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WCDT strips 3701-3705 (19th to 23rd March 2018)
ckridge:
I am continually stunned by the confidence with which people make decisions about QC characters' sexual preferences. Clinton is likely a virgin, and Brun too. Elliot is muscly and good-looking enough that someone has likely managed to trip and fall underneath him by now, but he is so very shy that I doubt he is widely experienced. That means that none of them have enough experience to know themselves what their sexual predilections are, and yet people watching them from the outside seem able to decide for them. None of them conform to the norm in other respects, yet somehow it is supposed that they conform to the norm sexually. This is possible, but there is no reason to think it likely.
All that would be necessary for a polyamorous relationship is for two of them to be sleeping with one of them, all of them to know what is going on, and all of them to be on good terms. Not everyone has to be sleeping with everyone. That doesn't seem unlikely.
Gyrre:
Statistically speaking, we're at least another 500ish relationships (onscreen) away from a polyamourus relationship when comparing to IRL percentages. Factoring in QC tendency towards some exgerated figures puts at probably 300 more to go.
I'm sure Jeph will add in a polyamourus relationship long before that, though. Just not with these 3 since Clinton is at most a Kinsey 1.
EDIT: I'm doing some generous head-maths with data from 2016 on 3 hours of sleep. Margin of error is pretty big here, but polyamourus relationships are amongst the rarest kinds of relationships.
bhtooefr:
As ckridge said, though, a possible configuration would be Brun dating both Clinton and Elliot, and that would count as a poly relationship.
ckridge:
I feel odd discussing Faye's personal attractiveness, because it is right on the line between pretending she is a real person and analyzing her as a literary and artistic creation. I am perfectly happy considering Faye as an intersection of conflicting ideological apparatuses, or as a symbolic representation of something Jeph can't say explicitly, or as an artistic response to preceding fictitious female characters, because in each of those cases I have stepped completely out of the story and am considering it as an artistic artifact so as to deepen and enrich my pleasure when I step back in. (Kinky, I know, but exquisite.) I am willing and able to imagine Faye as she must seem to Bubbles kneeling by her bed, soft, rounded, inscrutably different, utterly familiar, perfectly trusting, absolutely desirable, and to imagine the iron discipline and reckless self-disregard that would let one kneel there night after night, on guard against oneself and others, and never say a word. At that point, I am fully inside the story, and imagining all its characters to be real.
What I can't bring myself to do is to talk about Faye's attractiveness as if she were a real person, but in a manner in which I would never talk about a real person. If I am attracted to her, I am pretending she is real, and if I am pretending she is real, I should treat her like she's real.
Please understand I am not defending this position or urging it upon others, because I do not think it defensible. It is an aesthetic choice.
Is it cold in here?:
Long, long ago there was a thread with a title like "Fat Faye". It's significant because Jeph posted in it to talk about his artistic intent in portraying Faye.
What he said was that Faye was written as someone physically attractive to many people. He gave a list if memory serves.
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