Author's Note:
Johnny C wants nothing more than to be propelled simply by stimuli, and to remove his emotions which he finds a restraint. Squee is extremely innocent and naïve, and the question that arose within me was "what would happen if Squee was exposed to the wall?" I needed him to remain innocent, otherwise there would be no recognition by Nny, though truthfully I doubt anyone could remain truly pure when exposed to the wall for prolonged periods of time, even with Shmee acting as a "drama sponge". To combine these two elements, I made Squee a masochist.
A refrence to the phrase "dappled oddly with purple and yellow": it was to be assumed Squee did these kinds of things regularly, and I know from experience wounds inflicted by fingernails quite often or always tend to bruise. Bad bruises usually start off a purplish colour and often fade to a yellowed shade.
Though I didn't want to kill Squee, I knew it was necessary as Nny did. There's no doubt Nny would be appalled by the now teenaged Squee's hormonal antics. The reference of "9 years" was to supposedly make Squee 17 years old, as I assumed he was 8 in the comics. Also, in saying he'd been living in #777 for two years was referring to him being 15 when moving in; I figured Squee's parents would have gotten rid of him as soon as possible, but I didn't feel it necessary to indulge in the years between the comic and the story.
Anyway… Instead of breaking Nny's character even more than I already did and had him keep Squee alive, I instead had him feel remorse for this particular kill, assuming this would be a one-time occurrence. Also, this was intended to be a one-sided love. Squee, as a child having no real reassurance of anyone caring for him besides a crazed neighbor and the Antichrist, Pepito (ruling out Pepito for this particular story), I thought it only natural that he develop a love (or at least a kind of schoolgirl crush) for Nny. Nny, on the other hand, as hinted by his kiss lingering "a moment or two, however long the boy needed", I wanted it to seem that Nny did not think of Squee romantically as Squee did him. Such an innocent person in his world of unpleasant, annoying people, Squee would have had to make an impact on him.