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WCDT: 2801-2805 (29th September - 3rd October) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Rghfrgl:
Maybe I'm just nitpicking, but I don't think it's out of character for Marten to be smooth. It's out of character for him to take the initiative, but he's not lacking in the social skills, particularly with people he knows well.
And the sudden initiative could be the alcohol or a mix of the alcohol and lots of nights laying on the bed thinking about what he wants.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 29 Sep 2014, 14:43 ---As much as she was blushing, she probably felt like a blast furnace. :)
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If she bursts into flames, I will not be happy. That would bode ill for the 'ship.
Madmartigan:
This just seems out of left field to me.
Not that their relationship, for obvious reasons, bothers me in any way.
But it just doesn't make much sense to me. Maybe that's poor development on Jeph's part in convincing Marten has any romantic interest whatsoever in Claire, or that there has been virtually no basis to back any of it up whereas with Tai and Dora, Marten and Dora, and Faye and Marten, there was always sexual tension under the service and you could just...tell that something would either happen, or it angst would continue to unfold until one got hitched to someone else.
I mean, Marten has always seemed rather parental or brotherly or platonic, and whatnot around Claire. The love that isn't romantic or sexual. And his reaction while drunk is just odd. No facial signs of his face to denote potential luvin or something. Just cool, collected calm. Maybe that's because Claire is most certainly inexperienced but...
Everything about this romantically just screams...harmless catering to what peeps want. First time I've ever said that.
Bah....but then I always have this issue, like with that nonsensical pairing of childhood when Rowling put Hermione with the soulless ginger. :psyduck:
Sometimes I'm super convinced, other times I just scratch my head and go.....I don't fucking get it, man.
de_la_Nae:
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--- Quote from: KOK on 28 Sep 2014, 22:18 ---
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 28 Sep 2014, 20:12 ---It might be worth to mention, that Marten's idea of dating an intern goes further than just dating-a-coworker-trouble. It's rather a dating-a-superior-trouble. He's afraid that it might come off as him forcing the intern into a relationship through his position of power as superior.
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He is not her superior. He is a lowly unskilled helper. She is on the career track to become a librarian. She has way more status than him. Her superior must be some librarian. Marten has been given the task of showing her the ropes. He is not her boss.
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Not a superior in any kind of sense that he's her boss, but he'd still be considered a supervisor by all reasonable definitions. In 2203, Tai saddled Marten with the responsibility of training the interns, which regardless of his actual job rank, made him their supervisor. Heck, that's what being a being a trainer *IS*.... and he would remain their supervisor for exactly as long as it remained his responsibility to train them. Once that responsibility is complete, however, he is no longer their supervisor, since he is no longer responsible for them. At no point in this does Marten's job rank need to change up or down during this process in any way.... it's just perfectly ordinary job responsibility evolution. Heck, I've trained new people at my job all the time that I have absolutely no kind of job rank over... but for the duration that I am training them, I'm still their supervisor, and I have a responsibility to train them to do their job to maximum effectiveness. It's really less of a superior position and much more of a leadership kind of thing really... but keeping all of the same ethical standards of professionalism would still apply.
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No it doesn't, you just got suckered into doing work that you weren't compensated for.
Loki:
--- Quote from: Madmartigan on 29 Sep 2014, 15:04 ---Bah....but then I always have this issue, like with that nonsensical pairing of childhood when Rowling put Hermione with the soulless ginger. :psyduck:
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You mean when Rowling put Harry with the soulless ginger.
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