We know Atsali opens the door, comes out … and the next we know for sure, she’s huddled in a beanbag chair with her favourite stuffie silently weeping.
Well, someone in their group knew a) Leucoisa had a saferoom, b) everything was locked in there and c) there was “another way” to get it (or possibly/also d) “we can’t get it now, let’s try again later” could be a calculated lie to keep Atsali safe from the trigger-happy folks who brought you today’s featured carnage). Could easily be an inside job.
Well, I think it’s implied on some level she remembers, hence the reason Castela is even looking into the matter at all… it presents in her freaking out whenever someone “goes away’.
Sure Astali remembers….sort of. The images and details are repressed but she remembers a sanitized (no pun intended) narrative. It’s even possible her imagination has filled in false memories.
Astali’s mind hopscotched from “My parents are dead” to “my parents are gone” to “my parents have gone (somewhere)” to “my parents abandoned me.”
Not to put too many eggs in one basket, but this same mental block could also be why Astali can’t understand social cues.
This… this… this is a little too close to home. I went through something similar.
It’s something you never forget. For some reason something you never ever want to forget. Something you learn to live with. Now and then there will be triggers. Something that kicks off the flood of emotions you dealt with in the past. This is one of those moments. Something that pokes the coals and stokes the fire. I look forward to your next comic good sir. Just a little apprehensive about what is around the next corner as it were.
I guess the questions to ask are will Atsali at a young age comprehend what has happened to her mother? Will she understand what has happened or will she think that her mother is just sleeping?
I don’t know why people assumes that children doesn’t remember things from when they were two years old. I actually have one memory I can date that happened before I was two, and it wasn’t particularly traumatic or noteworthy for a child that age.
The date was July 16, 1969. On this day my parents took me to a family get together to watch the first moon landing as it was televised. At the time I was a year and four months old.
Some has claimed that it’s a constructed memory but fail to explain the details I’m able to provide. Small things like the struggle to get the TV to work. It was a black and white set and it used an external tuner to access the channel where the landing was being shown. It’s possible, though I’m not admitting anything, that I might have played a bit with it when no one were looking…
So how did I know that it was an external tuner? Easy, I didn’t at the time. It was just that gray box with a bunch of button and dials on that was placed at just the right height for me to play… Sorry, to look at. A little later my parents inherited that box as my uncle bought a new TV, and we kept using it for a few years. And that’s how I learned what it was…
And the landing? Boooring to a kid my age. I had no idea what was happening or why it was a big thing. There was however a bunch of toy cars that had survived my uncles and aunts, and I have to admit they survived me too, not that I didn’t give it my one and not yet half a year best…
I have a bunch of other memories from when I was that age, but this is the only one I know I can put a firm date on.
Oh, poor Castela. It isn’t over…
…it just started.
Oh.
Boy.
Tomorrow is gonna be hard.
We know Atsali opens the door, comes out … and the next we know for sure, she’s huddled in a beanbag chair with her favourite stuffie silently weeping.
And apparently she remembers NONE of this.
Hmmm. So, perhaps Walter didn’t come hoe and go out in a face-to-face with the Bad Guys.
Still marginally possible that Walter IS one of the Bad Guys…
Well, someone in their group knew a) Leucoisa had a saferoom, b) everything was locked in there and c) there was “another way” to get it (or possibly/also d) “we can’t get it now, let’s try again later” could be a calculated lie to keep Atsali safe from the trigger-happy folks who brought you today’s featured carnage). Could easily be an inside job.
Maybe MIB used their Neuralizer on Atsali as part of the cleanup.
Well, I think it’s implied on some level she remembers, hence the reason Castela is even looking into the matter at all… it presents in her freaking out whenever someone “goes away’.
Orphans develop separation anxieties based on the way people around them in the orphanage come and go.
Or sometimes hang themselves over your bed.
PTSD is tricky stuff.
The way I see it…
Sure Astali remembers….sort of. The images and details are repressed but she remembers a sanitized (no pun intended) narrative. It’s even possible her imagination has filled in false memories.
Astali’s mind hopscotched from “My parents are dead” to “my parents are gone” to “my parents have gone (somewhere)” to “my parents abandoned me.”
Not to put too many eggs in one basket, but this same mental block could also be why Astali can’t understand social cues.
A the orphanage, Castela makes it pretty clear that Atsali knows her parents are dead – she says her parents abandoned her. Threw her away.
Not precisely true.
Denial and sublimation. If you don’t remember it happening, it didn’t happen.
Panel 1 – Pickle realizing that she was right; something “fucked up” did indeed happen.
Panel 2 – Pickle realizing that she wasn’t quite prepared for just how “fucked up” it would be.
Panel 3 – Pickle realizing that it’s not over yet and that it has the potential to get even more “fucked up” than it currently is.
Dammit, someone’s cutting onions around here…
Don’t know this week will be harder on, us or the lil stink weed.
I think it’ll be hard on both the viewers and Castela.
Lets kick up the pathos a few more notches now shall we?
Easy to see why Paul said this arc would be hard to work on. Jayzus bejayzus.
I’m wondering if this is going to continue with her friend’s (at the orphanage) suicide.
Paul you have brought tears to my eyes with every comic these past days.
This… this… this is a little too close to home. I went through something similar.
It’s something you never forget. For some reason something you never ever want to forget. Something you learn to live with. Now and then there will be triggers. Something that kicks off the flood of emotions you dealt with in the past. This is one of those moments. Something that pokes the coals and stokes the fire. I look forward to your next comic good sir. Just a little apprehensive about what is around the next corner as it were.
I guess the questions to ask are will Atsali at a young age comprehend what has happened to her mother? Will she understand what has happened or will she think that her mother is just sleeping?
Given the way we see her huddled up with her stuffie, quietly crying, i’d say she realises SOMETHING Very Bad has happened.
I’m still convinced Atsali can’t be more than two at the time, so she probably doesn’t remember.
She’s older than two, somewhere around four or five
I don’t know why people assumes that children doesn’t remember things from when they were two years old. I actually have one memory I can date that happened before I was two, and it wasn’t particularly traumatic or noteworthy for a child that age.
The date was July 16, 1969. On this day my parents took me to a family get together to watch the first moon landing as it was televised. At the time I was a year and four months old.
Some has claimed that it’s a constructed memory but fail to explain the details I’m able to provide. Small things like the struggle to get the TV to work. It was a black and white set and it used an external tuner to access the channel where the landing was being shown. It’s possible, though I’m not admitting anything, that I might have played a bit with it when no one were looking…
So how did I know that it was an external tuner? Easy, I didn’t at the time. It was just that gray box with a bunch of button and dials on that was placed at just the right height for me to play… Sorry, to look at. A little later my parents inherited that box as my uncle bought a new TV, and we kept using it for a few years. And that’s how I learned what it was…
And the landing? Boooring to a kid my age. I had no idea what was happening or why it was a big thing. There was however a bunch of toy cars that had survived my uncles and aunts, and I have to admit they survived me too, not that I didn’t give it my one and not yet half a year best…
I have a bunch of other memories from when I was that age, but this is the only one I know I can put a firm date on.
Oh God! I’d come apart at the seams if I heard that…😫
Many of us did. It’s our second time seeing this scene.
There was a regular-style flashback of this earlier.