Bittersweet Candy Bowl/WMG: Difference between revisions

When they were younger, Lucy was socially isolated, which led to her developing her [[Tsundere]] personality. Mike, on the other hand, doesn't appear to have faced as many issues while growing up, and turned out to be a [[Nice Guy]]. However, thanks to their friends [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male|laughing off Lucy's abuse]] and [[Butt Monkey|treating]] [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin'|him]] [[The Unfair Sex|poorly]], he has grown bitter and cynical. This has only grown worse after their friends learned that he rejected Lucy's confession -- he's even been explicitly told that his [[Long -Distance Relationship]] with Sandy 'doesn't count' because "those never work out", and that he should hook up with the girl who's right there, ''despite'' how she [[Character Development|used to]] treat him so badly.

Let's face it, the guy clearly wants to hurt Mike ''bad'', and he's a huge asshole. During Confrontation, he came damn close to killing Mike, and when Lucy stopped him, he then proceeded to nearly rape-and-murder her. Then Mike and Lucy [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown|teamed up on him]], and Alejandro was damn lucky to slink away from that one without permanent injuries. Now Alejandro wants revenge on Mike, so when he hears about Mike's relationship with Sandy, he decides to pull a [[Revenge By Proxy]]. So shortly after Mike and Sandy have their touching reunion -- in front of ''everyone'', including (a visibly distraught) Lucy -- Alejandro comes in out of friggin' nowhere and [[Conspicuously Public Assassination|shanks Sandy]] [[Back Stab|in the back]] [[Interrupted Kiss|the instant before she and Michael get to kiss]]. Maybe more than once. Cue in-universe declarations that Alejandro crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] -- even from Augustus, who at the moment looks up to Alejandro as a leader/big brother-type figure (especially when he sees how upset Daisy become upon seeing Sandy get mortally wounded) -- which immediately segue into [[Unstoppable Rage]]. In the bad ending, Mike will charge Alejandro almost ''immediately'', and Alejandro will not only slash Mike's throat without skipping a beat, he'll then [[Villain Exit Stage Left|flee the scene]] and [[The Bad Guy Wins|get off]] [[Karma Houdini|scot-free]]. Cue Lucy [[Driven to Suicide|committing suicide]], Sandy bleeding to death, and [[Downer Ending|everyone else being incredibly depressed]]. (Though there would be a [[Silver Lining]] in that Alejandro's future arrest and conviction would be pretty darn likely, considering the number of witnesses.) In the good ending, Mike [[Heroic BSOD|will just be in shock over what just happened]], while Alejandro engages in [[Evil Gloating]] about how much Mike must be suffering without his true love... but just before Mike crosses the [[Despair Event Horizon]], Lucy, of all people, having accepted that Mike loves Sandy and not her, calls Alejandro a scumbag for ruining Mike's happiness and proceeds to attack him. Though Alejandro will once again get the upper hand at first, with his cronies preventing the others from stopping him, Augustus will take it upon himself to intervene and damn-near-kill Alejandro (but will be fatally wounded in the process, with Lucy already beaten to within an inch of her life). Meanwhile, Sandy will have been watching all this in her dying moments, and with her final breaths, ask Mike to focus on what he has rather than what he's lost. This gets Mike out of his [[Heroic BSOD]] long enough to see Augustus dead and Alejandro smirking psychotically and about to finish Lucy off (for extra dick points, by dropping her into a nearby lake). Mike then immediately proceeds to grab Alejandro's weapon right out of his hands and stab him in the face, then begin pleading with an unconscious Lucy to wake up. Cue scene cut to hospital, then Sandy's funeral, and a [[Distant Finale]] of Mike and Lucy finally getting together... which gets me to why I cooked up this theory in the first place. Taeshi's stated that Mike and Lucy ''will'' get together at the end of the comic, but as things currently are, that's not gonna happen. Mike and Sandy are very much in love with each other, and Lucy is seemingly resigned to not having Mike in her life, ''period''. If not for the [[Word of God]] contradicting it, Mike and Sandy being happy together in the end would be completely viable (and what I'd be rooting for, seeing as Lucy totally blew her chance with him.) And with the series's spiral into the depths of [[Cerebus Syndrome]] (not to mention Kizuna and Carson already having been [[Killed Off for Real]]), I wouldn't be surprised if [[Death of the Hypotenuse|Sandy being brutally killed]] didn't end up as the series's [[Darkest Hour]]. As for why Alejandro would do it, see the beginning of this rant -- namely, that he hates Mike, and that he's [[Complete Monster|a dick]].

During this rant, he will call them on the [[Double Standard]] they showed in regard to Lucy's pre-[[Character Development]] [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male|treatment]] of him, as well as how they themselves gleefully used him as a [[Butt Monkey]]. He'll also ream them out over their presumption that he and Lucy should get together just because she confessed despite his ''already being in a relationship with Sandy'', spelling out how much it hurts that they assume she doesn't count just because it's a [[Long -Distance Relationship]]. With everyone worrying about Lucy's hurt feelings, he'll claim they've forgotten [[Did You Think I Can't Feel?|he has feelings too]] -- and they've been hurting them and his friendship with them for ''years''.