That's a really interesting point about how Paige views her morals, because to me her entire thing seems INCREDIBLY American. Not that there isn't religious-based activism all over the place, but the specifics of hers all just scream a very specific tradition which is also very specifically a patriotically American tradition.
I love your comment about Henry being like his dad and yet also probably having default America-good-guys ideas. I think that if introduced in the right way, he is sufficiently like Philip to be like, ok, my 'team' is my family and it turns out they're not playing with the people I thought, but that doesn't mean they're not my team. I don't get the impression he'd have much trouble doing that: like your comment said, he seems very pragmatic, adaptable. But if before that sank in he had a challenge to the idea of his parents as good people at all, like he saw them killing someone, then that could be different.
And I also like the idea he already knows! The response being "well duh" would be a surprise, if nothing else. :D
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Date: 2015-12-14 07:19 pm (UTC)I love your comment about Henry being like his dad and yet also probably having default America-good-guys ideas. I think that if introduced in the right way, he is sufficiently like Philip to be like, ok, my 'team' is my family and it turns out they're not playing with the people I thought, but that doesn't mean they're not my team. I don't get the impression he'd have much trouble doing that: like your comment said, he seems very pragmatic, adaptable. But if before that sank in he had a challenge to the idea of his parents as good people at all, like he saw them killing someone, then that could be different.
And I also like the idea he already knows! The response being "well duh" would be a surprise, if nothing else. :D