Cliff & Eugene comic- Fall (Patreon)

I decided I wasn't done making you all cry :).

This was under a heading called 'excuses to hug' in my script but ended up being entirely about Cliff and his mum instead <3.

It's all very complicated, his parents weren't bad, but they weren't perfect. Now his dad is gone Cliff feels a lot more responsible for his mum, and this was a shock for him. I think everyone has that moment when they realise their parents aren't going to be around forever, and I think this is that moment for Cliff with his mum.

People have asked whether Cliffs mum knows he's gay, and whether she knows about the sex work. I think she probably knows about both, but very much does not want to know about the latter. I think it's possible the police brought him home one time when he was in and out of home and she found out that way. She doesn't approve at all, and hopes he doesn't do it anymore but won't ask. (This is very British, we don't talk about things.)
I also think...because I don't really want to get into the drama of him coming out, it's better if she knows he's gay. I don't know if she'd fully get it, or be very good, but she does love him to bits.

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Never thought I'd be writing prayers but here we are. My partners parents are mormon and I think perhaps they have a bit of that tinge to it. I went to their church a lot as a teen to spend more time with my partner, basically my only brush with religion. I don't actually know if catholic prayers are much different, I used a different start and end to the ones I'm familiar with, (dear heavenly father, we say this in the name of jesus christ amen) but maybe all prayers are more train of thought in practice, and only seem scripted and formal when people write them on christian prayer blogs...(?)

fun fact about me, for a while as a kid I used to pray for every family member and every toy (please let them be healthy and happy and not get injured or ill), and had to do it every night or something bad would happen, despite being raised pretty anti-christian. I used to say both AHmen and AYmen because I didn't know what was right. Anxiety who.