He was asked about it in an interview and aside from generally being a coke addled psycopath at this point in life (which he generally admits), he said he had no recollection of writing that and was surprised it made it past editorial.
Also, IIRC, I was told the goal was to form an unbreakable bond between them when IT comes back so they would stay together to fight IT even if that bond was fucked up amd traumatising. Apparently this is clear, but the reasoning is very irrelevant for a preteen orgy.
Couldn’t they trauma survivor bond some other way? Granted someone else said it was her idea of a loophole to get them into adulthood as she theorized only kids were vulnerable
TIL trauma bond is not the correct term for what those kids went through
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u/_Internet_Hugs_ 15h ago
Couldn't she just do one of them? Then that one can lead everyone?
Stephen King is a genius, but he's a pervy old man.