Van said she’d like to put that on the ceiling over Jeda’s bed when I shared it with her.

That, yes, is one of the biggest differences between Kevin and most everyone else in her life. He knows she’s married. He knows who her husband is. But that doesn’t have anything to do with how he views or sees her. Too many other people put a lot of emphasis on the fact that she is the wife of Masen Cox. That’s all she is, really, to some people in her life. His identity is more important than hers or at least always attached to hers.

She needs a person in her life that sees her as Annette and Masen as unimportant.

Thanks, Winter!

Nice as it would be for Lyssa to have a not-Masen father figure in her life, it’s good for Annette to have something that’s just hers right now. She probably encounters very few people who don’t connect her identity with others, for better or worse. To Kevin, it seems like she’s Annette the sim first and whatever else second (and Masen’s wife a distant fourteenth, if at all.) She’s a little different with Kevin – still guarded, but lighter in a way, not so tense. I hope we’ll see more of them soon.

Yes, having a confidante that is not her daughter is a good thing, because she really doesn’t want to interfere with Lyssa’s relationship with Masen. Doesn’t want her opinion of Masen to effect Lyssa’s opinion of Masen. And that Lyssa should come to what ever decisions she makes about her father based solely on her own decisions.

And plus there’s just some things you can’t say to a seven year old. (Father or no.) So…

I do sometimes worry, as I’m characterizing Masen that you’re regretting letting me use him… Especially after the last episode…

Thanks, Van!

I think that Kevin would probably like Lyssa and would be a good father figure if Masen weren’t in the way screwing up her head and making her feel bad about herself, but I think that Annette and Kevin are both a little loathe to put him into that position because I’m not sure that Lyssa would understand why her mother has a “friend” and doesn’t just fix what’s wrong with her and Masen. (Unfortunately Lyssa doesn’t understand that what’s wrong with Masen isn’t something that Annette can fix. Only Masen can fix it. And quite frankly he’s not self-aware enough to know he’s in the wrong.)

You can always hope, for now just being able to have a few days a week that she can breath in fresh air rather than toxic and be with a friend and have witty banter and what not is probably saving her sanity almost as much as Lyssa.

Thanks, Morgaine!

Annette is brilliant, as always. I’m glad she has someone she can talk to who isn’t seven. The banter between these two was great–there was real understanding here, a firm connection.

In fact they should be calling old rancid bags of shit Masen Coxes as an insult to such bags.

And maybe Lyssa can get a good father-figure in her life, too. Hey, Kevin seems like he has a good heart, he’d probably be willing to let her in for herself if he doesn’t want to do it solely for Annette’s sake.

Still, these two are sweet together. So much better than Annette and Cox. I’m glad Annette has somebody like Kevin in her life — it seems like a breath of fresh air she so desperately needs.

And with any luck, that breath of fresh air will soon become a dependable breeze blowing through her life. A girl can hope, can’t she?

But on the plus side, I’m liking Kevin as a character, he wasn’t as much of a smartass in my planning, but he’s good at it. And I like his house. *giggles*