Got blood? Ad for Warhammer scenario pack Blood Bath at Orc's Drift in White Dwarf 68, August 1985, featuring Gary Chalk's box art, but reversed so all the weapons are in left hands
I’m of the opinion that Shanks and Mihawk have similar but entirely different ways of dealing with there emotions and trauma.
Mihawk is the type of guy to understand what he’s feeling and why he’s feeling it but then compartmentalizes and intellectualize those feelings into pieces in order to deal with it. Will he talk about his feelings? Yes, but also no. I think he respects honesty, and if he respects you enough, he’ll be honest about what’s going on in his head. But it will be the scrubbed raw, of any and all context version that he picked apart to the marrow and he kinda just expects the recipient to understand we’re and what he’s coming from. So, in a way, he’s not talking about it at all. He’s a weird Schrödinger's cat of emotional maturity, and I shudder for his therapist.
Shanks, on the other hand, would rather die than face any emotion that isn’t happy and/or drunk and happy. My man is the type of guy to experience the horrors, then go, "Neat," stuff it in a box, stuff that other box into another box, and lock it in the deepest, darkest corner of his mind to be opened by no one ever. And then one day, he’ll die. He can get serious or angry, but will he process those emotions later? Absolutely not. He would also rather eat glass than talk to people about his issues. Sure, he can joke and make fun of it and completely brush it off, but have an open, honest conversation about his emotions? Never. He’s the type of guy who will give you helpful advice about processing trauma and say crying is okay when his own house is on fire and he hasn’t cried since he was 16 years old.
This is one of many reasons why the two break up so many times