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Or he stops and starts and Poe just thinks that’s how the story goes because he’s two and trusting. Like the last king of England’s stutter – people politely suffer through because they love him and they know he’s trying.
“I’d already kind of put in a tension between Kes being a physical kind of outdoorsy type and Poe being a nerd, and this seemed like a good kind of grounding for that?”
Sounds good. Maybe it’s a matter of them connecting? Unless Kes is the kind of asshat who can’t value something he’s not personally good at. Irdk his character that well at all, but if his schooling was informal and he mostly works at manual labor I feel like his dyslexia sore spot is probably remarkably small.
#1 It’s true, Poe wouldn’t judge him the way an adult would, I just think it would be sort of cute/poignant if he were an asshole about it. Especially if Kes was really good at getting by without people noticing that he had any issues, and there’s precocious little Poe saying too loudly “Papa doesn’t read so good” at an inopportune moment, having put it together by himself.
#2 They do connect, but it’s a difference between them. Poe and his father love one another very, very much, but Poe is always a little embarrassed because Kes is big and loud and, y’know, his dad, which is intrinsically embarrassing (they haven’t had as much contact since he went away to school, so a lot of their dynamic got sort of fossilized in early teenagerhood), and Kes is always absolutely deep-down terrified of anything happening to Poe, and to him the most likely thing was that being small and bookish, Poe would get bullied for being a nerd. (Kes maaaay have perhaaaps had a few moments as a child himself, being picked on for being big and stupid, turning it back on small bookish kids for being nerds. It probably didn’t happen much, his mother would not have stood for it and honestly he probably would have thought better of it, being at heart a pretty sweet person, but kids are cruel and sometimes the hardest thing is looking back on your old selves and cringing.)
I’m super super weak y’all and just added a huge Kes scene to chapter 7, which I hadn’t planned to do, and it pulls in OCs from the as-yet-untitled novella, upon which I Am Not Working, so like. Weak! I am weak. Also I have a shitload of work to do to beat this thing into submission by tomorrow since I procrastinated so long and have this self-imposed deadline that it would be really dumb to crap out on.
wisekrakens reblogged your post and added:
Or he stops and starts and Poe just thinks that’s how the story goes because he’s two and trusting. Like the last king of England’s stutter – people politely suffer through because they love him and they know he’s trying.
“I’d already kind of put in a tension between Kes being a physical kind of outdoorsy type and Poe being a nerd, and this seemed like a good kind of grounding for that?”
Sounds good. Maybe it’s a matter of them connecting? Unless Kes is the kind of asshat who can’t value something he’s not personally good at. Irdk his character that well at all, but if his schooling was informal and he mostly works at manual labor I feel like his dyslexia sore spot is probably remarkably small.
#1 It’s true, Poe wouldn’t judge him the way an adult would, I just think it would be sort of cute/poignant if he were an asshole about it. Especially if Kes was really good at getting by without people noticing that he had any issues, and there’s precocious little Poe saying too loudly “Papa doesn’t read so good” at an inopportune moment, having put it together by himself.
#2 They do connect, but it’s a difference between them. Poe and his father love one another very, very much, but Poe is always a little embarrassed because Kes is big and loud and, y’know, his dad, which is intrinsically embarrassing (they haven’t had as much contact since he went away to school, so a lot of their dynamic got sort of fossilized in early teenagerhood), and Kes is always absolutely deep-down terrified of anything happening to Poe, and to him the most likely thing was that being small and bookish, Poe would get bullied for being a nerd. (Kes maaaay have perhaaaps had a few moments as a child himself, being picked on for being big and stupid, turning it back on small bookish kids for being nerds. It probably didn’t happen much, his mother would not have stood for it and honestly he probably would have thought better of it, being at heart a pretty sweet person, but kids are cruel and sometimes the hardest thing is looking back on your old selves and cringing.)
I’m super super weak y’all and just added a huge Kes scene to chapter 7, which I hadn’t planned to do, and it pulls in OCs from the as-yet-untitled novella, upon which I Am Not Working, so like. Weak! I am weak. Also I have a shitload of work to do to beat this thing into submission by tomorrow since I procrastinated so long and have this self-imposed deadline that it would be really dumb to crap out on.
