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God Himself Could Not Sink This Ship: Thoughts on Marten, Claire, and the Future
Oenone:
That's true -- Claire has never known Fayeten to be an actual possibility, since by the time she met Marten Marten and Faye had already started dating other people.
Also I think Faye is in a way better place -- she's in group to talk about her alcoholism, she's got a job she likes... Maybe Faye can be less territorial because she's got less to lose if Marten gets close to another girl.
mustang6172:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 08 Jan 2016, 18:53 ---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.
--- End quote ---
Let me put a logical pin in this once and for all.
Dora's hypothetical alter-ego is not trans.
Dora's hypothetical alter-ego used the phrase "used to be a man."
A trans person would not use the phrase "used to be a man."
Therefore, Dora's hypothetical alter-ego is not trans. QED
Canon preserved. Movin' on!
Gladstone:
Definitely should've let this discussion stay buried.
Anyway, the time-skip presumably means that most of Faye's troubles are behind her--she's several months' sober and doing pretty well at her job, best buds with Bubbles, etc.--so I hope we get to focus on someone else now. It would be a great time to bring Claire back to the foreground. Not Claire and Marten, of course (do we need another hundred strips right now of them being cute together? Nah...), but just Claire by herself. She's apparently not interning at the library anymore, which is nice, because there were only so many more times did she could clash with Tai before it got old. So, what now? Is she still on track to her career goals? Did her internship change anything? A lot of the questions I brought up in my original post still stand, I think. Well, mostly. Claire seems to be fairly well established as an important QC character, but she hasn't had much of a role lately beyond being Marten's Girlfriend. It would be nice if we got more of a glimpse into Claire's life (family/social/etc.) outside of her relationship with Marten.
Undrneath:
I also would like some new character development for Claire. I would assume that being a TA is a step in her chosen career path towards librarianship.
Zebediah:
Being a TA is one of those things you have to do in graduate school, which is a step towards her career goal, so yeah.
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