Bittersweet Candy Bowl

It’s like some kinda bowl of candy that’s both bitter and sweet

Perhaps… a bittersweet candy bowl?

I chortled. I have been waiting for this comment for some time.

I can’t tell if its regret or annoyance that even now they’re STILL talking about Mike

@Steven To be fair… they did the same when Lucy was going through her depressive spiral. The friend group (mostly Paulo) is actually pretty decent about pointing out when their friends are going through something. They’re just… really bad at identifying those problems or resolving them in a healthy or constructive way.

He’s gonna be as popular on the team as he is with the readers.

Cue James having one of his Track members ask Mike where’s he’s been

Not to be dour, but yeah, it does seem that way. If that did happen, it would be a tragedy, but not wholly unexpected, which just makes it all worse.

Just because you brought up Haley being one of the few people to pick up on Mike’s rapidly deterioating mental health, I’ve said in a past page that Chris being the only character to bring out a genuine smile in Mike’s face (Second String Page 20 and Line in the Sand Page 3 in case you need references) feels like it’s indicating towards something bigger than just simple cute sibling bonding moments. I think it would be really sweet if it’s his sister and brother that breaks him out of his slump rather than his friend group and especially not Sandy. Familial bonds feels like it would hit harder (plus with most of Mike and Haley’s screen-time being them bickering, I think that would be a genuinely heartwarming way to show that they genuinely love each other despite the awkward tension between them) and with the exception of Paulo and Daisy, the friend group ain’t it chief.

100% agree with the sibling angle. Those pages during Eternal Flame, where Haley is showing genuine concern for Mike as he’s having his entire worldview shattered and running from the house are still stuck in my head. I really do think Haley cares, and is more avoiding the house because of her mom than her brothers. I really do hope she’s there when it matters.

Indeed Pizza! That very same tree on That very same hill….

That tree is just as important as the swing from naruto.

Oh god it probably is.

???

My man, I think you should reread the comic a bit… ;>_>

The best friend that coldly pushed her away and screamed into her face that no one loves her because she’s a parasite?

The best friend that disregarded what she went through with him and didn’t stop himself from using her for comfort the moment he got hurt by his GF? and later went back to said GF (smiling the next day and not even letting Lucy know).

Lucy ALREADY knows she wasn’t always good to Mike. She acknowledged that and regrets her past actions.

And what lies are you talking about? Everything Augustus told Mike was based on what Lucy shared with him, only less filtered.

None of that was lies. Are you saying that Lucy’s pain and struggle are lies?

And you know, when you struggle and feel too weak to push yourself to do something, it’s good to have a friend that might step up for you. It sure looked like that when Lucy let Auggy keep talking and even held his arm for find strength.

I believe that currently it’s not Lucy’s role anymore to keep helping Mike. To me it seems like Paulo is the more healthy choice.

Part of Lucy’s healing journey is to stop being there for Mike every time he’s down/sad, because as long as Lucy having feelings for him, and he won’t reciprocate them, she just keeps hurting herself while comforting him. It just makes one feel used.

You mean the best friend that gave her a chance and offered her friendship when nobody else did?

The best friend that saved her life when our hydrophobic Lucy was dangling on a cliff above a raging river and he took the plunge for her? The best friend she physically abused for years? The one who she hasn’t even muttered a word of apology for despite saying she regretted her actions? The best friend she weaponised her suicide attempt against to guildtrip him into the ground despite accepting his apology about standing up to abuse too harshly?

I think you could use a reread too

Are we reading the same comic? Wtf?

In my past comments, I never expressed any hate towards Mike , even though I started to dislike him since the December chapter. So I’ll state it more clearly that I don’t ignore his past friendship with Lucy. But that friendship still had mixef intentions. So no need to be defensive regarding his past. I remember.

He liked Lucy as his friend but also saw in her as a sort of replacement for Sandy. It’s a very complicated mental situation that Mike has to sort out with himself.

That’s why, from the start, Lucy was acting like she did, half trying to protect herself by not getting too close to Mike and half caring and loving him. All that mess of emotions came out as violence on her behalf, and that was wrong of her and quite tragic. For her defence, though, I will say that she didn’t know any better since it all started when they were little kids. And yeah, I expect her in the future to properly apologise to him as well, and I’m sure that will happen.

BUT, Mike’s RECENT actions are what, in my opinion, currently tip the scales favourably towards Lucy. For some readers…

All the times Lucy had snappy responds to Mike lately was because he couldn’t answer her what he truly meant by yelling at her all the insults he did. He said he didn’t mean all that and for her to dissappear, so she asked him back what DID he mean by choosing those words he yelled, and he couldn’t answer that…, that’s rough, that an ex best friend won’t acknowledge properly the harm he did (+seeing her as a replacement to Sandy).

Mike ignored Lucy while Sandy was around. He started to notice her again when Sandy left. That’s messed up. Till this day he can’t sort his feelings regarding Lucy and Sandy. I guess he’s getting closer to that, but he burned bridges while getting there.

And what the heck?? Agustus was never jealous of Mike. What?

The dirty looks he’s been giving him since the past few chapters were because Lucy was still hurting from Mike’s presence (espacially when he started to hang around “their spot”, and he noticed that and started to get defensive over Lucy.

It has nothing to do with Daisy.

Maybe try to reread those chapters with this new knowledge.

Mike didn’t ignore Lucy when he met Sandy, yeah he obviously was all over her cause he was in love but everytime we see that flashback they say they did keep inviting Lucy. She is the one who cut ties with Mike.

And when Sandy left Lucy is the one who approached Mike.

That said i do agree that Augustus being angry at Mike because of Daisy is farfetched. He really seemed to have accepted her choice and always kept the promise he made to Lucy to stay away from her.

Hell if you started reading after that promise you probably wouldn’t even know he used to have a thing for Daisy