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WCDT: 2811-2815 (13-17 October 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
lot_jockey:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 17 Oct 2014, 01:41 ---@FilliamHMuffman,
The point to remember is that, in a very real sense, Faye is not an adult. She's a sixteen year old girl in a twenty-six year old woman's body who's just watched her father blow his brains out in front of her. She's made progress over the past 18 or so in-universe months but not that much; certainly not enough to be willing to give up her surrogate family and hometown (or at least that is what she is being asked to do in her darker subconscious) for what is emotionally on a par with a schoolyard love affair.
--- End quote ---
She was 19 or 20 when her father killed himself.
T:
And again people resort to violence to deal with mental issues... A kid with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? Give him a good beating! Aspergers? Beat the kid until it start behaving like a normal human! Post traumatic stress disorder? A good beating will teach you to stop being such a scared kid!
Signal Firefly:
The issue is that the idea of "mental age" is often a factor in the dehumanization and mistreatment of people with mental disabilities. It may make things easier to conceptualize, but it tends to do more harm than good in people's perception of those it's applied to.
reicreature:
Man, this is pretty shitty of Faye. Regardless of whether she doesn't want a long distant relationship or not she could at the very least be good enough to be happy for Angus in what would be an amazing opportunity to follow his dreams. It's a rare and coveted success and that she cannot even extend enough support to TRY and live up to her "I love you" and help him out.
I realize that she has severe trauma that she is working though, but this kind of thing is just...
Really selfish.
This is his dream job and a rare coveted success in a field that is very difficult to break into. I can imagine that he is both thrilled and terrified and that she's not even trying to be supportive, not even willing to be a friend to him through this is just awful. It taints the success and is borderline vengeful.
Ugh...
Mordhaus:
Well, this 'could' go one of three ways:
1. Angus decides that his dream job means nothing without the person he loves being there with him. He embraces Faye and tells her this, tells her that the decision is in her hands now. He then gives her some time to decide if he stays or they both go, perhaps talking to her friends in an unbiased way to get them to help her make the decision.
2. He decides that he doesn't love her enough to sacrifice his dream job, tells her this gently, and moves on. She realizes that she didn't love him enough to risk change and tries to find ways to grow mentally so this doesn't happen again.
3. They both go complain to friends, strangers, and drink heavily. They simply leave one another in the worst way, with everything unresolved. Sven sees this as his golden opportunity to swoop in and snag Faye, leading us back to a dead relationship and no issues resolved for Faye's mental state at all. She remains non-adult in her persona and doesn't grow as a character.
Normally I would say option 3 is the safest bet to happen, since characters learning to be adults and find happiness is sort of the anti-QC storyline. However, the recent Marten/Claire storyline could indicate a turning point for how the characters react going forward.
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