Wow, how did I not notice until this chapter that he has cauliflower ears? It's reasonable for being in judo. But you can see his ears are normal when he's younger. He sometimes is drawn with normal ears but close up, his upper ears are puffy. So are the ears on their judo oppa, the one "string bean" likes.
I didn't check all the chapters but I did look back at the beginning.
"How do I make a mouse character look cool?"
See Don Bluth films. Secret of Nihm. An American Tale. Yes, they're cool because they're all mice but like real life, confidence is key.
Though we're all reading about a mouse that isn't cool but his relationship is super cute. I think the author might be going for "base it on my life" model.
It's been a while since I've gone on a binge. There are parts of this that honestly surprised me. Spoilers:
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Especially the death of the shaman. I thought for sure it was the mom. But not HER mom. I will admit when her mom appeared in her dream before getting married and her dad suddenly disappearing after trying to make contact, I thought their family had powers and the shaman was a rival of theirs or something. But her mom really stuck around to protect her baby. "Blossom's" mom wishes she was that courageous.
No
No no no
No!
No no
Nooooo! Sit your *ss back down
No
No
No no no
No!
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Yes!
Beat his r*py *ss!
Yes!
Run, go, leave! Your reputation depends on you not being seen in there or coming out of there!
Poor thing. This definitely calls for a bath.
...Valkas, I know you didn't take care of him that fast. Throw is *ss out!
My naive butt thankfully only got to experience the close up, knee grab. My parents would notice and pull me out to tell me what would have happened next when it was safe instead of life letting me learn first hand. I didn't get it then but I started to in university when I volunteered for a call center to arrange rides for women near campus to not have to walk home by themselves at night.
I want to be able to frolic though the fields under the moonlight without worrying about a man, racoon, bear, or mountain lion to pop up out of nowhere. Is that really so hard to ask for? The neighborhood cats are not the greatest security detail (though it's fun as hell having them follow behind.)










Grayson doesn't want a child between them. He even wonders why he even said such a thing as his rights as those words came out of his own mouth. He doesn't know what he's feeling because he hasn't felt hardly anything before.
What he really wants is to be exclusive with Dane. A "shortcut" to that is having a baby. If it hadn't been brought up by that woman, Grayson wouldn't have thought about it. He might have asked, "Is it really so horrible of a thought of having a child with me that you wouldn't hesitate to take contraception?" But he was there to find out more about Dane to make himself more special.
He also is getting super pissed off with how nonchalant Dane is about his own life. He feels no one else cares and it's shattering the rules of society he was taught to live by. The pregnancy argument was along this vein as well, since Grayson puts Dane on the "worthy" tier. He doesn't want him to get hurt, to think of his own life as expendable because it all makes him seem like a piece of garbage to him. The man treats his own family like toys sometimes so others are mainly NPCs to him. For someone he wants to say they want to be less than an NPC, it is driving him nuts.
I do believe Dane is his fated partner because no one else could make him think and feel like he is now. People say they come alive when they first met or whenever they see their partner, after all. For Grayson, he's being brought down into the mud like the rest of us. I am happy to see him crash and burn.
And on the same vein, Dane, sweetie-pie, please go to therapy. You have shit to unpack. Grayson's obsessive behavior should drive you to do at least a few sessions before getting into why you can't form lasting social ties outside of your coworkers (which you're likely only okay with since you work a job that could end you any day.)
you get it !!!
THANK YOU! Well said