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You know… back during the twins’ birthday, I could’ve sworn Rex was aware, and taking advantage, of Amy’s crush on him. But him being THIS stubborn about receiving a gift makes me think he’s genuinely oblivious.
Also, fun fact: my family collectively refers to shopping on any online marketplace as “e-buying” so it genuinely took me a solid minute before I realized that was supposed to be a TD counterpart of eBay.
It’s unlikely Rx was taking advantage of her crush since the game they were playing was supposedly complete luck. Unless Amy was cheating taking advantage of her wouldn’t do anything.
YMMV on whether or not Luck Magic counts as cheating, but I’m pretty sure deliberately making her screw up her spell counts as “taking advantage of her crush”. But I digress. My point is, I THOUGHT Rex’s all-in play with hand contact was him being aware of Amy’s crush on him, and using that to convince her to let them win. But Rex’s behaviour on this page suggests I was mistaken.
This was adorable until the Trojan Horse part xD
Yeah; I don’t like to think of Amy as a schemer, especially where “romance” is concerned. Actually; I don’t like to think of ANYone as a schemer with that.
Little bun’s heart all aflutter! Just don’t yank on that hook too hard too fast Amy, gotta let it set properly first.
Amy’s so cute when flustered.
Looks like Rex still isn’t used to getting gifts. Someday, Rex, someday…
Not expensive ones from people he’s not close to anyway.
Interesting. Does this mean she actually had a plan when she entered a drawing for a prize she didn’t want for herself?
I believe Amy did not “enter” the drawing; she was “given” the ticket by a dealer. Also; someone else, Cleo, told her Rex would like it. It’s not her own premeditated plan. (see 5th panel of the previous strip.)
Nope:
1. This is not the only prize – there are probably lots of minor prizes to win.
2. She did not actively enter the drawing: you don’t buy the raffle tickets – you get them as an extra, when buying something else.
3. She probably thought her luck failed her, when she did not win a useful minor prize. (before realizing the main prize was actually a treasure)
That last line has some worrying implications. Either way I need to share the leaps of logic my brain went through reading it: rex=basketball player, Troy=high school musical basketball player, Troy=trojan war, trojan war=trojan horse.
Back to more top brain analysis, we don’t have enough of Amy to make a judgement for real, but she might have a complex developed from her super luck of eventually getting what she wants as long as she takes some sort of action towards it. If so hopefully she can handle it healthily and her eyes don’t start flashing red later.
That’s, um… quite the chain. I mean, it’s not like the Trojan horse is some obscure reference; you find works EVERYWHERE using “Trojan horse” (or a lore-appropriate equivalent) to mean “my advantage disguised as a gift to them”. There are people who know what a Trojan horse is without knowing Troy was the name of a city.
It’s amusing that Troy(Troye?) is also the name of a character in the “Jessie’s Adventure” side comic. 🙂
Yandere Amy, that doesn’t sound too good. Thankfully, this is Amy Fields, not Amy Rose, so she’s not much of a physical threat to any potential “rivals.”
Does Amy know what a Trojan Horse is? Because I don’t think those books are a false gift containing a nasty surprise. The set is more like the Golden Fleece, a precious gift given out of kindness (I’m referring to the origins of said fleece, not how it was obtained by Jason and the Argonauts). Rex is grateful to the little bunny… girl*, so Amy can and should count that as a win. And she can also consider managing to mostly keep her composure while offering the set to Rexy a win as well (barely).
I wonder how Rex will pay Amy back for this precious gift, maybe getting her something she has her eye on? The anticipation seems to be killing Amy, or it’s that she forgetting to breathe. The Lucky Bunny seems on the verge of passing out. Nomi may have to call River over to carry Amy if the little bun can’t compose herself.
*Jokingly implying that Rex remembered that Amy is a girl after meeting her once and not dwelling too much on the experience.
Uh-oh, Rex now owes a favor to a little bunny that’s obsessed with him, and we all know she will collect as soon as she gathers the nerve
This is a very cute and fun -comic- strip… (I love Nomi in the last panel! :-)) …but IRL they are too far apart in ages for their age range to even think about romance. (I think Rex is aware of that, even besides his basketball interests.) Give them another 10-15 years for this age difference to become reasonable and realistically workable. I believe Robin is working this very well in his comic relationships and there will eventually become some reasonable understanding between Amy and Rex.
IF memory serves; Rex is 16-17 and Amy 9-10.
Amy is 12, just a very very smol bunny.
…why do I feel like Rex is planning on putting it up on e-buy himself and paying Amy back that way?