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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
The trip opens mid-tour, with an aquarium guide droning through shark fin evolution while [[Lucy]] stares up at the big tank looking uneasy, [[Yashy]] squirming in her arms to reach the fish.<ref name=":c10p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p1}}</ref> [[Paulo]] livens things up by tapping on the glass. Lucy yells at him to quit before he gets them all killed, but as far as he's concerned he's just "trying to get a shark's attention", and Yashy immediately volunteers to help.<ref name=":c10p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p2}}</ref> Lucy hauls him away from the tank, and he answers with an uninvited hug. She kicks him head-first into the glass, and he slides down it in a heap. As she stomps off, [[Mike]] and [[Daisy]] wave her over for the seal feeding, and Lucy visibly tenses up.<ref name=":c10p2" />
The class field trip to the aquarium starts badly for [[Lucy]], who stares uneasily up at the shark tank while [[Paulo]] amuses himself by tapping on the glass.<ref name=":c10p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p1}}</ref> When she hauls him away he answers with an uninvited hug, and she kicks him head-first into the tank.<ref name=":c10p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p2}}</ref>


Her mood gets no better at the seal show. Daisy proudly presents an already-finished worksheet, but when Mike turns to ask Lucy about combining answers, she doesn't respond at all. She has gone stiff and silent, and her breathing gets heavier as the show starts.<ref name=":c10p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p3}}</ref> Mike realizes he's forgotten all about her fear and quietly takes her hand.<ref name=":c10p3" /> He reminds her of an old vow: "I gave you my promise.. .. A promise I fully intend to keep!"<ref name=":c10p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p4}}</ref> Lucy blushes, then smacks him upside the head for breaking his other promise, the one about never touching her. Daisy, who has been glaring at the pair from behind her clipboard, pounces on the opening to offer herself as an alternative.<ref name=":c10p3" /><ref name=":c10p4" />
At the seal show Lucy goes stiff and silent, her breathing growing heavier, until [[Mike]] realizes he's forgotten all about her fear and quietly takes her hand.<ref name=":c10p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p3}}</ref> He invokes an old vow, "a promise I fully intend to keep", and Lucy blushes before smacking him upside the head for breaking his other promise, the one about never touching her.<ref name=":c10p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p4}}</ref> [[Daisy]] glares at the pair jealously from behind her clipboard.<ref name=":c10p3" />


[[File:c10_p3_panel11.png|alt=Mike clutches Lucy's hand and smiles at her kindly; both of them are blushing while Daisy glares from behind her clipboard.|thumb|One hand-hold, three very different reactions.]]
[[File:c10_p3_panel11.png|alt=Mike clutches Lucy's hand and smiles at her kindly; both of them are blushing while Daisy glares from behind her clipboard.|thumb|One hand-hold, three very different reactions.]]
Paulo cuts the tender moment short, having begged his way into being the show's volunteer.<ref name=":c10p4" /> He dangles a fish in front of the seal, yanks it away with a triumphant "SIKE", and laughs right in the animal's face. The seal's tail knocks him straight into the pool, and the class watches in horror as it goes after him. A terrified Lucy winds up clinging to Mike's arm, and when he teases her about her own no-touching rule, she's too mortified to do anything but yell at him to shut up.<ref name=":c10p4" />
Paulo, who begged his way into volunteering at the show, taunts the seal with a fish fake-out and gets knocked into the pool by its tail.<ref name=":c10p4" /> A terrified Lucy ends up clinging to Mike's arm.<ref name=":c10p4" />


On the bus ride back, [[David]] sobs into a soaked, fed-up Paulo's shoulder over his best friend's brush with a watery grave.<ref name=":c10p5">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p5}}</ref> Lucy declares the trip the worst experience of her life and vows to call in sick next time. Daisy pops up over the seat to lecture her about field trips broadening the mind, and gets a piece of paper stuffed in her mouth mid-sentence. Lucy then asks whether staying home would really cost her much, beyond the chance to ".. Repeatedly fail at flirting with some jerk who barely even likes you?" Mike is sitting right there, and he very pointedly looks away.<ref name=":c10p5" />
On the bus home, Lucy declares the trip the worst experience of her life.<ref name=":c10p5">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p5}}</ref> When Daisy pops up to lecture her about field trips broadening the mind, Lucy asks what staying home would really cost her beyond the chance to ".. Repeatedly fail at flirting with some jerk who barely even likes you?" — with Mike sitting right there.<ref name=":c10p5" />


There's one last twist waiting back at school. Mike quietly tells Daisy not to take Lucy seriously, while Paulo celebrates arriving in time for early dismissal — right up until the teacher announces that nobody leaves without a completed worksheet.<ref name=":c10p6">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p6}}</ref> Paulo shoves Mike to the ground and puppy-dog-eyes Daisy into helping him, which she allows on the condition that he actually thinks about the answers this time. That leaves Lucy, looking a little embarrassed, to offer the flattened Mike a hand up. He takes it and muses that everyone deserves a little help sometimes. She responds by planting her foot in his face, laughing: "Maybe not if you're gonna say corny stuff like '''that!!'''"<ref name=":c10p6" />
Back at school, the teacher announces that nobody leaves without a completed worksheet, and Paulo shoves Mike to the ground while begging Daisy for help.<ref name=":c10p6">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c10/p6}}</ref> A slightly embarrassed Lucy offers the flattened Mike a hand up, and when he muses that everyone deserves a little help sometimes, she plants her foot in his face and laughs at him for being corny.<ref name=":c10p6" />


== Character dynamics ==
== Character dynamics ==

Revision as of 13:10, 21 July 2026

Gone Fishing
Chapter10 of 127 (list of chapters)
PublishedJune 20, 2011 (2011-06-20)
Page count6
Major charactersMike, Lucy, Paulo, Daisy
Minor charactersYashy, David
LocationsAquarium, Roseville Middle School
Collected inVolume One, Omnibus 1
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A class trip to the aquarium would be great fun if Lucy weren't quietly terrified of the whole place. Mike is the one who notices, and an old promise gets dusted off in the process. Paulo, meanwhile, learns the hard way that seals don't appreciate being teased.

Synopsis

The class field trip to the aquarium starts badly for Lucy, who stares uneasily up at the shark tank while Paulo amuses himself by tapping on the glass.[1] When she hauls him away he answers with an uninvited hug, and she kicks him head-first into the tank.[2]

At the seal show Lucy goes stiff and silent, her breathing growing heavier, until Mike realizes he's forgotten all about her fear and quietly takes her hand.[3] He invokes an old vow, "a promise I fully intend to keep", and Lucy blushes before smacking him upside the head for breaking his other promise, the one about never touching her.[4] Daisy glares at the pair jealously from behind her clipboard.[3]

Mike clutches Lucy's hand and smiles at her kindly; both of them are blushing while Daisy glares from behind her clipboard.
One hand-hold, three very different reactions.

Paulo, who begged his way into volunteering at the show, taunts the seal with a fish fake-out and gets knocked into the pool by its tail.[4] A terrified Lucy ends up clinging to Mike's arm.[4]

On the bus home, Lucy declares the trip the worst experience of her life.[5] When Daisy pops up to lecture her about field trips broadening the mind, Lucy asks what staying home would really cost her beyond the chance to ".. Repeatedly fail at flirting with some jerk who barely even likes you?" — with Mike sitting right there.[5]

Back at school, the teacher announces that nobody leaves without a completed worksheet, and Paulo shoves Mike to the ground while begging Daisy for help.[6] A slightly embarrassed Lucy offers the flattened Mike a hand up, and when he muses that everyone deserves a little help sometimes, she plants her foot in his face and laughs at him for being corny.[6]

Character dynamics

  • Mike and Lucy: They come into this chapter as squabbling childhood best friends, complete with a standing rule that Mike isn't allowed to touch her.[4] He breaks it anyway when her panic peaks, and the promise he invokes earns a genuine blush before the usual smack lands.[3][4] The ending plays the same tune, with Lucy offering him a sincere hand up and then answering his gratitude with a foot to the face, so the old equilibrium survives more or less intact.[6]
  • Lucy and Daisy: Daisy spends the seal show glaring at the hand-holding from behind her clipboard, and on the bus Lucy stops leaving the rivalry unspoken.[3][5] The jab about Daisy's flirting is cruel enough that Mike takes her aside afterward to soften it.[6] Veronica's commentary calls it Lucy "hitting her where it hurts", physically and mentally alike.[5]

Trivia & observations

  • "Gone Fishing" started out as a bonus chapter exclusive to the first book. Veronica's commentary under the opening page notes it "has now made its way to the website", and the web release came as a single six-page drop rather than the usual serialized run.[1]
  • Per Veronica's commentary under the second page, the rewrite deliberately toned Paulo down so that he reads as "a prick that needs to get better at boundaries, rather than irredeemable". Oliver adds that the extreme anime-style gags stopped making sense once the cast was fleshed out.[2]
  • Oliver remembers the third page as a headache from converting the comic to vertical Webtoon format. Lucy's face in its first panel sits behind a speech bubble and was never inked, so "there's NO face behind that bubble."[3]
  • Veronica describes the chapter as exploring "some of Lucy's lesser-talked-about traumas", with foreshadowing whose answers only come much later.[1][3]
  • The poodle teacher who spoils Paulo's early dismissal is the middle school's regular homeroom teacher, on the job since Merry Snow Day.[6][7]

Related chapters

  • Troubled Waters: This is the chapter that answers both of "Gone Fishing"'s open questions. Its flashback shows the near-drowning that left Lucy terrified of water, along with the promise Mike makes her afterward and invokes at the seal show.[8][9]
  • Carry On: Lucy's fear resurfaces at the school swimming pool, with the seal-show staging reversed. This time it's Lucy who grabs Mike's hand in a panic, right before she faints into his arms.[10][11]
  • Turning Tides: Paulo's teasing gets meaner with age. Years down the line he taunts Lucy as "Poor little hydrophobic Lucy..", throwing the exact fear on display here right back in her face.[12]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 10: Gone Fishing, page 1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 10: Gone Fishing, page 2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Chapter 10: Gone Fishing, page 3
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Chapter 10: Gone Fishing, page 4
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Chapter 10: Gone Fishing, page 5
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Chapter 10: Gone Fishing, page 6
  7. ↑ Chapter 3: Merry Snow Day, page 4
  8. ↑ Chapter 30: Troubled Waters, page 10
  9. ↑ Chapter 30: Troubled Waters, page 11
  10. ↑ Chapter 31: Carry On, page 3
  11. ↑ Chapter 31: Carry On, page 4
  12. ↑ Chapter 48: Turning Tides, page 2
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