#do you really think lina has unlearned this hierarchy. do you really think she sees them as equals.

[leonardalphachurch]

i think season 11 wash has a really interesting arc where like. he comes to understand that the reds and blues are like. people? because like. he definitely CARES about them by the end of season 10 but he’s also very… i am the Adult here who needs to wrangle these children sim troopers because i am their superior leader and they can’t be trusted. while he’s not actively cruel to them the way he was in season 6 he still had the same air of superiority. i am the Freelancer i Outrank You. like you especially see this in his growing friendship with tucker where he’s drilling him (nice) and yelling at him and very much treating him like he was his inferior (i am going to break you) because he’s SO indoctrinated into this military mindset of hierarchy and discipline that it’s only when tucker expresses genuine emotion (he’s gone now and all i have is you) that wash goes. oh. you aren’t just this one dimensional sim trooper are you. you’re a whole ass person with complex feelings and a rich inner world and you are. hurting. and he’s able to look at caboose and see the same. and he goes ohhhh i’m doing a bad job here aren’t i. and he goes back to his own colors instead of churchs and like there’s SOOO much symbolism in this action it’s insane but for this purposes it’s very much. shedding the role of leader that he was put into to be the “church” and instead is just. himself. wash never takes a lead role again after this he’s 100% supporting. like. freckles shake is him being a self sacrificial little bitch but it’s also very much him trusting that tucker will be able to save him. this is not an action wash would have taken at the beginning of the season.

#rvb #wash #agent washington #analysis #the way the freelancer treat the sim troopers is soooo interesting and delicious #why didn’t season 15 actually explore this. screams #SEASON 15 COULD HAVE BEEN CAROLINAS VERSION OF THIS ARC listen. listen she may think of them as family but. come on. #do you really think lina has unlearned this hierarchy. do you really think she sees them as equals. #she loves them. but the only reason she would freckles shake would be because she thought she could save herself #they didn’t even save her from the freezer…. what is even the POINT