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WCDT Strips 3311 - 3315 (Sept 19th - 24th)
Morituri:
If you want to talk about exploitation, Bubbles honestly would be my first bet.
She never (or almost never) goes out. She spends her nights at the skatepark. She doesn't even have her own apartment and if she has personal effects aside from the armor she's wearing, we've never seen them. It seems like she has an EXTREMELY frugal lifestyle. The kind of lifestyle that might be led by someone with no income at all. A cup of tea is the only thing we've ever seen her buy.
And she's got a full-time skilled job doing repairs. If she's getting paid at all, she's making some very peculiar lifestyle choices.
So... my bet would be that she's AWOL rather than properly discharged, and Corpse Witch is using the threat of MP's to blackmail her into slave labor.
Is it cold in here?:
So why doesn't she trust Marten to advise her about Officer Lilac? Why does she have a moral "quandry"[sic] now if she didn't before?
Is she taking the cop's dark hints seriously and worrying that there's something far uglier going on than she realized?
Storel:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Sep 2016, 21:06 ---Anybody know US money laundering law? Could Marten really get in trouble if he put money from illegal gambling into his bank account?
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Why would it go into his bank account? I expect Faye gives him an envelope full of cash every month for her half of the rent, Marten adds cash or a check for his half of the rent to the envelope, and then he forwards the envelope to their landlord, whoever/wherever that may be.
--- Quote from: Morituri on 20 Sep 2016, 21:21 ---'Phil' is an elaborate prank shitkickers play in boonie bars, which, if they're successful, culminates in a bar fight. Picking fights and beating the hell out of people is what shitkickers consider to be good fun....
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You've had an extremely interesting life, Morituri. And I say that in the nicest possible way.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Sep 2016, 22:44 ---So why doesn't she trust Marten to advise her about Officer Lilac? Why does she have a moral "quandry"[sic] now if she didn't before?
Is she taking the cop's dark hints seriously and worrying that there's something far uglier going on than she realized?
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Very possibly.
cesium133:
Most landlords won't accept cash. Most likely, Faye gives her part of the rent to Marten in cash, then Marten writes a check, depositing the cash if he needs to to cover the amount.
BenRG:
It's to Faye's credit that she's kept Bubbles' problems to herself; Marten clearly doesn't think that Bubbles is at risk when, given her very obvious PTSD, I would say that she is, especially if the place where she's 'comfortable' is at risk. That's what Faye means by 'entrenched', IMO - Bubbles views the place as one of her few safe refuges. I think that she'd have a really difficult time adapting to living anywhere else, let alone being comfortable there.
Meanwhile... I suddenly realise that Marten has always been like this. Given a choice, he'll try to deflect discussing a difficult situation by trying to turn it into a joke. Usually, by the end of the strip, you suddenly realise that it's because he doesn't see any good outcome, so he'd prefer not to think too hard about it.
I suspect that I know where this is going, though. I think that Faye is going to try to convince Bubbles to move on rather than wait for the hammer to fall.
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 20 Sep 2016, 23:22 ---Most landlords won't accept cash. Most likely, Faye gives her part of the rent to Marten in cash, then Marten writes a check, depositing the cash if he needs to to cover the amount.
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I think that it's more likely that they both have a direct deposit from their bank accounts. If anyone is at fault, it's the cashiers at Faye's local branch for not questioning why she's depositing large amounts of used notes.
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