Re: [4th AASP] OOC Thread
Well, it's not really "showing his hand" because the quartermaster (assuming he's competent at his job) will have probably already told the Admiral about anybody who did such a thing from the very start. It'd be like trying to conceal a couple of fully lit flood-lights. Yet he's already shown a slight lack of competence, or at least an oversight, by letting any of the Marines present do such a thing with
at least advising them not to due to orders.
However, Cedric is just like any other human being. He's hypocritical
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Yet he was not knocking the NPC Black for not respecting authority. He was knocking Black for what he felt was crying like a baby when all he had done was basically ask for a report on the man's physical well-being. Black could have stood at a rigid parade-rest as he spoke and made note of Cedric's rank, and he still wouldn't have approved of the guy. He might have taken it a little easier on him (no matter what anybody says, everybody enjoys being buttered up a little), but he still wouldn't have liked the way he had responded. He feels like, ever since having already experienced things such as death, that when he asks somebody how they're feeling that he doesn't really want to hear about how their mommy didn't love them enough. He just wants to know if they're going to drop from blood-loss.
Or you could even approach it that he has an attitude like Laura's, just portrayed differently. After having been through the kinds of missions that have been assigned to the squad he was in, dealing with a suicidal and crazy squad mate, having been reanimated once already, having helped develop a Nepleslian combat weapon, and having helped found the school for Nepleslian sapper training -- the guy feels like he's on top of the world. So it would stand to reason that he wouldn't like this new Admiral (especially given the mutual first impression. I thought I had made that clear from the beginning), or some young Private who he doesn't even know complaining about how he saw his best buddies die when all Cedric wanted to know was if he was physically capable of fighting. Just like Laura thinks she's the best medic in the world, hating Cedric to the point of threats of physical harm over a case of a [lack of a] "thank you".
You could really take it either way.