leonawriter:

homura-bakura:

alicethedragonvalkyrie:

GET YOUR FUCKING HAND OFF OF HER

And this, my friends, is why I will never be fully okay with Rex Godwin.

And here’s where I show two things: one is my bias, and two is my ability to get into characters’ heads. Don’t read further if you don’t want to be spoilered, hower!

On Mikage, we later see, as if it wasn’t clear already, that she has a massive crush on Jack. She blushes, she treats him like the king he currently believes himself to be. Here, it can be assumed that she finds it very hard to say no to him. By which I mean… in a relationship, that would be more understandable. But she is not in a relationship. She is his manager, and also partly in charge of making sure that he is safe. Allowing him to go out in order to meet someone - a person from Satellite, who might give away his history - is not ensuring that he is safe. This is endangering her charge, and being unprofessional.

On Rex… that’s where it gets spoilery. DO NOT READ IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE SPOILED.

Rex is the one who wanted Jack in the city in the first place. He needs Jack Atlas alive, and without his reputation tarnished. If he’s allowed into the wrong hands, then his safety is jeopardised. If either of the Signer Dragons end up in someone else’s hands… the Signer War ITSELF is jeopardised. And that is a BIG DEAL. That alone is enough to warrant - ignoring the argument of whether or not he has any actual feelings of fondness for the boy - anger at the person who had, in his eyes, caused his life’s work to be endangered. And then we get to how the past seventeen years have messed with him, and he’s more likely to act rashly, such as shown, with little regard to the feelings or momentary physical wellbeing of the recipient of his anger.

I, in fact, side with neither of them. I don’t like Mikage in this part of the season, as she fawns over Jack and she is in need of development (although that’s in character for her). Rex is dealing with this in a poor manner - he has every reason to be upset, but that doesn’t give him the right to assault someone; and yet, in some ways, I understand him more.