I don’t believe Corey was on their list.  Though, I’m sure they probably would’ve labeled him a jock by their criteria.  I mean the thing is, if they didn’t know people, it was easy for them to assume things and label people ‘a jock’ based on how they looked overall, how they dressed or who they hung out with.   I don’t believe the boys connected Corey to Austin Eubanks or it wasn’t even a case of them even reasoning “oh it’s a jock, he’s friends with Austin, let’s shoot him.”   I honestly do not think they targeted Corey; he was shot randomly under the library table. And they certainly missed killing Austin altogether even if he was on their Hit List.  At the end of the day, the boys’ massacre in the library was super random and uncalculated.  They walked around the maze-like library. They sometimes saw people and made fun of whoever they were standing in front of and the rest of the time they were pointing their guns willy-nilly under the table and shooting whoever was cowering underneath it.  If they injured someone, they didn’t bother noticing whether they didn’t thoroughly kill them. Some got maimed and others ended up mortally wounded depending on where the bullet/s hit them.  And they just kept moving around and shooting haphazardly. 

Thank you ❤ You have yourself an amazing week ahead. 🙂 

It’s kind of hard to say.  I tend to think Dylan got really flustered and blushed with that big chin grin incessantly when he was visually drinking in a girl that he liked a whole lot or observed them talking among friends or even trying to reciprocate in conversation with them (as best he could manage). Devon likely noticed that he was especially awkward with these certain girls in particular.  I think he was more at ease with Devon because she was so easy going and down to earth.  Super easy to talk to and joke with. She probably didn’t take him seeing her that way, if he ever did, and interpreted his response to her as just that best friend, like platonically close and warm like with a brother.  She also probably wouldn’t consider that her boyfriend’s best friend might have attractional feelings for her. Again, this is all theorizing. The fondness between the two is evident but beyond platonic is guessing territory. 

and thank you! 🙂 

Oh yeah. I tend to think Dylan would still be buying and building Legos with his own kids. 😦 He’s be dusting off those stored bins of his beloved models to share with them too.  I’m kind of hoping that Sue saved Dylan’s Legos sets and passed them on for Byron’s son to enjoy. 🙂  But to answer your question, I think once you’re into Legos, you will always be into them.  And Dylan was going through a period where he was ready to put them aside but as an adult and dad, he’d enjoy the nostalgia and would be getting back in to all of that for enjoyment with his kids.

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Coz that was just Dyl being his goofy teenage boy self using the caj, colloquial nineties slang of the time juxtaposition his brainiac, poetic, old soul self. The dichotomy is on point. LaterZ 

I quite agree. Time to start with a clean slate.  Thankss 🙂 

Probably because E and D considered Austin a jock.  I don’t believe they said exactly why he was on Eric’s Hit list. Thank you! Returning the good vibes back atcha. 💓💫

Eric, Dylan and Zack were close friends about a year and a half into high school but then Zack landed a girlfriend, Devon.  Suddenly, Zack started to spend less time with Eric and Dylan. Dylan was jealous and unhappy about it, and Eric was probably aware of that fact. Eric blamed Devon for stealing Zack away and breaking up their little dude clan.  So, this wasn’t at all about Eric being pissed at girls because Dylan was friends with them. 

Appearance can be deceiving with the immediate impression of their expensive looking property. There were many financial difficulties and challenges the Klebold’s went through in struggling to stay at their house some of which proceded Columbine.  You should definitely check out Sue’s book as she goes into all of this.  They were never homeless though.  After the tragedy, they used a great deal (all tbh) insurance to cover being sued and Tom also had/has a real estate property business to make ends meet. I’m sure there was other sources of financial aid too. Since the time they bought the property in 1989 and renovated it, the house has enormously increased in value. The Deer Creek neighborhood is building new mansion-like homes presently and in a desirable, rural location, the Klebold’s house is now in a million dollar property. It’s a good investment to hold on to as a legacy for their son to do with as he pleases when Tom and Sue pass on (Sue’s name is still on the property even if not financially).

Agreed, that their subsequent divorce in 2014 is probably half of her share that Tom bought out. However, there were also previous years on the property history where ‘sold’ transactions were listed as well. 

Well, first of all, we know Dylan was not a social butterfly as extroverts tend to be. Instead, he was hypersensitive and intensely over aware of himself. Extroverts are often naturally open and curious with other people and more importantly, are unaware of themselves while being in the company of others. They feel energized being around people often. Whereas introverts need to be alone for periods of time in order to recharge their batteries.

As for Dylan’s ability to act in the video productions: often the shyest people shine in front of the cameras because they are happily able to be someone other than themselves.  It’s a known thing that excellent actors are often shy people in real life. They give an impeccable performance and can seem to transform themselves into appearing like extroverts for various roles.

“Dylan was the sweetest, cutest kid you’d ever meet,” said Brooks’s father,
Randy. “He was really shy, though, and it would take him fifteen or twenty minutes to warm up to us every time he came over, even though we knew him and we were close to him. After he’d warmed up, he was okay.”

Judy Brown remembers Dylan Klebold as “a sensitive, caring child” who
worried a lot about what other people thought—perhaps too much for his own
good. She recognized the way that Dylan seemed to internalize what was bothering him, rather than being open about it. It was a familiar problem

Even around people he knew well while being in the company of friends and close family,  it could take Dylan a good while to relax enough to be himself around them as it did on his sixteenth birthday. 

During the Frankenstein Roast video, Brooks stated it took Dylan a while of being quiet and observant before he was able to actually start participating in the roast exchanging jovial barbs with Brooks and Zack. The entire time he was awkward – nervously, repetitively, tucking his hair behind his ears. 

Devon mentioned that “he didn’t know how to interact with people without another person there or something that he could talk about like a movie or music, or something.”

And Dylan himself knew full well of his social anxiety, his ‘shyness’ around people:

“me looking weird & acting shy — BIG problem, me getting bad grades, having no ambition of life, that’s the big shit. Anyway ...”

or

”I hoped we could have been together … you seem a bit like me. Pensive, quiet, an observer, not wanting what is offered here (school, life, etc.) you almost seem lonely, like me.”

My personal feeling is that Dylan’s acute, pervasive “shyness” which he had since childhood began to evolve into AvPD especially because of his marked feelings of inadequacy and sensitivity of negative criticism and rejection. I  discussed the case for it in this post.

Well, I don’t think Tom is living all by himself in that sprawling rustic house. I think he is subletting to keep the property in the family and who knows, he might pass it off to Bryon as an investment property willed from the parents either to keep or sell. 

And yeah, I think if Dylan had a hypothetical intervention of sorts and was whisked to and fro by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, he would’ve had a change of heart about going through with NBK and ending his life or might’ve time traveled to stop the both of them.  But he was simply too mono-focused on his himself and ending his own misery and at the expense of others – his own family, his friends, enemies, and inconsequentials, that it was impossible for him to see the devastating consequences of what he was doing from a bird’s eye pov and the fall out from it.

Spare them, absolutely.  If they tried to talk him down, he would get angry and defiant and insist that they leave. If Devon or Robyn were confronting him and burst into hysterical tears, it would be too overwhelming for him to handle. It’d be something he hadn’t anticipated and wasn’t prepared to deal because he’d spent a fair amount of time emotionally distancing himself from everything and everyone just so that he could ‘have fun!’ on the day and leave this place for good. He had stopped caring a long while ago and now they would be forcing him to feel things..too many things for him to confront and manage after the killer he’d just become. Things would reach a boiling point in any type of ‘talk down’ confrontation with close friends where Dylan, in his personal anguish, quite possibly would’ve suddenly and quietly just turned the pistol to his head and….

Much to his surprise, I think so, yes. 

More sociable having the years and mileage under his belt and all the worldly experience that goes along with it such as interacting with people, being in relationships, etc. Still an introvert to the core; still shy to a degree but not as debilitating shy. More confident in his being seasoned.