He deliberately misunderstands her devotion to Nick. Ira is in love with Dr. Lee, and like a lot of people in unrequited love he refuses to be honest about his actions and feelings, or hers.
-He imprisons her to get a chance to awkwardly try to romance her.
-He did lots of other attempts to force her company and chase her love.
-He tries to kill his romantic rival (Nick) to “win” her love.
-He casts her love of Nick as “guilt” rather than an even *consider* she’s in love with Nick.
-He ignores the problems and implications all these often-contradictory and clearly selfish actions.
-and of course, He constantly puts on masks and acts to try and “win” her, believing his “being a lying sneak chasing pussy” is “doing anything, BEING anything, for love.”
How do I know? I know the pattern, Shannon’s knows/watched/lived with/made comics about the pattern. Hell I have BEEN the pattern. Loneliness makes you do dumb stuff. I grew out of it, Ira didn’t.
But “I help Anasigma run several agencies” isn’t exactly the same as running Anasigma so it sounds as though he isn’t the Big Bad we thought he was. @_@
If he still thinks he has a chance after almost removing her brain and literally throwing her friend’s brain into the rubbish, he’s either amazingly dense or a sociopath.
I’m going with sociopath here. Although she might have let Ira/Mr.Green schlorp her brain if she hadn’t had anything particular to do. After all, she was curious about what it would be like.
However, disembodying Nick and then throwing his brain away kind of seems like a non-starter for Virginia having any kind of positive relationship with Ira. Seems that Ira’s not the “mensch” Nick thought he was.
“The forgetful one?”
good choice, dr lee
Surely, Ira must be touched by her devotion to Nick.
He probably is. I think we’ve come to the moment where the Wizard helps Dorothy return to Kansas. ^_^
“Why yes, my dear, I have a perfectly serviceable helicopter you can escape in. Let be just check the controls…”
*The helicopter’s autopilot engages while he’s in it, leaving her behind.*
In an “If I can’t have her, no one will!” kind of way. 🙂 “And don’t call me Shirley!”
He deliberately misunderstands her devotion to Nick. Ira is in love with Dr. Lee, and like a lot of people in unrequited love he refuses to be honest about his actions and feelings, or hers.
-He imprisons her to get a chance to awkwardly try to romance her.
-He did lots of other attempts to force her company and chase her love.
-He tries to kill his romantic rival (Nick) to “win” her love.
-He casts her love of Nick as “guilt” rather than an even *consider* she’s in love with Nick.
-He ignores the problems and implications all these often-contradictory and clearly selfish actions.
-and of course, He constantly puts on masks and acts to try and “win” her, believing his “being a lying sneak chasing pussy” is “doing anything, BEING anything, for love.”
How do I know? I know the pattern, Shannon’s knows/watched/lived with/made comics about the pattern. Hell I have BEEN the pattern. Loneliness makes you do dumb stuff. I grew out of it, Ira didn’t.
…yet.
Yeah, he and Nick are *definitely* related! ^_^
But “I help Anasigma run several agencies” isn’t exactly the same as running Anasigma so it sounds as though he isn’t the Big Bad we thought he was. @_@
Really? Because to me, that sounds like an ever bigger bad. “Don’t look at the king, look at the man advising him from the shadows” kind of bad.
He was the Great and Powerful Ira. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
No, the one who lets her and Nick and Gavotte out of the building.
Well, he was coming on to her in the simulation. Seems he still has hopes.
If he still thinks he has a chance after almost removing her brain and literally throwing her friend’s brain into the rubbish, he’s either amazingly dense or a sociopath.
I’m going with sociopath here. Although she might have let Ira/Mr.Green schlorp her brain if she hadn’t had anything particular to do. After all, she was curious about what it would be like.
However, disembodying Nick and then throwing his brain away kind of seems like a non-starter for Virginia having any kind of positive relationship with Ira. Seems that Ira’s not the “mensch” Nick thought he was.
Perhaps he likes his women in hospital scrubs and covered in organ slurry.
Rule 34 lives on, for better or worse . .
Quite the love triangle. I guess she would be the hypotenuse. I’m sot sure what Ira’s angle is, but she sure thinks Nick is acute guy.
Well, he’s been surreptitious about everything he’s done, so I guess that makes his angle oblique.
so what is the relationship between Ira and Nick, as expressed in geometry?
I would say they’re opposite angles, and Virginia is their common vertex.
“many-colored”? So _he’s_ Roy G. Biv! I should have known.
What’ll he say? “Oh, be a fine girl kiss me?”
“The one who gets out of my way” would be the assertive answer..