i wonder if she'll regain her warmer color s after feeling happy again

That's the thing of it. You can grow cold and you can grow to see yourself as a monster. But that doesn't mean you can't grow warm again and find who you really are.

absolutely beautiful a great and heart warming story

Lovely.

I just hope Cherry isn't feeling jealous and somehow turns into a strangely hot centipede based monster or this will rapidly turn into an adorably unusual harem anime.

Raggedy Ann and Daddy~

Awww!! I love happy endings! QwQ SO happy!

I hope we see her again in more comics

That's an interesting line. "I can't keep you."

I'm coming to realize it is not as common a phrase as I thought it was as it has caused confusion in a couple of places. For those who are not familiar "I can't keep you" refers to not keeping someone near if they want to go somewhere else. "If you want to get going, I can't keep you."

Well it's not 'uncommon' per se, but typically if some one you're with romantically says something like "I can't be selfish and keep you to myself" or "I can't stop you for wanting to be with other people" it's not seen as selflessly positive for a number of reasons.

1) It implies a standard of fidelity. Which if not properly discussed beforehand can make a person feel as if they've had a standard forced on them whether they think it fits their needs or not.

2) It simultaneously implies an imbalance in that fidelity by the speaker. As in 'I'm devoted to you, but I can't force you to be devoted to me' and, once more, if such concepts as expectations and standards of propinquity are not communicated before hand it can be highly insulting to just randomly insinuate that the person having the phrase said to them is inherently unfaithful.

3) Worst of all, uttering this phrase is sort of telling to a major red flag in the speaker's character. Ether they're ignorant of how they sound and while trying to be sweet are instead essentially just saying. "It's okay if you're a slut. I love you." Or even worse, they ARE aware of how it sounds to some degree and are being subvert manipulative. Ether trying to goad their partner into giving a knee jerk affirmation of mutual affection and loyalty, or trying to misrepresent their level of social awareness and painting themselves as ham fisted 'nice guy'.

So, Shane. In your work. For these characters? We understand what Luke means but people commenting on the phrase might have had some of the above mentioned ideas cross their minds when they expressed confusion. Certain things are meant to be said in a certain way but classic Beauty and the Beast style begin to get a little hinky the further back you pull and examine it outside of it's very very speffific context.

Ah I see. Thank you for breaking it down for me.

Just the input of an old man. Take with a gain of salt. I think we all wish we had a love like that.