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WCDT Strips 3221 to 3225 (16 - 20 May 2016)
Case:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 15 May 2016, 23:04 ---She's either in a minor case of shock, having a delayed reaction, or it's so much stress & panic that she's having issues processing it.
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I like Brun. Also... I really don't understand the common reaction of everyone else here. I would have the same reaction that she did. "Sigh. How tiresome. At least I rescued the clock. I'll just take a moment of time out before thinking about what to do next, where to sleep etc".
I might be concerned about what's going to happen next, be on the lookout for meteors, out of control trucks etc. Murphy's Law.
OK, I'm weird too, in the same way she is. I know that I'm weird, not because I feel I'm weird, but through a process of deduction. Everyone else seems to think panic, fear, shock, stress etc is the normal reaction, and I believe it. So I'm not normal. Still, it's useful to be like this when the brown smelly stuff hits the air conditioning.
Brun and Clinton make an effective team. She tries to deal with the fire, he gets everyone out. Full marks to both. Did anyone else notice this? That there were no casualties, simply because they both did the right thing instead of panicking?
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I feel similar.
"Oh, she doesn't faint or screeches for 10 minutes - SHE MUST BE A SAVANT WITH POLYMORPHIC IDEOPATHIC ...!"
Then and again, I'm a filthy foreigner who thinks that 'customer service' is giving stuff to people & making sure they part with their money in return, and there's a DSM-V entry about the way my headmeat works, so YMMV ... :-D
(Plus, it looks like it was central Europe rather than eastern ... :oops:)
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 May 2016, 23:28 ---As for her origin; she might be ethnic Roma from a family driven from Germany in the 1930s but has retained the naming of the homeland, as many migrant communities do.
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Do you deduct that from the literal meaning of her name, which is a concatenation of the old-high-german words for "Armour" and "Combat"?
Or the fact that so many Rom people admit to an undying love for Wagner and the Nibelungenlied?
Totally obvious, that one ...
My! Come to think of it - Angela Merkel could be Roma! AND autist!
Why didn't we see that before?
Mordhaus:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2tTBVSqPAE
BenRG:
@Case,
No, it's based purely on 'looks like' combined with 'what origin story would fit both appearance and name'. Yes, it was a wild guess taking some strands of evidence to their extreme but, lacking a canon story, why not push to the limits?
Eastrim:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 17 May 2016, 02:33 ---why not push to the limits?
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Well okay, if we can do it that way...
Brunhilda is a Valkyrie, come to Earth to serve beer and ale between carting off warriors to Valhalla. Since she's been around for a long time and seen a lot of stuff, good and bad, she just doesn't react to it much anymore. But what will she do when she finds... love? For while she has experienced all that humans have to offer, between the bar and her duties transporting dead people, she's mostly missed the AI revolution. When she meets Pintsize, it's love at first sight, for he has archived things she has never even dreamed of, and for the first time in a very long time, she feels alive again. Will she at last find her true love just as Ragnarok begins?
Akima:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 16 May 2016, 22:30 ---Brun and Clinton make an effective team. She tries to deal with the fire, he gets everyone out. Full marks to both. Did anyone else notice this? That there were no casualties, simply because they both did the right thing instead of panicking?
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Just so, they did well.
I too find a bit tiresome this frenzied "medicalisation" of any variation from the way someone thinks "normal people" behave. Not everyone flies into hysterics under stress, as can be observed in TV coverage of disasters today, or old newsreels of bombed cities for that matter. Cultures also vary greatly in how far public displays of emotion are acceptable. People can be different without needing us to thumb through the DSM.
Clinton seems to be managing well without his glasses.
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