Never claims he's a good guy or doing good things.
He might, some of the time, be trying to advance a good _cause_ -- civilization -- but he's entirely aware he's not himself civilized and that the things he does are horrible.
In a lot of ways Space Viking is proto-Drake; obviously flawed human in a (sequence of) horrible situation(s) who keeps doing horrible things out of a mixture of social norms and not seeing what else to do, all presented with completely flat moral affect from the narrative.
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Date: 2012-10-15 01:57 pm (UTC)He might, some of the time, be trying to advance a good _cause_ -- civilization -- but he's entirely aware he's not himself civilized and that the things he does are horrible.
In a lot of ways Space Viking is proto-Drake; obviously flawed human in a (sequence of) horrible situation(s) who keeps doing horrible things out of a mixture of social norms and not seeing what else to do, all presented with completely flat moral affect from the narrative.
-- Graydon