"Obsessions"

"Obsessions" was published on May 23rd 2020.

### Definition

Obsessions is a comic that revolves solely around Cyrin and her obsessions. My dear friend River (who was the only one who responded to the "ask questions" slide in the previous comic asked Cyrin about what kind of things she obsesses over, and Cyrin responded and explained how her attraction and obsessions work. Funny enough, this isn't the last time that a Them character will give an indepth explanation about their attraction works in relation to other people.

### Transcript

Panel 1: [Cyrin is standing on the left side of the panel with her hands folded in front of her and wearing a large bow on her head, looking upwards at a comment textbox. It is a comment from the Other Friends comic comment section. It reads: **\_heather\_sweeney** what kind of things is Addi obsessed with?]

Panel 2: [Cyrin is standing on the left side facing forwards. Her right hand is on her hips and her left hand is upwards to help indicate that she is explaining something.] ♡ Well, it's usually people. Generally my friends. But not always. ♡

Panel 3: [Cyrin is standing on the left side of the screen facing right, but it's in the mini style now. Her bow is pretty much the size of her head and her body is curved to the right.] ♤ It usually causes problems because of the fact that I get obsessions on my friends and then they literally control my life without even knowing it. They also generally don't feel the same way and so they date someone else and so I either plan for murder or distance myself, maybe even both. Either way, it just causes problems in my life. ♤

Panel 4: [Cyrin's head is in the top left corner looking down. In the bottom left corner is a picture of S.P. and Annie hugging and kissing with a red heart drawn around them and Annie scribbled out. Along the bottom and left side are 6 heads of my real life obsessions of whom will remain unnamed on here for privacy reasons.] ♤ It's so stupid because I never stop obsessing. Even if I haven't talked to them in 4 years. I even have an obsession on S.P., but you would know her as Ludilo. Her girlfriend doesn't like me very much. ♤

Panel 5: [Cyrin stands in the bottom left corner with her arms crossed and looking mad.] ♤ The amount of times that they've moved on and dated someone else is annoying. What's really getting on my nerves though is how close I got to dating them beforehand. But that's why I plan out murder, because if there's one one else to date them, they'll have to date me! ♤

Panel 6: [Cyrin is on the right hand side of the screen with her arms crossed but her left hand pointed down. She is smiling.] ♡ So yeah, that's what kind of things I obsess over.♡ ♤ Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go kill S.P.'s girlfriend. ♤

### Fun Facts!!

- Cyrin (and I) usually gets obsessions on our friends, but these obsessions cause problems in our daily lives. The feelings also never go away, so the obsession is eternal.

- Cyrin (and me) hates getting obsessions because it ruins our lives. Still, we can't live with the obsessions and so we will stop at nothing to make sure our obsessions love us back and don't leave us, including murdering their significant other(s).

- Ludilo's name is S.P. and Cyrin has an obsession on him.

- This is one of the only two A-Line comics to feature any color other than Black or White. The other one is Wannabe.

> S.P. uses all pronouns, but mainly uses He/Him pronouns. However, Cyrin is the only person in the entire comic series who has ever referred to him with She/Her pronouns. It is unknown if Cyrin generally views S.P. to be more female rather than male, or if S.P. was feeling more feminine at that point in time, but regardless. This is also the only time this ever happens, as every point onwards when Cyrin is talking about S.P., she uses He/Him pronouns and/or calls him "my senpai", "SP-chan", "SP-senpai".

>> Ironically, the Japanese suffix "-chan" is feminine while "-kun" is masculine.

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