Hmm, a conundrum. Perhaps a good metaphor would be multiple concussion syndrome. If you're in a fight, or heck playing football against someone who's had like 3 concussions that month, the odds that something that wouldn't hurt a healthy person will turn serious or potentially fatal to the previously injured person.
Bo Ray has taken a LOT of hits to the ego/self-esteem/sexuality nexus, it seems like, and while the people who knew him when he started taking those hits knew that it was not okay, Stan didn't. Stan made a regular sized (for Stan, and Bo Ray not bothering to know Stan's ability and brace is his own issue) social strike to what for most of the gay guys Stan knows would be a minor ouch. Hefty isn't repressed, but if it came down to a matter of "are you, a gay guy, really trying this shit?" I'm sure he'd roll with it better. Unfortunately, due to past injury that was hidden and Stan had no way of seeing, it turned really bad, really fast.
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2017-04-24 03:09 am (UTC)Bo Ray has taken a LOT of hits to the ego/self-esteem/sexuality nexus, it seems like, and while the people who knew him when he started taking those hits knew that it was not okay, Stan didn't. Stan made a regular sized (for Stan, and Bo Ray not bothering to know Stan's ability and brace is his own issue) social strike to what for most of the gay guys Stan knows would be a minor ouch. Hefty isn't repressed, but if it came down to a matter of "are you, a gay guy, really trying this shit?" I'm sure he'd roll with it better. Unfortunately, due to past injury that was hidden and Stan had no way of seeing, it turned really bad, really fast.