#agent rainbow

i’m AMM10 posting again but idc. i wanted to elaborate on agent rainbow being a "bad ending" for john like i mentioned in the tags of another post. what i meant by this is john is becoming the man rainbow used to be. his mind is expanding, he's learning more about the world and its injustices, he’s leaving behind the sense of white complacency he was trapped in, he's becoming a leftist in principle. however, if he continues on the trajectory that despair-the-zero sets him on (assuming he doesn't swerve into traffic or eat his pistol like it keeps suggesting), he'll probably end up back at his job with the bureau and give up all the idealism that the green martian inspired in him. rainbow agrees with D-O in thinking that this is all just a phase. he's been there before. it's why he keeps trying to talk to him. he's trying to get through to john, he's trying to make him see the way he sees. he hates that john is like this because deep down, john reminds him of a version of himself when he actually stood for something.