My favourite is Marco, and always has been. I always liked the funny guys, and the fact that I identify the closest with him is just icing on the cake.
He's not emotional to a fault, and he realizes that there is a separation in his mind from the right thing, what needs to get done and his emotions that isn't there in the majority of the population surrounding him. It's not something that he can just up and change it, he just runs with it. I don't think he's cold for not feeling as much, it's just... him doing it. He gets frustrated with emotion from others or sentiments he sees as useless (pretty much why he and Cassie are the ones to clash over some mission details), because everyone should be able to make decisions clearly with the emotion not a part of it. I'm definitely an A-to-B kind of thinker, so I would always be nodding along to Marco's thoughts, "Yup, yup, it sucks, it's horrible, but necessary (you know, agreeing with him) - " Cassie interjects. " - oh, you
can't be serious."
Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not saying Marco was inhuman, but just his whole paradigm of the world, making decisions, how he sees things is very similar to how I do. He does feel, I find him the most emotionally intense of all of them, actually. The fact that he feels so much pain and still makes the hard - but right - decision. (Like, you know, in book eight, when Ax didn't kill Alloran for honour's sake or whatever? Marco would have killed him. (Although for complicated reasons, I think it's a good thing Alloran didn't die, however frustrating that was.))
He doesn't lay down and say, "Oh... My life kinda sucks..." He'll complain, sure, but when the bite of that fades, you know he's sold on it. He thinks about what he really believes before committing himself so later when things got hard, he rest assured that he knew what he was doing when he signed up for the Animorphs. Maybe he felt doubt, sure, but he sits down and thinks about it. Marci is very introspective. Once he got over his initial ambivalence, Marco was
in. He let his head guide his heart.
Plus, I always respect witty people. I'm not terribly witty and I laugh easily. Teh funny is very important to me. I love jokes, sarcasm, snide comments, puns... Love it all. No one else had a chance to be the fav, except in the last book when Jake took the cake because I wasn't too impressed with Marco after everything and Jake was just more compelling at that point.
Post Merged: April 29, 2010, 10:05:38 PM
My favourite is Marco, and always has been. I always liked the funny guys, and the fact that I identify the closest with him is just icing on the cake.
He's not emotional to a fault, and he realizes that there is a separation in his mind from the right thing, what needs to get done and his emotions that isn't there in the majority of the population surrounding him. It's not something that he can just up and change it, he just runs with it. I don't think he's cold for not feeling as much, it's just... him doing it. He gets frustrated with emotion from others or sentiments he sees as useless (pretty much why he and Cassie are the ones to clash over some mission details), because everyone should be able to make decisions clearly with the emotion not a part of it. I'm definitely an A-to-B kind of thinker, so I would always be nodding along to Marco's thoughts, "Yup, yup, it sucks, it's horrible, but necessary (you know, agreeing with him) - " Cassie interjects. " - oh, you can't be serious."
Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not saying Marco was inhuman, but just his whole paradigm of the world, making decisions, how he sees things is very similar to how I do. He does feel, I find him the most emotionally intense of all of them, actually. The fact that he feels so much pain and still makes the hard - but right - decision. (Like, you know, in book eight, when Ax didn't kill Alloran for honour's sake or whatever? Marco would have killed him. (Although for complicated reasons, I think it's a good thing Alloran didn't die, however frustrating that was.))
He doesn't lay down and say, "Oh... My life kinda sucks..." He'll complain, sure, but when the bite of that fades, you know he's sold on it. He thinks about what he really believes before committing himself so later when things got hard, he rest assured that he knew what he was doing when he signed up for the Animorphs. Maybe he felt doubt, sure, but he sits down and thinks about it. Marco is very introspective. Once he got over his initial ambivalence, Marco was in. He let his head guide his heart.
Plus, I always respect witty people. I'm not terribly witty and I laugh easily. Teh funny is very important to me. I love jokes, sarcasm, snide comments, puns... Love it all. No one else had a chance to be the fav, except in the last book when Jake took the cake because I wasn't too impressed with Marco after everything and Jake was just more compelling at that point.
