Comics

Richard’s words: “WHO THE F*CK IS BATTY?!” Sebastian “Batty” Sorensen was Sigrid’s childhood crush since she was about 3 and he was almost 10; she first saw him while playing at his father’s arcade, and ever since she was in love. Batty always thought Sigrid was annoying watching him from behind, or stammering whenever she tried talking to him; he didn’t think she was worth looking at since he overheard she “doesn’t have much time left to live”. Batty also didn’t like how his father wanted him to marry Sigrid because she regularly visited the arcade and her mother Aina hired him to help out around the flower shop; he purposely kept being mean with hopes that she’ll leave him alone. To keep his distance from Sigrid, Batty quickly enrolled at the police academy at Copenhagen after graduating high school; since returning as a police officer 4 years later, Batty has been the seen as the neighborhood beau and town’s hero. Sigrid was so excited about his homecoming that she made him a large bouquet of rare flowers; her heart shattered when she saw an older schoolmate with the bouquet she gave Batty, declaring that he had asked her out for a date. The next year on Valentine’s Day Batty proposed to the same girl, making Sigrid hopeless on love (it was also the same day she first met Richard visiting her mother’s shop for rare plants). Initially Batty didn’t think much of Richard, but seeing he’s not from Denmark made him suspicious (Richard was from Germany and spoke bad Danish). Batty quickly grew jealous seeing Richard wooing Sigrid as his own relationship was growing more turbulent; he also saw Richard as a rival with his growing reputation as a reliable handyman man for miscellaneous tasks around town (Batty actually was terrible repairing things, leaving tasks halfway done before leaving for another). Batty finally realized how much he actually loved Sigrid when he heard she had died after giving birth to a son, feeling remorseful of the years mistreating her when they were children. —