Recovering from Breakup?

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  1. CKati says:

    Dear Ms Puddle,

    Sorry for commenting so late.

    Wow, a post to answer my comment. Thanks:-)
    Although I don’t think I can add much to this discussion. I agree with you on this, but you already know that.
    As for Reeka’s comment, it’s interesting that she has a slightly different view. She has thought about it obviously. I think I understand what she is trying to say, but I still don’t believe there were the slightlest romantic feelings on Albert’s part, (not even hidden deep down) before he lost his memory.
    Sorry Reeka’s, can’t agree with you on this one :-(, but thanks anyway for the good read 🙂

    • Ms Puddle says:

      Dear CKati, as I said in the post, I agree with you about Albert’s feelings. Thanks to you and Reeka for giving me ideas to write! 😛

  2. Reeka says:

    🙂 hahaha you’re just too sweet. Please bear with me then.

    Yeah, if we saw the drawings in manga and pay attention to how Igarashi drew Albert’s expression, i absolutely agree with you ( and CKati) about Albert’s feeling. His facial expressions toward Candy drastically changed during the amnesia period. He looked more tender and showed much more affection to Candy. Especially when he found Candy’s crying over news about Terry. How i wish at that moment he kissed her forehead and said something. I remember one moment when he got this gentle look to Candy before his amnesiac, when he was about to disappear and eave Candy ( and the gang) at the blue river zoo. However, like you said, he probably felt relieved to see her happy again.

    Btw Ms Puddle, you certainly know what i meant about the aftermath. Come on, indulge us! 🙂

    happy weekend, dear!

    • Ms Puddle says:

      Exactly, Reeka! Albert looked very different when he was amnesiac. He treated Candy as equal, a real friend who cared about him a lot, whereas before his accident he used to treat her like a little girl who was dependent on him. He knew he had adopted her of course. Later, even after his recovery, he wasn’t really back to his old self. He was tender towards Candy, and his eyes affectionate. As you said, I like that scene a lot and wish he had confessed his feelings to her then. However, I believe his tenderness at that moment touched Candy’s heart because she remembered this very well after he had vanished in her life.

      Aftermath?? Lol… I’ll try my best. *BLUSHING*

  3. Reeka says:

    Hahahha .. somehow i feel guilty on the fact you needed to write special post to answer my shamelessly long comment. Anyway, thanks to you and big hug from the sunny island! 🙂

    Well, about my guess on Albert might fall in love with Candy in London before his Africa trip … hmm it’s just something impulsively crossing my mind when i was writing that previous comment. It’s just my wild imagination that said candy was one of the reason Albert decided to travel to Africa. From what i saw in manga, yup .. it looked like he saw Candy only as a little sister or a friend who he needed to protect.

    The word “love” probably is not perfectly suitable here, but i’ve always had this thought of Albert was the one from both of them who first realised their non-fraternal feeling, even before him losing memory. As many believed that C&A first encounter in Pony’s Hill was their life changing moment without them realising it, i think at that point Albert had already felt something to this little girl. Of course it’s not a “man to woman” affection, but i am not sure Albert thought of Candy as little sister as well. Hmmm ..how could i put my idea into words … it’s like, you know, sometimes when we realise we love someone then we think deeply about this feeling, we realised that actually the feeling had already been there for long without us noticing it.

    In the case of Albert, i guess his situation and his hidden role for Candy was things that made him unconsciously denying his attraction to her. It’s like for him, before amnesia period, to have a non fraternal interest to this girl was something forbidden, a feeling he shouldn’t have. He might also have a guilty feeling because hiding the truth from Candy. We all know that significant scene when Albert woke up from his faint and all his memories came back, Candy was the one he first remembered. All of their moments together. It’s not Rosemary, it’s not Aunt Elroy, or Puppee :).

    I’ve read somewhere, when people gets temporary and/or selective memory lost, sometimes things they can’t remember is something that they wanted to forget deep down their heart. Something disturbing, depressing, or regretful in the past.

    🙂

    • Ms Puddle says:

      No no, Reeka, you had many good points and gave me ideas (or excuses) to write a new post! Please don’t hold back, and I like reading your reply, regardless of its length! 😀

      In CCFS, Albert told Candy himself he had longed to go to Africa. After knowing that Candy had got back in shape (recovering from the impact of Anthony’s fatal accident), Albert decided to leave for Africa. He wrote that he had been upset by the fact that he had always been protected by his family such that he had no problem to get a job anywhere. Therefore, it seems that he had negotiated this with his family beforehand, that he would go to London to prepare/start new business opportunities (something along that line) first before going to Africa.

      I think Candy had always been special to Albert ever since their first encounter on the hill. However, Albert didn’t have any romantic feelings for her or else he wouldn’t have adopted her then. He could have easily “rescue” her from the Leagans by supporting her financially without adopting her. Out of compassion, he had adopted her to give her a better life. Yet, he had deliberately kept this a secret from her so that he could watch over her silently (he said so in his letter to her).

      During the year when they had lived together as brother and sister, their love bloomed from pure friendship to being best friends / companions and many months later, lovers. I guess Albert didn’t realize his true feelings for Candy until he had recovered his memory. Likewise, Candy didn’t know who had captured her heart until after she had lost Albert. 🙂

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