>>120407822He told Abbey basically the same thing he told Zach in chapter 39, a little bit before Acapulco.
>>120407580>it's a little flip-floppyNot really? The phone call made her think he was super polite, but new information about him sleeping around makes her change her mind. And again, she's not wrong think this way, because Lucy is obviously bothered by Paulo's behavior. She's just being defensive to keep her family out of her personal life.
You're not wrong about the other stuff. I just get an impression from a lot of what Taeshi's written/made that she gives the people around Lucy a disproportionate amount of blame for her connection with Mike. Like, I worry that line about taking care of Mike back in All in the Mind was something Taeshi agreed with. Or Lucy telling Mike he doesn't own her back in that really old comic with Liam in it.
>>120406267There was a post on the official blog recently about Paulo being the one exception to her general disinterest with boys. She's attracted to him for sure, but I don't think she's ever genuinely wanted a relationship with him. See the lack of a heart in pic related. Bramblepaws did some decent posts recently discussing how Lucy thought Paulo just wanted her for her body and used that as a bargaining chip whenever she was trying to satisfy him for some reason. Prior to her suicide attempt, I think that was the main obstacle, but currently she's become aware that she used him for comfort and is trying to stop doing that. I think it would feel weird whether they get together or not. There's been a mountain of shipping fuel, but her rejections have been pretty definite, and personally, I don't think their chemistry feels very natural.
