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Faye and Angus: LTR?

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Is it cold in here?:
Developing characters in a few panels a day is a hard problem. Agreed that we don't have detailed pictures of any of them, but Jeph does do better than most other web comics I've seen.

horsefish:

--- Quote from: TheBiscuit on 01 Feb 2011, 04:22 ---...doesn't mean Angus is well developed enough to make sense as a pairing for Faye though.
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I don't see how the level to which a character is developed has anything to do with whether he/she is a good match for another character.  Presumably, (in universe) all characters are equally well developed, just we know less about some of them.  By that I mean, if we suspend disbelief and pretend the characters are "real people", our knowledge of their qualities has little or no bearing on the potential existence of those qualities.  Like in Real Life, people you know aren't any more or less "real" than people you don't.  And even if Faye and Angus don't know each other that well, that reflects real life too.  In my experience, people are equally or more likely to start dating people they have recently met than people they have known for a long time.  I met my wife on a blind date. (not that that has any relevance.

I'm glad Faye found a nice guy who's still assertive enough to deal with her.

*EDIT*  I think I may have gotten a bit off topic.  I predicct Faye and Angus will stay together for at least three months of "real time" -- the difference betwee RT and QCT has bee discussed plenty elsewhere, but i'll say it does confuse the issue of LTR/not LTR.  In QC time, the consensus seems to be that Marten/Dora was not a LTR, but in real time it seemed like forever.  (Not so much to me, since I only discovered QC two months ago and did an archive binge...)  :-P

bunnyThor:

--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 01 Feb 2011, 07:59 --- No one wants to see their work being picked apart in minutiae, with an unhealthy dose of shipping.

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Wat?  :?

For an artist to have their work dissected, analyzed, critiqued, and used as a springboard to others' flights of fancy is one of the highest compliments possible. It means that the audience has noted the artist's work, and that they find it compelling and important.

If the artist doesn't want that, that means that they should avoid showing their work to an outside audience. Some would argue that if no one but the artist reacts to the work, then it isn't art in the first place.

Jeph may not relish every aspect of the audience's reaction to his offerings, but I imagine that is still preferable to complete indifference.

TheBiscuit:
Yeah well Jeph has made it entirely clear that he finds speculation about improbable relationships distasteful. Which is interesting because that's sort of how I'd describe the comic.

Dr. ROFLPWN:
I think that Angus and Faye have the potential to last as long as Marten and Dora, if not longer--especially because oh hey, do you know what they're doing? Being honest with each other. Amazing how much mileage that gets one in a relationship! And how little mileage not being honest gets one.

As to the people saying Angus is not developed and is like a Marten shadow-clone: oh, really? Try harder.  :wink: We don't know as much about Angus' life and family as we do Marten's, but we've had a very good glimpse into what I'd call his "soul"; he's not like Marten except on the superficial level of them both being gentlemen. As the good raoullefere pointed out, Marten is passive to a fault, and tends to go with the flow of things; Angus is much more assertive, sharper-tongued, and generally extroverted. Where Marten is a muisician, Angus is a politician and orator, thousands of times more effective in the use of words than Mr. Reed. I actually think Angus is a little smarter than Marty, from an intellectual standpoint, but that may just be me.

If he's anything, he's a hybrid of Marten and Sven's best qualities, and as such pretty ideal for Ms. Whitaker. He won me over when he was willing to accept everything about Faye, including that she might not be ready for a relationship, just because he found her so fascinating and such an awesome lady that he couldn't help but be in love with her.

I can understand why some people might not want to see him court and win, but those people need to deal with it, because he's not going away anytime soon, and thank goodness, because contrary to popular belief, shipping is really fuckin' annoying, and not just to the author. I can understand why people might not want to see Faye in a relationship, either, but you know what? These characters do change over time, and Faye's really been making strides. She's no longer defined simply by her father's death. This isn't to say it'll never be a problem again, but it's not such a problem that she can't share herself with someone else. And I would go so far as to say that Angus might well help her with her abandonment issues, to boot.

Angus isn't a placeholder, he's a major character, and huzzah for it, frankly. I like the boy.

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