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(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: Tova on 08 May 2018, 23:51 ---That is a mightily impressive list. Well done.
I've got another for you.
* Faye says she punched Sven in the dick after he made a 69 joke. - 1641
--- End quote ---
Somehow I missed getting that one on there. I remember seeing it.
SpanielBear:
Wow, many thanks Awgiedawgie, that's exactly what I was looking for.
It seems there was a definite change as you point out, between pre and post Talk. That said, it also seems that there are instances that happen off-screen so to speak. But it is good to see that the more "realistic" QC matches a reduction in violence.
Morituri:
Wow. That ... seems like a different character. It isn't, of course. I just plain didn't remember how casually violent she was prior to The Talk. Since then, it's been far less casual.
A fair number of those, however, were panic reactions. There are a lot of people who are completely nonviolent meaning they won't choose to do violence - but who will still throw your ass across the room if you surprise them from behind with a tickle attack, before it even registers in their forebrain that they have a choice about it. That's not where she was, or is - she may react in panic before thinking sometimes, but she's also capable of being violent with full intent.
But for what it's worth, I think I never had a problem with a violent response to someone who is ass-grabbing or doing a surprise tickle or whatever else - if you invade someone's personal space or violate their bodily dignity without permission, that's as much starting a fight as a punch in the face. If you treat someone that way you are tacitly accepting whatever violent response you get in self defense and have absolutely no right to expect that you won't suffer immediate pain for it. So a lot of Faye's early violence simply didn't make any impression on me because I considered it blameless.
awgiedawgie:
When you consider how she behaved at home toward her sister, and that her mother said she did the same thing to her own brother, it seems that casual brutality was just a way to play around, and was never abusive or malicious. Her mother seemed to think that it might be a bit overboard at times, but that even she was guilty of the same thing ever since she was a child.
I got the impression that in Faye's early days in town, punching was her self-defense mechanism so she didn't have to talk about her feelings. She didn't have to actually admit that her feelings were hurt, or that she was offended, or she was sad... she could just punch you and you'd focus on that instead. Once she finally opened up to Marten, the cork was off the bottle, and it became easier to talk about that and other emotions to anyone else as well. But by that time, she was so used to punching people for anything, that even though she doesn't have to do it now, it is still her first instinct.
True, she also used threats as a form of persuasion, which is a different matter. Then again, I know plenty of people who say something like "don't make me hurt you" when they are trying to get someone to do something, so I don't think much of it. We only actually saw Faye do it twice - once when she told Dora to get into therapy, which I think she might have actually followed through on if Dora hadn't (and I truly believe that may be the only time she would have followed through on it); and once when she told Claire she would beat up Marten if Claire didn't come over, which I think she would not have followed through on. She did imply that she had used threats more often than that, and that she had talked to her therapist about it, but all the other times we saw her threaten people were in response to some provocation.
jwhouk:
This is, of course, the reason why Bubbles is the perfect foil - or whatever you'd like to call it - for Faye.
What happens when your coping mechanism no longer works?
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