Nothing really. He’s probably okay. His love of rules and disdain for buffoonery does give off some cop energy though. I don’t know where I’d stand with him. Very season 1 Amazi-Girl type aura. He got my back if a cop pulls me over or I’m underage drinking in the parking lot of Walmart? What if I wanna fist fight a rapist at a republican congressional rally? I don’t know.
Alright, here we go, time to see if Tony is a real one.
I kinda hope Raidah succeeds in breaking them up though. Mainly cuz I need Sarah to crash out so bad.
Well, the stuff about Sarah reporting her pothead roommate will only raise/reaffirm his esteem of her. And that’s the only thing I can think of that Raidah has to weaponize.
Tony’s always been fairly direct. If this is the story of how Sarah got her roommate removed, I feel like Tony’s the kind of person who’d be more offended she allowed someone to break the rules for so long.
Yeah, Tony strikes me as a very straight up and down sort of guy, I mean not so much as Sarah but only by like 5 inches. <-This is a truly terrible pun and I'm sorry
I’ve been saying for months now that it was a narrative weakness that we’ve only ever seen Sarah’s side of everything that happened with Dana. Hopefully we’re finally gonna see how Raidah actually saw everything.
Doubtful. Last time she told the story she just tried to do the hwole “Sarah is a bad person who hurts people who don’t fit the norm” while giving minimal context because she’s well aware the entire context will set off alarms of most anti-drugs people.
And I have a feeling Tony is very anti-drugs.
Raidah has only the information she has to work off of. And quite frankly having Sarah’s side of the story, I think she was pretty clearly in the wrong.
Bill Erak
Was she?
Girl wanted to have a future. Being wholly unable to sleep because your roommate is spiralling and instead of getting help they just get more and more high is a problem. She didn’t know Dana’s home wasn’t good for her (And that’s just what Raidah said anyways, and it’s been proven Raidah is a manipulative untrustworthy individual)
Dot
Get a roommate transfer then. The mistake here is assuming that the solution Sarah chose was the only one available to her.
Doopyboop
Sarah did try to reach out to Dana’s friend group to let them know Dana wasn’t dealing with the death well. They were the ones who basically responded like “well she seems fine to us”. Getting a room transfer wouldn’t solve the fact that Dana was becoming dependent on weed because she was depressed. Although we don’t know what Dana’s father is like, at least she did have Dana’s dad informed so he could take care of his daughter rather than reporting her to school officials, which would have given her a criminal record and expelled from the school.
Sirksome
It’s a good thing Dana will never show up again to clarify the state of her home life and mental health, thus forever leaving Sarah and Raidah in an arbitrary stalemate of believing the other person in their petty rivalry is the devil! Yup!
Honestly, I think we’ve seen Raidah’s POV on the Dana thing just fine. The only other thing she could do at this point would be the same embellishing she’s been doing all this time.
I agree that we’ve seen Raidah’s side just fine. Sarah’s original flashback story was actually hugely sympathetic for Raidah.
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What we haven’t seen is Dana’s side. That, imho, is the shoe waiting to drop here.
raidah’s language in jettison is very telling: “Sarah HAD Dana sent home”. she makes it sound like manipulating influence, the pulling of a string. sounds to me like if raidah was projecting any harder you could point her at a blank wall and watch Mean Girls
Well considering up to the this point she’s been portrayed as a two-faced snake who vales people for their connections more than their character, I don’t think we’re suddenly gonna get “Raidah was right” twist anytime soon.
It’s kind of hard not to. Raidah is oddly fascinating because she so badly wants to be a freaking supervillain but the only people who fall for her shtick are the very naive or those who just met her nine seconds ago. There’s no subtlety, no pretending to be friends, just her deciding who she likes, who she doesn’t, and assuming that badmouthing one against the other with all the finesse of a sledgehammer is gonna win the day.
Gurl, I am begging you, if you wanna be that ‘power behind the throne’ or ‘puppet master’ then you have got to up your supervillain game. A child could see through it, and more than a few actually have (yeah, I know referring to college students as ‘children’ is a bit of stretch, but you get my meaning, I suspect.)
You’re the son of the dean, so your networking must be exceptionally strong, and you maybe counting on his connections in the future, so I clearly can’t choose the minion in front of you.
But you also seem straightforward, so must know you’re a nepo baby, and have realized that being a nepo baby can only take you so far, so I clearly can’t choose the minion in front of me.
Not like she has any information he’d find particularly valuable. Besides, she’s lying to his face with that “I don’t want anything” BS, so it’s not like he can trust anything else she says in this interaction.
If this is *actually* about Dana, I can totally see this tying back to the last strip with Robin. It seems that Raidah is getting a taste of the reality of being in power.
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Sirksome
Don’t trust either of them.
TrueSurvivor
Raidah is obviously self-serving and machiavellian, but what is it about him that makes you distrust Tony?
Sirksome
Nothing really. He’s probably okay. His love of rules and disdain for buffoonery does give off some cop energy though. I don’t know where I’d stand with him. Very season 1 Amazi-Girl type aura. He got my back if a cop pulls me over or I’m underage drinking in the parking lot of Walmart? What if I wanna fist fight a rapist at a republican congressional rally? I don’t know.
Bill Erak
Alright, here we go, time to see if Tony is a real one.
I kinda hope Raidah succeeds in breaking them up though. Mainly cuz I need Sarah to crash out so bad.
Amós Batista
Come on, one more couple to crash? How many more? hahaha
Getes
Well, the stuff about Sarah reporting her pothead roommate will only raise/reaffirm his esteem of her. And that’s the only thing I can think of that Raidah has to weaponize.
CT Phipps
Unlike Lucy, Tony will tell her to f off.
Mr. Random
Tony’s always been fairly direct. If this is the story of how Sarah got her roommate removed, I feel like Tony’s the kind of person who’d be more offended she allowed someone to break the rules for so long.
Dot
Tony is definitely gonna be on the side of supporting having someone using illegal narcotics removed from campus.
TrueSurvivor
Yeah, Tony strikes me as a very straight up and down sort of guy, I mean not so much as Sarah but only by like 5 inches. <-This is a truly terrible pun and I'm sorry
Bryy
Yeah, if this is about Dana, it’s not going to go well. If it’s about Jacob….. maybe.
clif
Jacob. Sarah’s temper – assaulting not just her, but also at another time, another student with a baseball bat.
RassilonTDavros
So this isn’t the first time she’s tried this, then.
Dave Van Domelen
“What do you want?”
“Drama.”
Dot
I’ve been saying for months now that it was a narrative weakness that we’ve only ever seen Sarah’s side of everything that happened with Dana. Hopefully we’re finally gonna see how Raidah actually saw everything.
Bill Erak
Doubtful. Last time she told the story she just tried to do the hwole “Sarah is a bad person who hurts people who don’t fit the norm” while giving minimal context because she’s well aware the entire context will set off alarms of most anti-drugs people.
And I have a feeling Tony is very anti-drugs.
Dot
Raidah has only the information she has to work off of. And quite frankly having Sarah’s side of the story, I think she was pretty clearly in the wrong.
Bill Erak
Was she?
Girl wanted to have a future. Being wholly unable to sleep because your roommate is spiralling and instead of getting help they just get more and more high is a problem. She didn’t know Dana’s home wasn’t good for her (And that’s just what Raidah said anyways, and it’s been proven Raidah is a manipulative untrustworthy individual)
Dot
Get a roommate transfer then. The mistake here is assuming that the solution Sarah chose was the only one available to her.
Doopyboop
Sarah did try to reach out to Dana’s friend group to let them know Dana wasn’t dealing with the death well. They were the ones who basically responded like “well she seems fine to us”. Getting a room transfer wouldn’t solve the fact that Dana was becoming dependent on weed because she was depressed. Although we don’t know what Dana’s father is like, at least she did have Dana’s dad informed so he could take care of his daughter rather than reporting her to school officials, which would have given her a criminal record and expelled from the school.
Sirksome
It’s a good thing Dana will never show up again to clarify the state of her home life and mental health, thus forever leaving Sarah and Raidah in an arbitrary stalemate of believing the other person in their petty rivalry is the devil! Yup!
Doopyboop
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/feigned/
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/jettison-2/
Honestly, I think we’ve seen Raidah’s POV on the Dana thing just fine. The only other thing she could do at this point would be the same embellishing she’s been doing all this time.
Li
I agree that we’ve seen Raidah’s side just fine. Sarah’s original flashback story was actually hugely sympathetic for Raidah.
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What we haven’t seen is Dana’s side. That, imho, is the shoe waiting to drop here.
BadRoad
Which part?
Qube
raidah’s language in jettison is very telling: “Sarah HAD Dana sent home”. she makes it sound like manipulating influence, the pulling of a string. sounds to me like if raidah was projecting any harder you could point her at a blank wall and watch Mean Girls
tunasammich
Sarah wouldn’t have been wrong if she just told her RA and got her roommate expelled
nadamás
I don’t think Sarah was in the wrong either way, but how is that different from what she actually did?
Qube
telling the RA means Dana gets punished. telling the father means Dana gets help. it’s a big enough difference
Cameron Stone
Well considering up to the this point she’s been portrayed as a two-faced snake who vales people for their connections more than their character, I don’t think we’re suddenly gonna get “Raidah was right” twist anytime soon.
mindbleach
I appreciate Tony being wise to Raidah’s bullshit.
We’ll see if the plot says that holds up.
Bryy
Both Raidah and Jennifer are going through humbling arcs. So we’ll see.
Tequila Mockingbird
It’s kind of hard not to. Raidah is oddly fascinating because she so badly wants to be a freaking supervillain but the only people who fall for her shtick are the very naive or those who just met her nine seconds ago. There’s no subtlety, no pretending to be friends, just her deciding who she likes, who she doesn’t, and assuming that badmouthing one against the other with all the finesse of a sledgehammer is gonna win the day.
Gurl, I am begging you, if you wanna be that ‘power behind the throne’ or ‘puppet master’ then you have got to up your supervillain game. A child could see through it, and more than a few actually have (yeah, I know referring to college students as ‘children’ is a bit of stretch, but you get my meaning, I suspect.)
Jess
oh this’ll be good
Nono
So is she going with the Dana thing. Or the “Sarah assaulted me” thing
DiDi
Well, it was about time the dramatics came from elsewhere.
Muttski
Unpleasant, thy name is Raidah.
nadamás
God you can tell that Tony has heard Raidah usual song and dance before and it’s not a tiny bit impressed.
Dara
Raidah, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – Never take networking advice from Jennifer!“
Cholma
But what’s her opinion on land wars in Asia, or going against Sicilians when death is on the line?
Cbwroses
You’re the son of the dean, so your networking must be exceptionally strong, and you maybe counting on his connections in the future, so I clearly can’t choose the minion in front of you.
But you also seem straightforward, so must know you’re a nepo baby, and have realized that being a nepo baby can only take you so far, so I clearly can’t choose the minion in front of me.
John Campbell
In fact, both minions are toxic. Tony has spent the last twenty years building up an immunity to manufactured bullshit drama.
clif
His immunity is so great that he must go to great lengths to avoid it.
tunasammich
:(
Pocky
Read this as Raidah ratting out the gang for brownie points.
hope I’m wrong.
Alongcameaspider
I actually suspect she’s trying to break up Tony and Sarah by giving her whole “she sold out her old roommate over weed” story
Of course knowing what we know about Tony this is very likely to backfire on her spectacularly assuming I’m right
Li
hmmmmm
M!a
Raidahs gonna Raid. 🙄
3oranges
Raidahs gonna raid
Sarahs gonna sar
Boosters gonna boost
Badgers just don’t care
Darkoneko
Hadmouthing Sarah ? Wow.
CT Phipps
Wow, Willis, you have kept me invested in finding out what Dana has been up to for SIXTEEN YEARS.
How much longer will you torment us with no updates!
IntangibleMatter
Raidah, leave Tony alone. I’m like 90% sure he’d have done the same thing in Sarah’s shoes.
Alongcameaspider
I actually disagree
If he were in her shoes he likely wouldnt have waited nearly as long as she did
Newlland(Henryvolt)
Raidah: “Sarah once hid her former roommates drug abuse to keep her in school. ”
Toni: “That sounds problematic, what happened to her?
Sarah: “…Sarah eventually told her dad and they pulled her out of school.”
Ton: “Well that sounds like she saved my dad the trouble of kicking her out and getting a black mark on our campus record, I should thank her.”
Raidah: “Damn it!”
Taffy
Not like she has any information he’d find particularly valuable. Besides, she’s lying to his face with that “I don’t want anything” BS, so it’s not like he can trust anything else she says in this interaction.
Cameron Stone
It’s funny because Raidah would/will probably complain that Sarah poisoned Tony’s opinion against her when she’s here doing the same thing.
Bryy
If this is *actually* about Dana, I can totally see this tying back to the last strip with Robin. It seems that Raidah is getting a taste of the reality of being in power.
Fireprincesslily
Raidah defenders about to go CRAZY
clif
The brings up an interesting philosophical conundrum. Can you go crazy if you already are?
Quinn
They have defenders?
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