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Booster is famously modest.
Lower salience than Jennifer is Mike. Higher salience than Sal is basically Batman.
Booster should probably also know better than to pry into the condition Amber was clearly trying to hide from the cops.
But, Booster ain’t exactly a “none of my business” character…
To give Booster some credit, all they know is she’s injured and was hiding from the cops. They don’t know if she’s received medical treatment or not and are just… you know, naturally curious. I’d say depending on the severity of someone’s injuries, it’s a good thing to be curious about it in order to figure out if they may need medical attention. For example, one time a coworker arrived at work and I noticed that she was spacy, staring off into the distance at the wall, overall not herself. So I asked if she was okay and she nonchalantly told me she’d been in a car accident the previous day. Turns out she’d been in a car accident with her father, who was more outwardly injured (but thankfully survived!!). She declined treatment and went about her day, but because I and others pried, we convinced her to go to the hospital where, ta-da, it was discovered she had a concussion from the crash.
God that’s real. I got known in high school for being the person who knows everything so whenever I didn’t know something it’d be made into a big deal by my peers.
Ah yes, the “I hate having anyone acknowledge I’m good at things because then I feel crippling pressure to live up to this image and I don’t think I can” gang. I’m well familiar
Whoa, that’s taking things a little too far, don’t you think?
clif
Hey, not everyone can bomb seven different countries in two months, while complaining about not getting a peace prize. Most presidents are modest enough they don’t accomplish that in an entire year.
Although I find it…funny? Strange? Ironic?…that there is person who is aware of Amber’s mental condition but NOT her nighttime activities. I never really thought about the limits of Booster’s knowledge, but it’s interesting.
Naw, Booster is the most insufferable one in the comic. Mike’s stoicism was more palatable than they’re smugness. There’s a reason undergrad psych students get a bad reputation for constantly trying to psychoanalyze the people around them.
Oh wow really? We’re actually are doing “Amazi-girl is a dissociative state”? I mean, I’m not an expert in the subject, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t work like how the comic has portrayed it so far, which is basically the same as Harvey Dent/Two-Face (and I’m pretty sure that’s not medically accurate either). In general I find the superhero stuff the worst part of the comic or at least when Willis attempts to do anything serious with it instead of just over the op shenanigans.
That’s pretty much been what’s up with Amber and Amazi-girl for a long time in-comic. Like most directly stated for the first time when Booster was introduced post-timeskip. I’m not going to say Amber and Amazi-girl are a perfect representation of DID however they’re not the worst and I have appreciated it being a clear part of the characters post-timeskip. And I say that as someone with a bachelor’s in Psych.
While I am not a psychologist and do not play one on TV, it is my understanding is that it does not work that way at all. On the other hand, I am willing to suspend disbelief on far far more egregious departures from reality-as-I-understand-it than that, for the sake of a good story.
Doopyboop
See my question is, what exactly is the “it doesn’t work that way” that’s causing a disconnect? Something people need to keep in mind is that DID is still something that is being studied and understood. When it comes to media, I’ve found that the Moon Knight show for example actually does a very good job with portraying the different alters as well as how trauma like the kind the main character experienced as a child creates a split in personality/personalities.
That’s been the case for a very, very long time now, though. We’re not just “doing” that all of a sudden. There was a whole arc and everything about Amber and Amazi-Girl having relationship problems because they didn’t really communicate and didn’t even both date the same person, and then eventually reaching a point where they managed to start communicating and actually talking to each other. Their relationship being a dissociative trauma thing caused by the hostage event with Sal is pretty firmly established in canon by now. There will be plenty of people with DID for whom things work differently, that’s always going to be true, but I also personally know at least two people with diagnosed DID who have very similar communication styles with their alters to what Amber and Amazi-Girl do (sometimes switching with full blackouts for whoever’s not fronting, sometimes both ‘fronting’ enough to communicate between themselves and converse or consciously ‘hand over’ the front to someone else), even if none of them are engaging in comic book vigilante behaviours, so… from my point of view, Amazi-Girl is actually one of the more realistic DID depictions I’ve seen in fiction, even if it’s obviously with a bit of additional super-hero drama for the sake of being an engaging and fun story.
Booster is, personally, one of my absolute favorites and this is why. Which half is the goof? Good luck!!!! They’re behind four layers of affect!!
Not that I would know anything about figuring out how to manage a not insincere but definitely exaggerated social position, in part in my hypothetical case to manage navigating socially while visibly/audibly trans. Noooo. Nooo. …But if I had, I definitely went more ‘flamboyant semivillain’ then Mysterious.
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Astariel
You do not in any way hate having cultivated a mystique, Booster.
I suspect Walky probably won’t spill the beans on Amazi-Girl to Booster, but Amber might.
clif
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Booster is famously modest.
Lower salience than Jennifer is Mike. Higher salience than Sal is basically Batman.
Nono
I’d say Booster should know better than to needle a grouchy Walky, but I think they do know better, they just don’t care that much.
Folus
Booster should probably also know better than to pry into the condition Amber was clearly trying to hide from the cops.
But, Booster ain’t exactly a “none of my business” character…
Doopyboop
To give Booster some credit, all they know is she’s injured and was hiding from the cops. They don’t know if she’s received medical treatment or not and are just… you know, naturally curious. I’d say depending on the severity of someone’s injuries, it’s a good thing to be curious about it in order to figure out if they may need medical attention. For example, one time a coworker arrived at work and I noticed that she was spacy, staring off into the distance at the wall, overall not herself. So I asked if she was okay and she nonchalantly told me she’d been in a car accident the previous day. Turns out she’d been in a car accident with her father, who was more outwardly injured (but thankfully survived!!). She declined treatment and went about her day, but because I and others pried, we convinced her to go to the hospital where, ta-da, it was discovered she had a concussion from the crash.
IntangibleMatter
God that’s real. I got known in high school for being the person who knows everything so whenever I didn’t know something it’d be made into a big deal by my peers.
Hence why I have to know everything always
Thag Simmons
It is easy to forget which characters are in the loop about these things.
Doopyboop
If nothing else, you can always count on Jennifer to be wrong when it comes to Amazi-girl.
Stormtide Leviathan
Ah yes, the “I hate having anyone acknowledge I’m good at things because then I feel crippling pressure to live up to this image and I don’t think I can” gang. I’m well familiar
brionl
“I am the most modest person you will ever meet.”
Ray
You’re sounding very presidential there…
Armadillo
Whoa, that’s taking things a little too far, don’t you think?
clif
Hey, not everyone can bomb seven different countries in two months, while complaining about not getting a peace prize. Most presidents are modest enough they don’t accomplish that in an entire year.
nadamás
Booster appreciation thread here just in case: they are the funniest motherfucker in this entire group. I laugh basically every time they are around.
Regina phalange
Booster is very much growing on me.
Although I find it…funny? Strange? Ironic?…that there is person who is aware of Amber’s mental condition but NOT her nighttime activities. I never really thought about the limits of Booster’s knowledge, but it’s interesting.
Doopyboop
I enjoy Booster’s fashion sense and as a fellow enby, I wish to get to their level of fashion someday.
Bobby
Huge agree, and i drink the tears of the booster haters
KtBear
What tears?
Cameron Stone
Naw, Booster is the most insufferable one in the comic. Mike’s stoicism was more palatable than they’re smugness. There’s a reason undergrad psych students get a bad reputation for constantly trying to psychoanalyze the people around them.
flake
I think you may have take a wrong turn somewhere, mate
Sirksome
I guess Booster has never actually seen Amazi-Girl eh?
Li
Love Booster SO MUCH, they are a delight.
HeatherJean
Maybe they’ve never even seen news reports, or heard about AG from other students. Not likely. Maybe they’re just teasing Walky.
Amós Batista
Embrace your assholeness, Booster…
SaffronComic
There’s a 50% chance Booster has figured out that Amber is Amazi-Girl and a 50% chance they’re bluffing.
Dara
I think they’re bluffing. I didn’t on first read but I read it again and… they’re bluffing.
clif
Never underestimate the power of the mask.
Morrison
Booster is a law enforcement employee
Pocky
Booster failing both an insight check, and persuasion back to back lol
Fail Earnhardt
And is this “cultivated mystique” in the room with us right now, Booster?
Bill Erak
I love you Booster, never change, you have never done anything wrong in your entire life and it will stay that way.
Cameron Stone
Oh wow really? We’re actually are doing “Amazi-girl is a dissociative state”? I mean, I’m not an expert in the subject, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t work like how the comic has portrayed it so far, which is basically the same as Harvey Dent/Two-Face (and I’m pretty sure that’s not medically accurate either). In general I find the superhero stuff the worst part of the comic or at least when Willis attempts to do anything serious with it instead of just over the op shenanigans.
Doopyboop
That’s pretty much been what’s up with Amber and Amazi-girl for a long time in-comic. Like most directly stated for the first time when Booster was introduced post-timeskip. I’m not going to say Amber and Amazi-girl are a perfect representation of DID however they’re not the worst and I have appreciated it being a clear part of the characters post-timeskip. And I say that as someone with a bachelor’s in Psych.
clif
While I am not a psychologist and do not play one on TV, it is my understanding is that it does not work that way at all. On the other hand, I am willing to suspend disbelief on far far more egregious departures from reality-as-I-understand-it than that, for the sake of a good story.
Doopyboop
See my question is, what exactly is the “it doesn’t work that way” that’s causing a disconnect? Something people need to keep in mind is that DID is still something that is being studied and understood. When it comes to media, I’ve found that the Moon Knight show for example actually does a very good job with portraying the different alters as well as how trauma like the kind the main character experienced as a child creates a split in personality/personalities.
Ornathe
That’s been the case for a very, very long time now, though. We’re not just “doing” that all of a sudden. There was a whole arc and everything about Amber and Amazi-Girl having relationship problems because they didn’t really communicate and didn’t even both date the same person, and then eventually reaching a point where they managed to start communicating and actually talking to each other. Their relationship being a dissociative trauma thing caused by the hostage event with Sal is pretty firmly established in canon by now. There will be plenty of people with DID for whom things work differently, that’s always going to be true, but I also personally know at least two people with diagnosed DID who have very similar communication styles with their alters to what Amber and Amazi-Girl do (sometimes switching with full blackouts for whoever’s not fronting, sometimes both ‘fronting’ enough to communicate between themselves and converse or consciously ‘hand over’ the front to someone else), even if none of them are engaging in comic book vigilante behaviours, so… from my point of view, Amazi-Girl is actually one of the more realistic DID depictions I’ve seen in fiction, even if it’s obviously with a bit of additional super-hero drama for the sake of being an engaging and fun story.
Zamperla
Booster is, personally, one of my absolute favorites and this is why. Which half is the goof? Good luck!!!! They’re behind four layers of affect!!
Not that I would know anything about figuring out how to manage a not insincere but definitely exaggerated social position, in part in my hypothetical case to manage navigating socially while visibly/audibly trans. Noooo. Nooo. …But if I had, I definitely went more ‘flamboyant semivillain’ then Mysterious.
Bogeywoman
Booster is the second most modest person in the building. The first, of course, is Carla
Kyulen
It would be nice if Booster could not be an obnoxious ass for a little while. At least Mike was entertaining while being an asshole.
Acher4
Walky’s side-eye is going to poke out of the panel soon. :P
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