Discussion: Does House Perceive Himself As A Romantic Figure?
As I've been editing "The Princess and The Peeved," I run up against the character in canon, and wonder about certain reactions he has. It's a little too complicated, but it made me wonder
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I'm not trying to say that House only defines himself in terms of his addiction -- and of course we can debate for hours over whether House's relationship to Vicodin is actual addiction or medical dependency. (Personally, I think it is more of a dependency, particularly after his time at Mayfield. He seemed to use less of the stuff after S6. And, tellingly, he was willing to give Wilson his last Vicodin tablets, something I'm not sure an active addict would be capable of doing.)
But the point I'm actually trying to make is that House sometimes actively seeks out extreme sensation, if the sensation is something he thinks will be interesting or "cool". He's much less repressed than Wilson when it comes to enjoying himself: his attitude seems to be that he'll take it while he can and make the most of it. When he decides to go for an experience, he goes for it completely, whether it's sticking a knife in a wall socket, jumping off a hotel balcony, or taking on a relationship with his boss. (Notably, none of these experiences were particularly smart choices on his part, but they were intense.)
People who do such things are usually viewed as more adventurous (hence "romantic") than people who don't, so possibly House does look at himself that way. He's also incredibly needy, another hallmark of a classic "romantic" personality, and he's never denied that aspect of himself either.
Whether he sees himself as a worthy object of someone else's romance is a different question, or so I think. Here, he seems to be a lot less confident. He knows he can love; he seems to me to be unsure of whether other people can love him.
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