I … hurt… seeing this. Feeling ashamed for something that is so vital – we do so much of this without even realizing it. I just want to give these two a hug and shout at them “You’re not wrong!” — feeeeeeeeels.
Ouch. Poor guy, I can see why he fell apart so badly after she died.
This comic really drove home for me that Love Not Found has some huge themes of non-romantic and parental love… and all the ways that can go terribly wrong (even when everyone has the best intentions). Maybe I should have figured it out back when Poppy’s backstory came out, but I was still expecting something too much like Red String to see the rest of the theme.
That is like my experience following the story. I felt similarly about Red String, where I thought the constant was asexual and aromantic friendship that can’t be broken.
Umm… I might require explanation on this one — I must be missing something, seeing as I don’t understand majority of comments here… I mean, death of a parent is difficult to live through, sure, but… Guilt trip?? Over what?! He feels ashamed… Why, because his mom touched him, a “dirty” thing?? Is that how her parental love went wrong here??? Because I don’t remember anything being wrong with her…
I am soooo confused 🙁
I too don’t think this is a guilt trip for him. Touch is a comfort and the last interaction with his mother, who he loves so very much, is them touching hands. I think it was more a trigger that made her loss worse. He’s kind of smiling when she touches his hand, momentarily happy because shes ‘okay’ and then shes not. He most likely hasn’t touched anyone until this camping with Clove so now that he’s no longer concerned about Clove’s health he’s remembering the last time he touched someone.
Now that’s a guilt-trip if I ever seen one…
Yeeeeep…Crying at work. At least you got to be there, Botan. It hurts a lot more to not even get the chance to say goodbye.
OMG! My heart! *cries*
Welp, let me go wipe this water from my eyes.
I … hurt… seeing this. Feeling ashamed for something that is so vital – we do so much of this without even realizing it. I just want to give these two a hug and shout at them “You’re not wrong!” — feeeeeeeeels.
Ouch. Poor guy, I can see why he fell apart so badly after she died.
This comic really drove home for me that Love Not Found has some huge themes of non-romantic and parental love… and all the ways that can go terribly wrong (even when everyone has the best intentions). Maybe I should have figured it out back when Poppy’s backstory came out, but I was still expecting something too much like Red String to see the rest of the theme.
That is like my experience following the story. I felt similarly about Red String, where I thought the constant was asexual and aromantic friendship that can’t be broken.
Oof, yeah. Been there too. You never really get over it.
I has a sad.
Umm… I might require explanation on this one — I must be missing something, seeing as I don’t understand majority of comments here… I mean, death of a parent is difficult to live through, sure, but… Guilt trip?? Over what?! He feels ashamed… Why, because his mom touched him, a “dirty” thing?? Is that how her parental love went wrong here??? Because I don’t remember anything being wrong with her…
I am soooo confused 🙁
I too don’t think this is a guilt trip for him. Touch is a comfort and the last interaction with his mother, who he loves so very much, is them touching hands. I think it was more a trigger that made her loss worse. He’s kind of smiling when she touches his hand, momentarily happy because shes ‘okay’ and then shes not. He most likely hasn’t touched anyone until this camping with Clove so now that he’s no longer concerned about Clove’s health he’s remembering the last time he touched someone.
I’m not crying! It’s…it’s allergies from all the dust in here!
(Also, this comic keeps making me think of the song ‘Touch’ by Daft Punk.)
I’m listening to that right now. It makes is like 10x sadder.