Engineer: i kinda feel bad about ponce's parents
CHARLIE MANHUGE: yeah
CHARLIE MANHUGE: really the reason they don't talk boils down to a misunderstanding and him being too ready to accept that he's been abandoned or something
CHARLIE MANHUGE: even if the other person didn't mean it that way
Engineer: ponce you're a jerk :(c
CHARLIE MANHUGE: he doesn't really /mean/ to be a jerk
CHARLIE MANHUGE: CHARLIE MANHUGE: (lol basically ponce has an attachment disorder :V) (which is ultimately his mother's fault though!)
Engineer: oh ponce bb :(c
Engineer: and ponces' mom too
CHARLIE MANHUGE: PSYCHOLOGICALLY SPEAKING: she had Shit To Do when he was little; she foisted him off on the femme de tout and the tutors and had remarkably little to do with him other than as an authority figure, which along with the rest of his life ended up with him being a person who latches onto someone while fully expecting them to brush him off, and then taking the slightest thing as The Brush-Off and going off to find osmeone else to latch onto instead.
CHARLIE MANHUGE: see also: one fight with crusoe -> joining the circus :V
CHARLIE MANHUGE: how he managed to keep running after miranda so long is a mystery :V
CHARLIE MANHUGE: well the general pattern is carried out fairly well in WWAU version; standard version i suppose it was the fact that she never really gave him The Brush-Off because she just had a fundamentally different idea of their relationship
CHARLIE MANHUGE: she didn't know it was A Relationship so she just humoured him :V
CHARLIE MANHUGE: Engineer: so ponce needs someone either relentless or so laid back :V
CHARLIE MANHUGE: yeah :V
CHARLIE MANHUGE: Engineer: or BOTH >:Uc