Holy shit this was the part I looked forward to second most while reading the story. What a beautiful, cathartic moment. I’m so glad that she finally gets to express a bit of her/Penelope’s emotions regarding all the abuse and trauma she’s gone through, especially with how her brothers can’t even spare a drop of sympathy to consider it from her perspective.
And the drawings!!!!! Literal chills y’all, especially with the way that the author draws her real self in the cross of the shadow symbolising both her and Penelope having gone through the pain. There’s so much emotion in every line and the very colour.
The way she says “...Her story wasn’t my own?” Started genuinely crying (harder). Poor sweetheart didn’t deserve to deal with all this pain from her actual brothers to escape and then have to deal with this shit from Penelope’s brothers. The way the author so subtly but so damn loudly manages to convey that she did actually go through all that, and then the artist so beautifully conveys it into this art is so amazing and brilliant, showstopping etc etc.
Anyways I’m so glad that this is the cut-off for season 1(I would’ve died if this started season 2) and the story anyways is brilliant.