north is very controlling. he needs to feel like heās needed all the time. in the first mission we see of them south operated very well without motion trackers but the second north was no longer of use to her he started nagging and trying to make her rely on him again. southās role is stealth. reasonably she should have been able to notice a guy walking directly up to her. but north was talking and drowning out her sound. because he couldnāt stand the idea of her being self sufficient without him. he doesnāt think of him and south as a partnership, he thinks of it as him taking care of her. he doesnāt think of his relationship with anyone as a partnership.
north cares about people. he cares about them a lot. but he thinks that everyone needs to be cared about. or um to be cared for. everyone is a child that needs him to be the adult. everyone doesnāt know any better and heās knows best.
delta said that south put north in a position to be killed and i think thatās true but i think north would have and maybe did let her. he needs to be needed by people. he needs to be used by people. north will make himself suffer to feel like heās useful. he will die to save someoneās life because isnāt that the ultimate way to make someone need you? your life literally being given to someone else?
someone else on here said once that what north wanted more than anything was to have a injured bird that never healed. that always needed him. and thatās what theta was in a way. theta was a broken baby bird that could not heal. at least, not with what north was doing. north didnāt want theta to be hurting. but on a subconscious level he didnāt them to heal, either. north didnāt help theta overcome their fear of nighttime, he just made himself suffer to make them feel better. when theta does good on their own, north has to insert himself into that, even if theta doesnāt want him to.
we talked before about how north treated theta both as a child and as a soldier. if he wanted theta to be an ai, a weapon, a soldier, he shouldnāt have been treating theta as a child. if he wanted theta to be a child, he shouldnāt have been treating them as a weapon. so north was perfect for theta. because anyone else wouldāve gotten a child in their head and either tried to make them a more functional ai or said āwhat the fuck this is not okayā and fought back sooner.
from an outside perspective he seems nice. he is nice. but he will never see you as an equal.
