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WCDT: 2811-2815 (13-17 October 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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BenRG:

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--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Oct 2014, 02:22 ---I do not find it inconceivable that Faye could end up being put on the bus by moving to New York to live with Angus. Something similar has happened already with Hannelore, who has arguably retreated to being a secondary character whom you only usually see behind the counter at Coffee of Doom. The key to make that a satisfying end to her story would be to write her realistically responding to the effective wrap-up of her life in Northampton and the inevitable weakening of her ties to the people there.

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Hanners becoming more of a secondary character is totally different from writing Faye out of the strip.  Martin and Faye are the core of the comic - it won't be Questionable Content without all the plot lines weaving back to them eventually.  Without Faye, Jeph may as well call it quits on the comic and concentrate on the new one.

As for why Hanners isn't around like she used to be, there's a few reasons.  One is I think her character has been explored as much as she reasonably can be, but sort of stalled out.  For example, having her suddenly get over germ issues enough to date would totally break her character, but without getting over said issues she's missing out on a lot of character development/exposition that the rest of the cast has.  I also think Jeph dialed her back a bit because there were too many creepy obsessive fans of her back in the day, and it freaked him out.  Regardless, she's still here, she's just boring to use as anything other than joke strips at this point.
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The point is that Hanners story had really reached an effective conclusion when she hugged her father, proving that she was slowly on the mend. It could be argued that Faye's story of healing has become intrinsically linked with her relationship with Angus. If the relationship endures and ultimately thrives (and it will take a while to determine that, IMHO, months in-universe) then she too may fade, only appearing for the occasional weekend visit or being the contact/anchor character for any future New York-based arcs. The role of 'Marten's snarky room-mate' can be filled by anyone, given the general attitude of most characters in the strip; indeed, it has been a role of declining importance for some time with Tai at the Library and the ladies of CoD being more key as foils and sounding boards for Marten.

I'm not saying "will happen", I'm saying "plausible".

Fig:
Faye was just recently made assistant manager of CoD (can't find the exact comic at the moment) and I'm not sure she'd be comfortable with just giving that up on a whim. 

TheCallMeFez:
Yo guys, why not Hannelore as Marigold's new roommate? I feel it would be a positive step for both of them. I certainly feel this is more likely than Amir or Padma.

Also, as much as it would suck, I think it would be interesting to see how current Faye would deal with a break up over not shitty reasons. The only time we've seen her deal with something like that was with Sven, and she had a perfectly justifiable reason for rage. This would be much less so.

pwhodges:
I see a real possibility of Faye moving with Angus (after sufficient relationship and CoD drama).  Another possibility is that she takes over Angus's room in the house with Marigold, which gives him a familiar base for visiting and could help facilitate the LDR.

Either of these would leave the obvious possibility of Claire making the move out from home to the safest possible first house share - one that, given the example of Faye's history there, could even continue to be viable if Claire and Marten decide not to develop their relationship at some point in the future.

jwhouk:
Hannelore and Marigold as roommates... That's been done before, hasn't it?

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