History Webcomic / Outsiders

''[[http://www.smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=179030 Outsiders]]'' (styled as "♀utsiders") is a webcomic by Ruairidh [=MacVeigh=] [[SpinOff spun off]] from his ''[[Webcomic/MaddieOnTheIslandHue Mad]][[Webcomic/MaddieInAmerica die]]'' comics. This time, the focus is on same-sex lovers Siobhan Pattinson and Ebony Larsson, Maddie's friends from the previous comics, as they start to plan their future, battling fear and prejudice to reach their goals in life. It will follow their development from aspiring teenage girls to hard working women. The comic is hosted on [=MacVeigh's=] ''[[https://tapas.io/episode/963762 Tapas.io]]'' account, as well as ''[[http://outsiders1993.smackjeeves.com/]]''.

''[[http://www.smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=179030 Outsiders]]'' (styled as "♀utsiders") is a webcomic by Ruairidh [=MacVeigh=] [[SpinOff spun off]] from his ''[[Webcomic/MaddieOnTheIslandHue Mad]][[Webcomic/MaddieInAmerica die]]'' comics. This time, the focus is on same-sex lovers Siobhan Pattinson and Ebony Larsson, Maddie's friends from the previous comics, as they start to plan their future, battling fear and prejudice to reach their goals in life. It will follow their development from aspiring teenage girls to hard working women. The comic is hosted on [=MacVeigh's=] ''[[https://tapas.io/episode/963762 Tapas.io]]'' account, as well as ''[[http://www.smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=179030 Smack Jeeves]]''.

* BreatherEpisode: After the bombshell that was Volume 11, Volume 12 can be considered one. Sure, it has [[spoiler: Ebony starting to experience PTSD from the incident]], but it also has [[spoiler: Harold Wisely giving her a motivational talk that seems to get her back on her feet, and a rather heartfelt moment where the two of them prepare a special dinner for their significant others]].

** In Volume 12, when Ebony gets into bed with Siobhan, she tells her "Seng kærlighed tid!" ("Bed love time!") before proceeding to tickle her under the sheets.

** BreatherEpisode: After the bombshell that was Volume 11, Volume 12 can be considered one. Sure, it has [[spoiler: Ebony starting to experience PTSD from the incident]], but it also has [[spoiler: Harold Wisely giving her a motivational talk that seems to get her back on her feet, and a rather heartfelt moment where the two of them prepare a special dinner for their significant others]].

* CerebusSyndrome: [=MacVeigh's=] comics have ''always'' had some drama in them, but they were usually balanced out with a fair amount of lighthearted and comedic moments as well. However, Volume 11 cranks things UpToEleven (appropriately) when [[spoiler: Siobhan and Ebony are confronted in a bar by some men who don't take too kindly to them being in a relationship and start to fight them, resulting in tons of pain, bruises, and bleeding, including Ebony getting a punctured lung and five broken ribs]]. It's arguably the darkest the comics have ever gotten, and according to [=MacVeigh's=] comments at the end of Volume 10, Siobhan and Ebony may never be able to feel true happiness again after this.

* BreakTheCutie: Happens to Siobhan and Ebony after [[spoiler: the fight they get in with the homophobic patrons at the bar in Florida. Ebony, more physically, as she struggles to get up afterwards, and Siobhan, more mentally, as she has to resort to stabbing a man in the arm with a knife to prevent any further physical harm towards Ebony]].

* CoolTeacher: Harold Wisley, Ebony's flight instructor. He likes to go for a more hands on approach when it comes to flight training and lets Ebony do a takeoff on her first day as opposed to making her sit in lessons for weeks before she goes anywhere near a plane. He also operated transport aircraft during the Korean War and the Suez Crisis. Plus, even after finding out that Ebony is a lesbian, he doesn't kick her off his course, and is actually supportive of her relationship.

* ShoutOut[=/=]{{Homage}}: The cover art for Volume 11 is a subtle homage to the cover of the Gin Blossoms 1992 album "New Miserable Experience", with Siobhan and Ebony (standing in for the band members) in colour in the windscreen while the rest of the car and scenery is sepia.[[spoiler: This choice seems fitting, considering what happens to the two girls during the course of this volume]].

* BenevolentBoss: [[spoiler: Siobhan's boss, John. He takes the time to listen to her after she gets hit on by Charles Donovan, and when she finally admits to him that she's bisexual, he is understanding and doesn't fire her]].

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of Volume 11, "The Sunshine Hate," shows Siobhan and Ebony driving around [[spoiler: Florida]] with worried expressions on their faces. That actually ''does'' happens in this volume- except that on the cover, [[spoiler: Siobhan and Ebony don't have the bloody injuries they sustained in the bar fight they got in]].

** Now that the series has moved to Comic-Fury [=MacVeigh=] intends to upload daily on a page-by-page basis.

''[[http://www.smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=179030 Outsiders]]'' (styled as "♀utsiders") is a webcomic by Ruairidh [=MacVeigh=] [[SpinOff spun off]] from his ''[[Webcomic/MaddieOnTheIslandHue Mad]][[Webcomic/MaddieInAmerica die]]'' comics. This time, the focus is on same-sex lovers Siobhan Pattinson and Ebony Larsson, Maddie's friends from the previous comics, as they start to plan their future, battling fear and prejudice to reach their goals in life. It will follow their development from aspiring teenage girls to hard working women. The comic is hosted on [=MacVeigh's=] ''[[https://tapas.io/episode/963762 Tapas.io]]'' account, as well as ''[[http://www.smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=179030 Smack Jeeves]]'' and ''[[https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=outsiders ComicFury]]''.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: [[spoiler: The bar fight, and the injuries Siobhan and Ebony get from it]] in Volume 11 could trigger this for some people. Gets even worse when we learn that it's unlikely that the men who assaulted them will be brought to justice due to the police hanging up the moment that they hear Siobhan and Ebony are a gay couple. Not helping is [=MacVeigh's=] warning at the end of Volume 10 that it would be the last chapter of happiness for the two. While fans still hold out hope that they will come out of this OK, that comment makes it seem like too much to ask.

** [[spoiler: When the hospital that Siobhan and Ebony get treated at reports that they got assaulted to the police, the police hang up when they hear the victims are a gay couple.

** Taken UpTOEleven with [[spoiler: the bar fight in Chapter 11]].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: [[spoiler: The bar fight, and the injuries Siobhan and Ebony get from it]] in Volume 11 could trigger this for some people. Gets even worse when we learn that it's unlikely that the men who assaulted the will be brought to justice due to the police hanging up the moment that they hear Siobhan and Ebony are a gay couple. Not helping is [=MacVeigh's=] warning at the end of Volume 10 that it would be the last chapter of happiness for the two. While fans still hold out hope that they will come out of this OK, that comment makes it seem like too much to ask.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: [[spoiler: The bar fight, and the injuries Siobhan and Ebony get from it]] in Volume 11 could trigger this for some people. Not helping is [=MacVeigh's=] warning at the end of Volume 10 that it would be the last chapter of happiness for the two. While fans still hold out hope that they will come out of this OK, that comment makes it seem like too much to ask.

** In Volume 11, [[spoiler: Siobhan has to resort to stabbing a man in the arm with a knife to prevent him from further hurting Ebony in a bar fight. She could very well be arrested for assault for doing something like that. Despite the fact that it was in self defense, the men who started the fight could very possibly find a way to frame themselves as victims in that scenario, not helped by the fact that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance considering the time period]], the court might not be too accepting of a same-sex couple getting in a bar fight. Not helping is the fact that [=MacVeigh=] earlier stated that Volume 10 is the LAST chapter of happiness for Siobhan and Ebony, meaning that no matter what happens, any hope of Siobhan and Ebony possibly trying to build themselves back up after this might be too much to ask]].

* CerebusSyndrome: [=MacVeigh's=] comics have ''always'' had some drama in them, but they were usually balanced out with a fair amount of lighthearted and comedic moments as well. However, Volume 11 cranks things UpToEleven (appropriately) when [[spoiler: Siobhan and Ebony are confronted in a bar by some men who don't take too kindly to them being in a relationship and start to fight them, resulting in tons of pain, bruises, and bleeding]]. It's arguably the darkest the comics have ever gotten, and according to [=MacVeigh's=] comments at the end of Volume 10, Siobhan and Ebony may never be able to feel true happiness again after this.

** With that in mind, let's also include [[spoiler: the bar patrons in Florida who fight Siobhan and Ebony, since the pain they inflict is even ''greater'' than what Ebony's coworkers did to her, to the point where Ebony struggles to get up afterwards. And even those that ''don't'' directly fight them refuse to help them, making them [[AccompliceByInaction Accomplices By Inaction]]]].

** Both Siobhan and Ebony reach new levels of Woobiedom in Volume 11 when [[spoiler: they get beat up by two men in a bar in Florida who aren't satisfied with them being a same-sex couple]].

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of Volume 11, "The Sunshine Hate," shows Siobhan and Ebony driving around [[spoiler: Florida]] with worried expressions on their faces. That actually ''does'' happens in this volume- except that on the cover, [[spoiler: Siobhan and Ebony don't have the bloody injuries they sustained in the bar fight they got in]].

* BreakTheCutie: Happens to Siobhan and Ebony after [[spoiler: the fight they get in with the homophobic patrons at the bar in Florida. Ebony, more physically, as she struggles to get up afterwards, and Siobhan, more mentally, as she has to resort to stabbing a man in the arm with a knife to prevent and further physical harm towards Ebony]].

* BreakTheCutie: Happens to Siobhan and Ebony after [[spoiler: the fight they get in with the homophobic patrons at the bar in Florida. Ebony, more physically, as she struggles to get up afterwards, and Siobhan, more mentally, as she has to resort to stabbing a man in the arm with a knife to prevent and further physical harm towards Ebony]].

** In Volume 11, [[spoiler: Siobhan has to resort to stabbing a man in the arm with a knife to prevent him from further hurting Ebony in a bar fight. She could very well be arrested for assault for doing something like that. Despite the fact that it was in self defense, the men who started the fight could very possibly find a way to frame themselves as victims in that scenario, not helped by the fact that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance considering the time period]], the court might not be too accepting of a same-sex couple getting in a bar fight. Not helping is the fact that [=MacVeigh=] earlier stated that Volume 10 is the LAST chapter of happiness for Siobhan and Ebony, meaning that no matter what happens, any hope of Siobhan and Ebony possibly trying to builds themselves back up after this might be too much to ask]].

** Meta example: Back in ''Webcomic/MaddieInAmerica'', MacVeigh wound up removing a lot of the more sexual moments from the comic because he didn't like the tonal shift they created (despite the fact that doing so made the story kind of end in the middle). [[spoiler: Clearly, his stance on tonal shifts changed somewhere between then and Volume 11 of this comic, with the shift being much more drastic than the one in ''Webcomic/MaddieInAmerica'', although the moments that cause the shift in this comic are more of a violent nature than a sexual one]].

* In Volume 11, [[spoiler: Siobhan has to resort to stabbing a man in the arm with a knife to prevent him from further hurting Ebony in a bar fight. She could very well be arrested for assault for doing something like that. Despite the fact that it was in self defense, the men who started the fight could very possibly find a way to frame themselves as victims in that scenario, not helped by the fact that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance considering the time period]], the court might not be too accepting of a same-sex couple getting in a bar fight. Not helping is the fact that [=MacVeigh=] earlier stated that Volume 10 is the LAST chapter of happiness for Siobhan and Ebony, meaning that no matter what happens, any hope of Siobhan and Ebony possibly trying to builds themselves back up after this might be too much to ask]].

** With that in mind, let's also include [[spoiler: the bar patrons in Florida who fight Siobhan and Ebony, since the pain they inflict is even ''greater'' than what Ebony's coworkers did to her. And even those that ''don't'' directly fight them refuse to help them, making them [[AccompliceByInaction Accomplices By Inaction]]]].