8TB
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I worked with the Anime Ace Font before. It's not that. I've sent the info to hiplanet, but it should come as no surprise which font Daval uses for his comics. I just warped the font to make it look that way so as to add more emotion to the statement. I noticed Daval tended to do the same thing, so I just did a bit of trial and error until I found out the exact parameters to which he had altered the font.
I agree with some parts of this, and I disagree with others. I think both Daniel and Aaron have Oedipal Complexes, only that Aaron's was developed much more subtly--well, not so much anymore, haha! I think Aaron has always been attracted to his mother, it just has been disguised through his attraction to Alice. Think about it: Alice (presumably older) is a shapely, blonde haired blued eyed beauty just like his mother. It was more "acceptable" for Aaron to pursue Alice because she's his cousin, and she's around his age. But then the night of Chapter 6 arrives, where he witnesses his mother having sex with his cousin. Sarah broke three conventions: (1) her marriage to his father, (2) the age difference, and (3) the taboo of blood relatives having sexual relations. As traumatic as the scene was for Aaron, now there's no restrictions in living out his fantasies with his mother. She cheated on his father, she had sex with someone his age, and she had sex with a blood relative. Sarah has no moral platform on which to base her rejection of Aaron, other than the possibility that she may love David more than she loves her son. That's the reason I like that Daval included that line where Aaron asks Sarah if she loves David more than she loves him. Because Sarah really has no excuse at that point.
I agree with you that there's a difference in both Aaron and Daniel. Daniel, like you said, may see his mother as something immaculate, free from impurity, whom he seeks to sully with his dominance, thereby possessing her; Aaron on the other hand stood witness to his mother's impurity, and therefore he seeks to reestablish his bond with her not through hostility with his father, like Daniel does, (Aaron seems to love his father quite a bit) but through hostility with the threat, David. Also, Aaron is acting as a proxy for his father, being the one to hold Sarah accountable for her infidelity while opting for a means that doesn't produce the dissolution of his immediate family. In other words, Aaron seeks to accommodate Sarah's ease to arousal in place of his own father. That's Oedipus Complex 101: he's replacing his father, just without the hostility towards his father. I think Aaron very much loves Sarah; he should hate her, but he mentions, understandably, quite a lot that he loves her in spite of what she has done.
