And now I'm to the point where the rubber meets the road. There's not a whole lot more I can do to Ben on the Prison Island, so I've now moved to the part where he's actually Home and Safe
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If he does land in a mental institution make it a short stay? Maybe Janni visits him there and when Ben is released he's functional but still kinda broken? Would his hospital stay makes him realize that it's ok to lean on Janni?
Send Angeline away but not dead. Maybe something like Australia? Halfway around the world?
The problem is that if he lands in a mental institution, I have the feeling they'd forcibly drug him. And that wouldn't end well either. Considering his history with being forcibly drugged.
Also, how do you institutionalize a werewolf? What do you do with a carnivore the size of a small pony who isn't mentally all there? That'd have to be a very specialized hospital.
send him to a facility in DiscWorld? or Anita Blake world? I know you'd be breaking copyright. He doesn't need to be injected he could take his pills orally. Maybe he just holes up somewhere? Hearing Ange call him puppy is kinda sweet.
He won't take oral meds either. He's got a fear of addiction that'd be pathological if he hadn't been, you know, addicted to heroin against his will and then made to go off it cold turkey. Several times.
I love that she calls him "puppy." And it's really not until about midway through the thing where he finally stops telling her to "stop calling me that." *giggles*
Janni: She called you "puppy." Ben: Yes. Yes, she did.
My poor thing... that is very frustrating. But think on where it could lead. Think of playing with crazy Ben. I mean like 'don't know what he's going to do next' Ben. So many possibilities. Try to find some bright side... if not for you, do it for his sake!
Seems to me that both Ben and you, in this scenario, might be underestimating Janni. I can't help thinking that becoming a werewolf would have only increased her mama-bear protectiveness toward Ben, and in a case like this--well, she knows Ben very well, well enough to understand the whole Stockholm Syndrome thing operating here, and I have the feeling she would be just as fierce in defending Ben from himself as she is in...any other circumstance, I dunno. I think she would make him get put back together, by sheer force of will if nothing else; if he's determined to crash and burn without a parachute, she'd go diving right after him.
Well, sure. But this business of him needing to be rescued all the time is starting to grate on me. He's a man, dammit, he should be doing some of the rescuing some of the time.
Of course, if he's doing the physical rescuing while Janni and Ange are doing the emotional rescuing, that's a nice division of labor--if somewhat stereotyped along gender lines.
Well, now that I have my villain in mind, I can at least start figuring my endgame out...
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Send Angeline away but not dead. Maybe something like Australia? Halfway around the world?
Sorry. This is your story.
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Also, how do you institutionalize a werewolf? What do you do with a carnivore the size of a small pony who isn't mentally all there? That'd have to be a very specialized hospital.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
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I love that she calls him "puppy." And it's really not until about midway through the thing where he finally stops telling her to "stop calling me that." *giggles*
Janni: She called you "puppy."
Ben: Yes. Yes, she did.
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Of course, if he's doing the physical rescuing while Janni and Ange are doing the emotional rescuing, that's a nice division of labor--if somewhat stereotyped along gender lines.
Well, now that I have my villain in mind, I can at least start figuring my endgame out...
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