Chapter: Chapter 7: Rising Action
Hello again! We made it through June, and happy Canada Day! <3
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TRANSCRIPT
Panels 1 and 2 (Eiji flinching backwards as a pinecone bounces off of his head)
Eiji: That doesn’t matt— hey! What the hell, Alex!
Panel 3 (Alex, yelling and ready to throw another pinecone)
Alex: You! Are! The most ungrateful, selfish person I know! They gave you everything, and you left!
Panel 4 (Eiji, palms up, explaining)
Eiji: I didn’t leave, okay? I just realized that how they treated us wasn’t normal, and I didn’t let them have that power over me any more.
Panel 5 (Alex, rubbing her forehead)
Eiji, off-panel: You know, I wrote a book about it.
Alex, muttering: Oh my god, you wrote a whole book about it.
Oh dear, I really hope Alex listens to her brother here but I guess she is in denial and it will take time for her to realize he is actually 100% right! Physical abuse is not the only type of abuse and her brother had all the right in the world to become free of that
It can take a while… It took me until I was 30. At 30 was the first time I ever did something that was completely outside of what my mother was willing to allow, and without consulting her. And when she found out, oh man did the shit ever hit the fan. And the fallout was me at first doing what Alex did to try and keep the parents happy, then realizing that this was never going to happen, so I did what Eiji did and defined my boundaries. Then I got shit on by both my parents and the rest of the family (who didn’t know the full story) with basically the same accusations that Alex made in these panels… Some children never realize it and perpetuate the same patterns with their own children – especially true with Asian kids.
“Pinecone” is my new favorite sound effect.
1,000% agreed
Would that be the book he was trying to get Alex to read?