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Claire's Crush: Beginnings
Aziraphale:
I'd date it from just after the wedding reception. Obviously, she liked him well enough as a friend and trusted him enough to come out to him at the lake party; the way he took that, the fact that he didn't treat her any differently afterward, and that he was also understanding of her anxiety over falling asleep with him after the reception, I think validated that trust, let some feelings develop, and made her realize that however things worked out, she'd be safe with him.
ReindeerFlotilla:
Claire is difficult to read. With most of the cast, Jeph starts the emotion with the shape of the eyes. Claire doesn't. She seems to be more about the eyebrows.
It's hard to get a good read from her dialogue. She tends to start speaking, and start over often. Best guess: Claire is easy to fluster. But she is also dogged, so she tends to push through.
I think Claire got Marten coffee on day two for exactly the reason she gave. Some time between the lake house and the wedding, is my best guess.
Claire seems to have told Marten about her because the author needed her to do that. Or maybe because she was supposed to be more impulsive than she ended up being. Jeph tends to figure these things out as he goes.
Let's say it was a spur of the moment thing. It happens. The thing is, people don't like decisions they don't understand. Example: science took a person who right and left brain are not connected and tested him. If you show this man a picture that only his left eye can see, he can't describe it, because his left brain controls the speech centers (left brain sees with the right eye, for those who didn't know). Anyway, in one test they gave the man the instruction to get up and leave the room, now. But only in the left eye. The idea being to see if the left brain could pick up on this in any way. So then, they asked him why he was leaving the room. He said he wanted a coke. This is basically repeatable. Give instructions to the side of the brain that can't speak then ask the side that can, why are you doing that, and the patient will make up an answer.
So maybe Claire asked, "why did I tell him that, really?"I
She didn't have to answer, "because I have a crush on him." In fact, it would make sense if her answer was "I don't know." Because that's not satisfying. And the fastest route to infatuation is asking yourself why in relation to the other person.
She starts with the baby duck impression after the party. She's definitely infatuated by the night of the wedding. I'd pin it to very close to the lake house. Mostly because that is also when she changed the way she wears her hair.
GarandMarine:
Going to vast my vote with the pre-lake house group.
Rghfrgl:
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 28 Oct 2014, 08:52 ---During training. Her crush is fully established by the next day.
--- End quote ---
I was going to point to this. Although there's a chance she was just trying to make up for getting in Marten's face. Or just actually kissing ass.
MooskiNet:
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 28 Oct 2014, 08:52 ---During training. Her crush is fully established by the next day.
--- End quote ---
That's persuasive, except I'm not seeing something that is as much a part of Claire's persona as her floofy red hair: her blushing. I'm not believing she could hand her crush a cup of coffee and get called out on it and not blush like she's been caught with her hand in a cookie jar.
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