I don't know. I just can't see Ruby going along with somethings just because she gets some material return on it. For one thing, she knows by now that Dillon's schemes are likely to lead to embarrassments and uncomfortable revelations, and it'd take a lot to compensate for all that. And for another, she's a socially inexperienced nerd with a strong sense of morality. That means that she constructs her moral decisions from first principles, and using people as things is a priori wrong. Even if they are Dillon.brasca wrote:It's not cynical if Dillon offers to help even though she knows he's just using her for one of his schemes as long as she knows she's getting something out of it too. Unless it's a scheme that really violates some ethics I can see her shrug and go along with it since the previous adventures weren't a total loss.
She can be bounced or morally blackmailed into things, sure, or persuaded just to stop Dillon's whining, but I think she's too-admirably high-principled to go all exploitative on him.
Oh, Dillon wants to be Ruby's official Gay Best Friend because it makes him look like a character in a romcom, and so he can use her as a dressing-up doll. He wasn't being half as nice as Ruby thought, really. But from her point of view, it was a spontaneous offer of help from someone who didn't owe her anything, and she's clearly not used to that.brasca wrote:And that help with her wardrobe was not completely altruistic since having her around got some looks from guys so he could see who is and isn't gay. It's not the most self serving thing he's done and seeing as how he bought her some designer jeans a fair trade, but there was a reason for that shopping trip in which he benefited too.
Do note that Dillon generally denied that he was doing that, especially by the time his own comic started. Of course, Amber knew better and called him a liar, but the problem there was as much Amber's fine-tuned and slightly weird sensitivities as Dillon's actual attitude.Fluffy wrote:Unless you count his getting in the way of Amber hooking up with Gary - she's his BFF, and he's used their friendship as a means to prevent her from pursuing a guy he has a crush on/who wants nothing to do with him sexually.
(Which ties up to Dillon's big problem, or rather the big problem with Dillon; a total lack of self-awareness. With most people, real or fictional, poor self-awareness is an unfortunate flaw. Dillon manages to raise it to the level of a punch-in-face-worthy vice.)
What happens when word of Amber bagging Gary gets back to her own apartment will be interesting. Yes, half the interest value will be what Dillon does say when he has to deal with the reality of this, rather than the hypothetical possibility; he may well go all drama queen. The other half is how Ruby deals with the whole thing, given that she currently has the vague impression that Gary is gay (thanks to Dillon's gift for leaving out crucial details when talking about Gary).