Rain
Comic 1489 - Cosmic Irony
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(In fairness, a lot of that was my own fault, giving him very few on-screen scenes, and having most of his arc even happening off-screen with people just talking about it later. I must've thought I was being clever, but it basically never worked out.)
So naturally, I brought back one of the most forgettable characters, and generally one of biggest mistakes of the whole story, and let him have a cameo during the ending. I can feel the skepticism through my computer, but I stand by this decision.
For those of you who want a refresher, he describes all the important parts of his arc in the second panel, but here's the version with links: Fara met and dated Colin for a few months waaaaay back in the beginning of the story. They broke up during the Christmas arc when Rain presented as a boy to avoid coming out to Aiken. As a result, Colin ended up learning about Rain, and couldn't wrap his head around any of this, and said some pretty awful things. Though he did eventually try to make it right, Fara decided she couldn't forgive him for saying those things about Rain in the first place. And then he basically just left the story after that.
Almost 800 pages later, he's back. But, like everyone else, a lot's changed with him in the last 6 years. He's married, has a kid of his own, and has had to a lot of time to learn about things he was ignorant about. Plus, he doesn't know Emily at all, so this has nothing to do with getting in her good graces. It's just some "cosmic irony" that the people he's talking about happens to be people she knows.
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I'm a bit torn about him outing his daughter as trans, though. (But thay may be because it hits a bit too close to home -- my generally-unsupportive mom mentions I'm trans when she wants to relate and seem more progressive to other parents of trans kids she happens to meet as her clients. I'd probably mind a lot less if she was actually supportive since, like here, they are people who never meet me no matter how they react.)
But then at the same time, can Lydia and this guy's daughter be frainds?
And if this hypothetical "trans talk" from her parents ever happens, Lydia says she's already known her entire life that Rain is transgender, never paid it a second thought, wonders what the big deal is about and starts worrying that whichever parent initiated the talk might be losing their mind and turning into one of those wierd obsessed people.
And it's really good to see that even after all that he can learn to change and be there for his own daughter
Though I knew he was no stranger at all.
I just hope that this irony gets bigger if it's revealed that Colin's daughter and Lydia are good friends 🙃
Cosmic Irony is fitting
MUAHAHAHAHA
Where's Randy and what are they up to? Have they found love? What has their journey been like?
Forgot Chase got arrested, too. Unless there were three exclusive chapters in that volume.
I just found out about that.