Comics

Finished. Swipe to see full version without text. ➡️ And yes, “Sjöpenna” is a lamp you can buy on IKEA. According to the world’s most infamous translator Google Translate, it does translate as “sea pen fields” from Swedish. (makes sense looking at the lamp) And Cedrick is half Swedish, but doesn’t consider himself Swedish since he was born and raised in Kiel like his father. But Tricia doesn’t care - all she knows that his mother Freyja is Swedish therefore he’s Swedish too. — They first met when Tricia was 13 and Cedrick was almost 10 when Hr. Dr. Kasper had to assist teaching at the university; at this time, her uncle was still a medical student. Tricia mercilessly picked at Cedrick since he was so much smaller and couldn’t speak much English, often making him cry. Then one day the Kaspers were gone, making Tricia initially sad thinking that she was the reason why they left. Fast forward five years, Tricia is barely surviving her first year of college while Cedrick is much taller, fluent in several languages, and finished medical school at 14. Tricia is annoyed now that she needs help from someone she used to pick on in order to survive college; Cedrick, on the other hand, doesn’t have any hard feelings towards her - just gets frustrated every time she skips out on tutoring and babysitting for mall trips with her best friend Carmen. —