Go back and look at Flask’s expressions before and during her shooting the child. She obviously was not happy with having to take that action. Lots of grief and pain there.
Okay, now come forward to today. She has put on a mask. She’s the hard-nosed commander that has to force her unwilling troops to do a job that has little chance of success.
She isn’t the type of person to try and explain to Holly or anyone else why she did what she did, and she’s certainly not going to tell anyone about any communication she had with the mutant she killed.
But everyone reading this strip knew that she was feeling anguish over the action.
Holly isn’t a bleeding heart – she’s hoping for a cure – something that would have allowed the child to be something other than a mutated mess. She’s the sort of person who will keep a dying relative for ever just because a cure might come along, even over the dying person’s own wishes. Doesn’t make her right or wrong, just means she has a emotional attachment that’s too strong to sever.
STOP!
Go back and look at Flask’s expressions before and during her shooting the child. She obviously was not happy with having to take that action. Lots of grief and pain there.
Okay, now come forward to today. She has put on a mask. She’s the hard-nosed commander that has to force her unwilling troops to do a job that has little chance of success.
She isn’t the type of person to try and explain to Holly or anyone else why she did what she did, and she’s certainly not going to tell anyone about any communication she had with the mutant she killed.
But everyone reading this strip knew that she was feeling anguish over the action.
Holly isn’t a bleeding heart – she’s hoping for a cure – something that would have allowed the child to be something other than a mutated mess. She’s the sort of person who will keep a dying relative for ever just because a cure might come along, even over the dying person’s own wishes. Doesn’t make her right or wrong, just means she has a emotional attachment that’s too strong to sever.
AND THAT MAKES HER HUMAN