flywithturtles replied to your post: “So let’s actually talk about Mike Peterson for a change instead of…”:Mike Peterson = Winter Soldier sans Steve Rogers. And sans mindwipes so he knows what he’s doing which is somehow worse. (I haven’t seen the last 4 episodes, btw)Totally the Winter Soldier: none of the agency, but with the full knowledge of everything he does, which makes him technically complicit (but again, the choice between doing evil and death is not a real choice, it’s just coercion), and it’s going to really fuck him up when he gets rescued. He’s going to live with that forever, even though he never had a choice in the matter.
I need him to be rescued, reunited with his son, and taken someplace safe and quiet so he can recover and be safe. I just need him to not be used and hurt by everyone anymore.
It’s not even the choice between doing evil and death. It’s the choice between doing evil and them hurting his son and also death.
Garrett hasn’t only dehumanized him, he’s also actively used his humanity against him.
(Gosh, it’s a really strange coincidence how the Nazi splinter group systematically experiments on, dehumanizes, and destroys the families of people of color, isn’t it?)
(And what do we say about coincidences?)
