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emotional
hopeful
inspiring
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
y voice will become the wind, and you will hear it speak your name.
I am now even more invested in Chepi's and Janek's journey—and I was already pretty damn invested from the first few pages of Volume I! In this volume, the two are gradually growing closer, which seems like a good thing... Except it's a painful thing, too, because of all of Chepi's jagged edges. Janek remains just as supportive and understanding and genuinely wanting to help make things better, but he also struggles with his own growing feelings and the differences in their backgrounds. Needless to say, things get complicated. There are some awkward moments, some "oh no!" moments, and some moments that made me tear up. But there's also plenty of mutual care and support and beautiful hurt/comfort scenes.
There are some deeper dives into Chepi's past here, and I loved finding out that it wasn't all angst—there are people in his memories who have sincerely cared for him and made him happier. Those parts were really heart-warming. And the comic continues to provide likely the most sensitive representation of anxiety and post-abuse ptsd I've seen in this medium. I'm still in awe of the art—it keeps getting better and better—and the gradually developing worldbuilding. It's beginning to feel like the events we're witnessing as readers are happening on the fringes of a bigger story, and the stakes in that shadowy plot out there are getting higher.
The volume ends at a place that pretty much guarantees I will read on as soon as possible: on the very precipice of something new, and ith as all the potential to be a good new, but who knows how it will play out?
👀 And then there's also that one big un-answered question that's already haunting me...
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment, and Blood
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