Let wars be slightly deranged from the war
Let him have Ptsd
Let him have moments where he dissociates to being on the battle field again
Let him look behind him cause he thinks proxi will be there
Let him have a moment where anyone looks in his eyes and all they see is a dead husk of a man
Anon you get it you understand, this is exactly how I write him because he deserves to be allowed to not be okay all the time
What he went through was awful and traumatic and he experienced a full blown war that was started over HIM as a teenager. Regardless of my headcanon that the war spanned three years (from when he was 17-20), it started when he was just a kid. And even 20 is fairly young. War has a severe psychological impact on anyone who goes through it, whether they’re 17 or 50
He absolutely has PTSD, I firmly believe he’s a bit jumpy some times and absolutely deadly with a knife. He is not someone to be snuck up on, the poor person who tries to touch him without warning will find themselves to a knife pressed to their neck before they have a second to process what just happened to them (of course Warriors will pause to see who his ‘attacker’ is before he does something if he’s in the right frame of mind, but if that man is having a flashback or is panicking? Don’t touch him. Don’t even try unless you know he’ll recognize you for who you are)
Behind all his jokes, over confidence, and whiny dramatic personality he puts forth, is a deeply traumatized soldier, and that is exactly how I write him in all my fics. He’s more than a silly goofy comedic relief character, there is so much that he tries to hide from the others
