’s mom in that regard. 🙂
I dunno; “eccentric shipping” sounds a bit like “crack pairing,” which this isn’t.
Now why did the system mess up my quote code?
Okay now THIS is the cutest/funniest thing I’ve seen since the LAST Sandra and Woo.
Kinda reminds me of my sisters and mom. Cept not the childish bad attempt at rhyming.
I always thought that the term “shippers” was called that because they pushed (in discussions, fanfics, fanvids, or whatever) a romantic (or sexual) relationship between two characters whether the characters would go that way or not.
poor kid
Yes, Cloud, some shippers are annoying. I’m torn, half of me want to sympathies with Cloud, but the other half wants to join in the teasing. His hair in the third panel is priceless :D.
Cloud’s mom is awesome. I wish my mom was… Wait, never mind, I’m sure that would get annoying very quickly.
Random question… Is his sister as geeky as he and his mom? Same with the dad.
there are no proper words to describe how much i love reading this webcomic <3
She’s a quite immature ninja.
She’s six or seven, so she does not have a boyfriend of course. (I really hope the creepyness of your comment was not intentional…)
That remains to be seen. That said, I don’t think that Cloud is *that* geeky.
Then say it with money, our donation button is on the left sidebar ;).
They’re trying to turn cloud gay or something?