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Why We LIKE Dora!

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Kugai:
She's Human.

Endellion:
This is why I love Dora.

Mr. Black Licorice:
@Endellion
Snuggling and non-sense speak are two of my favorite things...

Oenone:
I like Dora because she works to get what she wants and doesn't need hand-holding to do so.

My favorite examples of this are:

1. Her owning and managing a business.

2. Her having a secret coffee roasting technique. I really like this because it reflects her passion for her business, and it also shows she's not one of those managers/owners who thinks they're too good to do the basic maintance of owning a food service business. For me this reflects Dora's humility, Jeph's awesome research, and Dora's good sense re: managing/earning money, because roasting and grinding your own beans can make having a gourmet roast cheaper and it becomes another thing you can sell at the store and online.

3. Her honesty in asking Marten for what she wanted and needed, even when it was painful to her and him. The break up arc sucked, but at least Dora recognized it was her. Plus, she is trying counseling and seems to be taking it seriously.

4. Her willingness to be a bitch. Marten and her could've kept on with the bullshit dance in their relationship for ages, and she eventually ripped the band aid off. Faye could've continued escalating her rule violations at work, but Dora cut it that short.

5. Her willingness to make big decisions without needing hand holding from other cast members -- there's not a "omg Faye was drunk what do I do??" comic or a "Gosh, I think I need to move to Amherst" -- she's pretty consistently been able to make a decision without making the decision making process be an angst-fest for everyone involved.

6. She's nice to Marigold without needing to be told to do so. Unlike Faye.

7. She introduced Marigold to Hannelore. Friendship match made in heaven!

MrNumbers:
She has, typically, been the most adult of the cast.

The age difference between them is minimal, and yet Dora has achieved the most of this little circle of friends.

She's passionate, driven, determined, and she's more than willing to call you out on whatever crap interferes with her security.

The flip side of this coin is that she's also defensive, insecure and quite possibly too goal-oriented. When she sets her mind to something, she will follow through until reality bends to her will. Sometimes, however, what she sets her mind to is "my brother is an entirely toxic influence and entirely irredeemable" and "my boyfriend is just going to cheat on me or leave me soon, I just need to prove it so I can break up with him first, it's safer". That's where the hate comes from.

Which is also what makes her a fantastic character, and something Jeph is very good at writing, even if he's not thinking about it: Her flaws are so tangled with her virtues, it's hard to see sometimes where the virtue ends and the flaw starts. I've given a lengthy diatribe about how he accomplishes this with Marten in the WCDT, but it's not limited to Marten and Dora.

Faye's virtue is her bravado, good humour and spunk. She's a spunky chicken, that one. Her flaw is a pattern of self destruction... hidden and masked behind bravado, good humour and spunk. Oh dear.

Hannelore's virtue is being able to overcome almost anything, and just being the best person. Her flaw is everything about herself that she has to overcome and, well, probably snapping and killing everyone some day and becoming the only person.

Food for thought: The very reasons there is so much hate piled onto Dora fuel the very reasons there's so much to love and respect about her, and vice versa.

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