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WCDT Strips 3241 - 3245 (13-17 June 2016)
BlueFatima:
--- Quote from: lawoot on 16 Jun 2016, 11:46 ---Just my two cents, seeing parallels:
Brun = Bubbles
Renee = CORPSE WITCH
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Sorry, I don't see it. Brun has trouble socializing (at least on the communication end)—and is very self-protective—but doesn't seem to lose her temper in a violent way. Her personality strikes me as set more in stone. Bubbles can speak very well, but obviously has PTSD and comes off as someone who could change a lot (even physically if she becomes secure enough to take off her armor).
Renee comes off as a lot more chipper and kind than Corpse Witch—who seems to actually have her own agenda rather than simple boundary issues. I don't see Bubbles being good friends with Corpse Witch either—beyond an employee who's worked with her boss a few years, but Brun and Renee remind me of a lot of people who have been friends since childhood. There tends to be a little enmeshment those kinds of relationships (kind of like siblings) until the relationship is reconstructed as the friends grow up.
--- Quote from: eternitygirl on 16 Jun 2016, 09:40 ---If Renee is a baker who gets up at 4 AM and Brun is a bartender, who will traditionally get off work at 4 AM (probably later) when do they hang out?
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Weekday early-to-late afternoons. They probably both worked on weekends. I used to be a yearbook photographer who would consider getting up at 5am to be "sleeping in," and I had relationship with a chef (who worked afternoons to evenings) for a year. Somehow we found time for each other. :)
Kugai:
If Renee is the kind of controlling individual that she seems to be at this point, then the entry of Clinton and, by association, the CoD gang might just be the thing that Brun needs to break free of her friends subtle influence.
Whether or not Renee has anything more than Sisterly or, in the worst case. overly Motherly feelings for Brun is probably something that Jeph will make clear as time goes on.
In all fairness, I don't think Renee is trying to smother Brun, I just think she may be more aware of Bruns past and has concerns regarding something that may have happened in the past.
Then again, I could be wrong
JimC:
--- Quote from: BlueFatima on 16 Jun 2016, 13:41 ---
--- Quote from: eternitygirl on 16 Jun 2016, 09:40 ---If Renee is a baker who gets up at 4 AM and Brun is a bartender, who will traditionally get off work at 4 AM (probably later) when do they hang out?
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Weekday early-to-late afternoons.
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Quite so. In any town there's a whole social circle for the folks who work in the odd hours trades. I used to work in a restaurant and do split shifts, and although my regular routine was do the lunch shift, play squash, afternoon tea at a nice place in town, then back to the kitchen for the evening shift, we'd also do matinees at the cinema, go rowing on the river or all sorts of stuff, and you knew other folks from different places...
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 16 Jun 2016, 09:34 ---While you bring up a good point, and I think it's quite likely how Renee sees the situation. However, this whole point hinges on whether or not Brun can be trusted to make a value call as to Clinton's character, or indeed anyone's character. Renee's reaction is that no, Brun can not be trusted to make that decision on her own. That thought strips Brun's agency from her. It's basically saying "You can't be trusted how to judge people's character, someone else has to do it for you." And unless that is very true, it's an incredibly shitty thing to think of a friend, and it's a very controlling thing. Basically wanting to vet and new friends Brun makes, and automatically rejecting Clinton without ever having met him. At best this is a reaction to serious problems with people either in Renee's or Brun's past who have taking advantage of one of them. Or it's a sign of an abusive relationship where Renee has to have all the control... Which would ironically make Renee the kind of person she warns Brun to stay away from. Obviously, life is rarely one extreme or the other, and their relationship likely falls somewhere in the middle.
But what Renee is ignoring or doesn't want to see is that Clinton isn't just some random guy. Brun at first didn't articulate this well because she was still partly non-responsive from the stress of everything. But she's gone to bat for Clinton and shown how he has demonstrated at least apparently kindness and good will with no sign of trying to take advantage of Brun. But Renee has brushed off all of Brun's opinions and thoughts on the matter and basically swept the matter under the rug with a 'I'm right but I don't want to argue, so we'll just stop talking about it now' reasoning.
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Thanks for putting what I was thinking much better than I managed.
Oenone:
Tbh I'm really surprised that y'all are so skeptical of Renee. She's acting like the QC version of Pinkie Pie: slightly over protective, a baker, physically affectionate, etc.
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