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WCDT strips 3701-3705 (19th to 23rd March 2018)
Morituri:
I'm six feet ten inches tall, three hundred thirty pounds. (208 cm, ~150Kg) And spent much of my youth bucking bales, working cattle, clearing brush, chopping wood, and building fences, so I got the muscles that some other people built in gyms. On the one hand it's really nice to be very strong; I can lift heavy things out of places where they've been stuck for ages when it's time to move or get rid of them. On the other, sitting in compact cars can be challenging, and I can't usually buy clothes off the rack.
But, most of my life, the difficulty strangers have had with my size has more or less directly become my problem, one way or another. I don't get to ignore those troubles or pretend that they don't exist. It's less an issue now that I'm older; I think seeing some gray hair makes me less threatening. But it's still often an issue.
DannyboyTheDane:
Oh, sweet, sweet Elliot ... I just want to give him a hug. I can absolutely relate to those self-deprecating feelings.
shanejayell:
Also 6 foot, so YEAH used to folks being skitish & compensating by being very polite...
ckridge:
Well, all right then. Being really big and strong can erode your confidence around people. I kind of hate that that's the case, but there it is.
efindumb:
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He reminds me of a "gentle giant" who likely is a good person inside but was likely psychologically abused in his past making him hide his true strength and struggle to socially interact with people who have an interest in him or he has an interest in.
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Maybe, but he's not mean. By and large, "those to whom evil is done, do evil in return," though seldom to the people who originally did evil to them. Faye is a perfect of example of someone who has taken damage and who is a mass of teeth, claws, and spiky armor, not to mention some practiced social blindness, as a result. You would expect that if Elliot had been badly harmed, he would be doing more harm.
Maybe he takes it out all out on the iron and on pugnacious drunks. That can work.
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Different people deal with it differently.
Who's to say Elliot's father wasn't just as big as he is but with a nasty temper? That'd lead to one of two results; Elliott being just like his father or Elliott being timid and bashful.
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That's not factoring in his schooling as kids in school could just as easily have been brutal to him for his large size making him feel like a loser or freak for being different.
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