Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20160202235358/@comment-5543592-20160207043949

"Don't you think I'm a product of who made me?" Carter replied. She was undergoing something traumatic. But Carter's entire life had been traumatic, and he never even batted an eye. Couldn't she understand how hard it was for him to care about this? And she didn't even try to look at the glass half full- he was the one who had to raise her spirits. Which is not what Carter did. That was Gunny's job. The pilot would put everything in a bad light, and then make jokes about it, while Carter did the exact opposite. He looked at the best in every situation with a grim acknowledgement of reality.

And what Valeria had just said was what ticked off Carter the most. People thought since he showed so little emotion was because Carter didn't care, when the was false. He did care.

"You call me uncaring, but I've done things that show otherwise.  I'm far from it."

He felt his brow furrow just infractionally as he spoke. She had no right to judge him. If Carter was uncaring, he would've told the Admiral the truth about Valeria's military applications, and then walked away when Howard would've had her destroyed. No, he didn't do that. Nor did he kill Petra when it would've been the simpler thing to do, something anyone else would've done in his place. Nor did he need to risk his own life in place of his mens' countless times, but he did so anyway. For Valeria to call him uncaring and cold spoke of her ignorance. Which, in short, frustrated Carter.

Although, unfortunately for him, you couldn't really tell.