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🥰Repressing emotions!🥰

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Merel

Oh Nick 🥺🫂

Faye

Oh Nick….

Audrina

Happy 8th Anniversary Heartstopper ❤️

Shin__

Uh oh

Leonie

the horse is now the main character

Audrina

I love conversations between Nick and Elle!!

chlo

Oh nick I want to give you the BIGGEST hug 🥹

Jay

Oh no Nick 🥺

Malcolm Grant

Good to see Nick’s perspective on moving away.

Olivia Brookes

MONTHS?!?!? HOW MUCH TIME HAS PASSED

soph

UH OH

ally

happy 8 years of heartstopper 🩷🩷🩷

Noah

nick :((

Kristen

Bless Nick’s heart…always thinking about Char! 🥺🥰

Laura

Oh poor Nick! Long Distance is the worst! I did long distance with my husband during my education to become an occupational therapist!

Tina

off topic but that couch looks so lush and comfy

Charlie

Oh Nick. Someone offer that boy some support. A debrief, anything!! I just wanna give him a hug. 🫂🫂

EC

Ooh is the slight darkness around Nick in the first panel supposed to be anxiety? Did I interpret that right?

Molly Goat

Me having read Nick and Charlie and screaming. Nickkkkk 😵

Leland

Good questions hehe

Oliver

Woah the way you drew the last two panels and how the dialogue mixes in them is really cool!!!

Dover_Beach

It's Halloween and book 5 ended in the summer just as Charlie finished his gcses I believe

Dirt Witch

Me waiting for the fight 🫣

Ava

🥺🥺🥺 Nick

ruthie.von

Eeesh I didn’t think about the fact that the last time Nick and Charlie were apart like that was when Charlie was in hospital. Le rough memory to be basing the upcoming distance on.

Merel

The fete was in July (I believe? End of the school year, anyway) and it's now Halloween so October :)

Caleb Henrique

Nick 🥹 In time, Happy Heartstopper Anniversary to us and thank you for give us Nick, Char and the gang 🫶🏼

CinD

I’m sorry but I saw the page and went 😕🙁☹️ But the I read Alice’s “🥰Repressing emotions!🥰” and just started 😅😂🤣

Brittney

Oh damn... I think I know where we are near.. but I'll admit that though, like Charlie has came such a long way within everything. Like you take the journey from the very first volume to now, you see how much both Nick and Charlie has changed but in better ways like the development that has came together really showcases the ups and downs through everything but it's amazing how so supportive Nick has been with Charlie through all of this

Cody

I really hope we get to dive into how Nick is feeling about all of this. The last page is clicking much more. I also have a question on timeline, my memory gets so blurred with already reading Nick and Charlie

Katy Boelter-Dimock

That first panel..oof! Thinking about Nick being transported back to a year ago, reliving what it was like then…he carries that around with him, just like Charlie does. Amazing, Alice, how you are adding this nuance to their story: they *did* get through it, things *are* better-and also, the healing is ongoing.

Sarah Jacobs

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd like to see this party from the horse's perspective 😆❤️🍂

Noemiette

He really has a lot of work to do on opening up to people :/ and i feel like he almost feels guilty in a way about having these more negative emotions and so burries them to be the joyful always supportive golden retriever people always see him as

Nikki

I just… love Nick 🫶

Kayleigh Clarke

Oh Nick, please talk to your friends. You can’t always be the strong one! He’s helped Charlie through so much, it’s bound to have had an impact. Also; the horse is filling me with such joy, lol 🐴

Eileen

Realy love the last few pages Alice 🩷

Ashley Robinson

I’m guessing they talked about it once and they were cool. 😎. Wonder if that will change. 🫥. Thank you Alice for the real problems that people face and taking your characters through it.

aeonoir

Elle vs reading the room

Cliff

Elle can always be counted on to get to the heart of things! Although I'm somewhat hurt by her calling him a simp. ;)

Ana Thais Vargas

I think we’re seeing the construction of Nick starting therapy of his own! It all affected him too and he needs care. His emotions are important too even if the wort of things didn’t happen to him.

E Valdés

loving the way this little horse just pokes his head in and diffuses tension

ama

Alice, your caption 😭 absolutely what nick is doing, i can feel a storyline about his mental health coming, and i can't wait - even though it'll be painful, but necessary and important for nick. Also, happy 8 years of heartstopper, thank you for your beautiful anniversary art, the beach really is their special place 🥹

RO

Nick’s facial expression shift between the first and second panel 😥

Claire

Nick's face changes in this one.

Nyssa Rawther 🍉

Happy 8 years, Alice! Thank you for bringing Nick&Charlie and their amazing group of family and friends to us.

Anaïs

The way Elle is always the one who's able to see through Nick's facade and "everything's fine" speeches. I love the evolution of their relationship so much 💕

Justin S.

Oh, Nick… 🥹 also I love we get Nick and Elle time, hope we get this translated into the show.

Chris

I wonder if Charlie ever said to Nick he felt « guilty » for everything happened (not saying he is but just wondering if he felt like that towards him) there was a mention in this winter but beside it ?

Hayley Igbokwe

Happy 8 Years! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

emily

oh nick 🥺☹️

Noemiette

With some thinking, in my previous comment I said that Nick felt guilty about having negative emotions and felt he had to be the joyful golden retriever people saw him as. But I realize in a way, people see him as this because it's what he is projecting all the time, because he buries everything. It's a game of who came first. We saw in the previous chapter that Elle and Tara see past the armor, they arent expecting him to be perfect and tell him so. So deep down it comes down more to what he thinks people are expecting of him rather that actually expections from people (There we go, the character analyses machine has been switched on in my brain xD)

Scott Whittall

Oh, I think I see foreshadowing of the Nick and Charlie novella. Elle is already contemplating her and Tao's long distance future, and fishing for the lay of the land with Nick about he and Char's future apart. Elle is always so grounded and forward thinking.

Chloe ♡

i know this page is about nick opening up to people and the truth about the long distance convo that will follow but i’m just looking at the horses expression in every page and it’s so funny that it’s just 🙂 happy to be there lol

RudyL

I was just thinking how much I love seeing that little horse head in these frames!

Olivia

the little seeds being planted as to what goes down in the nick and charlie novella is very clever!

Evergreen

Remember that time when they had “already” talked about sex months ago but it turned out one conversation doesn’t stay relevant forever? These two have gotten so good at relationships but there’s always more to learn about communication. They are going to learn such an important lesson through this process that will benefit their relationship for the rest of their lives. 💚

Lauri

He’s not cool with it… 😣

PupFenrir

Happy 8 years Alice. You have created the most amazing and loving story ever🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 I've been reading since January 2020. Nick helped me to discover being bisexual and the whole series helped me discover my true identity; bi-romantic demisexual kinkster 🩷💜💙 🖤🩶💜🤍 🖤💙🤍❤️

Cliff

There goes Nick's "happy mask" again!

Jonathan Payne

Charlie’s learned to process the impending separation, but Nick needs to learn in a healthy way too. Oh Nicky it’ll be ok. I promise. 🥰

Beam Bugge

"idk why my human kept talking to this random witch when we could have been galloping in the garden smh"

margaux

he’s just like me fr

Beam Bugge

yeah repressing emotions, that worked so well for charlie, i'm sure it will work perfectly for nick too 🙄🙄

Lindsey S

I can hear the Nick & Charlie novella lurking around the corner saying “Are you sure about that? 🤨”

toneelspeler

i agree! i also feel that nick's a bit in that headspace of not allowing himself to feel that he needs help or someone to talk, bc you know, charlie went through something way worse! so his problems are just small in comparison to that and he shouldn't complain. he can deal with it !! (he can't)

Jewel

Uhhh guys is the nick and Charlie novella becoming cannon in the hearstopper series 😟

Karen DuVall

I can hear the JAWS music starting in the distance. Drama is coming.

Sarah Parker-Shemilt

I think Alice has mentioned that the events of N&C are cannon in the HS universe, but they won’t be rehashing it again in HS (my guess is it will be referenced by a diary entry or something like that)

Christie

Love Elle and Nick together. Have you spoke about Leeds recently? 👀💜

Robert

Sort of adds more fuel to my view that Elle can be quite hard/harsh sometimes even though Nick can do with a kick up the bum every so often.

Jewel

Imma cry Istg 😭

David C Witkin

Elle is VERY perceptive, and Nick is slightly drunk, and maybe feeling a little bit scared and a little bit sad.

Loveislove

Wondering now how deeply Nick and Charlie have discussed both Leeds and Charlie's time in the hospital. Tori as well has been very impacted by Charlie's struggles. I wonder if she and Nick have spoke with each other or if Charlie has talked to either of them beyond the card he gave Tori. He seemed to acknowledge the importance of her support to Nick during This Winter.

artxsta

i agree!! i feel like this is a nice nod to vol 5 when he says he feels like “he can’t open up to ppl” so it’s nice to have friends like elle that give him that push

Sof

the fight will for sure be canon in the hs series. It’s great material for kit and joe.

James

The last volume with the uni visits was in early Summer, June/July. Now it's end of October and Nick and Charlie will be early summer next year

Murgy

Elle, did you read Nick and Charlie before this party? Did the outfit let you see the future? Though in all seriousness, we know Elle is perceptive and saw Nick's uni dilemma first hand and how he doesn't know who he is without Charlie, she is just looking out for her friend. Its nice to see people checking in on Nick.

James

100% this. He wrote in his journal in chapter 6 about how he felt guilty for the way he felt when Charlie was in hospital. And I think he's carried that guilt and suppressed his own emotional trauma. And fuck, that poor boy's been through a lot. Realising he was bi, coming out, the shit with his brother and father, seeing his boyfriend go through a major mental health crisis and the sense of powerlessness to help him, trying to figure out his true self and the sense of pressure that he must do this immediately, the fear of hurting Charlie when he moves away. And all the time putting Charlie's feelings first. He should be enormously proud of Charlie but also in himself for how much he helped Charlie just by being there. But he also needs to know it's okay to not feel okay too and confront how much of a rough time he's had too.

James

It would be amazing if Nick could have professional sessions with someone like Geoff to talk to. Sadly accessing healthcare is so hard. It took a serious incident and a trip to A&E before Charlie got the professional support he needed. But at least he has Elle and their friend group

Chloe ♡

i’m normally the last person to notice these things but in the last panel i’ve just noticed the horse is missing its reins on the side of its nose and in page 1625 it’s missing its definition line between nose/neck in the last panel :)

ucfnurse

Dear in the headlights look….🫣😯🫨🫠❤️❣️💐🏫🗺️🛤️📖📚✌️🕊️☮️

Loveislove

I love the way Elle has moved from eyes on Nick to her whole body openly facing him. She knows him and his reluctance to focus on his own needs but she is a good friend who will push to help support him. I hope he feels safe with her.

The Wanton Dogfish

I think she means the bit about you not knowing who you are when Charlie is not there, Nick. Not how lovely the sports facilities were...

cassidy cassidy

That middle panel of Elle's eyes speaks volumes of the current conversation. She knows that there is more, more that Nick needs to realise and more that they (nick and charlie) need to talk about. I also feel as though the hospital isn't something Nick has fully processed yet, like he knows it happened but not the lasting impact it has had on him. So much to go through this volume

boombroadcast

Nick’s horse and Charlie’s parrot develop an unlikely interspecies friendship perhaps!!!

boombroadcast

I am very curious about whether Charlie’s “haha weird” was literally the end of that initial long distance conversation, and whether there have been any subsequent ones. 👀 We’ve definitely got more of those convos ahead, whether Nick likes it or not. 😬💕

Emma

It's so hard to keep talking about the hard stuff, we're all learning with you Nick 🌟

Kassie K Wilson

Oh no 🫠 this is my only not favorite thing about our precious Nick. Usually he’s so head on about tough stuff, but in this situation in particular he’s very much avoidant…

K Lyn

I love the Nick & Elle friendship so much

Molly Goat

It's always been cannon, there just hasn't been what came directly before it till now.

RCM

That first panel, oof, it feels like there is a spotlight on Nick...like all attention has turned from the whole party and his glowing Charlie to...a forlorn Nick? 😔 It's hard to see, like he is sinking into his feelings and fears, then, just hearing a simple, "Nick?," shakes himself out of it, and back into the present with his drink and happy horse, and celebrating Charlie again! But, thankfully, he's talking to Elle...who is the type of person who seeks to understand. Maybe it's the artist in her, used to looking at things from several perspectives, or maybe it's because of her own lived experience, but she is intuitive, and seems to pick up on Nick's subtle signs that even though he says it's all okay, maybe she should ask more than once. I LOVE how she literally turns her entire frame to fully face Nick to check in again about Leeds. And, he avoids answering again. TECHNICALLY, he's right. They have talked (at least once!) about Leeds and of course Charlie was supportive...but they haven't circled back fully or repetitively about being long distance. I love how Elle point blank asks, "You're both cool with it?" And that breaks my heart because at this very moment, how could Nick possibly say he is cool with it (if he really, really thought about it…)? Because talking about it makes it real, and neither of them want it to be really real, yet💔 You can see this all over Nick's face in that very last panel, and, like Elle, we just get the sense that Nick has a journey of his own waiting...

S S

Elle is such a good friend for Nick <3 sometimes friends need to give you little pushes for your own good. She's so great

Loveislove

I appreciate that the fight will not be rehashed much like Solitaire was not. But I am seeing a worrying lack of communication which may be foreshadowing why it happened.

Loveislove

I hope we see soon where Charlie is in all of this. Nick said Charlie was the only one he could really talk to but he doesn't seem to be talking to him. I recall the scene in Paris in the tv series by the vending machine when Nick told Charlie he was so preoccupied with his coming out he forgot how it was affecting Charlie and he cared about that. I guess I'm wondering if Charlie has reflected on how his own journey and struggles of the last year have affected Nick.

Robert

I somehow doubt it. They have a sort of falling out after the cinema fight (in the book the aftermath is dealt with differently) so maybe that will suffice. The falling out in N&C is horrible and if I re-read the book I pass over it. The making up is good though.

Neenie

The spiders are fun