Auleliel wrote:Maybe it's also the whole "You got to be with my dad and I didn't", or the influence of Foul and/or Kastenessen.
Well, yes. I'd go with the former...and even the latter! As far as I'm concerned, there's no simple answer (after all, humans aren't simple and straight forward, so why should Roger be). Part of his disposition could be to do with his own experience as a child: Joan got involved with those "dudes" (sorry, can't remember the name of the cult. All I keep thinking is "the others" which is, of course, from LOST!
). Roger (if I remember correctly) ended up in boarding school (I think it says that in Runes?). Not exactly the best way to grow up. So you can add to the reason for Roger's hatred of Linden: here Linden is loving Jeremiah, going to the ends of the earth for him...and did Roger's mother (Joan) do that? No. He was essentially abandoned. Perhaps part of his animosity towards Linden is because she reminds him of what he didn't have as a child.
jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:Seems a little weak at this point (trying to be nice here)...
Do you mean it seems a "weak" reason for his behavior? I don't think so. The reasons aren't in-your-face but they're there, in little snippets. You've just got to add them all up. I think Roger's reaction to Linden is a very human one. Not weak, just *very* human: humans sometimes don't necessarily make sense, and they aren't necessarily very clear about why they behave the way they do. Throw in with that a bit of Foul whispering in your ear and...well...
