Bittersweet Candy Bowl

114. Double Down, page posted 4/20/22

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Author commentary

Veronica: You have to be more specific, Paulo.

Comments from Patreon

Comment ID #20699

Aw, Mike's expression :(

Emma Breslauer

Comment ID #20700

Mike: Oh, he must be talking about me. "Sorry, I have no idea! No emotionally unstable cat here!"

Ella Cromeens

Comment ID #20701

Lucy is pushing herself away...

Haruhi Hatake

Comment ID #20702

Kudos for trying though :)

Josue Aquino

Comment ID #20703

Lmfao, so true. He couldn't deal with Sandy or Lucy well when they hid their emotions from him.

Maybelle Conrad

Comment ID #20704

Having a bit of a retrospection are we now?

Xiro

Comment ID #20705

Kinda mature change for the both of them. They are seeing their own and others hurdles and are honest about how they cannot and can approach things.

Runeru

Comment ID #20706

Uh oh those lifeless eyes are coming back.

Insomni-act

Comment ID #20707

The more I see those eyes on Mike, the more I worry we're gonna start seeing parallels to the path Lucy started down. And thinking about that now makes me REALLY worry about how prominent a symbol the tree has become for Mike's relationships. I want to believe that I'm getting ahead of myself, and the scene with Daisy this chapter showed a lot of promise of things getting better, but... I really just can't shake the feeling that things might keep getting worse for Mike before they get better, especially if he continues putting off talking with Sandy and keeping secrets that reinforce him perceiving himself as an irredeemably bad person. I swear, Abby needs to start giving everyone references to his therapist at this point, the vast majority of this cast NEEDS it.

Alec