It seems to depend on who's doing it. He was amused by Jeanne-Marie's students thinking he was totally awesome, but they were just kids. Basically, if he doesn't like you and you're nice to him, he ignores you if you're obsequious, disdains you if you're fawning, smirks at you if you're funny, and distrusts you if you're in a position of power over him.
Jean-Paul has real issues with power and the rights of precedence. He's oversensitive to situations where his rights may be reduced or ignored, even if it's something like deciding what they're all having for lunch. You can place the cause of this on his Separatiste politics, but I think that it's actually his background before that that drew him to that cause in the first place. Before Belmonde, he had an unhappy childhood: orphaned twice, bounced around foster homes and then out on the street. Maybe he's always been difficult, or maybe the world made him that way, but he has had to fight for everything he has, and the only one who ever gave him anything with no strings attached was Belmonde -- and even then, you could say their were strings, but I suppose it depends on what you think Belmonde gave him. (I think "a home, discipline, moral guidance, and a role model of self-acceptance" would describe it.)
That was a HUGE digression! O.O
Oh, don't get me starte on Paige! I'd like to know how the Hell Jay ended up younger than her, when he was in the 17-21 range when she was 13-14. I'v seen fic from people who never saw her before she was in X-Men describe her as a confident, well-traveled young woman who has dated all kinds of guys and thus shouldn't be shy about pursuing Warren, and I'm like "since when?" *gnashing of teeth*
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Date: 2008-07-08 06:54 pm (UTC)Jean-Paul has real issues with power and the rights of precedence. He's oversensitive to situations where his rights may be reduced or ignored, even if it's something like deciding what they're all having for lunch. You can place the cause of this on his Separatiste politics, but I think that it's actually his background before that that drew him to that cause in the first place. Before Belmonde, he had an unhappy childhood: orphaned twice, bounced around foster homes and then out on the street. Maybe he's always been difficult, or maybe the world made him that way, but he has had to fight for everything he has, and the only one who ever gave him anything with no strings attached was Belmonde -- and even then, you could say their were strings, but I suppose it depends on what you think Belmonde gave him. (I think "a home, discipline, moral guidance, and a role model of self-acceptance" would describe it.)
That was a HUGE digression! O.O
Oh, don't get me starte on Paige! I'd like to know how the Hell Jay ended up younger than her, when he was in the 17-21 range when she was 13-14. I'v seen fic from people who never saw her before she was in X-Men describe her as a confident, well-traveled young woman who has dated all kinds of guys and thus shouldn't be shy about pursuing Warren, and I'm like "since when?" *gnashing of teeth*