This storyline is infuriating. I never expected Faye to be this weak or this stupid. I expected Dora to continue to be an irredeemable monster, but I'd hoped that maybe, for once, someone, anyone, would call her on it. No such luck. No, once again, no one, in the comic or in real life, can see through the Hot Barista fantasy (or the small business owner self-insert fantasy) to the disgusting reality within.
Dora has always been too weak to keep her employees at a professional distance, to keep her professional and personal lives separate. Instead, she indulges herself by letting them bleed into each other. She blurs what should be clear lines. By trying to have her cake and eat it, too, she puts herself in the impossible position of having to choose between her personal and professional obligations at every turn. Her employees and so-called "friends" are the ones who suffer for it.
Dora betrayed Faye. Dora's betrayal left Faye so desperate that she had to resort to survival-crime to stay alive. In the real world, where underground robot pit-fights don't exist, Faye would be whoring herself out on a street corner right now, because of Dora. Dora even acknowledged that Faye needed help. But Dora didn't help her. Dora kicked her when she was down. Dora looked at a bad situation, and decided to make it worse. She had power, and instead of using it to help, she abused it, so that she could re-assert her precious "authority" and put her insubordinate subordinate in her place. Instead of saving what was left of Faye's life, Dora destroyed it, by giving in to her most petty emotional impulses.
Dora is Faye's enemy. But Faye still insists on treating her like a friend, on buying into the bullshit fantasy that is "forgiveness." Trusting someone who betrayed you is stupid and weak. The only thing you can "trust" a betrayer to do is to betray you again. And why wouldn't they? By taking them back into your life, you've removed any consequences they might have suffered for their betrayal, and by doing so, you've quietly condoned that betrayal. The moment it's more convenient for them to betray you than to not betray you, they will stab you in the back again.
Dora doesn't deserve Faye's forgiveness or her friendship. She doesn't deserve anyone's friendship. She's a toxic, insecure control-freak who lashes out at anyone who, in her diseased mind, threatens her authority over her petty little fiefdom. She poisons anyone who makes the mistake of letting her into their life. She's a terrible person, and she deserves to suffer for it.
Their mutual "friends," especially Marten, have all proved that they don't deserve the title. They proved it when, the very second they found out what Dora did, they didn't cut her off forever. Marten proved how weak and stupid he is when he didn't break off all contact with Dora forever, once he found the good sense to finally dump her.
The only satisfying conclusion to this story would be if Faye skinned Dora alive and set what was left on fire.
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Topic: WCDT Strips 3151 to 3155 (8 - 12 February 2016) (Read 35550 times)