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God Himself Could Not Sink This Ship: Thoughts on Marten, Claire, and the Future
Gladstone:
There's a bit of a kerfuffle over in the timeline thread due to the revelation in today's comic that the date is Tuesday, several days later than previously thought. Part of the debate has to do with how the academic schedule matches up with Marten and Claire's work schedule, which led me to wonder something regarding the What Does Claire Want?/What Next? questions:
With classes in session and the library busier, the conversation she and Marten had in 2366 comes back into play. What happens when Claire's expectations about library life meets reality? She's more passionate about the job than Tai or Marten, and wants to make it a career, but those two are old hands at the job by now; can Claire put aside her philosophical differences with Tai (re: the sanctity of libraries) enough to learn how to survive the daily grind? It's something else I hope Jeph decides to explore.
And while I'm not suggesting that Tai introduces Claire to recreational drugs to help her mellow out and deal with the stress, you have to admit it would be hilarious...
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Gladstone on 01 Mar 2015, 23:44 ---And while I'm not suggesting that Tai introduces Claire to recreational drugs to help her mellow out and deal with the stress, you have to admit it would be hilarious...
--- End quote ---
Claire already uses a prescription antianxiety drug. I agree that her experience of a college library at peak usage times is going to be a shock. I can see her over-medicating and Marten having to take the resulting zombie home until she regains voluntary body control. I can also see Tai telling Claire that it's okay to be rude to troublemakers and giving her tips on the zingers to use on them.
big89:
I'm going to take this in a different direction and say that I'm honestly surprised that Marten went for Claire after expressing how he doesn't care to have sex with a trans woman (Read comic 615). That is of course assuming that he was being serious and not simply joking(which he appeared to be doing). So at the bare minimum he made a joke saying how sleeping with a trans Dora would "Shatter my mind". Maybe this points to Marten having issues that he isn't dealing with due to his infatuation with Claire. Just so I don't accidentally get some label I don't want, I have no problem with any relationship in this story, plus Claire and Marten are cute together.
Gladstone:
615 was well over a year ago, in-comic, and over ten years ago in our time, so either Marten has matured since then, or Jeph has, or both (answer: it's both). I would suggest reading this discussion on Marten's evolution as a character from someone who could make/participate in a transphobic joke to someone who is clearly comfortable dating a trans person.
Is it cold in here?:
A secondary point is that Marten now has a real trans woman to think about, not some generic imaginary one.
Marten may simply have been playing the same game Dora was, also.
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