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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Was Fisk just a normal happy-go-lucky kid that suddenly and inexplicably became a stoic, infallible badass objectivist that would make Ayn Rand swoon? Or was he always a self-assured, rational, sometimes misinformed hooligan that became more and more withdrawn through repeated trauma? (Accidentally almost killing his sister when she was already sick, essentially being "[[Victim Falls For Rapist|semi-willingly raped]]" at about age 10, catching a man ''in the act'' of assaulting and raping his mother and smashing his head in with a bat, ending up [[Brother-Sister Incest|sleeping with his sister]] however willing it may have been..) By the time he finds out about the truth of the end of his father's life, he doesn't "doesn't bat an eye." He reacts with an emotionless detachment. By the time he comes back from his tour of duty in the army, he's shown twitching while dreaming, and Lucy explicitly states "I've never seen you sleep so restlessly." PTSD doesn't always show itself with symptoms on the "manic" end of the spectrum. Of course, that doesn't explain how he seems to enter [[God Mode]] any time things get physical.

* [[Author's Saving Throw]] - Attempted, anyway. In the aftermath of negative reaction to Fisk joining a group of rogue assassins, Naylor made several journals attempting to distance himself from the character, claiming that he didn't necessarily agree with Fisk's actions and views (something he'd already occasionally claimed when too many people complained about this or that), and that Fisk was not his self-insert, nor was he ever intended to be. It was about this time he changed all of the avatars he used on various sites and forums from images of Fisk to other images. (He later changed them back once the fuss had died down.)

*** This phrase actually found its way into a recent ''[[Original Life (Webcomic)|Original Life]]'' [http://www.jaynaylor.com/originallife/comic/OL125.10-08-09.jpg comic], sans exploding grenade though.