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WCDT Strips 3286 to 3290 (15-19 August 2016)
gopher:
Finding it difficult to care about tertiary characters when there is PLOT awaiting with more central ones.
Morituri:
One summer when it was necessary to earn money for the following year's tuition, I worked as a bouncer. My instructions were to be as gentle as possible but no gentler.
Usually I was able to de-escalate things without violence. Being alert to situations that could turn into violence and being there before it starts is the best way to do the job. Often you can stop a fight just by listening to people and asking nonjudgmental questions in a friendly way until one or both (or all) realize that fighting over it is stupid. Otherwise a simple reminder that it was my job to prevent fights or stop them would often convince them that it wasn't the right place or time to fight and somebody would go away angry (but under their own power and without violence). If that didn't work I'd just do what Wil is doing in this frame and tell somebody they needed to leave.
If it went beyond that my usual next move was to just wrap my arms around someone, hold them too close for them to kick me, and just keep squeezing harder until they quit giving me trouble. Incidentally I can squeeze harder than most people are prepared for or even can believe. It controls most situations, doesn't leave injuries, and facilitates carrying them out the door. And weirdly, a lot of people, even drunks, grow calmer when restrained. A couple of female patrons even propositioned me as I was carrying them out (I appreciate the thought, ma'am, but I'm way too sober for that tonight...). It only got as far as landing blows on a few occasions when there were more than just two or three people involved and they had already escalated to violence.
Of note, it really, REALLY matters for that job who the bartender is. We had a couple guys on whose shifts people were mostly calm and happy and didn't fight, and one guy on whose shifts it was just miserable and you never knew which direction it would come from. Guess which one didn't know when to cut people off and guess which two made four times his income in tips. Also guess which two usually had more people in the place and having a good time and which one got fired halfway through the summer.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: gopher on 15 Aug 2016, 06:43 ---Finding it difficult to care about tertiary characters when there is PLOT awaiting with more central ones.
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How is this not plot? If anything, I'm finding this new Elliot/Brun arc more interesting than the Faye one.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: gopher on 15 Aug 2016, 06:43 ---Finding it difficult to care about tertiary characters when there is PLOT awaiting with more central ones.
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If you just want the same characters in the same pattern of shenanigans, I'm pretty sure the Garfield archive is still functioning.
Who is to say that Brun or Elliot are just tertiary characters?
Elliot was the one who gave Marten the push to go out with Padma, if only for a brief fling, but it did help raise Marten's confidence after the break up with Dora.
Characters be they secondary or tertiary, often carry far more plot significance than the main characters, who usually react rather than initiate.
explicit:
I enjoy the breaks from the main characters sometimes because otherwise the comic would get stale without constant drama - which is annoying in of itself and the reason why I stopped reading DoA. If the same characters are just goofing and making jokes all the time they blend into each other way too much so it makes it so things have to forced unto the MCs, which, at least to me, gets tiring.
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