Oh, I aww every sad thing he says. But because I like Stephen.
There's the catch. I want you to aww because you like "Stephen".
It's not that you didn't make me love Stephen here. I totally did.
Oh good!
But I got to hear his inner thoughts and know why he was acting the way he was. Jon didn't.
Jon doesn't hear his inner thoughts, but Jon knows (or guesses) enough to love him.
Some of the tosses come off as simply mean, but the depth is clear in others, even in-character. The "where are you?!" toss, for example. And then there was the one before Thanksgiving where Stephen assumed Jon would come over, and was all excited that they would be making something (pie, I think) that he knew Jon really liked.
His pushing-Jon-around in most tosses seems mean, but it's a defense mechanism (that idea was especially developed in the first part of this story), and Jon understands that (which is why he puts up with it), even though he doesn't articulate it.
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There's the catch. I want you to aww because you like "Stephen".
It's not that you didn't make me love Stephen here. I totally did.
Oh good!
But I got to hear his inner thoughts and know why he was acting the way he was. Jon didn't.
Jon doesn't hear his inner thoughts, but Jon knows (or guesses) enough to love him.
Some of the tosses come off as simply mean, but the depth is clear in others, even in-character. The "where are you?!" toss, for example. And then there was the one before Thanksgiving where Stephen assumed Jon would come over, and was all excited that they would be making something (pie, I think) that he knew Jon really liked.
His pushing-Jon-around in most tosses seems mean, but it's a defense mechanism (that idea was especially developed in the first part of this story), and Jon understands that (which is why he puts up with it), even though he doesn't articulate it.