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WCDT: 2873-2877 (12-16 January 2015)

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ysth:
"The seriousness of this whole discussion is beautiful. It reminds me of Talk:Lateral coital position"

Rghfrgl:

--- Quote from: MooskiNet on 11 Jan 2015, 15:37 ---
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 11 Jan 2015, 15:28 ---Although that "Mayyyyybe" in panel 2 looks a bit flirtatious to me. 

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This.  The good news is, he's sober and happy.  The bad news is it may not end up mattering to Faye.

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I'm sure Hanners is eavesdropping. She'll step in before things get dark.

eschaton:

--- Quote from: Loki on 11 Jan 2015, 15:06 ---This really has the feel of one of the earlier strips.

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I can totally hear Faye's southern drawl coming out in the third panel!


--- Quote from: Gladstone on 11 Jan 2015, 15:28 ---Although that "Mayyyyybe" in panel 2 looks a bit flirtatious to me. 

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Damn.  Faye can't be drunk/stupid enough to make a move on Marten, right?  Marten turning her down is assured (even if he wasn't with Claire, he's too much of a standup guy to let anything happen while a friend is drunk/depressed. 

But if Faye makes a move, and is scorned, where can she possibly go to be assured comfort?   :wink:

ReindeerFlotilla:
Just want to say that I don't think Faye is suicidal, atm. I was trying to illustrate how depression progresses from logic to illogic in a continuous manner.

How Faye deals with being depressed is an unknown--though I think we're learning, now. We know she's had to deal with bad stuff before, but her descriptions sound less like a depression and more like a break--That she doesn't remember her accident isn't surprising, but that she is confused enough about her state of mind that she doesn't know if it was an accident suggests a confused state of mind.

This is super consistent with Faye's current behavior from an author's POV. It's all thematically "Faye." When facing painful realities, Faye runs away. Her father commits suicide, Faye flees into mental breakdown. People Faye unconditional love, she gives them punches in return. Indeed, as creepy as Angus's courting of her was, given her general attitude, his willingness to get verbally and physically beaten probably made him the most likely candidate to begin with. Angus is very difficult to push away or run from.

See? it even sounds creepy.

One could imagine that The Nightly Show (with Larry Wilmore?) was the excuse she needed to go back to old habits. It's possible. But that would suggest that it is a habit, because it wasn't a plan.

People get into habits like these because the bad things that result are indistinguishable from their status quo. Pushing people away is painless if you've created a lonely life. Letting people in removes the lonely. If you are in the habit of pushing people away, you may create lonely when you had none.

It's clear that Faye was used to a certain lack of intimacy. Being friends with Marten changed that, somewhat. But Angus was a big change for her. It's very likely that she balked at the long distance thing out of habit, without any idea of how painful it would be.

I'm not suggesting that staying with Angus was her best choice. For all we know, her fears of LDR point to very real issues that would have been even more painful. But I am saying that Faye didn't realize how much this would hurt.

As to whether Faye would put a move on Marten--Faye is more selfish than Marten. There's a bit less of the old morality in Faye than Marten.

Drunk Marten made a (Terrible) pass at Faye during a depressive mood. If he could do it, she certainly can.

But I'm not expecting that. Faye's like that when she's enjoying herself. That kind of exaggerated action can be indicative of flirting--Someone trying to be super obvious--or it could be that she's trying to convince herself that she's having a good time. (Or it could be that she's having a good time. Pintsize might be better at this companion thing than anyone imagines.)

tragic_pizza:
I didn't see the "maaaybe" as flirtatious. It's Faye trying to be funny.

Marten and Faye are 'way beyond drunken passes, 'way beyond that kind of thing crossing either of their minds. It would be - to both of them - like making out with your sibling.

Warning - while you were typing a new shipper has posted. You may wish to give up and go learn macrame.

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