I wonder if Sergeant Vissarionov here even realizes what’s going on. Either way, he’s got a lot of negative energy at work there.
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Good riposte from Sarah. Let’s muddy the moral waters some more, it’s character forming. Sarah’s reply hints that she might at least read his surface thoughts. I wonder if they have access to each other’s memories — so they can REALLY tear into each other. It might depend on who’s running on who’s meatware.
But if each knows the other one knows EVERYTHING… the more I think about it, I don’t think perfect understanding always leads to love and peace. Gulp.
Yeah, isn’t it “To understand all is to forgive all?” Well, I’m not sure I buy that either. But it’s a start.
Well, you aren’t a gentleman, that’s for sure 😛
I still wonder tho, how Mike got access to his memories, and I’m closer and closer to conclusion that Victor has the same purpose Mike does. Only he decided that the only way to “protect the human life and welfare” is to eradicate humanity itself 😛
Interesting theory. But of course, as Francis Urquhart says, “You might very well think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment.” 😀
Beat the shit out of that commie fucker!
Easy, there.
She called him out, good. He has no right to get high and mighty, not after all the suffering and pain the ”peoples” revolutions have caused to put socialist elites in power! You are as bad as us comrade! You just use different system!
An interesting observation: in both faces, though much more dramatically in Sgt. Vissarionov’s case, the corners of the mouth are pulled down, even while shouting and adopting highly aggressive body posture. This is not a snarl or rictus, with the corners of the mouth pulled up and back- these are the faces of two people who are trying very hard not to burst into open weeping, and who are (among other things) disguising their mutual heartache and vulnerability with rage and violence. Vissarionov’s eyes are wide, desperate, the eyes of a mighty beast caught in some lethal trap which it dimly comprehends but cannot escape. Instead of his eyes narrowing in an attacker’s focusing squint, they fly wide to the point of nearly bugging out- the eyes of a man whose emotions are running wild, terror and grief chief among them.
These are the faces of two people who are being forced to confront the consequences of their own actions, and those of their co-belligerents, in a place with absolutely nowhere to hide. That is a terrifying place- realising that no matter how “good” you thought your fight was, innocents and people with families paid with their lives for that vision, that you yourself have become (or at very least consented to work with) a monster.
I’m not so sure Sgt. Vissarionov’s reaction is because of finding himself trapped in a situation forcing some impending realization of the consequences of his actions or becoming a monster to innocents, or how it all dove-tails with his moral hypocrisy, or how long he can hide from it all.
I think it has more to do with the woman he loved dying a horrible, screaming, burning death and he just wants to kill anyone and everyone that had anything to do with that. To him, she was the only true innocent.
It’s called revenge.
And on a lighter note: Is it just me or does Sgt. V. share more than a passing resemblance to our own Mr. Average? Besides the huge tongue, I mean. I think we’ve found his analog in the 6-Commando ‘Verse: the head-stubble patterns are spot-on identical. 🙂
I don’t see the two as mutually exclusive. One can lead to the other, especially in a place with nowhere to hide, noplace to run, and no way to fight back.