Rain
Comic 1434 - The Last Letter, Part 1
Author Notes:
Wait! "Over and over again!?"
Wait!? There's more pages to this letter!?!?
Psst! The next page is going to be kind of a heavy, bittersweet one (maybe needless to say given the context), so be mindful of your personal limits, especially if you're planning to read from work or school. It's okay to cry, but I don't want to put anyone in a difficult situation. :)
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Good mom.
But that last little bit in brackets made me giggle :D I love it!
also, 100% agree with the eye rivers. Jocelyn is a genius for making a comic that's able to make me both smile and cry at the exact same time.
Of course, we don't know yet what's on the other pages of the letter, but this is a good start.
Beyond that. Well. I am reserving most of my thoughts until more of this plays out, but do we know how old Rain was when her mom died?
"do we know how old Rain was when her mom died?"
Yep! She was 12. We've had that confirmed very recently, in fact. ^_^
https://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/1433/
Also me, thinking: "dont cry at work, dont cry at work."
Absolutely beautiful and this is only page one.
(I somehow feel sure that if my mom were dying she would absolutely also end her dying letter to me with a :P emoji. What a sassy molassy.)
Also, I suspect that she wrote this at least weeks before she died, possibly even years.
Actually, that could be why there are more pages. I've known people to write the letters they leave to their loved ones in installments, and then leave all the pages in order. As such, the first page feels like it's complete like this, but then there's more pages.
In that case, your point could somewhat stand, but it's still not the final page.
Unless, of course, Jocelyn decided that it just felt like there should be multiple pages to the letter, but didn't have the words to say.
My theory is that she's come to terms with and accepted Rain's identity, and hasn't made any effort to reach out because she knows what Rain thinks of her and doesn't want to be reminded of the things she did and said.
YES YES YES! I LOVE THIS!
Not for nothing, but Liriel would've passed around 2007-2008. People were definitely using emoticons by then. In fact, I feel pretty sure I remember people using them in the 90s. ;P
One of my greatest regrets in life is I never told my grandpa who I really was before I lost him. And despite knowing logically it can't be... This part of the letter feels like it's kind of from him for me, too, somehow.
Thank you so, so much for that.
Also, this comic has brought a lot of perspective to my life. Thank you.