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Superkid11:
Marten's examples are totally benign as far as I can see.

And a lot of those "Dora's abuse" examples are just Dora screwing around or being brutally honest.
(brutal honesty happens to be a quality I'm attracted to...)

Mallli_kite:

--- Quote from: Superkid11 on 24 Jan 2009, 17:26 ---Marten's examples are totally benign as far as I can see.

And a lot of those "Dora's abuse" examples are just Dora screwing around or being brutally honest.
(brutal honesty happens to be a quality I'm attracted to...)

--- End quote ---

Exactly!

I don't really think Dora is abusive.  Sharp, and sometimes a little more honest than tactful, and plenty insecure, but no relationship is 100% delight all the time, and Marten has had a fair bit of delight, shall we say, in his relationship with Dora.  It's hard to read a timeline in the strip since it's pretty time flexible -- I'd guess it's at least 6 months, maybe a year -- and ONE bad fight with a big make up afterwards?  Award winning!

The one difference I noticed was one several others pointed out -- this is the first time anything -- ANYTHING -- possibly threatening to Dora/The relationship happened to Marten that he DIDN'T immediately tell Dora.  He told her about Tai's piercing immediately, about Hanners immediately, about Faye right off -- but not this, and it is about as minor as Hanners.  And, again, it's not a full out argument yet -- it's a 30 second maybe irrational reaction.

Hell, we are all spending much more time on it than I suspect Jeph or any of the characters will.  Of course, in my case, I've got nothing else to do except cough and feel dizzy, so I'm good with it.

Bushbr:
th one where marten was being "possesive" is total croc!

1: he's kidding
2:Tai is kidding
3: he's horny

Mallli_kite:
Marten was about as possessive as Dora is abusive.  Titles were ironically intended.

Bushbr:
yeah, noticed that after posting.

newb mistake please forgive me

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