#its so easy to label gruff characters as stupid or emotionally distant

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thinkging about. mark winters again. predictable. anyway i love that he's so thoughtful and i love how he weaponizes it. i love that he is so fucking clever and i love that that's why he's so scary. this motherfucker is an OPPORTUNIST and he works hard to make sure that he can take advantage of as many opportunities as he can. he escaped from SUPERVILLAIN JAIL with a PEN. hes got a million little gadgets and they can all do different weird fun shit like isolate the sound in a single room or SCREAM a sonic shockwave at a trickster bastard. he's able to predict needs and potential needs and prep himself for them. but he's also. able to predict the needs of others. and it Kills Me when he cares enough to follow thru on that. he never even mentioned the prime defenders throwing tide into a lake. he knew they were scared. he prepped mattresses for them when they didnt have anywhere else to go. he reassured them and was casual and lighthearted about the planet-eating monster in the sky even when he must have been scared shitless because he knew that freaking out or leaving immediately to help would make things worse. he warned them, over and over, that they had to find ashe and find him soon, or else he was going to take matters into his own hands. he waited over a year to escape prison. when the first place he was put in just. let him fucking use his powers. he knew that ashe wouldn't want his friends hurt. thats when he really lost the battle against the prime defenders in s1 was that bathroom confrontation and he saw how attached ashe really was to them. he stopped fighting dakota and said that ashe would want them to be there when he woke up. he went and picked up tide and repowered him before bringing him to the Final Battle. he sat in the hospital room and he was quiet because he doesnt know what to do when he's the one that feels vulnerable. when there's a problem he can't fix. mark fucking winters.