Yes, Ginty would definitely be one of us! Er, not that I have ever claimed to have chestnut hair and be fearless, obviously, but she would be in fandom I am sure, and I think she might be one of the people who take a few goes to realise that it's not worth making that kind of pretence.
Patrick I do suspect may be someone who shouldn't be allowed to do much pretending he's someone else, though one has to remember he's only about 16. I wonder if his only-childness comes into it a bit (obviously I don't mean all only children are like Patrick); in a way there's an element of the online anonymity because he's getting an audience who don't know him anything like as well as they know each other, so he can develop his fantasies without much fear of anyone analysing them too personally.
Not using real guns as props would help in the not-getting-shot part, I feel! That's a case of Peter trying to be adult and competent and not in fact knowing enough to do it properly. He wants to blame it on Gondal and the devil on the roof tree, but (contrary to what I used to think), it is partly his fault in a very non-spooky way.
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Patrick I do suspect may be someone who shouldn't be allowed to do much pretending he's someone else, though one has to remember he's only about 16. I wonder if his only-childness comes into it a bit (obviously I don't mean all only children are like Patrick); in a way there's an element of the online anonymity because he's getting an audience who don't know him anything like as well as they know each other, so he can develop his fantasies without much fear of anyone analysing them too personally.
Not using real guns as props would help in the not-getting-shot part, I feel! That's a case of Peter trying to be adult and competent and not in fact knowing enough to do it properly. He wants to blame it on Gondal and the devil on the roof tree, but (contrary to what I used to think), it is partly his fault in a very non-spooky way.