Q:

I know this is quite trivial in the grand scheme of OHS Stuff, but I have been wondering for a while... What *is* Gimel, exactly? Is he like a live-in servant? Is he salaried? Is he a "simpler" sort of automaton than Sulla or Tsade? Thank you, love this comic lots!

spectershaped

Another good question buried in my inbox, and it never really got outright explained in the comic itself, soooooo…

I guess you could say Gimel is a personal project of Brendan’s and Sulla’s, who doesn’t really have the same specs as a robot you’d get for similar purposes commercially. He does some household tasks and is connected to the house’s systems (security and the like), and helps Brendan out as a bit of a gofer. While Gimel’s not at the same level of sophistication as Sulla or Tsade, he has a level of social or emotional intelligence that makes him unique, and probably due for a re-evalution of the role he plays in the Pinsky house.

Q:

hi there! I discovered and speedread OHS this past weekend and I just wanted to say thank you for writing such a lovely comic! I also wanted to ask, if you don't mind, if you have any thoughts on what exactly Al and Brendan's relationship post-comic is, as Brendan seems to be a gay man while Al is a straight woman? Apologies if you addressed this elsewhere, I couldn't find anything. If you'd rather not discuss it and leave it in the mist of fiction, that's totally fine! regardless, great comic!

clankit

I realized it’d been a while since I checked my tumblr messages and I found this interesting one! 

To be honest, I’m not entirely sure which way I’d want their relationship to go post-comic, and I can genuinely make a case for Al and Brendan to stay together or dissolve their romantic relationship. I really enjoyed what EK Weaver did at the end of The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal where she drew a short comic for two similar scenarios, where the main characters stayed together and split up, respectively.

With OHS the interesting wrinkle becomes that, as it stands, Al’s looking at a far longer span of time without Brendan than she does with him, unless Brendan undergoes a similar neural transfer somewhere along the line. Would Brendan choose to do that, based on what he’s experienced? Who knows. 

I do think no matter what, they would support Sulla in her development as a person. That’s the relationship that this story was really centered around.