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Claire's Crush: Beginnings
DSL:
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--- Quote from: Storel on 29 Oct 2014, 00:22 ---I respect your headcannon as if it were your religion. 8-)
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Well, since that's supposed to be St. Paul's head on that cannon, it's appropriate.
Except I have no religion. It was shot off in the war.
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Yeah, but Paul's head is growing out of the breech of that cannon. What does that make the muzzle?
Krald:
Claire also was not being all that subtle here http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2785 on second reading.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Krald on 29 Oct 2014, 05:16 ---Claire also was not being all that subtle here http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2785 on second reading.
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Oh yeah, by that point she was deep into crush territory, wasn't she? Wearing a pretty blue dress with a low front (and back too, I presume) and trying, no matter how ineptly, to flirt with Marten! I don't think anyone could seriously doubt that!
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To add further strength to this conclusion, check out Claire's body language and other subconscious tells in strip 2786! The thought of Marten losing the job and moving away was pretty stressful from what I'm seeing!
Blackbird:
Regardless of when Claire's crush began, I don't think she realized it until after the wedding (just like Marten's feeling for Claire certainly started before the baby duck skritch night, but he didn't realize it until then).
To me, the sudden outing of herself and the less-obnoxious personality after the the lake house seems less like the beginning of a crush and more like that's when she started thinking of Marten as a real friend (as opposed to just a work friend), and probably the first real friend she's had in a long time. I agree with others that the sudden "hey, I'm trans" was supposed to be a defense mechanism to give Marten a chance to have a problem with it before she started caring about him, but at the time I think it was more of a platonic caring, or at least that's what she told herself. From there, her actions all seem like they're coming from a "you're my only real friend besides my dorky brother and I want to be a good friend" place rather than an attraction. This includes offering to drive him to the wedding.
Then, she went to the wedding with him and realized (a) that she felt entirely safe with him and (b) that his family is so eccentric and accepting that they'd accept her for who she is if something were to develop with Marten. It was after those realizations and the fact that he wasn't bothered by her drunkenly cuddling him (as he would have been if he considered her to be a guy) that she started admitting to herself that Marten could be more than a friend.
That's just my read on it, of course. The main reason I love QC is that the plots are so outwardly simple yet so subtly complex.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: DSL on 29 Oct 2014, 02:56 ---Yeah, but Paul's head is growing out of the breech of that cannon. What does that make the muzzle?
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Never stand at the north end of a south bound saint.
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