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he never put the blame on him though? he always figured out where he himself was wrong before moving on to how lyle was dealing the situation because he's also shown human and has stunted communication almost as much as lyle, unlike lyle who usually doesn't like to communicate much, ash pushes him out of thay zone because its not one sidedly up to him to consistently be understanding of a person who doesn't express themselves, he was very human, same with lyle. both their faults were equally recognised, esp by Ash.
I still love this story! Lyle's so cute and everything before the "break up" and after the reconciliation is so freaking great!
But damn I still hate the misunderstanding and especially how Ash just doesn't take much accountability for what he said to Lyle on that day and had the audacity to get mad when he literally had just called their relationship nothing to Lyle's face, even if he didn't realize his own feelings for Lyle at the time...
... I always try to excuse it by thinking that Lyle probably looks a lot more poker faced than how the artist drew it through the whole series, so that Ash legit didn't know Lyle's feelings but anyone with eyes could see that Lyle was hurt when he said that...
And I know that it's kinda the point that we're also supposed to see that Ash is actually really flawed and almost as emotionally stunted as Lyle but hides it better...
But man I just hate how Ash almost excuses his own actions and what he said by blaming it on Lyle's inability to express himself...
To me some of Ash's actions just don't seem very sincere when trying to get Lyle back and that it's a lot more about his own feelings than Lyle's feeling's... To me that's the only flaw in this story... Otherwise a freaking masterpiece