Optimus Kate wrote:I didn't say she's affectionate towards him, I said she cares about him. You don't see that in #110 and #111?
She "cares about him" in the sense that a basically good person cares about everyone (who isn't a really bad person), sure. Plus, she's grateful for favours, and she's trying to get along with the person she had to live with. But I don't get the feeling that she cares about him much personally - because that would require at least a little bit of affection. And so far, she's seemed fairly immune to Dillon's puppy-dog appeal, except when he turns on the waterworks. It turns out that she's more of a cat person.
Optimus Kate wrote:I mean, she's not affectionate with Amber either, but I doubt it means she doesn't care about her.
Amber is
family, which seems to override other concerns with Ruby. Which is not surprising; families usually get kind of messy and complicated - even the ones with fewer stupid secrets and less incompetent parenting than the Larose clan. Ruby has put herself through years of heartache, either to avoid dumping Amber in the pit of her own making or to avoid distressing her parents, but she's also made it clear that there's a lot she doesn't like about Amber's behaviour, and maybe about Amber herself. However, she also assumes the same level of automatic loyalty from Amber that she grants...
Huh. We choose our friends; God gives us our relations.
Optimus Kate wrote:(Also, Amber does not tolerate Dillon. One tolerates going to the dentist, not their best friend. lol)
One tolerates one's best friend when said best friend (momentarily) behaves like a jerk. My impression is that Amber has become very fond of Dillon, and she finds him endlessly amusing, but I doubt that she'd turn to him for advice on anything serious (except acting). She handles important stuff like scamming the apartment, talking him through his side of it. She presumably realises that he's prone to moments of idiocy (beef sticks indeed), but she can, well, yes,
tolerate those for the sake of his virtues.
The worst fault Amber displays is failing to understand how different Ruby is to herself, despite being given plenty of evidence. It's a failure of imagination; she keeps slipping into the assumption that Ruby will behave like herself, and just calls her "uptight" when she doesn't. If she understood that better, she might try and act as more of a buffer between Ruby and Dillon - because Ruby doesn't have her view of Dillon.
(Well, second worst fault. Her
worst fault is extreme cowardice regarding telling her parents about her career.)
