It's almost impossible to divide Miles from his disabilities, though.
Yes. It's so much a part of what he is. The body affects the personality. I too think he's better looking than he thinks he is: he has a skewed image of himself. He doesn't even see how clever and hyper he is. Which is really part of the fun. We see him through his own eyes and through our eyes at the same time.
Yes, the need to hone his talent for charm might be part of his situation. And given how long and hard he had to fight for the ability to walk, that perhaps led to his perseverence when the going gets difficult.
If he had been perfectly normal, would Aral have spent so much time with him during the Regency years, when he was young? That close attention from his father might have further developed his verbal and reasoning skills, and his sense of strategy.
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Date: 2007-11-04 01:56 am (UTC)Yes. It's so much a part of what he is. The body affects the personality. I too think he's better looking than he thinks he is: he has a skewed image of himself. He doesn't even see how clever and hyper he is. Which is really part of the fun. We see him through his own eyes and through our eyes at the same time.
Yes, the need to hone his talent for charm might be part of his situation. And given how long and hard he had to fight for the ability to walk, that perhaps led to his perseverence when the going gets difficult.
If he had been perfectly normal, would Aral have spent so much time with him during the Regency years, when he was young? That close attention from his father might have further developed his verbal and reasoning skills, and his sense of strategy.