Talk:Sunburst/@comment-25559529-20161103210514/@comment-10390252-20170102124301

@Cuddlefan,

Yeah, because a pre-teen who has just been haled as a local hero and packed off to an exclusive private school is expected to have sufficient mental and emotional balance to interrupt the whirlwind of events around him in such a way as the adults would listen to him.

That set aside, the sad thing, Cuddlefan, is that Sunburst's behaviour isn't that abnormal for a child of his age. He's suddenly received everything that he thought that he wanted and needed and that was absorbing all of his focus and mental energy. It's unfortunate but friends, especially childhood friends, lose touch with each other all the time because other things crowd out their time and attention spans, be is school, family or learning to live and how fit in when they move to a new town.

The big problem is that this interacted with some other pre-existing condition in Starlight's psyche (as well as whatever it was that made her so socially isolated) and turned what otherwise would have never been more than a very neurotic response to change into a full-blown paranoid psychosis.