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Did he not know they were androids?
Because that’s what it seems like to me right now.
Probably not. He knows very little about his current opponents, I am fairly certain.
Maybe them being androids is kind of irrelevant?
The girls are people. They think, act, and feel exactly like flesh-and-blood humans do. If you didn’t have prior knowledge of them, you could easily be forgiven for thinking (in most normal situations) that they ARE flesh-and-blood.
I also get the feeling that, Proxy is someone who doesn’t necessarily enjoy his job. Whether it be by duty, or magical compulsion, fighting for and protecting the Twins is his job, and nothing more. He may not even personally agree with the Twins goals, he just goes along with them because it’s been made clear that his feelings on the matter are irrelevant. So he may not want to truly hurt them at all, he just has no choice in the matter. So, he chooses to hurt them only to the extent that it is necessary.
Thirdly, he strikes me as someone who spends a lot of time maintaining a strict discipline over himself. Maybe he had anger issues in the past, maybe he’s just hyperaware of how much damage he’s capable of dealing.
And for one brief moment, that carefully cultivated discipline slipped. As a result, he did more damage than he truly intended, damage that, were it inflicted on a flesh-and-blood human, would certainly result in their death.
Good points. He strikes me as a particularly honorable and respectful man, overall.
It’s a common trope where you have the monstrous villain, but his bodyguard or his troops are genuinely decent people, sometimes forced into a bad situation. And you feel guilty about dishing out the pain, because you know that deep down, they’re ok people. But, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Sometimes a story will even poke fun of this by having the heroes run into the ‘mooks’ or the ‘Dragon’ when they’re off duty. And there will be a line similar to “hey, can we chill with the fighting today? See what’s in the bag? Dinner.”
Or, to really play up the fact the troops or Dragon are real genuine people, they’ll be seen with a girlfriend / boyfriend / spouse, or to really make it hurt, their kids.
Proxy may rest assured that these two women most certainly did *not* lose control! 🙂
And can I just say, how much more badass can you get than going from “getting your leg partially crushed” straight to “kneeing your enemy in the face” without a moment’s pause?
When your body is essentially a mech with a soul bound to it, it seems less badass and pretty normal given the circumstances. XD
I’d still call it badass. Even if they’re used to combat, their bodies are wired to respond to stimuli, as is their neural network (or whatever you want to call it). Which means that the damage to her leg had to have hurt. Though unlike a normal human, she can disable the pain receptors quickly, but that would probably also have an effect on response time to body parts.
Though its not like movies don’t conveniently ignore the effects of shock all the time. Get shot in the gut, keep going like nothing has happened. For sometimes upwards of 20+ minutes. Before someone realizes you’ve got a fist sized hole in your chest and says you need to stop and treat the wound.
This is why, when you’re in a knock down, drag out fight, you don’t apologize for hitting a woman.
You’re in a fight where your opponents are clearly aiming to disable/remove/kill you. You start having worry-moments only after BOTH of your opponents are not able to move, or give them time to recover their friend off the field while maintaining guard.
Still, one has to give props to him still caring about his opponents. You would’ve thought that being in service with Twins would drive you soon enough into “not caring” mode.
Something tells me the redhead (I can’t remember her name of top of my head) is going to want to have a drink with Proxy after this, because she’s having a LOT of fun with this fight, even with Lein getting her leg crushed like that.
Sorry, I just laughed so hard when I saw this comment while drawing the Friday comic XD
Two heads are better than one.