Sublimated Desire

I think it’s meant to be a positive thing, yes.

Brad Knowles

This has feels …

Sparky

Really makes me sad that apparently showing genuine enthusiasm over the design of an AI friend is seen as hurtful. Like I'm sure you guys are right, I have no idea how normal people think, but Brun's enthusiasm seems to me an entirely positive thing.

Solomon Garland

I feel watching the procedure fits in with here fascination with clocks

Jim Feldman

I hope it works out for them but I feel like Mille-feuille is going to get hurt in the long run and that sucks, i like her.

Aaron Schulz

Brun is the best.

George Wilson

Brun resembles Jeremy Clockson from Pratchett's Thief of Time here. Let's hope she won't get an idea to create perfect clock with Emily.

Evgeniy Semyonov

What is holding Millefeuille's head up? I see no pillow, and even myomer will fatigue. Can she make her hair rigid? Inquiring minds want to know!

BobC

It's not really placed in the future per se. It's the present of an alternate reality where an AI singularity happened (in great part thanks to Hanners' dad) and androids are now a thing. And since AI generally turned out to be benevolent. one can assume many fields of science are more advanced than ours thanks to their contribution. Though it's otherwise very much like our world.

Andrei Safta

Also Brun has a very good friend who seems to give her good advice in the form of relatively easy to apply rules that help her understand or communicate the empathy that Brun is obviously capable of, without otherwise being able to easily show it or understand when to apply it.

Kerin Schiesser

As this is placed in the future, it makes sense that there would be better counseling and better coping strategies taught, to make people on the autistic spectrum more comfortable with themselves and how to relate to the world without being unhappy with themselves

Kerin Schiesser

I love Millefeuille's blushing in panel 1

lazymagpie

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Brian Jenkins

I do tbh. She's got a number of realistic and, to me, relatable autistic traits. She seems to understand herself well, and be comfortable with how her brain works and how she lives. It's a nice thing to see.

Solomon Garland

Do those of you on the autism spectrum feel like Brun is a good representation of a person with an autism diagnosis?

KCkittysnores

That last panel suggests that Millie has realized that Brun is just interested in her body...

Matt Grayson

AIs don’t get an aesthetic?

Sleepy John

and in the first panel ... is she blushing a little ...? ^°^

Martin Trebuch

Apparently it kicked her and broke her leg 😬

Chris Driggers

Is Millefeuille getting her femur replaced because she tripped over the invisible emu?

Scotty

It really seems like Millefeuille understands Brun well enough to know that she can't help herself in the last panel, and well enough to know exactly what it means that Brun is trying so very hard to restrain herself, neither of which would Brun fake. This all feels very genuine. It's a resignation face, not a sad/angry face. She knows what she's signed up for.

Brun likes clocks, and now she's found a clock that likes her back.

Stephen Wells

The last time Brun talked about how great clocks are, the gears were drawn in Millefeuille's colour scheme :)

Stephen Wells

Project clock. Tiftfy.

Am Queue

"The way you blush when I say your body is amazing, that's amazing too!"

Bagge

I really appreciate what is happening in the final panel, and appreciate that Milliefeuille will be sad that Brun wants to look IN her more than talk TO her in that moment.... but I really hope that Milliefeuille also appreciates how hard Brun is trying to do the right thing by her instead of just doing what she wants to. They are both just such great characters.

FeyOne

AND THEN THEY SMOOCH

Auros Harman

Also, Mille's face in the first panel is SO CUTE.

Jonathan Marinaro

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Jonathan Marinaro

Brun has found the most amazing clock that she can also hold hands with

Ed Marshall

Mille's look in the last panel. Not impressed, but resigned.

Andrew Mitchell

Hate to disappoint, but between lubricants, coolants and plenty of tiny mechanical juncturs in which to trap my fingers, robot bodies would still contain plenty of fluids and pain. Not to mention to risks to the synthetic mind if we can't properly deactivate/reactivate the pain receptors for diagnostics

Mattezhion Zane Corgan Campbell

She is definitely getting a charge out of it

Chris Heg

When someone says you're beautiful on the inside.

Jennifer Doyle

Brun has just realized that Millie is (as well as being a cool person who gets her) the cutest and bestest clock ever. And Millie seems to like that.

Hugh Eckert

It is probably a typical shop/garage-style workbench.

Yeah, I went to visit my grandma in the hospital and had to watch them use the little over-bed X-ray machine. Grandma's reaction was pretty much that same as here.

Tudza

Is Millefeuille lying on a bench? Did Faye and Bubbles steal a park bench and drag it into the shop to use as an operating table?

Dean Reilly

I bet there is a career change for Brun in the very near future.

Sten Thaning

Look at Millefeuille blushing in the 1st panel, looks like she finds Brun's enthusiasm for her mechanics cute. This speaks well for the ship.

C-Cubed

wow. could that be a fetish in this universe??

Joe

Annnnd now I need approximately 10,000% more Excited Brun because its the most adorable thing since Marigold.

I kinda saw this coming with Brun's interest in clocks. If that was done on purpose, masterfully played. If not, congratulations! Lucky you!

zerotraveler

Oh no, I SHIP IT.

Thom Fry

They were friends first! They genuinely enjoyed each other's company. The enchantment with Mille's butt and now her inner workings is secondary to that. SHIP SHIP SHIP! Whatever!

Millefeuille better get a transparent skin or something...

erutan

So adorbs! I especially love it when Millefeuille blushes, which she does a LOT around Brun. I am so shipping Brufeuille.

Tim

Millefeuille, Brun is really just interested in your body.

Duke

I don't think I've ever seen Brun so excited and engaged before. And this is all for the good

Michael Boettger

She's trying so very hard, too.

Brooks Moses

LOL!

Gary Sumners

I think Sam is going to have competition for the job of Shop Gofer.

Sleepy John

MILLE YOUR LEG JIGGLES WITH THE BZZZZZZT

Simon Green

oh HONEY god that is an autistic mood

Tamara Macadam

The next time anyone asks Mille about friendship: Brun gave up looking at the most fascinating things of her LIFE to provide moral support. And the clenched fingers in the last panel prove it.

Sleepy John

I love how hard Brun tries to be a great friend ❤️❤️❤️

Erin Moriarty

I don't know, I think it might be a little like complimenting a woman on how good her boobs look, in that, unless she's had surgery or some such, they're not really something she actually put effort into herself and can feel a bit objectifying. Presumably Millie didn't design her body herself, and the internals aren't something she really thinks a lot about.

TV4Fun

It almost looks like it is Brun who is being voltage tested 😅

Daniel Rydberg

Robo-insides would be so neat, though. All of the intricate engineering of physical mechanisms, but none of the messy blood or pain!

Madeline Hunter

Brun is realizing that a friend can also be a project car, and she can't cope with that level of joy just yet.

Verteiron

If I were a cyborg, having someone be entranced by the intricacies of biomechanical engineering *would* be moral support.

Mattezhion Zane Corgan Campbell

Brun has found her calling as a steampunk mage.

Miyaa

her love of mechanical clocks kickin into overdrive. brun needs a clockwork gf.

runrin

I think that this is the most excited we've seen Brun about anything!

Agnes

This is so unreasonably cute

Fart Captor

She tried her best.

Michael

Adooooorable!

Justin Seifert