Click for Alt Text (By pk2317 on AO3)
Image 1
Panel 1
(Ayzee and Milan stand side-by-side on top of a building, leaning on a barrier wall, watching the sun rise)
Panel 2
(View of Milan and Ayzee from the front. Ayzee looks pensive)
Panel 3
(Close-up on Ayzee, who is nervously gathering up her courage)
Panel 4
Ayzee: I-
Panel 5
Milan (off-panel, interrupting): I’m… sorry.
Panel 6
(Milan looks down in uncertainty. Ayzee looks over at her, confused)
Ayzee: Wait. What are you sorry for?
Image 2
Panel 1
Milan (soberly): I lied about petrifying Grom, and tricked you into helping me.
Panel 2
(Ayzee is looking bewildered at Milan, who is mostly out of frame)
Milan: I should have told you beforehand, and-
Panel 3
Ayzee (off-panel, interrupting): What? No! It’s all my fault!
(Milan stops and looks to her side)
Panel 4
Ayzee (turning and throwing her hands up in frustration): I should be the one apologizing! Aargh!
Image 3
Panel 1
(Ayzee turns back around and waves her hand at herself, insistently)
Ayzee: Look, I ruined your life!
Ayzee: All just because I wanted to impress my parents!
Panel 2
Milan (straight-faced): It’s just a curse. Chill.
Panel 3
Milan (questioning): Also, how’s that your fault?
Panel 4
(Ayzee is looking at Milan in puzzlement)
Milan: I was the one who decided to use the pain sharing spell.
Panel 5
(Milan is leaning back with an accomplished expression)
Milan: If anything…
Your decision to fight Grom actually saved Enna in the end, ya know?
Image 4
Panel 1
(Ayzee is speechless)
Panel 2
Ayzee (beginning to argue): Look, I still think-
Panel 3
Milan (interrupting, with a slightly impatient look): Ayzee, we can talk about this anytime you’d like.
Milan: But now…
Panel 4
Milan (leaning in, satisfied): I’m just glad we are still here, still with each other.
Panel 5
(Ayzee is looking admiringly at Milan)
Milan (off-panel): That’s the important part.
Panel 6
Ayzee (wiping a tear from her eye): Um, so…
Now that the curse is under your control, do you think-
Panel 7
(Milan is startled)
Ayzee (off-panel, continuing): …it’s safe for us to kiss?
Image 5
Panel 1
Milan (blushing in embarassment, with her hand over her mouth): Hehehehe- I guess?
Panel 2
(Ayzee has a blank look on her face)
Milan: Grom’s power might still affect you in some ways, though.
Panel 3
Milan (taking a deep breath): So let’s take it slow-
Panel 4
(Ayzee shoves her face into Milan’s, interrupting her)
Panel 5
(Milan and Ayzee relax, kissing each other, holding each other’s arms as the sun rises behind them)
Panel 6
(Close in on just the girls’ faces as they kiss. Their eyes are softly closed)
Panel 7
(Zoomed in slightly so that Ayzee is centered in the frame. A black text box with gooey drips spreading from it is providing narration)
Black Voice (V.O.): Surprise, surprise.
Image 6
Panel 1
(Wider shot of Milan and Ayzee kissing. Ayzee’s posture is tenser, and her eyes are squeezed tightly shut)
Black Voice (V.O.): You messed up, again.
Black Voice (V.O.): What makes you think it’ll be different next time?
Panel 2
(Close in on Ayzee’s face, on the far side of the frame)
Black Voice (V.O.): You can’t do anything right.
Panel 3
(Closer still in on Ayzee’s closed eyes. A tear is beginning to fall)
Black Voice (V.O.): You will always be nothing,
Panel 4
(Fade to black)
Black Voice (V.O.): …but a disaster.
Panel 5
End of Grom Factor
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Is it the curse, or anxiety speaking? We may never know!
Jokes on you, Grom, I’ve already developed impostor syndrome on my own!
Look, I ruided your life! All just because I wanted to impress my parents
It’s just a curse, chill.
Therapy for 2, please
Being a therapist is a very lucrative job in the TOH universe.