I really regret not introducing my readers to Maurice as a character more; I interpret him as a nervous wreck who is dealing with a lot of shit. He's a working-class janitor who hardly gets any sleep and is so poor that he and his sister have to share a dingy apartment space just to make ends meet. He has a fondness for illustrating but can't pursue his dreams because he is stuck in a shit town with a shit job and a shit income. I really wish I explored that more, but I didn't, and now Maurice is going to have to communicate his struggles through words (which pisses me off because I rely heavily on show-don't-tell). I could've given him so much more depth in the beginning of the comic if I just showed a bit more of Maurice's everyday life. It angers me so much, because right now Maurice is coming off as a generic audience surrogate with a dark past and no defining personality traits or hidden depths other than the fact that his parents fucking died. That's been done to death! Anyway, here's a funny Tumblr post that I found in a YouTube compilation and I just thought it sounded like something that Maurice would say. Enjoy this terribly edited shitpost. It's almost 4 AM and I am very sleep-deprived and I promised myself I would go to bed before 2 am for once but ooooops that didn't happen.