#because from someone like the hooligans or even aubrey? kel can brush it off no problem
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fucked up in the club about hero again. do you know what it’s like to have a sibling 3-4 years younger than you? or any younger sibling at all? one of the most important things of being a good older sibling is knowing when your wants, your needs are less important. sometimes you’ll be tired at the end of a long day and so frustrated and upset and irritated with your younger sibling, and you have to kill those feelings in the moment because they look at you and you know that in that moment you hold the power to hurt them in a way no one else on the planet can, and that you must never use it. hero is a character who is always holding himself back, prioritizing how others feel, because that’s what comes of living with the heavy knowledge that a word from a sibling- especially an older one, and especially a Perfect older one- can carry more weight than an entire speech from someone else. when you’re older and bigger your parents make sure you know it: they look up to you. you need to be a good example, show them what they should be doing. both physically and emotionally, you have the power to hurt them- and you know you never want to. and then that’s what you get used to. oh wow this came out ventier than i thought huh
#i’m not sure if i made the point i wanted to but it’s like#something about hero’s extreme Helpfulness (and his doormat tendencies in headspace) just Resonate with me#he seems like a guy very practiced at pushing down his own needs to accommodate others- and enjoys being the one to help!#he doesn’t consider it a burden but he carries it like one!#and then it’s like. the incident with kel.#i see a lot of people write it very dramatically. with hero saying things as harsh as like ‘it shouldve been you instead of mari’#but the thing is that in that moment he wouldn’t have needed to.#i’m a very firm believer that in The Incident hero called kel ‘annoying’. and that that was all he needed to say#because from someone like the hooligans or even aubrey? kel can brush it off no problem#but from his big brother? even something as (relatively) mild as that would cut Deep
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