After some consideration, I’ve come to the conclusion there’s actually another kind of ropes that Mopey could show Usazawa in the context of a romantic date…without breaking her canonical character.

Shibari! Let’s be honest, there’s only a trivial chance that Mopey wouldn’t be into that. It speaks to her sense of aesthetics and her twisted morality in equal parts. Plus, it let’s her experience the kind of joy of crafting other derive from things like knitting – which Mopey wouldn’t want to get caught dead doing. Everyone wins! Well, except for Usazawa, perhaps, who might have imagined his first intimate experience as being a little bit less fetishistic. But falling in love with a goth girl has its pitfalls, he was probably even aware of that on some level…

So, yeah…I’m offering this one up as a canon alternative. Decide for yourself whether you’d prefer this strip to be canon or the preceding one. I’m okay with both. I’m not the boss of you, anyway.

More on Thursday.