Right, of course, it can't be equal. The power is. The potential is there. And even if the coach, or the person-with-the-power (which could also be a captain, another dynamic, but then, the team does vote for the captain) doesn't exercise it, you're right, the underling, or the player, is bound to feel it. LeTang may want it at the same time he feels obligated to say 'yes', which disrupts how his brain processes it. (for lack of a current example I'm using your fic).
Heh, that's the way most of us boys *are* at that age. Cocky, or painfully shy. Sometimes both depending. It's a way to avoid humiliation or loss either way. Like I said there's an extremism to the environment, which probably pronounces personality traits to either end of the spectrum. 16 to 20 is, as you say, trying to find your way -- one thing I've read is the conflict of needing social contact, affection, brotherhood, with the applied competition. You need to work well with your teammates, but at the same time, you all want the same limited goal. I have a theory that boys (or children) who are particularly heavily immersed in a sport from a very young age may exhibit traits similar to children with attachment disorders, but, that's just a posit. Don't know enough to really do more than bounce it around my own head.
It does get boring. Excruciatingly. On the other hand I do enjoy writing for its own sake, and for getting feedback, so it tends to work out, unless, like this week, I've been doing 'too much' writing and frying my brain to hell. It's nice to have a break and go read pr0n or angst or whatever.
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Heh, that's the way most of us boys *are* at that age. Cocky, or painfully shy. Sometimes both depending. It's a way to avoid humiliation or loss either way. Like I said there's an extremism to the environment, which probably pronounces personality traits to either end of the spectrum. 16 to 20 is, as you say, trying to find your way -- one thing I've read is the conflict of needing social contact, affection, brotherhood, with the applied competition. You need to work well with your teammates, but at the same time, you all want the same limited goal. I have a theory that boys (or children) who are particularly heavily immersed in a sport from a very young age may exhibit traits similar to children with attachment disorders, but, that's just a posit. Don't know enough to really do more than bounce it around my own head.
It does get boring. Excruciatingly. On the other hand I do enjoy writing for its own sake, and for getting feedback, so it tends to work out, unless, like this week, I've been doing 'too much' writing and frying my brain to hell. It's nice to have a break and go read pr0n or angst or whatever.