Yes, Charlie Skinner. The adults who work with Olivia are almost 100% imports from The Newsroom.
Hippie-vegan jokes notwithstanding, Kristen has some of the more sensible parents in the group.
Jon can be unfairly patronizing and dismissive towards Stephen at times, but in this case Stephen is being pretty offensive, claiming that scents like cinnamon and pine trees are the property of his religion.
Yeah, they've been keeping it to (at least semi-)clothed frottage.
A person's background isn't always obvious, and of course you can't tell someone's religious beliefs on sight, but some people are visibly ethnically Jewish. Jon is one of them; Allison Silverman is another.
Character!Stephen's parents have never been the same as real!Stephen's parents! And the idea that the character's parents are emotionally abusive is brought up in canon, not invented out of nowhere for fic purposes.
"Hands Clean" is about a relationship Morissette had with an adult man when she was 14, so it's definitely similar. I always got the impression she thought of it as consensual at the time (even though in retrospect she recognizes that it was exploitative, and he was selfish and getting off on the power he held over her). But it works with Stephen's experience here if you take the "oh, you like this" lyrics as excuses Ned is projecting onto him, rather than an accurate description of his real feelings.
Emancipation could definitely be good for Stephen! All he has to do is figure that out -- and then get the courage to act on it.
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Hippie-vegan jokes notwithstanding, Kristen has some of the more sensible parents in the group.
Jon can be unfairly patronizing and dismissive towards Stephen at times, but in this case Stephen is being pretty offensive, claiming that scents like cinnamon and pine trees are the property of his religion.
Yeah, they've been keeping it to (at least semi-)clothed frottage.
A person's background isn't always obvious, and of course you can't tell someone's religious beliefs on sight, but some people are visibly ethnically Jewish. Jon is one of them; Allison Silverman is another.
Character!Stephen's parents have never been the same as real!Stephen's parents! And the idea that the character's parents are emotionally abusive is brought up in canon, not invented out of nowhere for fic purposes.
"Hands Clean" is about a relationship Morissette had with an adult man when she was 14, so it's definitely similar. I always got the impression she thought of it as consensual at the time (even though in retrospect she recognizes that it was exploitative, and he was selfish and getting off on the power he held over her). But it works with Stephen's experience here if you take the "oh, you like this" lyrics as excuses Ned is projecting onto him, rather than an accurate description of his real feelings.
Emancipation could definitely be good for Stephen! All he has to do is figure that out -- and then get the courage to act on it.