22-08-14 Hugging me kissing me

[Giz]

New strip! http://www.stickydillybuns.com/strips-s ... kissing_me

[brasca]

Best for Ruby to find this out now. Next time she might say something she'd regret when Amber is there.

[Qwertz]

Lots of people called that she'd say Dillon was taking advantage of her, but luckily he's good enough at defending himself that it's obvious even to her that the situation is a bit different

[Spidrift]

Ah, another "Embarrassed Ruby" strip. Nice to know that there are some things we can rely on.

Best for Ruby to find this out now. Next time she might say something she'd regret when Amber is there.

I'm not sure that she'd regard saying too much to Amber as much worse than saying too much to Dillon -- though I guess that her relationship with her sister is notably more messed-up and complicated than her mere ongoing irritation with Dillon. On the other hand, Amber is probably less likely to go on about it for hours afterwards. However, I'm not sure that this is quite so likely to happen with Amber. I get the impression that she was responding, however subconsciously, to having an attractive man in the same bed.

Anyway, this should logically remove the risk of her having to share a bed with Dillon again. Both of them now have negative associations for the experience. Unfortunately, that probably won't stop Dillon, and of course Ruby's willpower automatically collapses in the face of plot necessity.

[Bambikles]

Blushing Ruby is so cute in the last panel !
"Not uneexciting", that's exactly this ! Love this expression !

[Don Alexander]

You, know, for once I'm pretty much on Dillon's side but his "Your words, they WOUND me!" posture in panel 2 is still putting me off.

[Spidrift]

He's just being himself (i.e. a hopeless drama queen). His very habitual "You know..." upraised finger in panel 4 is just more of the same.

Though, as to being on his side - he's perfectly entitled to complain that Ruby was the one draping herself all over him, and her denial is just becoming ridiculous now, but the way he teases her at every opportunity, to the point of humiliation, still looks like bullying to me. He might have been excused for just quoting her, but that pose in panel 3 is just about taunting her.

[brasca]

I know. Just when I can reasonably defend his actions he then has to keep pressing buttons. Poor Ruby is more than capable of making an embarrassing situation worse just by continuing to talk. Dillon doesn't need to help.

Quote removed. The DAMNed

[themacnut]

Yep, that's just about how I expected this scene to go, only with more slapping. But Ruby's not violent by nature, so I'm not too disappointed that Dillon didn't feel her painful wrath. As for embarrassing her, well, even though Ruby makes it so easy, it seems that Dillon hasn't got bored of piling on the embarrassment. Ruby's simply going to have to learn to stop making it so easy. Or start hitting Dillon when he piles on.

[Adamas]

*singing* I hear the secrets that you keep. When you're talking in your sleep.

[Optimus Kate]

Just imagine if she admitted that in her dream, she slowly transformed into Dillon...

Now THAT'S an awkward conversation.

[FlashD81]

Well that happened about as smooth as I expected. Ruby needed to understand was she did but at the same time I think Dillon is over doing it a bit.

(no predictions or extra words for now, currently feeling )

[Spidrift]

Just imagine if she admitted that in her dream, she slowly transformed into Dillon...

Now THAT'S an awkward conversation.

Awkward for her, certainly. (And on current form, she'll probably blab the fact soon.) Do you think it would worry Dillon, though?

Actually, that could take the conversation in interesting directions. Dillon has rightly called her out for calling herself boring - but she did that while in the person of Dillon, and he's the one who called the things she values "boring". She may well suspect that she's interesting to him to exactly the degree that he can turn her into a different person.

[Optimus Kate]

I'm not too sure how Dillon would react. I imagine flattered at first and then casually sliding into creeped out as it starts to sink in more.

[Spidrift]

Frankly, that's deeper than I can credit to Dillon. I can't see him getting beyond the flattered stage. But your mileage may vary. Actually, his own flashback, a couple of strips ago, may remind him about what it's like to feel embarrassed, if he thinks about it. But... that's a big "if".

Meanwhile, I took a skim through Ruby's past appearances, and I'm now sure that strips in which she's embarrassed, angry at something embarrassing, or talking (usually angrily) about some past embarrassment, significantly outnumber those in which she's reasonably relaxed. I know, she's a comedy character with "being embarrassed" as her schtick - but a new joke might be interesting, and I'm beginning to worry for her blood pressure.