Poor Clinton! There's no point trying to remind him that Brun said Elliott is 'kind'. All he can think of is the fact that his likely rival is about 3x his volume, mostly by muscle mass. Never before has he been so aware of the fact that he
is not what anyone would call an 'alpha'.
I was thinking about the CaveClinton-Eating Tiger in panel 4 and I've come to the conclusion that it's basically his subconscious mind's reaction the situation that he's in: He'd have a hard enough time dealing with Brun and his difficulty opening up around women. With the issue of Elliott included, suddenly having to deal with Brun and Claire's good-intentioned meddling is like the prospect of being eaten alive!
Is there any interaction that Claire won't ship?
Like Joyce Brown in
Dumbing of Age, Claire can ship many things and all things; her shipping is
quantum!
I thought panel 2 Brün was trying to concoct a joke.
New comic--- wonder if Brün and Claire will compete at attempted humour?
There are two possibilities: First, Brun will consider Claire's puns to be the height of high humour and the two will get on famously. The second is that Brun will take Claire's puns literally and spend the evening disassembling them word-by-word to explain to Claire why what she said doesn't make sense.
Whilst we are on the subject of Claire, I'm wondering if Renee will feel obliged to be chilly to Claire for Padma's sake (even though she and Marten were reconciled ages back) and that may annoy Elliott and maybe even Brun. We may end up with Brun calmly telling Renee that she doesn't like the way she talks to people and assumed the worst about Clinton. That might really shock Renee so this could end up a character growth mini-arc for her.
BRUN: "I will be living with Clinton until you sort yourself out, Renee."
CLINTON: "I live in a college dorm!"
BRUN: "So I will be living in your college dorm until Renee sorts herself out."
CLINTON: "But... I..."
BRUN: "I've done this before."
CLAIRE: "Suddenly, I'm interested in this story!"