All right! So, basically as has probably become really obvious in Ronan's threads with Rex, Ronan is really keen on the idea of everyone having personal choices and having those choices acknowledged and respected. It's basically the tenet of his powers, to be honest, that he not only encourages people to make choices and make choices every day, but that he will fight for those choices to be respected by others. It's a thing with Ronan and something I don't really get to play often because people in camp aren't generally in such a powerless situation - while they are trapped in camp they are given agency and autonomy to make their own decisions generally.
Rex is different! Rex desperately wants an "ordinary" superhero life where being a superhero is a day job and not his sole reason to exist. Ronan genuinely feels for him - I don't want to say feels bad because he doesn't. But he does empathise with the idea of being chosen for a destiny and having it define what you do, and trying to assert your own life choices around this destiny - though he will never ever tell Rex about his own experiences unless it comes up and he has to. They'd just cloud the issue.
It helps too that Ronan is genuinely fond of Rex. He's funny! He's kind of endearing, he's geeky with science, he's embraced his power set and decided to do nerdy things with it, and he's someone who is willing to open up and see life and its potential. His Spanish is understandable but Ronan winces at times because Ronan is someone who loves languages and is like at least trilingual if not polylingual and so he exaggerates it. He is also entirely serious about getting him and Jaime to meet if only because they are both teenagers stuck coping with a situation beyond their control with technology that can be anything but has massive drawbacks. The fact that Jaime can correct his accent would just be a bonus.
So basically Ronan thinks that Rex is cool! He thinks that Rex needs to have the space to decide who he wants to be and to continue to make that decision every day, without having to be forced into a situation where he has to sacrifice his self for something else. There has to be another way, and Ronan is determined to find it somehow. He's a wizard, and fixing bad situations is what he does. He's also a geeky teenage boy and Rex is entertaining and fun to be around. So it's one of those happy coincidences where as a wizard he gets to help a friend.
Rex is different! Rex desperately wants an "ordinary" superhero life where being a superhero is a day job and not his sole reason to exist. Ronan genuinely feels for him - I don't want to say feels bad because he doesn't. But he does empathise with the idea of being chosen for a destiny and having it define what you do, and trying to assert your own life choices around this destiny - though he will never ever tell Rex about his own experiences unless it comes up and he has to. They'd just cloud the issue.
It helps too that Ronan is genuinely fond of Rex. He's funny! He's kind of endearing, he's geeky with science, he's embraced his power set and decided to do nerdy things with it, and he's someone who is willing to open up and see life and its potential. His Spanish is understandable but Ronan winces at times because Ronan is someone who loves languages and is like at least trilingual if not polylingual and so he exaggerates it. He is also entirely serious about getting him and Jaime to meet if only because they are both teenagers stuck coping with a situation beyond their control with technology that can be anything but has massive drawbacks. The fact that Jaime can correct his accent would just be a bonus.
So basically Ronan thinks that Rex is cool! He thinks that Rex needs to have the space to decide who he wants to be and to continue to make that decision every day, without having to be forced into a situation where he has to sacrifice his self for something else. There has to be another way, and Ronan is determined to find it somehow. He's a wizard, and fixing bad situations is what he does. He's also a geeky teenage boy and Rex is entertaining and fun to be around. So it's one of those happy coincidences where as a wizard he gets to help a friend.
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