Being seventeen and having a RL sex drive as a young, chaste-until-marriage Catholic sucks so much.

But maybe writing incredibly unmarital sex between fictional characters is a good way to channel that? Just a suggestion.

There is, I think, a sort of unspoken desperate optimism in the members of Team Hawk—that maybe they have something real to hope for again.

So true. It's why I care more about every member of Team Snake than I do Sasuke.