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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: It hasn't happened yet, but it's been set up. [[spoiler:Amanda snarls at Selkie for "stealing" a daddy from her, since Selkie got adopted and Amanda didn't, triggering serious resentment. "People would rather adopt a fish than me." It has since been revealed to the audience that Amanda is Todd's biological daughter, but Todd and her mother Andi were teenagers at the time and Andi didn't feel ready for/didn't want kids, so she gave Amanda up at birth before Todd even got to the hospital, and told Todd that the baby had died/was stillborn.]]
* HarsherInHindsight: When first reading [[http://www.selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie174/ this strip]], you figure Amanda busted out the DeathGlare because it felt like Heather was rubbing her adoption in Amanda's face. Once you read the comic under TearJerker, though...
* HarsherInHindsight: When first reading [[http://www.selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie174/ this strip]], you figure Amanda busted out the DeathGlare because it felt like Heather was rubbing her adoption in Amanda's face. Once you read the comic under TearJerker, though...
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: HarsherInHindsight:
** It hasn't happened yet, but it's been set up. [[spoiler:Amanda snarls at Selkie for "stealing" a daddy from her, since Selkie got adopted and Amanda didn't, triggering serious resentment. "People would rather adopt a fish than me." It has since been revealed to the audience that Amanda is Todd's biological daughter, but Todd and her mother Andi were teenagers at the time and Andi didn't feel ready for/didn't want kids, so she gave Amanda up at birth before Todd even got to the hospital, and told Todd that the baby had died/was stillborn.]]
* HarsherInHindsight: ** When first reading [[http://www.selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie174/ this strip]], you figure Amanda busted out the DeathGlare because it felt like Heather was rubbing her adoption in Amanda's face. Once you read the comic under TearJerker, though...
** It hasn't happened yet, but it's been set up. [[spoiler:Amanda snarls at Selkie for "stealing" a daddy from her, since Selkie got adopted and Amanda didn't, triggering serious resentment. "People would rather adopt a fish than me." It has since been revealed to the audience that Amanda is Todd's biological daughter, but Todd and her mother Andi were teenagers at the time and Andi didn't feel ready for/didn't want kids, so she gave Amanda up at birth before Todd even got to the hospital, and told Todd that the baby had died/was stillborn.]]
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*** The author's notes on that page say that [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally, the third panel was going to]] ''show'' [[spoiler:Amanda's welts on her limbs]], but (in his words) "I couldn't, I just couldn't".
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* OneOfUs: The author has a link to this very page on the site. Hi Dave!
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** And she has an AlternativeCharacterInterpretation for [[http://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie688/ why she likes]] {{Cinderella}} that leaves her grandparents [[StunnedSilence at a loss for words]].
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** And she has an AlternativeCharacterInterpretation for [[http://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie688/ why she likes]] {{Cinderella}} Literature/{{Cinderella}} that leaves her grandparents [[StunnedSilence at a loss for words]].
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--->'''Heather''': Cinderella makes SENSE, you know? She gets ditched, and everyone hates her.
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*** And made even worse after her past with the family is elaborated on during a "[[http://www.selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie596/ Show-and-Tell]]" for class, and [[http://www.selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie600/ Mrs. Haversham-Zhang fills Andi in on her problems]].
-->'''Lillian''': Amanda does have ongoing anger management issues, and empathizes with other children poorly. She was adopted out shortly after coming into our care. [[spoiler: Five years later, the family brings her back, with welts on her arms and legs]].[[note]]Said welts were inflicted by her brothers, [[ParentalFavoritism and her adoptive parents didn't believe here]][[/note]]
-->'''Lillian''': Amanda does have ongoing anger management issues, and empathizes with other children poorly. She was adopted out shortly after coming into our care. [[spoiler: Five years later, the family brings her back, with welts on her arms and legs]].[[note]]Said welts were inflicted by her brothers, [[ParentalFavoritism and her adoptive parents didn't believe here]][[/note]]
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** And she has an AlternativeCharacterInterpretation for [[http://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie688/ why she likes]] {{Cinderella}} that leaves her grandparents [[StunnedSilence at a loss for words]].
--->'''Heather''': Cinderella makes SENSE, you know? She gets ditched, and everyone hates her.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Andi, Andi Andi Andi! [[spoiler:Did she reclaim Amanda out of little more than [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter a selfish desire to set things right and fix her relationship with Todd]], and out of her apparent perception that a child's only "real" parents are their biological ones, without considering what's best for anyone but herself? Are her intentions more noble than that, just carried out in a naive way expecting a fairy tale ending? Does her guilt and relative immaturity grant her some leeway for how she's been handling things? Is she at the mercy of her own manipulative mother, or is she acting of her own accord?]] Of course, it's still ''[[WebComicTime very]]'' early in the relevant arc.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Andi, Andi Andi Andi! to the point of basically being a FlameWar. [[spoiler:Did she reclaim Amanda out of little more than [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter a selfish desire to set things right and fix her relationship with Todd]], and out of her apparent perception that a child's only "real" parents are their biological ones, without considering what's best for anyone but herself? Are her intentions more noble than that, just carried out in a naive way expecting a fairy tale ending? Does her guilt and relative immaturity grant her some leeway for how she's been handling things? Is she at the mercy of her own manipulative mother, or is she acting of her own accord?]] Of course, it's still ''[[WebComicTime very]]'' early in the relevant arc.
