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What is Marigold's fundamental character?
Alex C:
Also, TAG, if you're gonna make a post that long it'd be helpful if it made a lick of sense. Just thinking out loud here. Lending something to someone who did you a good turn because you're grateful and a bit lonely hits me as just a pinch more likely than lending something to someone on the off chance that they moonlight as a book binder.
QED:
I see at least two questions in this thread.
First question: What is Marigold really like?
My answer: She is introverted, friendly and honest.
She usually does not start conversations, but she responds, tries to be polite and does not try to lie (except situations where she consideres truth to be not polite, as in "I like bourbon"). Of course, her social skills are heavily underdeveloped (apparently the Magical Love Gentleman is not as realistic as QC), so she sometimes neglects or even hurts other people (unintentionally), but she is trying to be better. She is not a nicest person right now, but she shows some potential.
Second question: Why Angus says she is SO great?
My answer: He means it. She is improving and she does not have a single characteristic similar to his former girlfriend's. Marigold is not belittling, not abusive, not intentionally guilt-tripping. Marigold has probably never disrespected him. Of course, Marigold is too little witty and too much naive for him to feel attracted, but he can imagine some other guy being perfectly happy with Marigold (in a few years).
TAG:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 08 Jun 2010, 15:04 ---Also, TAG, if you're gonna make a post that long it'd be helpful if it made a lick of sense. Just thinking out loud here. Lending something to someone who did you a good turn because you're grateful and a bit lonely hits me as just a pinch more likely than lending something to someone on the off chance that they moonlight as a book binder.
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I was being pretty obviously facetious* with that comment. The point was she was dwelling in rat droppings and lent books to someone who actually respected them despite them not being her own. It's someone with little regard for her own stuff lending that stuff to someone with a near 0 probability of actually harming it, and she's seen that first hand.
Hell, college kids lending a textbook to a classmate are taking a financial risk orders of magnitude greater (now those are expensive). And that happens all the time.
*Or so I thought anyway... you're the second person to somehow take it literally...
Alex C:
That's because your logic is hella circuitous and your writing style isn't really making it any clearer.
TAG:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 08 Jun 2010, 18:48 ---That's because your logic is hella circuitous and your writing style isn't really making it any clearer.
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What is circuitous about not praising someone who treats her belongings like crap lending out those belongings to someone who previously took a great deal of time and effort to not treat those belongings like crap?
Or not praising her for totally disrespecting the feelings and desires of Momo and Angus, or only doing Marigold things with Hanners (that covers all 3 friends).
Or not respecting her being completely disgusting toward Dale and Angus (emotional blackmail)?
Her most selfless act was lending out those manga. The point was that lending rat-pooped manga to an OCD neatfreak is not exactly a noble sacrifice. She's been here more than a year. She's made some personal progress... for her.. but she hasn't done much of anything noteworthy, much less praiseworthy. The best example anyone has managed to dredge up is a farce.
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