Alec Benson Leary said:
He could easily be a heavyweight or whatever in a store's backroom or a warehouse or something.
^this. Except for the fact that he's Chris.
Anecdote time: There's a
severely mentally handicapped man,
much more so than Chris, who has worked in the back of a supermarket near me for at least the last 30 years. And he's been doing pretty well at it, too. I once asked the store manager, and it turns out that for all his low intelligence, he's at the top of the union pay scale, and that's not bad for someone whose job is basically crushing cardboard shipping containers for eight hours a day.
But the thing is, even though this poor fellow is a lot less intelligent than even Chris, he's also a really pleasant, friendly, helpful, all around basically decent human being. Which Chris is not. He also knows he's not intelligent and recognizes his shortcomings, so he beats Chris on humility and self awareness too. And that only demonstrates by contrast the real reason why Chris is unemployable etc. Apart from the stupidity and autism and possible schizophrenia,
Chris is basically a horrible person.
Looks and intelligence will only get you so far in life; you'll go much farther on personality and diligence. Chris doesn't have any of these qualities. And doesn't even recognize that he should try to get them.
bbooooggaaooooggaa said:
though for my money, I think he's just inventing the whole thing in a pathetic attempt to shame Megan - "Megagi La Skunk is very disappointed in you!!" - and not literally having a chat with a toon
Schizophrenia can be a very complex disorder. Chris could invent the conversation as a way of shaming Megan, and then, because he believes that his made up conversation with a cartoon skunk went the way it should have happened in real life, after the fact decide that the conversation really did happen after all. Schizophrenia can affect memory just as it can affect perceptions.
tl;dr: If he knows the conversation was really made up, he's a twit. If he really thinks it actually happened, he's a crazy twit.
raymond said:
Chris really does believe he's in an epic war against the evil troll empire.
I wonder who holds what rank in Queen Megan's Troll Army? What are the various commands in it? The rank insignia? And so on.