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WCDT strips 4346 to 4350 (7th September to 11th September 2020)
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Reaver on 06 Sep 2020, 23:53 ---Also yeah, knowing she has a crush on him and told him to take his shirt offnis kinda icky
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I think that people do miss the context that, prior to this, Renee never really had acknowledged to herself that she found Elliot attractive. So, whatever negative motivations she had weren't in her conscious mind. As soon as she realised what she'd done, her reaction was flight and denial.
What was also interesting was Elliot's confused initial reaction. It literally never occurred to him that going half-naked in front of Renee could have any kind of sexual element to it. That was the 'torpedoed at launch' thing for Renelliot from the Elliot side - He literally could not mentally interpret the incident as any form of intimacy.
chris73:
--- Quote ---Seems odd to see her complaining about being” the mom friend” While she is very quick to insert herself into Elliots issues.
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Or Bruns for that matter
MrNumbers:
This kind of came out of nowhere to me tbh
Like on the one hand I get how it could make sense for the character, but we've established her still having a lot of hookups and throwing herself as matchmaker at her friends. She hasn't given Mum-Friend vibes off at all to me - which is less a factor of what she's been doing and more how she's been shown to be doing it.
I think there are elements of the character here that'd be interesting to bring more to the fore - being unsatisfied in her flings, wanting a more traditional courtship relationship - but the "I am the mum friend" thing is... weird. Because it's undoing the parts of her character that have been very pro-active until now. It undoes a lot of her agency to say that instead of being a person who throws herself into being that, it's something she feels is being pushed on her, or a burden.
So, instead of revealing more depth to her, it's kind of undone what I previously understood about her in a way that makes her less interesting to me.
Elliott being on Soft Boy forums is top notch though.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 07 Sep 2020, 06:35 ---This kind of came out of nowhere to me tbh
Like on the one hand I get how it could make sense for the character, but we've established her still having a lot of hookups and throwing herself as matchmaker at her friends. She hasn't given Mum-Friend vibes off at all to me - which is less a factor of what she's been doing and more how she's been shown to be doing it.
I think there are elements of the character here that'd be interesting to bring more to the fore - being unsatisfied in her flings, wanting a more traditional courtship relationship - but the "I am the mum friend" thing is... weird. Because it's undoing the parts of her character that have been very pro-active until now. It undoes a lot of her agency to say that instead of being a person who throws herself into being that, it's something she feels is being pushed on her, or a burden.
So, instead of revealing more depth to her, it's kind of undone what I previously understood about her in a way that makes her less interesting to me.
Elliott being on Soft Boy forums is top notch though.
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You never saw a pushy mom?
I think Renee's self image is the mom who's always trying to "make things right" for her... offspring. Maybe a little tiger-ish, but definitely the type who's going to ask, "So why aren't you seeing anyone right now?"
To her, that's what a mom does.
Which may explain a lot, actually...
brasca:
I can see why Renee feels this way. I don’t think there’s anyone to ship her with.
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