There are a couple comics that raise the possibility of dragging something out (and enjoying the miscommunication for a while) but then just get everybody on the same page and enjoy the friction from that instead. I love the kind of comics that do this.
Offhand, Girl Genius and Leftover Soup have both gone this route. Girl Genius didn’t lose all the intrigue — there’s still a fair amount of misinformation going around — but there was potential for a *huge* misunderstanding if one of the romantic leads hadn’t known a key fact about the main character, and that information made it to him surprisingly fast.
Like a train wreck, Only with easy-chairs and Popcorn!! Yea!!
(Reaches for the Parmesan cheese for the popcorn)
I notice that if Andi doesn blink soon, her eyeballs will be on the sidewalk, like in the 1040s cartoons of the sidewalk-wolves ogling girls.
And at the same time, it’s not funny because he doesn’t. I really feel bad for Dave right now. Yet… I can’t wait for Amanda to realise Selkie is her sister. BWAHAHAHA!
You do realize the worst part for her will be that her real dad came back, considered adopting her, and chose Selkie instead. That’s going to hurt a lot!
Was he ever seriously considering adopting Amanda, though? I thought that was more a product of Amanda’s “everything’s about me” world-view which, to be fair, isn’t exactly uncommon in young children. Or some adults, for that matter.
And looking back at the first few strips, she shoved Ricky out of the way upon seeing a prospective adopter, so it seems like she was never actually in the running.
I would assume Amanda and/or Andi, since Selkie (and Todd) don’t really deserve any punishment. I guess you could fault Todd for not asking to see his child’s body after Andi told him the baby was dead (apparently you’re supposed to for closure), but that’s a really far stretch…
Noted, although since I knew that and thought it’s what I typed, I probably typo’d and got autocorrected without realizing it.
Sometimes I think I prefer the wavy red line, because at least then you’re aware you made a mistake instead of continuing on oblivious to choices made for you (or, worse, autocorrected not-actually-words that are exactly what you intended to type).
Honestly, doing that might be the BEST thing just now. Andi knows what’s about to happen, and it might be better to A: grab her kid and flee, or B: send the kids to their respective cars and drop the Amanda-bomb on Todd semi-privately.
*crosses fingers for the adults behaving semi-adultly*
The question of course is whether she reacts fast enough to head it off–the problem is that as soon as Todd hears, be it directly or indirectly, that Andi got her “real kid”, all hell will break loose. All it will take is Amanda saying something incidental in his presence, or even via Selkie, for him to find out, and I’m curious whether he’ll have the mental wherewithal at that point not to flip out in the presence of whatever kid he’s near.
Andi’s best bet to avert a total catastrophe is probably to very, very quickly get Amanda out of Todd’s earshot so she doesn’t say something incidental and talk to him privately very quickly, before something gets to him and while he’s not near one or both kid.
It’ll still of course be ugly, but slightly less of a mushroom cloud.
I can’t see Amanda having the presence of mind to do anything to avoid the collision. I suppose miracles could happen, but in the last two panels she looks an awful lot like a deer in the headlights.
I’m not sure there’s enough popcorn in the WORLD for what’s coming on Monday.
If not, I’m sure there’s some lovely puppets and washed up 80s child stars who’d be happy to teach her! (Though… maybe it’s best they DON’T, or at least make sure to modify the lyrics a bit first. She is eight, after all.)
“Boy, do I hate being right all the time…” Dr. Ian Malcolm– Jurassic Park
Now, will Andi grab Amanda’s hand and bolt while Todd parks the car? Does Todd expect Selkie to hop in at the curb? It’s possible he still won’t make the connection, thinking that his daughter with Andi died at birth and Andi adopted for the same reasons he did…(doubtful)
Nah, Todds a clever guy with an active imagination. And Amanda is standing right there with Andi’s features stamped all over her face. Not to mention being about as ginger as two girls can get… My money is on the instant epiphany. This is going to hurt everyone involved.
If it’s not instant, it’s not going to take long. Amanda’s already been telling everyone she meets that her “real” (i.e. biological) mom came for her. Todd’s going to realize that Andi couldn’t have had two pregnancies 8-9 years ago.
That’s the only hope for Amanda to ever get a family. (And the only hope for a happy ending of this story arc.)
And Ms Haversham-Zhang would never, ever have allowed Andi to adopt Amanda if she hadn’t been sure that Andi would learn rather quickly how to act as a mother.
Welp, this is DEFINITELY not how Andi wanted to break the news, and the best part is there really isn’t any way it can go now that isn’t going to be some level of awkward. (Even if she takes Amanda and bolts, she’s still going to get a “What the hey was that for?!” that forces the “That’s your real father and he doesn’t know I was looking for you, or actually that you’re still alive” issue.)
But ooh, ooh how much worse it CAN and probably will be. Andi, there’s no way to do this that isn’t going to be absolutely traumatic for all involved, might as well be time to rip the Band-Aid off now.
I can just see it coming: “Hey, Fishface-dad! You had your chance to adopt me, but now it´s too late! This is my mom – my REAL mom. She came back to get me.”
i see three branches:
1) andi spills the beans to all of them – drama ensues.
2) she takes todd aside and explains to him – awkwardness – what happens next?
3) benny hill yakety-sax scene.
You are soooo right about that.
Do you have your hard hat ready?? Safety goggles, insulated gloves and sunscreen ready? This might require lead-lined suits and Geiger-counters and sticks to poke at things….
Panel six: “Sir! Something just popped-up on my radar! Identified as a Todd-class ‘Ex-‘. Sir! Should we pull away, or engage the “Ex” in a tactical exchange? Sir?
Sir?
Is there something wrong, Sir?
Sir?…..
Eh… even though people disagreed with me, this is why I commented before that it would be healthier if Andi put off telling Amanda, at least until she debriefed Todd. Kids crave stability and while they can accept a little drama, too much can leave them scarred and both Selkie and Amanda already have some pretty big ones, no need to add injury. And since Todd is about to have this dropped on him, and Andi has no real time to prepare, neither are likely to act too rationally and can be forgiven if they do.
But this is Dave’s story, he has done a fantastic job so far and I have faith that this will continue to be excellent. Which proves that you don’t need hooks or zaniness to make a web comic or any entertainment interesting, just make the characters interesting and relate able.
Oh geez, where do I begin? First off, the concept of joyfully taking something good that happened to you out on your rival or someone they pick on seems vaguely familair to me specifically from childhood, I meant to say that last strip. Second, Amanda is clearly nowhere /near/ ready to have a talk about why parents give their kids up for adoption, because she’s acting like having parents is a status symbol, and getting adopted / having someone want you is like a game except you take it really seriously, although maybe it could help set her straight if she could leave out all the “your dad didn’t know it was you and he thinks your dead” otherwise Amanda will most likely try to tell. Finally, I can see that everything about this situation is really eating at Andi, man. I’d really hate to be in her shoes. I predict that she might bolt with her daughter by next strip.
Whew, boy am I glad I got that off my chest, I almost postponed it like I did my rant against Trunchbull.
Amanda. Is. Eight. An eight-year-old who’s still on the emotional roller-coaster of having her Mom come back for her after all the misery (self-inflicted and otherwise) she’s endured over the last few years. Of course she’s acting like a total hypocritical brat.
Keeping in mind that a lot of 8-year-olds don’t even have the excuse of trauma and abuse to be hypocritical brats, and they are anyway. It’s not at all unusual for that age.
Basically, in order for Amanda to learn that this is bad behavior, she needs to be taught. And an orphanage is a small group of adults trying to teach basic survival skills to a large group of children — they’re nowhere near as good as parents at conveying things like “bullying is wrong” or “empathy is important.”
Heck, even a good number of parents aren’t good at that, so you could expect an orphanage to be even worse.
So Amanda’s never really had anyone to sit her down and talk to her about her attitude. Her attitude needs to change, yes, but that’s like saying that she needs to eat with silverware instead of her fingers when literally no one in her life has ever even introduced her to the notion that silverware exist.
That’s if you go by the obvious observation that children are self-centered by nature (barring a certain amount of empathy possessed even by infants), pick up bad habits without any encouragement, and need to be explicitly taught better ones. Not if you go by Rosseau (?), who posited that children were little angels who only picked up self-centered behavior later on. (He was, of course, rather deluded about human nature, but quite the idealist.)
Amanda is young enough that her behavior is *believable*, but it’s not *acceptable*. Andi should indeed cut and run right now, with the immediate excuse being that her daughter needs to be told in no uncertain terms not to bad-mouth adults that she doesn’t even know. (The fact that the adult in question is a blood relation of hers doesn’t need to come into play at this time.) She might also include a lesson about bullying.
Maybe Dave is instead setting up for the other three parties to all learn the truth at once. I’ll trust his storytelling judgment.
I love that Selkie simply laughs when Amanda talks about how Selkie “was acting better than everyone else” when Todd adopted her.
And…what are YOU doing RIGHT NOW, Amanda?
The other reaction will be the fact of what could happen if Todd sees Andi near Selkie from a distance. There may be a good chance that he won’t even realize that Amanda is an important factor in this equation until it is pointed out.
Well, it’s great to see that after going through all of her emotional crises and such, that Amanda has fully recovered and is back to her old self. Her old despicable little bully self. Also great to see how cavalier she was about leaving Keisha at the orphanage. Really puts that GIANT tantrum she threw back when Heather got adopted into perspective. Was worried for a while there that I might start feeling sympathy for her.
One thing that I just thought of. What if Andi believes Amanda? What if she thinks that Todd really *did* consider adopting Amanda, but passed her over? I can just imagine that will create even more tension.
So what if she does (briefly) think that? Andi knows, none better, that Todd was not even aware their daughter was alive. She’s an adult, not an eight year old. *Amanda* might be upset. But Andi? No.
Besides, she’s going to be way too busy panicking and feeling guilty.
Oh man, that would just ramp up the awkward to 11 for all parties involved.
Andi because it’s already weird, now with an audience; Todd because it’s Andi & Mina, plus his “dead” daughter from years ago; Selkie because she already gets weirdness enough as it is, and throwing in a very direct connection to Amanda can’t feel all that great; Amanda because real dad didn’t want her (despite not knowing she is who she is, and other reasons); Mina because she’s potentially walking into all of that mess.
Basically, quite a lot is about to happen very much.
Andi’s expression in panel six. So much gold.
And I honestly think it’s less fear at meeting Todd and more a sort of FridgeHorror that Todd might have unknowingly adopted his own Daughter…most likely prompting her to seek out her daughter as she did…only to find out what happened.
Oh boy…
Oh my, things are coming to a head much faster than I anticipated.
Heh, nothing like Amanda badmouthing dad.
This came up a lot faster than I anticipated too; I don’t have my popcorn and chair ready!!!
This is gonna SUCK!!
Oops, that’s the microwave. Brb. 🙂
There are a couple comics that raise the possibility of dragging something out (and enjoying the miscommunication for a while) but then just get everybody on the same page and enjoy the friction from that instead. I love the kind of comics that do this.
Offhand, Girl Genius and Leftover Soup have both gone this route. Girl Genius didn’t lose all the intrigue — there’s still a fair amount of misinformation going around — but there was potential for a *huge* misunderstanding if one of the romantic leads hadn’t known a key fact about the main character, and that information made it to him surprisingly fast.
They appear to be taking Andi by surprise just a bit, as well.
Oh man, if only it were a blue Prius…
(q.v. Jeff Dunham)
[Beep beep!]
Cue the explosion of awkward! Or better yet (from Andi’s perspective), cue the escape sequence!
Yeah, I was expecting it to be at the Aquarium instead – not sure how they’ll defuse THIS bundle of awkward.
Wow, it’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
Like a train wreck, Only with easy-chairs and Popcorn!! Yea!!
(Reaches for the Parmesan cheese for the popcorn)
I notice that if Andi doesn blink soon, her eyeballs will be on the sidewalk, like in the 1040s cartoons of the sidewalk-wolves ogling girls.
Wow… *pulls out walkie talkie* Prepare the bomb. Drama incoming! O_O
It’s funny because she deserves it.
And at the same time, it’s not funny because he doesn’t. I really feel bad for Dave right now. Yet… I can’t wait for Amanda to realise Selkie is her sister. BWAHAHAHA!
You mean Todd, right?
I did mean Todd, thank you Bunny. It’s certainly not the first time in the past week I’ve gotten names wrong, and the week isn’t over yet.
“I can’t wait for Amanda to realise Selkie is her sister. BWAHAHAHA!”
And vice versa!
You do realize the worst part for her will be that her real dad came back, considered adopting her, and chose Selkie instead. That’s going to hurt a lot!
I mean he didn’t KNOW she was his daughter, but try explaining that to an 8 year old..
Was he ever seriously considering adopting Amanda, though? I thought that was more a product of Amanda’s “everything’s about me” world-view which, to be fair, isn’t exactly uncommon in young children. Or some adults, for that matter.
And looking back at the first few strips, she shoved Ricky out of the way upon seeing a prospective adopter, so it seems like she was never actually in the running.
I’m with Stu. I always thought that that was merely Amanda’s interpretation, not reality.
Which “she.” I see terrible times for at least 4 characters here and 3 are female. 🙂
who will then make even worse times for the male :p
I would assume Amanda and/or Andi, since Selkie (and Todd) don’t really deserve any punishment. I guess you could fault Todd for not asking to see his child’s body after Andi told him the baby was dead (apparently you’re supposed to for closure), but that’s a really far stretch…
Who else won’t be surprised when andi tucks amanda under one arm and runs?
*raises hand* Aye!
Based on the expression on her face, she certainly wants to.
We’ll see if she can suppress the urge to temporarily diffuse the drama bomb or if she remains (almost literally) frozen in the headlights.
Just an FYI: If you ‘diffuse’ a bomb, that means you set it off. (You’re looking for “defuse”.)
And I’m pretty sure Andi’s thought bubble would just be a giant grawlix.
Noted, although since I knew that and thought it’s what I typed, I probably typo’d and got autocorrected without realizing it.
Sometimes I think I prefer the wavy red line, because at least then you’re aware you made a mistake instead of continuing on oblivious to choices made for you (or, worse, autocorrected not-actually-words that are exactly what you intended to type).
Honestly, doing that might be the BEST thing just now. Andi knows what’s about to happen, and it might be better to A: grab her kid and flee, or B: send the kids to their respective cars and drop the Amanda-bomb on Todd semi-privately.
*crosses fingers for the adults behaving semi-adultly*
The question of course is whether she reacts fast enough to head it off–the problem is that as soon as Todd hears, be it directly or indirectly, that Andi got her “real kid”, all hell will break loose. All it will take is Amanda saying something incidental in his presence, or even via Selkie, for him to find out, and I’m curious whether he’ll have the mental wherewithal at that point not to flip out in the presence of whatever kid he’s near.
Andi’s best bet to avert a total catastrophe is probably to very, very quickly get Amanda out of Todd’s earshot so she doesn’t say something incidental and talk to him privately very quickly, before something gets to him and while he’s not near one or both kid.
It’ll still of course be ugly, but slightly less of a mushroom cloud.
I can’t see Amanda having the presence of mind to do anything to avoid the collision. I suppose miracles could happen, but in the last two panels she looks an awful lot like a deer in the headlights.
(Woops — of course I meant to type Andi, not Amanda.)
I’ll have enough popcorn for everyone by Monday. I wonder if Todd’s neighbor has taught Selkie the word “Schadenfreude” yet.
I’m not sure there’s enough popcorn in the WORLD for what’s coming on Monday.
If not, I’m sure there’s some lovely puppets and washed up 80s child stars who’d be happy to teach her! (Though… maybe it’s best they DON’T, or at least make sure to modify the lyrics a bit first. She is eight, after all.)
I suspect it’s more important that WE know it. Each one of the comic characters will be more or less embarrassed.
None of this is going how Andi planned. Abort! Abort!
I don’t think she will; not then and not now.
“Abort! Abort!”
Too late. By about 9 years.
scnr
“Boy, do I hate being right all the time…” Dr. Ian Malcolm– Jurassic Park
Now, will Andi grab Amanda’s hand and bolt while Todd parks the car? Does Todd expect Selkie to hop in at the curb? It’s possible he still won’t make the connection, thinking that his daughter with Andi died at birth and Andi adopted for the same reasons he did…(doubtful)
Nah, Todds a clever guy with an active imagination. And Amanda is standing right there with Andi’s features stamped all over her face. Not to mention being about as ginger as two girls can get… My money is on the instant epiphany. This is going to hurt everyone involved.
If it’s not instant, it’s not going to take long. Amanda’s already been telling everyone she meets that her “real” (i.e. biological) mom came for her. Todd’s going to realize that Andi couldn’t have had two pregnancies 8-9 years ago.
Especially since they were still dating up until the fairly recent past of the comic. He would know if she’d been pregnant.
Interesting 4th panel. Andi has already acquired proper Mom/Grown-Up Authority. It’s not quite the teacher voice, but still.
That’s the only hope for Amanda to ever get a family. (And the only hope for a happy ending of this story arc.)
And Ms Haversham-Zhang would never, ever have allowed Andi to adopt Amanda if she hadn’t been sure that Andi would learn rather quickly how to act as a mother.
This world needs more Lillians!
Welp, this is DEFINITELY not how Andi wanted to break the news, and the best part is there really isn’t any way it can go now that isn’t going to be some level of awkward. (Even if she takes Amanda and bolts, she’s still going to get a “What the hey was that for?!” that forces the “That’s your real father and he doesn’t know I was looking for you, or actually that you’re still alive” issue.)
But ooh, ooh how much worse it CAN and probably will be. Andi, there’s no way to do this that isn’t going to be absolutely traumatic for all involved, might as well be time to rip the Band-Aid off now.
I can just see it coming: “Hey, Fishface-dad! You had your chance to adopt me, but now it´s too late! This is my mom – my REAL mom. She came back to get me.”
i see three branches:
1) andi spills the beans to all of them – drama ensues.
2) she takes todd aside and explains to him – awkwardness – what happens next?
3) benny hill yakety-sax scene.
Everything is better with Yakety Sax, there’s no need to isolate it from other scenarios. 🙂
It’s the final countdown… *rocks out*
Unless Andi runs like a rabbit, carrying Amanda Marie like a bag of spuds. ^_^;
I’m half-expecting for that to happen myself.
Fun times ahead. Prepare the camera and foam chairs.
Popcorn… check.
Diet coke… check.
Comfy chair… check.
Bring it on, Dave.
In the vernacular of the Internet: “dis gon be gud.”
There’s a reason I haven’t been commenting much lately: All I can think to say is “Oh f***”.
Hmmmm….so this is a level 5 shizz storm that’s going to happen.
You are soooo right about that.
Do you have your hard hat ready?? Safety goggles, insulated gloves and sunscreen ready? This might require lead-lined suits and Geiger-counters and sticks to poke at things….
Panel six: “Sir! Something just popped-up on my radar! Identified as a Todd-class ‘Ex-‘. Sir! Should we pull away, or engage the “Ex” in a tactical exchange? Sir?
Sir?
Is there something wrong, Sir?
Sir?…..
I could see Andi and Todd having it out right there, while the kids both back away slowly,…. wondering what to do lol
Well, I see both trains are on the same track, and the boilermen are putting their backs into it…
dun dun DUUUUUUN!!!!!
Oh horsefeathers, this would be a good time to remember, that you forgot something in the oven <_<
And this is where we see the semi-solid excreta impact the atmospheric gas transport system.
Your version’s much fancier than mine. Time for the Fecal matter to impact the rotary air movement device.
Eh… even though people disagreed with me, this is why I commented before that it would be healthier if Andi put off telling Amanda, at least until she debriefed Todd. Kids crave stability and while they can accept a little drama, too much can leave them scarred and both Selkie and Amanda already have some pretty big ones, no need to add injury. And since Todd is about to have this dropped on him, and Andi has no real time to prepare, neither are likely to act too rationally and can be forgiven if they do.
But this is Dave’s story, he has done a fantastic job so far and I have faith that this will continue to be excellent. Which proves that you don’t need hooks or zaniness to make a web comic or any entertainment interesting, just make the characters interesting and relate able.
This cannot end well. *cringe*
Oh geez, where do I begin? First off, the concept of joyfully taking something good that happened to you out on your rival or someone they pick on seems vaguely familair to me specifically from childhood, I meant to say that last strip. Second, Amanda is clearly nowhere /near/ ready to have a talk about why parents give their kids up for adoption, because she’s acting like having parents is a status symbol, and getting adopted / having someone want you is like a game except you take it really seriously, although maybe it could help set her straight if she could leave out all the “your dad didn’t know it was you and he thinks your dead” otherwise Amanda will most likely try to tell. Finally, I can see that everything about this situation is really eating at Andi, man. I’d really hate to be in her shoes. I predict that she might bolt with her daughter by next strip.
Whew, boy am I glad I got that off my chest, I almost postponed it like I did my rant against Trunchbull.
Amanda. Is. Eight. An eight-year-old who’s still on the emotional roller-coaster of having her Mom come back for her after all the misery (self-inflicted and otherwise) she’s endured over the last few years. Of course she’s acting like a total hypocritical brat.
Keeping in mind that a lot of 8-year-olds don’t even have the excuse of trauma and abuse to be hypocritical brats, and they are anyway. It’s not at all unusual for that age.
Basically, in order for Amanda to learn that this is bad behavior, she needs to be taught. And an orphanage is a small group of adults trying to teach basic survival skills to a large group of children — they’re nowhere near as good as parents at conveying things like “bullying is wrong” or “empathy is important.”
Heck, even a good number of parents aren’t good at that, so you could expect an orphanage to be even worse.
So Amanda’s never really had anyone to sit her down and talk to her about her attitude. Her attitude needs to change, yes, but that’s like saying that she needs to eat with silverware instead of her fingers when literally no one in her life has ever even introduced her to the notion that silverware exist.
That’s if you go by the obvious observation that children are self-centered by nature (barring a certain amount of empathy possessed even by infants), pick up bad habits without any encouragement, and need to be explicitly taught better ones. Not if you go by Rosseau (?), who posited that children were little angels who only picked up self-centered behavior later on. (He was, of course, rather deluded about human nature, but quite the idealist.)
Amanda is young enough that her behavior is *believable*, but it’s not *acceptable*. Andi should indeed cut and run right now, with the immediate excuse being that her daughter needs to be told in no uncertain terms not to bad-mouth adults that she doesn’t even know. (The fact that the adult in question is a blood relation of hers doesn’t need to come into play at this time.) She might also include a lesson about bullying.
Maybe Dave is instead setting up for the other three parties to all learn the truth at once. I’ll trust his storytelling judgment.
And how hard is it going to be for Amanda when she realizes she’s been insulting her own birth father?
I think she’ll probably start with some serious denial.
I love that Selkie simply laughs when Amanda talks about how Selkie “was acting better than everyone else” when Todd adopted her.
And…what are YOU doing RIGHT NOW, Amanda?
Projecting… I believe Amanda is projecting.
The other reaction will be the fact of what could happen if Todd sees Andi near Selkie from a distance. There may be a good chance that he won’t even realize that Amanda is an important factor in this equation until it is pointed out.
Ding-Dong! A-Bomb Calling!
(you have to be of a Certain Age to get the reference)
And it looks like Dave is playing the situation for maximum comedic potential. I approve of this.
Well, it’s great to see that after going through all of her emotional crises and such, that Amanda has fully recovered and is back to her old self. Her old despicable little bully self. Also great to see how cavalier she was about leaving Keisha at the orphanage. Really puts that GIANT tantrum she threw back when Heather got adopted into perspective. Was worried for a while there that I might start feeling sympathy for her.
One thing that I just thought of. What if Andi believes Amanda? What if she thinks that Todd really *did* consider adopting Amanda, but passed her over? I can just imagine that will create even more tension.
So what if she does (briefly) think that? Andi knows, none better, that Todd was not even aware their daughter was alive. She’s an adult, not an eight year old. *Amanda* might be upset. But Andi? No.
Besides, she’s going to be way too busy panicking and feeling guilty.
something else just occurred to me. how are the powers that be going to react to this huge new set of variables in their experiment?
I have a feeling it will all go down under the watchful eyes of Mina Afkhami.
Oh man, that would just ramp up the awkward to 11 for all parties involved.
Andi because it’s already weird, now with an audience; Todd because it’s Andi & Mina, plus his “dead” daughter from years ago; Selkie because she already gets weirdness enough as it is, and throwing in a very direct connection to Amanda can’t feel all that great; Amanda because real dad didn’t want her (despite not knowing she is who she is, and other reasons); Mina because she’s potentially walking into all of that mess.
Basically, quite a lot is about to happen very much.
So what kind of car does Todd drive, anyway?
A Stupid, though I’m unclear if that’s the make or model.
A questionabley-drawn Beetle.
New Beetle, or classic? Restored or original condition?
Andi’s expression in panel six. So much gold.
And I honestly think it’s less fear at meeting Todd and more a sort of FridgeHorror that Todd might have unknowingly adopted his own Daughter…most likely prompting her to seek out her daughter as she did…only to find out what happened.