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God Himself Could Not Sink This Ship: Thoughts on Marten, Claire, and the Future

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Neko_Ali:
The Faye/Dora/Marten relationship is a lot different than the Faye/Claire/Marten relationship as well. Both Faye and Dora had some romantic intentions towards Marten at the time, but Faye was not in an emotional position to act on them. And Marten had romantic feelings towards both Faye and Dora. While everyone may have agreed that it was best that Marten move on and find happiness in someone else rather than wait and see if Faye would ever be in a state where she could get that close to someone... emotions are a lot harder to convince than logic. So there is that friction. Then you add in Dora's relationship trust issues, and the Faye/Dora work relationship and yeah.. it's not that surprising that things were stressful.

Now though, the ship Fayten not only never sailed, but it's been decommissioned and re purposed. Faye and Marten's relationship is not and super unlikely ever will be of a romantic nature. They are now closer to best friends or siblings. Claire has no jealousy issues towards Faye, or bad experiences with past romances to color her relationship with Marten. And Faye herself approved of and pushed Claire towards Marten, offering up her approval of the pairing. The two women may have some abrasive edges around each other, but both know they are not competing for Marten's romantic affection.

Morituri:
I dunno, but I sort of expect that having sex happens when a relationship has reached a point where you trust each other.

Finding out that someone I just slept with used to be a guy wouldn't shatter my mind, but realizing that someone was okay with having sex with me but not ready to trust me -- I think I'd find that more than a little weird.

To me the whole deal of realizing that the trust you thought existed wasn't there for her (or at least not enough to let you in on something like that) would be disturbing.

Is it cold in here?:
Dora should have known better than to say "used to be a man". Though in fairness to her there was a lot less understanding of trans* issues back then.

Kugai:
Global Moderator Comment Morituri, I think that that type of discussion has been done to death in other locations and unless anyone has any useful new contributions, the matter should be considered done and dusted.

Is it cold in here?:
Global Moderator Comment For anyone who is rolling their eyes wondering what we're talking about, current policy was the result of hearing from multiple forum members from trans backgrounds and especially from some with a proven record of not sweating the small stuff. The older cartoons are not a safe guide to how to talk about trans* people. That said, the moderators will have a sense of proportion about accidents by people who simply haven't yet absorbed all the information about trans etiquette.

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