In the final panel, her ahoge is completely deflated! I think this kind of reflects what's about to happen. Anh, do the right thing!! You know what that has to be!
alphanor
2025-07-05 16:03:03 +0000 UTC
I don't fawn/comply as a defense mechanism, and no shame on anyone who does—we all cope with traumatic experiences in different ways. That said, I feel Anh's dissociated, unhinged grin in my soulmeats. It's crept across my own face too many times.
"I'm gonna do this thing, no matter how much it physically/emotionally hurts me to do, because I've decided it needs to be done. Everything will be better if I just suffer through this one thing, which is a really small thing when you think about it! Ha! Ha ha."
Which is to say: thank you Jeph, for creating such an amazing cast of true-to-life characters we can pin our neuroses to.