#I will come down with that block hammer (HAHA HAMMER PUN IN A JAYCE POST OMG)

[bringthekaos]

" Fight this fight another way…" oh, but that´s the thing. Jayce doesn´t know how to pick his fights

GOD you’re so right. Bro goes in swingin every time. It’s actually a cute aspect of his personality, to me. When the people he loves are hurting, he ditches rational thought and goes to bat for them. Often at self-effacing levels. And obviously he needs to work on that, cuz uhhhhhhh that’s how he ended up accidentally killing a child.

But I do think he is always trying to learn from his mistakes, to be better. It’s just that, as such a visible public figure, he’s under a microscope every second of every day, his every action is judged and scrutinized. He doesn’t really get the opportunities to learn and grow without first being berated for it, which kinda… changes a person’s motivations. That pressure is always there, and instead of being able to rationally consider how to react to certain problems, his first thought is “oh gods, what will they all think of me.”

Like… something I saw mentioned a while ago over on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter was that during the scene on the bridge with Viktor, someone in the crowd is holding up a “Man of Progress” poster with the eyes scratched out and a noose around his neck. Like… no, I am not at all trying to excuse his xenophobic comment to Viktor (that’s another thing he definitely needs to work on), but uhhh… yeah, I’d probably be a little freaked out too, looking at someone not subtly suggesting they’d like to gouge my eyes out and hang me.

All this to say… one day. One day he will learn to think before he speaks, to pause and consider before leaping into battle. But it is not this day.