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Is Sven really a slut at heart?

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snubnose:
I'm always oddly fascinated by the long texts people are able to write about Sven.

Carl-E:
The sign of a good well-written character is the amount of analysis that can be done to it.  The walls o' text just indicate that Sven is, like a lot of real people, rather complex! 

Orbert:
Sven is the kind of guy that others guys really want to hate, but can't because he's such a cool guy, and he can't help it if women rip their clothes off at the very sight of him.  Since he's probably had this condition for a long time, he's never had to develop properly as a person.  He was getting laid all the time, and since that's all you really want when you're younger, there was no real need to develop social skills or emotional maturity.  Inside, there could have been a real jerk or a pretty nice guy or anything in between, but it didn't much matter.

So he managed to make it to his late 20's without developing emotionally, just because it never really came up.  Faye caught him by surprise.  He actually likes her as a person as well as a phree phuck, and it's hit him as hard as your first crush in junior high.  And while he's just as confused by it, he's managing to deal with it a little better than a teenager would simply because he is older, smarter, and somewhat more mature in other ways.

He's a slut at heart, but it's not his fault.

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: Petterhuppertz from the wiki ---> On the other hand, two-timing Genevieve was just plain a lack of character. Even if people expect that sort of thing from you, going along with that expectation is spinelessness in addition to hurting your girlfriend.

OF COURSE he's spineless. He may never have been stimulated to develop a spine.

He may just be trying very hard to do that now. More later.

ps: I cannot react on the forum, as much as I wish I could - the registration mechanism doesn't work.


... aaaand I'm back.

I posed that, of course, Sven is spineless.

Let's keep in mind that, while we have a fairly good idea about Marten's and Faye's upbringing, we know less of Sven's formative years than we do about Hannelore's.

What we do know is that he's been raised by parents who were firmly stuck in the '60's/'70's, and that everything he wanted, or thought he wanted, came to him naturally, without him having to make an effort. Straight A's, attention, popularity, and later, money.

We also know that he's consciously not proud of his accomplishments. He considers himself a shallow womanizer, and he considers his music to be utter trite.

And we also kow that, WITHIN his social circle, he has always behaved responsibly and in a considerate manner. He has never even so much as made a pass at ANY of Dora's friends. He obviously cares for Dora, he tries to actually be friends with Faye (not the easiest person to be friends with), and the one time he sleeps with someone from that social circle, it is because she throws herself at him.

And when he screws that up (it would've been screwed up one way or another), it is because Gina throws herself at him. He did, apparently, not intend to do that. But that is where his spinelessness overtook him.

So, yes, he's spineless, there is no arguing that.
But he's also a nice guy. He's evidently smart and socially conscious enough to not like himself very well, and that may well be THE ROOT OF HIS PROBLEM.
It may take a Hanners to at least make him dimly aware that he might be wrong about himself. If that turns out to be the case, we can chalk it up as another of Hannelore's achievements.

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tomart:

--- Quote from: Orbert on 08 Oct 2010, 09:07 ---Sven is the kind of guy that others guys really want to hate, but can't because he's such a cool guy, and he can't help it if women rip their clothes off at the very sight of him.  
He's a slut at heart, but it's not his fault.
--- End quote ---

I hated (envied) him for a long time, until Faye started defining their relationship in some confusing ways (like someone did with me once) and then played the whole CHEATED ON ME card, with hordes of female voices chiming in Automatic Support, when his "crime" (it seemed to me) was not resisting Gina Riversmith's advances.  

Geez, what an awful fucking crime.   [Did Faye automatically OWN him, just because they did it?]


Also: sorry to be misunderstood; not an active slut, just have the attitude set.   Apologies for indiscretions.

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