Sure, I suppose what I was trying to say was that The Stranger may have already been mentally predisposed to cracking the way he did. Just because he played the happy family man (most likely a biased perspective anyway), doesn't mean he didn't struggle with issues pre-apocalypse, and the zombies just made it worse. That's only what I gathered from my encounter with him compared to other characters in the game that also lost people and family. I'd go as far to call The Stranger an unreliable narrator when it comes to what he discloses to Lee. The guy was crazy, a different kind of crazy, and people can lose things without snapping that way.
God bless the Boat Master Extreme and his mighty zombie vessel.
Uh, yes we do: in case you missed it(which is, considering TV Tropes had to point some of it out to me), a recurring theme in Season 1 was h… moreaving to take responsibility for one's actions in the name of those you care about. In the Stranger's case, he was a successful family man who coached little league(what is that, baseball?) before the apocalypse kicked off. Either before or right at the cusp of the virus got out, he thought it be a good bonding experience for Adam and himself to go hunting together one day, despite his wife's disagreement with the idea. Apparently, he and Adam go separate at some point and, after hour's of searching, he had to go home alone to face the fact that he made a bad choice as a father. His wife was understandably estranged because of this and, after an incident where they had to let their station wagon full of supplies behind(presumably due to an argument or something) for a bit and when they came back to find i… [view original content]
My whole Psyche for season 1 (at least at that point) was survival, not kill anyone i didn't feel i had to. Larry i felt like i had to kill because i believed he was dead and didn't want him to re-animate and become a threat. The St Johns i left alive because i didn't believe they were an immediate threat, and felt the repercussions of killing him in front of the entire group wouldn't be worth killing him in the long run.
I was going to steal from the station wagon as soon as i saw it, like i was 100% convinced, until Clem was adamant that we shouldn't and was emotional about it, which made me decide to oblige with her, to make her feel like somebody was on her side and would listen to her when the rest of the group wasn't, hoping to gain some trust from her because of it.
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Sure, I suppose what I was trying to say was that The Stranger may have already been mentally predisposed to cracking the way he did. Just because he played the happy family man (most likely a biased perspective anyway), doesn't mean he didn't struggle with issues pre-apocalypse, and the zombies just made it worse. That's only what I gathered from my encounter with him compared to other characters in the game that also lost people and family. I'd go as far to call The Stranger an unreliable narrator when it comes to what he discloses to Lee. The guy was crazy, a different kind of crazy, and people can lose things without snapping that way.
God bless the Boat Master Extreme and his mighty zombie vessel.
My whole Psyche for season 1 (at least at that point) was survival, not kill anyone i didn't feel i had to. Larry i felt like i had to kill because i believed he was dead and didn't want him to re-animate and become a threat. The St Johns i left alive because i didn't believe they were an immediate threat, and felt the repercussions of killing him in front of the entire group wouldn't be worth killing him in the long run.
I was going to steal from the station wagon as soon as i saw it, like i was 100% convinced, until Clem was adamant that we shouldn't and was emotional about it, which made me decide to oblige with her, to make her feel like somebody was on her side and would listen to her when the rest of the group wasn't, hoping to gain some trust from her because of it.
Well, that's not morbid at all.