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Post by PrincessJennifer on Mar 5, 2007 22:09:31 GMT -5
But in the end, she winds up with a lot of uncleared info, though not nearly as much as Gregory.
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Post by Dinah on Mar 7, 2007 19:46:02 GMT -5
I was just thinking, and you'll probably find this very geekish of me. But Wendy seems to follow the views of a deontologist in philosophy terms. She belives that all promises should be kept no matter what the circumstances behind the breaking of them is. Am I right?
As well, (To add to my geekyness) She seems to be a bit of an egoist. You keep your promise to me no matter what, because I'm the only person that matters and if you don't then I have an ethical right to take revenge.
Oh yeah: Wendy if probably my favorite characters, and since I was able to draw that I'd easily say she's the most developed as well.
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Post by PrincessJennifer on Mar 7, 2007 19:55:47 GMT -5
If you want to know what I think Wendy is, just watch my "Barbies and Roses" video...>_>
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Post by RoseDoll on Mar 8, 2007 17:24:45 GMT -5
That's so mean! Poor Wendy is just misunderstood! She's really a sweet child!!
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Post by PrincessJennifer on Mar 8, 2007 17:31:43 GMT -5
A sweet child MURDERER!@_@ She may have been misunderstood, but that does not make what she did right.
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Post by Sarcastic_Kitty on Mar 9, 2007 14:14:49 GMT -5
Yeah, but... Rule of Rose isn't about "black and white" right or wrong, it's about "gray" right or wrong; if you don't want it to be wrong, then it is.
Which is what happened with Wendy. Striking out against the other children with Gregory was right to her. Then she saw Jennifer and it became wrong, so she felt guilty. It's all how she saw it, just like the rest of the Red Crayon gang.
Remember, Jennifer herself didn't have a problem with it until it affected Brown.
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Post by PrincessJennifer on Mar 9, 2007 14:19:35 GMT -5
But just because someone thinks they are doing the right thing, that does not make it right. Especially when people end up getting hurt. Wendy caued so much pain and death. Even if she thought she was justified, she must have known it was wrong, since she expresses guilt afterwards.
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Post by Sarcastic_Kitty on Mar 9, 2007 14:29:43 GMT -5
Of course what she did was awful, there's no getting around that.
However, I don't think that makes her a bad character. She's developed well, despite loose ends. She's a very human character; wanting, getting jealous, selfishness and the urge to get even is all within and not usually something that's displayed well in children.
She's terribly sympathetic.
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Post by PrincessJennifer on Mar 9, 2007 14:31:17 GMT -5
I'm not saying she a bad character in the design sense, I'm saying she is a bad character in that she did bad things and I dislike her. She was probably the most developed out of all the characters, as it seems llike they actually bothered to focus better on her.
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Post by avidgamer77 on Mar 10, 2007 8:06:04 GMT -5
yeah, I think the developers are trying to convey to us that children can be more dangerous than adults if their emotions are unbridled.
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Post by Skaras on Mar 11, 2007 0:26:58 GMT -5
Upon finally coming to a conclusion regarding Wendy.. And this was rather hard due to my earlier belief of El..
Due to her weak body, Wendy was forced to spend much time inside. Her parents ignored her, unable to deal with their sick child anymore. Thus she looked for someone to rescue her, a Prince. Her parents finally abandoned her to the orphanage. Eventually she discovered Jennifer, and saw her in a similar posistion. So she decided that she would be the heroic prince this time around.
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Post by PrincessJennifer on Mar 11, 2007 0:32:48 GMT -5
I agree that Wendy was a sickly child forced to spend much of her time indoors, but I believe her parents loved her dearly and treated her like a princess as best they could. Perhaps it was because they took such good care of her that they had nothing for themselves and died or something similiar that landed her in the care of the orphanage. This made her feel not only sad, but helpless and guilty. She began to wish she was not always the weak princess in need of rescue, and longed to be able to be the prince for once.
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Post by avidgamer77 on Mar 11, 2007 3:55:35 GMT -5
Despite her illness, Wendy was able to travel to Gregory's house and eventually rescue Jennifer. But it involves a lot of hard work and planning before she can fully convince Jennifer to leave the house. I can imagine she had undergone a lot of suffering in hoping that someone would love her and relieve her loneliness. Like an eternal companion. You can also see that Wendy looked very jaded at the time of rescuing Jennifer. That's probably why the oath must not be broken against her will.
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Post by PrincessJennifer on Mar 11, 2007 14:33:02 GMT -5
I think of Wendy as the type to associate her real life with a fairytale, if only to ease her own boredom. That's how Jennifer became a "prince in distress", and how Gregory's house came to be "The Gingerbread House". And in fairytales, the prince and princess were supposed to always live happily ever after, so that was probably what she was expecting. If she really did spend most of her time indoors by herself, we can only imagine how much she knew about how things worked in the real world outside.
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Post by Dagrous_killian on Apr 26, 2007 22:17:34 GMT -5
Wendy was a very interesting character to say the least [and my brother found her very pretty. He was heartbroken when he found out she was psychotic XD], however I wish that there was some indication of her past like someone mentioned earlier. She would be so much more understandable if we could only get why the heck she was so overprotective over Jennifer.
But you have to give her some cred for busting Jennifer out of where she was in the first place I suppose.
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