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WCDT Strips 3206 to 3210 (25 to 29 April 2016)

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swapna:

--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 26 Apr 2016, 02:17 ---Good on Emily for knowing where she stands, time management wise. Instead of juggling dating, work, and school, she has identified her priorities and knows what she needs to do to balance them.

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Yeah! She might be a genius who will further science by miles by making a sweater, but it makes a lot of sense that she has to work hard for it.

Clintons reaction is better than last time, I guess! This time, he accepts that the lady declines and doesn't stalk her! And he didn't even try to find out where she lived or worked for months.

BenRG:

--- Quote from: Tova on 25 Apr 2016, 23:22 ---Well, the tactic of simply popping in for a coffee on a regular basis to say hi does have a successful* precedent...
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I don't think that the precedent of Angus and Faye is applicable. The 'stalk at place of work' part worked out for Angus. It was 'turn fascination and mutual amusement into a firm relationship' that made the whole thing collapse.

FWIW, I'm expecting Clinton to get sulky and Claire to be upset. There will probably be at least one strip this week of Claire going to Marten for comfort. Meanwhile, I guarantee that Emily will not understand why Claire is a bit cold around her for the next few days.

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Just to expand on my sort-of-prediction for the future of this arc:

Clinton is going to be upset; he does like Emily and this sort-of-rejection will hurt. Being human, he's going to lash out at the closest person to hand, who is Claire. He's going to accuse her of setting him up to fail as some sort of elaborate practical joke and storm off. That will upset Claire who, in her idiosyncratic way, was trying to help him be as happy as she is with Marten. Because of this, I think she'll blame herself but, more significantly the only obvious 'malefactor', namely Emily.

Blaming Emily for anything in this would be self-defeating. I'm not sure she'd even necessarily understand Claire if accused of doing something wrong. However, I can see Claire being a bit cold and formal with her for a while, if only because she loves her brother really and it upset her to see him hurt and for him to blame her for that. In any case, not interacting with Emily probably won't improve Claire's mood; being upset with your best friend never does. It's at that point that someone, probably Marten, will step in, mostly because he can't reconcile Claire's complaints with the Emily he knows and he doesn't want Claire to stay miserable.

Of course, I could have totally misread Emily and, with the same attitude as she manifested in strip 2999, she might instead tell off Claire for accusing her of something that she actually hasn't done. I'm not sure if Claire would lose her temper if told she is being irrational or if the whole thing will end with a tearful reconciliation, likely at the counter in Coffee of Doom, which may lead to Dora asking them to leave such things until Emily is off-shift. :-P

Radium_Coyote:
This is where one doubles down.  To weave oneself into Emily's self-narration would take a big leap of imagination, but it is possible.

Clinton's up for it, if the last date is anything to go by.  He just needs to figure out how.

themacnut:
Clinton needs to start asking out other women soon as he can, and forget about the one who rejected him. Easier said than done I know, but the man who doesn't get proactive in the dating arena is doomed to end up alone, since the vast majority of women still don't ask men out.

Plus, a man like Clinton, with his looks and lack of social skills, definitely can't afford to wait around to be asked out; it is highly unlikely to happen.  He also needs to start building up a thick skin and high tolerance for rejection, since he's likely to get it a lot.

mad hands murphy:
claire is always wrong, lol

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