Comic transcript
Broccoli: Doris I do wish to know you. Truly
Doris: I know
Broccoli: Why don't we start over? Hello there, stranger! Who might you be?
Doris: hmm.. You are being silly
Broccoli: I am not!
Doris: I'm Doris
Broccoli: What a name! Where ya from, "Doris"?
Doris: Nowhere...
Broccoli: Nowhere wow... You know I've always wanted to visit! Shame I don't get out much...
Broccoli: Your parents, are they Nowhergian too?
Doris: I do not have parents
Broccoli: Who created you then?
Doris: No one
Broccoli: I find that hard to believe...
Doris: It's true... I have never... not existed
Broccoli: Well neither have I!
Doris: hmm hmm. Goodness you are cheeky today. Aren't you?
Broccoli: Bleh- I guess somebody had to be first... Was it really you? That's so... sad
Doris: sad?
Broccoli: You were the first thing I ever saw. You talked to me and told me that you loved me. I didn't know who I was or how I was or what I was but... I knew that I was loved. I can't imagine what it would have been like if you weren't there! If I had just... appeared one day in the void and there was no one else. Nothing forever
Doris: Yes well... I got over it
Broccoli: ... I wish... I wish that I had been there. At the dawn of time. To say: Hello! And to tell you that your name is Doris and give you hot tea and tell you that you are loved
Broccoli: I mean I'm here now, I guess, ha ha
Broccoli: So how did y-
Doris: I do not wish to discuss this topic anymore
Broccoli: I see... Okay so you were the first thing ever, you created the whole universe blah blah blah. Very cool
Broccoli: Now for the real questions... what do you um... Do in your free time?
Doris: I fight back the all consuming darkness and maintain the fabric of reality
Broccoli: No I mean like, what are your hobbies?
Doris: My... hobbies?
Broccoli: Yeah your hobbies
Doris: I do not have hobbies
Broccoli: I mean like, making universes is a hobby, yeah?
Doris: Well I haven't done that in awhile...
Broccoli: What about knitting? You're literally knitting right now!
Doris: It keeps my hands busy
Doris: I guess I watch stuff sometimes
Broccoli: Oh cool! What do you watch?
Doris: I watch you
Broccoli: ah.
Broccoli: Goodness Lady Doris, there must be something you are passionate about!
Broccoli: What about tea? You love tea! How'd you get into that? Do yiu have a favorite?
Doris: I don't like tea all that much
Broccoli: What?! What do you- what do you mean you don't like tea?
Doris: well it's... rather bitter isn't it?
Broccoli: Put some honey in it then!!!
Doris: what-like a weenie?
Broccoli: If you don't like tra, why do you drink it??
Doris: sip
Doris: Because drinking tea is polite and good
Doris: Broccoli... I am not like you I am not "passionate" about things I desire nothing I fear nothing I am... what I am: A supremely polite and good being. I am perfect. And as a perfect being, I am... Rather simple.
Doris: That's... Boring, isn't it. Not the answer you wanted. You were hoping I was...hiding something... But I have nothing to hide.
Doris: That is why you find it so difficult to "know me," I'm afraid... There is no one to know.
Doris: There is nothing here...
Comments (120)
well, that answers what RBG (and chromatic aberration) represents.
255/255/255, pure white, is "perfection". it is a maxed-out balance of all colors. there is nowhere to go from it.
each of the realms has its own aesthetic - its own colors, that would be "ugly" if pushed together.
the Void is pure white, clearly defined, empty, perfect.
Lady Doris would quite like to be that, as well; a perfectly polite and good entity that sews disorder into order.
but her eye is red, isn't it?
that's why she keeps it covered with her hair. consciously or not, she doesn't want to think about that clear mark of 'imperfection'.
chromatic aberration is pure white being split into its composite colors, a perfection being subjected to entropy and decoherence.
You know, this made me realize that even though the pattern around “I am perfect” is additive, starting with RGB and combining into white, when Doris chromatically abberates, the only thing being separated is her outline, which, if you look closely, is subtractive. Cyan, magenta and yellow combining into black. Student, on the other hand, has a white outline that gets separated into red, green and blue as seen here. Maybe there’s some kind of Yin-Yang going on where Doris is supposed to be perfect but deviates, while Student starts out evil but slowly learns to be good.
I personally wonder if she secretly has 3 eyes, a red one a blue one and a green one because of the RGB thing
good thought!
Interesting theory
I wonder if the color scheme of the buttons of this website have anything to do with this!
I figured it was an implication that they're OOO.
Regarding the RGB colors, Doris' "I am perfect" dialogue line is in the middle of three circles, one each of red, green, and blue. You can also view them as three _rings_ filled with red, green, and blue. On page 29, "Suit yourself," we see that Doris gave Broccoli "A Practical Guide To All that is polite & Good," and we see a page titled "The Ideal Rules for you to Remember and Obey." Ideal Rule 23 states that "If you ever see three floating rings, run away, and report to me of its whereabouts[.]" Perhaps the "I am perfect" RGB circles are the three floating rings that Doris warned Broccoli about. Perhaps they are an omen of Doris' death, or her decohering into three things or three people.
lady Doris is just straight up white diamond at this point.
Also, y'know, the Trinity. I Am What I Am.
“I wish I were there to tell you your name is Doris and give you hot tea and tell you that you are loved.”
This is the cutest thing I can’t
ikr broccoli is so sweet i love them so much
It literally made me cry the first time I read it
Just binged the whole thing in a day. This is very Polite and GOOD! Gives me existential cute vibes. Idk if that’s a real term
2 days! I just discovered it yesterday.
Same here!
"I'm perfect" yet you keep chromatically abberating, please explain
NOOOOOO WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO BE THE LAST ONE!? I mean I guess it's not but NOOOOO WHY MUST IT BE THE LAST ONE AT THE TIME OF MY BINGE READ/WRITING OF THIS COMMENT!? I'll definitely be here for the next one, and the one after that, and the one after that. My politeness and goodness I got way more invested in this than I thought I would