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WCDT: Strips 2892 to 2896 (9th - 13th February 2015)
Endellion:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 12 Feb 2015, 19:16 ---Well, I guess whatever Faye did to Pintsize (presumably Faye anyway) wasn't serious and he just needed to be turned on/rebooted. On the other hand... I've never seen Pintsize intimidated before.
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Dora's (sorta) intimidated him before.
...and if that's a borrowed shirt it's probably best that she didn't wear (one of) the THE shirts Marten has*, that might be worse than sharing the same plumage
*And before you get the nitpicking hats on I'm fully aware that Claire has one already.
AprilArcus:
--- Quote from: Quantum Glass on 12 Feb 2015, 21:39 ---Y'know, funny thing is, I can't actually imagine Pintsize doing anything to deserve whatever happened to him. He's a little troll, sure, but he always tried to help Marten when the guy felt down.
Mind, he wasn't good at it, but he always tried, and I can't imagine him (Deliberately) angering Faye, given the current circumstances.
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I think he tried to get Faye to stop drinking before she hurt herself, and she turned him off when he wouldn't leave her alone.
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Orkboy on 12 Feb 2015, 21:19 ---
--- Quote from: Mr. Black Licorice on 12 Feb 2015, 19:26 ---... even really chilled out guys have their look of death. :-o
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Especially the chill guys. We store intimidation points for later use. All humans naturally generate intimidation points, and while some people increase the generation rate, some of us make use of the fact that there is no cap on your reserves. Nerd Rage uses a similar mechanic.
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You know, I can identify... While never precisely a guy I've been told that at times when I get really angry I can be really, really scary without meaning to. I've apparently cut of a few fights from happening back in high school just by giving people the cold stare. Of course, then there is what happen when I go right past 'really angry' and into full on 'hulk rage' mode....
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: cesariojpn on 12 Feb 2015, 21:28 ---
--- Quote from: HannahRose on 12 Feb 2015, 20:00 ---I don't think that it's a matter of him being intimidated. Instead I think it's a matter of him understanding just how grave a violation of trust and personal space it would be for him to pursue that particular topic. I mean the little guy might be a bit of a sadist who enjoys messing with people, but he's not without decency, and he does actually care about Marten and his friends, albeit in his own strange way sometimes. :P
Plus there's the fact that Marten rarely draws a line with Pintsize. Because of that, on the rare occasion that Marten does put his foot down, Pintsize probably understands that he's super duper serious, and he'd better not push it. lol
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Does Pintsize even know Claire is transgendered? Aside from the paddling (the only known instance that Claire has met Pinysize), has Marten even told Pintsize this fact?
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Pintsize likely doesn't know, and I seriously doubt if Marten would've said anything. It's usually a pretty serious breach of trust to out someone who's not out already.
--- Quote from: Dark Matter on 12 Feb 2015, 21:44 ---
--- Quote from: Quantum Glass on 12 Feb 2015, 21:39 ---Friends don't break friends.
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It's a good thing that he doesn't seem to be broken, then. Or affected at all, for that matter.
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I get the feeling that Faye probably shut Pintsize off, not wanting to be talked out of drinking herself into oblivion.
--- Quote from: Dark Matter on 12 Feb 2015, 21:28 ---
--- Quote from: Oenone on 12 Feb 2015, 19:53 ---IDK, I guess I miss sassy Claire. In my head canon, Claire's had to develop a barbed tongue to defend herself and her brother, because of her gender identity, his general weirdness, and whatever family dynamics led to her instant judgment of Tai. The meekness is weird to me, because it doesn't match her age in my head (she's in an MA program) or her earlier personality. Playing the ingenue doesn't suit her.
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It doesn't feel that out of character to me. I feel like Claire has always had both a sassy, snarky side and a more shy, vulnerable side, which come out in different situations. That's part of what I relate to about her character, because I also tend to swing between those types of behavior depending on the situation I'm in.
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I'm with Dark Matter on this one. The snark is a defense mechanism. She's able to trust Marten, and so she's able to show a side of her personality that'd normally be encased in snark. She's not playing the ingenue so much as just letting her hair down. If she is, or feels, threatened, that barbed tongue will come back in a heartbeat.
I could be projecting, to a degree -- when I have a mind to, I can be opaque to people I don't know or trust. But the way she's acting now isn't so much out of character as another facet of the person she already is, and has been.
mustang6172:
--- Quote from: cesariojpn on 12 Feb 2015, 21:28 ---
--- Quote from: HannahRose on 12 Feb 2015, 20:00 ---I don't think that it's a matter of him being intimidated. Instead I think it's a matter of him understanding just how grave a violation of trust and personal space it would be for him to pursue that particular topic. I mean the little guy might be a bit of a sadist who enjoys messing with people, but he's not without decency, and he does actually care about Marten and his friends, albeit in his own strange way sometimes. :P
Plus there's the fact that Marten rarely draws a line with Pintsize. Because of that, on the rare occasion that Marten does put his foot down, Pintsize probably understands that he's super duper serious, and he'd better not push it. lol
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Does Pintsize even know Claire is transgendered? Aside from the paddling (the only known instance that Claire has met Pinysize), has Marten even told Pintsize this fact?
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Claire has only come out to Marten and Emily. Of course all the main characters will be nothing less than accepting of Claire, because Jeph can't write a character whom doesn't reflect his own worldview without turning that character into a strawman.
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