She isn't sure she's seeing Gary again, because she didn't think she handled that last thing with him quite right. Actually, she's not seeing him again for a while because he's too stupid to call her, and for some reason she doesn't think she can call him. Though it's not like they were really suited anyway.MuchachoNL wrote:And here I thought Amber was different, because she really cared for Gary.
But anyway, Amber is classified in the latest Ma3 print volume's Cast List as "Porn-Casual", and this is just another instance of that. Just because she may spend the night banging Ray's brains out doesn't mean that she's any less serious about Gary. Getting over that - learning to treat sex as something that's a little more than trivial - is Amber's personal character path.
Big fat hint; the last person to use the word "slut" on these boards is currently on a month's suspension. Get a clue.majek wrote:Well a slut never changes...
They may well, but Amber won't understand why at first. Dillon may eventually admit that Ray was an old crush of his, and then Amber would feel a bit bad, but she may actually start telling him that he can't go laying preemptive claims to every bloody good-looking guy in Montreal, whatever their orientation. Ruby, on the other hand, won't be able to express why she's unhappy about this, so Amber will just think that Ruby is angry again for no comprehensible reason. And their relationship will just get worse.majek wrote:...hopefully Dillon and Amber make her feel very bad after this.
Unless, being lumbered with each other again for the night, Dillon and Ruby actually manage to talk a bit, and Dillon draws out something about Ruby's problem with Amber. If she's persuaded to face that much of the truth, Ruby may at least be able to tell Amber a bit of why she's angry. Though she probably won't be able to explain all of it, so Amber may just think that she's jealous about Ray, and ask innocently if she shouldn't just do something with Andy...
(Which is a mistake she's likely to make sooner or later anyway, because she thinks it's unethical to withhold sex from a boyfriend. Amber is likely to find whatever relationship Ruby forms with Andy very confusing.)
He's not entirely stupid, but it takes him a little time to switch mental tracks. He's still thinking "acting lessons". Ruby is a little bit more mentally agile.Osaru Sensei wrote:Either Dilly-poo is very trusting or downright naïve in that last panel.
Actually, "a long time ago" was the previous day in comics time. But yes. While I don't exactly expect this to become a long-term relationship - Ray is just reaffirming his heterosexuality, Amber is just getting her rocks off - Ray actually fits Amber's specification for the kind of guy she wants far better than Gary does.Maechris wrote:Remember Amber expressed a wish to be held like this a long time ago, and best of what we know her only sexual encounters in a long while were... Nathan + Dillon, Zii, Gary, and Gary + Chanelle.
Dillon had suffered enough character development to realise that what he was doing initially with Ray was plain wrong. This is kind of grinding his nose in the fact that he can't have Ray (at least until and unless Ray processes the discovery of his bisexual side enough to get some confidence back, and then decides to experiment a bit, and decides to risk experimenting with a friend), but if he was sincere about accepting that truth, well, now's his chance to show he meant it by not throwing a tantrum. Give him credit, he's been doing okay so far.Absinthe Green wrote:As for the situation here - Nah, not feeling the sympathy. I love Dillon, but he was being covert and manipulative, and both he and Ruby were coming close to crossing a line w/ a somewhat confused Ray.
Interesting bonus test; Amber tells him later where she was last night...
I do feel some sympathy for Ruby, but that's not because she isn't getting what she wants; it's because she can't really admit what she wants, and her head is in a mess over that. She could have kissed Ray if she was more relaxed about sex, but of course she didn't; what she really wanted was the live-action yaoi show, and yes, she was being grossly amoral and clumsily manipulative about getting that. But she's normally a better person than that; she could only act so badly because she couldn't understand her own desires, so she could lie to herself to the point of insanity. She'll likely get there eventually, and then it will cost her some tears and some self-hatred before she can go after what she needs with enough honesty to get it.
The problem with people slut-shaming Amber is not that the word doesn't fit her personally; it's that people shouldn't be using the bloody word in the first place. She has that porn-casual attitude, she takes full advantage of her good luck, and actually, she's had sex in exchange for material rewards before now. The misogynistic idiots have plenty of material with her, but that doesn't justify their attitudes.brasca wrote:Amber is not a slut, but she is disproportionately fortunate and that can be annoying.
And conversely, calling what she gets "good luck" is slightly missing the point. She's a good-looking woman whose sex-positive attitude is off the scale; of course she can get laid rather easily. The unlikely thing is the dry spell she was apparently suffering before this comic started. That's not her problem. Her problem is that she doesn't understand how other people have different, valid views of sex. She missed a clue or two with Dillon here (not that it should have stopped her), she doesn't understand Gary's confusion, and she completely, utterly fails to understand Ruby. The last is the killer, because she doesn't have a clue why Ruby gets angry at her, but it evidently worries her. She's got someone sharing her room who hates her, it's the ally she's going to need when she comes out to their parents about her porn career, and she hasn't a freakin' clue how to fix this.
So Amber's punishment for her faults isn't sexual frustration; it's the danger of become lonely and isolated from people who'd love her if she made some small changes in her behaviour.