I am still hopeful he will do the right thing, the thing that will ACTUALLY make his daughter happy, being able to make her own choices and live her own life. But…this page makes me sad. I see my childhood and how my choices were pushed under the rug. I am rooting for Abeille and in a way Mallow, but this page takes me back. And I really hope Abeille gets the happy ending she deserves.
I am still hopeful. He shows his emotions, like Abeille does. Hugging himself and expressing his doubts, aren’t signs of weakness.
Mallows failing has been, I think, not knowing how to say no to his wife. I know that one. A girlfriend complaining about the burn victim’s moans of agony in a hospital. I could have become angry, or taken that as evidence that she’s a garbage human. But, it was not a disposable relationship, and there aren’t garbage people. My problem was not knowing how to confront her without replaying predictable responses to her. The obvious responses would just get the predictable reactions.
I still see a difference in behavior of Mallow on this page. I hope things will go right. And it’s not success or failure, except in fairytales. Mallow isn’t obvious setting out to do Amaryllis’ bidding.
Given that Abeille was just thinking about a memory of how her mom tried to brutally deny her the joy of skating, I don’t think this is gonna do what her mom is after.
Not feeling great for Mallow though, he’s clearly getting pushed around about as much as people in the comments feared. :/
Is there anything more narcissistic than seeing someone do something for no other reason than to bring joy to another person, and attributing selfish motives to it?
Mallowās body language in panels 3. 4 and 5 says it all. Heās not happy either. Heās being manipulated and he knows itā¦ but is he a weak man who will just capitulate and do what his wife says? Or does he have a spine and is willing to stand up for his himself and his daughter?
Letās just hope that Abielle isnāt suckered into going just to save Mallow. Heās a grown man – itās not up to Abielle to ārescueā him.
I’m not sure if he _knows_ it consciously – maybe he suspects it, but Amaryllis does a good job of masquerading her desire to control Abeille as motherly concern. It’s like he feels something’s wrong, but she makes such a compelling point, he doesn’t know how to refute it.
Maybe I’m projecting, I used to behave the same way in conversations with a family member: I knew I was uncomfortable and didn’t agree with them, but for the love of God couldn’t explain why. Their arguments seemed so logical, so there must’ve been something I was missing and I was actually in the wrong, right? (Admittedly I was a child then, and Mallow is a full-blown adult and a parent to boot.)
He isn’t a bad person, but what he does here is not helping in the long run. I know how it is to try and direct everyone’s attention away from the conflict (he absolutely jumped at the chance to distract Abeille with her skates, for one, and in most scenes he appears in he is the one dissolving the tension), but that means it will never get solved, and abused family members won’t get the chance to stand up for themselves. Sometimes conflict is good, and I hope Mallow sees that.
This is likely the social worker in me but I don’t think it’s fair to call him a weak man. I’m not sure if you have ever been in an abusive relationship (emotionally or otherwise) but it can be REALLY hard to see the problem and even harder to stand up for yourself and have a “spine”, especially when you are married and you may love (at least parts) of the person. There are reasons abuse victims have trouble leaving.
I didnāt say Mallow was weak but I said he could be. We havenāt seen enough of him yet.
How Mallow is behaving is very close to what my late father would say and he would just gone along with anything that my mother said to please her. He might be sympathetic to his kids but he would never stand up his wife.
Yes, still having to deal with my āwoe is me and itās all your faultā Amaryllis. Called my Amaryllis two days agoā¦ and got dumped on again. The Amaryllises of the world love to play the victim – itās everybody elseās fault.
Fully aware that abuse victims find it difficult to leave. And even when we leave, it doesnāt necessarily end it completely.
So yes, the story resonates for me. Many different kinds of love, not all of it healthy.
That’s one of the interesting things about this world Gina created. We may not be able to use the same lens we look at our world with. It seems they have eliminated the worst crimes like physical violence. So aberrant behavior like her mom is showing is hard for others to recognize.
This is very much what I expected. Amaryllis is abusing Mallow too.
I just want to shake Mallow and tell him to divorce her! Get her out of both of your lives! Cut her off! You both deserve better. You could have such a great relationship with your daughter if this horrible person wasn’t interfering and tearing you both down.
Yeah. Keep her “safe”.
Why not put her into a medical induced coma, so you can keep all “harm” of living life away from her. Wouldn’t want her running of pursuing happiness, she could trip and have a booboo.
Classic triangulation š Poor Mallow… he just wants his daughter to be happy.
I also find it interesting that Amaryllis’ outfit is ‘cold’ whereas everyone else has very warm tones for their outfits. Even Mallow. The skates are also blue, showing the subtle influence she is having here trying to convince Abeille to come back “home”.
Ugh, so, like… I know this is the hugely unpopular opinion, but I get Amaryllis now. OF COURSE a mother would be absolutely devastated by the death of one of her children, and may do everything in her power to protect the remaining one. She just has the absolute worst way of going about it. She’s not an unrepentant monster, there are very sympathetic motivations behind her actions.
Agreed. I don’t think anyone can have “evil” as their motivator. She is probably motivated by something. People kill other people, because they thought they were harmed in some way. Rusalka drown men, because of the crime that was committed against them.
These are separate issues. People being harmed is not good. Injustice is not good. Getting upset about an incident is not good. Exiting a dependent relationship is necessary. Hating the person you’ve become dependent on, is not only not useful, it’s also harmful.
So far, Abeille is choosing the practical option. Mallow, seems to be doing the same, so far.
I don’t think anyone thought she was 100% a totally evil monster or didn’t understand she THINKS she’s protecting her remaining child, but let’s be very clear here… Amaryllis was this controlling LONG before she lost a daughter based on Abeille’s flashbacks. All this gave her was a “sympathetic” reason to crank it up to 11.
That there might be a reason why she acts the way she does, doesn’t make it better. It might be important, depending on where the story goes. The period when I saw my situation as being a victim of evil people was much worse than reality. Realizing they are like troubled children and I’m not “a victim”, was important for me. There are then practical things to do.
Okay so she was sh*tty to Abeille when her sister was alive because she has foresight and knew her daughter would die in the future so she had to be a sh*tty mother????
If she were a good, kind, loving woman before then yes this would be tragic grief but that’s not the case. She was always like this so what was her excuse before?
I don’t quite get Amaryllis plan of “show her how much she misses skating!” by… Making Mallow take her skating and thus showing she doesn’t have to come back with them to do it? I guess they could take away the skates after but that wouldn’t be helpful either. Either way I hope Abeille has fun : )
Abeille should indeed be able to live safely. Meaning far away from Amaryllis. At this point I really don’t know if she will be able to truly change for the better. You can’t grow and improve who you are as a person unless you have the will to do so, despite how much the people around you might wish that you would. She really is so stuck in her own version of things that she can’t fuÄŗly comprehend how her actions are hurting her daughter and their relationship, both short term AND long term. She’s not some kind of evil monster, but pretty much any method seems fair game as long as she gets her way.
Oh… Mallow. š
Watching Mom turning up the burner on the gaslighting….
I am still hopeful he will do the right thing, the thing that will ACTUALLY make his daughter happy, being able to make her own choices and live her own life. But…this page makes me sad. I see my childhood and how my choices were pushed under the rug. I am rooting for Abeille and in a way Mallow, but this page takes me back. And I really hope Abeille gets the happy ending she deserves.
I am still hopeful. He shows his emotions, like Abeille does. Hugging himself and expressing his doubts, aren’t signs of weakness.
Mallows failing has been, I think, not knowing how to say no to his wife. I know that one. A girlfriend complaining about the burn victim’s moans of agony in a hospital. I could have become angry, or taken that as evidence that she’s a garbage human. But, it was not a disposable relationship, and there aren’t garbage people. My problem was not knowing how to confront her without replaying predictable responses to her. The obvious responses would just get the predictable reactions.
I still see a difference in behavior of Mallow on this page. I hope things will go right. And it’s not success or failure, except in fairytales. Mallow isn’t obvious setting out to do Amaryllis’ bidding.
Hugs, Jack. I’ve been there too, and I know exactly what you mean. <3
Given that Abeille was just thinking about a memory of how her mom tried to brutally deny her the joy of skating, I don’t think this is gonna do what her mom is after.
Not feeling great for Mallow though, he’s clearly getting pushed around about as much as people in the comments feared. :/
Is there anything more narcissistic than seeing someone do something for no other reason than to bring joy to another person, and attributing selfish motives to it?
Whatever layers of humanity are involved. Look at Abeille’s face in the last panel. She knows what love is. It’s not the skates. She is for real.
Mallowās body language in panels 3. 4 and 5 says it all. Heās not happy either. Heās being manipulated and he knows itā¦ but is he a weak man who will just capitulate and do what his wife says? Or does he have a spine and is willing to stand up for his himself and his daughter?
Letās just hope that Abielle isnāt suckered into going just to save Mallow. Heās a grown man – itās not up to Abielle to ārescueā him.
I’m not sure if he _knows_ it consciously – maybe he suspects it, but Amaryllis does a good job of masquerading her desire to control Abeille as motherly concern. It’s like he feels something’s wrong, but she makes such a compelling point, he doesn’t know how to refute it.
Maybe I’m projecting, I used to behave the same way in conversations with a family member: I knew I was uncomfortable and didn’t agree with them, but for the love of God couldn’t explain why. Their arguments seemed so logical, so there must’ve been something I was missing and I was actually in the wrong, right? (Admittedly I was a child then, and Mallow is a full-blown adult and a parent to boot.)
He isn’t a bad person, but what he does here is not helping in the long run. I know how it is to try and direct everyone’s attention away from the conflict (he absolutely jumped at the chance to distract Abeille with her skates, for one, and in most scenes he appears in he is the one dissolving the tension), but that means it will never get solved, and abused family members won’t get the chance to stand up for themselves. Sometimes conflict is good, and I hope Mallow sees that.
This is likely the social worker in me but I don’t think it’s fair to call him a weak man. I’m not sure if you have ever been in an abusive relationship (emotionally or otherwise) but it can be REALLY hard to see the problem and even harder to stand up for yourself and have a “spine”, especially when you are married and you may love (at least parts) of the person. There are reasons abuse victims have trouble leaving.
I didnāt say Mallow was weak but I said he could be. We havenāt seen enough of him yet.
How Mallow is behaving is very close to what my late father would say and he would just gone along with anything that my mother said to please her. He might be sympathetic to his kids but he would never stand up his wife.
Yes, still having to deal with my āwoe is me and itās all your faultā Amaryllis. Called my Amaryllis two days agoā¦ and got dumped on again. The Amaryllises of the world love to play the victim – itās everybody elseās fault.
Fully aware that abuse victims find it difficult to leave. And even when we leave, it doesnāt necessarily end it completely.
So yes, the story resonates for me. Many different kinds of love, not all of it healthy.
That’s one of the interesting things about this world Gina created. We may not be able to use the same lens we look at our world with. It seems they have eliminated the worst crimes like physical violence. So aberrant behavior like her mom is showing is hard for others to recognize.
Oh Mallow š Poor dear
This is very much what I expected. Amaryllis is abusing Mallow too.
I just want to shake Mallow and tell him to divorce her! Get her out of both of your lives! Cut her off! You both deserve better. You could have such a great relationship with your daughter if this horrible person wasn’t interfering and tearing you both down.
Mallow’s expressions here are so well drawn and so clear. It is just a heartbreaking moment.
The funny thing is even if Abeille agreed to go home, her mom wouldn’t let her “be in those skates” anyway, because she believes it’s a waste of time.
Also, Mallow needs a hug. <3
Yeah. Keep her “safe”.
Why not put her into a medical induced coma, so you can keep all “harm” of living life away from her. Wouldn’t want her running of pursuing happiness, she could trip and have a booboo.
*wants to strangle Abeille’s mom so badly*
Classic triangulation š Poor Mallow… he just wants his daughter to be happy.
I also find it interesting that Amaryllis’ outfit is ‘cold’ whereas everyone else has very warm tones for their outfits. Even Mallow. The skates are also blue, showing the subtle influence she is having here trying to convince Abeille to come back “home”.
Ugh, so, like… I know this is the hugely unpopular opinion, but I get Amaryllis now. OF COURSE a mother would be absolutely devastated by the death of one of her children, and may do everything in her power to protect the remaining one. She just has the absolute worst way of going about it. She’s not an unrepentant monster, there are very sympathetic motivations behind her actions.
Agreed. I don’t think anyone can have “evil” as their motivator. She is probably motivated by something. People kill other people, because they thought they were harmed in some way. Rusalka drown men, because of the crime that was committed against them.
These are separate issues. People being harmed is not good. Injustice is not good. Getting upset about an incident is not good. Exiting a dependent relationship is necessary. Hating the person you’ve become dependent on, is not only not useful, it’s also harmful.
So far, Abeille is choosing the practical option. Mallow, seems to be doing the same, so far.
I don’t think anyone thought she was 100% a totally evil monster or didn’t understand she THINKS she’s protecting her remaining child, but let’s be very clear here… Amaryllis was this controlling LONG before she lost a daughter based on Abeille’s flashbacks. All this gave her was a “sympathetic” reason to crank it up to 11.
That there might be a reason why she acts the way she does, doesn’t make it better. It might be important, depending on where the story goes. The period when I saw my situation as being a victim of evil people was much worse than reality. Realizing they are like troubled children and I’m not “a victim”, was important for me. There are then practical things to do.
Okay so she was sh*tty to Abeille when her sister was alive because she has foresight and knew her daughter would die in the future so she had to be a sh*tty mother????
If she were a good, kind, loving woman before then yes this would be tragic grief but that’s not the case. She was always like this so what was her excuse before?
Mallow looks so tired…
Mallow needs to get a reality check and tougher spine….
They’re going to be there for two MORE weeks? Guh. Poor Abeille.
**FACEPALM** Just when I thought I couldn’t despise this lady any more…
I don’t quite get Amaryllis plan of “show her how much she misses skating!” by… Making Mallow take her skating and thus showing she doesn’t have to come back with them to do it? I guess they could take away the skates after but that wouldn’t be helpful either. Either way I hope Abeille has fun : )
Abeille should indeed be able to live safely. Meaning far away from Amaryllis. At this point I really don’t know if she will be able to truly change for the better. You can’t grow and improve who you are as a person unless you have the will to do so, despite how much the people around you might wish that you would. She really is so stuck in her own version of things that she can’t fuÄŗly comprehend how her actions are hurting her daughter and their relationship, both short term AND long term. She’s not some kind of evil monster, but pretty much any method seems fair game as long as she gets her way.
Oh f*** her. I didn’t even think about her doing it to her husband too. š¤
“It” as in the gaslighting.