Generator Rex Makes Me Insane Sometimes What Do You MEAN Agent Six Stopped Going After His Lifelong Dream

generator rex makes me insane sometimes What do you MEAN agent six stopped going after his lifelong dream of becoming the most deadly man in the world because of Rex

Binged all of GI: Joe Renegades in four days and now it won’t leave my brain. I love them so much, I need more of them and there isn’t enough so I had to make the fanart myself. For all five of you GI: Joe Renegades fans out there this is for you.

I think part of what makes Rex so fun to me as a character is the contrast of who he is vs what he should be. Bc everything in his life should lead up to him being this badass supersoldier but he's just a little guy.

And I don't mean he's not competent - god, he's competent. That's part of how he manages to gain so much trust, he sticks to his word and he helps as much as he can, even if it's going to cause him unnecessary pain.

But he's an amnesiac with superpowers raised in a military organization, trained by the sixth most dangerous man in the world, constantly being watched so he doesn't turn into a rampaging robot and kill everyone, constantly having to deal with world ending threat after world ending threat, amd yet...he's just a kid.

He sneaks out to get food. He hangs out with Noah and fails at basketball. He can't shut the fuck up even when everything seems hopeless. Time and time again, he shows empathy to other people, even those trying to hurt him. He'll crack jokes to hide his fear but at the end of the day, he'll initiate being open and talking about his feelings. He will throw himself into danger not just to protect strangers, but to protect human EVOs who he knows aren't to blame for their actions. And absolutely a big part of that is probably being an EVO himself, but another big part is just being raised right by Six and Holiday. Being shown so much love and kindness, and giving it back to the world. They can't give him a normal life, and they can't give him the freedom he wants (they all do still work for Providence, after all), but they can give him what they have, even while they're dealing with their own shit.

And I think that's so important to why he's who he is. He's a good kid in a shitty situation, but he never loses his heart. Even when he thought he lost everything in Endgame - his family potentially all dead, his own brother seemingly okay with just giving the Consortium all they wanted, without his powers even, he still fought. He never gives up - he didn't give up on Weaver until he had to be pulled away, despite how upset he got he cared still deeply about Circe and kept giving her chance after chance at the end of the day, begging her not to work for Van Kliess. The second he saw that Breach was suffering, he gave her empathy and tried to get her out of that situation. Hell, even when he was losing it with Hunter Cain's guys fucking hitting him with a bus entirely out of bigotry, after lying about him for so long and turning so many people against him, he took his anger out on the bus, not on people. He still tried to make amends, still was dedicated to helping them see that he was a hero.

Every time the world shows cruelty, he responds with kindness. Rex can't let himself give up on people, because he was raised by people who would never give up on him.

In the end, Genrex (and by extension, Rex himself) is about love. It's always been about love and empathy and kindness even in the face of pain and suffering. But, the nost important part is it's about family. Not just in who you choose to be family - the who doesn't matter, not in the end - but what family means. How family teaches you love.

Most of canon Bobo and Six interactions look somehow like this

Six: Where the heck is my son

Bobo: Ayy chillax bitch, I have no fuckin idea where the fuck Rex is, now go fuck yourself you green bitchass motherfucker

Six: I'm gonna put you into a meat grinder while you're still concious, and make sure you die slowly. Then I'm gonna take what's left of you, and make meatballs out of it and feed them to my cat.

Bobo: Ayy ayy what chill chill jesus fuckin christ, the kid is in Bydgoszcz, now get the fuck out

Was watching the crew commentary on the blu-ray and I started screaming.