I drew this comic page a bit over a year ago so my designs are a bit different from how I draw them now. This is a scene from the au/fic I’m working on that’s a canon rewrite au of Miracle Mask from Angela’s perspective! I was going to try to do 2 more pages of the comic for this prompt but I ran out of time oops. So instead I’ll just do the rest as text lol
Here’s Angela lashing out in grief, before realizing that Henry is hurting just as much as she is </3
“He cared about you, you know. He thought of you as a friend more than a servant. He always said he was jealous of how fond of you his father was, like you were an equal to him. Doesn’t that mean anything to you?”
“Don’t lie. You never cared about him at all, did you? You don’t care about anything except your duties.” Henry turned to face Angela fully, his eyebrows furrowed. But he didn’t speak. So she continued. “If he could see you now… and how painfully uncaring you are… what would he say?”
“…You’ll have to excuse me, Ms. Ledore.” He left without another word.
Once he was gone, Angela became overwhelmed with emotion, buried her face in her hands and began to sob. She didn’t know why she was so upset at Henry. She barely even knew him. Still, it was infuriating to see someone who was supposedly close to Randall acting so… normal when all she could feel was misery.
The door clicked open again. Angela sighed and looked up at Henry. “What now? Oh…” she looked at his hands and saw that he was holding a toy robot. She looked back at his unreadable expression, curious. “…What is that?”
Henry looked down at the robot, and to Angela’s surprise, the slightest smile crept across his face. “Master Randall gave it to me when we were young, after I was caught taking it and playing with it without permission. He… he was always so kind to me, and tried to keep me out of trouble. I… always wanted to repay him. That’s why I helped him to research the Azran. And… to sneak out to go to Akbadain.” His smile faded, and a grim look took its place. “I went against my duties to the Ascot family. And because of that, he’s… he’s…”
Angela was almost stunned into silence. “Henry, that… isn’t your fault. Randall was so determined to find the Mask of Chaos, he would have gone no matter what.”
“But I could have tried to stop him instead of encouraging him. I’ll… never forgive myself. And I’ll never disregard my duties again.”
[to be continued… eventually lol]