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Interesting analogy between Gagged and Buck how showing how dangerous traitors and spies can be and how it colors Gearings perceptions on the matter and how the subject might be affecting him in questioning his actions. In the case of Gagged, he certainly was very likely unreliable and when it cammed to counting on him when his spin in directly on the line he will break if he can't sneak his way out of it, seems to be the limit of how far his loyalty went for a scavenger for people that he hardly knew and had no relations or even needed them for his continued survival. On the other hand, Gearing did deliberately ignored the fact that the illiterate scavenger had been manipulated into getting scammed and didn't life a brass hoof to help him out as a traveling companion how didn't show any hint of crossing the group. This also tells a lot bout Gearing as a person, even if he had good reason to want to silence Gagged if he ever left the group, but it also shows how willing he is to act as summary executioner to anyone he deems a liability or a threat to him or the stable, which will certainly other people in the group on edge around him. I wonder what he would do to anyone wanting to leave the group or tried to sneak away because they don'T like how they do things?
Basically my concern if I was Gearings teammate would: what would stop him from doing the same if he mistakenly seem me as a threat? Weather or not Gagged was a lowlife coward he was a teammate and in a world where trust is hard to come by, and with no define enemy like the Caesar or Zebras around, it can just come off as cold ruthless or callousness, for abandoning his own teammate to his death with no input from the others in the team for a show trial. He can't hide behind princess and country this time for what he did, and doesn't have a superior patting him on the back to say it was for the greater good. If Gearing had at least talked to the other what he did with the mare it would have at least it would have shown that to show that they are also part of the communality that they are trying to build in the stable and would have given the dissension of having him killed more legitimacy given the circumstances.
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I'm glad you caught on to the parallels I was trying to draw between Buck and Gauge. I was hopping once that last scene came up that it's inclusion would make sense. Also, you're pretty close on target with Gearing viewing the world through a particular filter. And more of it will be revealed as time goes on. Which will help continue to shed more light on why the crazy clockwork does the things he does and how he goes about going them.
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This is going to sound like an odd question, but which "illiterate scavenger" are you referring to? I think I know who you're talking about, but wanted to make sure first in case clarifying something was needed on my end.
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Well I was of course talking about Gage, but also about scavenges in general would expect most of them to even know how to read properly much lest understand what the content be talking about, beyond pictures for reference.
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Oh that's a misunderstanding then. Because Gauge could definitely read and wasn't illiterate. PipBuck requires a lot of reading to operate it, and he was on the maintenance team with Gearing and Handy where they all shared the same "repair to do list". So, on that point, Gearing would understandably assume that he had actually read the paper he filled out. Relatedly Gearing had not actually gotten his hooves on a challenge form like what Pickles had given Gauge. So he also knew nothing about the different types nor extremes possible. Adding in Pickles was so disgusted that she simply gave them the first challenge form she saw (which happened to be for a Fillydelphia match) and things steamroll quickly.
But, yeah, as far as Gearing making snap decisions that very well might(if not intentionally) costs lives, on his own, you're pretty much dead center bullseye. Old habits are hard to break, and for him, it's only been a couple weeks since he was dead center in the thick of the war. I'm not trying to justify his behavior one way or the other. Simply clarifying his motivations, and letting the readers make up their own mind on them.