Penny and Aggie/Recap/Six Septembers Later: Difference between revisions

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Michelle tells Katy-Ann about her recent relief mission to Zimbabwe, where Marshall, now a pre-med student and in whom Michelle's currently interested, also volunteered. Katy-Ann, mother of a toddler boy she and Jack have brought to the reunion, is currently expecting another child, while doing occasional app design for her church. She encourages Michelle to pursue Marshall because he, like Michelle and Jack, knows that "living for others helps your self-image."

 

 

Tharqa, slimmed down considerably but still obnoxious, greets Sara and Daphne with a big hug as if they were dear high school friends. Neither, of course, is at all pleased to see her, as Sara makes clear when she alludes to Tharqa having directed the rape slander video about her. Daphne's girlfriend Susan defuses the situation by feigning interest in the novel Tharqa mentioned she's writing, and leading her away to hear about it, while Sara and Daphne, now friends again, note what a devoted partner Susan is. In response to Daphne's question as to where her girlfriend is, Sara says evasively, "This is not her thing." The scene reveals that Sara is still acting, while Daphne is a fashion consultant, whose outfits grace a few other alumni.

=== Tropes ===

* [[All Guys Want Sorority Women]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]], jokingly, by Aggie as she kids Penny about her choice of drink (beer) bringing to mind her sorority days (although Penny reminds her she was only a member for six weeks):

* [[All There in the Manual]]:

** According to Campbell on the comic's forum, Jack's and Katy-Ann's son is named Cyrus, after the biblical character (Katy-Ann's idea). The baby Katy-Ann's carrying will be named Gail, after [[Gail Simone]] (Jack's choice).

* [[Bald Woman]]: Lisa, as the Meme Master, has shaved her head.

* [[Beautiful All Along]]: [[Subverted Trope]]. Tharqa does look more attractive (even with her garish ensemble) after having lost weight, but she's still obnoxious and overbearing, and worse, heedless of the pain she caused Sara. The result is that, despite her desperate search for attention, no one wants to talk to her.

* [[Big Beautiful Man]]: Fred has put on weight since high school, apparently due to Brian's cooking, but is still handsome and well-groomed.

* [[The Bus Came Back]]: Helen and Yun Sung.

* [[Last-Episode New Character]]: Susan and Brian, both of whom have substantial roles in the chapter.

* [[Maybe Ever After]]: Penny and Aggie.

* [[Shrug of God]]: Campbell has declined to state whether Penny and Aggie get back together after the comic's conclusion. (Indeed, he claims he hasn't let ''himself'' decide.) He feels that the [[Maybe Ever After]] ending is the truest to the series, which was in the end more about self-discovery, potential and possibility, rather than a straightforward romance story. He ''has'' said that now that they're adults and have spent time apart, discovering who they are as individuals, they have a better ''chance'' of making a relationship work than they ever did in high school.

* [[Sure Why Not]]: A reader asked Campbell whether Lisa did anything with the hair she shaved off, such as donating it for cancer patient wigs. Campbell said he hadn't thought of that but that it would be in character for her to do so, due to Aggie's influence.

 

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