Abbey

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Abbey
GenderMale
Age16
BirthdayJuly 25, 1992 (Leo)
GradeJunior as of Table for One
SpeciesCat
BreedAbyssinian
Family
OccupationStudent
AffiliationSwordsVale, Environmental club, Student council, Junior friend group, Sophomore table
ResidenceAbbey’s house
DebutHumble Approach, page 2
October 7, 2006 (2006-10-07)

Courtly, studious and wound rather too tight, Abbey is the Abyssinian who was a late arrival at the lunch table. He introduced himself by helping Daisy up off the grass during gym class and lecturing Paulo on how a fair maiden ought to be treated.[1][2] He is the top student in his English class, a student council secretary, an environmental club member, and a bully-hunter whose temper inspires the phrase “going Abbey”.[3][4][5] Most of his story is about the gap between the gentleman he tries to be and the boy who keeps throwing punches. His efforts to protect Tess, Daisy and his sister lead him into fights; his long feud with Paulo somehow ends in friendship. He was named Abraham after his father, and there is much more than a stuffy first name behind why he’d rather you didn’t use it.[6]

Personality

Abbey likes to call people by their full first names, pulls you to your feet when you trip, and then goes home and writes the essay of a boy he cannot stand. He is polite in a way the rest of the table finds a bit medieval, and he takes honors classes. He would also sooner run for student council on a platform of expelling bullies than let anyone say a rude word about his girlfriend. This is the same boy scraping claw marks into the lunch table when he hears Daisy is spending lunch with an older boy, and the one who lied about SAT prep so he could wear a costume to a convention. Having high principles and a short fuse at Roseville High School is an uncomfortable combination, and nobody is more uncomfortable with it than Abbey.

Abbey’s tutoring service is earnest, even when Paulo has read neither book.

Most of the table ran into Abbey’s manners before anything else about him, and the manners stuck. He introduces himself to Daisy by asking whether the young lady needs a hand, and he addresses Mike as “Michael”, Tess as “Tessa” and Sue as “Susan” for years without anyone talking him out of it.[1][6][7][8] When Paulo and David make crude jokes about Daisy on his first day, he tells them she deserves dignity and respect, and Paulo asks whether he wandered in from the middle ages.[2] Veronica’s commentary on that page describes him as a boy trying very hard to be a kind, gentle soul while something angrier brews underneath.[2] It is about as tidy a summary of the next hundred chapters as anyone could ask for. The formality is not a pose, exactly. He objects to egging houses on Halloween on the grounds that lightening up should not require vandalism, and he means it.[9]

Augustus discovers Abbey’s noble bloodline has a very short fuse.

Abbey can be violent in defense of those standards, usually on somebody else’s behalf. He punches Noah off Tess in a hallway he only walked into looking for Augustus, and he slams a boy into a fence for hitting Molly and taking her ribbon.[10][7][11] He swings at Mike over the way Mike treats Daisy, punches Augustus at the carnival, and elbows Paulo in the neck in a convention restroom.[12][13][14] Even at rest the anger leaks out sideways, in claw marks on the cafeteria table or a set of claws in Paulo’s ankle when Paulo rests his feet on his head.[15][16] Asked at the secretary debate what should happen to bullies, his whole answer is “Expulsion.”[17] By junior year Paulo tells Abbey that he describes his own fits of rage to David as “going Abbey”, which tells you how far the reputation has travelled.[5]

Abbey is terrified that he is turning into his father. Abraham beat Abbey’s mother, and Abbey grew up bandaging her wounds. Comparisons to his dad can bring him to pieces.[18][19] Augustus uses the comparison to break him down at the carnival, then to provoke him at school.[19][20] After the anger comes a guilt cycle he describes to Janet better than anyone else could: “I feel so passionate.. So sure I’m in the right.. .. But after it’s over, I feel like it was all my fault to start with..”[21] He blames himself for not stopping his father, for being a burden on Daisy, and eventually for being wrong about Paulo, because if Paulo is not the villain then Abbey has to finish the sentence about what that makes him.[22][23][24] That sentence trails off.

He is also terrible at letting anyone carry anything for him. Even after confessing his love, he insists he would be happy to see Daisy with somebody else. She has to shout at him to be selfish for once.[25][26] He tells her he stays strong for Molly’s sake and rarely lets anything get to him, which is a strange thing to say just after breaking down at a carnival.[27] He admits he has barely talked about his past, even with his parents. When Molly later runs to school in tears, he sends Daisy away because he would rather deal with it alone.[27][28] He even stops telling Daisy about his therapy sessions once he decides she must be sick of hearing them.[23]

The nerdery he hides is a lot more cheerful. Abbey is Daisy’s top English classmate and an honors student, and he is also a SwordsVale guild member who sits in on guild meetings with Mike and Stacy.[2][29][30][31] He tells Daisy he is studying for the SATs and goes to a comic convention in full cosplay instead, and when she finds out he admits he was afraid she would laugh at him.[32] In Fashion Disaster, a chapter only printed in Volume Five, he nearly blows Stacy’s own cosplay secret in front of another cheerleader and covers by awkwardly asking whether Daisy would prefer a viridian or pine green corset.[33] He photographs flowers with a digital camera on the Scenic Route road trip, reads the Tall Towers books, and mocks Paulo’s gaming habits while being, himself, a person with a guild.[34][8][31]

Abbey apologises for the violence, then remembers Paulo is still Paulo.

Abbey is actively working on his temper. He agrees to see a counselor at the end of freshman year, squeezes a stress ball when the debate overwhelms him, and asks Janet how you stop being angry at people who deserve it.[35][36][21] His New Year’s resolution, as he puts it, would delight his therapist: “don’t be violent to anyone anymore.”[37] He apologizes to Paulo for threatening and assaulting him, tells him he is trying to be less presumptuous lately, and explains that if he can stop hating people who mess up he might learn to “go easier on myself.”[38][39][40] The dry humor survives the therapy intact, thankfully. He leaves an unused box of condoms behind for Paulo, whom he judges better off not populating the earth, and greets the news that he is secretary with a villainous little chuckle.[41][3]

Appearance

Abbey is an Abyssinian cat with reddish-brown fur and a more neutral brown hairstyle, drawn as a tuft on top of his head.[6][42] He has a white diamond tuft of fur on his chest, and white fur on his arms and legs that resembles gloves and boots. His tail is pointed at the end and has a neutral-brown stripe matching his hair. His ears are on the large side, large enough that Daisy teases him about his cute “bunny ears” and Rachel dismisses him as “bunny boy” at a picnic.[27][43] Veronica’s first design sheet for him, which she shared in 2014, notes soft dark green eyes (hazel-ish, maybe) and a height nearly Paulo’s but slightly shorter. Her accompanying post corrects the height: Abbey is now taller than Paulo.[44]

Veronica’s first design sheet for Abbey, complete with notes on his role.[44]

Abbey often goes without clothes, but wears long-sleeved shirts and pants for formal events. In New Year’s Resolution he wears a turtleneck and coat, with his hands tucked into its pockets.[37] He also has a pretty consistent taste in costumes. He spends Mischief Night in a police-style uniform with a billed cap, and goes as an English bobby in Good Egg, which only appears in print in Volume Seven.[45][46] The gaudy Christmas sweater he wears to Tess’s party in At Loose Ends is Daisy’s idea.[47] His SwordsVale cosplay in Guest of Honor is the outfit he wanted to hide from Daisy.[48][32]

One inside joke about his looks is entirely David’s fault. On Abbey’s first day at the table David hears the name Abraham and immediately dubs him Mr. Lincoln, and the comic obliges by drawing a top hat and beard over him.[6] David promotes him to Mr. President on the same page, then casts himself as John Wilkes Booth on the next.[6][49]

Significant events

Freshman year

In Humble Approach, Abbey helps Daisy when she falls.[1] She recognizes him as the top student in her English class; Paulo calls him a “fruitcake”, and Abbey answers the crude jokes with a speech about fair maidens.[2] The next day he joins the lunch table by offering to help Mike with homework, explains how he came by his name, and hands David the Lincoln gag on a plate.[6] He pats Lucy on the head, gets smacked for it, and makes Daisy laugh for the first time in days.[49]

Nobody deserves that helpless look, least of all Tess.

For most of the winter he is a fixture at the table, tagging along to Tess’s Christmas party in Feline Festivities and arguing with Paulo over Daisy’s increasingly long absences.[50][51] In Bonding he learns Daisy is spending her lunches with an older boy, and in Under Pressure he tells her he thinks she is being manipulated, so she storms off.[15][52] Hunting for Augustus in the junior hallway, he instead finds Tess cornered by an angry student, Noah, and punches him off her.[7] Once he hears why she was cornered, he is far more forgiving of her than Noah was, and he tells her she has to come clean to the others: “Nobody deserves to have that horrified, helpless look in their eyes.. Ever.”[53] Tess notes he clearly has a story of his own he isn’t sharing.[53]

Daisy’s embrace reaches Abbey when nothing else can.

In Rising Temperature Paulo guilt-trips him into tutoring, which turns into a study party at Abbey’s house and the first look at his adoptive parents Kevin and Janet.[29][54] It ends with Abbey swinging at Mike over the way Mike has been ignoring Daisy, and his little sister Molly bursting in to stop it.[55][12] The carnival in Love My Way goes worse. He pulls Augustus away from Daisy and punches him. When Augustus compares him to his father, Abbey breaks down, and Daisy finds him on the ground and becomes the first person he tells about his childhood.[56][13][57][27] By Moving On he has promised Daisy he will see a counselor, and he goes to Janet to arrange it.[35]

That summer he skips Tess’s week-long trip for his appointment, and in Invitation the group throws him an early birthday at the airport before they fly out.[58][59] Paulo’s present is a copy of Big Booty Boys 2, and Daisy’s is announcing that she is staying behind with him.[60][61] New Beginnings fills in what happened while the others were away, with Daisy walking him to the therapist and a picnic afternoon that ends in his confession and first kiss.[62][63] When the others come home in Return, the pair are a couple.[64]

Sophomore year

Abbey and Daisy start the year walking to school together, with Abbey carrying her bag. They claim the big lunch table for the group.[65][66] On Mischief Night he scares Paulo half to death in his officer costume, and the gang ends up hauling a poisoned Mike to Abbey’s house.[67][45] In Feline Filibuster he runs for secretary against Sue on a hardline anti-bullying platform, and the debate falls apart when he starts screaming that bullies should rot in hell.[68][69][36] Daisy takes over, wins, and hands him the office anyway, which he greets with “Just according to plan..”[3] His new office immediately brings a problem: Jasmine has changed the bake-sale money into pennies.[70]

In At Loose Ends the comic finally shows where Abbey came from. Molly is still making gifts for their absent mother, and Abbey tells Janet he needs to find her and know what happened.[71][72] Flashbacks show him as a child bandaging his mother Charlotte after his father hurt her, and later standing up to Abraham at his mistress Cynthia’s house the night the police came for him.[18][73][74] Janet arrives at Tess’s party with news and drives him to Charlotte’s grave. Abbey tries to insist it is only a stop along the way.[75][76] Before a major operation, Charlotte had asked the nurse not to tell the children if anything happened to her: she wanted them to grow up in a normal family.[77] Abbey blames himself for not stopping his father. Back home, he answers Molly’s question about whether he found their mother with a quiet yes, and they hug. He thanks Janet and Kevin for the life they gave them.[22][78][79]

When the friends seek out Lucy in Breaking Up, Paulo snaps at Daisy outside Lucy’s house. Abbey wants to confront him, but instead comforts Daisy.[80][81] In Safe Boundaries the two of them buy condoms as a precaution and then argue over who has to keep the box.[82][83] Rachel’s party in Happy Hour is where things first crack, and in Take Heart he breaks up with Daisy over what she said there, only for Paulo to shove the two of them back together by the end of the chapter.[84][85][86] The flashbacks in Golden Hour fill in the arguments behind that uneasy reunion, including a fight at Burger-Tron that ends with Daisy slapping him.[87][88] On the Scenic Route road trip he wanders off without a phone, gets thoroughly lost, and is retrieved by David. By the drive home he and Daisy are close again.[89][90][91]

That summer, Guest of Honor finds him sneaking off to a convention under cover of SAT prep and assaulting Paulo in a restroom.[92][14] In Behind Closed Doors he spends a guild meeting at Mike’s house insisting Paulo will never change, unaware Paulo is listening from the closet.[93]

Junior year

Augustus needles him about ending up in jail in Table for One, and only Daisy stops him swinging.[20] On the brighter side, an environmental club highway cleanup in Clean Slate turns Jasmine from prankster into friend.[94]

Abbey leaves Love Again with the relationship broken behind him.

In Love Again, the day before Daisy’s sixteenth birthday, Paulo chokes Mike at the table and the convention assault comes out in the shouting that follows.[95][96] Daisy defends Paulo, and Abbey ends the relationship on the spot.[97] He moves to Jasmine’s table, where Mina is delighted to learn he is single.[98][99] He still attends Daisy’s party in Moments Apart with a present he bought before the breakup.[100] Halloween in Good Egg finds him out with Molly, Jasmine, Mina and Cassidy. After Mina eggs Lucy’s mother, he flees with Jasmine and laughs about it, then agrees with Molly that they need to apologize.[46][101] He and Daisy sit the SAT together in College Material, and he walks away when he sees Lucy, Jordan and Augustus waiting for her afterwards.[102][42][103]

Abbey and Paulo finally make peace in Time Out, of all places in the principal’s office, after a volleyball feud lands them both there.[104][105] In Fuel Economy they trade proper apologies and Abbey accepts a ride.[38][106] His resolution in New Year’s Resolution is to stop hitting people, and he spends the party warning Paulo off his sister, whom he suspects of having a crush.[37][107] In Third Wheel he gives Paulo a book, and in Tickets Please he backs Paulo for the tickets and judges the trivia at the park.[108][109][110] What he does not know, as of Tickets Please, is that Daisy and Paulo are dating and have agreed to hide it from him.[111][112][113]

Major relationships

Daisy

Daisy draws Abbey out of a painful memory in At Loose Ends.

Abbey first noticed how happy Daisy seemed in English. When she is miserable, looking after her becomes the shape of his feelings.[2] He spends freshman year worrying about her from a distance and losing his temper at anyone who slights her.[52][55] The carnival in Love My Way flips the arrangement, because it is Daisy who finds him on the ground, and Daisy he tells about his childhood for the first time in his life.[57][27] She skips the summer trip for him, walks him to therapy, and in New Beginnings finally gets “Daisy. I love you.” out of him, with a speech about being happy to see her happy with somebody else.[61][25] She demands he be selfish for once, and they kiss, but she tells him it’s “too soon” for her to say love back.[26][63]

Whatever Abbey is to Daisy, Mike is still the one she measures herself against. She holds him at his mother’s grave in At Loose Ends, and he reassures her in Safe Boundaries that it is fine not to be ready for sex.[22][41] Then at Rachel’s party in Happy Hour a drunk Daisy asks Mike what made Lucy better than her while Abbey stands right there.[114][84] In Take Heart he asks the question he cannot get past: if she still feels that way about Mike, then “why are we together?”[115] Her answer is that she likes him very much, which is exactly the problem, and he breaks it off until Paulo literally shoves them back together at the rose sale.[85][86] Veronica has said she originally planned a single breakup much later, but decided while writing Happy Hour that Abbey had too much self-respect, and too much rage, to let it slide.[116]

Their arguments increasingly come back to Paulo rather than Mike. Abbey stops telling Daisy about therapy because he assumes she is sick of it, and calls himself a burden. Their Burger-Tron argument in Golden Hour escalates when he accuses her of defending a bully who might make a move on her; she slaps him.[23][88] When she defends Paulo one more time in Love Again, right after learning what Abbey did to him at the convention, he tells her she can have him and that they’re done.[97] Afterward he tells Sue that closure matters, and on SAT day says he is glad they spent all those study hours together.[30][117][103] They can still talk about books, although her scolding in Third Wheel also helps cover for her new relationship. Abbey later wishes he had introduced her to Tall Towers, not realizing she is already a fan.[118][8][119] Daisy and Paulo, meanwhile, are dating and hiding it from him.[111]

Paulo

Paulo has questions about which century Abbey wandered in from in Humble Approach.

Abbey and Paulo spend years needling each other between reluctant favors, and both keep giving the other plenty to work with. Paulo calls him a fruitcake the first time they speak. Abbey still writes his essay and hosts him at a study party; the birthday gift of Big Booty Boys 2 earns Paulo a playful hair-pull.[2][55][60] For a long time the distrust wins out. Abbey’s broken-windows platform at the debate prompts Paulo to ask why he is such a huge dick.[120][121] Convinced Paulo is a threat to Daisy, Abbey corners him in a convention restroom in Guest of Honor, elbows him in the neck, and tells him he knows what kind of person he is.[14][122] Paulo’s verdict is that Abbey is a psycho, and by Behind Closed Doors Abbey’s is that Paulo will never change.[123][93]

The principal’s office in Time Out is where the whole feud collapses. Abbey rejects Paulo’s apology at volleyball, asks whether they were ever friends, and accuses him of making Daisy his next conquest. Paulo throws a volleyball at his head.[124][125][104] Inside, he unloads: Paulo is a bigot and a womanizer, nobody really likes him, and people expect everything of Abbey and nothing of Paulo.[126][127] Paulo’s answer is “At least your mother fucking loved you.”[128] Abbey listens to the story of Paulo’s own mother leaving, puts a hand on his shoulder, and says “I’m sorry.”[129] He covers for him in front of the principal. Back in gym, his joke that Paulo’s throw was “a little weak” makes room for a much friendlier kind of needling.[105][130]

Abbey finds the friendship that follows pretty baffling. He tells Jasmine he doesn’t know what to do when Paulo is nice to him, then realizes he never actually apologized and formally asks forgiveness for “threatening and assaulting” him in Fuel Economy.[131][38] In Third Wheel he gives Paulo a book about moving on when a parent fails you, admits he talks about Paulo in therapy a lot, and gets hugged for it.[108][40][132] He keeps the guard up in the small ways, telling Paulo “Don’t flirt with my sister.” on New Year’s Eve and that he’s still got his eye on him when Paulo offers to give Molly an hour-long lift.[133][107][134] Veronica has said Paulo’s gentler handling of Augustus is a reaction to Abbey; he disliked how protective Abbey was and wants to be different.[135]

Molly

Abbey’s weekend plans are no match for Molly’s expectations in Invitation.

Molly is the reason Abbey holds himself together, and also the person most likely to tell him he isn’t managing it. She first appears in Rising Temperature bursting in on his fight with Mike with “Don’t hurt Abbey! I don’t want him to go to the hospital!”, a line that lands differently once the comic shows what both children witnessed at home.[12] His Saturdays involve scouting and pulling her cookie cart, but he reassures her that missing the summer trip is not her fault.[136] Both of them still hurt over their mother, and in At Loose Ends Molly is still making gifts for her.[71]

Their ugliest argument belongs to a childhood flashback in At Loose Ends. After Abbey slams a boy who hit her and stole her ribbon into a fence, Molly calls Abbey a bully and shouts, “Don’t be like Daddy!” He grabs her shoulders and screams that he is not like him, then sees their mother’s frightened face in hers.[10][11][137][138] When he comes home from the cemetery she asks whether he found their mother, he says yes, and they hold each other without another word.[78] She still turns to him when the school day goes wrong, running to him in tears in a Golden Hour flashback.[139]

Day to day, she is a menace, and he adores it. She snoops well enough to overhear the condom conversation in Safe Boundaries, ribs him without mercy on Halloween, and gives Abbey ample ammunition for teasing her about a crush on Paulo at the New Year’s party.[140][46][141] Asked about her that same night, he says, “Sometimes I think she’s more mature than I am. She keeps me in line, she understands me. I can’t really imagine life without her.”[142]

Jasmine

Abbey declares Jasmine’s pranks a learning experiment in Clean Slate.

Jasmine spent her freshman year pranking the new student council secretary. She exchanges bake-sale money for pennies in Feline Filibuster, hides his keys in the girls’ bathroom, and tells new students his name is “Assey”.[70][94] The turn comes on an environmental club highway cleanup in Clean Slate, where Abbey shields her from cans thrown by passing drivers.[143] Rather than lecture her, he declares the pranks a learning experiment and calls her a mature and conscientious young lady with some very “questionable taste in men”.[144][94] The two of them bond over a shared Paulo impression on the spot.[145]

After the breakup in Love Again it is Jasmine who waves him over to her table, and her table is where he stays.[98][99] She is the one he asks whether he is really the only person who sees through Paulo, and when he starts to spiral about what being wrong would make him, she cuts him off with “You aren’t your crappy dad.”[146][147] In Fuel Economy she asks him point blank, “Do you still hate him?”, and gets a quiet no.[131] When Sue suspects a rebound, Abbey draws a distinction: he already had a crush on Daisy when he approached her, but Jasmine has been a supportive friend with shared interests in science and history.[148] Mina teases them that it was obviously happening.[131] Abbey calls it friendship; Mina would clearly like a different answer.

Minor relationships

Janet and Kevin

Janet tells Abbey the search for his mother is her job, not his, in At Loose Ends.

Abbey’s adoptive parents are a dog and a cat who have had him and Molly for four years by freshman year. Janet calls the children her life.[149] Abbey admits to Daisy that he has hardly talked about his past even with them, but eventually goes to Janet for help finding a counselor.[27][35] When he insists on tracking down his mother in At Loose Ends, she tells him, “It’s not your responsibility. It’s mine.”, and it is Janet who brings him the news and drives him to the grave.[150][75] He thanks her afterward for the normal life she and Kevin have given them.[79] Kevin is the genial one who offers him a lift to a party, and Janet is the one who bellows “YOU BETTER BE TALKING ABOUT BASEBALL!!” through his bedroom door in Safe Boundaries.[151][152]

Augustus

Augustus knows exactly which comparison will hurt Abbey.

Abbey has good reason to distrust Augustus, who does his best to make things worse. Abbey spends freshman year convinced Augustus is setting Daisy up for something, and at the carnival in Love My Way he pulls him away from Daisy after Augustus ignores her demands to stop.[52][56] Augustus, who has done his homework, calls him Abraham. Abbey punches him, and Augustus tells him his father would be proud and dares him to hit again “Just like Daddy!” Abbey goes to pieces.[13][19] He tries the same trick in Table for One, suggesting Abbey might end up in jail like a “certain other psycho”, and Daisy has to stop Abbey from swinging at him.[20]

Mike

Abbey admired Mike long before he took a swing at him. He joins the table by offering to help him with homework, and Veronica’s early notes list admiring Mike alongside disliking Paulo.[6][44] That admiration does not stop him in Rising Temperature, where Abbey rounds on Mike for ignoring Daisy and takes a swing at him for having the nerve to talk about giving people a chance.[55][12] They settle into a comfortable guild-mate friendship after that, and Abbey will even concede that Mike sounds remorseful about Lucy.[93] Mike’s complaint after the breakup is that keeping his distance from Daisy means seeing less of Abbey too.[153]

Sue

Sue thinks Abbey is a good guy. Abbey supplies the counterexample.

Sue thinks better of Abbey than he thinks of himself. She shrieks that he is one of them when he enters the secretary race, and by the debate she is summarizing his platform as a “fascist” dictatorship.[68][121] After the breakup she is the one who insists he is a good guy, to which he answers, “I did elbow Paulo in the neck.”[30] She also reminds him that Daisy’s life isn’t his to live, and wasn’t even when they were dating. He has the grace to agree.[154][155] When it comes to the movie tickets, she would much rather give them to Abbey than Paulo.[156]

Quotes

I was named after my father, Abraham. Frankly, my full name makes me feel fifty times older. Abbey, introducing himself at the lunch table in Humble Approach

Daisy. I love you. It would never upset me to see you find happiness, with or without me.. Abbey, confessing, in the least selfish way possible, in New Beginnings

DON’T TELL ME WHO DOES AND DOESN’T DESERVE ANYTHING!! BULLIES SHOULD ROT IN HELL!! Abbey, losing the debate and his temper in Feline Filibuster

Actually, I think I know someone who’s better off not populating the earth.. Abbey, finding a home for an unused box of condoms in Safe Boundaries

And it’s a struggle ALL THE TIME. But people expect so much of me and so little of you. Abbey, to Paulo in the principal’s office in Time Out

If I can learn to stop hating people when they mess things up.. .. Then maybe I can learn to go easier on myself. Abbey, handing Paulo a book in Third Wheel

Gallery

For a complete gallery, see Gallery:Abbey.

Appearances by volume

Outfits

Trivia

  • “Abbey” began life as Veronica’s placeholder codename “Abby”, short for Abyssinian. She added the “e” so nobody would read it as Abigail, then worked backwards to “Abraham” and to his reasons for hating the name.[6]
  • Kevin and Janet were originally written as his foster parents. Veronica later rewrote them as full adoptive parents, explaining in her commentary that they’re simply his parents.[54]
  • Veronica agreed with a fan that Abbey feels he deserves bad things, joking that even accidentally crushing a spider while trying to free it outside at nine would make him feel that way.[157]
  • Asked whether a childhood accident made Abbey responsible for his mother’s death, Veronica rejected the idea that a child should be punished forever for an accident.[158]
  • When the gym teacher sends him to the principal in Time Out, the roll call uses his full first name: “PAULO, ABRAHAM”.[159]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 25: Humble Approach, page 1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Chapter 25: Humble Approach, page 2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 17
  4. ↑ Chapter 128: Made Fresh, page 3
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 119: New Year’s Resolution, page 16
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Chapter 25: Humble Approach, page 3
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Chapter 35: Under Pressure, page 9
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 14
  9. ↑ Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Seven, “Good Egg”, page 4
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 35
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 36
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 9
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Chapter 39: Love My Way, page 18
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Chapter 89: Guest of Honor, page 35
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 34: Bonding, page 1
  16. ↑ Chapter 68: December, page 2
  17. ↑ Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 10
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 1
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Chapter 39: Love My Way, page 19
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Chapter 92: Table for One, page 17
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 39
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 44
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Chapter 90: Golden Hour, page 23
  24. ↑ Chapter 100: High Expectations, page 8
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Chapter 46: New Beginnings, page 8
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Chapter 46: New Beginnings, page 10
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 27.4 27.5 Chapter 39: Love My Way, page 22
  28. ↑ Chapter 90: Golden Hour, page 19
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 2
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 Chapter 98: Moments Apart, page 14
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Chapter 120.1: [Unknown Title, page 15]
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Chapter 89: Guest of Honor, page 32
  33. ↑ Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Five, “Fashion Disaster”, page 2
  34. ↑ Chapter 84: Scenic Route, page 5
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 Chapter 40: Moving On, page 6
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 14
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 Chapter 119: New Year’s Resolution, page 15
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 Chapter 112: Fuel Economy, page 11
  39. ↑ Chapter 123: Third Wheel, page 13
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Chapter 123: Third Wheel, page 16
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Chapter 78: Safe Boundaries, page 26
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 Chapter 106: College Material, page 7
  43. ↑ Chapter 46: New Beginnings, page 7
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 “Veronica’s first drawing of Abbey”. 2014-09-08.
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 Chapter 57: Mischief Night, page 16
  46. ↑ 46.0 46.1 46.2 Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Seven, “Good Egg”, page 1
  47. ↑ Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 10
  48. ↑ Chapter 89: Guest of Honor, page 31
  49. ↑ 49.0 49.1 Chapter 25: Humble Approach, page 4
  50. ↑ Chapter 28: Feline Festivities, page 6
  51. ↑ Chapter 32: Follow Me, page 4
  52. ↑ 52.0 52.1 52.2 Chapter 35: Under Pressure, page 6
  53. ↑ 53.0 53.1 Chapter 35: Under Pressure, page 10
  54. ↑ 54.0 54.1 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 5
  55. ↑ 55.0 55.1 55.2 55.3 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 7
  56. ↑ 56.0 56.1 Chapter 39: Love My Way, page 17
  57. ↑ 57.0 57.1 Chapter 39: Love My Way, page 21
  58. ↑ Chapter 41: Invitation, page 2
  59. ↑ Chapter 41: Invitation, page 16
  60. ↑ 60.0 60.1 Chapter 41: Invitation, page 17
  61. ↑ 61.0 61.1 Chapter 41: Invitation, page 18
  62. ↑ Chapter 46: New Beginnings, page 4
  63. ↑ 63.0 63.1 Chapter 46: New Beginnings, page 12
  64. ↑ Chapter 45: Return, page 16
  65. ↑ Chapter 50: A Distance Apart, page 3
  66. ↑ Chapter 50: A Distance Apart, page 9
  67. ↑ Chapter 57: Mischief Night, page 15
  68. ↑ 68.0 68.1 Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 9
  69. ↑ Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 13
  70. ↑ 70.0 70.1 Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 18
  71. ↑ 71.0 71.1 Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 2
  72. ↑ Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 6
  73. ↑ Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 28
  74. ↑ Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 29
  75. ↑ 75.0 75.1 Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 22
  76. ↑ Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 40
  77. ↑ Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 43
  78. ↑ 78.0 78.1 Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 46
  79. ↑ 79.0 79.1 Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 47
  80. ↑ Chapter 75: Breaking Up, page 11
  81. ↑ Chapter 75: Breaking Up, page 12
  82. ↑ Chapter 78: Safe Boundaries, page 6
  83. ↑ Chapter 78: Safe Boundaries, page 25
  84. ↑ 84.0 84.1 Chapter 80: Happy Hour, page 30
  85. ↑ 85.0 85.1 Chapter 81: Take Heart, page 10
  86. ↑ 86.0 86.1 Chapter 81: Take Heart, page 26
  87. ↑ Chapter 90: Golden Hour, page 21
  88. ↑ 88.0 88.1 Chapter 90: Golden Hour, page 24
  89. ↑ Chapter 84: Scenic Route, page 11
  90. ↑ Chapter 84: Scenic Route, page 20
  91. ↑ Chapter 84: Scenic Route, page 22
  92. ↑ Chapter 89: Guest of Honor, page 5
  93. ↑ 93.0 93.1 93.2 Chapter 120.1: [Unknown Title, page 20]
  94. ↑ 94.0 94.1 94.2 Chapter 93: Clean Slate, page 8
  95. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 15
  96. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 16
  97. ↑ 97.0 97.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 17
  98. ↑ 98.0 98.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 18
  99. ↑ 99.0 99.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 19
  100. ↑ Chapter 98: Moments Apart, page 10
  101. ↑ Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Seven, “Good Egg”, page 5
  102. ↑ Chapter 106: College Material, page 10
  103. ↑ 103.0 103.1 Chapter 106: College Material, page 11
  104. ↑ 104.0 104.1 Chapter 108: Time Out, page 12
  105. ↑ 105.0 105.1 Chapter 108: Time Out, page 25
  106. ↑ Chapter 112: Fuel Economy, page 12
  107. ↑ 107.0 107.1 Chapter 119: New Year’s Resolution, page 20
  108. ↑ 108.0 108.1 Chapter 123: Third Wheel, page 15
  109. ↑ Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 17
  110. ↑ Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 20
  111. ↑ 111.0 111.1 Review Session, page 4
  112. ↑ Chapter 128: Made Fresh, page 11
  113. ↑ Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 23
  114. ↑ Chapter 80: Happy Hour, page 29
  115. ↑ Chapter 81: Take Heart, page 9
  116. ↑ “Ask response on the Abbey and Daisy breakups”. 2026-08-04.
  117. ↑ Chapter 106: College Material, page 8
  118. ↑ Chapter 123: Third Wheel, page 10
  119. ↑ Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 30
  120. ↑ Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 11
  121. ↑ 121.0 121.1 Chapter 60: Feline Filibuster, page 12
  122. ↑ Chapter 89: Guest of Honor, page 36
  123. ↑ Chapter 90: Golden Hour, page 29
  124. ↑ Chapter 108: Time Out, page 10
  125. ↑ Chapter 108: Time Out, page 11
  126. ↑ Chapter 108: Time Out, page 16
  127. ↑ Chapter 108: Time Out, page 17
  128. ↑ Chapter 108: Time Out, page 18
  129. ↑ Chapter 108: Time Out, page 23
  130. ↑ Chapter 108: Time Out, page 24
  131. ↑ 131.0 131.1 131.2 Chapter 112: Fuel Economy, page 7
  132. ↑ Chapter 123: Third Wheel, page 17
  133. ↑ Chapter 128: Made Fresh, page 1
  134. ↑ Chapter 128: Made Fresh, page 2
  135. ↑ “Ask response on Paulo’s handling of Augustus”. 2026-08-07.
  136. ↑ Chapter 41: Invitation, page 3
  137. ↑ Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 37
  138. ↑ Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 38
  139. ↑ Chapter 90: Golden Hour, page 18
  140. ↑ Chapter 78: Safe Boundaries, page 7
  141. ↑ Chapter 119: New Year’s Resolution, page 19
  142. ↑ Chapter 119: New Year’s Resolution, page 21
  143. ↑ Chapter 93: Clean Slate, page 6
  144. ↑ Chapter 93: Clean Slate, page 7
  145. ↑ Chapter 93: Clean Slate, page 9
  146. ↑ Chapter 100: High Expectations, page 7
  147. ↑ Chapter 100: High Expectations, page 9
  148. ↑ Chapter 98: Moments Apart, page 13
  149. ↑ Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 6
  150. ↑ Chapter 69: At Loose Ends, page 7
  151. ↑ Chapter 73: Ten Seconds to Midnight, page 2
  152. ↑ Chapter 78: Safe Boundaries, page 9
  153. ↑ Chapter 108: Time Out, page 2
  154. ↑ Chapter 98: Moments Apart, page 25
  155. ↑ Chapter 98: Moments Apart, page 26
  156. ↑ Chapter 129: Tickets Please, page 15
  157. ↑ “Ask response on Abbey’s guilt”. 2026-06-18.
  158. ↑ “Ask response on Abbey and his mother’s death”. 2026-06-17.
  159. ↑ Chapter 108: Time Out, page 13
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