2892 It Is I Who Am The Best!

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It’s always fun to stick characters together who haven’t interacted a lot. Maddison may not be the brightest, but she is a ray of sunshine. She very much likes the smell and taste of crayons. She also likes her various jobs because she enjoys the simple efforts of cleaning and sorting. Maddison has an affinity for work and activities where she has a clear goal with very obvious results. A floor is either clean or it isn’t. As long as you know how to clean it you’ll know when you’re done at the end. That isn’t strictly true really. When I was young we always had to ask our dad if the floor was clean because he has levels of clean in his mind that go beyond what most people see as clean. I used to test out if he actually paid attention to this unknowable standard by asking then not actually doing anything for about ten minutes, so I could verify that the standard was basically arbitrary. If nothing else, when it comes to Alex at least, Maddison knows what counts as clean or not clean, so that’s what matters. She is an example of that rarest of humans: someone who is kind for absolutely no reason. She is nice because it’s nice to be nice. I’m not sure if the world would be better if there were more Maddisons in it, but I feel like it would be.
Anyway, I’m late posting again so I won’t go on at any more length than this. Now I will casually point at the various support links. Up, and your right, probably lower down the page if you aren’t using adblock. I hope your week is progressing well and things are trending up. We can catch up about how things went on Friday if you feel like coming back. Until then, collect to combine!

5 Comments

I do love the idea of Maddison being incredibly emotionally intelligent despite lacking in many other over prioritized forms of intelligence, especially given many of the cast deal with complicated and confusing situations. I wish everyone a bright sunny healthy friendship.

There is another web comics character who is relentlessly nice and sunny. Kaylee, from the comic On the Bright Side. Sadly this comic is no longer being updated. Its original hosting is long gone, but it was uploaded to Tapas and you can read it here:

https://tapas.io/series/OTBS

There is a subplot where some of the mean girls in high school tell Kaylee lies to try to poison her against another student, and this fails immediately because Kaylee is just too nice. “I’m sure she would never do that. Sorry, I have to leave now.”

There are times when I stop and think “I would be a better person if I was more like Kaylee.” Maybe the same goes for Maddison.

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