Bittersweet Candy Bowl

He is spiraling again 😔 he really needs some therapy

Mike I know you want to hang out with James specifically, but you do have other friends. You and Paulo had a whole thing during new years! Go sit with him! Be a third wheel a bit but also just go!

I think the downward spiral behind my dudes

“mike is drowning”

“THIS AINT ABOUT HIM”

Oh Mike… It’s not about you all the time bud.

Damn it’s like this is what Lucy felt 💀

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it lol. Mike needs to communicate his feelings more directly, but I relate to being so far deep in the hole that you fall for the “I would just be bothering them” and going through the self-fulfilling prophecy of thinking you’re all alone. Reach out and touch faith dude!!!

You know who has an available seat? A school counselor. A therapist.

damn bro I know you don’t want to be around people who think you should actually eat your lunch for once but this seems a bit much

Oh yeah he is DEFINITELY gonna pull a Lucy soon I just know it

Love how disheveled and destitute Mike looks here. Those darkening red dots closing in on him is such a great representation of anxiety/panic/dread. I was expecting his positive turn to start with something like him passing out at a track meet from lack of food and sleep and being taken to the hospital, but I fear something much worse is coming

David is so funny he really does not gaf about Mike

Mike is spiraling, but it is not like he is without friends. Augustus might’ve sparked some bad thoughts, being as Augustus as he can be about stuff, but this whole situation is sad and frustrating.

Mike and Lucy both seem to be people who can’t actually finish anything relationship-wise, which makes sense for their age. It is still hard to watch any of them suffer like they’ve done something beyond having shitty teen feelings.

Atleast David and James look really happy together, they fit really well together, hope that will bloom into something

Wait are James and David dating? I had only read the stuff on WEBTOONs and that was few months ago. Joined the Patreon today and binged all the new stuff.

If they’re dating that’s sick

I wonder if this is setting up for Mike to become increasingly depressed, isolated, and borderline suicidal…and the person who ultimately reaches out to him at his darkest is Lucy, because she understands more than anyone else the red flags for potentially self-harming behavior.

Looks like James will be blasting off again soon.

Mike is doomed to be forever alone.

Again, I think if he doesn’t reach out to a therapist, Mike should reach out to Abbey. I think Abbey is in a healthy place to help someone struggling or at least lend a listening ear.

ooof… Please Mike. PLEASE go sit with the track team. Remember when you had a WONDERFUL time at the mall with all of them, and not just James? I know you’re weary of the Paisy table but you’ve got friends in other places too, little dude!!!

I hate to say Karma hit hard, but he in the position he put Lucy. Will history repeat itself, Will Mike become what Lucy Attempted. That is sadly what it coming too. Now who will save the man who learning life isn’t always about him. Idk we will find out later down the road

Coming back after a Looonngg time and I guess Ill put in my 2-cents.

Currently this situation might be WORSE then lucy’s position. He voiced that everyone seems to only want him romantically, leaving when just wants to be friends and that seems to also be being validated. He has no friends in his mind as he either pushed them away by rejecting their advances, or burned a bridge in his mind by his outbursts related to sandy. He also hasn’t been seen really with his phone….hinting that maybe the previous issues with sandy are even worse now (further pushing the fact that He Messed Up), but, like he said to Paulo, He has put so much effort into that relationship, lost much already. Why or how could he even leave it after she came back and begged him….He wont leave her, and I wonder if Sandy knows this. She always has a “backup plan” with him, and outside of telling him in a moment of weakness, he will never know what she is doing over there, cheating or no. (And he may realize this as well internally)

Mike has progressively been looking worse every chapter, every page. More and more tired, and overall stressed. He isn’t even getting a break at home even. Did he cause this, yes he had a part. But it appears other factors aside from him also brought it here.

This may end worse then it did for lucy at this rate, as he already folded when told to do something unreasonable (not going to hang out with his friends) out of guilt. He no longer is really “standing up” for himself. All its going to take is a last small push, after all, he asks Why he was surprised a few chapters back, and in second-string he says he should “be used to it by now”.

Lucy’s was a sudden and violent blow up on a hidden bomb, Mike is a slow burn on a ever shortening fuse and someone keeps adding more explosives, but no-one is paying attention to where that light is.

Someone really needs to help both of them before something happens. Karma may be karma, but looking at it from the outside of the Mike/lucy sides, this just isn’t deserved.

While yes it could be cliche, the outcome is valid result here, and it wont be as cliche if he manages to succeed where luck kept lucy alive. Luck has not been on mike’s side.

Thoughts?