#i get that the i hate the british statements are hyperbolic (at least i hope) but some of it is a bit weird

[shivered-bones]

i personally don't think it's weird that hobie uses the union jack on his battle vest and the watch. like, yes, hobie can hate the government and be against british history while also embracing being british. he's poc, he's working class, he's celebrating britian for those groups of people who are victims to the system and do make up the majority of the population, and whose work the country was built on. they're the group of people you fight the government for. they're the people who have had no power to actually be a part of the problem, unlike the upper class. this is especially true for the younger generations.

hobie has a cockney accent, he uses slang, it's obviously an important part of his identity. he cares about injustice and what's the point of that if you don't care about the people it's being inflicted against?