>>149537109
Even if they both matured and got over their respective neuroses, I don't think they'd be good for each other. Maybe I'm just a cynic or a bad person, but I can't imagine a relationship where you never get into a heated argument, and neither ever says something hurtful in a moment of stress and spite. In a good relationship those moments are rare, you restrain yourselves, and because you're usually open, honest, loving, and supportive with each other, you both know they didn't mean it. When the moment passes and the red fades from both of your eyes, apologies are made and forgiveness is given.

But with Mike and Lucy's baggage and bad habits with each other, I don't believe that moment would just be rare and passing. I think from that initial point of tension, it would fester and metastasize, corroding their love and comfort until they start picking open old wounds and inflicting new ones. Their relationship would enter long hibernations of cold resentment and attempts at manipulation, punctuated by hot flashes and desperate makeups. A mutual cycle of abuse, which we've already seen play out over the course of the whole comic (as well as long before, from flashbacks and exposition, and long after, in BCIs and AUs and such).

>>149537492
I once thought the mirthful, hateful gibbering of those who knew to be madness. Now I know it was them who truly saw the shape of things to come, and what's more, I understand their desperate joy in trying to share their terrible revelation with others.

We can't be the only ones who know.