Yay! I'm not crazy! I've been going through #5 with a fine-tooth comb for an art project and haven't gotten to the V3 scenes yet, but I KNEW he said something to that effect. Thanks!
And yeah, Marco totally doesn't want to die. There are times in the series where he's willing to sacrifice himself for the good of team/mission/cause, but he's definitely the highest Ani on the self-preservation side. Pretty much a huge reason he's still on the team in #3 is because he thinks they'll all get caught and thus get him caught.
...And also Elfangor was cool. Didn't mean to drag this into a Marco discussion.
Mostly what I'm saying is that they tend to waffle on it. And the Anis do seem to make a conscious effort not to kill when possible, at least not human-Controllers. They poke out a lot of eyeballs and hack off a lot of fingers, but it's not until like, #51 that we see any of them actually target and kill a human on-page. So if they really subscribed to "better free than dead", they'd have probably done a lot more killing.
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Date: 2010-10-19 02:14 am (UTC)And yeah, Marco totally doesn't want to die. There are times in the series where he's willing to sacrifice himself for the good of team/mission/cause, but he's definitely the highest Ani on the self-preservation side. Pretty much a huge reason he's still on the team in #3 is because he thinks they'll all get caught and thus get him caught.
...And also Elfangor was cool. Didn't mean to drag this into a Marco discussion.
Mostly what I'm saying is that they tend to waffle on it. And the Anis do seem to make a conscious effort not to kill when possible, at least not human-Controllers. They poke out a lot of eyeballs and hack off a lot of fingers, but it's not until like, #51 that we see any of them actually target and kill a human on-page. So if they really subscribed to "better free than dead", they'd have probably done a lot more killing.