To me, he's clearly uncomfortable, but I don't see any great guilt, and he's certainly not sorry. Whoa. I would seriously not want him for an enemy!
Well, I certainly don't think he was all "la la la, comics are great, no worries". It seemed almost like a metaphor or maybe just a reminder that this is John and while he can be quite deadly, he's also got this other side to him that makes you want to feed him soup and tell him stories. And comic books always represent to me that sort of innocence we have as children, that the world is black and white. Good guys do this, bad guys do that, you know?
I don't think he's actually psychotic or anything, just willing to go to places other people aren't. I think he was most uncomfortable with the fact that Rodney ended up in a place where he thought he needed to give up his life. John doesn't like it when other people are forced into situations like that because he feels like that's his job to protect them from those things. That's just part of who he is and, really, part of being a soldier. They exists to do the things we can't or won't do.
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Date: 2007-12-02 03:39 pm (UTC)Well, I certainly don't think he was all "la la la, comics are great, no worries". It seemed almost like a metaphor or maybe just a reminder that this is John and while he can be quite deadly, he's also got this other side to him that makes you want to feed him soup and tell him stories. And comic books always represent to me that sort of innocence we have as children, that the world is black and white. Good guys do this, bad guys do that, you know?
I don't think he's actually psychotic or anything, just willing to go to places other people aren't. I think he was most uncomfortable with the fact that Rodney ended up in a place where he thought he needed to give up his life. John doesn't like it when other people are forced into situations like that because he feels like that's his job to protect them from those things. That's just part of who he is and, really, part of being a soldier. They exists to do the things we can't or won't do.
He's also really really pretty. *sigh*