29-04-13 Could this be Dillon

[themacnut]

If Gary falls for Ruby I think he'll suffer like he never did before. Unlike Yuki who at least appreciates Gary's art skills, Ruby will most likely have no use for Gary at all, and will want no part of him, after seeing that picture she'll consider him another sicko pervert male she'll want to stay away from. So all Gary will be able to do is worship her from afar.

[Spidrift]

... Ruby leaves, Amber feels bad but too late, her relationship with her sister is permanently ruined. But hey, at least she got Gary right? Right?

I dunno. Not burning bridges with her family seems to be one thing that's really important to Amber - or she wouldn't have bothered to ask/allow Ruby to keep her secret. And Amber, for all her taste for the Swirly, is pragmatically sensible about men and sex, as it seems to me; she's not been pursuing Gary since their last meeting, after all.

Maybe it's just me but Ruby doesn't seem to be very annoyed/angry/disgusted in the last panel.

I think it's just you.

Yes, finding a naked picture of the person she thinks the room belongs to is surprising... but this is Ruby! The girl who discovered her sister is a porn star!
Sure, she has been traumatized by that experience but she retained enough sense not to tell their parents about it.

Or Amber asked or begged her not to. We still don't know quite how that conversation went. I definitely rather want to see what she says to Dillon or Chanelle about the Ruby situation; that could tell us something about the history and her own feelings about it all.

From what I have read so far I don't think Ruby is going to read too much into this event, since as her sister has clearly taught her, everyone has their secrets and guilty pleasures

She's not that mature about it. Her attitude seems to be more that there are a lot of disgusting people in the world.

I do hope everything turns out well as I am one of those who wish to see Ruby hit it off with Gary.

Not a hope. Ruby is a classic fiery redhead, with all the passion turned to anger. Yuki had some dangerous reflexes that he learned how to dodge. Big deal. If he so much as looked at Ruby, she'd go for his throat with aggression, intelligence, and a lot of sarcasm. She'd leave the little twerp sobbing in the gutter, and barely think about him again.

[themacnut]

... Ruby leaves, Amber feels bad but too late, her relationship with her sister is permanently ruined. But hey, at least she got Gary right? Right?

I dunno. Not burning bridges with her family seems to be one thing that's really important to Amber - or she wouldn't have bothered to ask/allow Ruby to keep her secret. And Amber, for all her taste for the Swirly, is pragmatically sensible about men and sex, as it seems to me; she's not been pursuing Gary since their last meeting, after all.

Until and unless Gary comes around looking for her, but falls for Ruby instead. At that point, a dateless Amber also facing an extended period without any hope of getting another shot at that Swirly may decide (said decision being heavily influenced by lust-related hormones) that all's fair in love and war, so Ruby's gotta go. That may in fact be Amber's breaking point, when she decides she's had enough of Ruby.

I do hope everything turns out well as I am one of those who wish to see Ruby hit it off with Gary.

Not a hope. Ruby is a classic fiery redhead, with all the passion turned to anger. Yuki had some dangerous reflexes that he learned how to dodge. Big deal. If he so much as looked at Ruby, she'd go for his throat with aggression, intelligence, and a lot of sarcasm. She'd leave the little twerp sobbing in the gutter, and barely think about him again.

I completely agree here, Ruby would verbally destroy Gary without a second thought. However, I also think there's a significant chance that once Gary's done sobbing in the gutter, he may wipe his tears and go - "Wow! What a woman! So SPUNKY! Gotta have her!" And since he'd has no idea how to actually GET her, not to mention she'd regard his attempts as pure harassment, this will be the beginning of his descent into the Hell of Unrequited...Lust.

[Spidrift]

Amber can get shot of Ruby at any time; she just has to tell her to leave. It's her home, and Ruby plays by the standard social rules.

But she just won't. Like I said before, gratitude, guilt, fear, and love are all in play here, and all pushing the same way. Her only option is to help Ruby to sort herself out.

[TheEighth]

That pic behind the pic is probably to help Dillon get through those....lonely nights ;)

[Adamas]

The patience he has acquired from Yuki will surly serve him well when dealing with this new kind of crazy...

Or as would be more common: Gary hits HIS limit for crazy bitches and unloads on Ruby with a double barrel thermonuclear toungelashing (not in a good way) that get's it through her head that nobody really gives a flying ratfuck what she thinks about a damned thing.

[zaprzapb]

Ruby would verbally destroy Gary without a second thought. However, I also think there's a significant chance that once Gary's done sobbing in the gutter, he may wipe his tears and go - "Wow! What a woman! So SPUNKY! Gotta have her!" And since he'd has no idea how to actually GET her, not to mention she'd regard his attempts as pure harassment, this will be the beginning of his descent into the Hell of Unrequited...Lust.

This pretty much sums it up and that's the problem with Gary. He only went after Yuki because she paid attention to him and since Gary doesn't know good attention from bad attention he'll keep going after women that only give him bad attention. Only Amber and Kiley gave him somewhat good attention but they were both taken off the table as options so there you go. If Gary does meet Ruby he'll become infatuated with her because she'll give him bad attention which translates to "cute and spunky" for Gary and he'll completely forget about Amber at that point.

[Artemisia]

Gary's going to probably go insane pretty soon.

Or his tongue will fall off.

[themacnut]

The patience he has acquired from Yuki will surly serve him well when dealing with this new kind of crazy...

Or as would be more common: Gary hits HIS limit for crazy bitches and unloads on Ruby with a double barrel thermonuclear toungelashing (not in a good way) that get's it through her head that nobody really gives a flying ratfuck what she thinks about a damned thing.

You do realize this is GARY you're talking about right?

[Adamas]

*shrugs* EVERYONE has their limit. I fully admit I would've hit it long before now in Gary's position.

[Milnoc]

Gary's still completely clueless. It'll take a while before he grows a will.

[Spidrift]

I doubt that Ruby would even give an imaginary Gary-with-cojones-and-a-personality a handle to be harsh to her. Basically she'd tell him to piss off and stop bothering her.

But why the blue hell are we talking about a hypothetical relationship between characters in two different comics, when we know that SDB was created specifically to give Dillon and Amber some space free of Ma3's perpetually Gary-centered plotting?

By the way - bonus points to someone if Gary does show up, and proceeds to assume that, as he knows that Amber is bi, Ruby must be her new girlfriend. (Noting for extra hilarity that Ruby doesn't seem to know that fact about Amber.) Or he could just assume that she's another of her former professional colleagues. ("Sorry I didn't recognise you - I was never into that sub-dom stuff.")

Double post merged. The DAMNed

[Don Alexander]

That's a quite hilarious idea. I think Ruby would have an aneurysm.

That's a bit of Ma3 history. I think that Dillon did take that photo, but it could as easily be one of Zii's snaps.

The picture is from Dillon's collection, but Zii should hold a copy as well.

Or as would be more common: Gary hits HIS limit for crazy bitches and unloads on Ruby with a double barrel thermonuclear toungelashing (not in a good way) that get's it through her head that nobody really gives a flying ratfuck what she thinks about a damned thing.

Crowning Moment Of Awesome (TV Tropes link not included.)

[Spidrift]

Am I actually the only person round here who likes Ruby, enough to bother explaining why? I mean, sure, annoying, aggressive, damaged, socially incompetent, yeah, yeah, all that - but these comics seem to have a big geek readership; do they really not recognise one of their own, and instinctively stand by her?

(Or are most of them just Gary-style twits-with-Transformers-fixations, instead of real geeks?)

Though if we're talking casual geekiness - am I also the only reader who's noticed that she seems to have been characterised with the TV Tropes notes on the broken bird open full time?

That's a quite hilarious idea. I think Ruby would have an aneurysm.

More likely the cerebral bleeding would be Gary's. Ruby doesn't seem given to physical violence, but her verbal response there - once she'd recovered the power of speech - would be worth watching. I doubt that Amber would be best pleased, either, once she found out what happened; she's only seen Gary being cutely stupid up until now.

Double post merged. The DAMNed

[TheDude]

Well, I like Ruby because I think troubled characters are far more interesting than perfect ones. There seem to be a lot of readers though, who claim to prefer paragons of virtue. At least the intense criticism towards any kind of imperfect behavior seems to imply this.

As for tv tropes, I don't get its appeal. I think it's terrible boring.