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WCDT 2976-2980 (8 - 12 June 2015)
electromgneticDstroyosaur:
--- Quote from: rfrank dodelijk on 08 Jun 2015, 06:40 ---faye is far better off drunk than sober considering the company she keeps.
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--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 08 Jun 2015, 07:08 ---Faye knows she has a problem, and she's addicted to booze. She literally found it impossible to go more than a few days without it. That's pretty textbook drinking problem.
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I think the proper reaction is "dear god what hell awaits our cast once Faye sobers up?" Not defending her drinking in any way, but this night is headed for seven flavours of disaster that she is by no means prepared for.
Schwungrad:
I see some parallels to Dora/Tai: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2914
themacnut:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 08 Jun 2015, 05:10 ---The fact that Faye had to intervene to make today's healthy moment possible shows that the passive, takes-all-shit Marten Reed is still in there. I think he's grown enough to have made this right on his own, but not enough to see that there was no sense in waiting.
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The thing is though, Marten was between a rock and a hard place, at least in his own mind. He didn't want to break a possible confidence by telling Faye's private business to a relative stranger (to Faye at least), nor did he want to leave Faye alone. On the other hand, he didn't want to subject his girlfriend to drunk Faye, or vice versa, especially considering the two women did not get along with each other very well when Faye was sober. I'm not sure how he could have resolved that dilemma without Faye's intervention, especially since it seems from today's strip that Claire did NOT guess that Faye had fallen off the wagon.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Khazgar on 08 Jun 2015, 04:25 ---[...] and Marten is neither equipped nor able to function as her minder/nurse - to expect him to is absolutely unfair on him.
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Show me, exactly where, Faye has ever asked -anyone- to be her minder/nurse/maid/moral support/etc (other than going to Hanners to keep her distracted when the urges for booze were strong, reluctantly, might I add - she didn't want to burden her with her problems and said as much, as I recall) - which, imo, was a smart thing to do)? As has been shown time and again, Marten chronically does things in support of his friends, to the detriment of him and/or his relationships.
Faye has actually done the opposite of asking him to stay by her side - she actively called his girlfriend to get her over there because she doesn't want Marten screwing himself over jsut to be her babysitter. If that's not -not- asking for help, I don't know what is.
If a friend offers help without being requested, I don't see how the person being helped is suddenly taking advantage of that friend even if that help wasn't asked for. The logic train has left the station, folks.
EDIT: Alright, I found one instance where Faye asked Marten to talk to her for a while, when she was freaked out after her first date with Angus. Still isn't anything more than asking for a friends ear. If you can't ask that of a friend, then you might as well not have friends at all.
Kugai:
So, whose gonna take the first watch?
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