Well, you just made my morning with this comment. <3 <3 <3
I'm really glad this came off as scary; I feel like writing these two at sixteen and thirty-plus, it has to be. I didn't want to excuse Will's behavior here at all - even though he's partially convinced himself he's doing this for Rachel and not for himself, he's gone beyond inappropriate and into overtly predatory. He'd never think of himself as the bad guy, and, in part, that's what makes him one in this scenario.
That dichotomy of knowledge without experience - that's it, exactly. And for Will, it's the opposite: he's got experience, without the knowledge.
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Date: 2011-01-18 05:03 pm (UTC)I'm really glad this came off as scary; I feel like writing these two at sixteen and thirty-plus, it has to be. I didn't want to excuse Will's behavior here at all - even though he's partially convinced himself he's doing this for Rachel and not for himself, he's gone beyond inappropriate and into overtly predatory. He'd never think of himself as the bad guy, and, in part, that's what makes him one in this scenario.
That dichotomy of knowledge without experience - that's it, exactly. And for Will, it's the opposite: he's got experience, without the knowledge.
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