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Claire's Crush: Beginnings

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MooskiNet:
So, all signs point to Marten discovering (or at least acknowledging) his feelings for Claire pretty recently - but what about Claire?  When do you think she started to crush on Marty?

Yeah, this begs for over-analysis, but you guys are so damned good at it.

Carl-E:
When she came out to him at the lake party. 

No, wait - it was probably during intern training, when she was righteously indignant, and then when he took their training seriously, she apologized and thanked him. 

Aw hell, who knows when a crush begins?  It's usually pretty close to first sight. 

BenRG:
My guess is that it was at the lake party. It's the only reason I can think of why she should come out to him at that moment. Yes, he was a colleague and they were developing a friendship. However, the act of coming out seemed to me at the time totally out-of-context and out-of-the-blue. I do have to wonder if she was feeling an attraction to him and wanted this particular skeleton out of her cupboard as soon as possible.

I suspect that she expected him to distance himself from her as a result of her telling him the truth. When he didn't, it deepened the crush. From that point on, what happened the night after the wedding reception in Vermont was inevitable.

Carl-E:
See, I think it was earlier, prompting her coming out at the lake party, hence my revision.  Throughout training and working with him, she was attracted by his overall character and niceness - a crush developed.  Where did it start exactly?  Probably when her feelings about his being an incompetent boob reversed, during the training montage. 

BenRG:
I'll say something else. I think we can thank Cossette. Why? Normally, I think Claire kept her sexuality locked up tight due to self-esteem issues. However, Cossette teasing her and offering to let her pat Steve's butt for ten dollars made her start thinking about men in a sensual way for a while (alcohol probably helped too). I suspect she started looking around, feeling a bit jealous of Cossette and Steve as well as Faye and Angus and this made her suddenly realise what a nice guy Marten was (both on a physical and behavioural level).

It's interesting that the Lake Party in many ways marks a behavioural sea-change in Claire too. Since then, she's become a lot less confrontational and a lot more stable, losing her superiority complex almost entirely. She's made a clear effort to rein in her neuroses and relate to others on a more equal level. As well as realising that she likes likes Marten, I think that was the point when she realised that she potentially has a large circle of non-familial friends, possibly for the first time since she began her transition. She wanted that and it has made her make a lot of effort to improve herself.

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