Shades After 074
That moment when you want to hug a partner, but can’t because of awkward and family.
Can I just say that I’m really enjoying your comments on this arc? The comments section can get very polarised but it’s awesome to see all the debate going on here about different interpretations!
My heart still hurts for Anwar, but its interesting to see him talk about it.
Oiy teenagers. I do think she may have learned a little lesson.
hopefully. For Chris’ sanity.
I think that was as close to a teenage apology as we’re going to get from her “I hate you, but I don’t want you dead”. Gosh, kids… (and why I am happily child-free)
Yup. People suck at apologies, especially teenage people.
Hazel used self-important teen apathy!
It’s not very effective…
I knew eldest had the barest minimum spark of humanity in her somewhere! ^_^
I think the oldest one Hazel is empathetic but she dosen’t know how to cope with emotions as big as this yet. Plus she’s angry at her dad for probably leaving her mum and she doesn’t know how to express that maturely. To here he ruined her life but once she grows up she’ll realise “Hey my dad left my mom but it isn’t necessarily about makeing me miserable on purpose.”
This exactly. Messy divorces have a way of making even the nicest people bitter as hell. And at her age it’s REALLY hard because who ever had an uncomplicated teenhood?
I actually really like the oldest, she’s obviously not handing herself maturely but she’s a very hurt kid from a family that was broken apart.
Yeah, she’s being a bit of a jerk, but she looked like she really regretted needling Anwar after he explained. Honestly, I have a really hard time liking people and characters like the oldest because my parents were pretty abusive and thus I have issues empathizing, but that part kinda got to me.
Oh, older daughter…In a few years you’re going to look back on this while you’re hanging out with Chris, and you’re going to cringe, and he’s going to laugh and say “Yeah, you were a little shit back then. Still love you though.”
He really does seem to be saying it there… :) “Awww, aren’t you sweet, you don’t want me dead” :)
little nitpick buut I think the kids’ freckles fell off.
man anwar handles shit well.
Well, have you ever been *so shocked*…
Normalest fuckin kids around I can’t wait to see how the relationship between them all develops
I really hope Chris addresses his kids’ racism toward Anwar. I count two racist microaggressions so far, and Chris has just sort of been sheepish and not directly addressed it.
It’s possible he didn’t consciously notice them in his stressed state.
On the other hand he may be waiting to address them without Anwar around so he’ll only be dealing with one awkward conversation instead of an awkward conversation while his boyfriend tries not to giggle at him.
If he didn’t notice them then he has some work to do as well on his own racism – they were quite clear to me. In a state of stress like that my sense is that he’d be hyper-aware of stuff like that rather than less aware.
I can’t speak for the parenting piece – I assume there are a number of different healthy ways to handle it with a kid – but I do hope he’s not someone to excuse it.
Where were they because the only one i could really find is her asking were he/his parents were from and that’s a pretty default question.
The two that I noted were the initial assumption that he was a delivery person and not a friend of Chris’s, plus the “where are you from?” conversation.
The delivery thing made sense though and had nothing to do with Anwar’s race. He was carrying a bag with curry, was way younger than Chris and not someone they knew or were expecting. Even were he white, that would have been a perfectly normal assumption to make when a barely adult person shows up with a bag of curry at your middle aged dad’s door.
I understand that’s your interpretation, but mine’s different and no less valid, as per my lived experience of this kind of stuff.
Omg :c poor Anwaar :’c
this little girl have learnt a lesson today xD
also… it’s just me or I’m missing a few freckles on these 2 last pages??
Awesome Work by the way! Love this comic <3
Ooo, new look site!
Heh, you can tell I haven’t stopped in for a while.
Poor ‘War. I wonder how much of that attitude is ‘the recovery is well underway’ and how much of it is ‘it hurts so bad in side, I have to block!’
Either way, my heart goes out to him. What a horrid way to lose a parent!