This arc took a very long time to get finished, and I'm really sorry about that. I've constantly worried about it over the years, whether the long periods between updates were completely diminishing the pacing and emotional impact of the scenes or not. I was unsure of this page being the final one as well, whether or not this scene needed one or two more pages of them talking or resolving something more definitively rather than just leaving it off like this.
The thing is that, when I wrote this arc, I put a lot of myself, my emotions, and my experiences into it. I wanted Campy and Connor to be a story of two very flawed people in a messy relationship trying to keep it together before they ultimately exploded. I wanted them to have realistic faults, to react in realistic ways to their unintentional miscommunicating and all of life's problems thrown their way, all out of their control. I wanted them to crash and end up in each other's arms, affirming their love for each other but unsure if it can last, if they can fix things. And, unlike more traditional romance stories, I wanted it to end on an ambiguous, unanswered note. Much like real life, issues and problems aren't guaranteed to be 100% objectively resolved permanently with one single emotional breakdown. Will they actually work on their flaws? Will they be able to make it work? They might, they might not. For now, like us in reality, they only have the present, and they'll do the only thing they can do: try. That's all they can really see right now, and it's all you, the viewer, are able to see as well.
All of that was very important to me. This whole arc was very important to me. It sucks I couldn't get it out at a better pace, I hope it doesn't ruin the vision. I hope you got something out of it, at least, and if you're reading this, thank you for still being here to see it through. The next arc is more or less written out (I need to edit it the hell down, frankly), the arc after is planned, and I have an ending for the comic as a whole in mind, but it's going to take a long, long time to get there. Whatever hiatuses or pauses happen, Furthia High will keep going until I can reach that ending. Make of that what you will, and see you for the next one.
It's been so long so I can't remember, what exactly was the problem between the 2 again? Also I know you may not like hearing this, but this ending feels lacking. Kinda something along the lines of them both affirming to work out what's going on and not just one saying it or something. They seem to have a loving relationship and both are trying to help each other out, they just need to communicate more. In fact way too many stories can literally be sorted out if they just sat down and talked and listened to one another
It's been so long so I can't remember, what exactly was the problem between the 2 again? Also I know
Well, Connor is very clingy and overly sensitive, while Campy is more withdrawn and walled off. Connor attached himself too heavily to Campy and got paranoid that he was going to break up with him in favor of someone else. Campy had his own other issues going on with his dreams, which compounded with the Connor stuff to mess him up mentally. Campy walled himself off intentionally and unintentionally, which just makes Connor more paranoid and desperate to fix things, resulting in all of this.
As for the ending, that was part of the point, for it to be a non-definitive and ambiguous "resolution". They could say they're definitely going to fix their issues, but they don't know that and that's not usually how these situations work in realistic terms. So what they're doing here is just existing in the moment, putting aside the what-ifs and maybes of the future for tonight just to be with each other. They will have to learn to communicate and stuff in the future, and that's probably the route they'll go since they've more or less acknowledged that with each other, but for now it's just a moment of quiet and love.
Well, Connor is very clingy and overly sensitive, while Campy is more withdrawn and walled off. Conn
