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(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
DaiJB:
...AND she knocked out Marten that time he was being drunk and highly unpleasant - I can't remember the strip, but I can remember the follow-up, where Faye blames his injury on "OWLS"... :-D
Edit: Found it! Number 1818.
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 06 May 2018, 04:41 ---For the record, she bruised Marten repeatedly. I think I recall twice he remarked (maybe joking, maybe not) that he thought his arm was broken, and once he thought he might have a concussion. She also put a huge bruise on Hannerelore's arm because she was drunk and didn't know who she was hitting (it was meant for Marten's Dad). She gave Raven a full body flip in retaliation for tickling, and got in a fight with Penny at CoD. And she threw Angus across the barroom just for talking to her. None of those were what I would call "badly provoked".
She beat Clinton up with his own hand once, but he deserved that.
There may be other instances I don't remember right now, but I don't have time to look for them this morning - I'm meeting family for breakfast.
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Question, without going into the morality or nature of those instances (and once you have finished breakfast, naturally), how many were recent and how many were back in the days of cartoon logic applying more (e.g. vespa-avenger, random monks, Scorn being capable of physically hurling a body through space etc.)?
Without excusing abusive behaviour, it does seem that Faye as a character gets caught out by the tone of the comic having shifted over 3000 strips, and that behaviour that at one point, while not exactly acceptable, was not as consequential as it would be now. Pintsize is another example of this (who seems to get a free pass more often than not), as his earlier behaviour might often be seen to step over a line he's now more careful about. But Faye's violence, it is true, still gets bought up in-comic as part of her character, so it's reasonable to consider her in relation to it. How much of her violence is recent?
Again, that's a question I want to ask neutrally- I don't mean to defend her violence, I'm just curious about how it has developed alongside the changing tone of the comic.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 06 May 2018, 05:58 ---...AND she knocked out Marten that time he was being drunk and highly unpleasant - I can't remember the strip, but I can remember the follow-up, where Faye blames his injury on "OWLS"... ;D
Edit: Found it! Number 1818.
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Good memory. That one had slipped my mind earlier.
--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 06 May 2018, 06:03 ---Question, without going into the morality or nature of those instances (and once you have finished breakfast, naturally), how many were recent and how many were back in the days of cartoon logic applying more (e.g. vespa-avenger, random monks, Scorn being capable of physically hurling a body through space etc.)?
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Again, that's a question I want to ask neutrally- I don't mean to defend her violence, I'm just curious about how it has developed alongside the changing tone of the comic.
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I'll just make a list, but it'll take a little while.
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 06 May 2018, 13:23 ---I'll just make a list, but it'll take a little while.
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That's really good of you. Just a general idea would be good- my bias is towards the majority being early in the comc's run, but I don't want to make assumptions.
I don't think for a moment that the difference in tone makes the depictions of violence easier to see, but in discussing Faye's underlying character and the extent to which she is a bully rather than a source of slapstick it would be useful.
Mr_Rose:
Yes, as I recall, Faye managed to clear about fifteen feet when she threw Angus across the bar. Assuming he is of normal human build and not made of, say, fluff and helium, that would have to be some kind of world record….
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