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WCDT Strips 3316-3320 (26th - 30th September 2016)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 30 Sep 2016, 01:53 ---I'm struggling to understand Brun's thought process in assuming that a big person would be afraid of fewer things.
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Brun's personal reality seems to have been founded entirely on binging on animé. Bearing this in mind, the whole idea of a bear-like giant of a man being nervous and anything but loudly bluff and outgoing would seem like a breach of the laws of characterisation to her. It is possible that one of the biggest journeys Brun has to make is to realise that you cannot learn everything you need to know about the world from the TV.
jheartney:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 30 Sep 2016, 01:53 ---Does she think of herself as a source of immediate physical danger?
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Only when holding a harpoon.
Brun's best course would be to let Elliot know that Renee spilled the beans, so she knows he's a bouncer, and she's fine with it. No point attempting some hamfisted subterfuge.
Of course that would make for a less fun comic.
JimC:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 30 Sep 2016, 01:53 ---I'm struggling to understand Brun's thought process in assuming that a big person would be afraid of fewer things.
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Brun works in the bar trade. She'll know that an impressive physical presence can defuse a lot of problems. Its by no means unknown for bars and shops to have a raised floor on the staff side just so the staff look a bit bigger than they are (there are other good reasons too I hasten to add). Also likely, working in the trade, she'll have a far less negative view of bouncers than the general public.
hedgie:
I think that there is only one bouncer that I have met in my entire life that I have hated, and that had nothing to do with his occupation and more that the guy is just a prick.
Milayna:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 30 Sep 2016, 02:12 ---
--- Quote from: oddtail on 30 Sep 2016, 01:53 ---I'm struggling to understand Brun's thought process in assuming that a big person would be afraid of fewer things.
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Brun's personal reality seems to have been founded entirely on binging on animé. Bearing this in mind, the whole idea of a bear-like giant of a man being nervous and anything but loudly bluff and outgoing would seem like a breach of the laws of characterisation to her. It is possible that one of the biggest journeys Brun has to make is to realise that you cannot learn everything you need to know about the world from the TV.
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You sound like you're suggesting something ridiculous like that anime isn't real.
References aside, relationships, especially, are portrayed...literally everywhere. Practically every damn story, no matter the medium (and especially in anime and videogames) is a (hetero) love story wrapped up in some plot like overthrowing the empire or something. You can go whole days, hell even weeks without seeing anyone pass the bechdel test irl. Given the prevalence and popularity of "information" about the subject it would make sense to use it as a baseline for understanding - even if there's individual variance in specifics in real life, people would at least recognize and respond to the tropes, and it could go from there. It isn't illogical to think that media that is supposed to be a reflection on life could be useful as a guide to life.
Of course yeah it really doesn't work that way, it turns out that fantasy relationships are...well fantasy, and the way it ACTUALLY works is something else entirely unrelated. (I don't know what that is, though. People are weird and the things they do are often nonsense. Elliot's purpose last comic completely missed me, too, until Renee explained it.)
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