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God Himself Could Not Sink This Ship: Thoughts on Marten, Claire, and the Future
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
Just adding my NOPE to the NOPE pile here.
Aziraphale:
Hybris:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 23 Feb 2015, 20:17 ---Claire has to die.
Marten and Faye are the Daphne and Niles of this comic. We've known since strip 4 that Faye is supposed to be the love interest. We just can't get to that point until Jeph runs out of ideas. Before we can get there, this relationship has to end.
Marten would never initiate the breakup. Initiating a breakup makes a protagonist unlikeable.
Claire would never initiate the breakup. She doesn't think anyone else could measure up to Marten and still be into her.
Thanks to Game of Thrones, we now live in a world where main characters can die anytime without foreshadowing.
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Idea:
Que Faye and Claire talking outside CoD, car comes in crashes into them or nearby, Marten rushes out and see both girls out cold but the car is on fire!, He hesitates for a moment before grabbing Faye and dragging her to safety, then just as he turns around to get Claire car explodes killing Claire, Marten spends a few days in the hospital with shrapnel wounds fighting himself as he tries to explain to himself why he picked Faye over Claire. (Pardon the short hand.)
^That is the nicest way to permanently kill off Claire.
Now as much as I dislike Claire I will be generous and say that maybe in the coming months things just quietly peter out and neither Marten or Claire can explain why they just fell apart, or Claire after gaining relationship experience wants to simply see other people, maybe even try to initiate a relationship under her own power essentially outgrowing Marten. Marten of course being Marten while being bummed supports Claire in her choice. Maybe combine this with Clair moving to say San Fran or other great distance or have her hook up with a random girl from the college.
Beyond this I feel fairly safe in Claire\Marten not being permanent again because so much of Marten thus far is increasingly out of character for him and he is going to eventually hit a critical failure point (kinda like Faye right now) in which EVERYTHING falls including Claire. The question is how long do we have to wait for that moment and could we get a extra long strip out of it?
Gladstone:
ASB84:
I thought the true ending had already been revealed? I mean, we're all prepared to laugh it off and dismiss it because it's Yelling Bird, but what better way to keep the final twist unexpected to the end?
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