YOU HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALLY DUMPED!! I never cared about you anyway, you totally suck!!!!1!
No, um, that's basically it. When I called Swift a Matryoshka doll of repression, I was mostly thinking of his thread with Erika. He has a lot of feelings he is refusing to acknowledge! He feels betrayed by her total lack of regard for the team, which he can't admit (even to himself) because that would mean acknowledging that he wanted or expected her to care about the team, which he can't because he knows full well that is stupid. Teams are arbitrary! There is no good reason to get attached to someone just because you dropped in wearing the same color as them, and there is no good reason for him to think (because he is a super realistic dude who is never led astray by his feelings and always sees the unpleasant truth!!) that any given person would do so, knowing what he does about how people work. Also: to be betrayed by someone you have to have cared about them in the first place which is CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE for all the above reasons, and also because it would be stupid because she is clearly a terrible person (especially. in hindsight) and Swift never makes stupid decisions. Yes. Of course.
POST-GAME he has finally acknowledged to himself that he cares about Jasper as people (and bird??) and that he would probably fall on a sword for them and do a bunch of other ridiculous things, so he is just mentally shoving Erika out of his conception of team and THINKING DISDAINFULLY in her direction and telling himself it is just because she is a stupid, arrogant, thoughtless child with no ability to realize that "oh, maybe I shouldn't fuck myself and my unit into a corner for short-term gain!!" who poses a danger to his priorities in Aather. So he is going to watch her like a hawk and make sure she doesn't fuck with his things :|a But--not gonna lie, I don't expect Swift to be anything but uniformly terrible at Erika at all times, so it's a good thing we have Eve . . . .
(Swift: not actually good at strategic thinking when his feelings are involved!)
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Date: 2012-06-05 05:59 am (UTC)YOU HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALLY DUMPED!! I never cared about you anyway, you totally suck!!!!1!
No, um, that's basically it. When I called Swift a Matryoshka doll of repression, I was mostly thinking of his thread with Erika. He has a lot of feelings he is refusing to acknowledge! He feels betrayed by her total lack of regard for the team, which he can't admit (even to himself) because that would mean acknowledging that he wanted or expected her to care about the team, which he can't because he knows full well that is stupid. Teams are arbitrary! There is no good reason to get attached to someone just because you dropped in wearing the same color as them, and there is no good reason for him to think (because he is a super realistic dude who is never led astray by his feelings and always sees the unpleasant truth!!) that any given person would do so, knowing what he does about how people work. Also: to be betrayed by someone you have to have cared about them in the first place which is CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE for all the above reasons, and also because it would be stupid because she is clearly a terrible person (especially. in hindsight) and Swift never makes stupid decisions. Yes. Of course.
POST-GAME he has finally acknowledged to himself that he cares about Jasper as people (and bird??) and that he would probably fall on a sword for them and do a bunch of other ridiculous things, so he is just mentally shoving Erika out of his conception of team and THINKING DISDAINFULLY in her direction and telling himself it is just because she is a stupid, arrogant, thoughtless child with no ability to realize that "oh, maybe I shouldn't fuck myself and my unit into a corner for short-term gain!!" who poses a danger to his priorities in Aather. So he is going to watch her like a hawk and make sure she doesn't fuck with his things :|a But--not gonna lie, I don't expect Swift to be anything but uniformly terrible at Erika at all times, so it's a good thing we have Eve . . . .
(Swift: not actually good at strategic thinking when his feelings are involved!)
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