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WCDT 18-22 Apr 2011 (1906-1910)

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DSL:
Re: The space elevator. in QCVerse, one could probably knit the cable out of whatever Hanners used to knit her scarf (it was made from the fur of giant space bunnies). Meanwhile, here's another ground- to-space transport system that seems tailor-made for the  QCVerse:
http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Nowicki/SPBI122.HTM

TheEvilDog:

--- Quote from: Tergon on 18 Apr 2011, 06:25 ---I prefer to think of it as an orbit-capable Great Glass Elevator.  So much more stylish than a regular old Space Elevator.

--- End quote ---

Says the guy with the Willy Wonka avi-pic....

And damn you Jwhouk for getting there before me.

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: DSL on 18 Apr 2011, 09:22 ---Have we ever seen him initiate a relationship -- of any kind?

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Not that I can think of. The point is well taken.

In fact, has he ever taken initiative on anything except getting soup? Amir and Natasha were already jamming when he joined them. Even in the case of The Secret Bakery, Hannelore picked it out.

OK, recruiting Hanners as a drummer counts. Anything else?

Tergon:
Recently?  He approached Padma in a bar, he pulled a sword on Creepy Creepy Clinton, and he set up the "Congratulations For Having Sex" celebration to defuse the awkwardness with Faye and Angus.  There's also smaller stuff like showing a little more backbone at being teased by people or by his Mum, but those three are the primary examples to me.
And I'll grant that none of them are exactly going out and strongarming the world into submission, but it's far from the usual passive response we've become used to from Marten.  They're examples of him being faced with a situation he could have backed away from, and instead he didn't hesitate to step up and take the initiative in his responses.  To me, though, the most telling part is that they have all happened since the breakup.  Maybe losing something he cared about has started to harden Marten up a bit.

Odin:
Only one of those things has to do with initiating a relationship, Tergon (and the others were situations where he was reacting, not initiating anything).

Marten pretty much only reacts to what happens around/to him (as far as the actual history of the strip goes, not back story stuff), he has never really taken any initiative of his own other than the horrible plot-point of pursuing someone that wasn't into him anymore halfway across the country and inviting someone to live with him purely for the remote possibility of hooking up with them farther down the line (Faye, at the beginning of QC when she burned her apartment up with a toaster or something equally retarded, after pining after her for however many strips).

He may have grown out of that shit since then, but the more recent drunken asshole strips means that there is a lot of unresolved shit in his psyche that still needs to be sorted out.

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