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This has sorta been buzzing around my brain for a while - the negative response that people have to George and Shaun wanting to share a room when possible.

I mean, they're siblings, and essentially twins. I expect that sort of attachment. And from a practical standpoint, wouldn't you want to share a room with someone who knows exactly where your dirty laundry will wind up, and all the little things in your behaviour?

But I get the impression that there's a vibe beyond just brother/sister that they're projecting, or that strangers are projecting onto them, or that *I'm* projecting onto them, even though you really haven't said anything to indicate that there might be anything other than a close brother/sister relationship.

I guess the other part of it is that they're both so work-obsessed, they don't seem to take any time for a social life and that Shaun seems to mask his dating habits.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Answer as you do (or don't) feel the need.

On a completely different (and lighter) topic, what do sports look like post-rising? Obviously large, live spectator sports are out, but are the more traditional sports still possible via webcast? Not football, obviously (it seems a good hard hit could cause enough trauma to triger a KA activation), but baseball? Have professional bowlers become new heroes? Is it all about video games and Shooting/Archery? The mind (mine anyway) boggles at the possibilities.

When my husband read it, he said that he was surprised that they weren't a couple, given the general codependency, etc. that they had. Add that to the general suspicion about co-ed rooms that society today has (and the post-Rising society may share), and the oddness that siblings of the opposite gender would share a room, and you get the negative responses.

(At least, that's how I saw it. YMMV.)

I had a similar reaction myself.

The idea that they lost everything before they were even old enough to know they'd lost everything, plus having parents who were in name only meant that they had nothing but each other, and they cleaved to that mightily.

Perfectly reasonable - I guess I'll just have to wait.

And out of nowhere, the phrase "birth trauma" is coming to me, and it leads me to wonder if natural childbirth isn't nearly as popular as it used to be.

You're not the only one who can obsess over the details.