Happy Wednesday! Despite everything, we’re still here.
Thank you for all your comments about this arc for Alex. It’s been a long time coming – seven chapters, to be exact, and I’m gratified (and very sorry) that it’s resonating with a lot of you. If it is, I’m wishing you lots of strength. <3
Elsewhere on the internet, Masha at WWAC did a glowing write-up of Motherlover! Go check it out. 🙂
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TRANSCRIPT
Panel 1 (Alex, from below, the forest sky beginning to lighten above her)
Alex: Fine. But you left me. I needed you. If you thought it was so bad, why didn’t you tell me?
Panel 2 (Alex’s phone, displaying calls gone to voicemail from Eiji, along with newspaper obituaries and a pen)
Eiji, off-panel: Alex, I tried. You didn’t want to listen.
Panel 3 (Eiji, also from below)
Eiji, cont.: And after a while… I just had to make a clean break. From all of you. I knew you would be there to take care of them, and they would focus on you, and leave me alone.
Panel 4 (Alex, looking thoughtful and sad)
Eiji, off-panel: I’m sorry I hurt you in the process. That part’s on me, not them.
It’s nice to see all of this. That there was more of her brother than what we initially expected. Glad he’s saying he’s sorry, I hope they can reconnect now