( it's not, strictly speaking, that marc's lacking in empathy. it's more that his experiences with being bullied had the response of him pushing back, quite explicitly, with violence. that was how he'd chosen to deal with it all, much to his father's disappointment. teenage years full of fights, detentions, suspensions. and then it'd been that he'd never stopped, that had been his response to anything, everything, long before the marines, long before becoming a mercenary, long before vigilantism.
and though, now, it's not a response he's necessarily proud of, it's still the one that gets the better of him. it's still part of the reason why he talks about "turning weaknesses into strengths", about deciding what to do with what's been done to him, about understanding how he's been broken and using that to "destroy his enemies". it's not that he's unsympathetic, it's that he has no other frame of reference.
(and he wouldn't want it, because without everything he's chosen to believe, he'd have nothing—.)
he gets what quentin's referring to, of course he does. he's spent enough time in and out of psychiatric care that he'd have to be deliberately ignoring the point to not get.
the question is though, how does he reply to that? it's the sort of thing that's a bit beyond an 'I'm sorry' or a 'that sucks'. )
1/2 ( cw: mostly vague references to DID, anti-semitism, institutionalisation )
and though, now, it's not a response he's necessarily proud of, it's still the one that gets the better of him. it's still part of the reason why he talks about "turning weaknesses into strengths", about deciding what to do with what's been done to him, about understanding how he's been broken and using that to "destroy his enemies". it's not that he's unsympathetic, it's that he has no other frame of reference.
(and he wouldn't want it, because without everything he's chosen to believe, he'd have nothing—.)
he gets what quentin's referring to, of course he does. he's spent enough time in and out of psychiatric care that he'd have to be deliberately ignoring the point to not get.
the question is though, how does he reply to that? it's the sort of thing that's a bit beyond an 'I'm sorry' or a 'that sucks'. )