Talk:Bondrewd/@comment-82.82.110.72-20171206234650/@comment-24.192.251.216-20180102160203

Except he experiments on himself the same way, and his research is, or at least he believes is vital to the survival of the people above, so yeah, antivillain

kinda seems to view other delvers as accepting and understanding the risks, so doesn't see it as murder/kidnapping in the usual way. Since that site was mentioned I would say he's got more than a touch of "blue and orange morality" which normally only appears with incomprehensible  utterly alien life forms like the antagonist in Alien Nine.

His only true villainous act (in the intentionalsort of way) is that his being incapable of understanding normal desire rendered him indifferent to Prushka's suffering. His emotional state was simply beyond human rationality at that point.

I actually find him very interesting because he's not a "mad quack" about his research like Shou Tucker or Jail Scaglietti on Nanoha or Reiji Takayama from Witchblade. While he is using people he never forces them to do anything he would not have done himself. Nor is he getting them killed on purpose or treating them as easily expendable. Everyone is his 'assistant of equal standing' to a point. (because most of them are technically also himself)

He will most likely meet his 'end' similar to Gwen Khan on Outlaw Star, who threw himself into the leylines at the centre of the universe having learned all he could as a mere mortal man. He'll most likely send all his work to the surface before sending his hands (thus himself) on his own Last Dive to find a way to become part of the mist.

Probably don't recall this short lived series at all, but there was a super interesting episode of Space Above and Beyond that featured a similar character, though after all the horrors had been said and done. A colonel that was also a scientist had gone to the edge of known space to study a variety of anomalies and come back alone, all throughout the episode he acts strangely. In the end we find out he got the rest of his unit killed on his research expedition and he wanted to commandeer a ship no matter the cost to answer the final question his unit had been given, whether or not there is another side to a black hole. With his equipment having been lost during his retrieval and wanting to honour his mens' memories, he wants to use himself as the final live test subject.

Also it's left completely open as to whether the voices he spoke to were actually real and he was carrying his whole unit with him, or if he had just gone a little crazy after sending them to their known doom. Unfortunately the show got cancelled the month after, but I figure being sci-fi that, yes there was, and he essentially wound up in a 'nexus' where time has no meaning similar to Kirk in Star Trek Generations.