I think I much prefer to believe that JC, while pragmatic and Machiavellian in most regards, really just genuinely fell in love with 80s Goth/New Romantic and Anne Rice stuff, and by luck, Anita happens to dig that so he doesn't have to change it, and she's just that ignorant of history to think that he's actually wearing ~historical~ clothing, so he lets her since that seems to up her fancy for it.

I love this idea. It turns out he's just a really big Adam Ant fan, but when Anita's around he keeps his LP's in his desk and pretends to be *historical.* Amazing.


""Ares is a special forces sniper, and you did all that in just a few minutes?""

His MOS is Scout Sniper, which means he's not automatically in Force Recon. Scout Sniper battalions may be attached to Force Recon for operations, but they're a part of the normal Marines. 30 seconds on google. I still have no idea what her excuse is for all this snotwash.

"ass-deep in alligators" and how it's better together because "the alligators would be chewing our asses either way, but with each other it was more fun, and we were more likely to be able to make a matching set of alligator luggage out of our enemies rather than end up as their dinner"

I want to set up a billboard across from her house that says "LESS IS MORE" in huge flashing red neon.