Exactly! No one seemed to care (Even Marissa who SAW it) when Oliver forced Ryan and Luke's golf cart to crash... no one listened to Ryan's concerns when he tried to voice them... no wonder the boy never speaks, when he does, no one listens! And I always felt it would have been so much better to at leats have the gun go off, even if no got hit, maybe it would have forced Sandy to actually give a damn that he let the CHILD (He was still 15 at the time for god's sake!) into a room with a mentally unblanced kid who he KNEW had a GUN! ugh... that was the first of many times I really and truly wanted to smack Sandy... lol
I kind of saw it that to some degree, Ryan was in shock during the first few sections, he could process the information to a point, but the emotions weren't really kicking in, the fear wasn't there because it simply wasn't clicking into place for him...
I didn't EXACTLY mean to taunt anyone with it... lol... and you're right, he has always considered himself on borrowed time (his comment to Kirsten about wanting to 'be 17' was pretty evident of that, even when you consider that it makes no sense since he was only 15 1/2 or so at the time... why not want to be 16? lol)
I may actually go back and write some stories to fill in the spaces, though if I do I may not be able to bring myself to actually kill the boy in the end... lol...
I know it was cruel to kill him after all that... but it just didn't have any impact if it ended with 'and he lived happily ever after'... lol... but as I said, I am tempted to go back and tell the story in a more traditional format. Show the reactions of everyone else to the tragedy. Show whether the incident at the courthouse when Oliver was let off was the first time Marissa made an overture towards Ryan, or if it was just one of many times. Show how exactly, beyond being introduced by Summer, Ryan and Isabella met.
Dang it... I guess I am gonna be one of those people who has a dozen fics going at once because now I wanna start the expanded fic RIGHT NOW... lol... I'm officially gonna blame you... lol
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Date: 2006-10-29 03:40 am (UTC)I kind of saw it that to some degree, Ryan was in shock during the first few sections, he could process the information to a point, but the emotions weren't really kicking in, the fear wasn't there because it simply wasn't clicking into place for him...
I didn't EXACTLY mean to taunt anyone with it... lol... and you're right, he has always considered himself on borrowed time (his comment to Kirsten about wanting to 'be 17' was pretty evident of that, even when you consider that it makes no sense since he was only 15 1/2 or so at the time... why not want to be 16? lol)
I may actually go back and write some stories to fill in the spaces, though if I do I may not be able to bring myself to actually kill the boy in the end... lol...
I know it was cruel to kill him after all that... but it just didn't have any impact if it ended with 'and he lived happily ever after'... lol... but as I said, I am tempted to go back and tell the story in a more traditional format. Show the reactions of everyone else to the tragedy. Show whether the incident at the courthouse when Oliver was let off was the first time Marissa made an overture towards Ryan, or if it was just one of many times. Show how exactly, beyond being introduced by Summer, Ryan and Isabella met.
Dang it... I guess I am gonna be one of those people who has a dozen fics going at once because now I wanna start the expanded fic RIGHT NOW... lol... I'm officially gonna blame you... lol