>> (Although, according to Dad, the movie sucked; the only good thing about it, he said, was "Moon River", which won Best Song that year...) <<
Yep.
>> It really says something when somebody as knocked-around as Vagary knows about boundaries, how to get counseling, and generally do a good job with a tough situation... <<
What it says is that Terramagne has built up layer upon layer of failsafes, such that people who fall through the first few cracks usually fetch up on a ledge lower down. They might or might not decide to climb back up.
Vagary belongs to Kraken, precisely because they scooped him out of freefall and started teaching him how to fill in skills that he missed. But Kraken's foundlings tend to be pretty wrecked to begin with, so it takes a long time to go from flailing to functional. Vagary is pretty typical of their young field agents: he can do his job, he's a lot happier than he used to be, but when it comes to interpersonal stuff he still has a lot of damage where someone can fall into a hole and break their neck. So he knows about healthy relationships because he's gotten some careful teaching on that topic -- Kraken is very thorough on the topic of what constitutes acceptable roughhousing, what constitutes abuse or excessive force, and the importance of not fighting at home -- it's just a matter of practicing until stuff he missed growing up will become second nature.
There's a lovely sequence of Officer Pink poems that haven't been sponsored yet, which deal with Kyle's college problems and show the layers of failsafes there.
As I've said before, T-American society works like a Tesla fluid valve, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching that.
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dancing_serpent
Yes...
Date: 2016-08-07 11:08 pm (UTC)Yep.
>> It really says something when somebody as knocked-around as Vagary knows about boundaries, how to get counseling, and generally do a good job with a tough situation... <<
What it says is that Terramagne has built up layer upon layer of failsafes, such that people who fall through the first few cracks usually fetch up on a ledge lower down. They might or might not decide to climb back up.
Vagary belongs to Kraken, precisely because they scooped him out of freefall and started teaching him how to fill in skills that he missed. But Kraken's foundlings tend to be pretty wrecked to begin with, so it takes a long time to go from flailing to functional. Vagary is pretty typical of their young field agents: he can do his job, he's a lot happier than he used to be, but when it comes to interpersonal stuff he still has a lot of damage where someone can fall into a hole and break their neck. So he knows about healthy relationships because he's gotten some careful teaching on that topic -- Kraken is very thorough on the topic of what constitutes acceptable roughhousing, what constitutes abuse or excessive force, and the importance of not fighting at home -- it's just a matter of practicing until stuff he missed growing up will become second nature.
There's a lovely sequence of Officer Pink poems that haven't been sponsored yet, which deal with Kyle's college problems and show the layers of failsafes there.
As I've said before, T-American society works like a Tesla fluid valve, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching that.
>> What's the word, Fernweh? <<
Homesickness for a place you've never been. <3