i think a lot of yall fully forget that the engineer is not this innocent naive sweetheart babey boy who has never known the horrors.
i mean. from what we know of him the horrors is one of the only things he has known.
his optimism is manic and misplaced. he’s not a squishy sunshine boy. he destroyed so many universes, had a small crisis, and essentially shrugged it off with an “oh well!” because what the fuck else are you supposed to do?
engineer mark has never not been in survival mode. he is fucked to all hell and we need more representation of that stat

















