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WCDT Strips 3511 to 3515 (26 June to 30 June 2017)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: themacnut on 29 Jun 2017, 09:21 ---I fail to understand how someone as obviously gentle and kind as Elliot could be a bouncer. We're talking about a job that occasionally requires you to, at the very least, be mean to people, and every now and then you may actually have to use force against them. Did Elliot break down in tears the first time he had to toss a belligerent drunk out of an employer's establishment?
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Elliot is a big bloke, intimidating to look at and he has proven that he is quite strong and able to take a hit (during Emily and Clinton's date and taking a bottle to the face around the time Brun lost her job, respectively). As it is, I imagine that Elliot is quite the fighter when he needs to be, its just most of the time he'd prefer to be Elliot. So working at the Horrible Revelation might be okay for him - most of his job is probably just checking IDs if needs be. If he does need to remove someone from the Horrible Revelation, well even the fightiest drunk isn't going to try and take on someone like Elliot.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: themacnut on 29 Jun 2017, 09:21 ---I fail to understand how someone as obviously gentle and kind as Elliot could be a bouncer. We're talking about a job that occasionally requires you to, at the very least, be mean to people, and every now and then you may actually have to use force against them. Did Elliot break down in tears the first time he had to toss a belligerent drunk out of an employer's establishment?
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I think I'd feel like 500% safer somewhere with a bouncer like Elliot. He's likely not the typical bouncer, but I'd say he's the PERFECT bouncer. I'd count for such a person to not go overboard, regardless of the situation.
And maybe when he's working, he's more firm, because he can distance himself emotionally for the sake of being professional, or something.
themacnut:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 29 Jun 2017, 09:42 --- If he does need to remove someone from the Horrible Revelation, well even the fightiest drunk isn't going to try and take on someone like Elliot.
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From what I've seen, that isn't always true, sadly. Alcohol is called "liquid courage" for good reason, and enough of it can make someone stupidly courageous. Enough to think they can take someone like Elliot. At which point Elliot would no doubt have to forcefully prove them wrong.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: themacnut on 29 Jun 2017, 09:54 ---
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 29 Jun 2017, 09:42 --- If he does need to remove someone from the Horrible Revelation, well even the fightiest drunk isn't going to try and take on someone like Elliot.
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From what I've seen, that isn't always true, sadly. Alcohol is called "liquid courage" for good reason, and enough of it can make someone stupidly courageous. Enough to think they can take someone like Elliot. At which point Elliot would no doubt have to forcefully prove them wrong.
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In which case, Elliot will have proven he does deserve his job. Let's put it this way, would the Horrible Revelation have kept him on for so long if he wasn't able to do his job?
flondrix:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 29 Jun 2017, 09:50 ---
--- Quote from: themacnut on 29 Jun 2017, 09:21 ---I fail to understand how someone as obviously gentle and kind as Elliot could be a bouncer. We're talking about a job that occasionally requires you to, at the very least, be mean to people, and every now and then you may actually have to use force against them. Did Elliot break down in tears the first time he had to toss a belligerent drunk out of an employer's establishment?
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I think I'd feel like 500% safer somewhere with a bouncer like Elliot. He's likely not the typical bouncer, but I'd say he's the PERFECT bouncer. I'd count for such a person to not go overboard, regardless of the situation.
And maybe when he's working, he's more firm, because he can distance himself emotionally for the sake of being professional, or something.
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An visually imposing wall of flesh, a gentle giant, an inexorable force of nature is exactly what you want for a bouncer. As one of the cadets said about Hightower in the first Police Academy movie, "If all cops looked like him there would be no crime at all. Sure, the occasional person too drunk to know better may actually try to take him on, and when that happens Elliot is better equipped than most people to simply toss them out onto the street, but most of the time people will not cross him.
And keeping his cool around unreasonable people serves him well in his day job. Not something that you would normally associate with bakeries, but the people working at that particular bakery make it necessary.
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