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WCT (Weekly Comic Thread) May 31-June 4, 2010 (1676-1680)
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Meh I just hope she hooks up with *somebody* so we can at least move on with it. Her levels of awkwardness were pushing the bounds of credulity at the best of times, and these last couple days have gone right past that (and firmly moved me from being OK with Marigold to outright dislike). I'm not even sure she's a good person that deserves any of the sympathy she's getting; all we've really seen her be is whiny, awkward, and selfish, there doesn't seem to be much beyond that. Even her pity friendship with Hanners is all take and no give.
At least she brings us Momo I guess.
Is it cold in here?:
She deserves sympathy just because she's human.
All but one of the times she's fixed Pintsize, she didn't ask for payment.
We've seen courage as one of her virtues, for example when entering the bar.
Many of us have had some degree of being Marigold in our lives. If we're good persons, she can be too.
All that said, I think you're winning the argument so far.
Mad Cat:
Some of us are painfully similar to Marigold. :(
Tuitsuro:
You know, it is somewhat unrealistic to suggest that this girl can't get a date when half the fanbase would probably go out with her in a heartbeat. This girl has other problems besides just being plain, introverted Jane; and a lot of them could be fixed if she'd just put some effort into freshening her personality and her look. She makes a paultry attempt to dress up whenever she's invited out by Angus, which makes me wonder; could it be that Marigold's just lazy? It could well be that she didn't just go after Angus because he was nice to her, but because he was just there and available. She makes no real effort other than when she's prodded to get out of the house, to dress up, to look nice, to shower. I know how that is, maybe it's not that she's inherently lazy but she simply finds it far easier to let life pass her by than to go out and live it. Either way, she still ends up placing the blame for the problems that lifestyle creates in the wrong places. Angus is not totally blameless in that, he's been treating her with kid gloves for as long as they've been together because he thinks she's fragile, and she may well be fragile but people aren't vases, if she breaks he could have just as easily been there to help put her back together. ( Ick, that metaphor's a bit of a stretch. ) But if she wants a friends, a boyfriend and more people who care about her then she actually needs to get out there and make the effort to make friends, and not just expect it all to fall into her lap. She's actually been incredibly lucky that she's happened upon the rest of the QC cast, and she needs to take advantage of those new aquaintances.
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Eh, I could tolerate laziness (although it took/takes a lot of effort to raid :P) and I can at least understand some levels of awkwardness (Marigold takes this to a caricature-like extreme though), its the selfishness that annoys me, which is why today's strip sorta killed the character for me.
When she first fixes Pintsize, she asks for payment. Despite the fact that Momo, her only real friend at the time, personally asked her to do it. This is especially heart wrenching because Momo asked her to fix "her friend", and Marigold was still very cold about it.
The second time (and the only other time I remember) that she fixes Pintsize its a dent. [Sidenote: Dora should have been able to fix this if not for story reasons.] She does do this for free, but only after adding a dent of her own immediately after all but accusing Martin of being an AnthroAbuser.
When she comes back from the bar she outright demands Momo's full attention and goes as far as to try to forcibly grab it, to the point where Momo engages her shock defense (so much for Anthro rights). If there's one thing Marigold should know better than awkwardness, its instances and how with 4-39 other people depending on you, you can't just instantly disengage. Plus, iirc, Momo was actually playing the game as a favor to Marigold, to free her from that exact responsibility so Marigold could go have social fun.
In her "friendship" with Hanners, Hanners has: watched Marigold raid, gone to a con with Marigold, watched Marigold's anime with Marigold, overcome a personal fear of being touched to console Marigold and literally be there to hold her hair back. Marigold, as far as I can recall, has done nothing to reciprocate. Real friendships are two way streets.
In fact, despite hitting basically the social network jackpot, she hasn't done much for anyone but herself.
"No tips for alliance scum." May or may not be real canon, not really selfish just sort of a jerk.
In her "relationship" with Angus, it was all about Marigold. She never once considered Angus' feelings. That may be acceptable as just relationship awkwardness originally, but now he's made it quite clear and has taken great pains to let her down easy, but she is still pursuing. Contemplating emotional-blackmail as a potentially legitimate tactic is pretty despicable. One might argue she's already doing this with the short dress and the self-pity fest.
I mean, forget about struggling to be an interesting or believable character. That is someone I wouldn't want to associate with even if she was well adjusted.
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