Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24908420-20140730082534/@comment-76.178.64.208-20141017001707

well, with season 12 finished, I'm sure we can have more evidence to contrary. I truly believe that, while both are mentally unstable, Felix does take the cake for uncontrolled insanity. And I will present my reasons.

1. Felix delights in emotional and physical pain. Above me, someone commented that Locus is more mentally unstable than Felix because he doesn't put on a false facade. Actually, I would believe this makes his less so. He knew he was betraying these people and leading them to their deaths, so he likely saw no point in getting friendly with him. Felix on the other hand, looked like he was trying to be the local hero within the rebels before he finally offed them. He gets flirty, moves to impress and generally toys with their emotions to come off as a Han Solo like person to them. Take for example Cloaks and Dagger, when Felix betrayed them. He taunted them about how they had trusted him and monologued simply to rub in the fact that they had been fooled while Locus simply wished to finish them off right away. While Locus does make remarks in the face of his victims, he never drags it out, merely making a one-liner before ending them.

2. Locus soldier ideology. While a mental insanity is responsible for this, it does also act as a somewhat of a saving grace. This does imply, as Wash does so helpfully point out, that Locus does have emotions towards what he is doing but is suppressing them due to his mindset. There must have been some truth to this statement as it enraged Locus and caused him to lose his cool, which is something we had only seen him do once and that was when Felix was drawing out his monologue.

3. Felix's Love of Knives. I saw this presented above and it does make for an interested point. We've seen Locus use his gun most of the time, while Felix tends to resort to his knife when he can. While someone argued this may just be his skill set and that's why he uses it, it does raise the point on why this is such a large skill set in the scheme of things. A gun is used from a distance, to end someone rather quickly (though with proper aim, it could be drawn out I suppose). However, a knife is always up close and personal. But alas, this is a point purely on perspection on how you view these weapons.

In the end, I would say that they are both quite crazy. However, Locus is more controlled than his partner, more apathetic in his emotions in contrast to Felix, who lets emotions run wild. At best, it is a narrow margin between the two, but a margin all the same. Well, there's my two cents about this.