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WCDT strips 4361-4365 (Sep 28th to Oct 2nd 2020)

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St.Clair:
no, Marten himself will never go for anything (probably).  One day, after encouraging many others to go for it, he'll just kind of fall over, and people will eventually realize he's not getting back up.

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: Mr Intrepid on 28 Sep 2020, 21:56 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 27 Sep 2020, 23:11 ---Eh, I just kept my cover letters to the bare minimum and let my resume do the talking. All that they really want to know (unless they ask specifically for it) was "This is about your vacancy, yes I can do the job and I want to do so"!
There a couple of things to consider here. Firstly, Claire is still looking for a job and its' beginning to drag her down (I can empathise with that). However, also, Marten is an expert in raising her spirits. As much as Claire is trying to keep up her "This is serious business" policy, he's doing a good job at making her laugh! I do wonder if Marten is describing his own skill-set though...

Finally, I want to say again that I want Claire to get a job as the new assistant librarian for Miskatonic University. It's local and it basically writes the continuing arc for Claire just by existing. Cthulhu doesn't even need to turn up, just all the wonderfully weird people who would study or be on the faculty there would be enough!

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Remember, we're on QC time here.  She received her grades maybe a week to ten days ago.

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Wait, so you're saying there's a legit chance we might meet one of the other fruit sisters as either a professor or student there?

I like the idea of meeting Durian as a nutty/absent-mabsent-minded professor type or Pineapple as a linguistics student/professor. Though perhaps she'll go by 'Ananás'?

[Yes, that's the joke behind her being a linguist.]

EDIT: fixed quote attributions

BenRG:
It's actually kind of an ironic and very revealing character moment for Marten, isn't it? Normally, he's this very high-inertia and 'keep the status-quo' sort of guy. He doesn't like change and he doesn't like taking risks until he absolutely has to. However, if he's learned anything in his life, as a rule, when he 'goes for it', it's always ultimately turned out well for him!


--- Quote from: Farideh on 29 Sep 2020, 18:45 ---Wait a minute... Why is Claire blabbing that around? Given the fact that Clinton is still wrapping his mind around his attraction to Elliott, surely he'd want to keep it private for a while?
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You're right about that. However, this is Claire we're talking about here and it is entirely in character for her to gossip about it and make assumptions about relationship status based on her own mental shipper fanfic. Jeph has had this blow up in her face a few times but not badly enough, or so it seems, to entirely cure her affliction.

This is the point, of course, where Claire goes full ahead to make it happen, just in time for Brun to ask Clinton out on a date (either 'for comparison to Millie' or because she wants support at the coffee shop whilst she makes sure Dan doesn't do anything to make Renee unhappy) and for Roko to have a breakdown in the street and Elliot has to help her get home (bridal carry, anyone). Claire is knocked flat that she seems to have got things that wrong; maybe she's even angry about it and causes a scene?

You know me, I like Claire but she does need to have reality to smack her in the face to remind her that real relationships are more complex than romantic fiction.

shanejayell:
Clinton is lucky Claire is not following him to cheer him on the next time he sees Elliot.  :-D

Gnabberwocky:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 29 Sep 2020, 23:51 ---You know me, I like Claire but she does need to have reality to smack her in the face to remind her that real relationships are more complex than romantic fiction.

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That's already happened, and she actually seems to be showing more restraint this time, but by this point she should have learned to stay fully out of Clinton's relationships until they're solid, unbreakable canon.

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