So I’m a little confused, help me out here, Willis. You created Mary to be a manic pixie dream girl, but then immediately reintroduce Billie as the love interest. Was Mary never intended to be a romantic interest, just a Joyce 2.0, or did you just make her up and then decided you really hated her in record time?
Also with Joyce and Ruth being both forcibly removed from Danny’s arc, he needs new people to interact with. (Who else did Danny ever even regularly speak to? Joe and… Howard?) The dynamics he had with Ruth and Joyce can still be preserved via Billie stepping up as “dark” and Mary entering the story as “light.”
This being my first time through Roomies, I’m having kind of a hard time telling these dark haired ladies apart. Sal, Billie and Mary may as well be the same character with different clothes/hair.
Reading manga is good training for telling characters apart by hair-shape. Mary’s is all smooth lines and sharp angles; Billy’s is always very rounded; and Sal’s is flat on top and big and bushy at the back. (At this stage in the art drift…)
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“Listen, I think you may have one of my fun-time toys.”
I think he might BE one of her fun-time toys.
“Already”? More like “about time”!
So I’m a little confused, help me out here, Willis. You created Mary to be a manic pixie dream girl, but then immediately reintroduce Billie as the love interest. Was Mary never intended to be a romantic interest, just a Joyce 2.0, or did you just make her up and then decided you really hated her in record time?
She seems to have been planned as Ruth 2.0, a good friend who Danny has no romantic interest in.
Perhaps she’s a Ruth/Joyce hybrid?
Could be both. It’s a classic characterization trope for romance and drama stories. Two female characters, often as romantic interests for the male lead, with a high contrast in personalities.
Also with Joyce and Ruth being both forcibly removed from Danny’s arc, he needs new people to interact with. (Who else did Danny ever even regularly speak to? Joe and… Howard?) The dynamics he had with Ruth and Joyce can still be preserved via Billie stepping up as “dark” and Mary entering the story as “light.”
Out with the judgemental Christians, in with the tsunderes
Billie’s cuter anyway. You made the right choice, Willis.
This is why Billie is the best.
Down with the Mary-ocracy, comrades!
She took a bus…heh. Yeah and now where do you go from there?
And still….why?
She’s got a case of the Dannies. Unfortunately it’s terminal.
That was Ruth.
This being my first time through Roomies, I’m having kind of a hard time telling these dark haired ladies apart. Sal, Billie and Mary may as well be the same character with different clothes/hair.
Reading manga is good training for telling characters apart by hair-shape. Mary’s is all smooth lines and sharp angles; Billy’s is always very rounded; and Sal’s is flat on top and big and bushy at the back. (At this stage in the art drift…)
Originally posted:
July 6, 1999