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WCDT Strips 4006-4010 (20th-25th May, 2019)
TheEvilDog:
Although this is May we're talking about, she had a massive grin on her face, surrounded by a variety of strange and unusual implements.
Weird would probably be an indicator of success in her eyes.
Case:
--- Quote from: Timemaster on 23 May 2019, 08:41 ---On May forgetting her charger: my daughter is asthmatic since her 13th birthday. Not severely, but nonetheless. She is 19 years old now. That doesn‘t keep her from regularly forgetting her asthma inhaler at home when she goes out. So go figure...
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Morituri:
I dunno. Sven is quite plausibly responsible here. After all, he's the prime partner in the activity wherein May ran her batteries down. If not for him, she'd easily have enough charge to get to the office and get the darn thing. On the one hand he's 'obligated' to do something if he's serious about not being such a douche to his hookups. But on the other hand that obligation might get him a pass on her 'I-don't-take-charity' response if he does *somewhat* more than absolutely necessary. May would be freaked out if he offered to buy her a new chassis. But she'd accept a new charge cable considering it to be just an indication that this Sven guy isn't a complete ass, and if he went further and got her something major like a new battery pack she might be mad, but she might just think he's overreacting or she might even be happy about it.
If he ambles down to Union Robotics and buys an adapter plug (or a replacement cable, or whatever) that's the minimum he can do as a considerate person. There's no need for him to be hauling May down there if she's safe in his apartment; he can just tuck her into bed with a blanket and head out. So there's no need for her to go through the stress and embarrassment of waking up with Faye and Bubbles worrying over her. They'd worry anyway of course; a proprietary charger cable is probably instantly identifiable to them as connecting Sven and May and indicating that May is or has been in trouble. But May wouldn't have to be in front of them while they worry, where the awkwardness, embarrassment, and self-inflicted stress would make her blow a gasket.
If he gets her a new battery pack, that's a little more into the territory of possibly setting off May's I-don't-want-charity response. And he can't install that himself; that'd be something they'd need to discuss sometime when she's awake, and then she'd go in for the procedure. But right now he's in the situation that would *allow* someone to buy her a new battery pack, and be *LESS* likely to set off that response than anybody else. Again, it's the "being partly responsible for the problem" thing that gets him a pass, except in that scenario he'd be doing more than just the 'being considerate' minimum.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 May 2019, 09:07 ---If I were naked and having the vulnerability that comes of doing things for the first time, hearing "That was weird" would hurt.
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Point, but remember May's barbie-doll anatomy. She's intensely aware of it, and she *knows* that's going to seem weird to a human. And I get the impression, given the array of noodle implements lying around, that they were actively *trying* to achieve weird. Possibly, on her part, as a strategy (successful! YAY!) to distract him from the weirdness of the barbie-doll anatomy.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 May 2019, 09:07 ---If I were naked and having the vulnerability that comes of doing things for the first time, hearing "That was weird" would hurt.
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But to May "That was weird" would be a complement.
About where Jeph is taking May: He's not shy about tackling social issues and creating characters who represent marginalized groups. I'm thinking May is about to officially become a sex worker.
She represents a part of the real life population that engages in prostitution out of a lack of other employment options. She's the opposite of Roko in that she actively loathes her current chassis (for the most part she's fine with its appearance, but despises its functional condition). Whether Sven attaches any strings to his offer of a new chassis or not, she'll reckon a period of sexual indenture to him for such consideration a pretty sweet deal. Indeed, she's already shown that she's willing to perform sex acts for money (I'm sure most of us remember her sitting on Pintsize's face so I'm not going to look up the link), and that was to finance a new face covering.
Now, what happens when she gets a body she actually likes? A partner's "that was weird" might not be perceived in the same way.
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