I think my favorite bit here is the way Lawrence goes from, "If I just belt it out, he'll freak" to... just blurting it out... in the space of about 90 seconds. It's like all he needed was for someone to put the idea into his head.
Regarding reparations and atonement, he's fortunate. He hasn't done anything over the line of being possible to atone for (except for Shiv, and that was to save a life). Some supervillains would have a much harder time if they ever decided they wanted to switch sides. Even Hefty has something in his past that he could never make right, although he didn't do it with intent.
"You show up, and his smile lights up like a Christmas tree. He sits as close to you as possible. He can't keep his hands out of your hair."
This made me giggle. Especially the bit about the hair, because we've already seen that.
"I don't know, just that it's not the same as I've felt before about anyone else," Stan said.
Hefty's on the right track there with "Different how?" I suspect that this is Stan feeling, but not yet recognizing, the difference between a casual attraction and something that could turn into a long-term bond. Grownups tend to laugh at teenagers for not recognizing the difference between things like infatuation vs. love, but it takes practice, which teenagers by and large haven't yet had.
Our language makes the word "love" do far too much work, and then loads it down with cultural assumptions over which kind of love someone is referring to. That might be a useful conversation for Stan to have with somebody -- maybe the school librarian?
About 30 years ago I ran into the concept of the 7 types of intelligence, and it's been a useful tool for me ever since. Framed in those terms, Lawrence is above average in Logical/Mathematical and Intrapersonal (which I first learned as Self-knowledge), while Stan is above average in Bodily/Kinesthetic and Interpersonal (Other-knowledge). This has its good and bad points; there are things about each of them that the other just won't get, but it also means that they complement each others' weaknesses, which is one of the things that makes a good team.
Has Lawrence discovered yaoi, or slashfic? That could be Interesting.
Geez, this comment is all over the map. I just can't focus tonight.
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Date: 2014-08-11 04:34 am (UTC)Regarding reparations and atonement, he's fortunate. He hasn't done anything over the line of being possible to atone for (except for Shiv, and that was to save a life). Some supervillains would have a much harder time if they ever decided they wanted to switch sides. Even Hefty has something in his past that he could never make right, although he didn't do it with intent.
"You show up, and his smile
lights up like a Christmas tree.
He sits as close to you as possible.
He can't keep his hands out of your hair."
This made me giggle. Especially the bit about the hair, because we've already seen that.
"I don't know, just that it's not
the same as I've felt before
about anyone else," Stan said.
Hefty's on the right track there with "Different how?" I suspect that this is Stan feeling, but not yet recognizing, the difference between a casual attraction and something that could turn into a long-term bond. Grownups tend to laugh at teenagers for not recognizing the difference between things like infatuation vs. love, but it takes practice, which teenagers by and large haven't yet had.
Our language makes the word "love" do far too much work, and then loads it down with cultural assumptions over which kind of love someone is referring to. That might be a useful conversation for Stan to have with somebody -- maybe the school librarian?
About 30 years ago I ran into the concept of the 7 types of intelligence, and it's been a useful tool for me ever since. Framed in those terms, Lawrence is above average in Logical/Mathematical and Intrapersonal (which I first learned as Self-knowledge), while Stan is above average in Bodily/Kinesthetic and Interpersonal (Other-knowledge). This has its good and bad points; there are things about each of them that the other just won't get, but it also means that they complement each others' weaknesses, which is one of the things that makes a good team.
Has Lawrence discovered yaoi, or slashfic? That could be Interesting.
Geez, this comment is all over the map. I just can't focus tonight.