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WCDT Jan 31st to Feb 4th, 2022 (pages 4711 to 4715)

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BenRG:
I'm wondering if Emmett does all this for parental attention. They do get attention as a result but only of the negative kind but, hey, bad is better than none.

ihaveavoice:
I feel like the kids who would get cool points for doing a reckless thing would be the ones doing it in front of a cheering crowd of their classmates, and it would somehow hit on an open or secret desire they all had. If it was a Thing that adults wouldn't let them near the backhoe and one kid got into it at a party and happened to hit the water main while zooming around to the general whooping and hollering of the other children, I can see that being a "Man, that Emmett kid is a legend!" type of event. If backhoes aren't anything special to most of the kids in town, doing that at a party would make them the weird kid with a wild streak that the others egg on but don't really choose to hang out with, like oddtail described. Just going off on your own when you're bored and driving a backhoe into the water main? You've probably caused water problems for the whole town for a bit, so if anything, you're that stupid kid that made it so they can't shower normally. I wouldn't expect the others not believing them to be the biggest problem Emmett would run into going around bragging that they did that.

Also, having heard stories from people who grew up in rural (American) small towns, there was a mind-boggling amount of blowing stuff up and general criminality that went on, at least in the 90s and earlier, which there is NO way they could have kept getting away with in a more populated area. It's possible that even Emmett's heightened-for-comedy hijinks aren't anything special where they're from.

Pseudowolf:
Emmett is the Amelia Watson of QC. They've already got incredible childhood stories.
(Just look up "Amelia Watson Childhood" on YouTube if you don't know what I mean)

Potato Farmer:

--- Quote from: oddtail on 30 Jan 2022, 23:36 ---Also... I dunno, Emmett being extremely timid and also willing to do extreme stuff like this completely strains credulity for me. I don't think I ever met a person who had a reckless streak like this and wasn't also talkative (even if awkward) and had no sense of what is socially appropriate, to the point of saying everything that is on their mind immediately. Emmett seems to have a rather overdeveloped sense of caution for social situation, and a non-existent one for everything else. If people like this exist (as I'm sure they do), I don't think I've ever met any.
--- End quote ---
It's possible they used to be a lot more expressive and outgoing around people, but some bad experiences taught them to stay away from others because "It never goes well."

Their hijinks, while dangerous, are at least interesting and engaging. Running into trouble with people tends to be nothing but misery and pain.

They do seem to open up pretty quickly the moment they realize someone is actually nice to them.

Farideh:
I was thinking among the same lines. Plenty of things can have happened that made Emmett crawl into their shell.

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