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WCDT: 2323-2327 (19-23 November 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
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--- Quote from: Madmartigan on 19 Nov 2012, 06:52 ---This would somewhat explain the more fiery sibling rivalry now. Though "trans" is a bit of an umbrella term and doesn't explain it all.
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I think the fiery sibling rivalry is way more explained by the fact that they're twins, or even siblings. Jeph might have had your thoughts, but Claire identifying as trans doesn't really explain anything more about their rivalry than them being siblings would.
Mr. Doctor:
--- Quote from: BoDJangles on 19 Nov 2012, 06:53 ---Clinton strikes me as the type of person who is chomping at the bit for a transhuman operation to make himself into an astral corona-surfing robo-whale (go play Eclipse Phase, kids! It's hella fun!), so I can't imagine a "simple" change of gender or sexual organs bothering him in the least. I expect when the two of them had the conversation about Claire's gender identity, his first reaction was "Psh, that's ALL you want to change when we've got fully-lifelike cybernetic prosthetics available? Plebeian." Any animosity between the two is just typical sibling annoyances.
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I agree with this. I have a hard time understanding posts that say stuff like "this explains their sibling rivalry". He doesn't look like he's the kind of person that would be bothered at all and it would surprise me A LOT if he turns out that way.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: TheCommodore on 19 Nov 2012, 06:42 ---I'm just surprised no one else has mentioned being concerned about Marten's reaction to Faye here - I get the feeling he's genuinely feeling a little down about Faye and others being all happy-relationship-y when he's possibly feeling a little lonely romance-wise, not purely reacting to Faye's abrasiveness. I mean, the abrasiveness he's used to, right?
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It does come over as a reminder that he is not so long out of a relationship that he invested quite a lot into.
--- Quote from: Change on 19 Nov 2012, 07:12 ---I think the fiery sibling rivalry is way more explained by the fact that they're twins, or even siblings.
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Indeed, from my own experience, the strongest rivalry is between those who are otherwise unequal (e.g., boy and girl of different ages), and so feel they have most to prove.
Madmartigan:
--- Quote from: Karilyn on 19 Nov 2012, 05:35 ---<quoting reduced by moderator>
There actually were some lead-ups. Clinton and Claire are twins. We assumed fraternal. But they were really identical.
Seriously, look at the first panel of this comic. Jeph copy+pasted their heads, then drew different hairstyles on them.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2321
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Woah. Kinda scary. Never noticed that before. I guess it's one of those, "you don't pick it up until someone tells you it's there" things.
Totally makes sense now. But if that's foreshadowing, that's the kind you really have to look for though.
As for this being random and totally out of nowhere and comparable to Dora/Tai...
It really isn't. I was one who had a big issue of the total randomness of Dora totally fawning over Tai out of nowhere and how it made no sense in MY understanding of the comic and was thus a poor plot element..
However, Jeph got this one laid in perfectly in hindsight. Claire must have picked up on Marten's laid back personality and the fact he's friends already with Tai probably helped her just give up the secret in an easy breezy manner.
As others have said, you'd never know a trans until they said/showed it, much like don't always pick up if someone's other than hetero.
Rockman:
I d'awwwed at the poll results just now.
Great strip today, and as we can see by six pages of discussion and counting it was thought-provoking too. And it had a punchline.
(slurp)
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