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WCDT Strips 3521 to 3525 (10th to 14th July 2017)

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DSL:
Answering flondrik:

Not so much a sinister smirk but I read something of a calculating look.

Answering earlier conversation:
And HERE's a link to the comic that lends credence to the observation that Faye is "objectively hot." (Or at least more exothermic than average.)

Case:

--- Quote from: DSL on 14 Jul 2017, 08:09 ---I found Angus less likable as he wore on; there was an emotionally manipulative aspect to his character I would have found repellent in a real-world person. (I'm thinking of the semi-smirk with which he told Faye "I love you" as he got on the train for his audition, discombobulating her for a very long weekend. After watching a few of the live-drawing feeds Jeph used to do, I concluded he never draws anything by accident.) And with Faye and Bubbles attuned to manipulativeness through their recent experience with CW, I can see Angus beating a hasty retreat.

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+1

Perfectly expressed - not a classic abuser, but ... uncomfortably unwilling to keep a respectful distance from the line to 'user'-territory, is how it felt to me.

DSL:
Before Faye-Angus was a thing in the strip, I remember a conversation he had with Marigold (the impromptu ballroom dance in her bedroom) in which he talked about dancing and the other things he learned in his private school. It would seem that crucial parts of Angus's development took place in an environment in which one is carefully taught and socialized that other people are there for your purposes.

sitnspin:
Or, it could have just been a smile cos he was happy?

MrNumbers:
MrNumbers clicks the comic link to relook at that smirk.

... What? That's... it? Oh. Uh, okay. Huh. No, I don't see it.

Yeah, Angus wasn't great for me, but the biggest problem was that the behaviours he liked and encouraged in Faye were the behaviours we know to have been pretty bad her. Something more obvious to us now, and something Angus himself wouldn't have been able to see then; They were the qualities he found attractive in her, after all, the idea that they would be detrimental to her isn't a conclusion he would come to himself.

At the same time, Faye was obviously in a super bad place in her life in a way that she wasn't actually dealing with, and she was otherwise holding Angus back from his own dreams over that. She got pretty damn unlikable right around the time Dora kicked her ass into gear by firing her and forced her to change, if you'll recall.

A loving relationship can still be bad without it being either of those people's faults, and that's kind of a scary thought to think.

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