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Weekly comic thread, 5/10 - 5/14
Carl-E:
First of all, JackFaerie, mea culpa. I think I knew you were female, but can I blame it on a long discussion about gender identity we had? The truth is probably just old age...
Here's my take on all this...
I think I like where it's heading. I agree with Raoullefere, I'm not fond of the bar exam analogy, but Faye and Angus need to get to know each other a lot better than they do now. Most of what they've got to go on at the moment is coffeehouse sass-sparring. Angus was warned by Marten about her emotional issues, but not with any specificity. He's also found out about her father's suicide, but not with the whole emotional gestalt Marten 9and we) received in "The Talk".
Faye knows of the Marigold incident, and saw him right after Marigold's "attack" (come on, that's what it would be called if a guy did it to a girl...). I think she's willing to give him more of a chance, based on that and his current honesty.
But in the last panels, he's done his usual lightswitch from totally serious honesty to glib flippancy. I think this is what a lot of people don't like about him, but it's his reflexive social interaction mode. I'm sure it helps in his job as a strawman, and it probably got him by at the expensive prep school. I've used it sparingly myself to great effect, but it can be off-putting to some people.
I am a little worried that he considers Faye a "challenge". He's been rebuffed so many times (aw man, I got buffed again?), that he seems to have no "off" switch, no point where a normal person would say to themselves, "fuck it, it's not worth this". Not like Sven, who gets everything he wants, so that when he doesn't it's a challenge. I think some people in here feel he's trying to climb Mt. Faye "because she's there", but I like to think it's because there's something he sees in her that makes him feel she's worth the effort.
Really, we don't know him emotionally as well as we know Faye or several of the others. I think he could be good for her, I just don't know how good she'd be for/with/to him. She really does have hella issues, and even if he becomes just one of the people she works those issues out with, it'll be a good thing. I think it could work.
Or it will all end in tears.
Or in flames.
We'll see!
Kugai:
--- Quote from: jzimbert on 13 May 2010, 06:47 ---Wooing Faye is like Thunderdome? So... two men enter?
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And one woman leaves - Broadsword in hand. :-D
Dliessmgg:
--- Quote from: Shadic on 13 May 2010, 02:42 ---
--- Quote from: vonschiller on 13 May 2010, 02:26 ---We've seen this before. Faye lets her impossibly high standards get in the way of a potentially good match (Marten) and she eventually ends up with a partner that ends up hurting her (Sven). I'm just having trouble figuring out who gets the Sven role this time around... since she won't go back to Sven again, and the only remaining male character that's actually around semi-regularly is Pintsize.
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Clearly, she fucks Marigold Hanners, Steve... Ah, hell if I know.
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Jimbo. Or Dale.
Kugai:
Actually, Faye having a drunken night with Tai might not be such a bad thing.
Fenriswolf:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 13 May 2010, 07:11 ---repeatedly saying she wants to 'test' him the way she does seems rather arrogant. My older and (possibly) wiser response is "Fuck your damn test. We—not just me—either try this or not. I want to be your boyfriend, not your student."
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That is an excellent response. I do not read Faye as bitchy or nasty as a rule the way some people on here do, but I certainly have a problem with her attitude about relationships and sex. Ie: men earn them from women. A remarkable amount of people buy into that dynamic from both ends, and boy does it rub me up the wrong way. :x
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