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Do you like Faye, as a character?
BoisterousFanboy:
I like Faye as a character in the comic strip but I don't personally like her. I find her to be bitchy, self-involved, and sociopathic. I can't remember her doing anything nice for Marten or Dora beyond a few small gestures. I understand she's been through some rough times but she needs to take more personal responbility for her life and her actions.
I like that we're seeing her work on herself so maybe this is the start of Faye conquering her issues. She has become a bit of a one-trick pony though and all of the characters (besides Sven) walk on egg shells for fear of upsetting or angering her. Gimmie a break. Sven wacks her with a rolled up magazine. That's tough love right there. Marten and Dora are too patient with her and too quick to pat her on the back and say "there there it's gonna be okay" when she's in a mood. They're too enabling and so she hasn't really changed much over the course of the strip except for a few brief moments of awareness that she's a bitch.
I feel bad for what she's been through but she was an adult when her father comitted suicide. I can't imagine how that must have felt and what that must have been like but she wasn't a young, emotionally developing child. She was 18+ and she should have been able to process and deal with it better.
But even if can't then she needs to take charge of her life and she's doing that with the therapy and the exercising. She's still bitchy but maybe this thing with Sven will calm her down a bit/make her more likeable.
I'm excited to see what happens next.
The gF:
--- Quote from: BoisterousFanboy on 19 Feb 2008, 13:22 ---I like Faye as a character in the comic strip but I don't personally like her. I find her to be bitchy, self-involved, and sociopathic. I can't remember her doing anything nice for Marten or Dora beyond a few small gestures. I understand she's been through some rough times but she needs to take more personal responbility for her life and her actions.
I like that we're seeing her work on herself so maybe this is the start of Faye conquering her issues. She has become a bit of a one-trick pony though and all of the characters (besides Sven) walk on egg shells for fear of upsetting or angering her. Gimmie a break. Sven wacks her with a rolled up magazine. That's tough love right there. Marten and Dora are too patient with her and too quick to pat her on the back and say "there there it's gonna be okay" when she's in a mood. They're too enabling and so she hasn't really changed much over the course of the strip except for a few brief moments of awareness that she's a bitch.
I feel bad for what she's been through but she was an adult when her father comitted suicide. I can't imagine how that must have felt and what that must have been like but she wasn't a young, emotionally developing child. She was 18+ and she should have been able to process and deal with it better.
But even if can't then she needs to take charge of her life and she's doing that with the therapy and the exercising. She's still bitchy but maybe this thing with Sven will calm her down a bit/make her more likeable.
I'm excited to see what happens next.
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More adults are struck by PTSD than children, by an enormous margin. The one person she loved most in her life shot himself in front of her and she never had the opportunity to reconcile or understand what happened. We see the trauma.
She had a complete nervous breakdown and nearly died as a result of it. We see more post-traumatic stress. And more trauma. Which probably compounded the PTSD she already had later on. Just because she was an adult did not make her any better equipped to handle it. What about all the guys who came back from Vietnam crazy due to PTSD? That wasn't just physical trauma, there. That was caused by the horrifying things they saw and experienced. And they were adults, too.
kthx.
Vanguard:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 18 Feb 2008, 10:19 ---Vanguard, that's the best signature I've ever seen.
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Thank you. Made it up myself. Might have been inspired by something but it's original enough that I can say it's my own.
mrjoegangles:
Do I like Faye as a character? Yep, shes funny, snarky, rude, and honest.
Would I want to hang out with her? Heck no, she sounds like a female version of me.... And I can barely stand myself.
Faye is by far the reason I started reading this strip. I mean, one can only watch Marten get his ass slapped around for so long.
And Pintsize is only good in small doeses. As he previously mentioned, he might have already jumped the shark.
Ravens too ditzy for more then three continuous comics. PenPen, is too boring.
Hanners and Dora rock.
And while I can do without Steve.... I do need monthly doeses of his sideburns.
Vanguard:
I read this comic for Marten's early adulthood and it's trials. Everyone else to me are side-characters.
After all, Martin was starred in the first comic ever.
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