What if self-fulfilling prophecies due to overwhelmingly negative expectations and crippling self-doubt? What do then?
Eh, it doesn't bother me at this point. I don't see myself getting anything of value out of the arrangement. The risks and penalties are far too high and the payoffs are far too small and uncertain. Why play?
>aliened daughter - I don't know if that's the word you meant to use, but it made for a much more interesting story.
Ha!
Shouldn't that be 'for bust?'
What if some perflat tomboy in spandex shorts decided to waifu you? What then?
Make her my bride immediately, have a cute twintail daughter named Cupcake, struggle to pay the bills, fail to pay wife and daughter enough attention, fights, divorce, crippling alimony, aliened daughter, watch perflat tomboy waifu get hitched with a Chad McHugeStrong and banged into eternity in the house I'm paying for and give away my daughter at her wedding and then live in an unending hell for the rest of my days.No thanks.
I'm not a young man anymore. Frankly, I'd rather work on a comic page than deal with the bother.At this point I really have nothing to offer and there's nothing they have that I care to chase after. I'm not interested in a life-long emotional caretaking job and I'm not afraid of living and dying alone. I have no desire to have kids that I'll resent and ignore. I want to finish my comics -- that's it.