brasca wrote:
Most people enjoy bullies getting their comeuppance, but then again Faith is your favorite character so we know what side you favor.
Gotoh and EdisnooM you both make convincing arguments, but you don't really have anything solid and for that matter neither do I. This all based on speculation, but you choose to view Teddi as being terrible and I do not. And the reason I do not is that if everything you say was true then this would be some really dark territory to be getting into for a light hearted webcomic. If Teddi realized that he was somehow using pheromones as roofies the guilt would be too much so I choose to believe that there is a good explanation we will get soon enough.
Comeuppance is one thing, but what's happening to the bullies here seems far and beyond an equal response.
I agree that we do not yet have all the details, but I think we do have enough information provided to draw some fairly solid conclusions.
First when we see both the jocks and Daisy's crew affected by the pheromones the reaction is the same, complete hostility to utter infatuation. Now at that point yes we could say it was just attraction, though I would argue that even forcing someone to become sexually attracted to someone is entering creepy territory.
But after that we have Gabby's take, that she knew what was happening but was unable to stop. She was able to flee after Naomi arrived, but it certainly seems that in the throes of passion she was unable to control her actions. This is reinforced with how we see Daisy (and in the latest strip her crew) act, completely submissive to Teddy willing to follow his every command. And we are also shown that when Teddy "pours on the charm" Daisy is willing to physically harm herself.
I agree that yes this would be getting into some pretty dark territory, but honestly I don't know how else to see it. The latest strip shows he has apparently already gone "all the way" with at least four girls, and I don't think it can be argued that any of them were in their right minds and able to consent. In Canada anyway I think that would be sufficient to classify as rape. Then there's all the people he's been "testing" that were likely under the same influence.
That's why I was really hoping that Teddy was going all
eeevil from the transformation, so there would be some explanation for all this. As it stands now I really don't know how he can come back from this and still be the "good guy".
And this comic verse has already gone to some pretty dark places. Chloe pretty much took over the whole school and was apparently ready to murder Ash. Layla's mind and body were taken over by a vampire queen, who planned to sacrifice Kade. Various people being gender swapped against their wills. The MC stretch comic had one of the Helrune's selling the other into a sultan's harem, and she then came back and fully tried to murder the other with a machine gun. And then there's the whole creepiness of Kade and Dio with Ace's alter ego.