Rain
Comic 713 - I'm Done
Author Notes:
Okay, but being serious here...
It's easy to say, "Just disown your crappy relatives who don't accept you and be done with it." But for a lot of us who've been in the situation where it became a necessity, it's possible there were good times before coming out. They might not be accepting of you now, but deep down you may recall seeing them be good people before. The intolerance almost feels out of character for them. And that makes it all the more frustrating and upsetting. Disowning is a two-way street. It punishes them because they lose you. But you lose the good person they (may have) seemed to have been before that. The good person they should've by all rights STILL been.
Kellen didn't "get away with it." She didn't "win." However, this wasn't exactly a victory for Rain either. They BOTH lost a sister here. Again, I'll be the first to say that things like this really can (unfortunately) be a necessity sometimes. But that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. That's why Rain's crying in the last panel.
Sorry. I know this is a super mopey chapter and probably hits close to home for a lot of readers. It's a real hard subject, but I think it's important to address in a story like this. It hits close to home for me too, actually. I admit a lot of this is a bit of a means of expressing some of my own frustrations that I never really let out before.
We'll lighten up a little bit next time.
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I kinda like Rain with this cut now.
Come here Rain you need a hug and a lot of fun happy stuff to get your mind of this sad stuff
My family disowned me and to this day I still think about them and miss them even if I never want to see them again.
I haven't technically disowned my family, they haven't technically disowned me. But I only talk to them when they call me, and that's not often. I think they believe it's just me being a workaholic plus having a wife who needs a lot of care. The former is common in our family, and the latter is certainly true. But it's more that we've had discussions about LGBT* stuff, and they've never admitted to the possibility that cis straight might not be the only way to be. They don't get that their stance is such a big deal, because why would I out myself to that? I mean, ok, they at least haven't said bad things about my brother in law, who's openly gay. They've actually said good things about him. But those things have always sounded like, "this guy is ok, but homosexuality is still wrong and he should repent before it's too late."
I do miss them. I miss the days before it became clear that one of my brothers was like Lucifer, seeming to be an angel of light, while sowing what destruction and ruin he could. The days before I realized that another of my brothers was Neutral Stupid. (He'd be Lawful Stupid, but he can't even get *that* part right. Or maybe you can still be Lawful Stupid doing what he's done if you don't realize that fraud and vandalism are illegal, even if you think you have a good reason to do them.) I wish them well. But I'd really prefer if the well they got was mentally and spiritually, to the point where they weren't so hurtful to others.
I hope I'll never have to disown someone... I can only imagine how it must be difficult.