Quick question about Becca Cramer

[blackpaw]

[K-MacK]

[blackpaw]

[RBrigham]

Mabey Noah could help her once he has gotten through her tough shell?...

[K-MacK]

Tough shell? She may be crabby, but she isn't a crustacean (crabs, etc.)
As for the Noob character...
Look, this guy is a Were-Lion; a Leoanthrope, and he's male. What do male lions do? Outside of continuing the species, not much.
That kind'a sounds like Gus, doesn't it? 'Becca would be better served avoiding the noob until she learns his agenda.
Of all the male characters that might have an impact on Rebecca's life that is positive, Constantine Nero, the Sheriff is the best bet...not Peter.
We're not even sure what she wants Peter for...

[RBrigham]

[K-MacK]

There is another possibility here; look back at the beginning of the strip and we find that 1> 'Becca already had spoken with Peter BEFORE the story even begins, and on page three (I belive,) where We see her for the first time, she's 2> reminding him that tonight is the Howl and she intends to call him out.
Now, we know what Gus's reaction would be, don't we.
I'll wager she was planning to use Peter to make her father decompensate (freak out) and die when he made a lunge at him.
'Cause y' know he would. He's just that crazy...and the Sheriff would have killed him right there and then; remember, he was reminding Gus just how tenuous his grip on life was with that Pack.
So...my take is that she was going to use Peter as a means of relieving herself of an annoying relative: Daddy. She does love him so, y'know.
Now, the next day, she's back at the Dressmaker's still working on costuming for herself (with explosive results). She's actually a bit poignant as she walks home to...Gus. And slavery. The amount of time involved between those scenes makes us forget that there had been less than a day between our first meeting with her and the touching family scene at her home with her father.

My guess is that were she to get Peter; she would try to make a subserviant man out of him, the same way her father raised her.
That's ALL she has to go on. She doesn't know any other way. That's the tragedy called Rebecca; she doesn't know about gentleness, tenderness, or love, because she's never experienced them, and all her training would make her see these things as weaknesses. And Peter can't teach her any differently, because right now he's flailing around in a relationship he created by making a Thrall...and he's in over his head, there.

Peter ain't what she needs. She needs a mental makeover. The materials are there, we see them in her relationship with the Dressmaker, but that makeover would have to be administered by an authority figure, and reinforced repeatedly until it becomes a pattern of behaviour she can be comfortable with. Still, she will be like a Wolf/Dog cross. Dominance will have to be re-established regularly...and she'll never be really "sane" in either Werewolf OR Human terms. That's the sad part.

[lonehawkboy]

[Janushyde86]

[lonehawkboy]

[K-MacK]

Okay: Her mentor, the Dressmaker, enters her in a fashion show. Now, how does she make Rebecca go to said show? Threaten to fire her? Stand over her with a nail-bat? What?
Rebecca would say no, simply and firmly NO; which her father would echo once he realized that his submissive female might slip her leash once out of his immediate control.
Let's play with it: suppose she says yes and wins? Would she be capable of dealing with the cutthroat sort of business that high fashion is? I don't think so; she isn't socialized that way.
Let's continue here; Daddy Gus is now in the limelight, shaded only by his now famous daughter. Would he deal well with that? I doubt it. He's too crazy to let her get away with something like that.
Basically, while I can accept the Dressmaker entering her in a fashion competition, I don't see her competing. She would cave in, facing that sort of thing.

[lonehawkboy]