>>531932420
if friend is michael, then what happened was:

>michael had an unhealthy relationship (romantic? platonic?) with december where she was the manipulator
>this relationship made him wildly successful
>something happened to december and she disappeared, his life falls apart
>has developed a convoluted plan we aren't privy to.

>>530775704
kris going nowhere in life isn't a good thing anon. it's a FEAR. you're consuming this shit in a vacuum. kris has an entire section in chapter 2 where he gets seduced by visions of glory fed to him by a man with parallels to FRIEND and almost dies.