But maybe...this is going to sound kind of horrible, but...maybe that wouldn't ultimately matter? I mean, he's obviously willing to have Clark do hurtful things to Martha when the situation calls for it; this would just be another level of that. And as far as Martha's concerned, it of course wouldn't be any different from him having sex with her as Philip in terms of the degree to which she'd perceive it as cheating.
No, I don't think it's horrible because really I don't think it enters into his thinking in a huge way. On the grand scale of what he's doing to Martha, that's kind of small time, you know? But at the same time, since one/the point of "Clark" psychologically is to make spy work bearable/possible for Philip, dragging that other piece into it would have to be something that has positives that vastly outweigh the negatives that would come with it, which is why I kind of wonder if they'll try something more in the middle first (Philip using some of the qualities Elizabeth was turned on by in what she heard about "Clark" and allowing her to get some of what she wants while he also gets to protect some of what he wants.) And I could see them roleplaying like in one of the personalities that isn't so actively hurting someone (Scott, for example), or one of her random black leather-clad girls at the bar, it just seems messy to go there straight off with Clark.
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Re: Philip as "Clark"
Date: 2014-03-30 03:42 pm (UTC)No, I don't think it's horrible because really I don't think it enters into his thinking in a huge way. On the grand scale of what he's doing to Martha, that's kind of small time, you know? But at the same time, since one/the point of "Clark" psychologically is to make spy work bearable/possible for Philip, dragging that other piece into it would have to be something that has positives that vastly outweigh the negatives that would come with it, which is why I kind of wonder if they'll try something more in the middle first (Philip using some of the qualities Elizabeth was turned on by in what she heard about "Clark" and allowing her to get some of what she wants while he also gets to protect some of what he wants.) And I could see them roleplaying like in one of the personalities that isn't so actively hurting someone (Scott, for example), or one of her random black leather-clad girls at the bar, it just seems messy to go there straight off with Clark.