Originally Posted by SCD-Observer:
“It's interesting you mentioned about Louis needing to learn to show his emotion.
But I hope he doesn't learn to 'fake' it. That is crucial for someone who's not staged schooled to try this 'fakery' (or acting). Because if he seldom experienced an outward manifestation of emotions, then if he tries to methodise the 'expression' of it (learn to fake it), it will become apparent to us that he's faking it. Does that make sense?
What I am trying (and I think failing) to say, is that someone who's good at teaching others to visualise something (such as a sports pyschologist or a hypnotist etc.) could get to know Louis better, ask him to, say, recall the few precious moments when he experienced genuine joy.
It's likely that while he was still a child, he would have moments of sheer happiness, safe in the knowledge that he's completely 'allowed' to 'let it go'. This may be trips to a themed park where he had a 'joyride' or maybe the first time he saw father christmas and felt this sense of awe and felicity. Now a good, say, hypnotherapist would be able to help or guide Louis in this 'age regressive' visualisation exercise and invoke a GENUINE sense of that past experience/feeling, and learning to 'allow himself' the freedom to express it without any internal (self) and/or external (environment/spectators watching him etc.) inhibitions.
Once this feeling/past experience of happiness and joy is invoked, then when it's associated with a certain trigger (such as a ballroom hold and his tilt to the left of his head), then he would be able, NOT TO FAKE IT, but to invoke the genuine feeling/past experience of joy, and this would definitely help audience/viewers at home 'connect' to him when he perform a dance.
Hmm, am I rambling? *hears sounds of muffled snoring*
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Well, I for one read to the end, and I think you made some good points

. The last thing I want is for Louis to become a faker!!