Oh Hell the mothereffing no, woman!
Miel needs to start calling some cops. Like right now. Either that or hose the B***h down now. And don’t even get me started on Mallow, who I’m hoping will step it up in the next page.
That said, I love the imagery in this page. It’s wonderfully done.
I’m hoping seeing this turn physical to his daughter that he loves deeply will trigger him into action. Unfortnately, emotional abuse is more tolerated but physical is usually where a majority of people draw the line. Many people can explain away and forgive the emotional (even though it’s just as damaging).
Like she’s going to get to drag Abeille across town like that without any consequences!? Without anyone calling the authorities or to record evidence against her? Time to bring out your Ringette skills, Bumblebee!
The contrast of touch is huge here. Touch explored before has been reaching out to loved ones and people that you care about, helping children and people in hard situations. Here, it’s a cold hard grip.
This makes me feel so dumb but I almost forgot about the whole touching thing this comic is based on! This makes this interaction even that much heavier/more important! Thanks for the reminder
OOoo what a non-no-Ammy is touching and it’s in anger, possibly even hatred? Miel- call the authorities- the touch taboo she used to attempt to destroy you is now something that she herself has flagrantly broken. Mallow (I jest realized, the candy Marshmallow was a bog plant that had its leaves and blossoms cooked in a sugar syrup) is as soft and sweet as the candy. Hoping that this will make him burst into flames like in a s’more.(I myself prefer a dainty brown edge instead of candy charcoal) WOW. Now, as my geometry teacher used to say- you’re cooking with gas. (I dunno what’s going on with my laptop-it refuses to deal with the numeral one and the exclamation mark)
Ok, this at first looked like an awful mother being forceful to an adult in the normal world…but this is Love Not Found’s society, when touching is already a no-no and Amaryllis is going waaaayy beyond the norm to do this. Like, what is she thinking?? This is outrageous behavior so I wonder how everyone else in the comic will deal with it because it’s the first time we seen someone be touched negatively without it being an accident or a mental patient (it has to be illegal to assault someone without consent like this).
Also the only time in LNF’s society that it’s “okay” to touch another person is if they’re a child – which gives a little more context to Amaryllis saying “If you want to act like a spoiled child about this I’ll *treat* you like one”. Amaryllis is quite literally treating Abeille as a child by touching her.
However, I’d usually assume that creches/nurseries touch children in more of a soothing gentle manner unless a child is about to hurt themself. So not only is Amaryllis touching Abeille like a child, she is also treating her daughter as though Abeille is about to hurt herself and doesn’t know any better. It’s a double whammy of domination and infantilization.
I really hope Miel or Mallow catches the flower before it hits the ground! It’s always been symbolic of Abielle growing a new life on Monotropa for me.
Yes! Thank you! Like, I feel for Mallow being married to such a sour woman, but he is NOT a good father to Abeille. He should be covering his daughter in the face of his wife’s behavior. Instead she’s much more likely to step in for him. If the next page doesn’t involve him stopping his wife’s assault on his daughter (finally) I’ll be quite disappointed.
This is what I don’t understand about a lot of the comments about Mallow. We are all sympathetic to Abeille and the abuse she has endured from her mom (and how she behaved regarding it up until recently as she starts to heal) so why are we not sympathetic to Mallow’s abuse? Why is he “limped spine” when we understand how difficult it is for victims to leave abusive situations?
As someone who has a mother very similar to Amaryllis, my and Abielle’s father situations are very similar. Narcissists dont just abuse their children, they also usually rope in and control their spouse as well, most of the time with the same abuse. I don’t know how Amarullis and Mallow ended up meeting, getting together, and starting a family, but I can only guess that he was was tricked into either a) thinking she was actually a nice and caring person, or b) she was a huge looker back when they were young. Either way, she probably was able to push him under her thumb enough to have him look the other way, seeing as he seems to be nonconfrontational anyways. Don’t get me wrong though, this does NOT excuse him for being a bystander for so long, but its hard to stand up to someone who you think you love, especially if its an abusive partner. What I am saying though, is that we should probably give him a bit more grace, because I do hope that he is able to stand up for his daughter AND himself and then have a better relationship with his daughter. While bitch-baby-brat doesn’t seem to care, Mallow himself lost a daughter and he’s probably just going with his wife’s word to not lose another, and that’s a whole other level of family drama that he no one needs nor deserves.
No, not the flower! Oh no! Waiting a week for what happens next is going to be HARD.
And I did catch that her mom touched her too. Sadly this doesn’t count as physical abuse . . . yet.
Amaryllis actually touched Abeille in an attempt to force her back to that ice planet. This has to amount to Amaryllis’ final play that has any chance of success. I suspect at least either Abeille, Mallow, and/or Miel to fight back decisively. If it’s Abeille, I think there are two more factors Amaryllis hadn’t properly factored in regarding her:
1. Abeille has been partially desensitized to touch, making it easier for her mentally to fight back.
2. Abeille was a professional athlete, one that is probably significantly stronger than her mother, making it easier to fight back physically.
I think Abeille’s got this, within the next page or two. The fate of the flower might delay it a strip or two.
I am calling it now that Miel is filming this on his frequency transmitter to either his old boss or the authorities. He’ll step in or she’ll activate her dance barrier or something (hopefully). Shattering the flower will be the last straw for the relationship with her mother.
oh my god MALLOW DO SOMETHING!!!
I’d really rather have him fight for his daughter than Miel have to intervene…
egg-donor here makes me wonder that if touching WAS normalized in this universe, just how much she would’ve physically abused her daughters. what a wretched woman.
Based on some references made about touching in this comic, adult humans would rather have machines make physical contact for them or get more touch-accepting people to do for them too.
However, despite her aversion with physical contact being one of her many excuses for her “motherly” treatment to them before, Amaryllis’ patience has ran out with “her family” and she’s done caring about doing things the “mature” way now. She’ll do whatever it takes now to get her way here, no matter how harmful it becomes as she already proven.
Next week I’m predicting a brutalized plant, and a bruised Abeille. It’d be more shocking/interesting if Abeille’s wrist got broken in the ensuing scuffle (a great example of how touch can go seriously wrong).
I knew it. I KNEW the second we heard how fragile and seen how important this plant was to Abielle that Amaryllis would end up killing it. I don’t know if there is a coming back from this. This would be divorce worthy if I was the father. No contact worthy if I were Abielle. I hope her dad steps in or that Abielle handles it for good this time. T_T
I wish that someone would catch the plant before it hit the ground, but I know in my heart that that’s not gonna happen. It becoming a metaphor for her broken relationship with her mother just fits too well.
47 thoughts on “Love Not Found – Ch24, p62”
Spike Matthews
Well, that’s one way to destroy your marriage. What a horrible woman.
Jenny
Woman? No, no, more like a nasty brat-*itch. Amaryllis is the one whose truly spoiled, in more ways than one here.
Spike Matthews
Really hope Mallow finally snaps and leaves her.
Jenny
And there’s the final straw! Got your right hook ready there, Abeille?
Jenn
Not the plant!! Oh heck no
Anne-Sofie
No! The plant! O.o
Bleuryder
Oh Hell the mothereffing no, woman!
Miel needs to start calling some cops. Like right now. Either that or hose the B***h down now. And don’t even get me started on Mallow, who I’m hoping will step it up in the next page.
That said, I love the imagery in this page. It’s wonderfully done.
Dayna
I’m hoping seeing this turn physical to his daughter that he loves deeply will trigger him into action. Unfortnately, emotional abuse is more tolerated but physical is usually where a majority of people draw the line. Many people can explain away and forgive the emotional (even though it’s just as damaging).
Jenny
Like she’s going to get to drag Abeille across town like that without any consequences!? Without anyone calling the authorities or to record evidence against her? Time to bring out your Ringette skills, Bumblebee!
Maikel Yarimizu
Well, there goes the plant.
It’s been how long since Miel specifically mentioned how fragile it is?
SvaeJat
I believe it was Ivy that pointed out how fragile the flower is, she was surprised when she saw it first at the apartment
Leila
The contrast of touch is huge here. Touch explored before has been reaching out to loved ones and people that you care about, helping children and people in hard situations. Here, it’s a cold hard grip.
Jenny
Yeah, she just unlock physical abuse to her arsenal now.
Duz
I didn’t even clock that they touched in that last panel till you said this. Now I’m really curious about the next page.
Dayna
This makes me feel so dumb but I almost forgot about the whole touching thing this comic is based on! This makes this interaction even that much heavier/more important! Thanks for the reminder
Nooooooooo
Can we emphasize how this is physical contact? Like the first time she touches her own daughter is out of anger? How heartbreaking.
notamushimaster
Yes! This!!
Deb R.B.
Sheesh.
David
Uh, Ammy? I think this is quite the perfect moment for us to leave.
Grandmotherbear
OOoo what a non-no-Ammy is touching and it’s in anger, possibly even hatred? Miel- call the authorities- the touch taboo she used to attempt to destroy you is now something that she herself has flagrantly broken. Mallow (I jest realized, the candy Marshmallow was a bog plant that had its leaves and blossoms cooked in a sugar syrup) is as soft and sweet as the candy. Hoping that this will make him burst into flames like in a s’more.(I myself prefer a dainty brown edge instead of candy charcoal) WOW. Now, as my geometry teacher used to say- you’re cooking with gas. (I dunno what’s going on with my laptop-it refuses to deal with the numeral one and the exclamation mark)
SvaeJat
I don’t know why I get the feeling that Amaryllis is about to drive herself into a planet shock…
Gemi
Ok, this at first looked like an awful mother being forceful to an adult in the normal world…but this is Love Not Found’s society, when touching is already a no-no and Amaryllis is going waaaayy beyond the norm to do this. Like, what is she thinking?? This is outrageous behavior so I wonder how everyone else in the comic will deal with it because it’s the first time we seen someone be touched negatively without it being an accident or a mental patient (it has to be illegal to assault someone without consent like this).
k-chan
Also the only time in LNF’s society that it’s “okay” to touch another person is if they’re a child – which gives a little more context to Amaryllis saying “If you want to act like a spoiled child about this I’ll *treat* you like one”. Amaryllis is quite literally treating Abeille as a child by touching her.
However, I’d usually assume that creches/nurseries touch children in more of a soothing gentle manner unless a child is about to hurt themself. So not only is Amaryllis touching Abeille like a child, she is also treating her daughter as though Abeille is about to hurt herself and doesn’t know any better. It’s a double whammy of domination and infantilization.
I really hope Miel or Mallow catches the flower before it hits the ground! It’s always been symbolic of Abielle growing a new life on Monotropa for me.
Cait
Of COURSE Abeille stands up for Mallow rather than him standing up for her. Sigh.
Jenny
He did somewhat, back at the park last night, but yeah he’s still being limped-spine with his wife. Let’s see what his reaction will be after this.
Oldfashioned
Yes! Thank you! Like, I feel for Mallow being married to such a sour woman, but he is NOT a good father to Abeille. He should be covering his daughter in the face of his wife’s behavior. Instead she’s much more likely to step in for him. If the next page doesn’t involve him stopping his wife’s assault on his daughter (finally) I’ll be quite disappointed.
Dayna
This is what I don’t understand about a lot of the comments about Mallow. We are all sympathetic to Abeille and the abuse she has endured from her mom (and how she behaved regarding it up until recently as she starts to heal) so why are we not sympathetic to Mallow’s abuse? Why is he “limped spine” when we understand how difficult it is for victims to leave abusive situations?
GrackleGirlAli
As someone who has a mother very similar to Amaryllis, my and Abielle’s father situations are very similar. Narcissists dont just abuse their children, they also usually rope in and control their spouse as well, most of the time with the same abuse. I don’t know how Amarullis and Mallow ended up meeting, getting together, and starting a family, but I can only guess that he was was tricked into either a) thinking she was actually a nice and caring person, or b) she was a huge looker back when they were young. Either way, she probably was able to push him under her thumb enough to have him look the other way, seeing as he seems to be nonconfrontational anyways. Don’t get me wrong though, this does NOT excuse him for being a bystander for so long, but its hard to stand up to someone who you think you love, especially if its an abusive partner. What I am saying though, is that we should probably give him a bit more grace, because I do hope that he is able to stand up for his daughter AND himself and then have a better relationship with his daughter. While bitch-baby-brat doesn’t seem to care, Mallow himself lost a daughter and he’s probably just going with his wife’s word to not lose another, and that’s a whole other level of family drama that he no one needs nor deserves.
notamushimaster
RIP Abeille’s ghost pipes, ?future – ?laterfuture
Deb R.B.
Please don’t break, please don’t break!
Tiffany
No, not the flower! Oh no! Waiting a week for what happens next is going to be HARD.
And I did catch that her mom touched her too. Sadly this doesn’t count as physical abuse . . . yet.
simplygastly
Hi mom! That’s assault. Hope that helps
Chronos
Amaryllis actually touched Abeille in an attempt to force her back to that ice planet. This has to amount to Amaryllis’ final play that has any chance of success. I suspect at least either Abeille, Mallow, and/or Miel to fight back decisively. If it’s Abeille, I think there are two more factors Amaryllis hadn’t properly factored in regarding her:
1. Abeille has been partially desensitized to touch, making it easier for her mentally to fight back.
2. Abeille was a professional athlete, one that is probably significantly stronger than her mother, making it easier to fight back physically.
I think Abeille’s got this, within the next page or two. The fate of the flower might delay it a strip or two.
Freya
I am calling it now that Miel is filming this on his frequency transmitter to either his old boss or the authorities. He’ll step in or she’ll activate her dance barrier or something (hopefully). Shattering the flower will be the last straw for the relationship with her mother.
Crane
oh my god this page is making my heart race!
Wren
Decision time, Mallow. Your daughter stood up for you. Time for you to stand up for her.
Kendall 🍂❄
Happy Birthday Gina!
ves
oh my god MALLOW DO SOMETHING!!!
I’d really rather have him fight for his daughter than Miel have to intervene…
egg-donor here makes me wonder that if touching WAS normalized in this universe, just how much she would’ve physically abused her daughters. what a wretched woman.
Rin
I saw Mallow’s eyes, please tell me he’s about to snap and say he’s had enough of this shit.
Lily
Isn’t it okay to touch children in this world? I think that’s what she means by “treat you like one.” Sad that violence is how she treats children.
I got to this page today! I never could get the last one to load other than your bluesky link.
Jenny
Based on some references made about touching in this comic, adult humans would rather have machines make physical contact for them or get more touch-accepting people to do for them too.
Jenny
However, despite her aversion with physical contact being one of her many excuses for her “motherly” treatment to them before, Amaryllis’ patience has ran out with “her family” and she’s done caring about doing things the “mature” way now. She’ll do whatever it takes now to get her way here, no matter how harmful it becomes as she already proven.
Sal
Either she’s going to remind her mother that she’s a tough sports gal, or her dad’s going to go papa Bear mode and send her home alone.
Kiki
Next week I’m predicting a brutalized plant, and a bruised Abeille. It’d be more shocking/interesting if Abeille’s wrist got broken in the ensuing scuffle (a great example of how touch can go seriously wrong).
MB
Oh, Ooooopsie Amarylis — that’s battery and assault dear lady. In a society that scorns personal touch.
Tsk.
Tsk.
Tsk.
DawnStar
I knew it. I KNEW the second we heard how fragile and seen how important this plant was to Abielle that Amaryllis would end up killing it. I don’t know if there is a coming back from this. This would be divorce worthy if I was the father. No contact worthy if I were Abielle. I hope her dad steps in or that Abielle handles it for good this time. T_T
I wish that someone would catch the plant before it hit the ground, but I know in my heart that that’s not gonna happen. It becoming a metaphor for her broken relationship with her mother just fits too well.
David
Audrey Jr. is not amused.
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