( neither nedda nor samuels ever managed to be quite on alfred's level, but there's only so much time one can spend in the company of two former mercenaries and not pick up a thing or two. jean-paul, former pilot, former engineer, former friend, might have always been more approachable than marc, might have always been better with people, but that'd never made him any less dangerous.
and though he knows jason doesn't know enough to make an informed decision either way, it's funny how that bothers him, sits uncomfortably in the pit of his stomach. at one point he'd have given almost anything to lose the reputation, to have had the chance to just be ...not moon knight. (he didn't want to be marc spector either, but—.)
perhaps he doesn't scream vigilante, but jason's incredulity around the idea of PRIEST is fair enough. it's a title marc's given himself, entirely self-described — it's not as if he worships khonshu, not as if he leads service in his name, not unless anyone decides to classify the violence marc does as a fist of khonshu 'service'.
(khonshu does, of course.)
and in kind, it's the reason why marc doesn't assume jason's a vigilante by trade, either. someone who's grown up around violence, certainly, someone who speaks that, who uses it as a lingua franca, but there are more people with that than those who run around beating up bad guys in the dark. what he does offer is an mm at the 'spooky', a hint of satisfaction in his tone. a remark about being a spectre of the moon, about being a ghost sits unsaid, and he lifts a shoulder in a vague approximation of a shrug.
where jason tenses, where he seems to hold an internal debate over what he makes of marc's response, marc is controlled, feigned ease. he's not comfortable, wouldn't know the definition of the word, and it's easy to note he's watchful, but there's less coil there. )
Nominative determinism. ( as dry as jason's retort, enough that it says it really, really isn't. ) From what I've gathered, most of us are passing through.
( and passing through isn't the same thing as indifference, is it? )
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and though he knows jason doesn't know enough to make an informed decision either way, it's funny how that bothers him, sits uncomfortably in the pit of his stomach. at one point he'd have given almost anything to lose the reputation, to have had the chance to just be ...not moon knight. (he didn't want to be marc spector either, but—.)
perhaps he doesn't scream vigilante, but jason's incredulity around the idea of PRIEST is fair enough. it's a title marc's given himself, entirely self-described — it's not as if he worships khonshu, not as if he leads service in his name, not unless anyone decides to classify the violence marc does as a fist of khonshu 'service'.
(khonshu does, of course.)
and in kind, it's the reason why marc doesn't assume jason's a vigilante by trade, either. someone who's grown up around violence, certainly, someone who speaks that, who uses it as a lingua franca, but there are more people with that than those who run around beating up bad guys in the dark. what he does offer is an mm at the 'spooky', a hint of satisfaction in his tone. a remark about being a spectre of the moon, about being a ghost sits unsaid, and he lifts a shoulder in a vague approximation of a shrug.
where jason tenses, where he seems to hold an internal debate over what he makes of marc's response, marc is controlled, feigned ease. he's not comfortable, wouldn't know the definition of the word, and it's easy to note he's watchful, but there's less coil there. )
Nominative determinism. ( as dry as jason's retort, enough that it says it really, really isn't. ) From what I've gathered, most of us are passing through.
( and passing through isn't the same thing as indifference, is it? )