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WCDT Strips 4326-4330 (10-15 August 2020)
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: snufflebottoms on 10 Aug 2020, 22:01 ---If Brun ends up in a romantic relationship, I'd like to see it with a new cast member. I think a funny thing would be several characters in comic either trying to date her or shipping her with other members of the cast leading to a wacky series of events only for the arc to end with her having met someone off screen and introducing them as her date. Then we can do a flashback to how they met. Renee ends up being overprotective/suspicious but it turns out that Brun did just fine on her own and her date is totally a good person.
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Does Millefeuille count?
BenRG:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 11 Aug 2020, 06:14 ---
--- Quote from: snufflebottoms on 10 Aug 2020, 22:01 ---If Brun ends up in a romantic relationship, I'd like to see it with a new cast member. I think a funny thing would be several characters in comic either trying to date her or shipping her with other members of the cast leading to a wacky series of events only for the arc to end with her having met someone off screen and introducing them as her date. Then we can do a flashback to how they met. Renee ends up being overprotective/suspicious but it turns out that Brun did just fine on her own and her date is totally a good person.
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Does Millefeuille count?
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I'll throw down my marker here. Milli was originally just a background character associated with the 'cloaked emu' joke break in the 'Winslow's New Body' mini-arc. When Jeph brought her back and started fleshing her out, I think that he designed the character deliberately as a bespoke romantic interest for Brun. I just wonder if he did that because he didn't want to risk angering either Bruniot or Brunton shippers by choosing one of the other or whether he just wanted to give her a same-gender pairing to troll people he doesn't like.
Kairi:
Popping in as I do once in a blue moon to say... I really like this comic. (In general, or this page? Yes.) The fact that multiple outcomes are possible just means there's been really good setup. I am usually REALLY SKEPTICAL of romances in most media because they seem rushed or forced and the people haven't had any time to bond. This bonding over videogames is adorable and I love them and I wish them both happiness and much continued friendship, wherever this goes!!!
Is it cold in here?:
Global Moderator Comment The bad kind of shipping is the Harry/Draco kind, unmotivated and orientation-incompatible. It carries no respect for the creator's property or ideas. It gets explicit without need. Do the opposite of that, and you're just trying to predict the direction of relationships in a comic about relationships.
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 11 Aug 2020, 10:21 ---It carries no respect for the creator's property or ideas.
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I see why straight-up modifying the characters should be avoided in the QCverse and on the forums, but that doesn't mean it's a terrible thing to do in any situation. J. K. Rowling recently slammed trans people, and the fanfic community retaliated by releasing a wave of stories that portrayed Hermione as a trans character. If Rowling can't respect that trans people are human, then she deserves to have her work "disrespected."
(Of course, Jeph is not transphobic, so that doesn't apply here.)
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