#i honestly think he'd do pretty good with gaz if they were on the same team

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Heyo! Headcanon time! I’ve been on a Konig deep dive to try and learn his character and I think…

I think konig is #detached from literally everything, and I think it would take a very, very special person to bring him back. All the years of being used in the military has got to have has some serious ware on his psyche to a point where he just doesn’t consider things like strong emotions and self worth, (as you said in your post to another anon)

I believe it would take a lot of time, effort, and a very special person to draw anything like that out of him, despite the fact that, deep down, he craves it even if he doesn’t know

I bet it just breaks his heart a little when people are scared of him, even if he never admits it or doesn’t even realize

I do think he experiences strong emotions at times, but he doesn't know how to face them or work through them in any other way than swallowing them down, because that's what he's been told to do. Ghost, for example, had to learn to actually and truly shut his emotions down through his trauma for the sake of his survival and has learned to do it eerily well - König can't quite shut them down, but he can hide them. No one actually told him how to separate himself from his thoughts and emotions, but they rewarded him when he did something without showing any actual emotional response. It's all he knows to do, and so the only time he actually gets an outlet is on the battlefield.

He can scream and shout, he can let out his anger through unsettling violence and he can even feel joy and glee, even if the source of it is questionable at best. It's why his teammates tend to steer clear of him when sent out to fight - he has a tendency to get lost in it and isn't always aware of who he's running through when trying to reach a target. But once back to safety, when it all calms down and everybody else takes some time to relax and recuperate, he's going down a very deep and dark path of dissociation and anxiety. He's not supposed to feel these things and a part of him finds it disturbing that he feels as good as he does fighting and killing, because he can tell that the others do. Even if he's never experienced it himself, he knows that it's possible to feel good without the crash that he usually gets afterwards.

He's seen the people that look after each other, that lean on each other and even hug each other after a mission well done, relieved that they made it out together. He sees them bond and connect and he wants someone to bond like that with, but people tend to find him... uncanny. They see him on the battlefield and think he's nothing more than a bloodhound - his only task on this team is to cause carnage and destruction. And he doesn't know how to connect with them. He just wants someone to approach him and start talking to him because he doesn't know how to, but even if someone did, he's not good at keeping conversation.