He is, in a general sense! It's kind of like that ASW remix about being able to turn all of the bad feelings into kittens and not knowing how to feed them all. There has clearly been some structural/planning failure along the way that left them unable to handle the circumstances that were thrown at them and, as a result, has allowed for a lot of people -- including so many children -- to get hurt. So now it's like Charles not only knows that the hurricane is coming, but he's very concretely seen the aftermath of not being properly prepared.
And... it's hard. He's kind of at sea, because he has a dream and incredible dedication and a lot of intelligence... but he can't do it all, he has a lot of weaknesses and inadequacies. So, logical follow-up to that is that you get other people to help you, but even that has obviously ended up not working out. All of this is swirling around in Charles's thoughts, resulting in a growing... attention to his people, I suppose. In addition to everything else, they clearly need to learn to be better managers. And just make better life decisions.
At the very root of it, he's trying to figure out where it got lost. It was not very long ago in Charles's life, and the lives of those who were close to him, that the greatest and most wonderful thing was the discovery that you are not alone. To now find those whose most prominent experience is being abandoned is just... mind-boggling and heart-breaking.
So, as a modern, post-Stonewall teen with a level head on his shoulders, what advice would Victor give to a guy from early 1960s America who apparently has a huge gay crush on a supervillain?
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And... it's hard. He's kind of at sea, because he has a dream and incredible dedication and a lot of intelligence... but he can't do it all, he has a lot of weaknesses and inadequacies. So, logical follow-up to that is that you get other people to help you, but even that has obviously ended up not working out. All of this is swirling around in Charles's thoughts, resulting in a growing... attention to his people, I suppose. In addition to everything else, they clearly need to learn to be better managers. And just make better life decisions.
At the very root of it, he's trying to figure out where it got lost. It was not very long ago in Charles's life, and the lives of those who were close to him, that the greatest and most wonderful thing was the discovery that you are not alone. To now find those whose most prominent experience is being abandoned is just... mind-boggling and heart-breaking.
So, as a modern, post-Stonewall teen with a level head on his shoulders, what advice would Victor give to a guy from early 1960s America who apparently has a huge gay crush on a supervillain?