>> So, if one had to put an "age" to Hulk-- something in the 9months to 18month range for NT children? Interacting with the world, some knowledge of cause and effect, lots of emotions and easily overwhelmed by stimuli like noise or light, etc.? <<
I'd say more like two years old. I use his language as the strongest indicator, and Hulk talks like a toddler. Bruce leans older in ageplay because he wants to be close to Tony, so he's more like three or three and a half.
What we do have going on at the 6-9 month age is attachment. That's when babies learn how responsive adults are to their needs. They're supposed to form a strong, supportive attachment to a caregiver. Instead Bruce-and-Hulk learned that nobody was reliable, their needs wouldn't get met, and people would hurt them. That underlies much of their trouble now. Also the disorganized attachment helps explain why Bruce was so quick to leave Betty whom he adores.
>> Either Hulk "slipped" down to the age where he felt strongest and safest, or they SPLIT at that age. <<
I'm not sure whether they were born as dual twins, or split at toddler age. I am sure Hulk was present in childhood. I was pleased to see hints of that in the earlier Hulk movie.
>> Brian Banner didn't get half the kicking around that he deserved, to paraphrase R. A. Heinlein. <<
Agreed. One thing I'd like to do some time is follow Schrodinger's Hulk into a dimension where Brian Banner is still loose. Because Kay's way of handling him is going to be "double-tap center mass, follow with a shot to the head."
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I'd say more like two years old. I use his language as the strongest indicator, and Hulk talks like a toddler. Bruce leans older in ageplay because he wants to be close to Tony, so he's more like three or three and a half.
What we do have going on at the 6-9 month age is attachment. That's when babies learn how responsive adults are to their needs. They're supposed to form a strong, supportive attachment to a caregiver. Instead Bruce-and-Hulk learned that nobody was reliable, their needs wouldn't get met, and people would hurt them. That underlies much of their trouble now. Also the disorganized attachment helps explain why Bruce was so quick to leave Betty whom he adores.
>> Either Hulk "slipped" down to the age where he felt strongest and safest, or they SPLIT at that age. <<
I'm not sure whether they were born as dual twins, or split at toddler age. I am sure Hulk was present in childhood. I was pleased to see hints of that in the earlier Hulk movie.
>> Brian Banner didn't get half the kicking around that he deserved, to paraphrase R. A. Heinlein. <<
Agreed. One thing I'd like to do some time is follow Schrodinger's Hulk into a dimension where Brian Banner is still loose. Because Kay's way of handling him is going to be "double-tap center mass, follow with a shot to the head."