Rain
Comic 739 - Debut
Author Notes:
I know most readers probably wanted to see the reactions of her friends and plot-relevant classmates, but her running late allowed the opportunity for this scene, which I felt was potentially more impacting. Walking in late puts everyone's eyes on her. Most of the class (Brother Arthur included) don't recognize her right away. The peanut gallery murmurs about what they're seeing as she walks to her seat that's closer to the back of the class. She hears them whisper, but thanks to her shyness doesn't respond. Awwwwwwkwaaaaard...
On the plus side, the commentary's not as bad as it could be. It's technically not ideal (and it escalates pretty quickly), but they really could be saying far worse things. I guess she has only been there like thirty seconds though.
But what are your thoughts? Are initial reactions better or worse than you expected? Can Rain work with this, or does this have the potential to explode into something more? And I wonder which classmate will be the first to approach her.
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classmates had a very similar reaction to my friend cutting her hair. She was neither gay nor trans, but in their minds short hair=lesbian.
At least from where I lived I don't think you'd see much of any difference in the student body at the catholic school. At some of the fundamentalist schools it might be different.
Just stating that opinion would not be nearly enough for me to come to this conclusion, but I was also around these people, got to see how they acted, where they let their eyes rest. When they were in a room with a beautiful woman and a handsome man and they weren't the center of attention, where did their eyes go?
It's my assessment that something like 90% of the people I've talked to who seemed to think one could catch the gay is at least bisexual, though many are probably gay. Note that I didn't keep scientific records and I'm sure I haven't found a statistically significant number of them, so my numbers are probably not the actual population average, and even if they were, your personal experiences are likely to not match exactly.
"Did she always have two eyes" -> NO.
But I guess it's easy to succumb to self doubts under the tide of ignorance of her classmates and it takes time for any change to digest, however big or small.
I hope she won't mope around for long but say something along the lines of donating her hair so the douches lay off her back. I also hope something positive happens to reaffirm her femininity. That would be good.
Its official - Kellily is the hot new ship.
Whoever said that is now my favourite character.
"Dude what?"
LOL!! :( Poor Rain. *hugs*