worldshaking00 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 5:49 am
To be fair to Zii, she did help Gary... although by no means does she get the majority of the credit for his shagadelic escapades.
Yeah, it’s unfair and over-simplifying to say that Zii was
no help to Gary. She just wasn’t much of the sort of help she intially offered, and which she’s offering Ruby here. As an advisor, she’s dangerously over-confident and biased by her own tastes; as moral support, she’s far too easily distracted; but as a platonic manic pixie dream girl, she was one of the people dragging Gary out of his shell and helping his confidence.
So Ruby is right to reject this offer. Zii would just try to turn her into a clone of Zii, which wouldn’t work; it’s just not Ruby’s style. And Ruby is already part-way out of her shell (partly thanks to Zii). Zii might just say something that helps Ruby complete the process and get past Andy’s obtuseness, though.
But she probably was the first to offer aid to his cause.
Actually, he said exactly that, when she first offered. While on his knees and weeping.
(although I am not 100% sure that there was a Gary/Zii pairing in the special "what if" series of strips Giz made a few years back; I am sure @Spidrift will correct me. And a pre-thanks, sir, should you illuminate me).
The print bonus “What if Gary married X?” strips included instances for Yuki
(their daughter accidentally bashed Gary in the crotch, ho ho) and Zii
(Zii’s birthday present to Gary was group sex with a bunch of other girls; the present she then requested for her own birthday was Gary getting boned by another guy so she could watch, ha ha). But those were very much throwaway gags, taking the characters’ stock features to extremes;
Yuki hits people in the crotch, Zii is an open-minded yaoi-voyeur, Gary is always and ever the butt-monkey. I wouldn’t take them as saying very much about the likely course of canon.
UnsightlyWalrus wrote: ↑Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:45 am
Have you seen a character in Menageaverse that does not like anal? Even straight men in this comic get pegged regularly and apparently like it.
Actually, Gary is the only straight guy who I can recall getting regularly pegged, and it was pretty clear with him that it was a favour for Peggy that he sorta-kinda came to like or at least tolerate. Matt isn’t straight, he’s an omnisexual perv, and Gilbert was not at all comfortable with the prospect when we last saw him. Nor do many of the M-F pairs seem to engage in man-on-top anal very often, that we’ve seen, and Zii made it explicit to Gary very early on that a lot of women (probably including herself) don’t like it much. Peggy is the only woman we’ve seen offer, and that was a bit of a joke and part of her try-anything-once relationship with Gary.