Ch. 7.15: Coffee Break
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Romy is very observant! Her analogy of the nail in an already hammered coffin seems very appropriate. She is such a sweetheart and I feel like this page hints at how she can be the puzzle piece to help Boone and Echo’s relationship become closer where strains exist!
Oh, it’s interesting! Romy has a much more active role as the protagonist in the main comic, so the passive role she has in Partly Cloudy is an interesting POV to write from. This is really what I consider her first “challenge” learning to be a therapy dog haha. She’ll have a unique way of approaching Boone and helping him with his problems, and we will see more of that in future chapters of Partly Cloudy and in the main comic too~.
Romy is funny because she’s hyper-empathetic but she’s also autistic so she doesn’t always understand emotions at face value – she’s learned over time how to observe social cues and behaviors to determine and analyze what their feelings mean! They’re different for everyone. So I think while other characters have their own preferences in how to tackle emotional obstacles (Echo, for instance, likes to be left alone to her thoughts when she’s having a bad time and just sorta assumes Boone is the same) Romy tailors the way she approaches the trauma of other characters based on what she knows about them. It might make her a little late to act sometimes but she can take what she learns to handle touchy subject matter with careful paws.