Yuss.

Well now we need a HL2 mod to replace barnicles with Yinglets.

That, or Cieling Yinglet Is Watching You~!

Look, Gordon! A rope!

Gordon, I'm thirsty!
*Slurp*
Gordon, I'm no longer thirsty.

Alien movies where the Xenomorphs in the vents are just Yinglets. Ventlets.

Perfection!

And instead of using a Power Loader to fight the Matriarch, Ripley just grabs her by the tail and yeets her over a wall.

I would love to see that!

There *is* that one ying with the really long tongue

Oh... oh no... oh yesssss!

A living doll? <^\/^>

To certain individuals, yes

Yinglet-sized tunnels. I'm immediately imagining Yinglets as hamsters. I want hamster-sized Yinglets now.

I want a life sized yinglet.

That is a very very good question he is asking. I also think the patriarch wants more clothing sets for himself

Yeees, more of these midnight-blue ones! And one Hawaiian floral shirt for those rare occasions!

He probably would love own the Ninja Gideon (ninja outfit) being a sneaky spy and all. Although maybe a James Bond outfit... that might be a bit of a stretch.

Is he well taken care of? Is he spy material?

Careful not to let the yinglets live in the vent holes, or the scavvy smell will stink up the entire place. :V

* Why the fuck does this place smell like clams lately...?*

Unless you like that particular fragrance

Friend of the MC?
A harmless curiosity?

...because certainly if there HAD been yinglets in the area, the local rulers are (based on what we have seen of them) clearly familiar enough with the Evil Overlord's Handbook that they would have made sure the vent tunnels were not large enough for yinglets to infiltrate. Of course.

Yuuup, and it's a whole lot easier to open up ventilation systems than it is to narrow them

A friend, Beizel.

Lopin is a friend.

Took the words out of my mouth.

'Lopin.'

suddenly I am picturing Lupin III as a Yinglet.

Lopin za zhiiiiird

Wooooo!

Imagine the movie The Bad Guys, but it's yinglets. Ze Bad Guys. Lopin the 3rd with occasional clams.

“Hey, you, get over here. … Oh, I see. You’re afraid. Because I’m ze Big Bad Ying, za villain of ev’ry story.”

I love this line of thinking so so much <3

I bet Beizel knows that. I think he's trying to get Lopin to realise it.

Was going to offer 'lover', but 'friend' is also good! 😜

"Lover" connotates sexual interactions. Did you mean that?

Bimgo

Cute could also work.

A cute annoyance

Eeeehehee Patriarch Beizel is jeallooouusss

Clothes are special!!

Field Report page on textile industry and sartorial habits when?

What are you to ze humans in zhe mountains?

The best.

Ceiling Yinglet knows all your secrets.

Clever, Beizel, getting poor Lopin thinking about what he has rather than crying about what he's lost.

An important question, but I don't know if Lopin has ever really thought on it..

To the humans he is an official fashion icon

Quickly becoming a household (mountainhold) name

He's the precious yinglet and must be protected is what he is.

Frand

Lopin is Family. And you never turn your back on family.

...

Lopin in mirrored sunglasses, black tank shirt, silver cross necklace.

With twin gunsteel glocks?

I was thinking a physics-defying Dodge Charger.

Lopvin Diesel.

The fast and the Yingliest

2Fast
2Yingy

Officially!

Friend.

Don't give him an existential crisis.

oh my

If you bury him halfway in the soil and water him, he sprouts

Very interesting movement, considering their anatomy it would be fun to see how yinglets move irl.

The Valsalia site has some animations of a yinglet walking/jogging/running.

Beizel in particular moves like a liquid

The feline of yinglets.

Oh gosh, that last . My heart! He's too cute!

If you want him to make this face, just ask him a hard question

research assistant
also, using those tunnels would make a assault by yinglets very hard to stop, since they are on average limber enough to easily utilize them, bing bang boom, throat slicers out the wazoo

Yes, well, House Ivenmoth isn't making enemies of the Yinglets, now are they. As such, were an attack on House Ivenmoth to come, it would fack the bajeezus out of anyone attacking the castle, since nobody else can use those tunnels.

I don't think I'd feel too safe with those small guys popping up all over the place, ready to start shoving spears in my Achille's tendon

. . .

Hmmmmmm.

I think I might have accidentally stumbled upon one of Trademaster Viracroix's long-term plans...

FULL-TIME VENT GUARDS

Interesting....

I zhought Beizel will play wizh Lopin but no -- just going straight to the case. Well its clever decision I would say.

Maybe that is the way Beizel plays!

Hey now, be nice to poor Lopin…

I love how Biezel's being all Yinglety and creepy at the same time.

"Emergency Food"

How EXCELlent

Beizel is such a magnificent character. He can be sweet, even adorable at times, but when it comes times, he is all business. He is tasked with getting information and the way he goes about conducting his questioning is such that he can guide a yinglet to be trapped in a lie or, in this case, to figure out what is going on, even if said yinglet isn't quite sure himself. :)

Is it possible that Lopin becomes a (GASP) ... spy? :)

Nah, he's too unaware. A huggable distraction, perhaps, but he's no fighter.

a mascot

Friend

That last is very cute forward shot~

A toy. A squeaky toy. An adorable squeaky toy.

Ever heard of just being nice, you wannabe eshin assassin?

patriarch back off will ya? XD

A friend~

Tough questions for Lopin.

The yinglet equivalent of a living barbie doll?

Considering how many times he's been dressed up by employees of this place, I want to imagine sometime in the distant future, that they'll have large numbers of painting in the halls of Kass and friends. And Lopin will be the most re-accurring people in those paintings.

The thing is, those questions actually make a great deal of sense...

my vote's "pet", considering how people treat yinglets as either pests or amusements

Beziel doesn't even need daggers for Lopin at that. That hurts so much.

I read it more as "I'm just checking, but they are treating you well, right?" If they are, he can cheer up Lopin and give the Matriarch good news. If not, he can arrange for some minor unpleasantness, or major, depending on how badly they're mistreating a Yinglet. Nothing that would be traced back to him or any other yinglet, just some karma that just so happens to happen... ^.~

He is a cute boi and a fancy lad, Bezzy.

How do you pronounce Beizel?
Is it Bee-zel, or Buy-zel?

and is it like a "Z" or a "Tz"?

Beizel is so flexible!

So the holes in the ceiling are vents

And Beizel vented.... He sus

Black is totally sus, I just saw him vent.

Oh my god he is too cute in that last .

A cutie, obviously

I'm sure he's not really sure himself.

That last question. Without looking back on this long lore filled series: a friend?
Thats my final answer i hope im right? Correct me if im not

Not sure if it's my imagination, due to how the Yinglets speak, but I think there's a minor typo on this page.

proof of yinglets being good infiltrators, small thin and highly flexable make good spys as well being able to clime with easy, Super spy Beizel!

Beizel going straight in on the tough thinky brain questions.

A very good question.

And that, kids, is how you get into someone's head and start flipping switches.

It's easy to think of Yinglets as an '' species, certainly above the level of animals but not quite as intelligent as humans. They are very young after all.

However, I'm beginning to think that if they decide to push past the 'fog' as Kass calls it, of Yinglet-y jumpiness and scatterbrained thoughts, a Yinglet is actually every bit as intelligent as a human. Beizel, Vizlet and Figgins are good examples of this. So is Narklet.

Unfortunately the comparitively child-like outlook and hair-trigger jumpiness of the species as a whole misleads one into thinking of them as intelectually lesser. I rly don't think so.

All the females seem to me to have three digit IQs. Is that because females are so treasured that they get dedicated training and education, while males are left to raise each other, or are females biologically smarter?

Probably more nurture over nature. There are fewer of them, they're more valued because of that and their ability to reproduce. And they gather together to and educate each other.

Hmmm....that is the question isn't it, Lopin?

All the body language here is good stuff, but the way that penultimate blends body language and composition into a single framework is just chef-kiss material.

"Mascot?"

Apparently, "Adorable" is the one word answer to that question. If the two seamstresses' reactions are anything to go by, that is.

why does this look like a setup question where he's going to tell Lopin to kill them all?

A solid question lead up with good leads of how the Yinglets have been depicted of late.

"Likeable." Seems to be the answer.

Other then getting roughed up because he had 'Ze Zing' and they either wanted him dead for it. No one has disliked Lopin long. Even Kas who has every tight to make his life well what it IS now, could not go though with wanted to kick his ass after he pledged himself to making right his wrong. He just seems to be able to bring out the good in people.

He is a sweetie pie who is much liked. That’s what.

Aw, Beizel, that's not fair, asking him to THINK like that.

I think the answer is "Adorable"

Him fuckboi, Beizel.

Beizel is about to give Lopin either a serious identity crisis or a Mission.

Or both.

I believe the answer is "cute"

A cutie?

That last is absolutely adorable ~<3

Study subject.

Adorable, that's what he is

Only Beizel could make almost falling on your head look totally cool and badass.

Seriously. This guy lucked out on the genetic lottery. So many yings wanna be this guy. Probably a few humans too! Hard not to envy the little bugger with how cool and stealthy he is.

....I am lacking way too much sleep to be posting this, but fuck it, Beizel is like my soul yinglet. 10/10, would give the stealthy boy much love and gifts.

No, pretty sure that landing was completely controlled. He probably flows like a liquid when he's trying.

I did say "almost". =P I'm pretty confident he's one of the most graceful yinglets in existence.

Which may not seem like much compared to the rest of them right now, but he wouldn't be a Patriarch if he wasn't competent. Or clumsy.

I think he's trying to explain to lopin, without actually explaining. Because if he said why vizett is doing what she's doing, odds are lopin might do something stupid. Helping him realize how good he has it now to help him cope, and take his mind off it. For everyone's sake.

A cutie~!

He's pretty, is what he is.

i think Lopin gives off a certain kind of vibe, like that one friend everybody has (or is) in their group of friends, where they don't quite fit in with the group dynamic, and they are kind of annoying, but everyone still likes them enough to tolerate it because they are funny and a genuinely good person who legit cares about everyone.( a.k.a, that one friend with ADHD that often forgets to take their meds) ** I have been that person at various points in my life

A friend

He is...Lopin.

Lopin is the cutie of the mountain, if only there were life sized yinglet plushies... hint hint

I love Beizel's gymnastic way of movement. All the flexibility, in so many directions.
Also Kass will need to be tossed into the vents now. For science.

A mind blowing question asked to a child.

And personally I think pet.

He so cute!

Hmm... this almost seems like something my therapist would say, kinda a mindfulness excercize. Like an unconscious, uh, I think it's callee DST? DDT? Basically to externalize the situation and reveal your biases for your own judgement, given new perspective. Useful for BPD in particular. Also good for people like me, on the high functioning end of the Spectrum.

It's interesting that the yinglets of higher intelligence would be using a sort of unformalized therapy amongst each other....

The answer of course, is minor research staff, political refugee, recruit of Officer Kassen Atoll. And... friend.

Dynamical Systems Therapy, I guess.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs.....nalCode=hpsd20

Useful to correctly differentiate in the mind of the patient invasive, logical and illogical suppositions, stablize and give the mental structure to halt/redirect obsessive thoughts, assumptions not based in reality but in fear, etc..

Very interesting parallel, but it's probably safe to assume that Beizel does this instinctively as opposed to following a formalized teaching. It's awfully crafty of him though, especially because it seems he's actually doing more than one thing at a time here.

That's actually the interesting thing, because this looks like a mighty powerful cultural adaption! It'd be interesting to see if this is unique to the Val Salian natives, if any of the other leaders do things like that, if Narklet does anything remotely similar, etc..

Cause it would seem to me that this would only be an adaption that would come up from interacting closely with humans. Establishing a "neurotypical" baseline or relative ideal for the stability. Then in general striving for small adjustments that work for the sensitive individuals amongst them, making their work force more effective and stable one interaction at a time and lifting the smarter ones out of the pack. Those that can such lessons and start implimenting them internally will be likely to succeed much more as they age.

I'm reminded that Vizlet and the patriarchs follow Lizzy's progress carefully and probably swap ideas for techniques to calm her at least incident to incident.

It's interesting for sure! It's entirely possible that the "elder knowledge" bestowed upon Narklet equates simply to "jedi mind tricks for the weak minded," which for sure Vizlet has picked up for herself, and the patriarchs have mastered to one degree or another (besides Poak who simply bulls through problems on bulk and kindness).

So it's clearly part of their leadership repertoire, but perhaps in Vizlet and Biezel's version is emerging some actually helpful, long term techniques. Which is frankly interesting, given how few humans are using that ive a social network. Valsalia's guard force are defending each other's mutual education, but not entirely sure we've seen much similar wholesome behavior except for maybe, in a shadowy imitation, the Dinnish refugee barracks?

If they reach human levels of trade skills, they won't be entirely equal to the humans. They might just be a bit more well adjusted... other than, yknow, the steady trickle of weirdos that them every generation of eggs. Nothing like the village idiots dragging you down....

You may be giving the yinglets too much credit here. I'm not sure they analyze things quite so deeply. I suspect that Beizel, crafty spy that he is, has an instinct for reading others as well as for manipulating them that even he may not have approached with such a level of analysis or even fully understand on quite so conscious a level.

Their tendency towards variation and mutation will at least occasionally reward them with particularly gifted individuals, whether that gift is strength, intelligence, intuition, or what have you.

Thats the thing, the modern art of psychology has its basis on studies of popularity concerning feudal lords. Then later the philosophers came in and made a basic theory of human behavior, then even later the behavioral scientists like Freud came along, made a lot of wrong theories, and they built it up from there slowly disproving them along the way.

Essentially, the whole discipline started in selfish principles, and brute forced their way up to today. Its all about sample size to begin with. They don't necessarily have to be setting out for that purpose to end up developing those techniques. They just have to be out to understand people, minds, behaviors etc.. I'm not giving them credit on something I can see they're absolutely doing or something, I'm just speculating here. It'd be interesting for such a collectivist and low baseline intelligence society to prioritize wellness of the herd in general.

What is a group of yinglets called, other than an Enclave. A gang, a skitter? A disappointment? Lol

did... did Beizel it he vented?

not but in more seriousness, what he did is oh so clever.
he takes on a reprimanding facade but the goal is quite the contrary...
man i love this comic, truly great writing and all just right up my alley.

He's the comic relief of course, the adorable comic relief.

Every yinglet gets their fifteen minutes of being the comic reief.

He's just the cutest little button, that's what!

I just realized Lopin doesn't have an overbite.

Well, he IS currently lacking his shelltooth...

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He is Lopin!

I can see Beizel wearing shades.

It's probably a rare sight to see a Yinglet face from front on like that last , without that big ol' dang toof in the road.

Lopin is love; Lopin is life.

Honestly, Lopin is a bit of a pet, but more of a mascot than anything else.

"How'd you get up zhere ?"
"Nanomachines, son !"

Huh. Lopin and Beizel have the same unusual eye colour. And the same kind of hair. They look quite similar, in fact, except for the colour of their coats. Never noticed before. I wonder if there's a reason for that...