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What is Marigold's fundamental character?

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Is it cold in here?:
Critics of Purplepants adduce much evidence that she's self-centered.

This would, however, hardly distinguish her from most of the rest of the cast.

IanClark:
Human nature is inherently self-centered. We see through our own eyes, we feel our own feelings, we are the center of our own universes. The question is, to what level is it acceptable? I draw that line at where you're no longer able to be rationally altruistic and/or have no sense of empathy. If you're in a bar, and your friends all decide on a pitcher but don't know what kind, you're going to vote for your favourite beer, because you're self-centered. But you're going to abide by the group decision because you see that the greater good is maximized that way (rational altruism).

Take Tai for example. Generally Tai is all about Tai, be it her love life or her desire to get her clit pierced. She's indicated she's not above blackmailing friends and employees with naked photos. However, she feels genuine sympathy for Hanners' condition, and guilt for blurting out the truth about Angus and Faye, and these things are a constant pattern. So, self-centered or not, I'd call her a good person.

For Marigold, I'd chalk it mostly up to not looking at the whole equation. She really very much wants Angus, but it hasn't occurred to her that Angus isn't going to be happy in a relationship with her. I'd predict this current arc to end with Marigold confronting Angus, but Angus turning it back on her and saying that he has his own feeling and interests and she has no right to expect him to come to her eventually. Then Marigold will storm off but eventually realize he's right. Unless of course she's a sociopath, but I'm not going to dispute that point of view any more because it cuts way too close to the bone. In any case, no. No she's not.

Zipperstuck:
Personally, I think Marigold has developed plenty. It's not because she isn't developing in to what we think she should be, that it's bad.


Marigold is who she is because of what she has experienced, just like everyone else. You can't expect her to come to a viewpoint of someone else, when that other person came to it by experiencing other things than her.

Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with it if Marigold gold played WoW for however long this comic will last. Or spend long periods of time in her room, or whatever.

I don't want to see her change forcibly, just because I might not agree with some things she does. And I also wouldn't think it a good thing if people bothered her to do so.

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: IanClark on 08 Jun 2010, 01:25 ---Unless of course she's a sociopath

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The odds are very much against it in general, because Jeph almost never does sociopaths. Ms. Chatham is the only one I can think of.

Alex C:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 07 Jun 2010, 22:16 ---This would, however, hardly distinguish her from pretty much any life form in the history of ever.

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FYP.

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