THE ACE

But I’m having a hard time reconciling the Ace that would agree to the plan and the Ace we see. Furiosa has a very different perspective than Ace, who may see what the war boys go through and feel bad, but also sees Immortan Joe as still a provider. Evil in his treatment of the war boys and a man posing as a god, but a provider nonetheless and the ultimate sayer in what happens to the other war boys. Furiosa on the other hand was stolen by this man, raped by this man, and probably done horrible things for this man including helping to hold captive women who were currently experiencing probably Furiosa’s worst trauma. 

Ace, especially as old as he is, has the war boys as his priority. The more his character is explored, the more I believe this. Especially in light of him giving the V8 to Morsov. He’d probably understand where Furiosa was coming from, but he could never consent to having a hand in the deaths of the war boys. He also couldn’t try to recruit them. There’s just too many; one of them would have spoken up. They’re brainwashed; the reality of the situation is that given how many of them are, someone would feel the need to tell someone. 

I can kind of see him going along with the idea being freeing his war boys of the brainwashing and giving them better lives, but he would have to face the reality that he would end up fighting some of them. Some of them would try to return the prisoners to Joe; some of them would try to kill Furiosa. Would he kill them? Would he stand by while Furiosa did? Maybe he would. Maybe he wouldn’t. (Also, all of those war boys would not have fit safely inside the rig during the sandstorm. What would he have done if he knew and found them riding into that sandstorm, unable to protect his war boys that maybe haven’t even had a chance yet to decide?) 

If she had asked Ace to join her, she must have not only been sure, Ace and all of his war boys would follow her, but she would also take the risk to lead a bunch of brainwashed soldiers into her precious home, the Green Place. I think taking her toxic past to her place of hope was not something she could bring herself to do. Even though later she vouches for Nux and Max, she could not possibly vouch for like 10+ war boys who can become a threat very quickly.

Also, she can not be sure Ace’s war boys understand her goal. Ace might have knowledge about the world before the apocalypse, but the rest of the war boys probably know nothing about it and Immortan is the one who rules their world completely.

You’re not helping though. =P I wanted ideas on how to make this fic workable, and it’s just more and more not. I’m not saying someone couldn’t still do it; this kind of stuff is important for me when getting into a character’s head. I’m limited that way, and it is rather a limitation. There shouldn’t be any reason someone couldn’t still follow through; I just can’t fully understand and comprehend that character is all. 

I would absolutely need to believe that the sandstorm wasn’t planned to do it. I don’t know if it could be, but the way it’s presented in the movie kind of makes it feel like it was. Maybe they happen every couple of days? Doesn’t really matter, I’d have to come from the angle that it wasn’t planned, because Ace wouldn’t accept that it would kill his men; that’s ultimately what made him turn on Furiosa in the movie (maybe that’s a bit of a headcanon, but it seems pretty concrete to me). 

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