Angry Ikari

📖 Angry Ikari's Story

Ikari means anger, and with Angry Ikari the name is not a description, it is the whole man. He does not perform rage the way some fighters do, working themselves up for the crowd. Ikari simply is anger, structured and purposeful and permanent, and in the wars that was a resource, a furnace you could point at a problem. Then the wars ended and took the problem, and a furnace does not cool just because the work stopped. So the heat stays, and with no enemy left to spend it on, it turns on the tab, the weather, the man who looked at him wrong, the entire concept of peacetime. Ikari knows it is too much. He cannot make it smaller. The rage is the one thing that never lied to him, and he would rather burn honest than smile like the rest of them. He lectures the young ones on discipline at a volume that clears the birds from the trees, then blows a month of coin on a single bad hand of cards. Do as I rage, he tells them, not as I do.