Oof. You can see how uncomfortable he is even asking that question, knowing that her mother wants to use that feeling of missing her friends, families and activities to manipulate her into returning with them.
I’m worried. I don’t think there’s a world where Mallow can convince Abeille to leave (nor should there be), but I also think that Amaryllis will blame him if he doesn’t succeed. And there’s enough of an overlap between “Abeille blaming Mallow for trying to manipulate her” and “Amaryllis blaming Mallow for not succeeding” that the attempt could legitimately break their whole family apart.
I hope Mallow leaves the conversation where it is (if he didn’t push it further, I think the worst possible outcome would be Amaryllis driving both of them away, which might actually be best for everyone), but I don’t think he will, and that puts other, worse outcomes on the table.
I think he can and should push the conversation far enough to make sure she’s happy and wants to stay where she is.
I think they should openly address what Amaryllis’s intentions and potential reactions may be. I think that’s the only way they’re going to have a good outcome here.
I don’t know French so I can only assume it’s pronounced differently, but Miel is also the Spanish word for honey. I noticed that Botan’s family (I think it was Botan’s, I could be confusing it with Aster’s family) also had Spanish names. I don’t remember them all right now, but I remember Apios, which in Spanish Apio is Celery Root.
Supposedly Apios also means Pear in Greek. Apios is Aster’s father and is Greek, I think. I would get a kick out of knowing who else has names with Spanish meanings.
Mom is Olive. His sister is Tulip.
Botan (Peony in Japanese) has a sister named Tsubaki (Camellia in Japanese), and I don’t think we learn the name of his mother or father.
I feel like this might backfire on Mom. If there’s a little slice of home where she already is, AND Miel is there… it’s honestly even more incentive to stay.
But I am really really worried that this is building to something here, I just do not trust Amaryllis’ intentions with this
It seems to be a temporary seasonal slice of home, and since she used to skate on a team seeing everyone clinging to the walls could make her more homesick for her skating friends.
Ultimately I think there’s nothing mom can do short of literal kidnapping to convince Abeille to go home, though.
The problem is, I don’t put it past mom to try and kidnap her. Using some sort of pretense like “she’s not well and I need to take care of her!” or “she’s a deviant when she’s here! I need to take her home where she will be away from these vile people!”. Some sort of ruse that would be convincing enough to authorities that Mallow is too…I don’t want to say weak…but perhaps broken? to refute and to debate about. Make Abeille seem “mentally or physically incapable of taking care of herself and thus in need of someone looking after her” like some people have had done before *cough* famous people *cough*.
I worry that this will go pear shaped and hope, desperately hope, that it doesn’t.
Didn’t her mom make her quit the skating team or something? So I’m definitely thinking this is going to backfire.
Especially having been in the same type of situation: A relative asks me “Don’t you miss home?” and I say “I miss [consciously and very specifically all the things and people that AREN’T my equivalent of Abeille’s Mom.]” All while thinking of how my Amaryllis ruins everything I love about “home”.
Granted, mine’s a little more complicated because most of the people in my life “back home” aid my Amaryllis, but it’s close. I miss the weather, the plants, and the animals. And two family members that I can’t risk seeing because of the pandemic. Plus one that’s my equivalent of Mallow.
Oof. You can see how uncomfortable he is even asking that question, knowing that her mother wants to use that feeling of missing her friends, families and activities to manipulate her into returning with them.
I’m worried. I don’t think there’s a world where Mallow can convince Abeille to leave (nor should there be), but I also think that Amaryllis will blame him if he doesn’t succeed. And there’s enough of an overlap between “Abeille blaming Mallow for trying to manipulate her” and “Amaryllis blaming Mallow for not succeeding” that the attempt could legitimately break their whole family apart.
I hope Mallow leaves the conversation where it is (if he didn’t push it further, I think the worst possible outcome would be Amaryllis driving both of them away, which might actually be best for everyone), but I don’t think he will, and that puts other, worse outcomes on the table.
I think he can and should push the conversation far enough to make sure she’s happy and wants to stay where she is.
I think they should openly address what Amaryllis’s intentions and potential reactions may be. I think that’s the only way they’re going to have a good outcome here.
I like that plan
“You (singular) should visit again soon!”
A decade later it dawn’s on me that “Abielle” is French for “bee” hence the nickname “bumblebee”
“Miel” not coincidentally is French for “honey”
Abeille’s bee costume was cute, at the rain festival https://lovenotfound.com/comic/ch04-p22a/
On patreon there is a lot of Abeille, bee related, art.
I don’t know French so I can only assume it’s pronounced differently, but Miel is also the Spanish word for honey. I noticed that Botan’s family (I think it was Botan’s, I could be confusing it with Aster’s family) also had Spanish names. I don’t remember them all right now, but I remember Apios, which in Spanish Apio is Celery Root.
Supposedly Apios also means Pear in Greek. Apios is Aster’s father and is Greek, I think. I would get a kick out of knowing who else has names with Spanish meanings.
Mom is Olive. His sister is Tulip.
Botan (Peony in Japanese) has a sister named Tsubaki (Camellia in Japanese), and I don’t think we learn the name of his mother or father.
Their…, not his.
Also, celery is a good name for a father.
Zie’s…
*After reading that last line* “But . . . . . .”
And I am calling it now, she’s going to say that THIS is home now or something along those lines.
I feel like this might backfire on Mom. If there’s a little slice of home where she already is, AND Miel is there… it’s honestly even more incentive to stay.
But I am really really worried that this is building to something here, I just do not trust Amaryllis’ intentions with this
It seems to be a temporary seasonal slice of home, and since she used to skate on a team seeing everyone clinging to the walls could make her more homesick for her skating friends.
Ultimately I think there’s nothing mom can do short of literal kidnapping to convince Abeille to go home, though.
The problem is, I don’t put it past mom to try and kidnap her. Using some sort of pretense like “she’s not well and I need to take care of her!” or “she’s a deviant when she’s here! I need to take her home where she will be away from these vile people!”. Some sort of ruse that would be convincing enough to authorities that Mallow is too…I don’t want to say weak…but perhaps broken? to refute and to debate about. Make Abeille seem “mentally or physically incapable of taking care of herself and thus in need of someone looking after her” like some people have had done before *cough* famous people *cough*.
I worry that this will go pear shaped and hope, desperately hope, that it doesn’t.
Didn’t her mom make her quit the skating team or something? So I’m definitely thinking this is going to backfire.
Especially having been in the same type of situation: A relative asks me “Don’t you miss home?” and I say “I miss [consciously and very specifically all the things and people that AREN’T my equivalent of Abeille’s Mom.]” All while thinking of how my Amaryllis ruins everything I love about “home”.
Granted, mine’s a little more complicated because most of the people in my life “back home” aid my Amaryllis, but it’s close. I miss the weather, the plants, and the animals. And two family members that I can’t risk seeing because of the pandemic. Plus one that’s my equivalent of Mallow.