witete:

weirdmageddon: the-wayward-prydonian: the-wayward-prydonian: Okay but what amazes me is that Ford survived 30 years going through god-knows-what on the other side of the portal and he still can’t fire a handgun without closing his eyes Look at this dork Update: Can’t fire big guns either some things never change I don’t blame him

Okay. So there’s an actual psychological thing with closing your eyes before attacking someone. I used to take fencing, and they would have newer students go against an instructor who was going super easy on them (you really only needed to parry an attack maybe retreat(also trains students not to look behind them where they are retreating). When you make contact with a weapon, your instinct expects carnage and blood and such, so you cringe.





Now actually using weapons to cause harm is different that striking a friend in the chest who is protected with plastic and kevlar. This means Ford has never in 30 years had to cause enough harm to stop feeling. He rarely made clean shots. Fire at the rocks above the bounty hunter’s head, maybe that way they’d have a chance to survive. I ‘doubt Ford was a “because I have to” pushing away feelings until you couldn’t feel them rouge. He has 30 years of regrets to deal with I don’t know what a soldier’s perspective on this would be(probably have more to offer cause that’s on causing actual harm and ranged weapons) but I love if one could contribute.