Ch21, p38
The final Kickstarter cameo! Aniko, welcome to Monotropa and thank you so much for the scrumptious hot chocolate! Abeille’s gonna love it!
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The final Kickstarter cameo! Aniko, welcome to Monotropa and thank you so much for the scrumptious hot chocolate! Abeille’s gonna love it!
I love this so much. He truly recognizes his daughter and both the things that are changing and the connection that can stay the same.
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The seriousness of the situation and my excitement for the (hopefully) upcoming father-daughter-talk aside: Just how do these people do interactions without touching? We have seen the bracelets in the dance club, but here, it seems like Aniko is just handing Mallow the drinks over. Given the cup size and the size of Mallow’s hands, I don’t see how this can be comfortably done without brushing against each other at least somewhat. It would seem much smarter to me to just put them down on the counter for the customer to pick up if all physical touch is to be avoided. Really intrigued by how these “dangerous” interactions (hands close to each other when handing stuff over…) still exist in a world where physical touch is avoided at all cost.
Very skillful sliding. Aniko might have gotten her fingers on the frosting even!
Actually, since this taboo started in a time of pandemic, cashiering jobs might be problematic all on their own!
Wait, when did we find that out?! Is this extra information posted elsewhere or do I need to do an archive dive?
Extra information posted elsewhere. I can’t remember where. Some time since the covid pandemic started, she mentioned it was something actually more realistic than she planned when it was just backstory. It might have been comments on this site, actually. But I don’t have a link. : (
I read the comment as “posit: the taboo started in time of a pandemic”. This is how my friends spoke to each other, frequently. It was a motif. No one had to say “in my opinion”, because no one can ever say anything other than their opinion. If anyone declared something to be true, they would be laughed at.
LNF is prescient. How it doesn’t explicitly express an opinion shows it’s authenticity, I think.
Oh that’s a neat observation! Maybe in that panel, they will hand off these cups righthand-to-righthand and lefthand-to-lefthand or something like that? I can see this culture forming a set of common ways to hand things to each other that avoid incidental contact when possible. Maybe a lot of folks set things onto flat surfaces for someone else to pick up, or hold objects from the bottom or opposite side of objects.
Over the time I’ve spent reading this comic I personally understand it as a stigma toward *intentional* touching, more or less. I see incidental touching in this society as.. kind of icky or uncomfortable, and maybe even rude (like if you visit a culture where people generally have a wider space bubble than you’re used to), but generally tolerable, and some touching is necessary in some situations (like in an emergency).
Someone take notes on all this and get them to Amaryllis. *This* is how to be a good parent. <3
I love the last panel. Mallow watching his baby girl enjoying cocoa. She looks adorable.
Maybe he should stay on Monotropa with Abeille, so they can be together, happy, healing from both of their grief, and away from Amaryllis. I’m sure that Monotropa has protocols for those who visit, but then decide to stay.
I love how the background stays a little blue after the flashbacks