interstellarstorms:

Poor, brave, strong, tortured Sam. He’s gone through so much agony in the past that Lady Bevel is just an “accent in a pantsuit” in his rational mind, but his body and his instincts as a human being aren’t going to play along nicely with this idea. He knows that it’s just some posh British woman in front of him, but his body is remembering that cage, just like that traumatized part of his brain that, as a result of that PTSD, is likely actually reliving that pain. And yet, he keeps it together (or pretends to) so well that he can actually talk back with sass (read: coping mechanism) and maintain his silence beyond the point where his torturers can’t even comprehend how he hasn’t broken. All this is hard even for someone who hasn’t just lost a brother, as Sam believes he has. What absolutely astounds me is how strong Sam must be to show so much spirit here, and just how horrific the cage must have been to make him this way.