The Proposal (page 58)
Added 2022-07-13 19:00:05 +0000 UTCEasy there Mansa… remember song is fragile…
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we're all so scarred from the first version 😅 and also feeling the secondhand insecurity from Song
Glissando365
2022-07-14 17:39:38 +0000 UTCIn my head, the tone on "well, you've seen my suitors" is 😬 as in "we both know they're all awful." Felt as though I read it so differently to everyone else when I looked through the comments! 😅
Jem
2022-07-14 13:25:25 +0000 UTCWelcome back!
StellaSapiente
2022-07-14 06:12:54 +0000 UTCGosh their facial expressions are so different! That’s how you know they’re not on the same page here. They’re reading from different books lol. Mansa looks so devoted and smitten and Song is scared shitless. Poor thing 🥺
Rachel Maxwell
2022-07-14 04:20:53 +0000 UTCI suppose to me he's acknowledging the elephant in the room, trying to reassure Song before Song panics. Mansa has had suitors but he also dismissed them all and has always been loyal to Song. He never allowed them to court him while having Song as a courtesan on the side, so "obviously" he would never marry one and keep Song around as a courtesan. (I'm not saying it's the brightest thing to say, but I totally get where Mansa is coming from. I am very much aro though, I do not have a romantic bone in my body, so I can be more practical than romance warrants sometimes.)
catididnt
2022-07-14 00:30:05 +0000 UTCOoooffff here it comes. When proposing prob not the best to bring up other people
BlueBaggins
2022-07-14 00:07:20 +0000 UTCI mainly think he shouldn’t have mentioned the suitors. In the old version that’s what made Song think Mansa is going to marry one of them and let him be his „side chick“ so to speak.
Little0cean
2022-07-13 22:13:48 +0000 UTCI love that everyone is pointing out how badly Mansa phrased this and I think it's fine. (The new job comes with marital expectations and the suitors are unsuitable, and then point out we'll be financially secure and it's time to take the next step, yada, yada, we've been living together for a decades, so let's just make it official, yes?) Mansa! You are apparently messing up big time! But at least be reassured that you are not alone. I would also mess this up big time.
catididnt
2022-07-13 21:58:44 +0000 UTCI was so hoping he would dodge the suitors thing in this update 😭
Glissando365
2022-07-13 21:23:41 +0000 UTCSnort. Of course Mansa would approach this all calm and collected whereas Song would respond better to being swept off his feet
AJ Constantine
2022-07-13 21:00:35 +0000 UTCYeah I took a look at the old version as well and the difference is huge. In the first version Mansa seemed sad about being promoted, like it’s bad news. And up until pulling the ring out he didn’t even look at Song. It almost seemed like he didn’t want to get married but felt like he had to. Meanwhile in this version we get context from Mansas side. We find out that marriage is something they seemingly discussed before and both want on some level but agreed to wait until they’re in a better place financially. And like I said in my own comments, here Mansa is looking Song in the eyes and keeps body contact. Now it actually looks like he wants to marry Song and is looking forward to it. Which makes the end of the comic even more painful now that I think about it🥲.
Little0cean
2022-07-13 19:49:48 +0000 UTCPHRASING 😭
Ash S.
2022-07-13 19:45:45 +0000 UTCStill not quite the right choice of words but he looks so much softer in this version. He looks Song in the eyes and keeps body contact. Still hoping for a more romantic proposal tho 🙏
Little0cean
2022-07-13 19:27:06 +0000 UTCWait Mansa that's not the right way to approach the subject 😭
Marta
2022-07-13 19:16:53 +0000 UTCears going into *concerned* mode 🥺❤️
sick_pineapple
2022-07-13 19:10:57 +0000 UTCShould we see this Version as Mansas and the first one as Songs? Mansa is so much softer in this New Version. It feels like first Version was "told" be Song as a very emotional narrator.
Nina GajaLuthien
2022-07-13 19:03:23 +0000 UTCOh, my poor bean, that sad ears
Dominika Beregi
2022-07-13 19:02:20 +0000 UTCToo fast Mansa....too fast!
Deb
2022-07-13 19:01:31 +0000 UTCOuch, wrong choise of words... 😔
Susanne mizz_uzie Olsson
2022-07-13 19:01:21 +0000 UTC
