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WCT (Weekly Comic Thread) 24-28 May 2010
Border Reiver:
there's always the internet - she may have some code master thing to do, and when that fails - TV Tropes - no better way to kill time.
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: JackFaerie on 26 May 2010, 10:36 ---Snip
This to me is a Very Bad Idea. If she's going to make plans just for Angus, I think she should only invite Angus--go on a date, as Dora, suggested: it can be something very low key, with few expectations, but private.
Otherwise, it just seems like with all the as-yet unresolved and yet brought-to-the-surface romantic tension between Faye and Angus (just look at how stammery and awkward she's acting around him already), poor Marigold is in for an evening where they both try their hardest to "act normal" and not be flirty or obviously crushy around each other, and pretty much fail.
Sure, Faye should continue to hang out with both Marigold and Angus--and Angus should continue to hang out with Marigold--but not on what is basically Faye's and Angus' unspoken first date! :x
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This is by no stretch of the imagination a date—it's a gathering. Faye's too chickenshit, to use the colloquial term, to set up a date. Too, she realizes she'd look something of an ass to ask Angus for a date after her 'pass the test' speech. Hell, he hasn't even completed the matching portion! And then there's the essay question…
To be fair, though, since it is a gathering, and Angus and Faye are not dating (as per Faye's conditions. and possibly Angus's need to settle the Marigold issue) Faye more or less has to invite MG (hey, finally found a nick for Marigold that doesn't make me long to hurl!). It's a Southern thing (such customs may hold true elsewhere, too, but I draw on what I know). Ten to one MG does have something else to do, even if it's merely lying uncreatively to Angus. The real question will be whether Angus buys it.
--- Quote from: JackFaerie on 26 May 2010, 10:36 ---It will probably go well enough, but it strikes me that in real life, this would be a TERRIBLE idea
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I doubt even her most frantic fans will accuse Faye of having good ideas when it comes to her own romantic relationships. 'Terrible' pretty much sums up her track record thus far.
JackFaerie:
I think you're right that, considering she ended up making it an "everybody gets together" sort of thing, not inviting Marigold would have been rude. It was already "not a smart way of going about things" that she WAS too chickenshit to just ask Angus out already, and instead created this whole gathering on-the-spur-of-the-moment thing as an excuse to hang out with him. It's just that if all her friends were uninvolved in the drama, like Dora and Marten and Hannelore, it would be a garden-variety "let's support our friend and let her have this opportunity to hang out with Angus without actually dating him." They could give them some space (or else interject their company to defuse any awkwardness), kind of look away with indulgent smiles at appropriate moments, etc. But when one of the friends has feelings for Angus, THEN it becomes a terrible idea, rather than just a middle-school level silly one.
Kugai:
This can only end up with Faye and Angus getting drunk and winding up in bed together. Remember, that's what happened with Sven - and Faye wasn't intentionally looking to do that that time.
Is it cold in here?:
JackFaerie makes a good point: we're seeing a potential setup for the invocation of the Principle of Maximum Awkwardness.
Marigirl may have a raid that night.
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