ICly, it's . . . an odd sense of duty. He left Detroit intending to get to New York to see if things were better there, and Milliways interrupted. He'd like to finish that trip quest kinda thing. Before everything went down, he wasn't the most impressive guy -- not the guy you'd rely on in a crisis -- and now he has a chance to prove that he can start something big and really really hard and finish it and do a good job.
Plus, he misses his world. He misses his old life, and he doesn't want to give up on the idea that things might go back the way they were. After all, accepting that your whole world has gone to hell is kinda hard. Plus, this is a guy who's never really left the Midwest -- born and raised in Michigan, went to school in Iowa, probably never got farther east than Ohio.
Finally -- he still thinks he might be crazy, and having made friends at Milliways, he'd like to not hurt anyone if he really goes nuts. Which, really, is a dumb excuse, seeing as how even at his nuttiest, he wouldn't stand a chance against the majority of the bar's population, but on the paranoid scale, Tom measures about three out of five Yossarians.
Plus, he misses his world. He misses his old life, and he doesn't want to give up on the idea that things might go back the way they were. After all, accepting that your whole world has gone to hell is kinda hard. Plus, this is a guy who's never really left the Midwest -- born and raised in Michigan, went to school in Iowa, probably never got farther east than Ohio.
Finally -- he still thinks he might be crazy, and having made friends at Milliways, he'd like to not hurt anyone if he really goes nuts. Which, really, is a dumb excuse, seeing as how even at his nuttiest, he wouldn't stand a chance against the majority of the bar's population, but on the paranoid scale, Tom measures about three out of five Yossarians.
OOCly, well, I'm mean.
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