>> Flip riding a girls' bike in that era... even if he repainted it, I think he got some extra dodging and avoiding practice! <<
Yep. It's a dilemma presented to many impoverished boys -- whether to ride a girl's bike, or have no bike at all. Which they choose can tell you a lot about their personality.
Flip doesn't see anything wrong with a girl's bike, even though it's not what he would've chosen new. The fact that bullies pick on him for it, well, they're already doing that anyhow and Flip already thinks they're dumb jerks. Not much change.
>> But it's so very /him/, at least the way you've portrayed him, that it /works/. <<
Yay! I'm glad this resonates for you. In the movies, Phil seems like a very soft-spoken man who is not obsessed about machisimo. So I wanted to explore that, because it's a rare trait in America generally but unheard of for marines and spies and other BAMFs.
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Re: Exellent progression!
Date: 2014-07-04 06:43 am (UTC)Yep. It's a dilemma presented to many impoverished boys -- whether to ride a girl's bike, or have no bike at all. Which they choose can tell you a lot about their personality.
Flip doesn't see anything wrong with a girl's bike, even though it's not what he would've chosen new. The fact that bullies pick on him for it, well, they're already doing that anyhow and Flip already thinks they're dumb jerks. Not much change.
>> But it's so very /him/, at least the way you've portrayed him, that it /works/. <<
Yay! I'm glad this resonates for you. In the movies, Phil seems like a very soft-spoken man who is not obsessed about machisimo. So I wanted to explore that, because it's a rare trait in America generally but unheard of for marines and spies and other BAMFs.