Pipe Up!

A plural webcomic by the SaltnPepperBunny, Tinysweetbunny, and TheTRUEgge

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Welcome to Pipe Up!

A collaborative webcomic by Tinysweetbunny, TheTRUEgge, and the Salt & Pepper Bunny!

Percy hasn't been here for a long time. In his place is his big sister Piper, who is determined to make sure no one notices her little brother is gone. Now his life is her responsibility, from school to friends to extracurriculars, but the bustling life of a gifted high schooler isn't easy to maintain. Thankfully Piper isn't alone; she has the Warren—the group of animals who live in her head and share her body. With Harper the bluebird, Quinn the wolf, and Niko the stoat at her side, perhaps Piper can maintain the charade and prove to the world that nothing is wrong. But what will change when Percy's best friend Kai discovers the truth?

Updates Wednesdays!

Story, Dialogue, and Page Compositions by @saltnpepperbunny Inks and Character Flats by @tinysweetbunny Backgrounds by @thetruegge

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DISCLAIMER: This comic draws from first-person research on plurality, as well as the authors' and collaborators' varying experiences with their own plurality. There are seven major collaborators on this project: While some of us are singlet, some of us are plural or median. It is a(n accidental) first attempt at portraying a character with DID, and is a personal story. Review content warnings before reading.

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AUTHORS AND CREDITS

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LINKS TO READ OFF-SITE

Comicfury Site Deviantart Saltnpepperbunny's Patreon (Read pages one week ahead!) Tinysweetbunny's Patreon (Read up to 5 pages ahead!)

Q&A

Q&A #1 (Spoilers up to Chapter 3) Q&A #2 [Coming after Chapter 6]

PAGE ONE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Inside A Universe You Didn't Get To Choose Chapter 2: When This House Don't Feel Like Home

Chapter 3: Ripped At Every Edge but You're A Masterpiece Chapter 4: All of Your Scars Now Looking More Like Scales

Chapter 5: No One Can Unring This Bell Chapter 6:

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silly ask about a silly detail in the last page: since Mario kart is canon, are Mario, Luigi, Waluigi and the like actually animals too or are they this alien, fantasy species that's weird and bipedal and goofy and defensless (humans) ?

They're italian greyhounds.

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I just realized Gawain’s scales are the same color as Harper’s eyes/aura…..hmmmmmm

gawain has a few different colors that all go with other alters!

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Pipe Up- Chapter 5, Page 26 Same update schedule for June. < Previous | Next > Start Reading Content Warnings If you like the blue shell, please consider supporting me on Patreon! Or, support the character artist on Patreon! Story, Dialogue, and Page Compositions by @saltnpepperbunny Inks and Character Flats by @tinysweetbunny Backgrounds by @thetruegge

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I know people have already talked about how happy they're to see an agender alter but we're especially happy bc one of our headmates S is agender and it's also a persecutor!! So seeing Niko made it really happy :D also the genderfluid in Harper be making my twin/co-host the giddiest they've ever been we haven't seen a lot of gender fluid characters

We just love this comic and it's an amazing story y'all are telling!! We're really happy to have found it

Awww, thank you so much for the kind words! <3 to your agender persecutor.

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Some things I was thinking about cause of the character cards;

I like to imagine that when the Warren were still figuring things out, they thought they had a lot more members than they actually did, but it turned out Harper was just genderfluid and what they thought were different alters were actually all just Harper in different genders

I'm agender so I think it's really cool that Niko is too :>

Also I really appreciate the representation of non-fronting sys members with Gawain; most of our members front rarely if at all and at least one of them has no interest in ever doing so. And I like seeing something like that in this comic, it's very relatable to us!!

Yeah, I def wanted to have a non-fronting alter in this comic! For the representation, y'know? ^^

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I’ve always been curious, is there any particular reason Piper and Percy are both rabbits/identify with the body? [I ask since every other alter we’ve seen thus far is a different animal]

Wait till the end of the chapter and then ask me again if you're still confused!

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admittedly i pulled the name from a book about dragons and not from the King Arthur mythos specifically!

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Sorta directly going against the “singlet” on the card that was recently posted (WHICH ARE AWESOME BTW!!! The cards are so prettyyy) but it’s ok headcanons have “head” in front of “canon” for a reason lmao

Anyway… I do like to imagine Kai as a median, probably like “singlet-leaning”, like identifies as 1 person just has ‘modes’ he slides between kinda deal. I’ve been thinking about that for a while seeing Kai’s colors but especially now that the cards confirmed he does in fact have 2 colors (which make a 3rd in between them! Orange!) I like to think it’s like he’s got that bit of plural in him if that makes sense lol. If I’m remembering correctly the red shows up more when he’s pissed (I mean, emotion color theory), so it’s like a sort of “slides between the “host” and the angry one” deal … if that makes sense

Idk never mentioned it because clearly I have No idea how to explain my thoughts on it in a consise & coherent manner fjhgfhgj but seeing the confirmation of Kai intentionally having multiple aura colors just made me think about it more

i support this headcanon!!

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What's your nuzlock comic? I only know you from Pipe up (love it btw)

You can read my nuzlocke comic over at @findingyourrootscomic! And here's a link to its comicfury site where you can binge it. ongoing since 2018!!!

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I love the new cast descriptions! They're super cool! I'm agender, and the way I gasped when I saw Niko was agender- I rarely see agender characters, and Niko (my favorite character) being agender brings me so much joy <33 Also aroallo harper is so awesome too! Aroallo people are also super underrepresented. Thank you all for making this wonderful comic and it's characters! <3

Heyyy, thank you, happy to provide! I'm a bit of a unique queer myself (disexual demiromantic lesbian over here haha, i say "lesbian" for short), so I like finding more unique ways to represent queerness.

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Is Percy's last name derived off the term 'wallflower'? As in, an introverted person who, when apart of a social gathering, tend to stay away from the crowd and avoid being the center of attention?

Yep!

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so everybody in the pipe up world is an animal. i wonder what kind of awful alternate universe syscourse this produces.

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There'll only be six🥺 Maaaaann😭 I was hoping for more, but I understand </3

sorry! :'D its all i wrote. it was never meant to be a long project.

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I got a question. Kai use to go by they/them pronouns, so why did he stop?

Kai has never gone by they/them pronouns.

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Was looking at the character descriptions and saw that Quinn was labeled aromantic and nothing else so.. I hear by slap the non-sam aro headcanon on him !! (It means someone who chooses to indenitify as aromantic and not any sexuality. Aka, not indenitify with or use the split attraction model.)

I think Quinn is similar to Piper and Niko in that he isn't totally sure what his sexuality is! But he is def a lone wolf kind of guy, when it comes to romance.

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Hi, sorry, I did not mean to post the last asker non-anonymously. It was a complete mistake on my part, not done intentionally, I apologize very much!!!! I will be more careful going forward.