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Characters who have "Personality transplants"...

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Aziraphale:

--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 01 Mar 2015, 08:31 ---I disagree, to some degree. When Hanners was first introduced she was sassy and sarcastic just like every other female character that hd been introduced at that point. Whether it was a conscious decision or not is a separate debate, but I feel that her divergence from what she started out as has not only made her a more interesting character overall, with more depth, but has actually added more depth to the cast as a whole rather than being 'just anoother sassy female'.

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Okay, but I'd argue that in contrast to Faye, for instance (where if you take away the sass you're not left with much besides a garden-variety misanthrope), Hanners also showed -- and voiced -- a lot more awareness not only of herself but of the other characters in those early strips. Whereas if you took away the various tics and Flanderized manifestations of her anxiety and OCD, it seems you'd likewise be left with very little of Hanners at this point.

Half Empty Coffee Cup:
I dunno... seems she's showing a good awareness of how to handle Faye in the most recent strips.

Jab:
Of the characters who have been stated to have changed personality:

Hannelore: Obviously just a case of the writer changing tactics with her immediately- I remember it being pretty quick. She's so unrecognizable in the early strips that it's basically admitted in-strip that it was out of character. I actually liked the original character, but yeah- "Sassy Girl" wasn't exactly unknown to the strip even THEN, and Hannelore's been basically the same for years afterwards. Though she's had more character growth since "Doe-Eyed Nervous OCD Nutcase Hanners" became a thing. She's still the same character, but she can do things she'd never done before.

Dora: I view this as more character growth/becoming who she truly was. It's established right early on that Dora hid a lot of her emotional troubles behind a façade of "Sassy Smirking Girl", and wasn't nearly as confident as she'd seemed to be. When she was with Marten, we saw a lot more of her temperamental side, and how mentally-messed-up she could be. So she didn't really "change personality", we just saw her true self later on.

Steve: Seems more or less the same- his character revolved a lot around being Marten's sounding board and confidante (since Pintsize really wasn't up to the task anymore)- you'll notice that he appears to have no male friends OTHER than Marten, who's usually hanging out with other people. He's generally a bit less intelligent, but more confident than Marten. That aspect really hasn't changed.


Overall though, I think most of the cast has changed and moved on in a natural manner. Well, Pintsize sort of went off the rails at some point, to the level where he's barely even a real character anymore (I did like that one strip where he revealed that he DID his job as an AnthroPC with Marten, though). Full Flanderization, if you will.

Jab:
Has Marten changed a lot? I think so in a few ways:

* He's more open now. He initially seemed like your classic "Shy Nerdy Boy" who could never make a move on anyone. Even years into the strip, Dora would comment that "he has the confidence of a sea slug". Nowadays he's way more willing to make the first move.

* The whole "always apologizing" thing became a running thing- it makes sense with his prior ultra-low confidence personality.

* He seems way less into music. Granted, every character is a bit, but it seemed like his life revolved around it at first.

This is largely Character Development, as it doesn't really feel like he just got a whole new personality transplanted onto him. He's still possessing of no motivation, and is generally good-natured but passive.

Half Empty Coffee Cup:
He only seems less into music because we haven't seen a Deathmole session in a while.

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