LegendaryKroc wrote:Sure, it's all in her head, literally even, for the time being, but who knows? I wouldn't have pegged her for the sort who would go in for guy-on-guy action - not really my thing, but to each their own - and yet she got hook-diddly-hooked to that yaoi she bought, not to mention her behaviour during the events surrounding Dillon and Ray's makeout scene from earlier.
I suspect that there may be a
tiny bit of author appeal in Ruby's tastes.
LegendaryKroc wrote:As an aside, I like Ray. Will he be coming back?
Yes.
LegendaryKroc wrote:I agree that Ruby has personal ethics and strives to act like the good, chaste person she considers herself to be (not a baseless belief) - indeed, such traits made her a good friend for Dillon to have given that his original run in Mà3 didn't paint a flattering portrait of him where personal rules/boundaries and self-control were concerned - but those events show that she does, unfortunately, have something of a selish reflex and the capacity to be ruled by her passions.
Frankly, though I agree that Ruby tries hard to be a good person by her own lights (and is a lot more self-aware about it than anybody else in the setting), this part isn't really about her being "good" or "bad". She has a virgin's nervousness about sex, she has a large emotional commitment to the idea that "silly lovey-dovey stuff is a waste of time and more trouble than it's worth", and most of all, she's terrified of having people laugh at her. (And she'll worry that admitting to being a virgin will make her look naive and weird to other people, plus getting naked with anyone for the first time involves the chance that they'll find your body strange somehow.) Even if and when she decides that she'd like to go to bed with a guy, all that's going to be a significant barrier to doing anything about it; proposing to be weird and kinky about it is likely to be
really difficult.
Which may not stop her. She's clearly a woman of strong appetites with a lot to get out of her system, and she's not a coward. But it makes it very possible that she'll be slow to act on her impulses.
LegendaryKroc wrote:Neither is bad purely on their own (nothing wrong with looking out for no. 1 on occasion), but if they drove her to actually act on Angel's advice, then depending on circumstances something could go very wrong.
Angel's advice seems to be purely technical; I don't think she's
deliberately pushing Ruby in any particular direction. And of course stuff may go wrong; the only thing that makes me think that Ruby's first experiments in sexual activity may not be a total comedy disasters is the fact that the authors seem to have some small sympathy for her.
LegendaryKroc wrote:The reason I say that is this: if she seduced some guy while disguised as a boy and he was cool with it when he inevitably found out, that would be okay; I don't mind whatever people do in their private lives as long as it's legal and no one gets hurt. But somehow I don't think Dillon, just for an easy example, would appreciate it that much - and in his case, especially not when it's Ruby of all people.
Oh, I don't think that she'll lay a finger on Dillon (not while awake, anyway). On the one hand, he's a safe fantasy figure for her, and on the other, she's got him in a kind of rock solid friend zone. Crossing the line into sexual contact would be emotionally bizarre, even if she could engineer it.
Getting kinky with, say, Andy,
might be a different matter. She knows that he seems to have a sort of open-minded view of the idea of kissing a guy, and she might conceivably decide to trust him far enough to ask him to help her get past her hang-ups with a little roleplay. But that would run the terrible risk that he'd laugh at her, and even if she did ask and he said yes, I think it'd just be foreplay leading into an entirely heterosexual sort of act.