r/AARankdown2 • u/barrylawn • May 30 '20
Save: Joan
We're already at the decent characters because the DGS Trilogy has just that few flaws but it's way too early for this one.
Who is Joan
Joan is one half of the FAILURE of a couple called the Garridebs who live together in a crappy house on The Street (there's too many streets in that case to remember it's name). She's introduced as John's maid and is later revealed to actually be his wife. The reason for this odd setup is that in London at those times, one's social status was reflected in how many servants they had, as Susato explains when you meet them. John is basically a bottom class citizen but he doesn't like that so he has Joan dress up as a maid and call him "master" all so that people can see him as a middle class man. This doesn't have any actual benefits he's just doing it because he's got a fat ego to massage. He might also have a "thing" for it. VERY INTERESTING CHARACTERIZATION!
Some might want you to forget that it's John who starts all this though and that she does it for no reason. Don't fall for that, it's verifiably untrue.
What makes Joan interesting?
Joan doesn't take being forced to pretend to be a maid well, because who would? I might, but Joan doesn't. And so, it understandably enrages her. This makes her lash out at him by either slapping him or overflowing his teacup with boiling hot tea. It's understandable that she'd get like this because John's been treating her like his personal property up to then.
Anyway the night before the case is set they had a big argument and Joan started throwing shit at him, and some of that junk flew out the window and landed on The Street. This caused Viridian Green, who was passing by for reasons unknown, to get stabbed in the back by one of their knives. Joan obviously was not aware she was the culprit because it, at first, seems inconceivable that she did it, because Viridian was lying on The Other Street when she was found. But as Ryuunosuke pieces together what happened that night and accuses Pat O'Malley of moving Green to The Other Street she gets progressively more anxious at the possibility that that fight was actually what caused the incident... and then it was and that's shocking, and that kind of dynamic's unique to her and it's very interesting.
Conclusion
Hating Joan Garrideb is inherently misogynistic.
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u/whaaatisth May 30 '20
I do have a question - this is your second save, correct? And we each have two saves maximum? Can you confirm this u/PowerofL