I know baseless rumors can cause serious harm, but I’d love to hear that my hometown thinks I’m a werewolf.

Don’t you mean “since she ripped out Gus’ tongue”?

Sorry for lateposting, but I disagreed with your interpretation of Morgan’s actions even when this page first came out.

Morgan has 0% actual intent of handing Debbie some money here. It’s a purely sarcastic offer intended to emphasize Debbie’s social and economic inferiority. That’s why she refers to the sticky bun as “poor people food”. The higher she raises her (entirely insincere) offer, the more it emphasizes the gap between Debbie and herself.

The possibility of an unreliable narrator is a separate matter, but if we take what we see here at face value, then Morgan was a bully. Plain and simple.

Yeah, that sounds like a Steven Colbert esque “let me make fun of myself by exaggerating my flaws,” in the hopes of putting her at ease, right? It doesn’t look like it worked, obviously. It was also rude to make the offer in front of everyone. As someone who used to be weirdly intimidating as a teen, I completely get where Morgan is coming from. It seems like she was trying to be nice and failing by way of poor social acumen. I can relate!

I still am intimidating, if I don’t actively prevent myself from coming across that way, and frankly it’s exhausting. When I actually start relaxing I scare people, and if I’m visibly stressed that also scares people. I leave the house less often because of all of it. There are all these ways I have to be conscious of other people all the time, and it’s almost never reciprocated. No one cares if they scare me and if I look scared, people feel threatened by that too.

Also the blackmailing a teacher thing sounds like a baseless rumor lmao. My hometown thinks I’m a werewolf. You know how it is.

No twins, Maggie is the little sister.
(Thanks to Mr. A: https://clowncorps.net/comic/chapter-3-page-11/)

Spiral out of control, spiral into control. 😉

(That probably isn’t the reason… ^^; )

That’s ultimately what it comes down to, honestly. The past sucks, and it hurts, but Morrigan got better while Maggie got worse. Morrigan bullied then, but Maggie is killing now. “You were a jerk, so it’s okay for me to kill people” isn’t a great rationale no matter how you slice it. Then again, Maggie’s probably pretty out there right now mentally after an apparent resurrection and reprogramming by the Shadow Circus.

Okay, see, I can see that. Fair enough, but, given those two options? If Morrigan was seriously gonna give the money for the sticky bun for some kind of “rich girl victory,” doesn’t the girl still technically come out on top for getting money she otherwise didn’t have? She suddenly has enough to buy, like, two convenience store displays of sticky buns now. And if Morrigan seriously looked down at everyone, and was as bad as Maggie says, who did Debbie have to look bad to by taking the money if EVERYONE was beneath old Morrigan? Feels more like a “welcome to the club” thing. Probably doesn’t feel good, and Debbie was just a little girl, but she still would have come out ahead.

The only way that form of bullying makes sense, and it’s entirely possible that was the long-term play, is if Morrigan did something shifty like “Thanks! Oh, you know what, I don’t actually have that money on me NOW, but I’ll pay you back ONE DAY,” and never do?

Don’t be thrown by people trying to see the good in Morrigan. She’s a hero at this point in the comic and, as I said, people don’t like seeing the warts on their heroes. 😉

Point I was ultimately trying to make in my post was that if this was to be our big wham moment to learn about Morrigan’s shadier past before she became Mustard, than this example scene doesn’t feel like it’s really giving it. Perhaps the next couple pages will elaborate.