Hii, just came across your blog yesterday and it’s amazing, I’m in love with the way you write Terry!
What do you think Terry would do if his SO had a near death experience he couldn’t control?
I think Terry despises death as a concept;
I mean, who doesn't, but hear me out;
Death is the most naturally uncontrollable thing in life and Terry is all about control. Controlling his environment, outcomes around him, the people around him, their perceptions, senses, ideologies. You name it. And death? Death is the great equalizer. There's no lying to death. No cheating it. No bribing it. No masking oneself from it. Every weapon and tactic Terry usually uses is absolutely futile here. Death simply is. Death is the thing that took Ponytail, and set Terry's entire arc into motion. Death is the thing that took Betsy and by extension, set John's whole arc into motion as well. (Death is the thing that prematurely took Terry's parents, if you go off of the fanon that they died in a car accident before he left for Vietnam, leaving him a virtual orphan --- and then the wholly canon one that took John's mom when she committed suicide) Death is the thing Twig, or rather, a young Terry, only briefly avoided when John intervened for him with a death match in his name, killing someone else, namely, Captain Turner. Death is the thing that took countless of his compatriots in Vietnam in various shapes, ways and forms. Death is final. The great untamable. And I think Terry loathes it and fears it in equal measure because he can't control it or manipulate it, for all his infinite resources --- he can only delay it and even that only if the timing is right.
So, if his beloved went through a near death experience, I legitimately think Terry, at any age, goes through a major panic attack, suppressed or unsuppressed. Is death about to take another person he loves? Is an uncontrollable force greater then Terry Silver himself about to attack him from behind, ambush him and change his life in inconceivable ways yet again? Is he never to see you again and be able to do nothing about it, but be entirely helpless to it? Is his mind about to crack yet again? Was he wrong in growing to care for you in the first place, making you an inherent weakness, seeing how there's always a chance you'll die or get horribly hurt, and he'll destroy his psyche over it and maybe never recover? I think he takes it very, very, very badly. Which would be a surprise, because this is Terry Silver. If he had to choose between two evils, he'd rather kill you himself, by his own hand, because that way, at least he's in absolute control of when and how it happens and he has a power and a say in it instead of allowing it to merely happen in some unpredictable, spontaneously mundane idiot way. Like some disease or some idiot accident. As such, I think he takes it extremely badly, his PTSD kicking in. Literally can and will make him unhinged. Super territorial. Super volatile.
I don't think you'll leave the premises of the mansion any time soon.
For your own good and his.
