Unspoken ramblings 2
Oct. 7th, 2012 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkLet me post a slightly more coherent version of what I was saying yesterday.
Look, I'm actually a huge fan of broken, traumatized, lonely (male) characters. I'm not so much a fan of bad boys, but I can understand and sympathize with a character who acts like a jerk because he's completely messed up emotionally. Which basically describes Jared Lynburn to a T.
But the thing is, the ending of Unspoken failed psychology/common sense epically.
As someone who often writes about these kinds of characters and has some personal experience, I can tell you that lonely, emotionally deprived people will cling to the first person who shows them kindness. They will cling to that person with a death grip. Nobody likes being lonely, and people who are often lonely are terrified of being abandoned/rejected by others.
So I found Jared's relationship with Kami to be very realistic...UNTIL she cut the link, and he suddenly decided she "wasn't special" anymore. WTF? That is not how people work, especially someone like Jared, who's been close to NO ONE his entire life except Kami. Cutting a mental link doesn't change the fact that they've spent literally almost every minute of their lives with each other, that they know each other probably better than anyone else does.
I know Rees Brennan was trying to make a point here about romance and the warping nature of a link that gives you no privacy from a significant other, but this just snapped the suspension of disbelief for me utterly.
Look, I'm actually a huge fan of broken, traumatized, lonely (male) characters. I'm not so much a fan of bad boys, but I can understand and sympathize with a character who acts like a jerk because he's completely messed up emotionally. Which basically describes Jared Lynburn to a T.
But the thing is, the ending of Unspoken failed psychology/common sense epically.
As someone who often writes about these kinds of characters and has some personal experience, I can tell you that lonely, emotionally deprived people will cling to the first person who shows them kindness. They will cling to that person with a death grip. Nobody likes being lonely, and people who are often lonely are terrified of being abandoned/rejected by others.
So I found Jared's relationship with Kami to be very realistic...UNTIL she cut the link, and he suddenly decided she "wasn't special" anymore. WTF? That is not how people work, especially someone like Jared, who's been close to NO ONE his entire life except Kami. Cutting a mental link doesn't change the fact that they've spent literally almost every minute of their lives with each other, that they know each other probably better than anyone else does.
I know Rees Brennan was trying to make a point here about romance and the warping nature of a link that gives you no privacy from a significant other, but this just snapped the suspension of disbelief for me utterly.
