“If you had been found with a shiv in your side, would anyone have helped? Or would they simply have let you bleed?”

I can’t see the alt-text on mobile, what does it say?

I mean, to quote Morgan herself from a while ago, she WAS a teenager. She seemingly cared for her sister a lot more than she let on, and when her shitty attitude indirectly got her killed, it shocked her out of it. Makes sense to me.

Binky running in with the Brookyln 99 ‘Cool motive, still murder.’

How about PJ? No?

Huh, I never considered the “stole my life” angle before. I can see how Ringmaster could have played on that.

“I don’t know what Mustard was like in high school. All I know is, she’s spent the past ten years trying to live up to her little sister’s example. And from what she’s told me, it was an example worth living up to. Even if you’ve forgotten it.”

It doesn’t really confuse or disturb me, though; it leaves me feeling like the impact was lost, at least a little. Morgan, this entire section, was written like a cartoon supervillain, and Maggie the perfect kid of kindness save for bugging her older sister. That’s a thing we want to root for, since her sister is, well, a cartoon supervillain.

The tone shifting up to this point was not this extreme, by a long shot, and it left me feeling jarred and unable to fully buy into what should have been a *crushing* moment. Hell, the dissonance of the little Farting Butt into Morgan bursting into tears is a great example of it done right, because the line is established, it reminds her of how she treated her sister, and whatnot, but it’s still a juvenile little drawing. Up til this point, Morgan was Mayor levels of actively hateful and vicious within her circle, if the narrative is to be believed. I don’t buy that a character set up to behave that way gives a shit about her sister, simply because she doesn’t act in a way that shows ANY fondness, respect, or care about her sister.