FREE-FOR-ALL META COMMENT-A-THON
Old news: lj is dead. Everyone is crazy busy, or they have other reasons not to be here. No one has time to read those huge meta posts we used to write once upon a time. But maybe we can all find ten minutes to do this:
FREE-FOR-ALL META COMMENT-A-THON!
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FREE-FOR-ALL META COMMENT-A-THON!
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In addition to being 17, Elena is also the eldest sibling, so she's much more used to being a trailblazer, assertive, an agent in the world. She's never had a big brother or sister to help her, to guide her. She's had to figure out a lot of stuff on her own.
Dawn is a younger sister, and she's regularly treated as being young, helpless, not-capable. She's never been seen as, never been allowed to be anything but the "baby sister." It shows. Shows in the dark.
(Okay, there's also the issue of how Dawn is often as smart as a box of hair and self centered, while Elena shows that being smart is the greatest superpower of them all -- think of how she constantly outwits people who seek to trap her -- she's calm under pressure, and is very compassionate ....
But actually, Elena's qualities tie right back into the older sibling thing. )
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This isn't to say that every younger sibling is helpless and lacks agency ... think of the Hillstrand brothers on Deadliest Catch. Andy's so smart and organized and ruthlessly calm at times because he's spent so much of his life taking care of Jon. Jon blazes trails, Andy picks up the pieces and has learned from his brother's mistakes.
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