By trauma bond, I mean the way experiences (like a firefight and a lifesaving maneuver or three) can bring people together, not an actual traumatic soulbond. Cas and Ned linking up the way they now have feels like a natural extension of the more familiar emotional version of being brought closer together by surviving harrowing experiences, saving each other's lives, and similar.
The fact that it's mutually desired makes all the difference in the world, to me.
I wonder, would it help Ned to view his growing connections to the Broken Angels (not to Cas specifically, because he's a friend and that's quite different, but the gang) as efforts toward citywide harm reduction, seeing as the Broken Angels are actively working to lower violent crime/queerbashing/malicious destruction and improve healthcare in the area? Not that Ned is *using* his contacts to force the issue - that's not his style - but he's in tune with the city improvement aspects, if not with a few of the methods *cough*, of what the Broken Angels are doing anyway.
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2021-06-22 02:47 am (UTC)The fact that it's mutually desired makes all the difference in the world, to me.
I wonder, would it help Ned to view his growing connections to the Broken Angels (not to Cas specifically, because he's a friend and that's quite different, but the gang) as efforts toward citywide harm reduction, seeing as the Broken Angels are actively working to lower violent crime/queerbashing/malicious destruction and improve healthcare in the area? Not that Ned is *using* his contacts to force the issue - that's not his style - but he's in tune with the city improvement aspects, if not with a few of the methods *cough*, of what the Broken Angels are doing anyway.