Like just imagine. You fall asleep in a lot, you wake up, go home, and your brother just starts laying into you. Ya'll holler back and forth for a bit, your favorite brother catches a stray, you holler one more time, and then he just slap the shit out of you.

You run out of the door (neither of them try to chase you btw) find your buddy, and decide to run away together. A few minutes pass and you realize its cold as shit and you don't actually want to run away, so you go to the park instead.

When you get there, you encounter the rich kids you pissed off earlier, they try to drown you, and then your best friend just slimes one of them, and now you're both of the run for murder.

You spend a week hiding out in a church eating un-refrigerated baloney before your friend decides to go back and turn himself in, but before y'all can get back, the church catches fire you and your buddy just have to save the little kids inside, and in the process he just gets fucked up, and now he's genuinely going to die.

So then your friend dies, your evil friend can't take it, so he decides to call your house to invite you and the entire squad to watch his execution live.

After that you're so sick and traumatized you can barely walk or talk, and the cherry on top is that during that time the brother who yelled at and slapped you is sitting by your bedside feeling all bad.

then, one day, two envelopes come together, with the same handwriting on both. one is addressed to both jesper and wylan, but the other is just for wylan. wylan is dubious (so is jesper, who briefly worries that it's jan van cunt, but wylan assures that's not his handwriting) but takes it to his room. the letter is essentially a comic of shittily drawn stick men depicting a heist. it's rushed and the stick men aren't exactly detailed, but wylan understands the story completely. right at the bottom, as a little stick figure with a hat and cane and little black dots for hands

since then, wylan and kaz draw little comics of stick men for each other. it's their way of discussing what's happening in their lives. wylan's ate much more detailed - he has more time on his hands than kaz, and a lot more drawing skills - and kaz's are scratchy and short, but it's their form of communication. wylan can tell kaz about things without having to dictate them to jesper first - not that he hates telling jesper what to write, but he finds it nice to have that autonomy in communicating with his friend

eventually, kaz tells inej, who tells nina (kaz is not telling nina, because she'll acuse him of being soft) (he is), and they also hop onto this idea. soon enough, wylan is sending his little stick man comics in with jesper's letter, telling his friends about his life by himself