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Do you like Faye, as a character?
raziel:
i went for strongly like, because she's my favourite QC character, even if she hasn't been in the strip that much recently
numbvox:
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--- Quote from: AnotherQCaddict on 18 Jan 2008, 10:06 ---First off, I wouldn't consider any of the characters to be "main characters" at this point. There's just too many people who are important and the "main characters" change with time.
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Don't care. Faye will always be the main character, in my eyes.
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I agree. Well, sort of. I feel like even if the other characters are really more "main" characters than she is - Since just after the very first few comics it's felt like it's Faye's story.
I really hate to make a final fantasy reference (I know, on the internets FF is only a small step away from yaoi and furries), but I feel like it's like how Vaan was the main character but it was always Ashe's story in FF12.
La:
I think the problem that people have with Faye is that she wouldn't be the kind of person that they would be friends with in real life, so they say that she is a bad character. If you are asking how well she is written, I would say pretty darn well. If you are asking how we would feel about her if she were a real person, I would be outside the norm and say that I love her. I love her both as a character and as a person (if she existed, of course). Anyone who's seen any of my posts on here knows that Faye is, and always will be, my favorite character. The only thing that I would say detracts from her is that her character is a bit inconsistent in the transition of the beginning of the strip to Jeph's eventual vision of what he wanted QC to be about, but that's just a matter of him feeling out the story as he went, and I wouldn't fault him on that. I'm not going to go into any big-winded essay about why I love Faye, because god knows I write enough papers for school. But, on the subject of characters vs. people... Dora, while being an extremely well-written character and probably the MOST realistic of any of the characters in the story, is the one I like the least as a person. Whenever anyone asks me why I hate Dora the way I do, I always point them to the last panel of this strip: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=511. Every time I see that strip I get annoyed at her all over again. But, she has been the most consistently written character in the whole strip, and the one who is most human. I just want to slap her sometimes. :D It's so fun to get into a story so much that you feel so strongly about characters, and that's one of the reasons I love QC as much as I do!
... I know, I know. tl;dr. I didn't mean for that to happen. Haha.
onewheelwizzard:
Do I like her personality and the way she acts? I'd enjoy her company, were she real. I'd definitely hang out with her.
Do I like the way she is written as a character? This depends on how much attention is paid to her. The more attention Faye gets as a character, it seems, the harder Jeph works on writing her, and the better his work is. When Faye is just used as a third-wheel/foil for the Dora/Marten relationship, which used to be really funny, it doesn't work quite as well anymore ... the current strips seem to recognize this, too, because they're steering the dynamic between Faye and Dora (and by extension Marten) in a new direction, which is, at this point necessary. Basically the third-wheel thing is stale in my opinion. It looks like Jeph might be in the process of developing it into something new and different, though, which is excellent and makes me think that if anything the writing for Faye is probably improving substantially.
faerygrrl:
I, personally love Faye. From her appearance in the 3rd strip I was a Fan o' Faye.
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