A bit of weekend meta

[rachelindeed]

Hi everyone.  Well, if anyone's in the mood for thinky thoughts this weekend, I thought I would pose a nice cheerful question about trauma for us to discuss.

I am no specialist at all, but I have read that some psychologists who work with and write about post-traumatic stress among combat veterans make the point that, while most people understand

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[rachelindeed]

Everything you say makes a lot of sense to me -- I think you're right that it was conflicts with other humans that would be the hardest to face for both of them. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this! I also agree that both Lee and Kara seem to be okay with more immediate forms of conflict, not just Viper fights, though I think Kara started out more comfortable with it than Lee. Now that I think about it, the series said early on -- Bastille Day, I think -- that she was a great shot outside the cockpit as well as in it, with sniper training and everything. Lee seemed to me a bit more unprepared and shaken when he had to face the Centurions in "Valley of Darkness" outside of his Viper. I just remember him saying to the nervous crewman that he didn't think he was cut out for this kind of thing, either, and then chanting to himself "headshot, reload, headshot" in a way that showed he was terrified of losing control of himself and doing it wrong. But I think that probably had less to do with being afraid of up-close-and-personal violence, and more to do with the idea that he didn't have a routine for this kind of fighting the way he had for Viper combat. Clearly after the Centurion incident he seemed to have more confidence in himself during those kind of situations.