The barf of gratitude.

The barf of potential checkhofs newborn!

I end up laughing if this little bebbeh will turn to repay the favor to kass in one or two years story side.

dat last panel XD XD XD XD XD XD

Would make a great reaction image.

dang, just got free from the egg and the kid got a det over his head lol.

Very nice job on this Val ^^

Aww so cute in a horrific way XD. Oh wait isn't that the egg everyone thought would not hatch or something!

Yep!

What is more appreciative than birthing vomit?!
That's liquid love right there, gushing forth like a big birthday "thank you!"

... I think.

She nearly Drowned… I think we have room to cut her some slack… also she's like 3 seconds old.

she? with yinglets it's a VERY safe assumption that's a he, until proven otherwise

I would normally agree when considering their apparent birth ratio…

However, when I consider their…… um… 'ananomy'… I personally think it safer to think that they're female until proven wrong…

Excuse me, while I go say "thank you" to this bucket…

Nothing says thank you like a barf.

And I'm hoping Kass just unknowingly 'adopted' little barfolemew there. ^_^

Wait, do they imprint as well?

If its a male, then I think you might have found a decent human name for it outside of the enclave: Bartholomew.

And with the problem with pronouncing certain words his nickname might just be Barf instead of Bart. ^_^

Well that just depends on how much that shell tooth grows. It seems apparent that it is a slow grower or stunted, since the baby couldn't use it to extricate themselves from their egg.

No I mean for others trying to say the name.

Barvomewl? probably how the yings will call him.

Personally, I vote for "Hork"...

Kass can act all tough all she wants, but her face showed her true emotions, motherly instincts.

Nice.

Free the child!

Makes me wonder if this will have consequences o0o

imma firing ma lazer, HOOOORK!

Go away >`>

- spray water at you- git out yerself m8

Reeee

Ah another wonderful upload as always, my friend! And what an interesting look into Yinglets/Younglets this has been. I assume the sweat detail you added her is supposed to suggest that there are maternal and nurturing instincts at play here, but I think that you left it up to interpretation! IS it maternal instincts? Is it Kass worrying for the child, or worrying that if she helps it people will think she's going native? It's a small detail, but I like it all the same! Your work always impresses and entertains me, Sal!

Is it maternal instincts or common human sympathy/ pity? Personally, I tend to think the latter.

If there are maternal instincts, I'd expect those might kick in later with some continued exposure to this younglet. Makes me wonder if their young imprint on individuals that they're exposed to.

That will be very interesting to see indeed! And I do tend to think that there's human decency at work here, I believe I misworded my comment here upon review. It's that last part in what I wrote that I was musing on; the nervousness and internal wondering of if these are maternal instincts (In which Kass would have to ignore them in principle), or if this was just being decent, but the fear of not knowing making Kass hesitant to do anything at all. I've been watching this struggle build in this well paced and beautifully executed comic. She's in a desperate situation where she's trying to hold on to a former life and deeply afraid of losing herself, so every choice, every action, would at some point come into question.

One could easily just enjoy the humor of this comic and the rest of Val's work without the way it expertly explores the subtleties of various aspects of human life as the best of SF/ fantasy can. His writing is really good. He has a uniquely nuanced way of using TF scenarios for this. I find it quite impressive.

oh boy. I really hope this wont bite kass in the um... Rump for this o,o!

Infants/chicks/cubs/whathaveyou are nothing more than mobile fountains of bodily functions.

"Yeah, that's what I thought." Kass is learning! ^.^

Its tooth is so much smaller than the other one. No wonder the poor thing couldn't get out on its own.

Which, incidentally, means they will be able to speak without the usual pronounced affection.

that would be interesting...

When Lopin lost his shelltooth he still "lisped".
It is the whole mouth/tooth structure.

lol

Wow, that's a tiny little shell tooth. I wonder what other differences this one has to your average yinglet?

Compared to the previous hatched this one seems to have less fur

Hmm... If you can't hatch something's typically wrong with you. Kass made a pretty brutal mistake.

there are no mistakes, only happy little, wait...

well, japan has style so maybe the nukes weren't so bad in the long run, but uh...

what was my point again?

Cheese?

...

yeah probably.

maybe...

uh, i mean... no thanks i had enough on my pastas.

"You have saved me, for that, I shall projectile vomit as thanks!"

Kass is consistently altruistic, I like that.

Spew from the heart.

Oh my god. This is the most touching scene involving projectile vomit I've ever seen! <3

Small tooth and no fur. That baby will not last in the wild.

How cute. Clearing it's little lungs of Albumen. Still, I feel this might lead to interesting situations along the way. (I really like the pose and expression of Ambassador Kass in panel 8.) This is also the closest image I've seen of Yinglet eyes. I always thought they were smooth, compound eyes, and the "Pupil" was where the creature's focus of vision was, kind of like the eyes of a Mantis, but now I see their eyes are far more complex.

Well Kassie made a decision to help that Younglet live and I applaud it, and hope no negative repercussions find their way to her. While some would say you never know what horrible thing will come Kassie's decision, I would like to hope something good will come from Kassie's decision. And is it me or does that Younglet seem female to you as well.

I guess that means she's a mother now.

I wonder if Vizlet figured Kass' "help" the hatch a little...

I think that was her idea.

Pretty cunning thinking there...

Jokes aside I'm pretty sure she's gonna regret that.

That yinglet would later grow up to become the yinglet queen, and lead the yinglet race to a new age of peace and prosperity. That would last for about thee weeks. Than she would eventually get bored and ruin everything.

The imprinting begins...

To be fair, that does seem to be a sign that they like you.
The other sign is that they eat you.
Just say'n… She (yes, I think it's a girl) was essentially drowning to death there.

Lmao

And thus Kass became Mommy Kass without even realizing it hehe. Hopefully at least because there are still so many things that can mentally scar Kass and I feel like a baby yinglet calling Kass "mama" would be one of them

so yeah, now this has come to light, who wants to bet the dear and beloved by all researcher Ran is going to investigate the new maternal aspects developing in Kass?

And this little Yiglet Grows up to be the next Einstein~

totally hypothetical, but if females are so sought after, wouldn't it be prudent to open dud eggs in case there was a female inside? since they tend to be sheltered and protected there wouldn't be any issue to help out duds

although then again if there's a higher chance you'd get a weaker male i guess i could see the decision!

Might also get a female that doesn't produce very viable offspring.

It would be more likely to have negative traits, which are probably best not to risk passing on...

And this is when they discover that small egg tooth size has a correlation with higher intelligence.

This is my thinking too. Some people considered "runts" have been smarter than average to make up for physical issues.

Yay Kass! You saved the mighty Horker! <^\/^>

as sleep continues to drown my head I wonder to myself how Yinglets would react to seeing a crystalline, colored, glowy egg with a random symbol on it. my money’s on them trying to break it or keep it as a treasure or something

Vizlet's hurt expression in the first frame really got to me. It must be really hard on her to have put as much work as she has into making the enclave more than just another yinglet enclave, and she finally meets her intellectual equal, and Kass just keeps dumping on her because it's not as good as Ivenmoth.

Or, to Kass, being human.

YOU'LL UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU'RE OLDER

*barfs*

The barf of freedom joy and wait... is this gunna bite Kass in the ass?

Now Kass gets dibs on that yummy, yummy placenta.

I'm so happy I randomly stumbled across OOPs, it's ended up being my favorite Western webcomic ever

The day was saved!

I laughed more than I should here.

Doesnt look like it’s really well formed , but do go on barfboy/girl/helicopter you can do it !

People speak of motherly instinct... it’s just mercy for me but okaaaaaaay

And then he grew up to be another roof slut and Kass learned a valuable lesson.

Mweh ?

I wonder if it will ever occur to Kass that she had a very feminine OMG reaction in frame 8...

Lol 😅
Awesome new page
Grose yet cute of kass

mother instincts strikes again yesh

MOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS SO GOOD GIVE ME MOORE YOUR KING DEMANDS IT. (JK lol )

Oh no, that one's not fully developed - now it's gonna die a much more painful death.

Ohhh shoot a new page hahaha ohhh my thats uhhh zhats a lot of fluids

Someone is softening quite quickly here... is it Kass or the eggshell?

The line between being maternal and being human?
Well. i think that was always blurry anyway.

Why do I get he feeling Vizlet may have figured this would happen?

I'll just bet this younglet has some interesting mutations, that it and Kass form a special bond, and that there are some interesting ramifications of all this, both positive and negative...

And thus the Destroyer Of Worlds was born.

Very touching. VERY glad that Kass went back to help. And I have to agree: that _is_ a tiny shell tooth - now we have to wait and see if the "it's a female" predictions are right.

This goes beyond "Seal of Approval" levels...here, have this WALRUS OF APPROVAL!!! :V

SHIT MAN THOSE THINGS ARE LIKE REALLY BIG YOU KNOW

I don't care! I told yah to buy a bigger apartment! One with a kitchen..with a sink!... A BIG ONE...FOR THE WALRUS!!!

Little one, what did you even eat? That hork was like half your body mass. On top of which do you even eat in the egg I thought it was fed through an umbilical cord of some kind. This little dork is a barf mystery.

Damn I'm caught up
Phenomenal work as always

you did the right thing Kass even if that baby will either die young from being a runt or become a typical annoyance like most skav's become

Heuuuuugh. Dx

I think this little one might be a female, hmmmm, I wonder how many females die
In the egg due to having smaller shell teeth. I think I may have found a problem.

They are hatched with normal shellteeth (usually). It is just that females file down their shelltooth, like foot binding or corset wearing. Fashion.

There's an evolutionary theory that says that humans were able to grow larger brains because our jaw muscles and teeth started to become smaller due to diet, allowing for more skull growth in the cranium.

It'd be ironic if the reason why some of these Yinglette eggs didn't hatch is because they had a slightly larger than average brain and as such their teeth were slightly smaller.

I imagine Kass with a new hatched baby yinglet on her face and barfing, just like head crab and alien baby together, hahaha!

Kass has quickly learned to put distance between himself and babyheads

The traditional vomit of gratitude

It’s the cutest and most precious!

Are you feeling it now mr Krabs.

Artist: Yay! Kass showed sympathy to a younglet!
Omni as a Yinglet: Well, well, looks like you did care about its survival, for a moment I thought you didn't have a heart. -he chuckles a bit-

>A>... is da baby ok?

Is any yinglet okay??? ????

Every kids are high as fuck <_> kids are always in high state.
easily get amused, easily get hungry, easily get sleepy... high as fuck

SOLID THEORY

That baby seems most grateful. Ever had to hold your vomit in while being stuffed in an egg? Shits awful and would not do it again

It’s like the love child of the eraser head baby and the chestburster scene from the first Alien movie. Otherwise good work on this.

The funny thing is the baby remembering Kass then calling her "mom" to their next encounter

Considering how many humans often save young animals quite often, I have a hard time connecting this to a Yinglet motherly instinct. Kass may be a Yinglet now and has been changing on a mental level as well to a certain extent. I still think he's just reacting the way an empathetic human might if put on the spot like that.

Helping the younglet hatch = obvious foreshadowing was not obvious (to me)

I just love Kass casually walking past it, then quickly hurrying back because he just can't let it go. Although, I would have done something with the sound effects to better express his slow-paced and quick-paced footsteps, but I'm just being nitpicky.

Now, what could come from these actions? Firstly, why did Kass do it in the first place? He was a pretty upstanding guy as a human; perhaps his actions are based of his intincts to help someone in need. He helped Elim when he was wounded. He helps Yannit and Isher integrate under House Ivenmoth. Elim talked so much about Kass can no longer be the one helping others and be the one accepting the help. The only thing that seems "out of character" is how much he visibly worries in panel four. It's almost like a woman on the verge of becoming hysterical about how "someone should do something!" before she calms down and just does it herself, which is what he does. It's that word "maternal" everyone's been throwing around.

The second thing I wanted to touch upon is that the egg has been hatched, so… now what? Revolving around the baby, we can assume a matter of things. Is it a female? It could very well be. In fact, someone above made a very intriguing observation that perhaps maybe the reason the female population is so low is because they have a smaller shell tooth right before brith and are six times out of seven NOT able to break free. That has to be the smartest theory I have ever heard. The only possible debunk to the proposed idea is that females only have smaller shell teeth because they shave them down. The only way to fix this gap in what could be a solid theory is that we assume the females are just born with a small shell tooth that soon grows to the size of a male's. Then again, if that were true, wouldn't the nursery's nurses or even Vizlet have noticed this by now?

Either way, I am always eager to see where things lead.

This makes me feel like the winter warlock when he got the choo choo. My heart is melting.

So newhatched younglets puke their meconium instead of pooping it.

I don't speak yinglish, but I think that's a good sign.

i wont lie i would love to see if that kid will remember Kass later, that would be so adorable and at the same time pretty funny

Rereading this whole comic from the beginning and came back to this page. I really hope that somewhere down the line, Kass gets to meet up again with this particular baby...you know just to see her reaction. :)

I dubbed the, master bench.