Talk:The Door Was Ajar/@comment-31077845-20170204164423

It took the kid an entire workday to stangle a single animal? Hm, I'd look into other career options, I don't think psychopathy is going to work out for him.

But seriously, I won't break it down psychologically quite as much as Zhazja (who is right though about abused kids), but you're kinda playing both sides of the fence a bit. The kid can't be both young and innocent and that efficient at murder. I'm an adult male, and I would have to give it a little thought before figuring out how to strangle an animal in that situation...like, with a litlte kid's strength the physics behind strangling a dog with fishing line just don't add up. A cat maybe, but the dog? What did he do, hop on top of him and garrote him like a tiny ninja? Using fishing line to strangle animals is teenager-psychopathy level, not a little kid who still plays with toy trucks level psychopathy, especially since it would require an impressive slip knot and a lot of strength or leverage to stand over them hold both ends, and fishing line isn't terribly easy to hold on to. And the babysitters were a huge stretch. Inside the house/cabin it would be far more comfortable, there's a TV with enough channels to get top gear, and in this modern day everything is a portable music player. I'm surprised that twinkies don't come with a headphone jack and bluetooth capabilities at this point. They could even hook their thingy up through the TV's sound system. There is just no logical reason for them to not be inside the house (aside from it being convenient for the story)

And lastly the mother. Idk where he got the fishing line from inside an apartment, or the implement to cut the fishing line with (ever consider that? How he was cutting the fishing line?), but unless she was outside because she got so drunk she literally passed out on the ground the kid would never be able to strangle her, and if she was THAT trashed to go through all that without waking up, especially if she was sitting and he had to climb on her, she probably would've died of alcohol poisoning anyways.