I expected she was going to run into her dad any day now. That had to happen.
I think the basic theme we’re getting here is that the problem was that Ri-chan couldn’t adapt. She had a specific conception of her family, and when her parents split up, that spoiled that, but instead of shifting to a new conception of it (“It’s papa but it isn’t - it isn’t papa but it is”), she just sort of shut down entirely. Same with her piano playing - she had a specific path she was following to success, and when that failed, she stopped playing. Now she’s playing again, and on her way to success, just by a different path.
I think that is a good take. I hadn’t really put together what was going on with those panels. The explanation of reality not aligning with her mental model of how things “should be” makes a lot of sense.
I expected she was going to run into her dad any day now. That had to happen.
I think the basic theme we’re getting here is that the problem was that Ri-chan couldn’t adapt. She had a specific conception of her family, and when her parents split up, that spoiled that, but instead of shifting to a new conception of it (“It’s papa but it isn’t - it isn’t papa but it is”), she just sort of shut down entirely. Same with her piano playing - she had a specific path she was following to success, and when that failed, she stopped playing. Now she’s playing again, and on her way to success, just by a different path.
I think that is a good take. I hadn’t really put together what was going on with those panels. The explanation of reality not aligning with her mental model of how things “should be” makes a lot of sense.