The thing about l!Stephen is that you have to take the things c!Stephen does and invert them at the core. So the opposite of "I'm a hardcore conservative ideologue" is not "I'm a hardcore liberal ideologue", but "I refuse to take a position on anything."
Okay, now I understand exactly where our difference in viewpoint is coming from. My mindset is that I think there's room to be inconsistent here, (or maybe the fun I find in writing a Straw Liberal is clouding my judgment; whichev =P) because c!"Stephen" himself is not consistent. He is, strictly speaking, not always a hardcore conservative ideologue. There are aberrations every now and then. So I think that l!"Stephen" may waver in the same way.
And the opposite of "I'm repressing this certain set of characteristics, now stop asking and go away," is not "I'm repressing this other certain set of characteristics" but "here, let me be completely and painfully open about everything, whether or not you asked, including my special-snowflake deep emotional pain, and the explicit sexual fantasy I had about you last night, hey, wait, why are you running away?"
The point that I'm trying to make is that this is a twisted form of repression, because in the end, the result is the same, in that he's scaring that person away, probably for good. And what's more is that I think he secretly knows he's doing this, just as c!"Stephen" will be all, "You are 100% wrong and probably going to hell where you will burn in a fiery pit for all eternity--hey, where are you going?" yet really knows exactly where that person's going: away from him, which is exactly what he wants. Am I making sense?
For that matter, there's a bit of House in him. Always late, always scruffy, almost pathologically rude, partly in defiance of his perfectionist father. As opposed to c!Stephen, who is always on time, always polished, and while his standards of politeness are screwed-up, he clings to them.
...this is kind of hilarious to think about, since c!"Stephen" considers he and House kindred spirits. Who would l!"Stephen" cling to in that manner? Cameron? =P
Bah! Touristy things, pfft. Who needs that when you can geek out on the internet all day? =P
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Okay, now I understand exactly where our difference in viewpoint is coming from. My mindset is that I think there's room to be inconsistent here, (or maybe the fun I find in writing a Straw Liberal is clouding my judgment; whichev =P) because c!"Stephen" himself is not consistent. He is, strictly speaking, not always a hardcore conservative ideologue. There are aberrations every now and then. So I think that l!"Stephen" may waver in the same way.
And the opposite of "I'm repressing this certain set of characteristics, now stop asking and go away," is not "I'm repressing this other certain set of characteristics" but "here, let me be completely and painfully open about everything, whether or not you asked, including my special-snowflake deep emotional pain, and the explicit sexual fantasy I had about you last night, hey, wait, why are you running away?"
The point that I'm trying to make is that this is a twisted form of repression, because in the end, the result is the same, in that he's scaring that person away, probably for good. And what's more is that I think he secretly knows he's doing this, just as c!"Stephen" will be all, "You are 100% wrong and probably going to hell where you will burn in a fiery pit for all eternity--hey, where are you going?" yet really knows exactly where that person's going: away from him, which is exactly what he wants. Am I making sense?
For that matter, there's a bit of House in him. Always late, always scruffy, almost pathologically rude, partly in defiance of his perfectionist father. As opposed to c!Stephen, who is always on time, always polished, and while his standards of politeness are screwed-up, he clings to them.
...this is kind of hilarious to think about, since c!"Stephen" considers he and House kindred spirits. Who would l!"Stephen" cling to in that manner? Cameron? =P
Bah! Touristy things, pfft. Who needs that when you can geek out on the internet all day? =P