There’s a myth in modern fiction, particularly movies, that trauma makes people strong. It doesn’t. And when kids are involved, it’s even worse.
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Trauma definitely does not make people strong. A healthy recovery process after a trauma and time can build people back up to where they started. And maybe more.
Mike is oddly…obsessed, I suppose, with trauma and responses to it. He’s shown us multiple instances of what we must assume was this person’s most traumatic event, or most influential trauma among many. He seems intensely curious about this, and I find myself wondering if -he- was in some way traumatised, or the AI equivalent- my guess would be by starting WWIII and getting nuked- and is trying to figure out how Humans heal.
Boy is he in for a depressing surprise.
Is it me or is Sarah’s dad strangly okay with getting shot? I mean, the look on his face is less pain and shock and more “Huh… Thats a thing that just happened?”
He’s dead or will be very soon. That shot, in that location, probably destroyed the bottom 1/3 of his heart, perforated at least one lung (possibly both if the bullet fragmented), and may have severed or severely damaged the spinal cord. A pistol bullet isn’t going to cause hydrostatic shock and remote wounding, but that hit would be a one-shot stop on just about anybody. With zero blood pressure (ie the bottom blown off the heart) an average adult Human male has about 15 seconds worth of O2 left in the brain tissue, but the spinal damage would cut that precipitously. Also, he knows about guns. He knows he’s been shot. This is a major component of psychological shock, which is in itself an aggravator for hypovolemic shock. He was dead on his feet, and probably unconscious by the time he hit the ground.
I think it really depends on the person & what support structure they have. But ultimately the person and what they decide after the incident. ie. are they going to let it define them or use it as something to be overcome.
Wait a minute, isn’t the shooter the same guy who was on that punks shirt in the school flashback?
yup. it is
Oh man…I hope that little prick got expelled for that and maybe even being publicly shamed might be nice. I think the shooters also supposed to be a hardline communist radical revolutionary or something.