Rhapsodies

The Department of Love defines Fedya and Gabriella’s “relationship” as a standard “Bad Boy/Tsundere Dynamic”.

I apologize to everyone who already knows, but Tsundere is anime slang for a character who fits the archetype of being cold or even hostile toward another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side. It’s a portmanteau of the Japanese (tsun-tsun, “in a cross, aloof, or standoffish manner”, adverb) + (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).

Gabriella is a textbook example.

Along with yesterday’s strip, Ms. Wren is showing scenes from last year’s Halloween Party where they both went as pirates, and, once again, the yacht party.