The surprise on Abielle’s face that anyone would defend her like Miel does just breaks my heart. I can imagine all the times her mother laid into her like this while Mallow just passively watched on – especially after her sister died.
Yess, Abeille, finally laying her cards up.
Okay… while surprised and flustered about this sudden revelation, Amma and Mom don’t look like they’re about to disown Miel. So far so good.
Meanwhile Mallow doesn’t have the “shock” by his face… I think he’s been putting 2 and 2 together a bit more evenly than Amarylis… who is gonna explode any second now. She looks like she wants to claw our boy’s face off.
Careful, my sweet potatoes. You’re not out of the woods yet…
I get the feeling that Miel’s moms would have very little issue with the touching, as they are highly educated people who educated him in everything from history, to the arts as he explained earlier other chapters (I vaguely remember him showing art history books to her.) I’m not saying Abeille’s family isn’t educated but rather that they remain have remained stagnant in their knowledge and refuse to believe different things other than X ideology.
Also, If Abeille is old enough to move to ANOTHER FREAKING PLANET and start from scratch, then she’s old enough to decide who LITERALLY gets to touch her, AMARYLLIS. >:(
And frankly, this is a society that could have managed to forget about contraceptives. Let’s hope there are still doctors around who know what that kind of parasitic growth in her womb is and how to deal with it. Maybe a vet?
I’m pretty sure I remember a comic where they talked about how some people still do it naturally? So maybe they normally just implant (like they do for infertile women), and so they can still handle it. I vaguely recall it between either Abeille and either her sister or Ivy.
I like getting a better look at Miel’s kurta (I think).
Abeille’s face in panel 3 seems funny and sad. I’m not sure if I’m reading it right, but it’s like she things she has to handle this all on her own, poor girl. I can picture feeling that way after how she’s been treated. It’s a good thing Miel is such a good partner. His interaction with Jasmine in panel 4 warms my heart.
YES YES YES!!!!! I’m SO glad Amarilys (sp?) is getting stood up to! About time somebody did.
and Miel’s face when confirming it to his Amma tells me they’re gonna be fine. <3
To me, I think it looks like Miel’s moms are reacting to this in basically the same way someone in this world would react if they were told their kid was into kink. It’s detail about their kid’s sex life that they didn’t need to know, but I think they’re more going to be upset that Amaryllis is trying to badmouth their son the same way she badmouths her daughter.
Maybe a reason for Abeille’s surprise is that Miel sounds like he’s saying, we are together no matter what. It seemed pretty clear to me as a reader, with the dark cloud of Doublefleur hanging, but maybe not to Abeille.
I haven’t given up on Mallow. He’s been abused too. And, he has always seemed to be supportive of Abeille, emotionally, if not by acting.
On earth, comments about how men must “have the balls” to act, are misogynistic, in multiple ways. There are reasons to be harder on men for not acting. But, I don’t think we see that in LNF. We see Mallow being bossed around, and like Abeille maybe he has learned that nothing works, dealing with Amaryllis. Plus, it’s his sweetheart that has beaten him up, and Amaryllis clings to him for emotional support, acting helpless, wanting a security hug, frequently. That would make it even harder to act against Amaryllis.
Now, it’s Abeille’s supporters against one fragile woman. Maybe Mallow could do more, when he has support too.
If I know Miel’s mama’s, whatever their opinion of this revelation, now that they know what’s going on and where Miel stands, I’d bet my boots that Amaryllis is about to have a reckoning she does not expect….
Abeille stood up for Miel. Not for herself. She actually blamed herself. It was very necessary for Miel to stand up for Abeille since nobody including herself bothered doing that. Now if that example would prompt Mallow to stop being an appendage to Amaryllis… One can hope.
This lady is so out of line for a consensual kink, but what makes it worse is!! she would ALSO be way out of line if Miel WERE abusing Abeille!!! That’s not how you help abuse victims. It is, however, how you abuse people.
Now, keep in mind that from their perspective Miel’s admitting to something like an ageplay kink, that they’re doing something so infantile that it should not belong in adult relationship.
And yet it’s still not their bloody business what other people want to do with their bodies.
I love the colouring of the background in the last panel! The pink around Miel and Arbeille signalling them being of one mind and also some of warmth and caring between them, whereas the blue around Amaryllis illustrates her emotional cold so very nicely and the lines at the back of her neck could indicate that she’s shaking, but also how she radiates that cold (and has ever since Arbeille’s sister has passed away, only now it is visible for a brief moment).
Do only I think Miel’s being a real Tomcat here, with a puffed chest and all antagonistic?
Or am I reading a bit too much into tha tvisible gap between his arm and body?
After reading that, I was just noticing Abeille’s brrrrr expression in the last panel here https://lovenotfound.com/comic/ch16-p40/ (clutching her arms) and in panel 1 on this page. There’s no way Abeille is cold no matter how much she has acclimated. If that is what that is, it’s heart breaking. Given Evette’s death.
You’re right, Abeille is definitely not cold. When Abeille is in a pose such as this, she’s usually uncomfortable. In adulthood, self-hugging is generally found when we’re insecure, self-conscious, afraid or defensive. Because it’s generally not appropriate to show vulnerability to others and seek support from other’s we instead hug ourselves discreetly. Submissive cues may accompany the self-hug such as head lowered or bowed, eyes up-cast, shoulders hunched over and toes pointed inward.
Ah, ok. It’s not a brrr expression. Self-hugging in those scenarios is just as heart breaking.
The meaning densely packed into each frame is a characteristic that has a feeling that I think I recognize in all of your comics that I’ve read. Serial art, I think you referred to it as, once. Things that work in comics that wouldn’t in animation.
I read the comic many times for a wiki and every time I see something I missed before.
I mean, someone taught that boy that a) consent is important and b) that a consenting relationship between adults isn’t anyone’s business, and I suspect they’re standing right there.
I also like the smile on Miel’s face in the fourth panel, like, “yeah it’s fine” Contrast that with Abeille with her parents at any time; he knows it’s shocking but he also trusts HIS parents to trust HIM.
(i know that was hard, Abeille, but I’m proud of you for defending Miel, too!)
Here, Jasmine is respectfully confirming with her son that noone is lying about him.
I love them as parents, because they gave him the strength to be a confident adult.
This could have gone in several directions. Thanks for letting them be strong young
people prepared to stand up for what they beleive. And for Miel’s family being prepared
to listen and not just condemn.
They likely have another way to express it… but I can only imagine that Miel grabbing Abielle’s hand and standing by her side would make her feel worth more than anything ever in the entire universe!
Where does Abeille defend herself? She rather throws herself in the line of fire. And she looks quite surprised at Miel stepping up to have Abeille’s back. Mallow probably never was much of a role model for taking a stand.
She is on Monotropa, for one thing. She did disobey her mother’s wishes to be a Ringette player. She stood up to Poppy. She is assertive with Miel, in their romantic expression.
I just can’t see people as being so 1 dimensional. I’ve never seen it in my life. People are motivated by multiple things, all the time. Traumatized people don’t act the way people do who are not traumatized. They are unlikely to just snap out of it by choice. Their trauma is constantly dismissed and ridiculed. They are told they are lazy people or bad people. But, if someone has a broken leg, people don’t tell them to just snap out of it.
We’ve seen already what happens when she attempts to confront Amaryllis, or when Miel confronted her. She and Mallow have been abused and might not see a different thing to try.
I think she is defending their relationship, not just Miel and his family. That would mean she is defending herself, now. I think she is surprised by Miel’s statement because he’s not just defending Abeille, he is defending their relationship and declaring the two of them independent, together.
So far, it looks like her approach could have a good result. Banning everyone that upsets you from your life “works”, if what works is to be selfish. It doesn’t work if you love people.
Yes! Thank you. It’s true that she’s “throwing herself under the bus” a bit in this scene, but in doing so she’s also correcting her mother’s assumptions and taking responsibility for her own choices. A large part of Amaryllis’ abuse involves infantilizing Abeille and negating her ability to make choices for herself.
So it’s true that Abeille’s outburst is born out of desperation to protect Miel from her mother, but she’s also rejecting her mother’s manipulation at the same time and asserting that she can make her own choices. Miel backs her up without shame or hesitation– and makes it clear that the person with the problem here is Amaryllis, not them.
Mallow is in a hard spot- and I think you’re right that Abeille is not the only person in the family that Amaryllis abuses. And if that’s the case, there is no ‘win’ scenario for Mallow here. It’s hard not to judge parents who were unable to stand up for their children while dealing with abuse from their spouse. But it’s important to remember that Abeille is probably not the only victim here. The problem is *Amaryllis*, not Abeille or Mallow.
I kinda think, Mallow is a touchy-feely person as well. but more trained in surpressing the drive. IMHO, Mallow is more concerned about, how Abeille and Miel continue their relationship without being scrutinized in the eye of the general public.
Yesss, Miel tell her off! I love it!
The surprise on Abielle’s face that anyone would defend her like Miel does just breaks my heart. I can imagine all the times her mother laid into her like this while Mallow just passively watched on – especially after her sister died.
That’s exactly how I felt T__T
YESSSSSS!!!! DRAG HER!!!!
Miel’s a keeper, Abeille. He is willing to stand by you and defend you when it’s warranted!
Yess, Abeille, finally laying her cards up.
Okay… while surprised and flustered about this sudden revelation, Amma and Mom don’t look like they’re about to disown Miel. So far so good.
Meanwhile Mallow doesn’t have the “shock” by his face… I think he’s been putting 2 and 2 together a bit more evenly than Amarylis… who is gonna explode any second now. She looks like she wants to claw our boy’s face off.
Careful, my sweet potatoes. You’re not out of the woods yet…
She’ll have to **touch** Miel to claw his eyes out, ha! But yeah, I feel her damage may not be done yet.
This makes me feel slightly better.
I get the feeling that Miel’s moms would have very little issue with the touching, as they are highly educated people who educated him in everything from history, to the arts as he explained earlier other chapters (I vaguely remember him showing art history books to her.) I’m not saying Abeille’s family isn’t educated but rather that they remain have remained stagnant in their knowledge and refuse to believe different things other than X ideology.
Also, If Abeille is old enough to move to ANOTHER FREAKING PLANET and start from scratch, then she’s old enough to decide who LITERALLY gets to touch her, AMARYLLIS. >:(
By the way, I love Amarylis’ expression on the third panel… like she’s choking on a particularly spicy gnat.
Also… this is a GOOD TIME for some wholesome handholding, Miel.
but holding hands leads to kissing, and kissing leads to dancing, and dancing leads to pregnancy.
And frankly, this is a society that could have managed to forget about contraceptives. Let’s hope there are still doctors around who know what that kind of parasitic growth in her womb is and how to deal with it. Maybe a vet?
Neo natal nurses, maybe.
I’m pretty sure I remember a comic where they talked about how some people still do it naturally? So maybe they normally just implant (like they do for infertile women), and so they can still handle it. I vaguely recall it between either Abeille and either her sister or Ivy.
The N3 are mentioned https://lovenotfound.com/comic/ch04-p06a/ implying that some people do.
Gina revealed that they are the neo natal nurses some time back.
@Kendall: thanks for the link. I actually did not realize how much more refined the artwork became over time.
I like getting a better look at Miel’s kurta (I think).
Abeille’s face in panel 3 seems funny and sad. I’m not sure if I’m reading it right, but it’s like she things she has to handle this all on her own, poor girl. I can picture feeling that way after how she’s been treated. It’s a good thing Miel is such a good partner. His interaction with Jasmine in panel 4 warms my heart.
YES YES YES!!!!! I’m SO glad Amarilys (sp?) is getting stood up to! About time somebody did.
and Miel’s face when confirming it to his Amma tells me they’re gonna be fine. <3
To me, I think it looks like Miel’s moms are reacting to this in basically the same way someone in this world would react if they were told their kid was into kink. It’s detail about their kid’s sex life that they didn’t need to know, but I think they’re more going to be upset that Amaryllis is trying to badmouth their son the same way she badmouths her daughter.
Maybe a reason for Abeille’s surprise is that Miel sounds like he’s saying, we are together no matter what. It seemed pretty clear to me as a reader, with the dark cloud of Doublefleur hanging, but maybe not to Abeille.
Any more of this, and Abeille will become one with her hair – one uniform shade of pink.
Ooh I would love to see Amarylis’ head completely implode.
Amaryllis.exe has stopped working
Finally.
Next, Miel ever-so-casually puts his arm around Abeille. And smiles.
A body hits the floor in a dead faint.
Not Amaryllis – Mallow. Poor duck.
I haven’t given up on Mallow. He’s been abused too. And, he has always seemed to be supportive of Abeille, emotionally, if not by acting.
On earth, comments about how men must “have the balls” to act, are misogynistic, in multiple ways. There are reasons to be harder on men for not acting. But, I don’t think we see that in LNF. We see Mallow being bossed around, and like Abeille maybe he has learned that nothing works, dealing with Amaryllis. Plus, it’s his sweetheart that has beaten him up, and Amaryllis clings to him for emotional support, acting helpless, wanting a security hug, frequently. That would make it even harder to act against Amaryllis.
Now, it’s Abeille’s supporters against one fragile woman. Maybe Mallow could do more, when he has support too.
THANK you, Miel.
If I know Miel’s mama’s, whatever their opinion of this revelation, now that they know what’s going on and where Miel stands, I’d bet my boots that Amaryllis is about to have a reckoning she does not expect….
Please. xD
Finally! Like I get she had to be somewhat secretive but finally Abeille stood up to her abuser!
Abeille stood up for Miel. Not for herself. She actually blamed herself. It was very necessary for Miel to stand up for Abeille since nobody including herself bothered doing that. Now if that example would prompt Mallow to stop being an appendage to Amaryllis… One can hope.
Yessss! It is time for BOUNDARIES!
This lady is so out of line for a consensual kink, but what makes it worse is!! she would ALSO be way out of line if Miel WERE abusing Abeille!!! That’s not how you help abuse victims. It is, however, how you abuse people.
Now, keep in mind that from their perspective Miel’s admitting to something like an ageplay kink, that they’re doing something so infantile that it should not belong in adult relationship.
And yet it’s still not their bloody business what other people want to do with their bodies.
The amount of heart-pounding this page has produced! Agh! So good! As so terrifying!!
I love the colouring of the background in the last panel! The pink around Miel and Arbeille signalling them being of one mind and also some of warmth and caring between them, whereas the blue around Amaryllis illustrates her emotional cold so very nicely and the lines at the back of her neck could indicate that she’s shaking, but also how she radiates that cold (and has ever since Arbeille’s sister has passed away, only now it is visible for a brief moment).
I love this. I did think “cold” when I saw those lines. But, this makes so much sense.
Do only I think Miel’s being a real Tomcat here, with a puffed chest and all antagonistic?
Or am I reading a bit too much into tha tvisible gap between his arm and body?
After reading that, I was just noticing Abeille’s brrrrr expression in the last panel here https://lovenotfound.com/comic/ch16-p40/ (clutching her arms) and in panel 1 on this page. There’s no way Abeille is cold no matter how much she has acclimated. If that is what that is, it’s heart breaking. Given Evette’s death.
You’re right, Abeille is definitely not cold. When Abeille is in a pose such as this, she’s usually uncomfortable. In adulthood, self-hugging is generally found when we’re insecure, self-conscious, afraid or defensive. Because it’s generally not appropriate to show vulnerability to others and seek support from other’s we instead hug ourselves discreetly. Submissive cues may accompany the self-hug such as head lowered or bowed, eyes up-cast, shoulders hunched over and toes pointed inward.
Ah, ok. It’s not a brrr expression. Self-hugging in those scenarios is just as heart breaking.
The meaning densely packed into each frame is a characteristic that has a feeling that I think I recognize in all of your comics that I’ve read. Serial art, I think you referred to it as, once. Things that work in comics that wouldn’t in animation.
I read the comic many times for a wiki and every time I see something I missed before.
Sorry for gushing. Other readers are too.
There are different kinds of cold. I was not referring to room temperature.
Thank you! =D
I mean, someone taught that boy that a) consent is important and b) that a consenting relationship between adults isn’t anyone’s business, and I suspect they’re standing right there.
I also like the smile on Miel’s face in the fourth panel, like, “yeah it’s fine” Contrast that with Abeille with her parents at any time; he knows it’s shocking but he also trusts HIS parents to trust HIM.
(i know that was hard, Abeille, but I’m proud of you for defending Miel, too!)
Here, Jasmine is respectfully confirming with her son that noone is lying about him.
I love them as parents, because they gave him the strength to be a confident adult.
F*CK YEAH…. MIEL GO!!!
This could have gone in several directions. Thanks for letting them be strong young
people prepared to stand up for what they beleive. And for Miel’s family being prepared
to listen and not just condemn.
Eli…
Finally… So happy to see them stand up for themselves and each other! Yay!!!
They likely have another way to express it… but I can only imagine that Miel grabbing Abielle’s hand and standing by her side would make her feel worth more than anything ever in the entire universe!
I think this comic may have inadvertently predicted how humans will behave in the next five to ten years, thanks to a certain pandemic.
As happy as I am to see Miel defend Abeille, I am ECSTATIC about Abeille defending both Miel and HERSELF. <3 You go, girl!
Where does Abeille defend herself? She rather throws herself in the line of fire. And she looks quite surprised at Miel stepping up to have Abeille’s back. Mallow probably never was much of a role model for taking a stand.
She is on Monotropa, for one thing. She did disobey her mother’s wishes to be a Ringette player. She stood up to Poppy. She is assertive with Miel, in their romantic expression.
I just can’t see people as being so 1 dimensional. I’ve never seen it in my life. People are motivated by multiple things, all the time. Traumatized people don’t act the way people do who are not traumatized. They are unlikely to just snap out of it by choice. Their trauma is constantly dismissed and ridiculed. They are told they are lazy people or bad people. But, if someone has a broken leg, people don’t tell them to just snap out of it.
We’ve seen already what happens when she attempts to confront Amaryllis, or when Miel confronted her. She and Mallow have been abused and might not see a different thing to try.
I think she is defending their relationship, not just Miel and his family. That would mean she is defending herself, now. I think she is surprised by Miel’s statement because he’s not just defending Abeille, he is defending their relationship and declaring the two of them independent, together.
So far, it looks like her approach could have a good result. Banning everyone that upsets you from your life “works”, if what works is to be selfish. It doesn’t work if you love people.
Yes! Thank you. It’s true that she’s “throwing herself under the bus” a bit in this scene, but in doing so she’s also correcting her mother’s assumptions and taking responsibility for her own choices. A large part of Amaryllis’ abuse involves infantilizing Abeille and negating her ability to make choices for herself.
So it’s true that Abeille’s outburst is born out of desperation to protect Miel from her mother, but she’s also rejecting her mother’s manipulation at the same time and asserting that she can make her own choices. Miel backs her up without shame or hesitation– and makes it clear that the person with the problem here is Amaryllis, not them.
Mallow is in a hard spot- and I think you’re right that Abeille is not the only person in the family that Amaryllis abuses. And if that’s the case, there is no ‘win’ scenario for Mallow here. It’s hard not to judge parents who were unable to stand up for their children while dealing with abuse from their spouse. But it’s important to remember that Abeille is probably not the only victim here. The problem is *Amaryllis*, not Abeille or Mallow.
Thank god someone finally said the words “this is non of your business!”
Oh god, I’m so proud of Abeille! That took a lot of guts.
Way to go Abeille and Miel! Stand up for you relationship!
Also we might want to get out of the blast zone judging by how Abeille’s mom’s looking to explode in the last panel.
I kinda think, Mallow is a touchy-feely person as well. but more trained in surpressing the drive. IMHO, Mallow is more concerned about, how Abeille and Miel continue their relationship without being scrutinized in the eye of the general public.
but this is speculation at best.
YEEEES!!!