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Tear Jerker / Tripping Over You

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  • Milo is completely despondent when he thinks Liam has a date with a girl.
  • The first talk between Eli and Liam that we see in the comic. Liam calls his father "sir", every sentence out of Eli's mouth is critique, and afterwards Liam shuffles to his room looking sad.
  • After spending the night with Milo, Liam is in a happy bliss all morning. The closer he comes to his own home (and his father), the more the happiness drips out of him and leaves him deeply glum.
  • The fact that Eli, approximately seven years after his wife Riva died, still talks to her picture.
  • Milo does two jobs, neither of which he likes especially nor do they help his career. Aside from that, there's his increasing inconsistency at acting classes, Liam hiding their relationship from his father with lies and excuses, and Hebert's comments eating away at his self-confidence. All of that is visibly wearing him down, and while he's trying to put on a good mood, it's more and more obvious how unhappy he is.
  • At the same time, Liam is slowly growing miserable over law school, working himself to exhaustion for a career he doesn't even want for himself.
  • Eli worries that Liam doesn't eat enough, and says they could go out to eat breakfast together, which Liam declines in a rather aloof manner. Eli looks rather dejected as he realizes that his son doesn't seem to have an emotional bond to him whatsoever, and maybe for a good reason.
  • Liam realizing that he's not doing his relationship any good with being so adamantly closeted.
    • Also, Milo's noting that the constant lies towards Liam's father are only short-term patches... and that he hoped what they have would be more long-term.
  • Liam revealing that his mother drank herself to death, and that his father carted him off to boarding school immediately after. It was the begin of their relationship deteriorating.

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