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Elephant Town Chapter 2 (pages 8-11)

🕑 Added 2020-06-29 15:14:20 +0000 UTC

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Danielle Corsetto

Every time I spent a day "researching," Luke would come home and ask gently if I needed a break. I'd tell him no, but then realize that I said it in a shitty tone, or immediately followed it up complaining about something petty, and realized, yeah, I DEFINITELY NEEDED A BREAK.

Boum

That must have been difficult research to do. I snooped on an incel forum some time ago and it's... wrong.

Danielle Corsetto

Yeah, after the research I've done for his character, this... is the least horrific thing he could've written, I think. It's brutal out there.

Danielle Corsetto

Hah!!

Danielle Corsetto

Hahaha I love that you noticed that!!

Janne Peltonen

So he's very down, very insecure, not that capable of seeing how to improve his lot, he does have the self control not to post the most shitty ways to formulate how he feels - not quite the self awareness to realize he's not invisible but rather making himself impossible to contact - or maybe he has, but that doesn't really make it better, crippling shyness and all - anyway. Not going to hate him yet; he hasn't yet shown that he would try to look for answers from various misogynist hate groups in the Internet, although he does show a tendency to externalize the responsibility for his own happiness to someone else, namely, his idea of a "dream girl", which could very well be any girl he finds beautiful, or maybe, girls / women in general - which is worrying. So, interesting to see what'll happen with him. Here's a lot of speculation based on a couple pages :D But we have a great storyteller behind those pages, so there.

Nicki King

Oh no, I hate him. Can’t wait to see what happens!

Beck Archer

But he didn’t say the completely shitty stuff... just the least shitty of the options.

Boum

Oooooh I knew I'd hate the guy from the first panel he showed up.

Minzoku Bokumetsu

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!

Nerding out over that windshiellllld .... !

NJGR

Um, dude. She noticed you. You were just a big ball of anxiety and missed that part...

Cab

I was NOT expecting this!

Douglas Appelt

Ugh. I hate this guy already. From zero to yuck in just a few panels. Amazing!

John Smutko

Oh yeah, this’ll end well

Beth A. Kaplan

But...he wasn't rejected. He ran when she tried to speak to him. Dang, and I thought I used to be broken when it came to being around the opposite sex! Paul's telling lies to himself and online. That's horribly sad. (And a little creepy...I hope he's not going to out to be violent.) I'm also hoping he has someone else to go to in desperate moments.