146 – Presence
Poor Clementine. She’s a wallflower.
Even though she’s one of the most popular characters in this comic, nobody would ever pay her any attention in real life for sure.
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Unpopular Popular Character trope activated!
Now I understand, Frivolesque is Clementine’s dream where she’s dreaming herself popular character.
We need to go deeper.
My head already hurts.
Indeed!
How does one not pay attention to someone wearing the colors of a traffic cone?
She just isn’t loud enough I guess.
I think Clem has a soft voice.
Yeah, probably hangs around in the background a bit too much. Still, I think 1 or 2 people on here might like her… :p
LOL. I was thinking the same thing when I drew this comic.
she’s been sitting in the back of the room stroking the cat all evening?
Stroking the cat sounds like a euphemism.
I bet she was thinking about Marie-Neige while stroking the cat. While stroking Flore’s cat.
There’s like a 90% chance they drove past her house already.
Nah. At least, Chloe was planning to get Marie home first.
She’s too quiet or peaceful to get attention !^^
She’s a wallflower.
I like wallflowers.
Slowly destroying walls from the inside out. Always underestimated.
Poor Clementine XD It does seem readers notice her, though, so she should be alright XD
She’s only popular outside of her universe.
I’m a wallflower too. Damn, if I was a cute comic character I could be popular with the readers at least T.T
Well, we could start a LilLupie fan club. At least then you’d be popular with online commentators.
Somehow, you even got a Clem icon, to emphasize your wallflower-ness…
Have you thought about using a Chloe icon? :P
What a coincidence!
Now I’m curious to see you in person. Maybe at a con someday. :)
im not really a wallflower but people never really saw me for my personnality. im not that pretty i admit, so when people see me, they’re like : ”im not hanging out with this ugly dude! no way!” so i have like… 1 friend (literally 1 friend) and he’s not even at my school so, at school, i pretty much have 0 friends which is sad for me because, no friends means lonelyness, which means sadness.
i never even had a girlfriend AND i got rejected 3 times, and all of those 3 times, they laughed at my face and couldnt care less about how i felt and about my emotions. im 14 so im in sec. 2 right now, i have only one thing to say,” people are mean and they dont know what words can do to a teenager. except for you guys, you guys aint mean, right? ;)
sorry for that personnal comment guys i just… i had to say it to someone.
You may have been rejected three times, but you have a better chance than I had in high school. Because I didn’t have the guts to even ask.
So don’t get discouraged and you’ll always have that advantage over poor saps like me.
actually, 1 of those times, i wasnt even the one to ask the girl. One of the other times, i didnt even have a chance to ask because when i tried to talk, she immediately insulted me and wouldnt even let me say anything. she hated me so much. i dont even know why. and the first time i asked a girl out, i was 6 years old. so there goes the 3 times i ever asked a girl out. im not that brave am i?
Well, if it doesn’t discourage you from trying, I can safely say you’re doing better than I was in high school. But whether that’s brave in absolute terms or I’m just betraying my own cowardice is another matter :P
I’m tempted to want to give advice, but frankly I’d just be making it all up.
i’ll just never try to get a gf ever again i guess and just wait until one of them comes to me. Its not like if there’d be any girls coming to me anyway. who’d want some random guy like me. I’d take your advice if you can give me any. i’ll tell you my personnality.
good qualities; im intelligent, im not the type of guy who’d cut a girl’s hair just to get her attention, im calm.
bad qualities; i like to brag(show off) about my intelligence and my speed(i run fast), im ugly, my teeth arent straight, i wear glasses, im not patient, i dont like to lose, im slim, i dont have abs like any cool guy, im not tall, i have one friend but no one knows he excists, i dont have any empathy, i blush very easily and people mock me about it, everytime a girl talks to me, i try not to say anything that would make her think i love her because its embarrassing and usually, i end up hurting her feelings, im being bullied and the bullies take and break my stuff and they make up rumors about me so everyone thinks im a freak, im being bullied sometimes (sometimes= from grade 3 to 2 months ago, i think im in depression.
well, thats for my qualities, i have lots and lots of bad ones and only a few good ones sadly. i hope you can give me advice based on those qualities. Thanks JW
Well, if you can also brag about running fast, then that’s at least one good quality you forgot to mention in the “good” list.
And considering where we are, here, I think it’s safe to say some would consider glasses a good point.
But, that aside.
I’m trying to think of what might be useful advice I could give. But a lot of things I can come up with are somewhat obvious and also easier said than done.
For example, abs. No one is born with great abs. If you want nice abs, you need to eat well and exercise (e.g. sit-ups, scrunches etc). But it’ll also take months before you see results.
The same for being slim. You can build muscle by training (push-up, weight-lifting, rowing, archery etc). But it takes a lot of work and months before you see results.
Mental abilities like patience, empathy, humility, dealing well with losing, accepting what you can’t change, are also things you can work on. I think meditation/mindfulness has a positive effect on all of them.
But they’re all also things I wish I did, but don’t. (Well, I did get a small biketrainer at least.) The sort of advice I wish I could give is how to get yourself to do any of those things. Because if you can improve yourself incrementally, you’ll pass most people that aren’t trying.
Oh yeah, the stupidest bit of advice I thought of: become a ballet dancer. There are very few male ballet dancers, but a lot of ballerinas, so the odds would be in your favor. (And you’d get a great physique.) I mean, just to give some sense of the bad ideas I can come up with.
Anyway.
I never had much success with waiting for some girl to find me. I’m not saying it can’t happen, because I’m pretty sure that’s what happened to my cousin. They key difference is he went places where he could be found. You don’t have to actively search, but you do need to socialize with people, either to find or be found.
That’s the biggest mistake I think I made. I shied away from going out to parties, clubs, dancing etc. And not participating made me even less comfortable those time that I did give it a try. So that was a bit of a downward spiral.
So that’s the one thing I can advise with some certainty: Do things were you meet people. It could be church events, a sports club, comic conventions, internet meetups, volunteering, anything really.
And yes, it took me five minutes to realize how silly “go out and meet people” sounds when the whole world is in lockdown due to corona.
wait a minute… are you a girl or a guy? Just curious.
thanks for the help JW. About the abs and work outs, i play football for that. i worked out for 1 whole year and i never got abs, i have very strong legs for my age and i have a strong back but it doesnt show at all. my shoulders are wide, that, everyone sees but still, who wants a blond, almost redhead(not like a carrot, more like bronze) guy who has wide shoulders, who is 5’4 and weighs 95 pounds? (i do have pretty sky blue eyes though :/ ).
update on my good qualities; Pretty eyes, unaffraid of danger, Quebec’s(4 years in a row) and Canada’s Yoseikan Budo champion 2018-2019(Yoseikan Budo is a type of martial arts), fast, smart, I play football (and im good at it), Agile, i have lots and lots of balance (i almost never fall) im tough, i know how to fight, best in the class almost every year in;English, Math and Phisical education, I can be kind when i want, i TRY to impress girls by showing off my skills but it doesnt work (at least i try), im good with puzzles( i got about 20 different Rubik’s Cubes and i can do them all), I can cook, I have extremely good reflexes, im can be very calm or very excited(depends on how i feel), and finally, i wear glasses.
I guess i hadnt written them all last time huh?
I’m a guy. The randomly assigned avatar might give a different impression, but it’s very rare to get a male random avatar here :P
I know how to get mr. Toad, though.
I kinda wish I knew a bit more about how muscle development works. I can image that being at a growing age has some effect on it. I did look up some estimates of how long it might take to develop abs, but that was for adults. You could always ask a trainer at a gym about it, they should definitely have better knowledge and advice than a random guy on the internet ;)
Also that good qualities list looks a lot better now.
well, thanks for everything, other human male :)
but seriously, thanks.
You’re quite welcome. :)
I wish Ben was still hanging out with Liliane. :) I think they’d make a good pair. Liliane would administrate peoples protection/assassinations and bring home the bacon. Ben would help raise the kidie kids. Hope they at least exchanged numbers.
Oh, don’t worry. They’ll see each other again. ;)
My heart hurts….Don’t worry, Clem. I will always notice you!
I know you will.
A new voting cycle has begun in the Top Webcomics !00 and Frivolesque is 34th.
Yep. Ended January at 15. Way to start off the year!
Frivolesque will be the queen of webcomics.
It’s at 44th place for now, remember to vote Frivolesque peeps.
Improved at 39th place as of this post.
Cute :)
Nuf said.
Aww, so forgettable… whoever that was
I have to disagree with virtually everyone here. :-) Remember Clementine’s Facebook stalker? Yes, he might actually be FB-stalking Marie-Neige, but he did pay her quite a bit of attention, too.
I don’t think Frederic stalks anyone in particular so much as he pays careful attention to his news feed.
Who are you talking about?
Clementine’s hair is so pretty though, it would get my attention.