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WCDT Strips 3636 to 3640 (18th to 22nd December 2017)
Tova:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 21 Dec 2017, 03:36 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 21 Dec 2017, 03:22 ---Seriously?
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Yes. There's precedent; the last time Beatrice was a significant character, she idly threatened to ruin Marten's credit rating if he didn't take the money she staked when she bet Hannelore couldn't touch a toilet seat. This is a petty woman capable of petty acts of revenge if she thinks she's being disrespected.
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I'm sure she's capable of it. But what do you think she would achieve by doing so?
"Hanners has cut off ties. How to fix it? I know! Threaten to hurt her friends! Makes perfect sense." :psyduck:
It would be a completely self-defeating move.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Tova on 21 Dec 2017, 03:56 ---I'm sure she's capable of it. But what do you think she would achieve by doing so?
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It's simple enough. After all, she's doing nothing illegal other than ordering companies she owns to be extra zealous about calling in debts, extra aware about people's credit histories and the like. So, the only thing Hannelore can do to stop it is re-open contact with her mother and do whatever she tells her to in order to persuade her to call off her minions.
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Tova:
I asked what it would achieve, not how she would go about it. And I'd appreciate it if you'd lay off the condescending insults, please.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 21 Dec 2017, 04:00 ---she's doing nothing illegal other than ordering companies she owns to be extra zealous about calling in debts, extra aware about people's credit histories and the like.
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That only works for people who are in debt and have a dodgy credit history - not the case for Hanners, surely!
BenRG:
Okay, that last paragraph was uncalled for and is withdrawn.
Just in case you missed it, though, I did explain what it is supposed to achieve:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 21 Dec 2017, 04:00 ---So, the only thing Hannelore can do to stop it is re-open contact with her mother and do whatever she tells her to in order to persuade her to call off her minions.
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Even this isn't unprecedented. Apart from the unusual means, abusive parents commonly use coercive means to get their way. It's just that they normally don't have the means to target their children's associates as well as their children themselves. It makes narrative sense in this case because Beatrice actually has very few levers to use on Hannelore herself (mostly because her ex-husband would certainly get in the way). However, through her personal commercial power, she has lots of means to attack Hannelore's friends and she knows that this would be just as personally coercive to Hannelore as any direct attack.
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