Chapter: Chapter 7: Rising Action
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Panel 1 (Alex and Eiji’s parents, a regal-looking older couple)
Alex, v/o: Wh- h- abusive? Since when?
Eiji, v/o: Uh, since forever? Since we were kids?
Alex, v/o: Sure, Eiji: the fancy private school, the music lessons, tuition so I could study music overseas—
Panel 2 (Close up of Eiji, looking sincere and sad)
Eiji: —the constant fear of fucking up, the expectation we do everything they said, freezing us out if we dared question them? The constant surveillance? Picking on our friends and partners for not being good enough?
Panel 3 (Alex, looking confused, stunned, hurt, her hand to her chest—)
Alex: But—they never hit us.
Oh you precious baby ლ(-̩̩̩︿-̩̩̩ლ )
Oh dear, I feel so sorry for Alex, it is so common thinking that physical violence is the only form of abuse… but there are so many ways. I am glad she is finally talking about this with her brother, maybe they can understand each other better after this. I am glad she is opening up and realizing -hopefully- that they were controlling and abusive
That one hit hard ….. to close to home….
Oh, this is heartbreaking.
the odd thing is I can’t figure out if they were abusive or just being typical upper-class Asian parents because I was the friend to a couple of kids in school parents were like that and they basically said all 1st and 2nd Asian immigrant parents were like that (my Korean friend’s parents were the worst…..)although one did warm up to me eventually because she found out i talked my friend out of doing something stupid in school a few times …..
Those aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive tho…
The fact that abusive parenting is so common a lot of it is considered normal does not mean it is ACCEPTABLE.
I won’t throw shade at Asian parents, every culture has its own flavor of generational bullshit that just gets tolerated because “everybody” does it.
The background behind Alex is giving off some serious “saintly halo” vibes, and with many saints venerated for being martyrs….
I dig it :v
Oh honey… I’m sure your brother might have had the same tjoughts once… but someone must have pointed out to him that abuse doesn’t have to be physical
Youch, that one hit different.
Oh man, ow… yeah I’m with some of the other commenters. That was -really- close to home.
Ohhhhhhhhh boy… Going thru some revelations like this myself, learning what emotional neglect and deprivation are and how much they mess ya up…
GOD this hits SO CLOSE TO HOME