Yay! I'm hoping if people like Ti-Jean, I'll get more prompts for him.
>> He's nice, gentle, good at problem solving, protective, respectful of women/kids, <<
*laugh* I wouldn't necessarily call him nice or respectful, but he is protective as hell and good at troubleshooting.
>> willing to share his resources (material and knowledge), is chill with people who fall outside of conventional expectations or norms, <<
Very true.
>> has good emotional fluency, <<
... not so much. He tries, but he's missing some pieces and got others bent out of shape.
>> and doesn't fell the need to do dominance posturing to prove he's not weak. <<
Mostly what he does is try to hide problems, but there are times he gets into power squabbles. That doesn't show as much here because Cas is little, so it's fussing rather than fighting.
>> It would be interesting to see if that casual mentoring-the-precocious-kid relationship lasted, at all <<
Somewhat. Ti-Jean stuck around for at least a little while, and likely passed through occasionally.
>> and how he'd react to teenage Cas. <<
"The Hog Knows the Tree" 10-10-21 (fishbowl spillover) Story Date: Friday, April 29, 2016 Summary: Ti-Jean meets the Broken Angels. 424 lines, Buy It Now = $212
Thoughts
Yay! I'm hoping if people like Ti-Jean, I'll get more prompts for him.
>> He's nice, gentle, good at problem solving, protective, respectful of women/kids, <<
*laugh* I wouldn't necessarily call him nice or respectful, but he is protective as hell and good at troubleshooting.
>> willing to share his resources (material and knowledge), is chill with people who fall outside of conventional expectations or norms, <<
Very true.
>> has good emotional fluency, <<
... not so much. He tries, but he's missing some pieces and got others bent out of shape.
>> and doesn't fell the need to do dominance posturing to prove he's not weak. <<
Mostly what he does is try to hide problems, but there are times he gets into power squabbles. That doesn't show as much here because Cas is little, so it's fussing rather than fighting.
>> It would be interesting to see if that casual mentoring-the-precocious-kid relationship lasted, at all <<
Somewhat. Ti-Jean stuck around for at least a little while, and likely passed through occasionally.
>> and how he'd react to teenage Cas. <<
"The Hog Knows the Tree" 10-10-21 (fishbowl spillover)
Story Date: Friday, April 29, 2016
Summary: Ti-Jean meets the Broken Angels.
424 lines, Buy It Now = $212