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WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
Orkboy:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 20 Jan 2015, 04:59 ---@bhtooefr,
Actually, I can see Claire being defensive of Marten and getting into an argument with Faye about how her behaviour is hurting him. This would come as a cold slap in the face for Faye who, like many in her situation, isn't likely to consider the affects of her behaviour on others until it is literally rubbed in her face.
It's even money if this would make her turn around or if it would be another personal fault in the increasingly long list that makes her question the value of her continued existence.
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Actually, I see it going a different way. I think Faye would lash out at Claire, Marten immediately backs up his girlfriend, Faye loses another friend, and discovers that you can still dig yourself deeper after you hit rock bottom if you try hard enough.
Is it cold in here?:
Dora could have offered a hug right after the breakup, and could have said she was concerned when Faye first turned to a bottle.
I'd think better of her skills as a friend, as would many people who've posted.
It wouldn't have made a difference. Faye would still have gone off the rails and Dora would have been confronted with the same decision.
It's relevant that Faye snapped pretty fast.
Echoweaver:
Heya. Longtime QC reader, first time poster -- because the need to talk about today's post finally overcame my laziness and made me go hunt up the forum.
My first thought reading through this thread was that Faye isn't automatically an alcoholic because she self-medicates with alcohol. Alcohol's addictiveness is tricksy (I love that Chrome marks "tricksey" as misspelled but is fine with "tricksy"), and not all problems that present as excessive drinking are physical addiction to alcohol. In some ways, I think it would be interesting if her problem was alcoholism, just because that would be a different take on things.
However, after following the links everyone posted and thinking about how long this has been building, I think she probably is an alcoholic. Faye seems to be able to keep her drinking within the bounds of acceptability when she has everything else under control. But when life hands her a stressbomb, especially one like this with built-in recrimination and self-loathing, she just loses it.
I'm on the side of Dora here. "You will be fired if drunk at work." is often a biggie in the old employee handbook. Being the boss of your friends (literally rather than figuratively) is dangerous. I think she HAS to fire Faye, perhaps more so even than if she had no relationship with Faye outside of work. She's a small business owner living on the edge. She can't afford the conflict of interest and the potential damage it could do to CoD.
Faye leaving CoD may well have broad consequences for the story. It enables Dora and CoD to move even further to the periphery of QC. I don't know if that will happen or not, but that *is* the way relationships and life tend to happen.... they slowly drift and change.
I think it's interesting that Sven has walked back into Faye's life recently. I've always secretly wanted to see Sven and Faye give it another go. I adore Sven precisely because he's a shithead -- a shithead who now can see him self and is trying desperately to bootstrap his head out of his ass. I think that if Sven gets word of Faye's newfound single status, he's likely to track her down. I think the probability of this being a Bad Thing is about 70%, with a 20% chance of it actually being a chance for Sven to take his next step to humanity, and 10% being just peripheral annoyance.
It's going to be hard to wait till tomorrow morning for another comic.
Y:
--- Quote from: Orkboy on 20 Jan 2015, 09:46 ---Actually, I see it going a different way. I think Faye would lash out at Claire, Marten immediately backs up his girlfriend, Faye loses another friend, and discovers that you can still dig yourself deeper after you hit rock bottom if you try hard enough.
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I would think Marten usually keeps cool, and wouldn't back up either side in this case. I seem to remember that it wouldn't be the first time.
twixieshores:
--- Quote from: MooskiNet on 20 Jan 2015, 07:18 ---Faye has done what Faye does: duck relationships and drink to dull the pain.
Dora has done what Dora does: angry knee-jerk reaction.
It remains to be seen if Marten will do what Marten does (support Faye unconditionally).
Tai and Claire are unknown quantities in this sort of issue, but if they don't end up being involved, I'll be disappointed.
Good stuff, storytelling-wise.
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Actually, in this case, Dora is doing what literally any boss in the real world would do after catching their employee drinking on the job. The only place that is even SOMEWHAT acceptable is a bar. Faye has blown through a million chances with Dora. This isn't a knee-jerk reaction, it's an entrepreneur who has had enough of her employee taking advantage of their friendship.
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