Departed

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Comments: I originally made Michael to be in a needlessly fucked up webcomic that I thankfully never finished, where he ends up killing himself because of trauma and blackmail. the stuff I made when I was in my late teens/very early twenties reflects a lot of my mindset around trauma at the time, not that Michael's experience was like mine, more that you either die because you can't handle it or you just accept that it happened and you can't do anything about it. the idea that trauma sticks with you forever as this unchanging damage is the prevailing narrative in the parts of social media where trauma survivors hang out and it fucking sucks. the art I made about this version of Michael is still pretty cool, though.